Posts by IGotOut 5323 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
Unions often do some good, but many are still stuck in the 70's.
I've had friends lose jobs BECAUSE of the unions. E.g. companies that had become uncompetitive to very high pay rates (think almost double market rate). Business wanted to freeze pay and reduce overtime rates.
Unions demanded pay rises, and overtime rates to stay same. Bosses refused. Union went on strike.
Major contracts were not renewed, company hit with penalties.
Within six months business went bankrupt.
400 people lost their jobs, with NO chance of getting another job even close to the pay they would of had if they had ignored their unions.
"Google also says it will cough up dosh for reports of bad behavior by apps and their coders: think applications improperly collecting, selling, or otherwise misusing, user and system data."
I've found a huge set of apps on my phone that by default are set to slurp up and access data , as well as try to access parts of the phone completely unrelated to the application itself.
It's some dodgy lawless app making company called Google.
I'm beginning to think that the Internet except Wikipedia ..... is an interesting, but failing, experiment
Well if you want gnore the huge annual begging banners they like to throw up from time to time. Yet to see a nice clear break down of how that money is spent (Wikipedia money pit and alleged dodgy dealings is a fave of El Reg)
Let's pretend you own, say a sweet shop on the high st. It's currently doing ok.
Google sweets opens up next door with an unlimited budget.
They give away for free the same sweets you sell for a small profit.
You go bankrupt as who would pay for sweets that you sell?
Now. Google sweets can charge what they want.
It may be over exaggerated for a home PC, but certainly not a business server.
Think of a server running a dozen virtual machines, say in a shared hosting environment. It is possible (but not easy) to set up an malicious platform, and using the bugs "break" into, or steal the credentials from another VM running on the server, that you should have 0 access to.
So yes it is a major flaw that needed fixing
"with a lifetime map update promise"
Another sucker failing for TomTom's marketing bullshit.
What does “lifetime” mean?
"Lifetime is the useful life of the device, which means the period of time that TomTom continues to support your device with software updates, services, content or accessories. A device will have reached the end of its life when none of these are available any more."
http://uk.support.tomtom.com/app/content/id/9/locale/en_gb/page/4
"AFAIK China ain’t renowned for its AFVs either, what with mostly running cloned T-72s. Oh dear, maybe that’s why they need those ropes."
In ww2 the German tanks were "superior" to the Russian, except they were to good so difficult to fix, were expensive and took a long time to make. The Russian tanks were cheap, easy to fix and easy to mass produce. Numbers won.
The AK-47 is cheap, easy to make and easy to service. It's not accurate, it not highly engineered or pretty.
You can have the best tank in the world, but if the other side have a hundred ok ones,your not going to win.
I mean how could a company with only a few hundred billion dollars make it easier to resolve issues like this.
It not like they could employ a few thousand people extra to work in a area once known as "Customer Service". Far better to employ bots that can't deal with anything more complex than a password reset.
For those thatkeep trotting out the French retreating, I suggest you check your history.
Check out the numbers killed at the Battle of the Frontiers in ONE DAY. Now compare that to a decade of the Vietnam war. Remind me who quit?
Also anyone that knows anything about Dunkirk, will know, about from Hitler's cock up, it was the French that saved our arses, by staying back to hold of the advance.
Also check the number of troops they deployed compared to the UK when we declared war on Germany.
We had this advantage called the English channel, if we hadn't, it could of been a whole different outcome.
"vehicle excise duty - not road tax"
I always find this pedantry a bit, pointless as even the Government call it a tax.
Tax your vehicle
Tax your car, motorcycle or other vehicle using a reference number from....
You must tax your vehicle even if you do not have to pay anything
Source:
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax
"Our office in (well near) Amsterdam has free charging points in the car park."
Is that 100% of the spaces? If so well done.
On the industrial estate where I am, already with huge power requirements (apparently at 70%) capacity , how much do you think it will cost to put in power for around 500 cars, charging at peak time?
If we are serious, then the grid needs a huge upgrade.
Before I get a million downvotes from the city dwellers, there are NO train stations within 10 miles and oddly the number of buses at 4am are err.... 0. Add to the fact we pull in people from about a 20 mile radius, personal transport is currently and for a log time, the only way.
"The Chinese will never be able to match those smart people in Taiwan and Singapore to make better semi-conductors."
15 years ago I had to endure sitting through graduation ceremonies at Warwick Uni. The VAST majority of Science and Maths higher degrees were going to Chinese students. I doubt much has changed since then
I'd agree with the others, I've no idea what you are on about either. Fibre cabinets are different to your normal old fashioned box. They either extended the existing or more commonly put a brand new cab in. You don't just shoe horn in a fibre trunk and suddenly the everything is fibre.
