St Steve must be spinning in his grave
He's been out shone by Cook who has managed to create a multitude of cock-ups recently.
St Steve would have preferred his antenna of doom to be the "highlight" bug and to never be outdone...
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If a [commercial] program is starting at say on the hour, I'll generally watch the news/sky sports news until their first commercial break then play the program by the time of the next on the hour I've watched it and skipped through all the ad's
If it's a film or 2 hour program then I'll wait 30 minutes
I used Kaspersky for many years but I found that on older machines (I look after the family computers) it was causing them to slow down with the newer versions. I replaced Kaspersky with Avast and noticed a big difference in performance of the machines.
no doubt I'll be doing the same again in a few years
You've missed the point and you should only use the emulator to write code.
To give "users" the best experience ALL programs should be written on the slowest platform ( CPU, memory, network bandwidth etc). That way the programs will be written to be super efficient and when they are released to the public they fly.
The number of times I've been involved in faults where the newly rolled out SQL database runs like pants in remote locations with 1mb bandwidth (think multiple branch office to servers in a DC) and for the SQL guys to say "well it worked great in testing", testing being a client PC and server usually sitting on the same LAN switch...Then you (as a network engineer) spot the SELECT * FROM <whatever> in the code for every search and just sigh
When an outsourcing deal occurs the chances are that some mgmt in the firm outsourcing their staff will get a bonus of some kind (usually large) as it looks like they've saved money with the deal over what it currently costs them.
The salesman at the outsourcing company (and perhaps mgmt as well) will get a big sign-on bonus for getting the outsourcing deal.
The fact that in the majority of cases the company that outsourced loses money (has to spend more to get the same service) will not stop outsourcing as there will always be somebody willing to sell their soul for that big pot of bonus money.
I guess that as long as the outsourced provider makes more profit than it loses in penalties/fines means they will also continue to do it.
I'd like to see an example of a large outsourcing deal where it was considered a success by all parties (and observers) during the entire length of the deal.
that apple would get enough money from the exorbitant prices they charge for extra storage from one model to the next.
retailers
16gb sdhc card $12
128gb sdhc card $120 dollars
So you pay $10810 for another 112gb of storage
Apple reality
16gb iPad $499
128gb iPad $799 (likely price)
So you pay $300 for another 112gb of storage
FFS at least Dick Turpin had the good grace to wear a mask when he used to steal from people
Many years ago (2002 I think) when The Accident Group in Manchester went belly up, they owed their staff back pay as well. There were reports (and pictures) of some staff removing fully populated Cisco 6500 switches from the DC, loading them into their cars/vans and driving off (wasn't just cisco switches but as I'm in networking that caught my eye). I don't recall the administrator going after them but I may be wrong.
I'd be gobsmacked if anybody higher up the food chain than Rebecca Brooks is arrested never mind jailed. That £10m (or was it more) pay-off to Brooks was to ensure that it goes no further up and that she'll take the fall for it. If she is jailed than my guess is that within 12 months of her release she will have a job at a Murdoch paper in either the US or AUS
I'm sorry, the graph goes back to the 1750's - are we saying they've got data from 36,866 stations since this timeframe?
This is highly unlikely - what would they be using before, say, 1950 as their sources and are these shown in the article?
But none are discriminated against as they all pay the same %age. The fact that Company A sells their device for £100 and Company D sells their device for £10000 is not the Patent owners issue. They have been fair by offering the same %age to everybody.
Look at it the reverse way. Let's assume that Company D were first to license the patent and it was agreed that they would pay a fixed price of £100 per device for the license. Now Company A comes along with their device is told "no problem, we have to be fair and it's £100 per device" - Company A now doesn't have a device they can sell and goes bust.
How is that fair??
Icon: For you getting %age's and fixed amounts mixed up
I watched both and I was struck by how DS9 changed its story tack by massively expanding on the Dominion as the series story arc interwoven with "normal" episodes, much the same as Babylon 5 had done from the start with the Shadows / Vorlon story arc.
Agree that DS9 was much less shiny than TNG but that made it good viewing (to me). I really enjoyed DS9.
Whereas the story arc in Enterprise just didn't work at all - they went too far the other way and didn't have enough "non-arc" episodes, especially in Season 2 - man that dragged on and on.
very similar to what I do plus my ISP allows me to add filters so that I can reject email from those idiots who sell my email address on to somebody else so that I never see them arrive.
I ALWAYS click the "no email" contact on all websites and it's interesting to see which ones flagrantly disregard this.
A few years ago I woke up one morning to an avalanche of spam to the email address I'd used on compare the market.com and not for their services either. They've been added to my filter list ever since and have never had my business again.
(gocompare don't get my business either, but that's because of that f**king annoying opera singer - the first time I heard the advert I said I wouldn't use them until they dropped it)