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Sept 30, 2016 21:10:18 GMT
Post by bromptonaut on Sept 30, 2016 21:10:18 GMT
I cannot conceive that grown men in 2016, store, covet and use "calculators" let alone go misty eyed over examples of old ones. My work desktop extends over 2 16:9 screens. One is occupied by the CRM system with Windows explorer behind for file management. The other has my script/interview record and benefit checking tool with Chrome behind for checking stuff like Council tax, Local Housing Allowance rates or CA etc public site references via interweb while speaking to clients on phone. Much easier to use a separate calculator rather than windows calculator 'app' for extra stuff like 25% single occupier discounts in Council Tax or mucking about with weekly/monthly/annual conversions for income or expenditure.
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Sept 30, 2016 21:51:42 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 21:51:42 GMT
>>A calculator wont squash your penny into a thin sheet of metal
s'fair point. Me and the girls used to do it at the crossing just short of Bicester Town with 2p pieces.
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Sept 30, 2016 23:42:34 GMT
Post by Rob on Sept 30, 2016 23:42:34 GMT
And with that as an argument... How to respond...? What a pointless comment.
I wouldn't have done so well with a steam train when sitting my A level physics and maths. A calculator was much more useful.
Maybe you wouldn't have worked where you did either and got to retire early.
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Oct 1, 2016 10:40:29 GMT
Post by Hofmeister on Oct 1, 2016 10:40:29 GMT
Maybe you wouldn't have worked where you did either and got to retire early. With a nice final salary index linked pension, at the grand old age of 55.
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Oct 1, 2016 12:18:44 GMT
Post by Humph on Oct 1, 2016 12:18:44 GMT
Aw shaddup will you ! š«
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WDB
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Oct 1, 2016 15:57:48 GMT
Post by WDB on Oct 1, 2016 15:57:48 GMT
Sorry chaps, my fault for mentioning the calculator. Sonos doesn't make calculators.
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Oct 1, 2016 17:04:40 GMT
Post by Hofmeister on Oct 1, 2016 17:04:40 GMT
Aw shaddup will you ! š« I'm sure your full length sun roof and memories of a westfield is adequate recompense for the missing pension.
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Oct 1, 2016 17:12:18 GMT
Post by Humph on Oct 1, 2016 17:12:18 GMT
Not really.
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Oct 1, 2016 18:31:20 GMT
Post by Hofmeister on Oct 1, 2016 18:31:20 GMT
I'd like to say you have my sympathy and understanding. I'd like to, but I cant, so you can look forward to me rubbing your nose in it at every and any opportunity.
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Oct 1, 2016 19:08:40 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Oct 1, 2016 19:08:40 GMT
Never mind Humph, I'm not sure that even a decent pension is adequate recompense for a life spent working for IBM........ ;-)
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Oct 1, 2016 19:17:25 GMT
Post by Hofmeister on Oct 1, 2016 19:17:25 GMT
Never mind Humph, I'm not sure that even a decent pension is adequate recompense for a life spent working for IBM........ ;-) Believe me, and I think anyone will tell you this, leaving is sooooooooooo sweet. It makes up for all that goes before.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:59:47 GMT
Post by WDB on Jun 12, 2020 17:59:47 GMT
A while since weāve mentioned Sonos (and whatās happened to Cranks anyway?) but itās been back in the news this year. After 15 years, itās finally decided that it wants to do things with its software and networking that its oldest (generally pre-2013) hardware products donāt have the horsepower to do. One of those is my ex-demo Connect, that serves as the most-used source in my main system. That turns out to be old enough to be labelled ZP90, and with a serial number from 2009.
Now this neednāt be the big deal that some of the below-the-liners on the tech sites might make out. The new features will be in a new release known as S2, while the present ecosystem continues as S1. Most recent hardware can use either ā not both ā but some recent arrivals, like the Arc soundbar Iām considering, do require S2. And there are promised new features, notably 24-bit audio support, that will only be in S2.
To spoil things a bit, reviews of the successor product to the Connect, the Port, have been uncomplimentary. Itās also very expensive, even with my 30% ātrade upā discount. And, although I play mine through a good outboard DAC, it feels like it might actually be a step back in sound quality. But fortunately, thereās a later model of Connect, and theyāre available new at end-of-line pricing. So Iāve bought one and it came today. Result: an entirely S2-compatible system without compromising what Iāve enjoyed all this time with the old Connect. Less than ten minutes to set it up, too ā of which three was writing down the settings from the old one. I didnāt even need to open the bag of cables with the new machine; the connections are exactly the same.
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Jun 21, 2020 11:49:48 GMT
Post by WDB on Jun 21, 2020 11:49:48 GMT
And a blokey from Reading gave me Ā£85 for the old Connect. So Iām only Ā£36 worse off than if Iād simply bought a new Connect in 2015. š¤¦āāļø (Not sure Iād have got a new one past the Committee then, of course.)
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