Posts by Charlie Clark

No brain…no effect with apologies to Bullwinkle T Moose.

Re: Meanwhile

Daylight you mean?

Re: Perfect Timing

Not if the deputy is Raaaaaaaaaaaaaab! It's like wanting to get rid of Trump only to realise that James Brain Mike Pence is waiting in the wings.

Re: Stealing a (long) March

Sure, which is why they continue to hold a certain appeal. Of course, over time dictatorships tend to become inefficient because power gets handed to yes men. China has been able to mask some of the most spectacularly poor investments by focussing on growth at all costs and allowing its massive domestic market to support exports. And, in contrast to Soviet Russia, Deng's reforms meant that companies can sell pretty much anything for which there is a market, apart from free speech that is, of course.

Re: killer app

Yes, the antibody test will kill two birds (could be crows but any will do) with one stone:

• provide much more reliable data about the actual infection rate and hence the morbidity and mortality rates
• provide an excellent source for treatment

Re: Stealing a (long) March

And the Nazis invented motorways…

Didn't stop them being complete shits, just like Mussolini.

Re: Stealing a (long) March

You should re-read my post: I'm not complimenting China just observing how things may look in many places and how it is poised to benefit from the situation.

1) Allow the ridiculous practice of wet markets to continue, despite it being responsible for several outbreaks of novel diseases in the past.

This has already largely been debunked as the cause of the outbreak. We all need to rethink our intensive farming practices because we have virtually no way of dealing with an MRSA outbreak which has a far higher mortality rate than any of the current crop of viruses.

The reports from China were decidedly mixed and they were able to include nearly omnipresent facial recognition in the mix. Telephone location data is too inaccurate for this approach to be generally effective and that's before we get into the moral debate of the surveillance state.

Re: What about the CDN?

VoIP should already have QoS. As for video conferencing: it should have a lower priority than streaming at it's almost always a waste of time, bandwidth and CPU!

Dad's Army could make a comeback.

This sounds like such a little thing, but it shows how Teams is developing.

It's still largely an unholy mix of OneNote, Sharepoint and Lync. Being able to permanently disable video would be nice, especially in these bandwidth challenged times.

Mattermost + Jitsi gives you more, for less.

Re: Probably some HR or marketing bod

That, and there are also hoops to jump through with photos of real people that you don't have with models. For example, once someone leaves a company they can insist on being removed from any materials, they can also be really fussy on a photoshoot, which you also have to coordinate with them. Also, many people see such publications as aspirational and don't want them full of the dorks from the office next door. Exceptions prove the rule, but, when you're not actually providing interviews, it's best to avoid employee pictures.

But the biggest problem with these days is that they reek of symbolism instead of policy or action.

It doesn't really matter as so many people are desperate to believe the whackiest shit available!

I'm just waiting for the moment that usually comes in any large epidemic when something, person or group becomes the scapegoat and the lynch mobs form. People are often depressingly predictable.

Cattle prod out of charge?

Re: Teams is working for us...

I've always found Teams to be flakey though a lot of people seem to like it.

But when it comes to keeping network chat toys up I've found no one beats Google.

Re: How many chose to buy it?

At the time I liked Windows 3.11 for Workgroups…

MS has got some things right, broken some things deliberately (Program Manager, system type faces) and one of the worst records on SDKs (MFC, DLL hell, OLE) ever.

Re: Waxy build-up

Over-the-ear clips are great, unless you wear glasses!

Re: Why didn't he folow advice?

Viral infections and the most recent research suggests this is true for corvid-19 (first 5 days) are most infectious before symptons are displayed, this is why they spread so quickly.

I get a flu jab every year and do try and avoid contact if I think I'm infectious. Without vaccination the seasonal flu would have a much higher mortality rate than corvid-19 but flu is boring so we don't see it on the news.

Re: Why didn't he folow advice?

Because he was infectious before he developed symptons as is the case for most viral infections.

COVID-19 has been in Europe (& the UK) since January at least: it's everywhere and containment is essentially no longer possible, but it does make it easier for headline writers!