Posts by James 51

I knew a place that was over subscribed and the bean counters saw the reduced waged bill and let virtually everyone who wanted to go to go. Their off-shore operations had to take up the slack but their home office was badly affected for several years in terms of project delays and general progress as the people with the knowledge and/or authority to make decisions simply weren't there anymore.

It would be nice if you could download a clean copy of windows and use your license key to install it. Would solve a lot of problems.

How big are the management bonuses this year?

A BIAS? Sometimes these things just right themselves.

It appears you forgot the <sarcasm> <sarcasm/>

'Today everyone’s talking about Apple’s flexibility, rather than its vast market power. It appears that Apple values the music makers – who generate the real demand for the “content services” that technology companies provide – as human beings. Not a unit item to be pared to as close to zero as possible.'

Appears is the right word.

Am I the only one who prefers to have the CD or DRM free files stored locally?

How many bed rooms in No. 10 and Buckingham Palace? Could pitch a few tents in the grounds of the palace of Westminster. Lets see how committed they really are.

To cover up their mistakes they implement a system that generates more mistakes. At least they're automatically covered up now.

Called up and the person on the other end didn't know about the changes and had to look it up. Even then the way it was worded was confusing as 'Your bundle was not affected.' by which they meant in bundle stuff wasn't changing but over bundle charges were. They said 37p as well not the with VAT charge and didn't mention that I could get out of my contract. In fairness this was probably the first they'd heard of this. Will call up again today to confirm getting out of the contract has to be done in writing.

So, Facebook's legal strategy is "Na na na na na, I'm not listening.'. Let's see how that goes.

If I like an ad and slag it off in the comments will I get paid to stop?

Need a movie with Bruce Wills playing the role of Simon who's locked in the White House server room by hackers and he needs to do this stuff to get out.

I wish they sounded less like mob enforcers. 'Nice society you've got there. Shame if something was to happen to it. Of course iif you handed all your data over to this registered charity me and the boys will keep an eye on thje place for you.'

How will this impact MS going after Linux vendors?

Is this sort of thing happening to the Russian government so do they keep it quiet?

ITunes is not cheap nor easy to use.

5G frequencies and technologies need to be harmonised in as many places as possible. Imagine how slick all those feature phones will be with 5G in them!

The virtual keyboard is a better fit for tablets. Can it make a virtual trackpad as well for selecting text or moving the cursor around? As long as you had a good stand, doesn't chew through the battery, is accurate and responsive I can see a market for it but those are big ifs. I doubt if blackberry are that worried, particularly as their keyboards can be used on the move.

If app developers weren't lazy and requested every permission under the sun or it was possible to deny certain permissions while allowing others and still have the app run it would make stuff like this less dangerous.

'social cues'. Does hitting it with a hammer count?

HERE is the best of the built in sat nav for phones and has been for some time. Here's hoping that whoever ends up with it keeps it going instead of just slurping the data. Does MS still ship HERE with new lumias?

That man's business model seems to be to badger people until they pay him to go away. For some reason he reminds me of Kevin Warwick.

No chance it's just an attempt to gloss over a lack of investment?

Will it work for motorcycles and bicycles? Horses too (and the occasional cow or sheep).

Is it standard procedure to send robots in now or was their a reason to assume this person was a threat to the heavily armed and armoured police?

There's one thing you missed out and that's the insanity/stupidity/ignorance/incompetence/malevolence of those who can stay awake.

I don't know how much they paid for this ad but it was worth it. Beautiful cars though.