Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

Sorry folks...

Sorry to break it to you but we're all alone. No one's going to come and save us. We'll have to do it ourselves.

Even with FTL technology the distances and physics are just too big of a problem.

If this...

"The National Audit Office has repeatedly said it could not identify any of GDS's claimed savings with any certainty."

If this is correct, then it begs the question as to how ANY of the financial business cases for any of these projects or initiatives were signed off in the first place considering they all use public cash.

That said, some of the things they have "digital-ised" have made things much easier, and seem to work really well for me : online car tax, online self assessment, drivers license renewals, VAT and my passport renewal where I was able to take and upload my own photo was very efficient. These are just a few.

Ugh...

I only just about tolerate having to use Whatsapp to communicate with a small group of friends that use it. Even then I only use the bare minimum of words to communicate.

The chances of me having anything to do with some Farcebook currency exchange is non existent. Hopefully this will fail similarly to the Farcebook / Zynga credit based gift-tokens that were all over the supermarkets a few years ago.

Sorry, no...

"IBM, meanwhile, said the settlement had nothing to do with its culpability in the matter, but rather was a business decision to avoid a messy legal battle."

Sorry IBM. I don't believe you. A $15m payout in the court of public opinion means you are guilty as charged.

Ugh...

"which the government says will cost some £1.3bn by 2023-24."

But (a) they said this back in 2002/2003 when this was first introduced, (b) they still haven't recovered anywhere near that over the last 15-20 years, and (c) they have pretty much lost every case that has been brought to court/tribunal.

Love MS flight sim...

I love Flight sims, but I'm still not building a fully functioning cockpit in my shed. Unlike a lot of other fans of the genre...

If ever you wondered...

If every you wondered as to how we could be regarded as the 5th largest economy in the world, yet with a rubbish government that pleads poverty at every turn... then this kind of answers the question as to how much of that cash gets flushed down the toilet. The problem being in my eyes that those who want the power of controlling how the money is spent have not actually had to go out and earn it; and therefore take no real responsibility for its governance.

Criminal. Ironic then really.

And just to think...

That the whole arms race kicked off with a tiny piece of Elder Scrolls horse armour.

Can someone explain...

Can someone explain who or what these idiots are supposed to be "influencing"? As rather than being influencers, as far I can tell they've just become whores to companies and products.

Ummm...

As they still retain some part of the HP DNA, they could simply re-imagine, re-brand or rehash some of the old HP marketing materials to be "at DXC, we're not satisfied until you're not satisfied."

So...

Not wanting to undermine the seemingly victorious upswing, but as I'm not in the sales game I feel able to ask a genuine question... does "shipping" actually equate to "selling" in terms of Apple producing these? I mean this in same terms as Audi or VW saying that they have "shipped" a record number of cars, but then the reality being that a large quantity of these just sit on a dockside somewhere as there is no actual sales demand.

Lordy, I do declare...

It's ok Pornhub. A bit like a supermarket in that it has a butt of everything under one roof.

I give them two years...

I give them two years and then they'll be a deader duck than the dead'ish duck they already are. Their cloud strategy won't save them.

I hope all of the hardworking folks on the front line that have been caught up in this management and executive disaster all are able to see themselves right.

Crikey. Where has common sense gone...

I think owning a Tesla is just some really shit and transparent attempt at being able to have bragging rights; I'm not sure why either...

I have an older car (2013) with several "driver assist" options such as cruise control, lane guidance and front and rear vehicle monitoring. None of which I trust, although 3 out of the 4 are passive and can manually be turned off. I even now have cruise control on my motorcycle which again, I don't trust and am not overly happy using - although it does mean I can rest my wrist on a long journey. My point being that all of these functions still require my full and undivided attention whilst driving or riding.

So without beating about the bush... my personal opinion is that anyone who buys a Tesla is a sad twat, and anyone who buys one thinking that it is fully autonomous is an even bigger one.

It's not all bad...

It's not all bad news. I have an industry colleague making a killing at DXC supporting their SAP implementation practice on several UK accounts.

Another attempt at predicting a future...

Another article predicting a future that won't materialise.

Nahhh...

Don't get your hopes up. I'm sure due to the cozy relationship that the Irish government has with these tax dodging American companies that the parallel Irish DPA won't find anything wrong at all and it'll all be fine. And even if they do... it won't be until 2030 that any actual action will be taken.

I see a movie script in this...

Ripley : So what is laying the eggs...?

Bishop : I don't know... it must be something we've not seen yet.

The only surprise is...

The only surprise with this story is if anyone is actually surprised by it. Why anyone would believe that ANY American owned corporation would act with respect, integrity, or with any honour is baffling considering the shennanigans that they have been pulling over the last 10 or so years.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, and I think this as backed up by facts - that there is no scum covered barrel bottom low enough, underhand enough or sleazy enough that it wouldn't be scraped by an American businessman if they thought they could make a quick couple of bucks.

Childish but satisfying...

As a pathetic but highly satisfying gesture of colleague-ship, I once rearranged the top row of the keyboard belonging to someone in our office to read "YOUAREBIGTW@"

I meant it as well.

The US gubbermn't can't win this.

From what I've read about her, it seems to me that Manning is highly principled and absolutely unafraid of anything the US can throw at her. One can only hope that ultimately she will become a beacon of, and a rallying-point for native activism that will show those retards in the White House what people power really means. Still, it's highly amusing to watch because the only thing the petulant and childlike US government will do is to make a martyr of her. But as usual, they are too stoopid and arrogant to realise or be able to backtrack.

If I could afford it, I'd pick up her legal costs. All of them.

What Tesla need to say is...

What Tesla need to say is that these idiots are actually part of it's beta test programme. It's similar to Oracle or SAP throwing out half baked and half tested software as "production ready".

If the great and shiny future is fully automated and auto-piloted cars, then what's the real issue if a few dumb meatsacks sacrifice themselves on that altar for a few more grains of knowledge to make it happen.

Dumb is as dumb does.

If...

If I paid the license fee I might choose to be outraged at this waste of public money.

The only lunar mystery worth investigating...

The only lunar mystery worth investigating is to find out where the Soup Dragon lives.

The "flowered up" defence...

Can't all of these scared little asshats just put all down their guns, missiles, planes, robots, spades, pitchforks and bad language; and be nice?

I know it's not a good revenue generator for the MI complex, but still...

So what that means...

So what that means from an Existential philosophical perspective is that no-one gets out of here alive? No one. At any point. Anywhere. Which then makes the meaning of life (not that I actually believe there is one) to be to stop worrying and just enjoy the time while we are here, because as Proximo said to Maximus... "ultimately we're all dead men".

Which in turn means that the philosophy of Bill S Preston Esq. and Theodore "Ted" Logan were right all along. Whoah!!!!

* Sigh... *

It's just another in a long line of badly thought through reactive policy that I'll very easily sidestep.