Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

So we're waiting for some foreigners to turn up, build railways, install a functional government administration, create a global tea planting industry and teach us to play cricket ?

Yes they need to be taught programming so that they understand that computers just follow precise instructions, and errors, given by programmers - so when a government proposes some computer system to do XYZ they know to laugh.

And they should be taught where electricity comes from so when idiots say we can replace all powerstations running on XYZ with magic unicorns they also know to laugh.

But you can leave out all that stuff about ox-bow lakes, nobody needs to know that.

Re: Visa-free travel

In case the Tsar tries to send his cosacks through the Kyber pass and threaten her majesty's imperial domain.

Now that the Russ have got over that brief silliness with workers being equal we obviously go back to the great game

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

As well as funding the NHS, that £350 million//week was going to replace the Eu farming subsidies and the Eu grants to poor regions and be invested in infrastructure and pay for tax cuts.

It was going to really work hard that £350 million

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

"contempts of parliament" makes them sound much cooler than "shites of parliament"

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

Well New Labour are just Tories in disguise so therefore Tories are just New Labour in disguise - so it's all Michael Foot Corbyn's fault when the Tories I voted for do anything I don't like

Re: Visa-free travel

>The big mistake the West made was to demand servitude during the Cold War

Basically said, hello little brown guys, having thrown off your tea drinking foreign masters, welcome your new coffee drinking foreign masters.

When they said no, we magnanimously decided to arm Pakistan and support any of Pakistan 'unofficial freedom fighting' until it became obvious that Pakistan is a basket case and India is our only alternative to China for cheap labour on a massive scale to build iPhones and a large middle class market to buy iPhones

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden haired Celts

So I cut their heads off

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

The extension of slavery to anyone who hasn't got a knighthood. Sensible policies for a happier Britain

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Well Orkney is throwing off centuries of foreign rule from Edinburgh and wants to take their oil and join Norway so I don't see any problem with Northern-exit to dump the Saxons and rejoin the Scandinavian empire

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Bloody Saxons coming over here killing our lake monsters and talking funny

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

Well I was hoping for a return to Norman rule, if only for the ham, cheese and cider. But I'll settle for a bloody civil war where we get to slaughter Lancasterians

Re: Nothing economically beneficial will happen until the Tories get kicked out.

A return to serfdom obviously.

Of course that would mean all the land, money and political power being in the hands of a few rich people.

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

But you got nearly blue passports so it wasn't all lies

Re: "Negotiating a trade deal will be easy"

So the last 12 years is really Corbyn's fault

Re: Skilled Workers?

It's OK they've worked out a deal with a newly 3rd world country to sub-contract the work to.

But you need somebody here to take the orders from the customers and give them to the remote engineers- someone with people skills, and a red stapler

Re: I want COMPETENT, not cheap workers

Well obviously the competent workers will still be chaps one knows from school, the rest are just cleaners and IT and since they aren't important we just need the cheapest ones possible

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

Not sarcasm. British Indian communities voted for Brexit because they were told by conmen conservatives that the Eu made it hard for Indians to come to Britain while letting in all those Poles but once we controlled our own immigration that would change.

Re: Or how that

Should have said "UK government" wasn't involved

Re: Oops

Defense industry procurement.

We want 100 rockets please.

OK that will be €,€€€,€€€

That's rather expensive we better cut it to 75

OK that will cost €€,€€€,€€€

We've run out, can we buy another 25 rockets please

OK that will cost €€€,€€€,€€€

Re: Or how that

It's built by a consortium of European, but not Eu, defence companies to reuse French ICBM motors. It's a miracle that the thing ever flew - probably helped by the UK not being involved

Re: Oops

If only they had known how late it was going to be a decade ago they could have made more Ariane 5

That's the idea, if Mr Winston Cudoogo, of 55 Mercer Road, is pounced on by Office Savage of the TSA everytime he flies he will eventually make an unfortunate remark at which point he becomes a genuine criminal/terrorist

Re: Well duh

>fork out 2 grand... so they can sit in some boring virtual conference room and look at disembodied torsos of their work colleagues

Nobody. But architects might buy a few sets so they can walk clients around a building rather than building cardboard models and showing them blueprints.

A remote team of engineers might want to all look at bits of a 3d model rather than asking the presenter to zoom in and left a bit, no other left, no back up... all with a delay while it redraws over teams ... and with a dozen people all interrupting.

I've yet to try a system that works well enough for using your hands in the real world. And these aren't going to be medical approved or tough enough for industrial use.

I'm guessing most of their sales are going to be to people who travel a lot (and turn left at the plane door) and want a private movie screen experience

Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

Hence Apple's release is interesting.

It's expensive enough that they don't want everyone to run out and buy it - leading to disappointment.

But it's a finished product enough that if someone does find a compelling use they can deploy it and Apple can decide if it's a worthwhile market.

It's not the next iPad (yet) but it's also not a geeks-only tech like the Oculus

Re: Is there a Gartner-Cycle for Gartner-Cycles?

>In other news, water is wet.

The problem is that Gartner normally put out reports hyping some new technology that immediately crashes.

When they put out a report saying the technology they hypes is shite - it's confusing

Whose paying them to say Apple's new toy is crap?

Yes but it is very difficult to shoot down a high altitude balloon and be sure it will land on a high school

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

>internationally, with different languages and therefore different end user needs

For end user machines yes, but for servers / network kit it might make sense to stick to the only language the maker actually tested.

Re: Short term visas

Immigrants doing the jobs Canadians don't want to do - like having sex

In either real or freedom units that sounds unpleasant

Don't upset them, they can cut off our Maple syrup supply

Nonsense, you just have to speak loudly and slowly and they understand English.

Unless you're French in which case the Quebecers won't understand you but you will also refuse to speak to them