14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
There's a party trick.
I'd like to see him blow up a car tyre with his ear. Preferably mine, because I'm too lazy to do it myself.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor.
36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor.
i thought this would be more, in my case anyway.
I installed a TZ170 at a client site because surfing and more especially chat (Yahoo MSN etc.) was 2 hours + per day per staff member. It's f'ing hard to block them frigging chat programs they jump all over the ports.
The other thing the idiots were doing was downloading SmilieCentral, StarWare and other spyware. In the words of one former employee "Sorry about the smilies, I just think they're cool!" in an email to the whole office. Feking loser - and that jerk was one of the first to complain he was getting spam email. Oh go figure, wonder why?
I can't recommend the TZ170 enough - OK it costs about ?4000 per year in licences but with 50 staff it paid for itself in 4 weeks, plus with the gateway AV we haven't had an out brake of virus or spyware on site in 12 months. That's with graduate staff predominantly 21 -30.
Also cuts down on spam by doing RBL lookups on all connections and just dropping them. Suddenly it was like doubling the throughput on the exchange server.
The other thing the idiots were doing was downloading SmilieCentral, StarWare and other spyware. In the words of one former employee "Sorry about the smilies, I just think they're cool!" in an email to the whole office. Feking loser - and that jerk was one of the first to complain he was getting spam email. Oh go figure, wonder why?
Reminds me of the moron on Email Discussions who came on the site complaining because he'd received spam and "unsubscribed" from it, thereby letting himself in for masses more spam (quite apart from the question of how the hell one is supposed to "unsubscribe" from something to which one never subscribed in the first place, anyone with the slightest knowledge of e-mail could have told him that "unsubscribing" from spam actually has the opposite effect) -- and jumped to the conclusion that his email provider "must" be selling its member list to the spammers!
And he refused to listen to the rest of us when we pointed out that we hadn't suffered any spam problem -- he took the attitude that he was right and everyone else (about two dozen people) was wrong. (He was the type of idiot who seriously takes the kind of attitude I adopt as a joke in my current sig.) Of course, being such a prize aerosol, he quickly got banned from EMD -- what did it was that he requested notifications of replies to threads in which he'd posted, and then reported the notifications as spam; but if it hadn't been that, it would have been something else...
I never make misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs — oh, sod it.
Erm...it wasn't? Perhaps not literally, no, but on some level I certainly thought so. Unless everyone in here thinks it some sort of stop gap arrangement. In which case, I think we can stop bothering.
Erm...it wasn't? Perhaps not literally, no, but on some level I certainly thought so. Unless everyone in here thinks it some sort of stop gap arrangement. In which case, I think we can stop bothering.
I thought it was a community replacement, but I stand corrected. Confused, but corrected.
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14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
There's a party trick.
I'd like to see him blow up a car tyre with his ear. Preferably mine, because I'm too lazy to do it myself.
No Stairway? Denied! :)
i thought this would be more, in my case anyway.
Its coming out on christmas day, apparently.
ADJB
if i was paying for it i'd be annoyed at the lateness. :)
I installed a TZ170 at a client site because surfing and more especially chat (Yahoo MSN etc.) was 2 hours + per day per staff member. It's f'ing hard to block them frigging chat programs they jump all over the ports.
The other thing the idiots were doing was downloading SmilieCentral, StarWare and other spyware. In the words of one former employee "Sorry about the smilies, I just think they're cool!" in an email to the whole office. Feking loser - and that jerk was one of the first to complain he was getting spam email. Oh go figure, wonder why?
I can't recommend the TZ170 enough - OK it costs about ?4000 per year in licences but with 50 staff it paid for itself in 4 weeks, plus with the gateway AV we haven't had an out brake of virus or spyware on site in 12 months. That's with graduate staff predominantly 21 -30.
Also cuts down on spam by doing RBL lookups on all connections and just dropping them. Suddenly it was like doubling the throughput on the exchange server.
Needs to be half the size, double the frequency. Is excellent nevertheless.
Reminds me of the moron on Email Discussions who came on the site complaining because he'd received spam and "unsubscribed" from it, thereby letting himself in for masses more spam (quite apart from the question of how the hell one is supposed to "unsubscribe" from something to which one never subscribed in the first place, anyone with the slightest knowledge of e-mail could have told him that "unsubscribing" from spam actually has the opposite effect) -- and jumped to the conclusion that his email provider "must" be selling its member list to the spammers!
And he refused to listen to the rest of us when we pointed out that we hadn't suffered any spam problem -- he took the attitude that he was right and everyone else (about two dozen people) was wrong. (He was the type of idiot who seriously takes the kind of attitude I adopt as a joke in my current sig.) Of course, being such a prize aerosol, he quickly got banned from EMD -- what did it was that he requested notifications of replies to threads in which he'd posted, and then reported the notifications as spam; but if it hadn't been that, it would have been something else...
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.It's here!:
http://www.readersheds.co.uk/readersheds/share.cfm?SHARESHED=676
A full refund will be issued.
No it wasn't.
...They are called C64 enthusiasts.
Never.
aparently thats too short an answer so I better type
Never, ever, ever.
Mind you, you're likely to be hounded by the Center for Political Correctness now.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Erm...it wasn't? Perhaps not literally, no, but on some level I certainly thought so. Unless everyone in here thinks it some sort of stop gap arrangement. In which case, I think we can stop bothering.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
I thought it was a community replacement, but I stand corrected. Confused, but corrected.
Hey ho.
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14087
Have I missed something since ?
ADJB
I really don't mind either of the first two options: ZXF was regular, YS3 definitely wasn't, and both editors didn't make a secret of that fact.
The thread ADJB linked to gives me the impression that it's intended to be "filler" between "major" releases in the Sinclair retroscene.
And Lee's reaction, frankly, makes me wonder whether or not his heart's really in it. He definitely appears fed up with it all.
Since nobody has replied to this I might as well have a stab.
Good question. I think the answer is probably: yes it was, it seems that way now and, I hope not. In that order. :)
Hmm.... I wonder why... :smile:
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.