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A lot of these tech companies will run certain services at a loss, with the hope that one day they will figure out how to monetise it. Google and FB are probably the best examples. Snap chat a more recent one. That ipo’d for billions with the promise that one day they will figure the revenue side out.
Never used SC but i see it’s along way from the seedy product it once was.
The one i use the most is what’s apps, as ever ones on it, and hangouts. Tho i do use skype out as it has a ‘real number’ that anyone can call. But family and friends is a mixture of WA and HO. FB is also fine. They all are tbh.
I still firmly believe Facebook is becoming the worlds defacto telecom communications network, without having to sink a penny into a physical network. It’s a genius move. Almost every person in the connected world has an account. At my last look, they reported over 1billion active individual accounts on FB, that’s without taking into account their what’s app user base. Which dominates in many ip markets.
One day they will be the new yellow pages an British (world) telecom in one.
That’s interesting ed, as i always took the kids photos myself when they was young (a con at £50 for five years pp), photo shopped them into shape then them shnkk the pic to whatever the pp dimensions are print at 100% .
Though as i sent in physical photos and not not on line, they have always passed.y kids are all big enough to get them done in the shop now. Though the kodak shop is gone from town, so i wouldn’t know where to get one done, so would have to use a booth. So to save time and money would probably still just do it for them.
Although I’ll only have to get my now 9 year olds one, as the rest are old enough to pay for their own.
This morning i dropped my eldest off at manchester airport, for a week on Egypt. Could do with some of that sun atm.
Youll get a million answers to this one bob. I’d start with what connectors you need. As there is plenty of choice for your budget in the 1080p @ 24″ space. Iirc i paid £80 or 90 for each of my aces monitors, one about 4 years ago, the second about 2 years ago.
Chip as chips do do the job. I’d like higher res ones, but that would mean going up to at least 27″ and of course a bigger gpu to push all the extra pixels. And probably a new CPU given my i7 920 is older than my almost 10 year old daughter.
I’ve been using skype go for about 10 years, its great.
Well i turned that grim. I should stay off the net in the wee hours. Sorry.
Ed that’s the cost of “advancement” of the laptop. forever minimising. The smaller it gets the harder and more impossible servicing is.
It is why i’m clinging on to the old Thinkpads.
It’s not I don’t have downtime, I probably have too much os you ask a certain person. I gist have other past times as well. Also spending my days on an PC working, my back aches enough, so sitting in my office chair for another 4 hours isn’t that attractive.
One day I’ll get back into proper gaming. I just pop in and out of it atm. Usually, transport fever or Minecraft with my 16 and 9-year-old.
Minecraft is the game that just keeps giving. A true 21C technic lego. If you can think it, you can build it. I don’t think there is another game ever, that can ne as simple a 3-year-old can play it, or as complex you like. Two great examples, I’ve seen someone great a working PC monitor and another build a wiring of with working ram and memory. Far far far outstrips my MC skills. You know only a 30 plus PhD computing genius could create. It never ceases to amaze me.
Sad times bob, lung cancer got my nan, but she still looked well when she went. Hid any pain well. She was lucky, as some can be dying of cancer. My aunt was got by it, to my shame I don’t recall what form, and it is her away within 2 months of going the docs feeling off. The day before she died when I saw her, she looks 90 was 58iirc. She was tiny, fragile, couldn’t even move her body or talk. That was a shocking sight.
I said my goodbyes, and on the drive, though she should have been put off by her mystery before she got that far. Luckily for her, she was gone the next day.
It was a strange thought, but if it’s humane to put a dog down, surely people should have the right to decide.
My FiL once asked me, about 10 years ago if it ever comes to him being in such position would I help him out. He was/is a proud man that doesn’t want to go out slobbering and having is arse wiped. Now that is a strange son in law, father in law convo. He must really trust me, of thinking I’m a phyco.
I’ve always loved steam as it took the hassle out of PC gaming. Before steam, it seemed to play a PC game you’d have to spend an hour fighting with windows and game updates before you could start. Being a busy father this meant jumping on for q quick hour, was a fruitless affair. So pre-steam consoles where far more attractive.
With steam, going etc not only is it a better experience game are cheap if you wait. I probably buy 2 to 4 games a month. That just sits in the ‘to do’ list. Saving for retirement
It’s never a nice thing when you see these incidents, the wife showed me one yesterday (maybe earlier today) where a drunk pair ran down two kids, never nice.
I think ad I was so young, I never really gave it a second thought, then the following few years, I was unfortunate to see die and bury a few friends while in the marines. They was more sad to me, but again I was young and it never really bothered me to the extent I saw it bother others.
My wife has said a few time I’m strange, as I don’t seem to mourn, she saw me bury my father and grandparents. My wife still mourns her nan time to time almost over 15 years on.
As I’ve got older I think I’m a bit more sensitive to these things but on the whole death doesnt bother me. I look at it as a pointless endeavour, the same as worry. Which seems to be my wife’s favourite pastime.
It’s just part of life, we are all living a death sentence, some faster than others, some closer to the finish line than others. And some just have bad luck. My worry or mourning won’t change any of that.
This is why wifie says I’m a strange one, and it wouldn’t surprise her if one day I cracked and went on a spree. I just ensure her if that day comes, she’ll be first on my list. ?
Seen my first dead body, or rather almost dead, missing half a face, in a saphie cossie, one id been in an hour earlier at 16.
It was about a week before I joined up. It belongs to my neighbour and me and my dad went out for a pint with him. While at the pub the landlord’s son 18iirc asked for a go down the quiet lane next to the pub. 300 yards later he was no more.
We heard the bang from inside the pub, I was first to the car followed by his girlfriend. She wasn’t best please.
my overriding memory was all the white paint, the owner was a painter and used it as ballast in the boot for grip (most used a bag of sand), as he hit these concrete bollards the paint exploded out the boot covering the whole interior and about 20 yards outside the front of the car.
The guy was growing in his own blood, a strange night indeed. Sadly isn’t the last I’ve seen, but defo the most strange.
It never bothered me as I didn’t know the lad, thinking back night what a waste of a life.
Back to old cars id prefer a mk2 xr3i, less powerful but I think they look brilliant to this day. Aged better than the escort 2000 or cossie of its day. I think I even like not more than the mexico. Id also love a bmw 2000 turbo. I love the shape of the bmw 2000. Alpha have a very similar shaped car from the time also, but don’t know its name.
Anyone buying tyres and breaks from a scrap yard needs their licence revoking for the safetly us all.
But almost everything else is fine. Most cars in scrappies are write offs so are full of perfectly good parts. A car with a rear shunt is written off today easily (for good reason), so you have a full bonnet worth of perfectly good bits. I don’t use my local one, but have the number of a few not so far away (20miles) that will call you back if the they have it, tried and tested.
I’m still yet to pick the car up. Just not got round to it. But over the years I’ve got to know the owner of the garage quote well, so when I dropped it off I asked him to give it a once over, see if anything pop out to him.
Good thing about the old ka is they was very popular, and now parts are peanuts, and scrap yards are full of them too.
How common the is/was should be in the mind of any buyer that doesn’t have a lot of spare cash, if you stick with fiesta, focus astra, corsa, or mondeo, or even golf (but I suspect you’ll still get stung by the german tax a little), the scrap yards will have all the parts to keep your car going at cheap prices.
Anther god shout is ebay. I got a break servo for my lads pug of half the price of my local srappy, tho mine is a robbing tw*t, and I got the radio/dim face plate of buttons off there to for the girls ka. It came with a wiring look adapter too.
It’s yet to be swapped out, as she was waiting on the mot before she buy a new radio. All she wants is an aux input. As she doesn’t own a single cd so the optional extra of the cd payer is worthless to her .
I wouldn’t bother with watch dogs one. It came with the mk1 ps4 we got. It’s poor at best.
£9k may be what the rrp is, but my local vx has/had them 12 months ago for £7.5k new .
I’ve had tow of the things off them, one was the entry level some, and it was horrid. Although it’s selling point was cheap and with plenty of kit. It had cc, speed limiter, city steering (dangeors in that car, normal steeting was imho too light to begin with) and something my car that Rrp is £26k vx does not have, which was lane assist . I like the idea of LA for long motorway jornts, but find it pointless for a city car as it’s continuously shouting at you. Luckilly vx let you turn it off, unlike the Rav4 h I test drove a while back. Also the basic viva had the cheapest injection molded wheel I’ve ever had the pleasure of using and I once owned a 1991 escort van.
Even with the kit, £7.5k is too much. The second I had had half leather seats, which had a superior none slab poimd shop shape and a faux leather, steering wheel, which made the car feel much better, but still wouldn’t pay £7.5k for that. Probably cost you closer to £10.5 new. Lol. Though I didn’t feel violated driving that one. Funny what a decent wheel can do.
The viva on paper looks a better buy because it ticked a lot of the tech boxes that you need to pay for from the comp. But because you get the toy for free, you can just tell they have crimped of the fundamentals. For instance the mk1 ka, feels and drives far better. Somtjing that precedes it by 20 years.
A god trick the original ka did, was instead of giving you lots of super cheap plasitc they just gave you non at all, which made it “funky/quirky” but also saved money. They got the basics right, and gave you no frills. The original mk1 disnt even have a glove box but a space for a butty box, and never bothered with airbags at all. By 2003 they had to remove the butty box dash and put in two air bags.
If anyone remembers the old panda, and its cloth basket of a glove box, that is sort of what ford recreated with the original ka, but there was a plastic space. Sadly cos of the airbags (which is ultimate good) that only lasted 4 years.
I put my burka on. It’s great. The whole family shares the one pp.
Funny enough I have my mum and dads pp (a single pp for both) from the early 80s and I’m on it to, but it’s just my name written on in ink. I think you just added your one babys name back then .
So back them you could take any baby on any pp. A bit like my berka pp I have now.
Why don’t we have a berka emoji? I’m gonna find someone to complain to. Lol.
I renewed 7 last 2 years ago. It was a fortune! Good news last night I stated booking our summer adventure. 24 days touring France and Spain. All booked via apps on my phone. Villas and apartments right through, total cost including fuel and ferry £1300. Bargain. Just shy of 3200 miles driving, avoiding the french tolls (super expensive and boring) zig zag down the trunk roads and countryside. Gonna be ace. And for the first time just 4 of us.
I wanted to take the dogs, but the witch wouldn’t have it.
I agree, the all “grow” their car then eventually it out grows the segment and then the have launch another new small car. Vx entry was the cross for years, now they have the viva now its its place .Oh boy is shocking, about£6.5k new.
You would be menial imho to buy one when you could get a 2rmonth old mid trim fiesta for that money. If you want a small car.
For are at it too, the ka, that replaced the fiesta when that grew, the fiesta is now escort size. But the new ka mk3 now is a 5 door. So ford will soon need another cheap small entry car. The ka now is almost fiesta size.
I was in the MiL mk2 ka last year and pulled up behind an old late 80s early 90s bmw 3 series estate, the ka towers over it. My mind was blown.
Anther of my favourite hates is the new clio. Now as a fan of the old clio williams from the 90s, which is about mk1 ka size, the new clue is larger than a focus. Actully a friend has one in a mid to top spec (signeture) and it’s quiet nice, but that’s not the point. The care jas change so much over the previous gen, surly it should of had a new name.
If I wanted a new dependable car for cheap, id get a Dacia stepway. Does nothing brilliantly, but pound for pound probably the best car on sale today. Think it’s about £10k. I see it in the same light as the old panda 4×4. A no frills do anything great car, just not that cool.
Talking of great 4x4s the poor Jimny is being replaced this year. One of the most underrated cars out there. If I was taking up green laneing etc that is the car is start with. A good 10 year old one, that I could batter and do roadside fixes on, that will almost match (ans beat in some areas) the range rover. For a fraction of the upfount cost, and even more on maintenance.
You can probably tell by my car likes, I’m a cheap skate at heart. And I love it.
The 05 ka i took punt on, Bil Sgt wife’s, last month for £100 with 36k on it, went for it’s mot yesterday. If failed on one old tyre, a factory one that began to perish.
What a result. The cars worth about £600, so i was toning anything below £300 mot cost is a win, but given i dont include tyres with mot cost, they are wear and tear. So im made up with £135 all in for a mint (the interior is in better shape than my 15 car) car with 12mot. Also with 36k on the clock, its lower miles than my car lol.
It was always expensive, and id imagine more and more mostly catered for last min items like screws fans etc… one would forgot to order form an online retailer.
Toys r us will be gone within the month too it looks. They should of build a decent website (its horrific), closed half the stores and used the remaining as warehouses and demo places. That way with there bulk buying power they probably could competed. The US TRU hit the buffers last year saying EU TRU was uneffected, but i called it then, then that they would after Xmas season 2017.
I may of even said on here, or could of been the pub, that if you was going to use TRU don’t buy online, go in store, as they could go bust before they fulfilled any order. I was worried parents with little to spend could drop £500 or more on a ps4 bundle/bike etc and be left empty handed and up shit creek come Xmas day. Imagine that!
Didn’t hmv go in december or was it just after? leaving a lot of people holdimg worthless gift cards.
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