Posts by Triggerfish

Couldn't someone who doesn't work there file it on their behalf? Y'know just for shits and giggles.

Re: Great

i remember that one, is was about the time I was bemoaning my galaxy S2 battery just didn't hold up for eBooks when travelling a distance. I thought it was a pretty good idea.

Re: I will buy one when it can also

I fondled the previous one, and TBH I thought it is a device that has potential. Right now yeah I wouldn't buy one even if I had that money to throw around. But I can see something like this (with a stylus) or the MS surface duo being a useful little tool for emails and light office stuff when out and about, or entertainment also if about when not wanting to carry a laptop or tablet.. i didn't think it was that big pocket wise although I didn't try and put it in my pocket, but it didn't seem a lot bigger than a s20+

i just right now think the price is too high and the tech too new.

Erm major emergency yes I'm cool with that, project run also (we cover odd hrs so part of job).

Day to day normal operation are you kidding me? My CEO and company owner both would be asking WTF am I thinking pulling in staff for that.

Re: Fat chance of that happening without an invasion

No Trump fan, but can we leave out everything having to mention him at the slightest chance? It's becoming the new Godwins law..

Re: Like comparing an apple with a watermelon

Maybe he is an apple lawyer and get's confused at similar shaped fruit.

Re: Next step: anti-drones drones

Neal Stehpensons Diamond Age then?

Re: Massively baffling

I know the feeling.

It feels like an ecosystem without a cohesive overview.

Teams would be great for PMO stuff, but of course you have to have a group, want to create a planner, well lets create a group. I mean planner would be fantastic if you could just create it without it causing email chaos.

What do you recommend for tracking tasks? well lets see we have planner,to do, sharepoint lists, new microsoft lists, its all bit of a mess. Fuck it go back to excel.

All yeah super cool, but I'd rather see some effort made into choosing a few and refining them to be absolute killer appications.

Re: Wait what?

Yeah but they never do hold up to critical thinking. I mean imagine I am a member of big pharma, and there's is this one rogue nutritionist who has found the truth and wont be silenced in a global conspiracy about vaccines that has co-opted 99.5 % of the scientist and medical people on the planet as well as all the governments, and while many are silenced he is still here fighting the fight.

There is this guy, saying Vitamin B and Manatee poop is the way to stop whatever disease and you don't need to buy my drugs, and revealing all these things about me controlling the world, and also posting his name and address on facebook so people can order and fight off the effects of big pharma.

Wouldn't I just be calling my PA and saying 'Hey get the president on the line, I want to borrow seal team six'?

Re: Meetings, Bloody Meetings

Many years ago in a council office i saw a sign it said something like. 'Want to waste time and eat some biscuits? Call a meeting'

Re: The smartphone is not the problem...

I kept hold of my Canon S60 for ages, it may have only taken 5MP pictures but it took really good 5MP pictures and had enough controls to keep me amused. I'm not a photographer and it was pretty expensive for its class, there was no real reason for me to need a new one until it broke. I now have a Sony Rx100 V3 and there is no reason for me to upgrade it, I'm sure the new model is better in many ways, but for someone like me it's not enough to justify another $1000 for casual use.

Re: What is scariest..

It's like working on a cow farm, eventually you stop smelling the bullshit even though it's still all around you.

Re: I'll take the "small" one

Actually it wouldn't surprise me if a fair few do. I mean anyone who can afford a laptop and use it a lot will be able to justify the cost, but for the most part just a few docs and emails will be done on the phone. Some of this is price related as well, considering average wage.

Also most people out there from observation tend to communicate electronically using messenger apps of some type, facebook, zalo, whatsapp, line and so on. So for most it is really their only computer, and is their media content device.

Re: They didn't vote for him

Lets even talk about lockdown, it's needed. The length is an issue economically, probably more so for American workers as the safety net of state supplied health care isn't great and as far as I understand furloughed workers are not covered by work insurance.

It's not great economically, it's likely to have a greater effect on the poor than the well off. But it is needed.

The thing I can't help notice though is every country that reacted fast, took corona virus seriously and generally speaking whose citizens just got on with following the rules. Their lockodwns are lessening, or have finished already.

Re: Kind of

Willing to stand corrected but I am a little confused on that. Last visa run i did was in Jan, I could not apply for an e-visa as a British Citizen. I had to apply for a VOA and stand in a queue at immigration, that also stands for many people I know listed on that list from other countries. Been living here 3 years, first visa I applied for was with the Vietnamese Embassy in London, there was no e-visa process in fact getting visa renewed past few months has been real fun and games because there was no e-visa process.

Resolution 79/NQ-CP that extended it to 80 countries is not even effective until July 1st 2020.

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20200526/vietnam-to-grant-evisa-to-citizens-from-80-countries-from-july-1/54780.html

Vietnam also exports some textile brands like Eagle Creek, North Face, Salamon, They are definitely gearied to having manufacturers move over, there is a lot of incentives and trade areas were you get a lot of benefits for building factories, mostly concentrated around Tier 2 cities.

Yes Chains and big shops. I know what country I am talking about. Some examples, Vinmart, Lottie Mart, The Gio Di Dong, Cellphone S, Media mart, as well as foreign companies like Decathlon, H&M, Honda, Kawasaki, Burger king, KFC and so on. I mean I could find more but I have made several purchases via a standard chip and pin POS for larger goods there are definetly chains and big shops here - there's some huge malls here also. I buy any supermarket shopping with chip and pin, and a lot of smaller shops that tend to luxury goods are set up for it even if they are not chains. Dentists and so on also are set up at least the better ones.

Re: Excel excels

Talked a a Prof of maths. Guy owned a data science company, went were he wanted for interesting course to teach at universities around the world. Still said excel is good for quick and dirty and that even though they use tons of actual proper tools for mathematical modelling and data visualisation. They still tended to present it in excel a lot because it was a format everyone know when you are looking at numbers.

At the same time it should be remebered that CCP can be a somewhat bad faith actor when it comes to the truth.

Re: Quite some use

Similar Vietnam, all case's movements are published you are told to get down to testing. In areas where they have been the gov will call you and find out how close you have been. If you are down the same street they have will definitely contact you, test you and quarantine you, people have been called and diverted in cabs on the way to work for example. One case's parents where driving to another city after they knew she had been in quarantine, police intercepted them mid journey I'm guessing by tracking the phone.

There is a good chance if the gov wants to trace your phone here they can BTW. The largest mobile provider is basically a MOD owned company, and if you buy a phone you are registered to that number, (and not relevant but just for the curios that seems to be quite an open database also as I have given my number in shops and they can get my address from it).

Re: Sure, USB-C is way more versatile

Oh I dunno, made it easy to transition the whole office to WFH a few weeks back.

Re: Nothing to Heil nothing to Fear.

Well rather than that you can have a look at Vietnam.

A lot of neighbourhoods in Vietnam have block wardens, police/ gov informants,and the jungle drums in the average Vietnamese neighbourhood for gossip on who has moved in down the road etc is highly efficient, (I have had people houses down from where I have signed a housing contract know what house I am moving into before I have moved in).

During the initial stages of coronavirus in Vietnam, these two networks seemingly came together into a network that was ferocious in tracking self quarantine evaders, and those who had lied about where they were flying in from. People were hunted via social media, the longest evader lasted 18hrs and they were by a long shot the best AFAIK.

Patient 17 when they revealed they had evaded quarantine (they got to about two days) had every bit of their social media trawled over for their movements in the past two days, socially shamed, their neighbourhood got locked down, I doubt they will be able to go and live back in that area again the speed the country turned against her.

Normally all this network is totally harmless to the average guy (the neighbourhood bit anyway). But its amazing how ruthlessly efficient it can be, especially likely tied with gov informants.

While Vietnam definitely has some issues about freedom of the press and so on,

At the moment they do seem to be not suppressing Coronavirus news from legit sources or hiding whats going on. They have actually been quite open with case numbers, every case out in the wild there is a list of where they have been and so on in the papers, text messages and the usual social media apps like zalo with reports to contact the government., it seems they are relying on this information helping them to quarantine and track down potentially infected as they're quite aggressive in quarantining an area if they think there is risk.

Also sent to corrections, Vietnam started its lockdown on 1st April at midnight.

Re: How long....

Vietnam is a regime, it is a single party state. But I think it is more capitalist than communist economically, (not that I am a student of these things) AFAIK resources and so on tend to be accessed by state owned companies which I think counts as communist but there is plenty capitalism going on here also with private ownership and companies.

Re: Isn't that what the watches with the numbered bezels are for?

Those bezels are a hangover from old school I think. Before dive comps and so on, when you worked out your dive plan and profile by hand and lookup tables, wrote it on a slate and that was basically your stopwatch.

Rotating the bezel meant you could align it with where the hand was currently

A Dive computer basically does all of the above, plus more, (depending on the model).

Re: @Triggerfish

Most places I have traveled only one ATM has not been an issue, (except Laos and they had a guard with an AK47 next to the machine).

Generally speaking I tend to leave the card behind and take what I need day to day. YMMV but getting mugged and having the card taken and the pin for me is still a limit on what you can take out and its less than a bundle of holiday cash.

Re: I disagree...

I'd say this ball of mud is pretty special, after all it's where we live and it keeps us alive.

Re: No Slater did not intentionally set it up.

How about set up this way then?

Monkeys can be unpredictable, they can utterly dislike some people from subtle queues in body language, I have had them run past me photographing them and attack other people. They can also do a remarkable amount of damage for their size and often one in all in with a troop.

It takes a while to get close to Monkeys in a lot of cases, depending on how used to people they are. Patience, an awareness of them and yourself around them. Traveling to Indonesia and getting to be comfortable with monkeys, and all the logistics and work that entails could count plenty as set up for me, as the above post said it's basically what things like the beeb do with their camera traps.

Re: Just say no

This is the problem I have people may be switching of facebook in the West, South East Asia is a different story, pretty much everything is done on there.

I didn't even use facebook really till I moved out here, now I have messenger on my phone dammit.

Re: Funny...

"effect of Brexit" - Like this is ONLY due to the effect of Brexit, like there isnt anything else going on in the world that would cause effects, the markets reacted and got over it, the effects of Brexit at this point are of little consequence compared to say the possibility of a Major war about to break out. - No its Brexit..

I did not say that it's the only reason. I was pointing out you said the effects lasted a day.

"Ill just repeat this bit" - No let me repeat it, in the long term this should benefit us, growing our national industries rather than relay on imports.

How does this work? Where do we get raw materials from? Please explain why long term it's better for us? Willing to listen.

"Like what?" - Like what? why dont you ask the person who made the point?

That was you in an earlier post.

Also, what surplus? Wasn't every uk gov study coming out that brexit will cost extra money?

Yes yes but that's only until the resurgence of the British Empire They're preparing for it right now, there's some Polish guys down at Portsmouth recaulking the victory. BAE are doing mods; the masts are coming down and a couple of Yamaha outboards are being shoved on the back to make room for the F35s. Apparently there was a worry that the decks might be damaged by the engines, but they got a great deal on some cladding from an estate management company in Chelsea.

Re: controversial bro-grammer ?

Well no, see above. The percentages of successful women in engineering versus men does at least correlate with the theory that women are less suited.

Not necessarily, after all it's been a male dominated field for social reasons as well, may take a while for the filter to wear off.

Re: We don't need no education @Lars

Balderdash it would be easier for us all to do geometry if we change Pi and square the circle. I'm all for it. History and Biology would be easier as well with every answer being God did it, grades would be a record high.

Re: Galaxy S9 Lite

Is that correct though, for example if you had the S8 out with a removalable battery vs one without, same specs and design in all other ways. I am pretty sure the replaceable battery one would win out.

Re: Sales tax in India

Similar in Thailand, one way they used to get round it was have all the parts shipped in and have someone build it there

Re: Quality of British Business versus Service to British Customers

Yeah I came across that, washing machine broke after about a month, seller tried to get me to do all the work. Took a couple of weeks but I ended up getting a fixed washing machine and about 90% of the machines cost back in compensation. CEO email address sites come in very handy.