Posts by IHateWearingATie

You forgot to mention...

... the continual releasing of over priced map packs.

I like playing COD online with a group of mates, but it is getting a little tired and this version doesn't seem to address that

Bizarre article written in a bubble

I'm usually a fan of Matt's articles, but this one seems to have been written in a weird bubble where facebook and twitter matter to people's work.

In the real world, the only people who need this info are in the press office / media team. The other 95% of the work force have NO need for facebook/twitter/other social media stuff for their work.

Honestly, what weird bubble was this written in?

There are Knowledge Management issues within even medium sized organisations on how employees generate, share and find information, but I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with social media (though I accept that technical solutions and approaches for one may be applicable to the other).

The first rule of the black list...

.... YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE BLACK LIST

Blood amateurs.

I obsessively read Battle..

... and had every comic except the one with the last episode of Charley's war in. Never did find out how that finished...

Sort the troll icon

... it's rubbish. Needs to be far more troll-like (take inspiration from The Hobbit)

Average is meaningless...

... as they have been on a variety of full time, part time and fixed term contracts. And at different levels of seniority.

As for using consultants, you don't expect the ministry of fun to have a ready pool of commercial & technical experts to work on a project like this do you?

Remember Mike Kiley (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/03/whistleblower-sacked-bt-broadband) was one of the consultants... El Reg commentards had nice things to say about him.

Not interested in the climate change topic...

... but very interested in the abuse of the FOI legislation. Does the tribunal and Information Commissioner have some kind of BBC blind spot? There's usually pretty good at holding other areas of the public sector to task over a strict interpretation of the Act.

Very disappointed that the BBC Trust also hasn't weighed in on this - of course the managers at the beeb will be tempted to try not to disclose things that may be awkward for them (had to deal with the odd awkward FOI request when working in central government myself), but that is the point of the IC and Tribunal - to stop them taking the piss.

Yes, yes, yes,

.... but what FPS will I get on Battlefield 3?

Just how bad must iTunes 11 be...

... given they've been perfectly happy with the truly hateful Windows implementation for so many previous versions?

Is it just me...

... or did others have to check I hadn't fallen asleep and woke up at the beginning of April when I read this article.

£50 for a networked lightbulb - really??

Maybe I'm a sad geek...

... but I'm looking forward to fondling the iPad mini in PC World (or something similar) to compare it to my Nexus 7. I've been impressed with the Nexus, so the iPad mini will have to be pretty good to make me want one

(I really like the iPad 3 BTW, but it's too bloody expensive to perform the 'toy' function I'd use it for)

Do you expect me to talk?

No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!

Blackberry fanboi here too...

... as I've always had them for work (alongside my personal phone, currently a 4s).

However, I must say I'm not sure whether I'll bother getting another BB for work if I have the choice (which I should do in Jan). I like the keyboard, but iOS & Android (haven't used WinPhone) are at the point that I'd happily use them as a work phone, despite not having a proper keyboard.

RIP RIM

If MS did this with Windows...

.... there would be outrage.

I'm not a regular Linux user, but I wouldn't expect this kind of crap from the platform. Giving me Amazon search results when I'm searching for files on my local system - really? Really????

Bah humbug to all the killjoys...

... one of the benefits for being a professor has to be making things go bang occasionally, just for the hell of it.

To be fair to Lewis...

... regarding the half vs 48% thing mentioned earlier, I read his main point as being they had assumed it was good for half right now, rather than half in the future with the inevitable growth in energy consumption.

Every time I read articles such as this, I wish I had a lot more time to read through the papers themselves so I could form a better informed view rather than relying on other people's interpretation of the papers. Maybe after a nice lottery win...

They may have lost me as a customer in the future...

... apart from liking iOS, one of the reasons I've stayed with Apple is the ubiquity of connectors in my house (chargers, docks etc) that fit both the iPhones and iPods we have. I'll have to see how the adapter works but it may be a more open competition for my next phone - I've come to like Jellybean on my Nexus 7 tablet as much as iOS...

Well I thought it was funny...

... but then as @hplasm says, I'm the one usually marinading others in this :)

Wikipedia isn't that bad...

...yes there are mistakes, but for comprehensive and almost entirely correct descriptions of basic science its pretty good. It's easy for those in the know to notice and correct mistakes regarding the standard model etc. I've also found it good for some of the basic facts and dates in UK history, and as other commentards have said, the reference section at the bottom of articles tends to be very good.

All this doesn't change the fact that Jimmy Wales comes across as a giant douche though (hah - another south park reference sneaked in there...)

Drool....

If you're a pro, then seensible tax planning makes the cost less problematic.

Unless you've got the wrong accountant.

Mr Pott...

Can I be the first to say that this kind of reasoned article has no place on El Reg. Please read Andrew Orlowski and others to better understand the frothing, sarcasm laden, biased invictive that has made this website what it is today

Thanks you

And this thread is why...

... I love The Register...

Mixture of obscure Si-fi references, degree level comments and random burbling, all mixed together.

All we need now is amanfrommars to comment and the thread will be complete

Bongster...

..I salute your far-sighted imagineering, no doubt conceptised during one of your regular viral concept strategy pod sessions.

Can you send some of the Mobile Brand Protectors to Watford? There's no Olympic brand infractions I can see, but it's full of badly dressed Web 1.0 peasants with narily an iPad between them. Being inside the M25, their mere presence is leeching the electrons out of the social brand media powered Jubilympic celebrations this summer.

Bring on the 1000lbs of soot!

/nontrepreneur / logoff / null

It is a bit rubbish...

... that I pre-ordered via Google Play a 16Gb version on the 1st of July and won't get it until next week, when I can order RIGHT NOW on the Tescos website and pick it up from store tomorrow.

I didn't think it was a stupid assumption that ordering direct would be quicker than waiting for resellers to get stock...

Here come the haters...

... just a shame I didn't get in first to predict it. To be fair, there have been a number of public sector IT screw ups, but there are as many screw ups in the private sector - you just don't hear about them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you think you're so bloody clever, go and make your fortune in delivering public sector IT on time and on budget. Anyone? No, I didn't think so.

Interestingly, there are large government It projects that do go well, you just don't hear about them. Did you read about the IT system to support Employment and Support Allowance (replacement for Incapacity Benefit)? No you didn't, because it was on time and on budget (and incidentally I worked on it from start to finish).

Naughty Barclays...

A couple of posters are mixing the fixing of LIBOR during the financial crunch with the attempted fixing they did pre-crunch to make a profit. The argument (which I don't scubscribe to incidentally) that the LIBOR fixing during the crunch was a good thing doesn't apply to most of their nefarious actions.

Thanks for the article Dominic - I knew what LIBOR was and vaguely how it was calculated, but didn't know the subtle details you set out. The thing you miss in your defence of derivates trading in your comments is that (certainly in theory) the positive effect should be in the overall placing of the costs of movements in price where they are lest economically damaging.

Misselling notwithstanding, one of the really important uses (at a macro economic level) of derivatives is to give companies certainty of a cost, even if that cost ends up being more than it would have been if they had taken the risk on that cost. Unfortunately this has been somewhat lost in the increasing complexity of the financial markets, and the move of financial transactions being divorced from their groundings in the real economy (or more simply, the move from completing a financial transaction because someone needs it, to bascially gambling).

I read that the Kindle App won't work on JellyBean at the mo...

... if so, that's a bit of a blow. However, I'm sure they'll update it at some point.

My order for the 16Gb one has been placed - I love the iPad (and have an iPhone), but the price is too high given I can't replace my laptop with it, and at £199 this would seem to fit the bill nicely