Posts by David 132

Re: Goodbye, good riddance

Although it comes with the constant danger of The Helvetica Scenario.

Re: "address concerns of being replaced by AI"

"Follow me in single file, bwanas, to fool the hated enemy"

Re: The Microsoft credo

> It just felt "wrong". But seeing you spell it out as "Entrails" just nailed it. Maybe my subconscious was adding the "ils" and screaming "noooo, keep it away from me" down in the reptilian part of my brain :-)

So what you're saying is, you had a gut feeling about it?

All I know is, it’s becoming a right pain to type them in from magazine listings.

Re: Stats please

A “chrome only” site is the 2023 equivalent of “this site needs Internet Explorer”. You clearly have more patience than I; if I encounter a site that doesn’t work with Firefox, I just go elsewhere.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

Booooo. Get out.

Re: The teams flaw

In Win11, teams installs and starts without your permission.

On my home Win10 PC, I installed Teams. Sort of voluntarily, I confess, because I needed to join a video conference that required it. You may all point and jeer at me now. Go on, you know you want to.

Anyway, now every time the PC resumes from sleep, Teams pops to the foreground with a patronizing “You need to be connected to the Internet to do this!”.

Yes, you addle-pated excrescence of misbegotten bytes, and if you’d waited about 0.5 seconds more, the network link would have been up. But you were so eager to tell me that when resuming from S3 my PC doesn’t have a link… grrrrrrr…

Re: Simple solution

I applaud your (company's) action, but I have to say that on a personal level, I can't wrap my head around the idea of any organization paying $/£ 100 million annually in software licensing costs alone. Yeah, yeah, enterprise scale and all that, but that's a mind-blowing level of spend. I presume that prior to the Java shakedown, it was deemed a good investment inasmuch as it was facilitating considerably more than that amount in annual revenue?

Re: All of our eggs are going into one basket.

…and you really, really don’t want to pick the “Same Day Delivery” option. “Saturday (Fewer Boxes)” is probably safer.

Re: whose swear words?

Yes. At my wedding in the US, my sort-of informal best man was an old friend and colleague from the UK. He’s a smoker, and my American sister-in-law found it absolutely hilarious when he said he was “going off for a fag”.

I think that by the 60th or 70th time the joke had maybe started to pall, though!

(My wife had given everyone burner phones so that the UK contingent could keep in touch without roaming charges; He and sis-in-law and my brother also conspired to swap the SIMs around; once swapped, suggestive SMSs were sent to various in-laws that obviously appeared to come from other in-laws, and much hilarity ensued. I don’t remember much else of the wedding, but in the words of Rowley Birkin, I was very, very drunk.)

Re: It Pays to Advertise?

To paraphrase the old quote, updating it for the Internet advertising age: "99.9% of the money we spend on advertising is wasted; the problem is, we don't know which 99.9%."

Re: Sunk cost fallacy

Benchmarking. Compared to, say, HS2 it’s on track, on budget and will deliver tremendous ROI (for Oracle at least…)

Moose are allowed dreams and ambitions too - have you never read the Good Gnus Bible?

And what everyone here is missing is that Red Hat as a brand is now 30 years old. This is IBM we’re talking about, and as multiple lawsuits have shown over the last few years, they take Logan’s Run as their HR template. No wonder Red Hat is being terminated.

Re: I was hoping for a miniaturised Raquel Welsh

Ah yes, Raquel Welsh, the actress with a body to Dai for. And very welcoming valleys.

Re: he starts his day with octopus, a bowl of ice cream, eight oatmeal biscuits, and a donut

Yep. Futurama. Season 2, episode 18, "The Problem With Popplers", at the 20m40s mark.

I'm scared that I know this.

Re: Where I work - Cistern Failure

There's a "they had to examine the logs" joke in there somewhere too but I'm loathe to make it.

Re: Never actually owned a ZX81...

> with the drive transistor sweating at the limit of it's rating

Probably, knowing Sir Clive, because he had been offered a job-lot of the underspecced ones for a penny-per-thousand cheaper than the uprated transistors!