Posts by AMBxx

Re: Begone foul beast :o)

It's strange to think back to IE4 and how well the UI worked (security is another matter). It also just looked a lot nicer than Netscape.

Then they stopped. Strange channels in IE5, then just tidying up.

I'm wondering if there are two versions of Office 365. I've never had any problems with Exchange online of OneDrive. I'm using it via MS Action Pack so have an E3 subscription. Not sure if that makes a difference?

Re: Just the cost of doing business

10p per call. It used to cost that much just to make a call!

Schrodingers Email?

My email appears to be working fine (O365), but I have no idea if anything is failing to arrive due to MS problems.

I've been waiting for a customer in Spain to reply since 11am. Not sure if MS problem, or just extended siesta.

Automating the 7 boxes is just the start. My accountant says that transaction level will be next.

Frustratingly, I keep hearing people saying that the ONLY solution is to go cloud for accounts. I'm one of the few small businesses genuinely filing digitally and it saves me all of 30 seconds every quarter. No, I'm not using cloud software - I'd like my data to still be there even when I stop paying.

Re: Interesting post-employment ban

In the UK, it would be termed something along the lines of 'restraint of trade'. You can say that someone can't work for a competitor or customer for a short period of time, but nothing more than that. Difficult to enforce unless the person's in a senior position too.

Re: Use cases

The modern equivalent of those shatterproof rulers that a generation of school children broke into two pieces by bending all the time.

Re: Awesome...

Whereas using electoral fraud as a means to get your candidate elected (Tower Hamlets), is more acceptable?

Re: Why

You can't take business waste to your local recycling centre, you have to pay. I work from home, but still remove all company related address labels before anything goes in the bin or for recycling. Otherwise there are some nasty fines.

Sadly, when the government introduces business charges for disposal of waste, they haven't got the sense to realise that it just increases fly tipping.

Re: A tiny step in the right direction

All new taxes tend to start low. Think about the tax on insurance policies, or even National Insurance.

Once they see what impact the 2% has, it will slowly increase.

Re: Who's gonna buy it?

They dodged the really difficult question - what to do when they find that the cameras are better at detecting paler people.

Re: Just no

>>> You don't do much business in China then?

Um no. I have a company-wide block on .cn email. I've also blocked a whole load of Chinese IP ranges to avoid hacks. Same for Russia and a few other unsavoury countries.

Re: LLAMA is your friend.

The old Blackberries vibrated so loudly I didn't need a ringtone even if the phone was in a different room.

Maybe one day we'll have custom vibrations?

Re: 128GB?

My SP4 Pro also has a Micro SD slot, so easy enough to move your documents to that. I assume the 5 & 6 have the same.

Re: I'm just wondering

Hopefully, they've made such a mess of the updates that the people at the top may take notice. It's worked before.

Re: Does not take long to buy the hardware ...

Slightly different in the UK. We get a capital allowance which means you can claim the whole value against tax in year 1 while maintaining the balance sheet value of the asset with a balancing value.

There's a limit, but it's higher than most small businesses need to worry about.

For larger companies, it's still easier to slip a monthly fee of £150 through budget approvals than a one off very expensive laptop.

Re: It smells a bit like Pocket

They say only 0.01% of sessions use RSS. What percentage use Pocket? Surely lower?

Re: Add Sex and Race Normalization to the AI

Doesn't work. You then adjust for religion. Then social background. Then sexuality. Then education (those nasty private school-educated).

Eventually you get to the point where you might as well just draw them out of a hat.

Re: Make UK resellers liable

Make it illegal to sell stuff without certification. Make the reseller legally responsible for confirming their products are certified. For ebay/Amazon make the site that hosts the sale responsible.

Re: An untested fix to an untested feature

Microsoft need to dig out the old memo from the days of XP that led to MS focussing on code quality and security. I think it was lost just after Windows 7 along with the memo about UI design.

Re: Wonder what Louis Rossmann thinks about Apple's dick move

Car manufacturers used to do exactly that. To maintain your warranty you had to have servicing done at a main dealer for the first few years. It's no longer allowed, but only because the law changed.

Didn't stop people buying cars, nor did one of the car makers break ranks to promote their flexibility.

Re: Possibly unsurprising…

Depends upon your business and where it's heading. If you're in a downward spiral and all your customers and employees hate you, you might as well just maximise profit by cutting costs and screwing your customers and employees.

Oracle are pastmasters at this. IBM too. SAP are learing rapidly.

Re: The Cloud..

Cloud's great if you have a very variable workload. Imagine running an online retailer on a single rented server. You get a review in the Sunday Times and your website crashes. Lots of lost business. Cloud would be able to cope automatically.

Anything else it's just expensive.