Another lost opportunity to increase the absolutely pitiful amount of money that filters down from the premier league to grassroots football.
Posts by Mr Nobody 1
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Arsenal are red, pundits have 'insights', BT and Sky splurge £4.5bn on footie rights
Greenhouse gas-sniffing satellite to be built and tested in Britain
HPE sales chief Peter Ryan abandons ship amid downsizing ploy
Axed from IBM for remote working? Don't go crying to HPE
HPE sales slide, profits evaporate... but think of the future, CEO urges
Business and Management speakers will dine out on the rise and fall of HP for years.
Whitman continues to make the usual mistake of setting redundancy targets - which will be implemented by the useless middle management - and then looks surprised when all the overhead layers are still in place, the frontline has reduced and the profits have taken another dive.
How many manager layers between a consultant on site and Meg Whitman 8 years ago and now?
The definition of stupid is repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome. This company is still doing the same things it was when I left 4 years ago.
HP says 'turnaround remains on track', cuts thousands of workers
The Turnaround is on track.....
Don't worry - all negative results are still someone else's fault. Revenue is heading south so just in case anyone notices in our next set of results (and starts pointing in my direction), I'll throw another 16,000 bodies in the waste disposal.
The empress is devoid of apparel.
Cisco email accidentally sent to 1000s of employees causes message list MAYHEM
Re: Nothing new
Not only does this still happen with monotonous regularity within HP, there is also the office sweepstake to see who can complete the 'mandatory training with questions so stupid you would have to have a common sense bypass to fail''. I think the record for the 30 mins on Health and Safety was around 3.
Official crackdown on Apple fanboi 'shanty town' ahead of London iPhone launch
HP hammered in servers, storage, and PCs in fiscal Q3

green shoots ?
HP are at least one year into Whitman's 5 year plan. You would expect to see some green shoots somewhere. Instead we still hear about Execution challenges (we f***d up delivery) competitive pricing (we are way too expensive) and misaligned go to market model (we are selling the wrong stuff to the wrong people).
I suspect that even the redundancies are misplaced (letting go of troops on the ground instead of addressing the massive top heavy management structure).
Badger bloodbath brouhaha brings 'bodge' bumpkin bank burgle bluster
Google's Schmidt calls climate-change deniers 'liars'

Re: What's his angle?
Let me get that for you.....
(a) Greenhouses trap heat and are a very poor model for the atmosphere
(b) CO2 is an insignificant greenhouse gas
(c) Human activity emits insignificant quantities of CO2
Eric talks about fact-checking whilst Al's mates peer-review each others papers. Beyond mirth.
STROKE this mouse to make apps POP, says Microsoft
Dell's PC-on-a-stick landing in July: report
Sun lets loose with THREE record eruptions in 24 hours
Want to know what CIA spooks really think of spy movies and books?
HP mashes up ProLiant, Integrity, BladeSystem, and Moonshot server businesses
Microsoft CFO quits as quarterly results fail to sparkle
Are biofuels Europe's sh*ttiest idea ever?
Parking ticket firm 'exposed private info' - ICO making enquiries
Nanowires boost photovoltaics sunlight capture by 15X
VC firm asked Mark Hurd if he wants to run Dell - report
RBS and NatWest FAIL downs services across UK
O2 flogs new GPS mobile-based telecare to sick and elderly
Oz sysadmin says Windows 8 not ready for business
Road deaths spark crackdown on jaywalking texter menace
HP finally decides the future of the PC: It's a printer accessory
Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts in a year
Charge of the Metro brigade: Did Microsoft execs plan to take a hit?

Not a chance
Succinctly put Andrew.
The speed and performance improvements could have been packaged as a Windows 7 SE with the Metro interface reserved for tablets and phones. Instead we see yet another example of Microsoft steadfastly refusing to learn from their own past experiences and spectacularly failing to understand their key customer base.
We cannot afford the training and productivity overheads of this pointless upgrade and so we will be sticking with Windows 7.
'Bob' Sinofsky's evil child will not be meeting our 80,000 desktops.
Cloud altitude changing with climate: NZ study

Let me help you with that....
A University of Auckland analysis of ten years’ worth of NASA satellite data suggests that cloud formation, with fewer clouds forming at the highest altitudes is changing atmospheric temperatures. See what I did there ?
Oh and please stop telling me how lovely your models are. They cannot predict past climate based on known historical data. ergo useless.
New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all
French court lays le smackdown on Google Maps
1 euro in every 7 spent on a Visa card
Rock star physicist Cox: Neutrinos won't help us cheat time
Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates
Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why
HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman
Ohio man cuffed for shagging inflatable pool raft
Yahoo! reads! your! emails!

oh puleese
"People should have the right to send messages without Yahoo! snooping through them," said Sarah Kidner editor of Which? Computing. (BBC Tech Pages)
err no akshully. If that's the T&C (changed or not) that's the deal. if you don't like it, pay a few quid for an email service you cheapskate.
Oh and can you remove the three tracking cookies from your site please ?