Re: No Siri, I said 'googly'
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Well, for what very little it's worth, I can understand how this may have come about as I experienced an echo of the situation.
While working as a waitress in a West Midlands restaurant we were progressively hacked off by the behaviour of a recently arrived new restaurant manager, lately a bar steward on the Royal Yacht Britannia. After a couple of weeks, conversation revealed that the whole front of house staff and and the kitchen staff were sufficiently disgruntled to have sorted out other jobs or to be ready to walk and find something else rather than work another day. We looked ahead for the night in the next week with the most bookings (this was in the run up to Christmas) and on the last shift before that Saturday we all handed in our notices, with immediate effect indicating that we wouldn't be turning up again any time soon. Some times working in an effectively casualised industry has its advantages. This left him with a full restaurant, no staff and no chance of hiring anyone to cover that night at least. We were all in work fairly soon after and while I'm sure that he had a full staff fairly quickly, the restaurant was closed down during one of the busiest periods of the year.
So while it may not have got the point over to TOWF, I know that collective action like can happen and feels quite satisfying at the time.
Absolutely.
I have a MBP to run commercial software that I don't want to/can't run under Linux, plus I quite like OSX .. errmm .. MacOS. I only use Windows when I'm being paid so to do.
What to do come replacement time if Apple continue on their present course is a question I have yet to address.
That looks like the sort of thing that I want for a work phone. Work have been trying to replace my Nokia 300 with WinPhone for some time but I've resisted as I need something that will hold charge for more than a day and survive an unscheduled trip below a suspended floor. My brave little Nokia will do that, make calls, send and receive texts and take a photo of the back of a server. Add a screwdriver and the ability to use it as a hammer and it would be my ideal work tool.
The article seems to be mocking the subject matter of a magazine because the author of the article finds it funny that someone might find detailed specialised information relating to something outside their experience necessary, relevant or even interesting. This seems to be an unfortunate angle to take on a website aimed at technical people.
I appreciate that El Reg has become increasingly tabloid of late, I wasn't aware that it was reaching for The Sun.
The alternator on my Fiat Uno packed up, cause, I soon found out, by worn out brushes. Knowing this to be a simple job I noted down the part numbers and cycled to the Fiat dealer.
"Ah, yours will either have Bosch parts or Magneti Marelli. One is cheap, one one isn't. The Bosch one you can replace the brushes, the Marelli one is more of an assembly. Yours is Marelli - lets's look".
He loaded up the microfiche and started scanning.
"Ok ... ok ... not that one ... not that one ... here we are ... fucking hell, I wouldn't pay that".
£70 for the brush assembly. He pointed me to the man round the corner who did reconditioned alternators for £40 (exchange).
A good spares manager is priceless.
Some years ago I wound up in a coma following a near-fatal medical emergency. Waking up in ITU from that connected to several machines going "ping" and with a central line hanging out of my neck was disorienting enough, I can't begin to imagine how it feel to to be wrenched back from an even more definite terminal event.
I wasn't joking.
I like Shropshire, it's a beautiful county with some lovely people living there. I spent most of Sunday afternoon climbing on Pontesford Rocks - nice rock, fantastic situation, slightly sparse protection, but you can't have everything. That data centre, however, was something out of the Ark until the day I walked away whistling.
None of your Macs, we were given a BBC Model B to use as a terminal emulator with which to connect to the PRIME. Of course, someone *coff* wrote a screen scraper in 6502 assembler to gather passwords and thereby gain access to the tutor's account and the unpublished exam papers.
Teacher, because he had a similar look on his face when I told him.
That's kinda cutting off your nose to spite your face isn't it?
I'd have called it self-preservation. My support of home users is on a pro-bono basis. Back when Vista was blighting my life I offered to continue support with the proviso that I would never touch a machine running Vista ever again. Many went Apple, some asked about Linux (and are still using it). I met up with the others when they went Win7.
This could spell doom for many delivery companies whose business model seems to be based on throwing cardboard-wrapped packages over the fence into my garden. One particularly company springs to mind. I shudder when the order-confirming email give their name as the "chosen delivery partner". If Amazon can only automate the unwelcome sexual advances from the driver then they will have removed the need for them entirely.
I hope that your daughter enjoys the experience as much as I did.
I couldn't get near the RM380Z at school as it was monopolised by two boys in awful jumpers (Hi Andy! Hi Chris!) who didn't allow girls into their fiefdom. When my Dad bought us a Dragon 32 it was my gateway to a new world, one in which I have lived and made my living since leaving university. If you can learn how to make something work in BASIC in that sort of restricted environment then you will have a good toolset at your disposal for later life.
I was your daughter as much fun with this machine as I had.