Posts by Toltec

"Nestlé business costumers"

Is this fancy dress for office parties or business wear in general do you think?

Re: Or....

I think the problem, for Putin at least, is that if they withdraw he is done. I think he is done anyway, it just depends how many people he kills before he is stopped. I think this was timed for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Covid economic pressures and rising fuel/energy prices with the idea that the west would have no stomach to oppose him. It could also be a push to destabilise western economies given the cost of fuel/energy and loss of Russian supplies. I don't understand the way most people make decisions at the best of times so probably completely wrong.

Re: Cynical is what an optimist calls a realist...

Me: the anti-spill buffer has been incorrectly specified.

Re: Google Maps

I understand your frustration, how would you like it to detect when you think it should change?

Re: Wait for next weeks stats

What we need is a Gartner report on year on year growth of Gartner reports.

Re: Learnings

I wonder if they are confusing it with bisect?

Re: It's been around long enough to have a name.

Short Hyperactive Interval Theater

Better?

Should work, but to be sure make it a mesh type bin.

I've never down voted a post before.

Always a first time I suppose and worth saving it for this.

Re: Allez, Marcel!

As the old saying goes, the French are revolting.

I absolutely haven't done anything like this ever, no mention at all of cooking the fish in the office tank at all.

Re: Not-for-profit, my arse it is

I'd quite like the .uk version of my domain, unfortunately I don't have the .co.uk, 123 has registered it so I cannot and it is unused. No idea if the owner of the .co.uk version even wants it, the website for that domain is mainly unfinished and hasn't changed for years.

Re: Sour Grapes

I'm impressed, your garage designed a car from the ground up for you and fully integrated and tested the latest safety devices? Nothing at all went wrong the design was perfect and all tests passed the first time?

They should be rocket scientists.

Re: I cant understand the mentality...

I suspect he went to Pontins as a child.

Re: Growth in the 8-12 yo segment

I was never fast, over ten minutes, but I worked out the solution myself. Being me once I'd solved it I lost interest, still the same, I find solutions and prefer to leave production line stuff to other people.

Re: SIP ATAs, Redcare lines, and legacy equipment

They stopped selling PSTN based Redcare a while ago and are trying to move customers on to IP.

Re: Red herring

At the moment I'm not sure that this is all an arch plan to make us end up staying in.

Logic-

No-deal will be banned

There is no deal which will be acceptable to the EU and both sides of parliament

Therefore there is no way to leave.

Re: Speaking as an elderly man...

Happy 80th birthday?

Re: India is going to the moon with my tax.

It may be self-interested altruism, but if the people that need the help end up even better off because we* get something out of it too then why not?

Call it ethical investment if you like rather than aid or subsidies or perhaps karma.

*If anything it is this end that needs examining, are we paying tax to make bigger profits for companies that then avoid paying much tax.

Re: Is this

Indeed I did vote to leave, no doubt you checked my previous posts because I don't hide behind AC. Are you ashamed to be a remainer? I don't see why you should be, you have a right to your own opinion and vote, but then being a leaver I would say that.

In case your knee jerk, remainer brain failed to notice my comment above was about the absurdity of labelling someone relative to your own position rather than theirs. Personally I think May tried to please everyone and ended up pleasing no one. Her deal was to remain under the bureaucracy of the EU, but leave the political control system. For me this would be the worst possible outcome as it was the EUs ever expanding encroachment into areas it didn't need to be in just to justify the existence of all of its staff that I voted against. Look up the principle of subsidiarity which is supposedly at the core of the EU, but seems not to be the reality.

I enjoy irony btw.

Re: IT reputation

It depends if the kit belongs to me or someone else, my kit knows me too well to give up and start working again so easily.

I was thinking that if you wanted to train an AI to find ways to make people better off rather than maximise profits then you could.

Then I thought about it bit more.

The AI would be looking for optimal ways to persuade people to change their habits and lifestyles to make them healthier and more productive.

A little later we have the Matrix.

Re: C30 C60 C90 Go!

Took me a second to switch from a Honda reference, in the right era though.

Re: Data Protection in photos?

On the other hand if you have been burgled and have the culprit's face on CCTV Id guess you would be quite happy if the police could identify and find the person.

"the most dangerous colour on the road, "black" that no one wants.

Black is the most popular colour in the UK, but white is the most dangerous in the US*

* depending who you believe

Re: That will go well

Fair enough, no worse than usual then, providing contacting Openreach means any issues will get fixed just as erm quickly.

Re: More efficient solution...

Even better add some spices, tomato, chicken and prawns while gently heating with a jet engine and you have enough paella* for the whole town

* Other regional rice based dishes are available e.g. biryani and jambalaya

"instead of choosing the people we trust"

I tend to choose the person that I hope will cause the least fuckups, trust does not come into it.

Relevant to both the original subject of the article and the thing every discussion seems to turn to at the moment.

Re: not neccessarily very good at brown-nosing...

I once got told that pay rises went to people managing people, not systems used by thousands of people, and techies enjoyed their jobs so did not need to be paid as much.

I refrained from telling him how enjoyable dealing with people like him made my job and left when a suitable opportunity arose.

Re: Timing

The initial contact, if any, on most of the recent ones I get appears to be voice bot, I'd imagine it is running voice recognition for any kind of positive reply to having had an accident.

Re: Beanie?

As a lad they were either bobble hats, if with bobble, or ski hats if without bobble. A beanie was an American smooth woven rather than knitted cap, possibly with propeller on top, similar to a baseball cap, but without the peak.

Re: And this is why you shouldn't use the same password/username on multiple sites.

Worse still if you select the 'Forgotten password' option it is obvious where the reset is sent.

If your email password has already been cracked you are knackered.

Musa been confusing for them.