Posts by Gordon 10 3879 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Our major concerns with Terrorists and Paedo's is the risk of being falsely labelled as one by some ignorant civil servant snooping on our private conversations and jumping to the wrong conclusion.
Might I suggest a read of the badscience.com website and that you educate yourself and your flunkies on the likelyhood of false positives when there are a very small number of actual villains? ie you will ruin far more innocents lives than catch criminals.
We have neglected our corporate base in the fruitless chase for pennies from the great unwashed.
Unfortunately their corporate base is on an unstoppable decline due to android and iOS. RIM are a dead man walking in this space.
Therefore though there may only be pennies in the great unwashed its the only Market RIM has any hope of growing.
Agree. I have a newish curve for work.
OS 7 is vile. Reminds me of Nokia's OS40 after gathering 5 years of cruft and then being bastardised for smartphone functionalities.
The keyboard is the worst hardware keyboard I have EVER used. I can type significantly faster on my iPhones soft keyboard.
Yes I know the curve is the base model - that doesnt excuse its basic functionality fails - especially as an email device.
I have 4-5 year old Windows Mob 5/6 phones that did the job better.
Careful about smile.
They have started using shared called centers with the Co-Op and the training is sadly lacking and the famous smile customer service is descending downwards fast.
Still UK based but not as good as they used to be.
Based on person experience me & the wifey YMMV.
So Force India were vindicated in the original decision but the judge took account of the fact that if they hadnt have acted like idiots in the first place the problem would have never happened. Whats called a pyrric victory for Force India.
I like these kind of rules - shows Judges in a good, sensible light :) and basically says dont be a dick and then try to hide behind the law.
Some orbits are more stable than others.
Imagine a swing - if you inject the same energy time and again the swing goes higher. Similar thing here but the energy is being injected by the Earth, Moon and Sun.
If it helps bear in mind even the moons orbit is very slowly changing.
Im not defending GS. However all your googling shows is that negative news sells. Positive news generally doesnt.
Using Occams Razor and the fact that GS is a reasonably sucessful global investment bank whats the most likely scenario?
1. Most clients are satisfied.
2. Most clients are unsatisfied.
Post Crash hype to the contrary Investment Banks are like any other business if they dont have products people want to buy they go under. If they miscalculate the size and capabilities of their finances they also go under. In some cases Govts will prevent the 2nd. In no case that I know of does the 1st hold true for a significant period of time. (Loss Leaders and diliberate proping up by Soveriegn wealth excepted)
I call both close friends and utter strangers muppets - without context the statement itself is meaningless.
I think Im going to attempt defend LFB and Crapita.
Outsourcing *can* work. Here's my hypothetical scenario how it can happen.
1. Service and employees outsourced. Employee's under TUPE so little saving made there.
2. Service reviewed for unnecessary bureaucracy that was not written into outsourcing contract. Being public sector there is probably some. (Hey there is in private sector too)
3. Rebuild service without bureaucracy - save money.
Half a million quid a year in waste in current LFB procedures I can see that. ITs just over 10%.
Chances of this being actually what happens 0% (I did say attempt)
2 very logical objections to smart meters.
1. Whats the long term benefit to me, once I've found the high consuming devices (its not like I dont know what they are. And no - the reduction of my emissions to AGW to not count. How much carbon does the production of a smart meter cost? How many years until the pay off point?
2. How long until they get p0wned?
No need for tinfoil hats at all - the sensible objections are enough.
Define random price point at which ipad is not sold but Fire is.
Give it a semi-catchy name. "Cheap Tablets"
Make random comments that pertain to same.
Results - either stating the bleeding obvious and/or utter analyst bullshit.
Release statement on slow news day.
Justify analysts existence for 10 more seconds.
Seriously - how much do these jerks get paid for coming out with this?
WTF. Think about this. If an employer is wankish enough not to give you something they offered in the interview without a reasonable explanation then why work for them? If its not explicitly written into your contract or offer letter you shouldn't expect it - that's your point of maximum negotiating strength.
And as for recording the interview. If an interviewee asked me to record our conversation they would be out of there so fast their head one spin. I would't employ anyone whose unwilling to start on a basis of a shared professional trust.
I didn't say I panicked. It was certainly an unnecessary and potential distraction as I worked out what it was.
Given that they are on bus shelters mostly with lay-byes in them it's a reasonable assumption that a plod may be in the vicinity and either want you or want you out the way.
A light is which is totally unnecessary to sell a product ffs.
Sod the bankers - the first people hung in my own private utopian dictatorship will be the ad execs. (hello Eric Schmidt)
Oh and Mondeo drivers.
Is some w*nker ad agency has started sticking little boxes next to the billboard at bus stops containing a QR Code, NFC tags and a ring of flashing blue LED's.
Catch them out the corner of your eye when driving and you think the plod have you in their sights. How on earth were they allowed to be deployed?
All these years and were are still building these things a millions of euros of expense ultimately to burn them up. The public sector really has fucked up the space industry I'm sure it's all in aid of snouts in troughs.
Here's a though why dont we just bung half the cash to SpaceX and half to the Russians? Both are far better at doing more with less.
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