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Sadly, Mubs, Mercutio is right in every detail. Horrible damn thing to work on. There's no chance you could immerse it in the fishtank and put in an insurance claim for storm and tempest damage? No, I didn't think so. In that case, you're just going to have to pull the damn thing apart. Take...

Personally, I'd rather be pop-riveted to an outhouse door feet uppermost than live in an industrial area.

Not so far as I know, but I can tell you: nothing of significance bar the psudo-scientific sound of the phrase "analysis engine", which ranks up there with "ectoplasm" and "astrological conjunction". You can't analyse nonsense, no matter what you do with it.

Significance? You want significance? You want to shop somewhere else, chum, we don't stock none of that significance stuff here.

Haven't you heard? IPC went out with the steam engine. These days, everybody wants IPP.

Yup. I'm with the Billdozer on this one: just do it.

Glob. That was a howler - "22 years long" indeed. Hand me those stupid pills, Tea, I obviously need to take more of them. I mean yards, of course, and yes, Slo, it works like this: 8 inches = about 1 link 12 inches = 1 foot 1 rod = 25 links 3 feet = 1 yard 1 pole = 1 rod 1 perch = 1 rod 22...

It is the pitch and to a lesser extent the ball, that makes it all interesting. The best form of cricket is played over five days. Let's say Australia is playing South Africa, and the South African captain wins the toss and decides to bat first. The first two SA batsmen come in. These are the...

There are some excellent sites that explain cricket. In a little while I'll go off and find one or two to link to, but in the meantime, because I'm very tired and in need of some realitively simple task to occupy my brain while I wind down and get sleepy, I'll stumble around and try to confuse...

Ha! Reminds me of the advice to highwaymen in one or other of the Terry Pratchet books. On the Discworld, dwarves are particularly fond of their gold. Pratchet advises you, if you are a highwayman (is that what you call the guy who holds up the stagecoach in the US? Not sure if you use the...

I dunno nuffing about psychology but I do know tha there are 20,000 posts (to use a very round figure) and that each post must have database fields to record the date & time, the text, the poster, the IP address, sundry other stuff. Lets pluck a number out of the air and ten to twelve items per...

Allright. Relax everyone. No need to panic. I have arrived. Where's that scotch?

You have convinced me, Skeet, or you would have except for one thing. As you will be aware, I know nothing about TVs and care less, but I've been a rusted-on Panasonic fan for more years than I care to admit to. For a long, long time, if in doubt about any product, I'd just buy the Panasonic...

Ztupid ape! Just when your policy of being ever zo polite and nice to me waz looking good, and I waz even thinking about forgiving you for mezzing up my keyboard mapping, you had to go and zlip in a cheap zhot. You are ztill in the dog house!

Issue: should I tell Belinda? (About the idiot with the sheep, I mean.) Will that (a) make her feel better about the idiot she has to put up with? Or (b) make her sadder because of the cruelty and stupidity that is so rife in the world? Hmmm.... No sure.

Cliptin, you are talking nonsense.

Cliptin: rubbish. That's a selective quote you gave, from an M$ PR flunky, that directly contradicts the things that he himself announced! It was obvious PR bullshit with no relationship to the facts, and I left it out for that reason. Mark: yes, your points are valid. However, Micro$oft have...

Doezn't anybody read The Regizter? Microsoft have fewer security alerts now than they uzed to because they have upped the criteria for izzuing an alert. No joke! Edited from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28191.html

Not wizhing to diztract attention from your very real zorrow, Tea, but you know perfectly well why I am not zpeaking to you, you ztupid meddlezome ape!

You ztupid monkey! All thoze yearz I zpent learning to type and now look what you've done!

Don't touch the ENTER key! That is an order, Tea.

No No! You are not the only one that uses this computer, you fool. What if you -

And you will be welcome, Honold. You are always a worthy opponent, and rarely not worth reading. I shall look forward to it.

I wasn't discussing the dirt-cheap stuff, Tim, but the midrange mainstream. In the real crap end of the market, I'm not sure that I could do any better than the vomitboxen. I do my best to avoid that part of the market - bar certain special circumstances, anyone with any sense avoids it by...

Oh, and speaking of making money and administrative overheads and the operational efficiency of smalller organisations, we ain't never yet sold two computers for the price of one!

I'm sure they have a higher gross margin than I do, Honold. But I'm not so sure that they have a better net margin. (Mind you, my net margin would be a lot better if I spent more time and energy looking after it than I do posting here. And playing in the garden. And all those other things that...

By your own admission, these are below-cost prices. Arguing that they have any significance for the market as a whole is nonsensical. We know that no business can sell any significant fraction of its products below cost. We also know that, for any product to be significant in the...

If you'd bother reading the thread, you'd see that I didn't ignore it the first time. Second post down on this page.

What a foolish thing to say. That really is moronic. Pride has nothing to do with it, and to suggest otherwise is not just obviously wrong, it is offensive (and deliberately so, in my opinion). Any decent computer shop beats Dell as a matter of everday routine. You don't have to own one, you...

And equally, there is absolutely no way that Dell or anyone else can do this sort of deal as a matter of normal everday business. It is, in short, a conspicuous exception to the overwhelming majority of the business they transact. Indeed, indirectly it is a rather spectacular demonstration of...

If you really think that "the days of being able to brag about building pcs and how much more elite/better/cheaper it is than buying a Dell are utterly over", Honold, then it's well and truly time for you to (a) get back in touch with the real world (for the facts in the marketplace simply do...

She means "sticktoitiveness" or "stick-to-it-iveness, a quality in which Tea is lamentably lacking. (Unlike me, of course.) I gather that she picked the word up from watching old re-runz of MASH. I mean re-runs, damnit.

With "I'm changing the climate" sticker? Or without?

http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1005 There you will find an everyday price comparison. But in a nutshell, we cream them as a matter of routine. We have to - otherwise the other dealers we compete with would destroy us. (I mean real dealers, not supermarkets selling overpriced...

I take your point, Honold, but you are citing an exceptional example. (No, I haven't troubled to look at the link and convert it into Oz dollars so that I can compare, I'm sure that you have cited an example where the Dell is indeed very cheap.) However, this is citing an extreme instance. I...

Pretty close, Blakewry. I do mostly sell on lower overall long-term cost and our better upgradability (both things which are, I think always true) but we are usually somewhere between $0 and $200 cheaper, typically about $100 (Oz dollars), almost never more expensive, and always deliver a...

Huh? So how do I pay the rent? I make my living beating Dell in the under $US1000 market, have done for years. It's routine. Lots of other people do it too.

It's a bargain. Buy it!

By the way, 263 posts ago, someone made the 20,000th post.

So I see, Tim. I'd still stake the bastard out though. Some people don't deserve to have a planet.

Facts you should know about SUVs By law SUVs can emit 30% more carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons and 75% more nitrogen oxides than passenger cars. SUVs add an additional 5,000 tons per day of smog-forming pollutants to our air during the summer. Federal law permits SUVs to waste 33% more...

Typical moronic 4WD owner. There are some exceptions to the rule, but if I was the Tsar, I'd stake this guy out somewhere in Arizona. After his eyelids turned crispy, I'd explain that it's only an extra degree or two, what's the problem?

Here, compressed to 640 x 480 to save screen space, is a view of some of the part of Belinda's property that I call "the forest". (Look at it right now, because the grass won't be green again till winter, I should imagine!) Notice the brown trees on the far left and far right: these trees are...

It was your comment that the Colarodo River no longer reaches the sea that particularly caught my eye, Buck. That is very sad - and yet, with so many people to feed and water, is there a reasonable alternative? Here in Oz, with fewer mouths to feed, I don't think we have ever sunk to quite that...

Swallows! Doh! How could I have forgotten swallows? We have them, of course, but not so far as I know not nesting, they just cruise on in now and again, particularly in summer. But - look out - having wasted my morning writing about silvereyes, I've hit my self-imposed start time and am late...

I am fond of Silvereyes, Buck, they are indeed beautiful little creatures. Most people don't particularly notice them, perhaps because they are so small and so common. Belinda, being fond of her cherries, her plums, her Nashis, and her grapes, calls them "little wretches", but can't bring...

I'm not sure about the egg size, I'll look it up later on today at Belinda's (we keep all our bird books at her place, because that's where the birds are). So far, so good. The current six-year drought is severe in Australia generally, but we have been lucky: so far there has been no real...

Ahh, thankyou Buck.

Elbox? What's that?

Don't I wish! Alas, in my experience it's nowhere near as common as that article (or others I have read) suggests. There are several places I know of where it's easy to find one, but I think our part of the world is too dry, as they pass through now and then, but don't seem to want to stay...