Posts by AMBxx

Re: More importantly

2 thumbs down for my joke?

Is that you Mr & Mrs Cameron?

Re: Book stores.

Book stores are limited to an extent to what they can sell. Like it or not, there is a level of censorship.

The difficult bit is having a sensible discussion about what to do about the Internet. The Government doesn't get it, but nor do the people who believe that anything should be allowed.

Re: Hang on...

Thunderbirds was my first thought too.

This is the stuff we were promised as children

So for Locums they wouldn't be able to claim back this cost anyway.

Yes Locums can. Provided you spend no more than 40% of your time at any one location.

You can't rent though - has to be hotel or equivalent. Only MPs get to have a 2nd house on expenses.

Re: Much like my pension, which I'll likely never get.

The country as a whole needs to take pension funding more seriously

At some point, we're going to have to admit that defined benefit schemes are no longer viable. Going to be a huge fight with public sector unions, but it will have to be done.

Might help if we started with the MPs.

Re: Ever heard of contract breach?

Not sure about Aus, but in the UK there'll be a term in every contractor's contract giving right to terminate at any time. Once you have that in place, anything can be done.

Re: 2G only?

6310 please

read 1984 for several years

If you want to really freak yourself out, read 'Brave New World'. We are already there.

If all they're aiming for is 10 percent growth, looks like drones are a passing fad for 'prosumers' too.

Re: webOS

All for the sake of a phone with keys that weren't made of jelly. Oh, and a battery that lasted more than 9 hours.

Re: S is for Subsidised

Aren't school licences for Windows already heavily subsidised? Is this really any cheaper?

Cash in reserve

Depends how long you've been contracting. When I first went self-employed ( jumped ship before company went bust), it took me a month to get a few bits of work. Invoicing terms are 30 days, often paid late.

That means I was 90 days behind on income. I was fortunate in having savings and a wife with regular work. Not everyone is in that position (through no fault of their own). Even with the higher pay, it takes the best part of a year to be 'up'.

Re: Thin Client anyone?

I'm always surprised those compute sticks haven't taken off in the education market. Saves carrying a screen around all the time (one less thing to break). Losing them is a problem, but if using cloud storage not the end of the world.

Skydrive?

Is it 2014 again? Now it's OneDrive.

Re: Bye bye Android

It was the 3310 I wanted. Long battery life and no Android.

a flatmate leaves a fridge when they move out

Contents of fridge after 2 years - lovely!

Re: Old Tech

I love my Surface Pro 4, but I did only pay £500 for it (demo unit). If I need an upgrade in a year or two, I doubt very much I'd spend £1300 on it.

MS seem to be more concerned about matching Apple price points than releasing well priced hardware. Good news is that Lenovo et al are finally upping their game.

Re: Does anyone remember ...

Apricot were the last computer company to make all their own components. Probably what finished them off.

My Dad won one when I was about 15. First time I saw a spreadsheet. Ashamed to admit that we swapped it for a BBC Model B with vast amounts of software.

Re: "Innocent users of LinkedIn"

It used to be useful to keep connections with business contacts. Now it's just a constant stream of similar lists and click bait. Ceased to be useful years ago.

Re: Probably a weak pound issue

This is EU as well as UK, so not sterling.

VAT is reclaimed by anything other the most trivial conpany

doesn't need any file i/o

Rubbish - file handling and managing data is important early on. I seem to recall having to write objects to file to reinstantiate on the next run at a very early stage of a Java course.

Probably why they don't sell well.

I think you'll find most of the 'sales' to schools in the US are a dodgy scheme whereby a company gives money to schools who have to use it to buy certain products.