Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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People who drive the wrong way out of my local Tesco car park and gesture to me, often with either a 'sighing/tutting' face or sometimes with the middle finger and/or the W-sign.
It may not seem like I get that annoyed by it, the first few times it tickled me but now it's really, very frustrating that people genuinely believe that I am in the wrong for driving the correct way around a 1-way car park.
It's got so bad that I'm thinking about applying for a part-time voluntary job at the local Tesco, to monitor the traffic in the car park.
It may not seem like I get that annoyed by it, the first few times it tickled me but now it's really, very frustrating that people genuinely believe that I am in the wrong for driving the correct way around a 1-way car park.
It's got so bad that I'm thinking about applying for a part-time voluntary job at the local Tesco, to monitor the traffic in the car park.
SpeedMattersNot said:
People who drive the wrong way out of my local Tesco car park and gesture to me, often with either a 'sighing/tutting' face or sometimes with the middle finger and/or the W-sign.
It may not seem like I get that annoyed by it, the first few times it tickled me but now it's really, very frustrating that people genuinely believe that I am in the wrong for driving the correct way around a 1-way car park.
It's got so bad that I'm thinking about applying for a part-time voluntary job at the local Tesco, to monitor the traffic in the car park.
Technically you cannot actually get out of my local Sainsbury's since they re-marked their car park!It may not seem like I get that annoyed by it, the first few times it tickled me but now it's really, very frustrating that people genuinely believe that I am in the wrong for driving the correct way around a 1-way car park.
It's got so bad that I'm thinking about applying for a part-time voluntary job at the local Tesco, to monitor the traffic in the car park.
Rockstar said:
AstonZagato said:
My 13yo came back with some "coding" homework. Part of her task was to get her parents to do some "coding" for the first time on some online "app". She was rather surprised when I said that I had written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I tried to explain that, if I wanted to play a game on the first computer I had, I had to program it first.
It rather worries me that her teacher would have no idea of how computing worked for the parents of the generation whose kids she was teaching. Most educated people of my generation will have learnt BASIC at some stage.
It rather worries me that her teacher would have no idea of how computing worked for the parents of the generation whose kids she was teaching. Most educated people of my generation will have learnt BASIC at some stage.
Reading this made me think just the other day (I'm still fairly young but that was more than 2 decades ago, time where have you gone?
)PC's still had "turbo" buttons on them to boost the CPU speed from 44 MHz to 88 MHz(memory fades but was something in that region), MS-DOS was a given and the Intel 486 CPU was state of the art. On introduction the Pentium chips (running at mind boggling speeds of up to 200MHz!)were things of wonder, most had only just come to terms with the revolutionary witch craft of the Windows 3.1 operating system 
/Awaits the old boys talking about punched cards.
Hooli said:
My college programming was done on a 8088 XT PC. 8Mhz until you turned it down to 4Mhz with the turbo button. Oh and EGA graphics.
VAX VMS on VT220 terminals when I was at uni, although there were a smattering of PCs of similar spec to yours too. At school it was the RML 380Z and 480Z. There were a couple of BBC Micros as well towards the end of my time at school, but they were always booked up solid and I never got on them plus I was too heavily invested in the 380Z.
(I've resisted the urge to go full Four Yorkshiremen.
)Hooli said:
My college programming was done on a 8088 XT PC. 8Mhz until you turned it down to 4Mhz with the turbo button. Oh and EGA graphics.
/Awaits the old boys talking about punched cards.
/Awaits the old boys talking about punched cards.
EGA graphics... that's a little bit overboard in terms of aspirational excess, having 16 shades/colours at one time on your display is just showing off 
Off topic:
Reading this made me think just the other day (I'm still fairly young but that was more than 2 decades ago, time where have you gone?)PC's still had "turbo" buttons on them to boost the CPU speed from 44 MHz to 88 MHz(memory fades but was something in that region), MS-DOS was a given and the Intel 486 CPU was state of the art. On introduction the Pentium chips (running at mind boggling speeds of up to 200MHz!)were things of wonder, most had only just come to terms with the revolutionary witch craft of the Windows 3.1 operating system Indeed. 
Our first 'proper' PC was a 486 DX (none of that scummy SX malarkey), 33Mhz. (Before that we had a QL Sinclair with microdevices)
Ended up getting various improvements in its lifetime including various RAM upgrades, a Creative Labs soundcard (Soundblaster 16 at the time) and quad speed CD ROM drive (super quick at the time).
Missions were required to play certain games that needed extended or expanded memory so various boot discs had to be formed.
I think the hard drive was about 200Mb. I remember when 1Gb drives came out, I couldn't comprehend how one would be able to fill it!
I also remember the good old days of computer magazines with free demo software (games and applications).
Rockstar said:
Reading this made me think just the other day (I'm still fairly young but that was more than 2 decades ago, time where have you gone?)PC's still had "turbo" buttons on them to boost the CPU speed from 44 MHz to 88 MHz(memory fades but was something in that region), MS-DOS was a given and the Intel 486 CPU was state of the art. On introduction the Pentium chips (running at mind boggling speeds of up to 200MHz!)were things of wonder, most had only just come to terms with the revolutionary witch craft of the Windows 3.1 operating system Our first 'proper' PC was a 486 DX (none of that scummy SX malarkey), 33Mhz. (Before that we had a QL Sinclair with microdevices)
Ended up getting various improvements in its lifetime including various RAM upgrades, a Creative Labs soundcard (Soundblaster 16 at the time) and quad speed CD ROM drive (super quick at the time).
Missions were required to play certain games that needed extended or expanded memory so various boot discs had to be formed.
I think the hard drive was about 200Mb. I remember when 1Gb drives came out, I couldn't comprehend how one would be able to fill it!
I also remember the good old days of computer magazines with free demo software (games and applications).
g3org3y said:
I think the hard drive was about 200Mb. I remember when 1Gb drives came out, I couldn't comprehend how one would be able to fill it!
I've mentioned this before, I know, but I still remember having a heated debate with my landlady's brother in 1990. He was a retired IBM engineer and flatly told me that I was talking out of my arse when I said it was possible to get a single HDD that could hold 1GB. He still didn't believe me when I produced a copy of Computer Shopper and pointed to the advert for one. Full height 5¼" and costing £1000, as I recall. But still a single PC form factor HDD storing 1GB. Now you can get a 128GB microSD card no bigger than the fingernail of your little finger and which costs only £90. I wonder what he would have made of that?
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