Posts by ITMA 480 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2019
I take it you've not had to use AutoDesk products - all subscription only - or optical modelling software such as Zemax.
When checking the prices of Zemax, especially single user network licenses to get around the "locked to one user for 30 days at a time" bollocks, be sure you are sitting down.
Something like £10K per year! For ONE user.
"Icon: can remember corridor trains like on A Hard Day's Night"
Corridor trains! You posh so-and-so.
I had to put up with the non-corridor slam door class 312 for many years when working in banking IT in central Londinium.
http://www.geocities.ws/jamesstearn/trainstoday/312gallery_A_.html
I swear the seats were stuffed with horse hair and coiled steel springs.
One trip took over 3.5 hours to get home from Liverpool St (normally takes 35 minutes) after the one I was on brought down the overhead wires with a BANG!
" spend more time yelling at the assisant for failing to carry out a verbal instruction"
I find exactly the same thing with voice controlled phone menu systems to the point where almost the only thing I ever say to (or more increasingly scream at) them without hanging up is "Agent".
If I'm phoning up a company about something, I wasn to speak to a human being, not some f***ing bit of poxy software that understands sweet FA.
I strongly believe there is a correlation between this and wealth.
Those who don't have to do their own cleaning at home, because they employ "minions" to do it, often overlook the work the "little people" do anywhere else including in companies they run.
"> Given he just sacked the cleaning staff
If true, I totally support that. Clean up your own shit."
My mum was a cleaner for most of her working life - offices, schools, colleges - and when young I was occasionally "roped in" to help from time to time.
Some of things supposedly "very well paid" people do at work that one "hopes" they would never do at home, you woudn't believe. Absolutely disgusting.
Even were I work today with a bunch of well paid, supposedly very intelligent (PhD) people, the state they have left some things in is absolutely disgraceful. Not just their working areas (more usually described as "tips") but also horrible skanky food left out, uncovered, on bench tops over a summer weekend and out of date/mouldy/rotting food left in the fridge.
Yes! You DO need proper cleaners.
"So was Windows 10. Widely despised, enough to where there was a group of 'Never 10' people who did all they could to block the 'up'grade."
That's not quite accurate
As one of those who rolled out Gibson's "Never10" on our estate I can tell you exactly why we did.
It wasn't because Windows 10 was terrible per se - it was because brain dead Microsoft were trying to FORCE the upgrade out whether you wanted it or not and at a time of Microsoft's choosing, NOT ours. That could be construed as possibly even illegal in some countries.
When to move our platform from 7 to 10 was going to be our decision NOT Microsofts as it should be. Microsoft broke that rule deliberately and willingly and deserve all the shit they got for it - and more.
My favourite response in such situations - when I am the customer - is to explain it to them simply and clearly:
"I'm profit, you are overhead".
I had an exerpience with a very good sales rep for a local Compaq dealer in the early/mid '90s.
I wandered in almost "off the street". I was in my early to mid 20s, not in the traditional suit (can't abide wearing suits) or anything. Certainly didn't look like a serious business customer. Just wanted to ask about desktop PCs for a potential upgrade.
The salesman, to his eternal credit, treated me as a serious customer and within 2 months I'd placed orders through him for hardware, software and trainng to the value of £234,000.
Upgraded the entire company IT from mixed DOS/Windows 3.1 on dreadful "build it yourself" smorgasbord hardware, mixed Lotus 123/Word Perfect to all Windows 3.11, standard Microsoft Office platform and 95+ new Compaq PCs. Training for the staff and brand new server.
The same bullshit that means it is very hard to buy new PCs with Windows 10 or even drivers for Windows 10.
Meanwhille the ridiculous hardware requirements for 11 are all about selling more new tin boxes and throwing out perfectly good ones for no reason other than Microsoft's shite.
So you would rather people throw out perfectly good, working printers and add to the mountain of WEE waste choking the planet. Plus further pilliage the resources of the planet for raw materials to build and sell new ones instead?
That's the sort of attitude destroying this planet.
PCL5 works perfectly well for the job of printing,
Please do enlighten us as to what earth shattering developments PCL6 and beyond bring to putting marks on paper that PCL5 doesn't that the world simply cannot live without.
That's rather condescending...
I take it the author is a Luinux fanboy...
Is it horses for courses Liam. And for many business situations Linux just doesn't cut it because of a lack of applications in very particular area which Windows does have available.
Why do some people in IT forget that the OS is a tool to run application software. In business it is the applications that matter. If a particular OS (Linux or Windows) doesn't have the ones your business needs, then that OS is crap for your business.
"As long as the printer does PCL or PS then you should be okay."
PS maybe, PCL definitely NOT so.
Using (say) a PCL5 printer with any current version of Windows should be easy - but it isn't. For some reason Microsoft, who let's be honest bully hardware manufacturers to "toe the line", don't want anything lower than PCL6 to work.
FFS WHY????
Surprisingly this is quite good:
https://haynes.com/en-gb/nasa-voyager-1-and-2-manual
And also recommended, just in case one pops up on ebay:
https://haynes.com/en-gb/large-hadron-collider-manual
You never know!
This is being a bit ambitious for an "Owner's Workshop Manual" LOL
https://haynes.com/en-gb/mars-manual
And do you know why the BBC is only the BBC with the UK?
Elsewhere it is the British Broadcasting Company to avoid trademark infringement with Brown, Boveri & Cie
Early BBC micros had BBC on the clear plastic speaker/function key overlay strip. Later ones, including the Master series have British Broadcasting Corporation for that very reason.
You main "click bait" for the mentally challenged?
Perhaps those wanting that should stick to the "comics" such as the Sunday Sport, Sun or Daily Star.
If there is one thing this world could do with more of it is honest, accurate journalism. Not bullshit "attention grabbing" shite for the brain dead with an attention span that would make a goldfish MENSA material.
They are falling into bad habits, rather like the BBC who are fond of:
The best/worst/highest/lowest etc "in a generation" without specifying how many years they classify in a "generation". It is NOT a well defined quantity.
and...
"Since records began" without qualifying the statement by saying when that was. 100 years ago, 10 years ago, last month, last week or since they last buggered about with the way they measure the thing (like unemployment figures)?
"and transmits information back to Earth at a speed 38,000 times slower than 5G"
So what if it is 38,000 times slower than 5G. It is hard enough getting 5G here on planet Earth in cities that are supposed to have it! Never mind 14,599,462,103 miles away (Voyager 1 as at 18:30 BST today) and going at 38,000 mph using a maximum transmitter power of 22.4 W
Sudbury DTV here craps out in hot weather and that is 100 KW and only 28 miles away.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
I'd rather it was just turned off along with all other bloody "gestures" and left to those who like them to enable them - the option with the potential to do least damage.
For those, like me, for whom tapping and gestures don't work. It is not a matter of just not liking them. They are bloody DANGEROUS. For us it is like driving a car where every third time you put your foot on the brake it accelerates and every third time you turn the wheel left it lurches right. It is that bad.
Possibly a simple question durintg setup of "Do you want tapping/gestures?" and if you answer "No" they are killed, TOTALLY.
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