Posts by Orwell44

Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land Boeing 737

I purchased FSX on steam, and also the UK VFR scenery add-on - I cannot get the latter to install properly from Steam.

I don't want to fly around standard dummy scenery so it was a wasted purchase.

Time that Google with their great mapping, developed a real flight sim instead of their toy one.

Zero. Zilch. Nada. That's how much Netflix uses its own data centres now

Netflix need to have proper indexing and search options.

It's very hard to find material to match my interests. For example, I might want to see films set in London. Type in London and you get about two movies which is clearly pathetic. Can you search by the date the film was made - No, in fact you can search on bugger all. Ideal for 4 year olds.

Computer Science grads still finding it hard to get a job

It's also nonsense to say (as some comments have) that CS will not get hired by a local company.

Far more opportunities in IT than in actual Physics for example. My own nephew has a 1st in Physics and was fortunate to get hired into an IT role. Otherwise he would be working in Starbucks!

"Prior to IR35, grads with little or low experience started off as contractors so you had little or no overhead in hiring them as you could just send them off the premises on the same day. Nearly all of my British colleagues started off as this way. I cannot think of anyone who was a permie day one."

I find extraordinarily unlikely. People employ contractors for proven skills, maybe you meant temps?

IT35 stops tax avoidance, new hires would not be put off by this.

In any case a new hire can be dismissed without any cause in the first year.

Degrees are pointless. A year spent solving logical problems and producing good written and spoken comms is all that is needed. A razor-sharp logical mind is the key to success in IT.

Research: By 2017, a third of home Wi-Fi routers will power passers-by

The benefit of opting in (or staying in) the BT scheme is that you can use other people's BT hot-spots for free when out and about. They are low-bandwidth - suitable for Email - not much else.

VMware axes Fusion and Workstation US devs

VM ware works seamlessly on 1920x1080 whereas Virtual Box does not - causing a silly little square window to work in.

BT blames 'faulty router' for mega outage. Did they try turning it off and on again?

Splicing the main cable for an intercept?

IBM kills Hack A Hair Dryer women-in-tech vid after backlash

IBM have always employed a lot of women in technical roles over many years. In fact I would say that most of the female IT professionals that I have come across worked for IBM (and I didn't work for them).

Damned attractive, many of them as well (opps, I will just pop off to resign).

Ex-IT staff claim Disney fired them then gave their jobs H-1B peeps

At least they are in the same country, even worse when your "replacements" are 5000 miles away.

Oracle confesses to quietly axing its UK software support centre

Should be an exit "tax" on this sort of job transfer. It's not true redundancy in that the roles are still needed - it's just a blatant export of jobs (and usually of quality as well in my experience).

Samsung S6 calls open to man-in-the-middle base station snooping

VAT doesn't count as tax paid

Since VAT is charged on top of the daily rate and the client then simply offsets it against their own VAT bill - this is not actual net revenue generated for HMRC and is not the same as paying income tax.

However a one month period is too short, I would see three months as reasonable.

But the tax avoidance by personal service companies is too blatant to ignore, they even get all the dividend tax breaks intended for genuine entrepreneurs. it's time that a minimum tax percentage was paid by everyone regardless of the journey that the money has taken to their bank account.

Landlords should pay National Insurance as well.