sotonjoe

This is a key point which I hadn't appreciated. I see what they're getting at; many people trying to book two seats, wouldn't deliberately leave one seat between there party and the next taken seats. This would result in an uneven spread of seats being used and would make it tough for people trying to buy groups of two or more tickets at a later date. The only solution would be for the club would be to try and offer a seat booking system which has been customised by its providers to prevent this sort of seat selection behaviour. I wonder if this sort of thing wouldn't be available 'off the shelf' and might therefore be deemed to be prohibitively expensive for the club to provide. Perhaps a sensible compromise would be to offer a system that allows you to specify row alongside block, but then preselects seats for you.

sweet!

Can I say that I don't get it? What's the"my" bit on the end about?

hands busy?

I know the answer Matthew, perhaps I worded the post ineffectively. I was trying to raise the pertinent point that without adding this to the announcement, the ticket office can expect to be fielding telephone calls from a few people throughout the day. It will be a number of calls they could probably have reduced if they'd bothered to put a reminder on the notice.

Should have gone to Tesco and saved yourself a tenner then. I'm still not convinced to be honest. I'm making the smartphone decision as we speak and just don't know what to buy. I'm torn between Android variants, the iphone and a Blackberry of some sort. The Android phones generally have tight data restrictions on Vodafone and Orange, whilst I'm conerned that the T-Mobile coverage is unpredictable at best. This leaves Andriod phones sort of out of the question until the Nexus ONe appears on Vodafone perhaps. The thing that I can't get my head round with the iphone is that it looks under featured alongside some of the Andriod offerings. Multi-tasking and social network integration are two key areas where it reportedly lags behind and when you couple this with the hefty price tag, it doesn't automatically present itself as a clearcut leading contender. If I pay a premium, I expect the product to deserve that premium and prove its worth. I know little Blackberrys, execpt that the Bold 9700 is the only one with 3G that I've seen and it therefore carries an iphone-esque price point contract-wise, albeit without the handset charge upfront. Some features appeal, Blackberry messenger would come in handy as I'm buying two identical handsets at once, but the little screen seems odd and leaves me with concerns about the browsing experience. All in all, I wonder if now isn't a good time. With a summer iphone refresh around the corner and some key Android phones arriving in the Spring, perhaps we're on the verge of a big change in what the smartphones will be offering. Mind you, I guess you can always wait for the next big thing!

A hint of what to expect from the summer iphone refresh perhaps.

I agree with everything you said. It's worthwhile pointing out how rarely this has happened, like you've done, before people start moaning about why we don't have under soil heating etc. No mention of ticket siaution though. Can we assume that all orginal tickets will remain valid AND we can take a full refund instead if we can't attend the new date? I'm sure this will be the case but it would have been helpful if they'd added that to the annoucement as I'm sure some people won't know what to expect.

simon clifford

should try it for your sub

jill, you don't have number three's contact details do you?

Daivid Luker will sort you out if you email him and ask nicely.

done cheers FWIW, my biggest problem with the system is that I can't choose specific seats.

nothing wrong with a bit of humour. nice one

not without knowing if it has a spare pci slot. A wireless usb dongle is sure to work though. Should still get a mac mini instead.

unlucky. it's on the mac minis by default though.

nice one, i love a good apostrophe joke.

I agree with all this. A healthy dose of persective is needed by some of the naysayers.

Hurling personal insults via the internet is very hard and something all 'maths lecturers' should aspire to.

1)correct 2) well done for wasting two posts on it then.

Not at all, his 'efforts' remain untarnished ... just letting you know how cringeworthy 'novelty' ringtones are. It's a discussion board after all you know. ps ... I plopped your apostrophe in for you so you don't look too illiterate.

I think it was pretty clear.

If I saw a grown man with this as his ringtone, I would s****** and think him a bit retarded.

I remember reading articles which claimed certain versions of Norton could add up to 90seconds to a system's boot up time. There are plenty of free antivirus packages wihch will sort you out.

I wouldn't bother with wireless on a desktop unless you simply can't get a wire to the machine. A wired connection is much stabler and faster in my experience and opinion.