Posts by NeilPost 1951 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2014
There will be a 2 deprived area’s soon for consideration when Ford close and Nissan leaveZ
Indeed in Bridgend you could either poach some staff from Sony - make high end broadcast equipment, Contract electronics manufacturing (the make Raspberry Pi’s there) and repair centre. I’m sure many of the Ford engine plant (internal and contract for JLR) staff can be retrained.
I was glad to be unfurloughed (away 1 Apr - 30 Jun). Many other colleagues still off with uncertain future or tossed redundant already.
That stated attitude - serious or not - stokes simplistic perceptions/views that people are off with their feet up on a jolly furloliday on 80% of wages paid for by Rishi Sunak.
In reality it’s **capped at £2,500 before deductions and any normal benefits are excluded** which becomes £1,500 to £2,000 so my ‘in the bank’ monthly was chopped by well over £1,000. No employee pension contributions either (which for some in later life will lead to shortfalls).
Thankfully going to work for Tesco as a temp key worker and payment holidays saved us burning financially until recalled from 1st July.
So a daily Zoom/Ring Central/Google Meet standup call in the morning and close-out call in the afternoon daily. Video on mandatory. We do it at my work and it’s working very well.
Sounds more like the above tales of remote productivity is maintained despite the inability to practice Defence of the Managerial Arts in person.... and someone is feeling ‘redundant’ and their arse is hanging in the wind.
So they’ll be increasing their spend in local shops and supermarkets and maybe cafes.
No expensive panini in Costa, but some ham, cheese and panini’ s in Tesco ... and perhaps some Nespresso compatible pods or a nice lunch roll from your local cafe.
People still eat.
The disposable income people are still prepared to spend will go somewhere.
They’ll be putting partitions back up next and dividing it into .... ye olde offices.
TBH I can’t see a huge reduction in COVID-19 removal - cubicles v’s open plan with some 4’ high dividers- even perhaps with added Perspex. Esp.. In light of the (in)famous Supermarket aisle Sneeze computer simulation.
Unless you walk to work a little extra utilities cost at home Will always be outweighed by the huge cost of fuel/train/bus/underground before you even talk about the waste of time effort and impact to mental health commuting is.
With the screaming from the sandwich/cafe/restaurant sectors in big cities the amount of money they fleece from people forced to travel to work is also an additional huge cash benefit.
Many employees (still working) will have had up to a 20% instant pay rise working from home.
Paying some extra home costs is punching the gift horse in the mouth.
It’s a ‘simple blame’ that suckers don’t apply any critical thinking too.
PHE abolition today’s example - Matt Hancock just bring (the new ) Test and Trace and (the new) Joint Biosecurity that you wilfully created outside PHE/NHS/Sage into (DoH’sExecutive Agency) PHE. You created the management middle management mess you are complaining about. Oh give PHE a remit to work with local Public Health too.
Next... the promised ‘Glorious Brexit’ has been ruined by the (untrustworthy bastard furriners at) the EU and Coronavirus.... oh and Kier Starmer, Hillary Benn, Lady Hale, Nicola Sturgeon, Gina Miller and the Gawkward Squad.
Whoever wins any takeover deal - in this dick waving contest - deserves to spaff $20, 30, 30, 50bn (shareholder value) up the wall - and get absolutely everything that is coming to them m.
Tik-Tok is worthless 2000-era Tech crash grade junk.
Bring on the Schadenfreude writ large.
Xi Jungping must be pissing himself at this Chinese Pyramid scheme.
... well apart from Apple.
IOS 13 ‘current’ back to iPhone 6S 2015 vintage and will only likely fall out of being current with IOS 14 this year IOS13 will be maintained forward for several years too.
Samsung’s policy still sucks and blows at the same time in comparison.
Glad similari does not apply to my Samsung American Fridge-Freezer, Washing Machine, Monitors or TV’s (yet).
Would you. It have thought Government Departments were not already using common Infrastructure and platforms after decades of
- Client Server
- Web
- Web 2.0
- Blockchain
- G-Cloud
- Virtualisation
- Cloud
- kubernetes
.. and other wanky marketing bollocks or Dev methodologies.
... eap as most of this is covered by ‘Government framework agreements’?!
This was driving Jungheineich LLOP and filling grocery cages for stores. Sometime 4 full cages for larger stores or could be up to 5different half cages for Express stores..
Impractical/impossible with a hand held. This supermarket Pick app was voice driven... “ go to aisle DY, location 311, pick 3 or multi cage” .. could be cases of beer/gin/wine, a fan, BBQ Beickettes, shampoo, Mary Berry sauces, baby food, pasta/rice etc...
Scan, stack the cage, move on... with a punishing pick rate. Could be up to 700 cases (of varyng sizes - 12x1L brandy or 5xpacket of paracetamol) on a full 4-5 cage pick. Grateful to be off furlough.. it made up my wage shortfall and a bit more to boot.
- yes the KB a pain for Empty location shorts and admin activities.
On looking the current LFL model is a Zebra WT41N0, with finger scanner. at about £1,600 a pop plus a further £600 for the ring scanner ROFLMAO... prices ex-VAT.
All models were battered, scratched and very abused pre-Zebra era takeover. Crappy serial interfaced finger scanners, shite batteries.
Why the Pick app has not been ported to IOS/Android is beyond me.
Yes 1 million upvotes for the BBC.
If stoopid UK government has not binned (on the grounds of competition) Project Kangaroo in 2008/9 that Joint Venture would probably have been a global streaming player rivalling the foreign dominant players in Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and would have supported innovative British Technology.
Last people you want touching ARM would be the UK give. Esp.. one with the current shower of shit running it.
SoftBank was seen as a safe harbour for ARM to continue the independence and multi-vendor customer base and no-fab design/licensing model.
I can only see it going to IPO to continue this as Apple, NVidia, AMD, TSMC, Samsung etc all have axes to grind somewhere and will destroy the open licensing model.
Microsoft could not pry market share away from Apple and Android because ....... they neglected the App ecosystem. End of.
If they had simply paid the manufacturers $$$$’s to do missing apps - or done themselves with their agreement - Windows Phone would have thrived as it was largely equivalent to iOS and Android.
Oh fucking Windows Phone 7 and RT users over with new dead-end hardware did nit help one jot either.... and Nokia killing Map/Go too....
Suggest they change the company name and buy the Acorn Computers Logo/Trademark.
Some French Company owns it.... from Wiki.
Acorn Computers (2006)
the dormant Acorn Computers trademark from French company Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques in early 2006. This company sold IBM PC compatible computers.
Apple were using their jazzy rainbow logo at the time anyway when Acorn were formed - 2 years after Apple.... and was used for years without challenge.
Perhaps Apple should be persuaded to move back to the rainbow ... supportive against discrimination in any form.
... ... Made in China ??
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Microsoft need their heads examined for showing any interest in TikTok. Another $20bn+ of shareholder value down the toilet if it goes through.
They’d be better loaning any spare cash to Rishi Sunak and banking 2% interest on a 10 year bond for doing fuck all.. or investing the money in Amazon or Apple ;-)
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