Re: Pebble
...but they also shut down their servers so the apps don't work, creating more digital junk. So they have form.
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Made a mistake for sure, but "an inconvenience for hobbyists, and certainly not ideal for those that bought the things in bulk"? I doubt that. I don't think there'll be an awful lot of people trying to run it on their macbook charger, or if they do, that can't stump up for a PSU, and if they can't, that will really really want to get on their hobby-horse about it.
And if they do, I guess they can just return the pi for a refund, can't they?
TSO have been circling the pan for years now. My problem has been that when something does go wrong the attitude of their support organisation is abysmal. The cover ups and long periods of time without status updates alleged in the article would seem to corroborate. It was not always so. Time to find another provider once more I fear.
Internet Explorer used to be "good" and people flocked to it, to the practical destruction of all else. Check out how that ended up. That's just one example of many.
The shell has been this stupid crappy old thing that nobody needs cos everything shall be done in GUI for years. Suddenly (ish) that message is changed. Does that not make anyone suspicious?
... Sky bought O2 and BE. I had an O2 service back then.
Eventually they got bored of maintaining the network that BE had built, they wanted to move us over to Sky's. They promised a seamless changeover. On the day it actually happened, my broadband went down and stayed down. Sky couldn't actually confirm they'd tried to move me over at all for a day. Then sent an email congratulating me that my broadband was up and running - which it most definitely was not and I would have thought they would know - and as if I were a brand new customer. The references to a seamless changeover were gone.
They needed me to do all the usual plug-it-into-the-master socket lark, then tried to get an openreach appointment, because the system at the helpdesk said so, while cutting me off the phone repeatedly and never calling back when they did. Then finally realising that the "seamless" update of the o2 router was apparently never going to work, and they needed to send me a sky hub, which took a week.
Then of course the broadband itself was about 2/3 the speed of o2's and much worse in the evenings. Couldn't possibly think why....
Then sent me a bill with penalties - incredibly actually called out as penalties - because I didn't take Sky TV or phone or whatever other bullshit, while ghost-of-O2 (O2's paperwork and style of letters just with a hastily pasted on Sky logo) insisted I hadn't paid their bill, but Sky helpdesk nimrods repeatedly said it would be OK, and regardless, there was still a DD in place that they didn't use. That carried on until I started getting letters from debt collectors claiming people had been in touch (of course, they hadn't) and this was the final notice of big problems. I then posted my displeasure in their forums and they deleted everything supposedly due to breach of TOS.
Basically, fucking useless all over.
"KCOM, founded in 1904, floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1999 and, as pointed out by the Financial Times, was something of a darling in the City, climbing from 225p on day one to £16. Then the dot-com bust happened."
They also purchased companies like Omnetica and Eclipse and royally screwed them up. Because the people at the top have absolutely no clue what they're doing. So balls to them quite frankly.
Indeed yes. When Virgin Media moved to Google mail, Google decided this practice was no longer allowed, no matter what you configured your mail client to do and what authentication you used.
There was some big clunky authentication thing you could do but Google/Virgin slapped (essentially) a massive "youraddress courtesy of ouraddress" on the outbound mail so made it completely useless - in terms of covering up and/or providing easy migration from an ISP related address.
Then they migrated back off Google anyway. Complete PITA and a lesson in how Google likes to completely break standards just because they're big enough to force enough people to put up with it that it looks like it's accepted.
The sports teams and leagues charge TV networks massive amounts for coverage only because the TV networks started offering, and figuring out even more outlandish ways of offering, said teams and leagues massive amounts. Sky is chief in this.
The teams and leagues aren't exactly going to say no to a geezer on their doorstep saying if you go with us we can line all your pockets with vast wads of cash. The money men pile in, and now you have what you have today. The only way to stop it is to vote with your feet for a while, or stream and hope that the "subscribers" are considered so small fry to not be bothered pursuing.
Indeed. IGG is facilitating scams, putting a more legit sheen on and widely broadcasting campaigns that otherwise would fizzle into nothing.
They also (foolishly?) committed to doing something about this particular scam, and then patently haven't.
"We continually review our strategy and operations. As part of that process, we focus our efforts on areas where we see the strongest customer demand and as the same time secure the best return on investments"
TBH that struck me as a pretty straightforward bit of corporate speak. Maybe I've been subjected to too much next-level corporate speak.
yes, but said user will more often than not be some poor sod who's had it decreed upon them by some overinflated CIO that their company has gone cloud, and therefore they now have to keep all their files in the cloud, and that it has to be the MS flavour of it. Because cloud is good.
Poor user ;(
I've only had a little bit of experience with IT in the NHS but got a little bit of exposure to both ends - the very simple kit on the ground and the unfathomably complex systems in the background. For me the only way is for the NHS to grow a pair and start developing in house. It will take strong management... ah, there's the problem, OK forget I spoke.