Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse 2451 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2007
But this is effectively what the online version of my local newspaper has become. Pretty much minimal actual "reporting" by people who can't spell or do grammar correctly, but then with each page then spaffed full of Google sourced adverts, and even those then locked behind a paywall.
And they then wonder why they are struggling for views eh?
"by taking into account variables, such as wind speed, solar elevation, and how much power the equipment has left. The decision is then fed to a controller system to move the balloon in place."
Sorry explain to me again where the AI is in this?
Also, just asking for a friend... but how high do these things float about? My friend *cough* is interested to see what their resistance would be to a round from a high velocity sniper rifle or lightning bolt.
"But if companies do want to use this route rather than building their own Full Fibre networks."
Couldn't sound more smug if he tried right? This of course being their own full fibre "network" that has its core foundations and origins in the taxpayer funded telecom networks that were built in the 60's and 70's, and over which until only recently they and BT have had an absolute monopoly, including 100's of millions of additional taxpayer £'s to deliver effectively nothing of particular value; so let's not bring up the rural broadband fiasco that they and BT totally failed to deliver on right?
Hopefully this is the sort of smarmy reactive comment that will come back to haunt them within the next 10 years or so when they become irrelevant.
"But, to the credit of Jony Ive, it was remarkably customisable."
I'm not sure Ive had anything to do with the design or implementation of PCI or any of the actual technical components, underling interconnects or software based hardware drivers that connect them all up to give you a working "computer".
Ahhh yes, it was a nice colour though, I'll give him that.
Yup. I grew up on the outskirts of Wells and just within sight of the ever watchful gaze of the Tor before moving away. Earlier this year I took a motorbike trip back up through Somerset and was surprised that Glastonbury has become essentially the standard hellhole of close-knit housing estates and corporates with a few "enchanted isle" type idiots hanging around presumably pretending to remember how good it was "back in the day" whilst appearing to be doing nothing of great worth.
I guess the town centre does still retain some level of aesthetic charm, but it's essentially still just trying to peddle mystically themed tat to gullible types.
"a further shift of focus from indirect and above market roles"
Quite right. Ged rid of that top-heavy management / process management stratum. They'll all start squealing like little piggies though because they know they are unemployable outside of IBMs bloated internal processes.
And then, get some decent frontline techies in... or better support the ones you have.
Interesting that they have tried to deny that it is all about surveillance on several occasions and now seem to be tiring of it, so they roll out the final line of defence...
"tool was compliant with privacy laws and regulations"
That's all you need to know.
I bought a new OLED TV from them earlier in the year and I thought something was amiss. The guy who I spoke to in store seemed very knowledgeable, didn't try to sell me a £50 HDMI lead or upsell any extended warranty, and then helped me move the quite large box into the boot of my car. They are far from perfect yes, but sometimes they do get it right; and I do still quite like the option of being able to physically see and touch expensive purchases rather than rely on pictures.
In terms of their website, I'm sure I've heard of "elastic" capacity solutions in what some people refer to as the "cloud", maybe someone in there "know-how" team might care to have a look.
I'm in one of those 5 council areas mentioned in the story and as an upside I see this as a good thing considering that every year my council tax goes up and the scope of those services, or the actual service it does provides goes down, including some that you now have to actually pay for separately; so any additional cash in the bank should perhaps help with balancing the books (yes, I know... I can dream right?)
The downside is that my local council are well known for being very well self obsessed, opaque, open to persuasion by the highest bidder (especially in terms of land planning) and will do everything and anything to not have to either show their faces to, or actually be accountable or respond to the public they serve - unless they are forced to.
I guess payments and collections, helpdesk and all that sort of Backoffice stuff will now go to the even more cheapest bidder, and will reduce service further than they currently are under Crapita. Oh what a thing to look forward to...
Yeah yeah, maybe. But even before the pandemic obesity and lack of regular exercise was being portended and scare-mongered as the next great human pandemic. I'm just not sure how an app is going to motivate those who choose to live a low exertion lifestyle to change their ways, if indeed there is really any requirement for them to do so.
Then again, and to paraphrase a wise old sage "better to do than do not" and as an active triathlete I might even give this a look myself when it is released.
You do the orange haired fucktard to much service by comparing him to Napoleon. Despite greatly underestimating the British, and failing to take heed of the weather - old Bonepart is well regarded as one of histories great Generals alongside Alexander and Mr Caesar.
Trump and his boneheaded "family" will be long forgotten before any of those are.
I'm not overly for, but slightly more against all of these corporate monsters; but surely one of the foundations of having the right to a defence is being able to see the information and charges against you in the first place? I would have thought that Google being able to see the detailed information provided in the suit is one of the safeguards to prevent the plaintiffs from flinging random accusations and legal whatnots without due care and attention in the first place?
As per the title though, I am not a lawyer (thankfully).
Dear advertising industry, it's this sort of bollocks below that makes us all feel as though you are a lower form of life than pond scum...
"As an advertising industry, we’ve done a very poor job of communicating to the end user as to why we’re tracking them, and why this is beneficial... Few consumers understand how any of this works, and with lack of understanding it’s simple to just say no and block it. Importantly though, they should have the option to be able to opt-out."
1. Please explain who it is beneficial to. It is certainly not beneficial to me and I will continue to block all ads using all tools available.
2. The reason few consumers understand it is because it has been designed to be as opaque as possible.
3. I'd like to point out that I should have the option to opt-in. Not that I would.
Thanks.
Rather than tax the ordinary folk (myself included) who are having to deal with this shit due to no fault of their own, how about significant restitution being gained from either China, the WHO, or the World bank who have had 20 odd years of warnings of ever more virluent viruses that have had all of their origins in central China... but have done absolutely fuck all to prevent it.
Whilst I may sound a bit of a doom-monger, my major concern is that COVID is the thin end of a wedge that could potentially expand to a filovirus or an outbreak of some other as yet unevolved, but more lethal strain of respitory virus due to food poverty, economic migration and / or other methods of transmission.
I'm not expounding that we close our borders to those that need it, but if another more serious virus gets a hold then "the economy" will be the least of our concerns, but it seems that trying to get these ultra short-sighted bankers and "politicians" to get that message into their stupid childlike minds is another battle altogether.
I guess one option would be to educate people to stop eating bats. But I'm not sure how that gets enforced; or how you get these small-minded regimes to admit that they are a major part of the problem.
"There is little or no desire to pay us for the time to do the training, even though much of it is available to contractors"
Without wanting to light a match under your post, surely as a contractor you should be paying for your own training to support your clients requirements? An end client providing your work training, other than those that relate to specific corporate operating policies and procedures (site specific Health and Safety for example) is a huge IR35 assessment red flag.
Obviously your contract may already have been deemed inside IR35, if that is the case then please ignore the above.
And then in a shockingly honest update to the previous press release...
"Following a recent domain platform update that we totally couldn't be bothered to test properly before making live (because we're cheapskates), some customers were prevented from viewing or editing their DNS blah blah blah"
I'll still be getting a PS5, the one with the cd slot. Whilst Sony are trying to push gamers down the same route, I'm still not overly happy about having all of my content and data held at the behest of an online service - and I still quite like the idea of being able to trade games in at my local branch of Game or CEX.
That MS have no original next gen content available at release is really unforgiveable though
"The contract was expected to start in October 2020 and is set to end 30 September 2021. "
I'm assuming that this is a timeline built by bean-counters in terms of wanting to realise counted beans (i.e. benefits), rather than by any informed technical people and planning.
And in my experience of them previously, and as the incumbent SI at my current client, HCL will agree to any scope vs timeline just to get the business.
The digital equivalent of the filing cabinet in the basement with the sign saying "beware of the Leopard" are the Facebook terms and conditions of use. I'm pretty sure that buried down on page 540 odd, in a white 4 point font is the term "all you data belong to Zuck".
Personally, I closed and deleted everything to do with FB about 5 years ago, but do wish the plaintiffs all the best with this. Unfortunately I do think they are going to need all the help they can get.
Not going to get into the minutiae of what sort of final mile cabling they use as quite honestly I don't care, but I am on VMs £35pm 100MBPs service and considering I do rely on it for regular work, my day trading workstation and internet radio / streaming it has always been reliable and speedy. If I turn my VPN off and just run a native speed test it regularly says between 90 - 110MBPs which is fair enough. If I turn my VPN on I still generally get the same throughput, but then again I have the WAN connection feeding into a high end AX SOHO router.
I don't really ever have much call to engage with their customer services, but whenever I have it has always been a nightmare. But I assume this to be the case for any sort of service / utility provider these days so I guess it's pretty difficult to read anything into that.
I agree.
My view on this is that the reason that HP are pursuing this so aggressively is that they know that they well and truly f***ed up the due diligence and can't afford to be seen not trying to cover their collective arses while the rest of the IT world laughs at them. This is why they are trying to buy the best justice they can.
The worst case for HP is that Lynch is found not guilty because (I assume) it would then leave them open to all sorts of civil lawsuits from hedge funds and investors etc.
That said, the fly in the ointment is that this case is not really about the failings of the auditors or the flawed (in hindsight) decision to purchase or not; it's about, did Autonomy fraudulently (i.e. criminally) inflate their figures to attract the whale in the first place???
Of course, I'd like to see Lynch come out of this as not guilty, but I have a bad feeling...
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