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Nite nite :)

Nice to see that the same old peeps are still here.

Bit odd to see that I'm still Hexxagon and Moonlander champeen after all this time. Don't you lot play games?

I said "ARE YOU HARD OF HEARING?"

If so, this monaural headphone set may be of interest.

If you're stone deaf in your right ear, you may find one of these useful if you play any online games,...

Re Opposable thumbs: where's the rule that says that things have to be physically manipulated? Don't need no thumbs if you can move things using psychokinesis.

Re intelligent life elsewhere in the...

Whale oil beef hooked.

Must be a version and/or configuration issue. Ctrl+/Ctrl- zoom in/out works for me using IE 7.0.5730.11.



Rock-throwing can bear fruit.

Interesting viewpoint.

It isn't 'nothing' to those who find living in today's world more and more difficult because of the increasing reliance on a computerised system that is designed for the...

I used to:

have trouble striking up conversations (I still do IRL, but it's so much easier to make a fool of yourself online, they can't see the embarrassed blush)
be able to know whether I...

I don't use the same software, but all digital cameras work in basically the same way. You should be able to transfer the pictures to your hard disc somehow: once you've done that, they can be...

Replace 'the North American audience' with 'humans' and I'd agree. USAns aren't special.

IMO, you're railing at the wrong audience. Tim Berners-Lee (the originator of HTML, British) had this...

I'm just guessing here but if there's any 'fault' here it can probably be laid at the software designer's feet. My question here would be who is the 'you' in 'you are a security risk.' All too often...

WRT the current news, used PCs that contain millions of personal details have a premium attached, if only it's whatever you can screw the news media for, for the story :D

As for laptops, I've...

Q: What to do if seller is unwilling to leave feedback?
A: Don't worry about it, move on.

A horse walks into a bar. The barman says 'why the long face?'

A variant on this had me in stitches the other day while watching Shrek II :)

Ah, the old ones are the best.

You'll be regretting that bad habit, in a hundred years' time. ;)

Since this is the pointless thread (I assume it is, haven't read it, coz if it does what it says on the tin then it would, after all, be pointless to read it, right?) then I'll stick in my latest...

Nah... go nekkid ;)

OMG!! In 59 minutes' time it will be 20:08 20/08/2008! Scary... the sky will fall, world will come to an end... bye all.

Make that 58 mins. I blame my typoing.

57 mins 30 seconds...

Haven't got any, got to go mow the lawn...

Just thought I'd throw up a thread that others might feel inclined to contribute to, in order to knock the other thread with a similar name but the...

I'm not particularly proud of being 'British.' Our nation (courtesy of the long-gone Empire) is directly responsible for the political (and yes, technological) make-up of a large part of the planet....

/agree 100% John. 'Usability' is also about keeping the customer satisfied, and satisfaction comes hand-in-hand with information. Some feedback on this from TPTB would be very welcome :)

In other...

They fibbed.

Let's put it this way: I have one bank account and:

A personal PayPal account
A standard PayPal account
A micropayments PayPal account

You don't HAVE to have a separate bank account. You need just one bank account. There's nothing stopping you from 'disconnecting' that one bank account from one PayPal account and then 'connecting'...

Having the ability to see 'watchers' is just another reason/excuse to encourage eyeballs to the site (and increase the addiction factor).

The only people for whom it serves a real purpose is the...

I agree entirely. The point I'm making is that TPTB may be looking at this issue as we speak, but taking their time over deciding what's the best course of action - which is as it should be.

I'm in the UK and managed after a long struggle to set up a 'micropayments' account with paypal. Don't bother with emails to try to resolve issues, phone them up, or you'll get nowhere, in my...

NIH seems to be a universal problem. I think it's a bit strong to accuse The Powers That Be here of suffering from that particular syndrome more than others.

They do at least, it seems to me,...

I would think it should be a doddle* to implement this.

As for 'would it work' - I think that it would be an easy way to for users to easily identify which items had bids, once they understood...

Not only would I understand it if they were to do it, but they'd be fools not to if a decent offer were made to them, and I couldn't blame them either. Our society, sadly, pays out the greatest...

My priorities have suddenly changed. I may be going into hospital tonight, and it could be for as long as a month (it was as long as that last time I had this problem, five years ago).

So right...

Disconnect your PayPal account from your bank account. Other than taking off and nuking them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.