Posts by Champ 171 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Feb 2013
This is a really depressing story. Surely these employees were employed to actually produce something, which no amount of fake mouse jiggling is going to replicate. Can Wells Fargo really not tell when staff aren't producing the output that they're employed for?
Really? Wow! I started the Comp Sci course at Imperial in Oct 1981 too! Unfortunately I flunked the exams at the end of the first year, and at to figure out how to make my way in the world...
... which started with BASIC on a CP/M machine, and then morphed to Turbo Pascal on DOS quite quickly. And the Pascal (and associated skills) I'd learnt in that single year did come in useful
Under my telly is the PC I built 10 years ago, in a hifi style case, which records TV for me, has all my music, a library of 100s of films, etc
I'm probably one of the last hold outs still running media centre, but I like it and there's no obvious replacement that does everything I want, so I'll be sticking with it, and Windows 7, for a while yet
...to check out how many dinosaur "of course Micro$oft is evil" posts, and wasn't disappointed
I worked them for a few years in the SatNad era, and they're just another big corporate. No evil to be seen
I'm way way more suspicious, and in some cases genuinely scared, of Amazon and Facebook nowadays.
There are a gazillion shitty websites that I've had to create an account on over the last 20+ years. Of course I'm not going to use a different password for each [1]. On precisely none of these do I care if my details get hacked. Say the crims find I bought some questionable furniture from Ikea last year - so what? Even sites that persist credit card details still need the CVV to complete the txn.
For anyone with any sort of online life, the only options seem to be password re-use, or use a password manager [2]
[1] and, yes, I have tried password managers. Haven't found one that gives me a compelling use case yet
[2] see [1]
Can you list any of these "rafts of EU bureaucracy and Brussels red tape", please? Compared to the now well-understood red tape involved in shipping anything from the UK to the EU?
It's not unusual for large multi-nationals to seek subsidies to set up in a particular jurisdiction. If the UK were still in the EU, it might well have benefited from such an EU subsidy for Intel to build a fab in the UK
>I, like the OP above am getting a little wary of what's >happening to the El Reg, it has never been so impartial... >And that means it is becoming an echo chamber, just like >Twitter, Parler and FB....
You might want to check the meaning of impartial, before you make yourself look silly
Looks like I'm not going to be migrating my music to YouTube, then...
I found Play Music very convenient; I ripped new CDs I bought [1] my CDs via a desktop to my NAS, and then uploaded them to Play Music, which made them available on my phone and other portable devices. And I could 'pin' favourite albums to the phone, so could play them when I had no connection.
<sigh> So now more research and tech implementation required
[1] I'm definitely of the generation that buys, not rents, its music. Spotify? Fuck off
As in this feature, Agile is mostly the current whipping boy for stuff going wrong.
Firstly, "Agile" is a catch-all term for multiple working practices. These can be used brilliantly to deliver high quality, useful systems. But they are no guarantee, and you can definitely produce garbage with them too.
If this project had been run under Prince 2, would anyone be blaming the methodology?
>But Microsoft isn't a normal company. All evidence suggests they haven't listened to what their customers actually want[0] in a couple of decades.
As a former Microsoftie, I really marvel at comments like this. In 35 years in the industry, with 3 at Microsoft, I never worked *anywhere* that paid half as much attention to its customers and what they wanted than Microsoft.
But, I guess it's easier to just keep slagging off the old big bad wolf rather than realise the world might have turned a little.
Where "Leave win #1" was a pretty finely balanced 52:48
Where "Leave win #2" was the UK electorate gaming the UKs FPTP electoral system to deny May the very mandate she went to the country to seek.
Where "Leave win #3" resulted in Remain advocating parties getting a bigger share of the popular vote than Farage the Fascist.
How's those lessons in counting coming along?
Of all the places for the "technological means" unicorn to rear it's head - not the Reg! Nooo! Here the forums are full of people who actually understand IT, and what it can, and more importantly, can't do.
I'm now very depressed that even here, amongst "my people", someone should seriously promote this nonsense
>those who supported remain and the ever closer political union, with the
>ceding of sovereignty to un-elected officials
It's my experience that those who most play the 'but sovereignty!' card least understand it.
The only way to be completely sovereign is to be completely isolated. Like North Korea. Otherwise...
- want to join the WTO? Need to abide by rules, that limit sovereignty
- want to join the UN? Need to abide by rules, that limit sovereignty
- want an FTA with <country>? Need to abide by rules, that limit sovereignty
The EU is really about pooling sovereignty, not ceding it.
You're definitely doing it wrong - it's a piece of the proverbial to engage with multiple teams in Teams.
The only bad thing about Teams is the name, giving rise to sentences like "I've set up a new team on Teams", "Is your team using Teams", etc
> Assuming (no evidence to support this, but it's a reasonable hypothesis) that most people that voted for Brexit agreed with the ideals put out at the time of the referendum, and which have been repeated continuously since then, Brexiteers voted to leave the single market and so end free movement.
I'd say your very first assumption is incorrect, and therefore invalidates the rest of your argument.
Many prominent brexiteers said that brexit didn't mean leaving the single market:
Daniel Hannan: "Nobody is talking about leaving the Single Market"
Farage: "Wouldn't it be awful to be like Norway?" (i.e. proposing that we would in fact be like Norway, who are in the Single Market)
Also, your argument is based on people following the logical conclusion of their thinking. Most people don't do that, most of the time.
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