Posts by Blane Bramble 258 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
"the boss between 10 and 11 and he worked through until 6 or 7 in the evening. Anybody, especially management, leaving before him was a slacker"
Seen it, but it's a sign of poor management. The response is "my guys have been here since 8. You arrived at 10. Of course they're leaving before you".
You can't make people take jobs they're not interested in, and it does seem that percentage-wise males are more interested in tech jobs than females are, which means the percentage in the work force will not be the same as in the population at large. There is nothing wrong with this.
What is needed is equality of opportunity. That starts with ensuring that anyone with an interest is encouraged to pursue it, and yes, that probably does mean a shift in techy culture to make it more welcoming.
"Threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership, and saying that if they don't sell you the car you'll steal it and torch it."
No, threatening "No Deal" is going to a car dealership and saying if you can't agree a price you'll walk away. A relatively strong bargaining position.
Removing "No Deal" from the table is going to a car dealership and telling them you have to leave with a car, no matter what. A very weak bargaining position.
It is clear a lot of people have never tried to negotiate anything in their life.
"This will add a free extra 25 miles driving or so on electric"
It won't be free for long, currently it's subsidised by fuel duty. Once a significant proportion of vehicles are electric the government will need to reclaim that money elsewhere. You will be paying for charging, and probably also a tax per mile travelled.
@Julz
They provide a very nice and flexible tool kit that you can use to build lots of amazing things, and just like any set of tools, if you know how to use them they're great. If you don't know how to use them, you'll need to pay someone who does, or take the risk that your DIY job might turn out more expensive than you thought and still require a professional to sort it out.
Sounds a bit like a Z80 assembler course I was on, already knowing how to use it. So tasks like "write a sub routine to beep the console 3 times" became "use the most esoteric instructions and logic to beep the console 3 times" - jumps by pushing addresses on the stack and returning to them, using the index registers, that sort of thing.
Maplin used to be a place with a great catalogue full of electronic components I could order by post or later on on-line.
If they'd stuck with that as their business model rather than insisting they needed high-street outlets, they might not only be in better shape, they could have evolved into a UK competitor to Amazon.
In fact as a first worlder, isn't London and NYC basically the most identical 2 cities you can pick across countries?
Why pick London at all, if you're trying to appeal to the concept of new music etc. surely Liverpool or Manchester would make more of a statement, and save the pennies.
See, that is where you went wrong.
(A)D&D is not supposed to be a simulation of a universe that details the rules to cover every situation.
It was intended to be a framework, with some standard rules that you could then use intelligently to cover other situations.
Interactive storytelling.
Not a computer simulation.
So what they're saying is: if it's stored in a cloud hosting provider in the UK, it's safe; if it's stored in a cloud hosting provider outside the UK, it isn't.
Except there is this thing called "The Internet" which connects all the clouds together.
No, what they are saying is that whilst it is stored in a cloud hosting provider in the UK it is subject to, and protected by UK law.
Whilst it is hosted outside the UK it is subject to, and protected by the laws of that country.
Consumer hard disk drives have rarely been so expensive and surely not in the last 15 years or so.
I guess you're new to this IT thing aren't you? Speak to those of us who remember 10 and 20MB disks. I remember my first 32MB RLL drive. I also remember spending £500 on a second hand 500MB SCSI disk (yes, these are all MB not GB).
Disks now expensive? Get off my lawn!
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