Posts by SalemTheRat

Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week

Text is best

I send about 150 text messages a day and if each of those was a phone call, or even every tenth one then I would get no work done. There would also be no record of what I had said or the replies. Meetings and phone calls have their place, but it's a rapidly diminishing place.

It's Baaaaaack (or is it?): Microsoft Teams suffers a Tuesday totter

Re: Chatting vs. Conversation

Yeah... but no. I have about five different conversations at least going on with different mixes of people all day every day: For IT professionals, chat is invaluable.

Sorry, Elon, your Tesla roadster won't orbit for billions of years

Re: What about collisions with spacecraft on the way to Mars

I read this in Steven Fry's voice, then my brain sorted itself out and I heard it in Peter Jones's as is proper.

Re: What about the . .

As long as it misses the Great A'tuin (and the remaining four elephants).

Re: What about collisions with spacecraft on the way to Mars

All we can do for you is something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF CARS: SpaceX parks a Tesla in orbit (just don't mention the barge)

I so wish I could read Jerry Pournelle's comments on this.

Ex-HP boss Carly Fiorina sacked one week into new job

Re: Trump? Who's he?

Welcome to almost every election ever.

Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

Re: What's next for Windows 10?

Thanks for the link, but wow! Were paragraphs only invented in the 2000s?

$10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience

Re: So Stupid

I'm certainly not going to comment.

Gay porn burglar must pay $150k for each grumble flick

Re: Well that punishment fits the crime

Yeah... I haven't forgiven them for the War of Independence yet. #HowLongAreYouGoingToGoOn

Boffins confirm sunspot-weather link

Re: You missed...

You missed the fact that surely the freezing of the Rhine has no truck with statistics - if the winters were record breaking, why did the Rhine not freeze - because on average it's warmer? I didn't realise water had a heat memory.

Rats with GPS backpacks prepare to sniff out landmines

Re: A better way?

If the international community would allow the Korean border to be an exception, then they would...

Dubai assassins used email trojan to track Hamas victim

That's the post Hitler would have written!

nuff said

Harry Potter theme park magically swallows big visitors

or a Fat Head tax

Then YOU can pay.

Discovery blasts off to ISS

Question.

Are you a troll or on idiot?