On Mon, 08 May 2017 10:49:42 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 4 May 2017 21:59:01 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:58:25 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:34:48 UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:06:56 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:




It's not limited, I use the 0-60 time every time I pull out of a junction.

So limited then if thats the only time you use it.

I didn't say only. Every time I accelerate and nobody is in front of me. So

what is your 0-60 time ?

8 seconds.

Deoos that mean you arrive 8 seconds early than expected ?

No.

I'm just wondering how effective it is in the real world rather than in racing senerios where it's obviously important.

In the real world you are constantly changing speed due to junctions.

So did you base your choice of car on the 0-60 time then ?

That was one of the considerations.

So there were others then ... number of seats, top speed, number of doors, colour ?

All apart from the colour, yes.

Well at least that makes some sense.

Anyway, if I want to change the battery, it's handy to see the Ah and voltage on the back of it so I can get the right one to replace it.

In most phones and even laptops now you can't change the battery.

Bull****. You mean they don't want you to change it. Anything can be opened.

and anything can be damaged.
With yuor skills of size judgement and distance I doubt you;d get the right one anyway.

I've never failed to open a device without breaking it.

Doesn't suprise me.

What?

Read what you wrote.
You have NEVER opened a device WITHOUT BREAKIG it.

You missed one negative, the word "failed".

Which the mac classic was fine for a friend did her banking degree on a classic.
She preferred it to the IBM and clones of the time.

Way too bloody small, and not in colour.

Neither of which mattered.

The most important things.

It happens less in the UK with computers because there's a chance the serial number if found could be traced back.

Who cares what the foreign country does with it?

The idea of recyling is to stop waste and hopefully limit pollution.
We could have dumped it all ion regents canel rarhewr than spending £1000s having someone to come and take it way.

If it's polluting another country, I don't care.

Anyway, I've seen plenty pictures of Indians dismantling circuit boards to get the capacitors, gold, etc.

are they dismantling these working PCs you sent back?

No, I know where they went.

How ? Did you send them back with tracking devices ?

They were taken by colleagues personally to their destination and set up there.

Why don't they use them you've said they have for 10 years now.
Thing is you don't have a clue where your PCs have gone.

********, they were hand delivered.

Yeah sure.

Yes.

So what happened to the £20 per item PCs how do you know they are still working ?

What? I don't care what they're doing, they're given to other people.

SO you can't know they were used at all.
Why give £20 to someone to throw it in the recycling bin can't you do that yourself ?

Because recycling isn't free for companies. Which is why I gave them away or just used the skip and didn't tell anyone.

Soem of those companies are just using the skip too, not recyling and some are fly tipping, of course yuo might have checked out the company to make sure they arent fly tipping, but hwo do you really check that.

Who cares? I do what's cheapest.

The 50 or so PCs we had I had to take the HDs out of so all the PC had no HD and hence no OS.

I simply removed any data, or reformatted and reinstalled the OS.

For wqhatever reason we were more sensiative about what was on the HDs so they were taken out and NOT given away, I think some were reused in house, others were destroyed.

Were you incapable of simply wiping them?
Because theres the chance that someone could unerase them, while some were piut back into use, some were taken out to be wiped, otherwise I'd have to know the login details of each PC.

Then wipe then properly.

we also didn;t want licensed software being left on the machine s

Who gives a **** about licenses?

We doo, if they'd found our PCs being used we could be done for using pirated software.

If they're somewhere else, it's not you breaking the law.

and didn't want to pay the costs of installing ODS's on 50 PC that were to be scrapped.

What cost? You just let them sit there for an hour installing.

The cost of 50 licenses for the OS. which was windows XP at the time which isn't free.

It was already paid for when you bought the machine.

Yes those handles were really meant to carry the imac without supporing it from underneath, there was a small trade in those imacs as cat baskets.

Stupid design. I often carried two.

why do that ?

20 of them to take from one end of the corridor to the other.

Oh I thought this was because smarphone screens are too small so you were using two 15" iMacs.

An Imac is not useful for anything.

So why did you have them and why carry them about.

Because idiots that used to work there bought them.

10 trips or 20? Easy decision. Although I'd often wait till breaktime and grab a load of kids to carry them.

That sounds a much better idea, but then again I use trollies, the largest I have could hold about 8 iMacs. I typically put -12 PCs on our largest trolly
sod walking back and forth carrying 50 PCs with monitors & kb's & mice power leads etc..

ROFL! I used a trolley for some tower Imacs once. The stupid things were curved on the side, so they slid off.

Sounds likem teh G4 towers.

Yes.

Quite a few smashed cases. Form over function, typical Apple ****.

This from someone who trips when wearing shoes, and forgets how tall they are so hit their head.

I don't design curvy cases for things so they can't lie in their side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHEoDuy66XM

I wonder why that video got thumbs downs?

pretty shaky video and for doing stuff like that it wouldn't have been too much effort to have a steady camera do the filming.

Only slightly shaky. Youtube can remove that anyway.

Then he should select that option it can be quite annoying watchb a video like that when it could so easily be fixed.

Doesn't annoy me, not shaky enough. Doesn't your brain compensate?

No ones does that's probbaly why it got the thumbs down.

Everybody's does. That's why you can see clearly when on a wobbly rollercoaster.

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