Posts by Andrew Moore

Re: Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch,

"Apple should have warned the user that their phone was now unsafe, "

It's able to do this with non-compliant lightning cables.

Re: Burnout isn't unknown in IT

There is also the fact that that the IT Hero nearly always has to take the blame for the failures; whilst someone else (nearly always middle management) takes the kudos for the successes.

Re: It's come on

Worst thing is- I think that was a Hepburn lookalike, not CGI...

Re: Wake up call

I remember supermarkets where you had to go to a payment desk first to get your card verified and only then could you use it at the till.

The problem is a lot of people are addicted to cheap- screw social responsibility, ethical trading, food miles etc. As far as they are concerned, cheap isn't cheap enough.

Re: PWC

Which is what I think happened here- someone (pro-Brexit I'm guessing) wanted rainbows and unicorns regarding the UK's future economic position...

Re: Does not compute

"A utility company would not be able to add artificial restrictions to their supply and remove them if the customer pays a special fee."

Phone companies already do: Different rates for phone calls depending on distance. Charges for essentially free services like Caller ID. Different rates for the same service depending on tariff...

Re: Work ethic

I once had management come at me with "Look at so-and-so, he's here at 7am in the morning and most days does not leave the office before 7pm" to which I replied "yes, but some of us are able to do a days work in 8 hours". The look on management's face indicated that was not what they were trying to insinuate.

A couple of days later I emailed a link to them all about loss of productivity by personnel that work excessive hours- I entitled it "Following our discussion about the issue of so-and-so's long office hours".

Re: What's a bribe?

Had something similar- we'd ordered up a large number of 64gb data sticks in order to hand very large data sets to clients that we downloaded off of equipment that they'd hired from us. Only, the first time we went looking for them, turns out management had been giving them away as freebies to their mates and there were none left.

There has to be a way to outsource the entire tier out to India...

Ha, my first thought too- MU-TH-UR.

Re: Great...

The difference is the number of cyclists who have lost their lives in vehicle collisions against the number of motorists that have done so when in collision with a cyclist...

Re: Feeling Old...

I do remember setting jumpers on Serial Cards - Com1 0x3F8, IRQ4; Com2 0x2F8, IRQ3...

Re: Outsourcing .....

"If an outside company can do the project and make a profit, it means government could do the same"

It's a fair point. The reason why the government won't do it? Responsibility. Any public sector I have worked with have a rabid phobia of being personally responsible- they pay other (private sector) entities to be culpable; they are not outsourcing in order to get the job done; they're buying scapegoats. The exact same mentality is behind decision-making too.

Re: what he and everyone else was doing.

Hang on, let me check and I'll get back to you...

Re: 'Microsoft has us all working extra hours'

I'm guessing the thumbs-down are from all those people who expect free technical support from their IT-savvy colleagues/family/friends.

Re: Electrons

indeed- this very thing happened to my great grandfather- he returned from WWI to find these new fangled electric sockets in his house. My grandmother caught him that night, stopping up all the sockets.

Likewise- it came down to the decision, did I want to spend all my time making money for other people, or did I want to spend some of that time with my family. Family won.

Re: A pity

That's what I liked most about the phone- regular OS updates; whereas my previous phones (Samsung and Sony/Ericsson) just went defunct due to old operating system.

Re: How many will now leave anyway.... and miss out on redundancy?

Hanlon's razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." However, given that the bean-counters were probably involved in the decision making, I'd most likely go with "malice".

Re: And that's why...

"No, I don’t work longer. The way I see it is my employer buys from me 40 hours a week, and they may spend those hours however they see fit. "

I think there is a vast difference between being employed as a programmer and being contracted to develop a specific application. In the first instance you are most likely salaried; in the second it's most likely to be a fixed, negotiated price. The problem with the second scenario is when the client decides that they want more than they paid for, and are refusing to renegotiate a price and/or are withholding money owed.

Re: Missed opportunity

That's when they find he's off-shored one of his arse cheeks to India...