Posts by rogerroger

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Tech debt

Like most failed digital transformations, which is most of them, simply giving operational business teams a load of money to improve/optimise their own existing process with a new tech, just sinks money into tech debt and business complexity.

Nestle doesnt grow by giving the box packers, mould stampers, and quality control counters a load of money to improve their production line station. It designs new products which open up new markets of customers, or it designs a transformational new end to end manufacturing process which enables it to create and deliver faster and more efficiently.

The key word here is Design! And it's something that most businesses are very lacking in, at least inwards facing, even if they are imvesting in some UX for customer experience. Getting Sales, finance, HR teams to come up with AI solutions is just a waste of money.

Windows spotted flashing its unmentionables in a Chicago clothier

Re: tumbled through the turbulence

I miss read that as Tree Falling.

Which would a more accurate description.

Landing at O'hare is like falling through a tree for 20 minutes while blindfolded.

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

Microwaves are good for you.

Since the late 1990s mobile phone use has increased exponentially by about a million percent. There are supposedly more mobiles than people! Certainly when you consider all the IoT devices.

In the same time period, life expectancy globally has also seen a general rise.

If there are any conclusions about bathing ourselves in low level, high frequency non-ionizing radiation, then it's that it is beneficial!

Farewell then, Slack: The grown-ups have arrived

What about cisco?

You all forgot to mention the Cisco spark webex teams chimera. Clearly catching up with the UX of the 1990s.

IT has kindly sort of given this to the company without actually asking us if it's what we wanted and without really telling anyone about it.

I suppose if slack doesn't change much more they may catch up in the next couple of years

Brit boffin brews INSTANT HANGOVER RELIEF

You obviously dont drink enough...

NASA serves up Curiosity's billion-pixel panorama

I'm assuming the neat L shaped line of holes in the Martian sand towards the bottom right corner is something that the rover made.... only it's not highlighted in any of the snapshots....

BBC crowdsourced mobile map: A bit quirky, but useful

More likely the empty squares are really where there's no reception

2 Things from this, how is it supposed to report no reception when there is no reception. That always thwarts my ability to call my rubbish service provider to complain about the frequent drop outs and zero reception areas - I live within zone 2 London - it's a joke. - Yes, that's you O2.

Second, the report notes that the worst reception is along many main roads and rail routes - Again, this is exaclty when I /need/ my phone to be working. I frequently travel for business and I have to be able to hold a conference call without having to call back in 10 times in 30 minutes.

Hopefully this will encourage some improvement....? Well here's hoping.