Posts by Doctor Syntax 33111 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"Undoubtedly I could learn to be graceful and have the strength and dedication of a ballet dancer"
Good for you, I certainly couldn't. What I did do was make a few sideways changes, one out of my preferred branch of biology into another which claimed to offer a career and another out of that into IT when I decided it really didn't.
"Skilled technical specialists don't get paid more, the computer software used to decide the pay rate for a job seems to mark specialist skills down - that's not just in IT, that's across all specialisms."
Unsurprisingly nothing seems to have changed since the 1980s. Promotion from SSO to PSO depended on responsibility but that was defined as management responsibility. The fact that in my speciality there was the individual responsibility for giving evidence that might put someone away for life didn't count.
I bailed, went into IT and the money started going up and up. I think it came as a slight shock to my former employers but from what I heard, not enough to do anything useful. However, entirely coincidentally, I was offered the promotion to PSO without any of the normal procedures as soon as I handed in my notice.
It's not an art form I follow but I wouldn't be surprised to discover that ballet also had intellectual demands.
I'm in favour of big changes of career. It gets you out of a rut and there's nothing that says you can only be good at one thing.
It would be as well to remember that the campaign will have been put together by an agency dominated by arts types who probably know no more about law than about IT (and probably not more about dance either).
It does occur to me that the working life of most ballet dancers is probably short. What do they do when the body can't cope any more?
This sort of thing is getting me worried these stories about a Linux kernel in Windows might be true. Worried because there's less likely to be enthusiasm for existing developers to do stuff for Microsoft, Linus gets pushed out and then Microsoft themselves start shoving dubious stuff in there. EEE accomplished.
Maybe not in this case.Tax is one of the things that gets tinkered with on a regular basis.
It's likely to be a result of careful design a long time ago rather the frAgile development doing what's easy or absolutely necessary this sprint and leaving the difficult stuff like flexibility till later. And later. And really a lot later. Either that or the bits that threw in obstacles were hammered out of the way in the course of successive budgets - that's the Chancellor's budgets, the ones he reads to Parliament.
Ah, but Brexit will restore all that. It will wind the world back to the time before Suez when we still had most of the empire and a navy that ruled the waves. Even before Covid. Brexit solves all problems.
"The EM suite was in the basement for stability"
Ours was on the first floor. However it had its own separate floor slab on its own columns - sort of like a 6 legged table. I'm not sure that actually helped but as it was almost entirely devoted to looking for gun-shot residues with XRF I didn't have occasion to use it.
Oh, I get the point, OK. But if ERP, on-prem or in cloud, is at the core of what the business does there needs to be some expertise in-house or maybe on-call. Maybe the OP performs the latter function as I did for a small engineers' supplier. The same applies to any sort of business which depends on IT.
The description suggests that it's spinning and the outer crust is sufficiently consolidated to hold the core in place against centrifugal force. If it were disrupted centrifugal force would disperse the core so what we'd get would be a fraction of it in separate chunks. The question then arises as to how big those chunks might be. Would they burn up on the atmosphere?
As per earlier comment, this is a sample of one. Is it a common structure? How do you identify others without going to visit them?
Polycarbonate proving difficult? This https://www.theplasticshop.co.uk/plastic_technical_data_sheets/chemical_resistance_guide_polycarbonate_sheet.pdf has a useful looking table of possible solvents and non-solvents although all the possibles seem even less attractive than the problem.
Somehow the whole story reminds me of a reported episode from student days when a particularly obnoxious denizen of halls was pounced on by several others after a party and treated with contact adhesive (who had that handy, I wonder; was there really glue-sniffing going on in those far-off days?). Subsequently taken to the local hospital and greeted by the doctor with "Christ, is this some new perversion?".
"It appears that cases may be on the increase this year, perhaps thanks to COVID-19 forcing most of the UK to stay at home."
Given increasing delays in the courts any cases arising out of WFH aren't going to surface in the courts for some time. Getting cases to court is a process subject to Hofstadter's law.
"And 1g is a backronym for cellular mobile telephones."
Your 1g is, in fact, the first GSM mobile telephone system. It wasn't the first cellular system; that was TACS. And TACS wasn't the first mobile system. Back in the mid-80s the bit of BT that eventually became part of O2 still had a product called System 4 running alongside the newly introduced TACS.
"handing over contracts and Intellectual Property to Huawei."
Would that be the Huawei that has a large number of telecoms patents of its own? Or the Huawei that was about to establish an R&D base in Cambridge? Or was it the Huawei which, alone of the telecoms equipment providers, made arrangements to have its software open for examination to UK security*?
At the very least we should demand any alternative equipment providers be as open as Huawei has been compelled to be. Who knows - if that were the situation we could actually make informed decisions on the basis of technical merit.
* Who seem to have found poor coding standards but nothing malicious.
There needs to be a definitive account of addresses as a source for secondary services. It's easy to see why malware might deviate from that.
However the primary requirement of the ICANN root service is to point to the TLD servers so the TLDs could, if sufficient of them chose (and managed!) to agree amongst themselves to take one of the root server mirrors into the primary. The likely outcome would be a certain amount of conflicts due to holdouts but if those making the initial break were sufficiently dominant the rest would have to follow eventually. The difference between the heretic and the orthodox is who wins.
You're assuming that domain owners are corporate bodies that make such filings elsewhere. Many of us here have our own domains for our own purposes such as email addresses and are entitled to privacy in this as in any other respect. Individual privacy is regarded as a basic right in Europe. Your use of SCC suggests your expectations are US-centric where you're denied such rights.
It might be mandatory but if the domain owner chooses not to do so it's a bit difficult to work out who they are.
If BigCo has their website flogging their rather dubious products they may well register some "review" site which habitually praises them and do so anonymously because they can.
I vaguely remember receiving spam fa few times from somebody flogging print services. They put their limited co name on the email but not their registered number. I think there were also some errors on their website - possibly about address - so I grassed them up to Companies' House who didn't fine them but "helped them" to fix their errors. The spam stopped.
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