Posts by Mark 85

Re: "Flash Bristow"

They were a 60's rock and roll band. Not even a 1-hit-wonder as I recall.

Re: Diet change

I guess they'll have to make lunch the old-fashion way... a stove or a thermal oven. Although the true hi-tech way would be to turn the kitchen/lunch room area where the microwaves are into a Faraday cage.

Re: This is why we have a self perpetuating housing crisis

As for the Walls..... Well I do have a problem with any entrepreneur who's creativity and talent doesn't stretch more further than ******g over employees and suppliers. On the other hand, Wallmart jobs used to be part time jobs for American Moms, in very different times. Same for a lot of the so called zero hours contracts in the British economy.

This can be said for many family owned businesses that fall into the hands of the heirs. Sam was pretty shrewd. He paid his employees fairly, had benefits including discounts. He moved into areas that were largely rural with cheap land and little competition. He used local (American) suppliers whenever possible. His kids... got their business degrees and instead of being involved in the business, turned to the beancounters. Within years, the suppliers were being outsourced to China, wages cut, benefits cut. The bottom line became the golden grail.

The worst case I've ever seen was McDonnell-Douglas. After Old Man Mac (I use that with respect as I met him several times but that's a different tale) died, the kids took over and sucked the place dry. It was so bad, that Boeing had to buy them out (I suspect with some help from the Feds).

It's probable that Wally World is headed toward failure also unless the corporate and ownership mindset changes.

Re: Like trying to push your way through a crowded room

Is that like a dirty bomb ?

More like chemical warfare...

Re: Use the lips, trotters and arseholes....

We already did use those.... the result was elected... I won't get into which office as the NSA might either take offense or have a good laugh.

Re: RIGHT!

I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION!

The simplest explanation: Magic!*

*In other words.... I don't think the experts really know.

Re: Installed Here locally on my Nexus 4...

It's a strange world that has evolved in that technologies get invented, refined and yet inexplicably we don't end up with the best technology - just the most commercially viable...

Just a thought...

There's probably a book or two somewhere in that statement and trying to explain the "why". There's been a lot of great (to me at least) tech that got bought by someone else and then promptly put away in a dark back room because it competed with the buyer's inferior tech. Glide is a pertect example. Bought by NVidia and then promptly shut down and all the tech put into storage or binned. For the time, Glide was graphics to beat on games. But NVidia had bigger dollars tucked away and was buying up competitors.

Re: So much bollocks spouted in the comments

That's all well and good for you in the here and now. Get back to us in 10 years when time after time of your asking for upgrades and modern systems and equipment which management turns down as "it costs too much" or "what we have is working" fine. You might want the new and shiny and modern stuff, but you won't have it and will be dealing the crap just like the rest of it. Reality is a bitch.

Re: "recoup the costs of building its own network to allow wiretapping"

Charging customers to be able to spy on them is similar to "Here's a fiver.. beat me to a bloody pulp" and not being one of those who enjoys such things.

But... we get double charged...maybe triple charged. Not only by our tax dollars going to the agencies but also we get hit by the telcos to suppor this. So maybe it's: "Here's a fiver... beat me to a bloody pulp and while you're at it, here's another spot of change to pay the audience."...

Re: Wow, this is bad news

You forgot the first rule: "There is no Sanity Clause."

Re: What an insult

Yeah.. they ran roughshod for profit. This about profit too... if they lose, they lose all the profit from Europe and everywhere else. And at this point, it's not just MS... it's every US cloud company.

Re: re: Lee d

We (the IT world) already know or should know these things. But Joe User usually hasn't a clue. And I'm not sure the manager at Star**ks even knows who the admin is or cares about his wifi. Probably the wifi was set up by a contractor and who is now moved on.

They'd really be in trouble if they loved bacon sarnies. And I'm sure any female marmosets would willing to wear the Saudi equivalent of a burka.

Re: This action is fundamentally misguided

Exactly. They went there for the tax breaks and forgot about the "other" laws... Most convenient, yes?

Re: "It's like heroin...."

True.. it came from Patton. Still, it's an excellent quote.

Re: Patents: Sought by the Wright brothers while Europe built planes

That's probably why the uni won the suit. I'm thinking the company figured "oh... uni patent... no need to pay to use it".

Besides, this is not like it's some patent troll. CMU does a lot of research and development.