Posts by AMBxx

ME wasn't that bad. It was just pointless. Only released to fill Microsoft's coffers before they finally released XP.

Re: Machines controlled directly by humans

The original traffic lights were called Robots, still are in South Africa.

Re: Word soup

I've worked with SQL Server for 20+ years. In the last 3 years, I've started working more with Postgres. If I were in sales again, I'd struggle to explain the benefits of MS SQL, never mind the licensing.

Re: Need more than coders

If you want to see a New Defender, just drive past your local private school at opening or closing time.

Re: FOSS Conference Systems

Then that Linux expert can make sure everyone has the correct client installed before the meeting.

There's enough bother explaining how to unmute without throwing in another client installation.

Re: Why would you want to do business with Oracle?

Which is why EDB talk so much about their Oracle compatible addons for Postgres. Not used them myself, but would be interested if a customer was using Oracle and wanted to leave. No idea if application vendors would support their applications that were designed for Oracle to run on something else.

Can I interest you in these magic beans?

Their original sales line back in the 90s was 'our products enforce best standards, don't you want best standards?'

Re: Interesting that MS is a PostgreSQL sponsor

Looks like a clever move. If EDB can sell proprietary extensions to Postgres, MS can do well with similar. I'd like to see Postgres support in SSMS (think I might have a while to wait).

Interesting bit will be when they try to differentiate SQL server and Postgres. What are the benefits on MS SQL now?

Re: Award Rates

Retail workers wanting home working is a bit of an odd one.

Let's see how the strikes play out.

My prediction is:

More pressure to spin off Openreach. It's the only good bit of BT and there's been pressure for it to be independent for a while. Conservatives would be happy to see it split. Labour even more happy to nationalise it.

Without Openreach, the rest of BT has to compete properly in an open market. They'll soon be gone.

Dinosaurs have plenty of punch, but they all die out in the end.

Re: If you want smart, put an operating system on it

Easier still, just use a regular monitor and connect what you need.

£100 monitor, £70 phone, keyboard, mouse, job done.

Re: "They just have too much money flowing around their system"

>> $5 billion valuation with a $278 million funding round,

Looks like it's still a problem for them now. It's only a database, plenty of competition.

Re: Microsoft SQL Server

Few new features in 2022: you can truncate dates and they've added greatest and least functions. All of those are already in PostgreSQL.

I've move from MS SQL to Postgres over the last 2 years. Mainly due to customer pressure. There are things I miss about MS SQL (SSMS mostly). The problem for MS is that once people are on open source, there is little reason to go back to paying for this stuff.

Re: If it steers boots on the ground to double check

Nonsense, it happens all the time. The local councils just fire up google earth and take a look. There was a farmer who built a house behind hay bales a few years ago.

Difference being that we're not taxed the same year. I had building work done on my house 17 years ago. All legal and declared. Our council tax rating now has an asterix next to it. That means that when we sell, the council can change the rating to a higher band.

Re: May I be the first to call "bollocks" ?

Easy fix would be to roll back an awful lot of other changes since then too. When I started work, both employers and employees NI was so low that it wasn't really worth avoiding it. Tax rates were 30%.

All we've done, starting from John Major, but especially Gordon Brown is to shift the tax from income tax to NI. That's made avoiding NI worthwhile.

Problem now is that any attempt to shift it back will be resisted as a 'tax on the retired'.

Your profile is now synched with the cloud settings. You don't download everything - just a date range you specify.

If you want to feel real hate, try the PWA version. Doesn't stay as PWA all the time, having an odd habit of launching browser windows for some options, but not for others. Then there's the problem of switching between calendar and email - why so slow?

Re: Next, they'll lobby government

It's on a Virtual Machine, so shouldn't be a problem (I hope).

Re: Innovation

There was also a huge increase in sales at the start of everyone needing to work from home. It's going to take a few years for that to work its way through.

You forgot the part about Uber having operating losses. Easy to look good if you don't care about making a profit.