Posts by Pascal Monett 19452 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Meaningful connectivity means you have a connection that brings you the information you need in less than a minute. 4G should basically cover that, so why faff about it ?
It's all very nice to heartache over populations that cannot afford a mobile phone, but I think they probably have more pressing problems - like how to get something to eat for lunch, or (in some cases) how to not get shot before dinner.
Hardly. IE isn't even mentioned on StatCounter any more.
At ease, everyone. Carry on with your normal lives.
I do not see the current members of the committee putting in £6bn to correct the situation, so they are guilty.
Unless they can demonstrate that they are scraping every farthing they can find to correct the situation, they are guilty.
"There is £6bn backlog of repairs across the NHS & the underinvestment in physical & IT infrastructure has led to repeated safety failures & delays"
A £6bn lack of funding is not a mistake. This is not somebody who forgot to sign an expense. This is willful negligence and someone should pay.
More likely an entire committee. The last five years of top-level decision-makers are all collectively responsible for this complete and utter failure of management.
Probably were, and they had the official version. The reality of IT is that any rule is only a generality, a guideline, rather than hard fact. That is because it is IT's job to make sure everyone else can work, and nobody is interested in hearing IT say that they can't because rules.
When a manager wants something, he doesn't care about the rules, he just wants the result. So IT bends the rules because, in the end, it's always IT's fault when something doesn't work.
Because without a cloudy server, there is no way some mere human could possibly be charged of supervising the floor and noticing such problems. Funny that, when I got to a supermarket and arrive at checkout with long queues and half the checkout lanes closed down, pretty soon somebody shows up to open a lane. I'm pretty sure that they don't have no Microsoft Cloud Supervisor available.
I wonder how supermarket chains have managed for the past century.
Um, sorry but the decline in share price is a fact, and that decline is clearly due to publication of news that the shareholders did not like.
I don't like Wall Street, but one clear benefit is the ability to counter run-of-the-mill PR bullshit with cold, hard numbers.
I totally agree. Amazon is surviving because is has vast central storage with high turnover. Turn that into many local storage points where 70% of the stock is just going to sit there and you are bleeding money.
I can't see that this will work either on the drone side, or on the storage side.
I have to wonder how many file issues there were when everyone had their server locally on the network.
Cloud is just someone else's server, and that also means subject to someone else's problems.
I can't help but think that this cloud mania is going to die down and recenter itself on things that people really need Cloud for : sharing data (securely, I hope) between distant locations.
Using Cloud when everyone works in the same building every day is just asinine, you win nothing and you set yourself up for this kind of problem.
Indeed, but they're not starting now. They're not even talking about starting. They're talking about planning and the need to finish before 2028.
Lots of talk about planning, fair competition, lots of heads nodding in agreement, and lots of knives being sharpened behind backs.
And if the government plans this like they planned Brexit, it won't be done this century.
When the Internet started, the biggest threat was spam mail.
Then the Internet got the ability to manage transactions, so getting user credentials became important.
Now, state-level confidential information is stored on cloud servers or otherwise internet-accessible data repositories, so well-funded actors are looking for ways to infiltrate and monetize that information.
The more complexity we add to our Internet experience, the more attractive that will become to well-heeled blackhats.
And you're happy with that ?
Real companies strive for 100% customer satisfaction.
What SAP really is is an excuse to give work to hundreds of consultants, placing them for years in companies to suck the teat as long as possible without actually delivering on the marketing promises.
SAP lives on the fallacy of throwing good money after bad. Once you've spent tens of millions to get something working, you'll agree to spend a million more per year to ensure some sort of performance.
That hasn't always been the case, and it only happened after a lot of conflict and maybe even bloodshed, but the EU laid down the law on that point and thank God for that.
In any case, I cannot forget Les Guignols and our national PPDA in one episode where he proudly announced : " France-Telecom has lowered prices to over 120 countries - too bad France is not included".
Pure. Comedy. Gold.
I'm sorry, headquarters is not actually plural. You can't have two, or more, headquarters.
You have one headquarters, and one or more delegated station(s) that handle specific zones, but there can be only one Big Boss, and He is at Headquarters.
Is that really any different from the NSA consultant working with a cracked version of Office and transporting countless secret documents on the same computer ? That idiot couldn't even be arsed to pay for Office, no wonder he got pwned. Yes, Office is not cheap, but if you're your own business, it's tax deductible.
If you want security and professionalism, you have to be ready to pay for it. A proper, professional server structure costs money, so stop taking the cheapest offers you find.
You get what you pay for.
And he's still working there ?
This whole thing sounds like a personal issue between Mendez and Broome. Mendez obviously had it out for Broome and wanted to take him down.
As a manager, Mendez is not fit for purpose and should be fired. Either an employee is performant or he is to be trained, humiliation is not part of managerial functions.
My God, it seems that Fitbit owners are learning the hard way that you never auto-update your software until you've read about if it works or not for the rest of the population.
Microsoft has educated us about that for decades now, you'd think the lesson would have been understood by now.
During the course of my existence, I have crossed the Atlantic a mere twenty times, and you can add a number of Europe-to-Africa and intra-Europe flights to that number.
I have never been subject to such a situation. As far as I'm concerned, everyone farts on a flight, and the air system takes care of it.
Maybe I've just been lucky.
As usual, the hypothetical idea has good ground but, in a world where encryption attacks are run-of-the-mill, companies that are big enough to have big storage and backup solutions are also going to be targets for data encryption.
So a single version of truth means a single target to encrypt to cripple the company and potentially extort millions.
How does this pie-in-the-sky thinking cope with that threat ?
I find it incredible that, in this day and age, there are still Neanderthals walking about, treating women like objects.
Hey, I will readily admit that I like seeing a nice ass walk by, but when I'm talking with a woman I am first and foremost talking to a person, with a brain, and most of them use it quite well.
That is what I keep in mind, even when that brain is under a set of absolutely beautiful eyes and lips that smile a very charming smile. I will nonetheless keep my wits about me and treat her with the same respect I give all my conversation partners. I find that business relationships are a lot easier like that.
