Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken 6157 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2015
"Some people get sick after smart meters are installed in their homes or even on the walls outside them."
If you encounter problems like that, ring +44 1242 221491 (ext. 33847).
Tell them that "Ronnie" told you to call and that the RMC-1138 unit in your meter needs to be recalibrated, that should solve the issue(s).
"... assumptions, calculations and estimates for a business case that never made sense from day one."
Reminds me of the time when there were plans to build a maglev train between Hamburg and Berlin. The only way to meet the projected numbers of passengers would have been every resident of Hamburg travelling to Berlin at least once a week, and vice versa.
"Just tell me the results you'd like to see, and I'll design the calculations accordingly."
Strange stuff, water, apparently.
I did like the movie, though.
"Man can destroy the world and there's nothing one can do about it..."
That has been the status quo for at least 60 years now. I'm dating this on hydrogen bombs becoming availiable. Looking back now, with de-classified information from various archives, "Dr. Strangelove" was much closer to the truth than you'd think. (But then again, Kubrick researched his topics very thorough.) During the Cuban Missile Crisis the world was about 20 minutes away from WW III. Communications played a key role - the Hot Line didn't exist yet. Sending urgent messages to the USSR involved the Pentagon's office boy cycling to the nearest branch of Western Union. In the end the Kremlin used Radio Moscow to announce that they would not break the blockade.
But one can actually do something about it. Like getting involved in politics (beyond clicking on 'like' buttons or ranting online). After all, if the wiser heads always give in, the idiots are in charge.
"So, basically, you're saying that if they're determined and smart enough, there's no way to prevent World War III."
Who are "they"?
I actually once made one. By which I mean I used a labelprinter, printed a little lable saying "ANY" and stuck it on one of the F-keys.
That worked. Every other thing I tried before didn't.
The PC in question was used by a colleague who, when using the word processor, insisted on hitting the CR/Enter key whenever the text on the screen was approaching the border of the display. For every line of text. Just like you would on a typewriter. Made editing/reformatting those documents real fun.
Some people are immune to learning anything new.
"And if we’re going to make clearer rules, perhaps humans should follow them more closely too, as pedestrians, cyclists and drivers."
And on that day, Satan will be skating to work.
Okay, mabe a bit harsh...
I, for one, am looking forward to a fusion-powered, driverless car to take me to my paperless office.
Not to mention the 1960ies... check this out. No, it's not Star Trek.
"A walled garden ISP such as AOL could have quite a renaissance in this day in age given that the Internet has exploded and there's so much choice now of where to go and what to do. I imagine there's a large number of users who would benefit from being within the reasonably protected and curated walls of a closed network to go online."
Isn't Her Majesty's Government currently working on something like that?
Oh, lay off the poor dears, will you? They are really going to make things better.
Over here we have a worst word of the year award (in addition to the word of the year award).
Not sure in which category "post-truth" (which would be "Postfaktisch" over here) belongs.
"A more confident political left [...] has been MIA in recent years."
AWOL, more like. Unless the A in MIA is used in a very broad sense.
"Whether “Digital Millenials” can remember how to talk to the rest of the United States remains to be seen."
I seriously doubt it. Ironically, "social networks" seem to lower social skills. And interacting in a meaningful way* with people outside your regular peer group(s)** is a vital social skill.
* This would include old-school stuff like reasoning, objective facts, politeness...
** Which quite often is really just a bunch of people trapped in the same echo chamber, not people that actually know each other. (Not in the biblical sense, and not counting the odd exception from that.)
"The irony surely must be that Apple actually have no idea who they are now, whilst trumpeting on about it.. "
Well, maybe in 10 years or so they'll be "the guys who managed to piss away a pile of 90 BN offshore cash and no one ever found out how and for what".
" For all you'll ever needTM " - The Goliath Corporation
"Before the election, many tech companies scoffed at the Trump campaign – or warned against it – which makes a rapprochement inevitable, and it's into this environment that Rometty has penned an open letter to the president-elect offering five policy suggestions from IBM."
So, did the others pick IBM? Did IBM draw the shortest straw?
Or is this just IBM's opportunistic self, pushing through the croud to be the first at the door?
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