Re: But seriously though...
@tiggity I think Viz had a solution for poor toilet etiquette:
"Bottom Inspectors: Have you wiped properly"
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Very Punny, Honey :-)
My rational, boring conscience is however still trying to vocalise the what-the-fecking-fracking-feck from the substance of the main article. What's wrong with just getting a bit of honey from them and otherwise leaving the poor things alone?
So there are 8,000 fax machines in the NHS? Let's assume they last about 4 years and cost 200 quid to replace. That's GBP 400,000 that will be saved. Round it up to GBP 1 million to account for consumables and phone bills and it's still three parts of eff-all in NHS terms. Show me the NHS system that can replace everything they do and will "only" cost 1 million a year.
Basically this "ditch the fax" drive is a conjurers distraction. I suggest you guard your watch and check your change.
Process plants are commonly designed to run for 8000 hours/year, allowing time for routine maintenance and upgrades throughout that year.
I'd be quite happy to pitch this to my users if MS would provide a 10% reduction in fees. And serious recompense if they fell below that.
As it stands Microsoft seem to be achieving about 0.93 of a year, or about 1 unit of factory uptime.
As to the name of the El Reg unit, I nominate it "the Tony" after Factory Records founder Tony Wilson.
British fears of German Naval strength, French desire to reclaim Alsace-Lorainne, Russian angst at the length of time it would take to mobilise their army, Austro-Hungarian dented pride mixed with internal contradictions inherent in a land empire, German expansionism and desire to avoid encirclement might all have a had a slight part to play beyond the single hand weapon that Gavrilo Princip discharged in Sarajevo back in 1914.
I'm out of breath now ....
@Danny_14 said "The profession is basically boiling down to the same as the NHS - hopefully you can train enough people in 3/4 years to replace the ones who quit after 3/4 years."
The same grim equation that held sway on the Russian front for a similar period of time.