Posts by EarthDog

Beer hall putz: Regulator slaps northern pub over Nazi-themed ad

Re: Hilarious

This is about a British pub and there are plenty of references to Brits acting as Nazis. So I'll argue my point holds.

Re: Maybe next time

Not to mention they are German

Re: The problem here is bigger than one pub that's all the Brits have left

Recounting days of glory when there is nothing left.

-No Empire

-The Pound is not a global reserve currency anymore

-The food in Britain has actually become edible

-No more industry

-No more Imperial measurements

-Who is the global powerhouse? Germany.

-Who saved Europe during the last financial? Of all people? Germany.

It's Pax Germanica. Get used to it.

Hilarious

This thread went from zero to Godwin's law even before the first post.

That generation is dead. What if we had a poster of British soldiers bayonetting Zulus or a fat alcoholic plantation owner beating house boys?

"Nazis aren't a racial group." Not according to the Nazis.

Micro Focus shares take bath after results report

It gives a whole new meaning to "reduction in head count".

Wait! Before you fire up that HP lappy, check the battery

Re: Another quality delivery from HP!

They are offering remediation unlike other companies.

Re: One piece of good news though...

Which Intel refuses to fix.

Weed wish you a merry Christmas: Pot-toting OAPs tell cops 30kg stash is for pressies

Re: Taxi!

And in other news, The Rocky Mountain Way.

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/19/couple-swap-4-pounds-marijuana-craigslist-sheriffs-suv/

That's what the Freak Brothers would've done. Set up a smoke screen.

Re: Alternatives to weed that would have been legal

Actually 1 and 2 are probably going over the limit of moving over state lines for personal use. Tax violations and all that.

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

Re: @Version 1.0 Maths anyone?

Don't forget managers are herd animals. They jump on the latest buzzword regardless if it is relevant or not.

How much will Britain's next F-35s cost? Not telling, says MoD

Re: "There is one billion on a bunch of drones guarding Wales?"

NZ could kick in to help the UK, as could AUS

Danger! High voltage: German customs bods burn half-tonne of weed in power station

Re: "Cannot be traced back to the source"

So like, haven't you seen the videos, man? So the ancient astronauts gave these mind expansion drugs like marijuana and mushrooms to like, expand our minds so we could get to the next level. You know, like evolution. Open our minds to the higher planes. Where'd the pizza go?

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

Re: Um...

In reference to the Panama Canal tnd T. Rooseveldt; Secretary of War, Elihu Root, simply laughed and said: “Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer any taint of legality.”

Re: Um...

It worked for Catherine The Great, who was a kraut. She invited more krauts in to help settle the Ukraine. It worked, the Ukraine prospered.

Re: Um...

Mexico was so desperate it went to war with the US to get rid of Texas. The US lost and had to take them. In their credit, the Mexicans gave them even more land as a consolation prize. Anything else you hear is revisionism

Re: Um...

Remember if you go there, pain is a flavor. I've had some of the best green chili I ever ate in N. Mexico.

Too small. Requirements defect and all.

Re: ( @ John Riddoch)

You can tune a piano but not tuna fish. Unless you are at a canning plant where you can tuna fish.

Microsoft's 'Surface Phone' is the ghost of Courier laughing mockingly at fanbois

Re: Too late

Probably because the project is only given a few quarters to perform. Otherwise kill it and move on. Customers? Well they should move on to the next flavor du jour. Migration path? we'll get back to you on that.

UK lacks engineering and tech skills to make government's industrial strategy work – report

Why are we discussing staffing?

Should we not only look at process efficiencies, better methodology, automation, and development tools? Make it possible for said staff to do it better.

Re: Typical

The easy solution to that is you must stay with us for x years or you payback all the training.

Re: Start funding the schools and education sector for crying out loud and you'll get results.

or about 45 F35's or less

Re: All the jobs were sent offshore to get it for cheap....

Carly Fiorina was a Medieval studies major. Do we want to take that risk?

So you're 'agile', huh? I do not think it means what you think it means

Re: agile with a lowercase a

I've done and and used all except number 5 and it works really well, though constrained to smaller and usually in-house rather than outhouse projects. I would add in good timeboxing, one of my favorite projects forced us to work due to regulatory requirements at maximum for two months with "mini releases" along the way. We also had direct access to the users. This was in the early 2000's before I bumped into Agile as a concept. So I immediately "got it" when I saw it.

The only of thing I would add in is gathering information, *not* metrics but real information, and adjusting using a Scientific process to adjust methodologies and tools as you go.

Re: New trend?

I think it is a conversation on "Agile", as practiced by the clueless.

Which is what you are supposed to do. If you can solve it, don't wait. If it is a defect, fix it then document. If you need more information don't wait for scrum; read documentation, go online, nudge the developer next to you etc. If necessary, ask for forgiveness.

Re: Pay no attention to that consultant behind the curtain!

That reminded me of this:

https://despair.com/products/achievement

So the solution might be more in-house IT and less outhouse IT.

Re: Agile

You forgot "QA, We don't need no stinkin' QA. We have Agile."

Re: wagile

like the SAFe garbage see this diagram and see what you think it says.http://www.scaledagileframework.com/

Re: wagile

I find type C is often with true mission critical needs, as opposed to "mission critical" needs, and so want reaffirmation of the software quality. If (collective ) you haven't done so show them the stage by stage testing from unit test levels to acceptance level. That might help.

Cost-hurling IBM seeks more volunteers for employment bonfire

How about

pilot unclips from seat puts on parachute opens door

exec screams what are you doing?

pilot: I'm taking early retirement and I go on vacation as of now....

Re: Whatever happened to the critical IT skills shortage holding back the economy?

any government program which requires citizenship. The chocolate factory. Agricultural companies need AI, GPS, real Engineers, and agronomy people as well as software people.

The boat is sinking captain!

1st mate: What do we do?

capt.: man the pumps and fix the breach. Keep throwing able seamen and carpenters overboard to lighten the load. If that doesn't work jettison some of the passengers.

1st mate: aye-aye

Capt.: and make sure our private launch is well stocked with champagne and caviar. This is a beastly job. No one knows how much I suffer...

O Christmas wreath, O Christmas wreath, thy potent skunk's in bunches

Re: The sooner

legalized FTFY

No 2017 bonus for you, HPE tells employees

Re: Jelly of the month

At HPE we had free lunches and breakfasts on occasion. Everyone was cooing "oowww free lunch". At which I would point out we had already paid for it with our labor.

Re: Is anyone surprised?

There are plenty of companies moving to those laces. Lots of start up. Regulation and taxation is only part of the problem

Re: I see nothing much has changed.

Inflation is constant. But in a country with hyperinflation, like the US, it is imperative your salary rises at the maximum rate possible.

No big surprise

When I was there not too long ago sales force churn was in the 60%/yr range. You can't have strong sales if you treat the sales force like crap and cause them to leave.

Big Mike is going to make HPE's life a living Dell: Server sales surge

Re: Redundancies

That is why you should never go public. You lose control of the company. The business should be owned by owners made of of founders (if still alive), management, and Workers. People who care about the company. As soon as you publicly trade a company, you have to please the stock markets. Which can lead to a "keep the stock price up at any cost" approach. *Cough* IBM *cough*.

Many companies went bad when they went public. Google is an example. Dell shows the opposite example.

HP Inc – the no-drama one – is actually doing fine with PCs, printers

Not just personal printers

But also large commercial grade 3D printers. Anecdote, a guy I ride the bus with works with a manufacturing company which just bought 12 3D printer from HP at about 50K USD each. They will use them for rapid prototyping typing and creating molds for blow mold plastics.

Re: Too bad they misspelled their name.

Too bad they didn't choose a squid as their mascot.

HPE CEO Meg Whitman QUITS, MAN! Neri to replace chief exec in Feb

Re: Job well finished

Wow! Whatever the hell you are smoking sounds like some good shit.

Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Re: Meanwhile...

They did say they would pinky swear.

It depends on which side you want to win. Me, I'm sticking with the obese cheeseburger eaters because *no ne* of value likes borscht.

Re: YABCSP

Not just reduction in head count but in shifting liability.

How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches'

Re: Here's a thought

I'm done with air travel. Train or bus, preferably train.