And when the whole thing goes tits-up before they produce anything...
...will I get my money back?
Posts by ItsNotMe
744 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jan 2012
Ubuntu boss: I want to make a Linux hybrid mobe SO GIVE ME $32m
US Marine Corps misses target, finds and bombs Nemo
Monday 22nd July 2013 13:19 GMT
"Americans miss the target a lot, at least this time they didn't kill anyone."
Well thank goodness the RAF never missed any targets.
"The majority of the bombs dropped by British forces during the Kosovo conflict missed their targets, an investigation by the BBC and industry magazine Flight International has revealed.
A classified Ministry of Defence report revealed the accuracy rate of missiles fired by the Royal Air Force was just 40% - and in the case of some bombs, as low as 2%."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/879560.stm
Microsoft admits it's '18 months behind' with Windows 8 slabs
Confirmed: Driverless cars to hit actual British roads by end of year
Thursday 18th July 2013 18:29 GMT
@ WonkoTheSane
"Volvo have recently shown off a car which will drop the humans off at the entrance to a multi-storey car park, then drive in and find itself an empty space."
So tell me @ WonkoTheSane ...if the car parks itself in an ILLEGAL parking space...just WHO is responsible for the parking ticket?
The car owner? The car's passenger(s)? The Programmer who wrote the software? The company who manufactured the car? The car itself? Because after all...the owner/passenger(s) didn't make the choice of parking spots...the CAR did.
And on top of all of this...just exactly WHY do we need "self-driving" cars anyway? If people don't want to drive a car...TAKE A BUS FFS!
Tweet like escaping Hell depends on it, Twitter Catholics told
BlackBerry's Heins beams: We WILL make some cash, just you see
BlackBerry BB10 devices refuse to leap off shelves
Friday 28th June 2013 15:56 GMT
BlackBerry nixes BlackBerry 10 on PlayBooks
Way to go Thor baby...better start looking for a new job...
...'cause your company is now on life support...and will be dead by the end of 2013.
So, it looks like I can put my Playbook away in the closet, along with my copies of MS Bob & Vista.
Nice going "The company formerly known as RIM". Nothing like LYING to your customers. Even Apple isn't THAT bad...well almost.
But, it probably doesn't matter anyway, as they will be out of business, LONG before BB11 would have been released.
Apple threatens ANOTHER Samsung patent lawsuit
Korean doctors: Smartphones really ARE doing your head in
Thursday 27th June 2013 15:45 GMT
Re: TBH
"Please come back to this post once your kids have reached say 10 years old and let us know how it went."
Well...if people let THEIR kids run THEIR lives...then just maybe they are doing something wrong. It is called teaching your children the, now disappearing, concept of "respect for authority". I see far too many parents caving into the little darlings whinings, just to shut them up. Or so they don't "feel deprived". Oh the poor, poor little things.
When my parents told me I couldn't have something I felt I should have, because "all of my friends have one", and I thought I should have the same thing also, I had to deal with it.
What I was told was to get myself a job...work my little tail off to earn money...then I would be able to buy whatever I wanted. AND I DID JUST THAT...starting at age 9 with my newspaper delivery route.
That taught me the concept of responsibility, and hard work. AND the appreciation for the amount of hard work it took to get there. Something that is RARELY put into practice by today's parents.
The little buggers are handed every toy (electronic & otherwise) they ask for, with absolutely no appreciation for what they are given. Mummy & Daddy will simply buy another one if they lose it...or trash it...or if a newer, shinier version comes out.
What we are left with is a generation of snotty little ingrates...who will end up imparting these delightful "values" on THEIR offspring. How wonderful.
Labels to get, count them, 0.13 cents per play on Apple iRadio
Apple's Tim Cook: I'm risking my own MEELLLIONS if we sink
It's official: 'tweet' an English word – not just in the avian sense
You've seen the Large Hadron Collider. Now comes the HUGE Hadron Collider
Cold, dead hands of Steve Jobs slip from iPhones: The Cult of Ive is upon us
Tuesday 11th June 2013 17:44 GMT
Re: Honestly...
Excuse me Sir, or perhaps Madam...but if you continue to come here and post completely rational statements, I am afraid I am going to have to ask The Management to suspend your account.
In the future, please try to restrain yourself, for the good of the community. Thank you.
P.S. However, no love for Blackberry users I see. Hmmm?
Online music world on iRadio: Apple, imagine our concern
Students outraged: Computer refuses to do any work for entire week
Friday 7th June 2013 13:22 GMT
Re: wtf?
"Or is that too low tech and actually involve human interaction."
BINGO!! You have just won a prize.
The little darlings these days have no clue about how to actually TALK to other human beings. If they can't "text" their playmates, or post something one these asinine social networking sites, then they feel they have no way of communicating.
The world has bred a generation...or more...of complete dullards, who have no idea of how to open their mouths and speak.
LinkedIn snarfing contacts from Exchange
New EXPLICIT pics support notion of moist, welcoming past for Mars
'Nothing will convince a kid that's never worn glasses to wear them'
Friday 31st May 2013 17:14 GMT
@wowfood
"Google glass could be amazingly useful for folks like me, who can't put a name to a face even when it's their own family."
Me thinks it's time for the "home" now @wowfood. Be a good boy, and put your arms in this nice white jacket we have for you. Come on now...be a dear.
Your nurse will be along shortly to give you some nice happy pills, which will make you sleep better.
First 'adult' app for Google Glass planned 'within days'
Wednesday 29th May 2013 17:03 GMT 
Way to go Jennifer...
From LinkedIN:
"Previously served as marketing manager and PR of InnerVibe, Inc., specializing in adult sexual health products. InnerVibe is a brand that believes in enforcing a positive and healthy outlook on sexuality. Our line up of pleasure products are designed specifically to be female and couple friendly and advocate intimate, natural pleasure.
InnerVibe advocates a positive approach to sensual adventures through social media and community building on Facebook, Twitter and our InnerVibe website by bringing sensual discovery into everyday conversations."
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermcewen
Mine's the one with the Velcro front closure.
The BOFH is BACK: And it's cloudy with a 90% chance of beatings
Friday 24th May 2013 16:48 GMT
Re: AC @ 15:26 GMT
"I know someone who has a boss who prints all his emails, whether he needs to or not. If he needs to bring up a previous conversation he finds it in the pile, scans it and attaches it."
Go you one better. The Dean of my college doesn't EVER turn her computer on...for ANYTHING. She has her assistant go through ALL of her e-mail on HER computer, then print out what she thinks the Dean needs to see/respond to...then her assistant sends out the replies from the hand written responses she gets from the Dean. She's been the Dean here for about 35 years. Never warmed up to computers...obviously.
I've been the Net Admin here for 10 years, and have NEVER seen that computer on. And I don't dare turn it on for her either. Never been updated, as far as I know. I true time capsule, if there ever was one.
Friday 24th May 2013 16:37 GMT
@Rick Giles
"We used to have a utility that would copy the PST about every 15 days to there home folder on the server when they were logging out or shutting down. It would take a while for some of them to complete as they were close to a GB in size. I'll bet you can guess what they would then do because they couldn't wait for the copy to finish."
Yep...know EXACTLY what they did. Hit "Cancel", and went home. PST file never backed up.
I use that "pfbackup" utility at home on my personal network DAILY, to make sure I have copies of the wife's messages...because she is another one who uses the "Deleted Items" folder for storage...but I still love her.
Paul Allen buys lovingly restored vintage V-2 Nazi ballistic missile
'Leccy car biz baron Elon Musk: Thanks for the $500m, taxpayers...
Thursday 23rd May 2013 15:55 GMT
Re: The US government made about USD$26 million on the deal...
Sorry Ace...but it is VOUS who are wrong. Try reading the articles before making any more of an arse of yourself...or can't you read?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-08/tesla-posts-first-quarterly-profit-on-model-s-deliveries.html
"Tesla had a loss from operations of $5.58 million, down from $88.8 million a year earlier."
They did not make any money SELLING CARS.
They made their money on "...Sales of so-called zero-emission vehicle credits to automakers Tesla didn’t name..."
"Revenue from such sales will drop in the second and third quarters and there may be none in the fourth quarter, Musk said on a conference call."
Also: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hold-phone-tesla-didnt-profit-144000488.html
Thursday 23rd May 2013 15:13 GMT
The US government made about USD$26 million on the deal...
...but Tesla is still LOSING money on its car operation. USD$5.58 million to be exact.
Yes...yes...I know...the COMPANY reported a profit recently...but the money they made was on the sale of pollution tax credits SOLD to other car companies, NOT on building & selling their cars. More fancy accounting.
From: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100743955
"If profits matter going forward, so does earnings quality. And according to Gradient Analytics, the earnings quality gets a grade of 'F."
What stands out the most?
"So many things," says Gradient research director Donn Vickrey."By declaring themselves profitable, I said there is just no way. How can this be at this point in the cycle? It has to be purely a paper profit and at that some elements of the paper may be lower quality than usual."
Paper or not, Vickrey believes whatever Tesla's profitability, it isn't sustainable."
And this from recently retired Ford Exec Mark Schulz...
"“I look at these Teslas,” Schulz said. “They’re from Silicon Valley and they’re smarter than Midwesterners and all that good stuff.” But if Tesla has one safety recall, he said, “they’re done, they’re toast.” His own message was clear: Electric cars are far from being a mature technology, and many unforeseen problems could still throw them off course."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-18/pushing-past-the-prius-toward-an-all-electric-car.html
Caveat Emptor kids.
Brit spooks bugged Edward VIII's phones, records reveal
Yahoo 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
Facebook teens' kimonos - basically never closed
Wednesday 22nd May 2013 14:36 GMT
And you point is what?
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Very simple. They get older..."go forth and multiply"...and end up asking the very same questions 30 years from now.
EVERY "great civilization" eventually crumbles...nothing different here. Simply a matter of time before it happens once more.
Fortunately...my wife & I have had no children...and we'll be looking UP at the daisies when it does.
Ed Miliband brands Google's UK tax avoidance 'WRONG'
Wednesday 22nd May 2013 14:19 GMT
Re: Tax Laws
"So why did he vote for all the tax laws during Labours government that companies are using?"
Precisely!
It is the politicians who have enacted theses tax laws at the behest (a.k.a. lobbying) of the corporations...and NOW they are getting their shorts in a wad over THEIR LAWS?
Tell you what...don't like what the companies are doing? THEN CHANGE THE F*%&ING LAWS. And that goes for ALL politicians the world over.
The arses here in the US are just as slimy. Feigning outrage on laws these idiots enacted. What a load of bullshit. Sick to death of them all. Not one of them worth their weight in dog poo.
Senators: You - Cook. Apple guy. Get in here and bring your tax books
Thursday 16th May 2013 17:54 GMT
Spot on.
"If the senators were serious they would just change the tax code. This isn't what their 'sponsors' paid them (and their pacs) to do so they won't."
Correct you are sir.
Until the corporations are FORCED to get their hands out of the pants of the politicians...this will never change. And the likelyhood of THAT happening is nil.
British LulzSec hackers hear jail doors slam shut for years
Thursday 16th May 2013 16:17 GMT
Oh...poor little Ryan Cleary the "Choir Boy"..........and Kiddie Porn Fan.
"After the seizure of Cleary's computer and and subsequent recovery of deleted files, the hacker was charged with downloading and possessing indecent images of children following a second arrest on October 4, 2012.
Under the U.K. COPINE scale — a measure of the severity of images the images in question were classified as child "erotica" and deliberate sexual posing. A total of 46 images contained children aged between six and 18 months, whereas others included children aged between ten and 15 years.
The defense team said that Cleary is not a "professional pervert" or sexually obsessed, but rather was obsessed with finding data and using his computer — a reason laid at the door of his client's Asperger's syndrome. "
BULLSHIT!
How convenient to hide behind an alledged disease. The little prick should be locked up, and the key thrown away for this alone.
Microsoft: YES! You can have your desktop back again for FREE!
Wednesday 15th May 2013 15:15 GMT
Re: Mine's the one with the 3.5" floppies in the pocket.
"I carry the HD 5.25s, but only because they don't make the 360s anymore."
Those don't fit into my new Burberry coat's pockets I'm afraid...one must look the "Modern Man" these days, you know...but I do have an unopened box of "KILOBYTES" Double Side/High Density/96 TPI/Soft Sector 5.25s for you, sitting right here on my desk. Interested? Hmmm? Made in India........... Really!
McAfee all-in-one security suite covers PCs, tablets, and smartphones
Bill & Jobs' excellent adventure: Steve's tech looked better than mine
BlackBerry's Q5 QWERTY gets flirty with buy-curious teens
Icahn, SAM to give MickeyD the boot if they take over Dell
Stroke my sexy see-through backside, says Jobs from BEYOND THE GRAVE
PLAGUE of SEX CRAZED MONSTER GRASSHOPPERS to hit East Coast
Red faces as Pentagon leases Chinese satellite
BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in 5 years
Feds want to fine companies that refuse wiretap requests
Cat ladies turned brand-squatters poke fun at religious right
You hear that, Mr Cook? Samsung's profits have gone UP
Hold on! Degrees for all doesn't mean great jobs for all, say profs
Monday 8th April 2013 17:22 GMT
@VaalDonkie & @ Fibbles
@VaalDonkie
"If he's an officer, then surely he would have had to take many courses related to his work?"
Not a one. Because he got the degree long before enlisting in the Marines. He joined the Marines to save the world. That's not working out too well so far.
He is also a "90 day wonder"...meaning that the ONLY reason he is an officer is because he had a college degree when he signed up...and he came out of boot camp as a Lt. Never spent a nano-second as a "ground-pounder".
@ Fibbles
He wasn't taking the degree "for the sake of expanding one's own mind"...he really thinks there are jobs for people with that degree. There are not...that is why he joined the Marines.
After graduating from college, and before joining the Marines, he had also applied to be a fireman, policeman, Secret Service agent, and on and on with similar positions. His degree has not exactly helped him out in these job applications. And let's not forget his going to college originally with the plan of becoming a professional basketball player. That lasted about one year. He was a lousy basketball player, and his college told him so. Didn't go over well.
And finally, his father was a senior official in a major trade union in New York City, and got him a job in the union doing what he had been doing. His father made a serious good living as a Master Mechanic for 40+ years. The kid turned his back on it shortly after getting in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
