Posts by MarkJ

Bear squeeze blues: How to destroy a bank

Inaccuracies aside...

It does dovetail quite nicely with an interested outsiders view that people with a firm grasp of economics have no place working in the financial sector.

Shiver me pension funds...

Academic wants to 'free up' English spelling

Aren't we...

,,,mostly the type of people for whom spelling and indeed all forms of 'logical' consistent behaviour are very important.

'Press any key' means something quite different to 'press ANY key' to most IT workers but not to your average person.

For those not in the know, one is an instruction to press any key you like, the other is an instruction to press a specific named key.

Bosch strategy boutique fails greenwash test

At least they'll know...

That the privileged few will be given an escape route to a new life in the off world colonies, their every whim catered for by murderous Nexus-6 replicants made by the Bosch corporation.

IT career virgins need a cherry on top

Bitter?

There seems to be a lot of resentment from those on the wrong end of a recruitment agency.

The question is, which is actually the wrong end. As soon as you start needing to recruit and are forced into the arms of said agencies you are onto a loser. Agencies are obsessed with metrics and qualifications which tell you absolutely nothing about any candidate's ability to do a job.

The best way actually seems to be to recruit your school/university friends and then their school/university friends. Back to the old boy network it is then.

@Neil

Most likely object disoriented. Possibly class inheritance is subject to a 40% loss of resources for a foundation class.

Vista woes fuel Mac sales surge - analyst

Poke/Flinch

Given that retail stores have the audacity to sells Macs alongside boxshifter PCs this trend is hardly surprising.

Take the cheapest Macbook and the fastest Vista laptop you can find in a store and click on an icon. Usually the Mac will do something straight away whilst you will have to wait for the MS crippleware to stop doing whatever it was doing, acknowledge your request, do a bit more of what it was doing and then actually do something you want it to do.

To the non-tech savvy, the Mac will seem faster. Compatability issues aside, who wants to pay more for a slower PC?

Telegraph falls to the Tw*t-O-Tron

Turing test?

Surely any computer, not even one as advanced as the Twat-o-tron could now pass Alan's famous test. Or perhaps not, as the strutcured grammar and regular spelling would serve to highlight which was the machine and which was the product of the current Edyoucayshun system...

Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap

Refreshing...

I'm always a little sceptical when I see a physicist who claims not to be pro-nuclear being pro-nuclear. Mainly because the only physicists who seem not to be pro-nuclear power are the ones being paid to research photo-voltaics and the like.