Posts by Pascal Monett 18868 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
That is the go-to excuse for companies who are not making enough money to satisfy the shareholders.
It doesn't matter that they're making money hand-over-fist and can largely afford the salary charge. No, what matters is that shareholders, who do nothing at all but sit with their mouths open like chick in a nest waiting for food distribution, what matters is that those freeloaders get their share.
Capitalisme needs a rethink.
So, Crowdstrike gonna pull a Zuckerberg, or is the CEO actually going to submit to a public flogging ? 'Cause that's what's waiting for him.
Not everyone can be a total asshole. I'm guessing Kurtz is going to bend over backwards to try and keep the share price from falling further.
Time will tell.
So it is down to the shitty Windows environment once again. No surprise there.
The issue might be more in the fact that it seems to be very difficult to isolate the kernel in an OS while granting security access to protective measures, all the while keeping the hoi polloi at bay and the system secure.
Too late to think about a redesign of the OS architecture. We'll just have to make do with what we have.
During COVID, we were all locked down, nobody was in the office, and yet companies not only survived, but many thrived.
Now, management is desperately trying to get back to before, but there is no going back. We proved that we could do the job with suffering the commute. Stop with the threatening, we know this works.
We were doing "network stress tests" during the lunchbreak. It became such a success that our little room, fir for three, was often occupied by six howling monsters during lunch hour.
One day, we were really getting on with the destruction and the howling glee. Unfortunately, that day, one of our colleagues in the next room had scheduled that time for a business call.
Needless to say, we were soon relocated to the basement, and that was the end of our network stress tests.
Totally agree.
Management, marketing and Javascript have long conspired to ensure that the URL got perverted into the absolute filth of length that exists today.
And news sites are the first to blame, with their stupid insistance that they needed their articles to display in three columns, just like paper.
It's the web, stupid. You don't display like paper. But, instead of dealing with it, we had to wait for smartphones and adaptive HTML to get something akin to what the newsies could have understood thirty years ago.
Stop management from interfering in the Internet. That would be a good start to getting things working smoothly again.
Unfortunately, I am inclined to agree with you.
After all, there are those pesky contract clauses, etc etc, and finding another AV supplier is going to be a major pain and probably require humongous amounts of work from IT personnel everywhere, so why not just listen to the siren call of "lessons have been learned" and stay the course ?
After all, it works so well for Capita in the UK (and Fujitsu, and God knows how many more) . . .
It's funny how there are absolutely no banks who invoke that excuse.
No real banks. Banks with a banking charter, and proper procedures and personnel dealing with actual currency and legal obligations, not fairy money and feel-good wishes.
Invoking Force Majeure when you don't have the compentence, the ability or the experience to implement secure money-managing procedures is like a teenager flipping his car in a curb and blaming the rain on the road.
Bunch of muppets, all of them.
"A lack of robust analyses before setting production and import targets, which were not realistic and therefore likely won't be achieved"
Likely won't be achieved.
Likely.
The initial analysis is flawed and unrealistic, but achieving unrealistic targets just might still be possible, maybe, in an alternate universe.
I understand that you need to not ruffle any feathers too much, but if initial analysis is wrong, the chance that results will not be achieved is a bit stronger than likely.
As in won't happen.
At $5 for 100,000, that's 200 requests per cent, or 0.005 cent per request.
At $1.50 for 5 million, that's 33,333 per cent, or 0.00003 cent per request.
Now, I'm supposing Google is still making money on this, since I'm supposing that India also frowns on price dumping. If that is true, it should mean that Google is artificially inflating its prices by a factor of 166.
Just FYI, you know. Google's prices are way too high.
Of course not, but that is not why there are US carrier fleets nearby. Those fleets are nearby to ensure that Taiwan is not absorbed in to China, which could then cut off supply to The West globally, which would be a major catastrophe for IT in general and all those fancy gadgets DARPA likes to get its hands on like, oh, hypermissiles at a guess. Or all those fancy self-piloted "assistants" that are supposed to be delivered with every new F-35 at some point in the future.
Trump appears hell-bent on not spending a dime on anything. He's missing the fact that, if the USA has the economic and international situation it enjoys today, it is because it is present on the seven seas and the five continents and ready to be aggressive if need be, with the best tools there are. Bring all that military back home and your influence is going to shatter to pieces, leaving someone else to pick up the slack (that someone being Beijing at this point in time).
You really have to be a moron to not see that.
Yes. The golden parachute is proof of that great Capitalism at work. This whole deal was made so that one guy could exit with margharitas at the beach forever more.
The rest are peons. It is their destiny to be used and discarded when no longer useful to The Board, and they should be thankful for having been paid up to then.
Right, Gellar ?
Oh sure it does. That's why there's already a 5+ GB dataset of scraped data.
Honestly guys, can't you see that are fooling no one ? Your words are worthless because your acts have already spoken for you.
YouTube is your site. You have no excuse not to be able to lock it down, especially when you are continually messing with YouTube downloader addons. Apparently, those things bother you a lot more than subtitle scraping, because those addons are constantly updating to cope with your messing around.
But I get it : a downloader addon cuts out your ads and thus impacts your bottom line, and we can't have that, now can we ?
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