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[Gwadien]

Sure @Gwadien old bean

Spoiler

m8, you old bean.

 

[Gwadien]

Well yes...except previously I would get a phone call saying 'Ay mate that gas pipes not to close to the roof is it?'..but now I get a letter off their lawyer alter ego.
It's a general thing that's riding on the back of technology and I guess everyone has to show they can use the latest tools, but when schoolkids HAVE to present worked auto formatted by word, printed out on quality paper, then we are sliding towards the fluff....'what the fuck is this Jenkins...a pen? Used on writing paper?
I'm all for technology and using tools but when the tool IS the content, then things ate going astray.

Then when you fuck a job up, and then you laugh away running because there's nothing on paper.

 

[Raven]

It must be a pain being left behind in the 80s.

 

[Scouse]

Well yes...except previously I would get a phone call saying 'Ay mate that gas pipes not to close to the roof is it?'..but now I get a letter off their lawyer alter ego.

It's because they don't want to get into an argument about things. They want to know "are you going to do it like this" and have the security of written proof that you're going to do what they asked for.

If it doesn't get done to their liking then they can show you an email and say "look you fucker".

Of course - the protection works both ways. You can do the agreed work and then when they say they don't like it you can show them the email and say "it's what you asked for you wanker - now pay up".

The only way this would be a problem is if work hasn't been done in the manner asked for.

 

[Job]

Obviously I'm communicating with the converted, so I'd like to ask if our little conversation met with their expectations with regards to the context in which it should be evaluated.

 

[Scouse]

Obviously I'm communicating with the converted, so I'd like to ask if our little conversation met with their expectations with regards to the context in which it should be evaluated.

What?

 

[caLLous]

 

[Bodhi]

Turns out I have graduated to the level of an elite haXX0r! I can get access to my next door neighbours network.....just by plugging a Powerline Adapter into the wall! Skills.

Bloody annoying though, as it will connect to my neighbour's, but not to the adapter downstairs.

 

[Raven]

Either you or your neighbour is stealing electric then

 

[caLLous]

Well, @Bodhi lived in Stoke. Just throwing that out there.

 

[Edmond]

I like having Job on this forum, I enjoy getting home from work to see what our resident Bat Shit Crazy chum has posted. I like to play a game and try to guess how many Daily Fail/Express articles he has linked to as well

In relation to sending our quotes, I always try to put as much technical info on the quotes as possible, because whether you like it or not, everyone has access to the Internet and can find all sorts of info before they even ask me round to look at the job, so you always need to be one step ahead. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that they have invested a bit of their own time into the product I offer. I know if I was spending £6000 on my windows being replaced I would want to know exactly what I was paying for, also it makes my job easier when I go round and don't have to talk them through the 5 or so different option and styles of windows, they give me the info they have researched and I go off and quote it. Easy peasy

 

[Bodhi]

Either you or your neighbour is stealing electric then

I'm told some of the Powerline adapters can interfere with next door, and you can use the built in security to get round that. Of course, mine are 5 years old and won't connect securely any more. Arse.

Oh and go Sky! Promise me 8 - 16 mbit in the new place, I get 4.

 

[CorNokZ]

I just got upgraded to 100mbit for free... Lovely I tell you!

 

[Tom]

Apparently Virgin are upgrading everyone shortly, I'm on 100mb now and it's supposed to be going to 200mb

 

[TdC]

I have such an issue with Office, and it's not to do with it's cost or code, it's just that these technologies allow any idiot to look professional, which kinda undermines the while concept of what it means.
No one is impressed anymore by a fancy website or a letter that looks like a corporate clerical centre produced it, simply because Johnny noteeth could have banged it out on his 30 quid printer.
But what they do is up the ante, everyone I quote for now expects a word doc emailed to them, full of bullshit pseudo lawyer speak.
I get replies like..'thankyou for your quote..could you just confirm in writing the positioning of the gas pipe in relation to the outside guttering I have highlighted in attached image A.'
I get round and the person sending me the replies is in pyjamas at 2pm.
Everyone's a frickin closet corporate liason manager now because you can bullshit electronically.

I don't get this one. Are you bummed out that someone can use software to make professional looking documents or are you bummed out someone is trying to ensure that you're willing to commit to do a proper job on a potential project (rather than knocking an 8' hole in his wall, knicking a couple DVD's, his whisky, a golf club, and vanishing in your white van)?

 

[Edmond]

Here's one for you @Job

 

[caLLous]

I imagine @TdC dying a little more inside as he reads each line of that.

 

[dysfunction]

I have such an issue with Office, and it's not to do with it's cost or code, it's just that these technologies allow any idiot to look professional, which kinda undermines the while concept of what it means.
No one is impressed anymore by a fancy website or a letter that looks like a corporate clerical centre produced it, simply because Johnny noteeth could have banged it out on his 30 quid printer.
But what they do is up the ante, everyone I quote for now expects a word doc emailed to them, full of bullshit pseudo lawyer speak.
I get replies like..'thankyou for your quote..could you just confirm in writing the positioning of the gas pipe in relation to the outside guttering I have highlighted in attached image A.'
I get round and the person sending me the replies is in pyjamas at 2pm.
Everyone's a frickin closet corporate liason manager now because you can bullshit electronically.

Welcome to the 20th Century

 

[caLLous]

DirectX 12 tested: An early win for AMD, and disappointment for Nvidia

I hope we have a bit of momentum shifting going on. The thing about AMD's cards is that they gradually get better throughout their lives (through better drivers etc) whereas Nvidia's tend to be pretty swift off the bat and then not improve. Add to that the improvements seen in DX12 in Ashes of Singularity (admittedly a very AMD-friendly game) and maybe the Red Team is going to claw back some market share.

 

[old.user4556]

Aberdeen. Known stereotypically for its sheep shagging populous, turns out it's not far from the truth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-33994960

 

[Gwadien]

 

[fettoken]

 

[Jugvayne]

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Lamp]

Pressure at bottom of Mariana Trench: 8 tons per sq inch

Pressure at Earth's core: 22K tons per sq inch

Pressure at Jupiter's core: 735K tons per sq inch

(Still nowhere near strong enough to break the end off a Toblerone after one week in the fridge)

 

[Lamp]

Source:http://classroom.synonym.com/jupiters-core-vs-earths-core-21848.html

I love stuff like this

 

[Lamp]

5 of the World's Most Dangerous Chemicals:
View: http://youtu.be/ckSoDW2-wrc



http://pipeline.corante.com/archive..._work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less.php

 

[Lamp]

In September 2014, scientists in the CUORE collaboration at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy cooled a copper vessel with a volume of one cubic meter to 0.006 kelvins (−273.144 °C; −459.659 °F) for 15 days, setting a record for the lowest temperature in the known universe over such a large contiguous volume

 

[Lamp]

 

[Job]

I see the Elf musical starring some girls aloud bint is pricing tickets from 65 to 240 quid each!
To see a musical based on the Elf movie...seriously, you would have to pay me to sit through that shite.

 

[Trem]

I see the Elf musical starring some girls aloud bint is pricing tickets from 65 to 240 quid each!
To see a musical based on the Elf movie...seriously, you would have to pay me to sit through that shite.

You'll pay and you'll go, especially if it's the ginger one you weird fucking beast