Posts by allthecoolshortnamesweretaken 6157 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Oct 2015
Could work, though. If the decision which software to buy is made by the management alone (i.e. without even considering any input by their own IT people or, heaven forbid, the grunts who have to use the stuff to get stuff done) - need I go on? Been there, done that, didn't even get a teeshirt to show for it.
They just had to put a 'cyber' in it... (for streed cred I'd guess)
It's good an inquiry has been launched. Now it's important that this is more than just window dressing. It's a chance for the committee members to gain publicity, and that can be used for leverage by public pressure. A lot of TT customers should write to the committee, to the committee members individually and to their MPs. When a certain level of public interest is made perfectly clear, no politician dares to ignore it. It's part of the game. They don't ingnore it for at least two reasons: 1) must bee seen to be doing something 2) hey, this is a chance for me to move a few rungs up in the party pecking order. Plus there is always infighting that can be put to good use, afer all there's always this:
Q: "What's the comparative form of 'mortal enemy'? A: "Fellow party member."
I never knew this, thanks for the links!
I absolutely loved him as guest star on Miami Vice as Phil the Shill.
Have an upvote.
As my CDs are neatly filed in alphabetical order, Alien Sex Fiend sits next to Herb Alpert, Bert Kaempfert shares a shelf with Die Krupps, as do Henry Mancini and The Meteors or Walter Wanderley and Stevie Wonder... The great thing about music is that there is so much of it, both in sheer quantity and variation. Enjoy!
"I don't think Nazi Germany was an art project."
Well technically Hitler was a failed painter. At least he thought of himself as an artist. Which goes to show that you really should let anybody enroll in art schools/academies no matter what, just to be on the safe side. That's money well spend, IMO. Plus every now and then you'll get a good music group out of it (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tuxedomoon, The Clash, to list some personal favourites.)
That being said, have an upvote.
Dictatorship, a World War and industrialised genocide haven't really a place in a discussion about Phil Collins, thats just disproportionate. Okay, +6/10 for advanced trolling, but -10^6/10 for lack of style.
he's a nice guy and fun to make fun of
Here we go again, as per usual. Then, it was DOTCOM, now it's CloudCrap (TM) and social media, in a couple of years it will be something else.
The sad thing is: among a lot of pointless, useless, stupid ideas are always a few with real potential, and the bursting bubble will kill most of them as well.
Music tip: http://jazztimes.com/articles/12023-dot-com-blues-jimmy-smith
I can see why they did it, but the way they did it feels like a panic reaction they didn't think through far enough. Maybe there was the threat of OneDrive going into 'Temporary Incapable To Sustain Ususal Performance' mode, and someone decided to pull the plug, as it were?
Several clients using 50TB+ of non-static data is bound to create problems, plus maybe the odd hardware failure, plus a server farm behind schedule - at a certain point things don't add up, they multiply.
There is bound to be more than just one PHB who thought it was a good idea to put all his operational data and the backup archives into the free cloud of these nice Microsoft people (and forced his IT staff to do it). Why not, it's free! Think of the money we can safe!
I don't really care if it's a reboot or a spinoff or whatever - will it be fun to watch ?
Curious and curiouser - the 9/11 perps didn't use Twitter or Le Livre des Visages. Any terrorist group or organisation that is well enough funded (yes, money always matters) to represent a real danger is able to set up a system of couriers for non time-critical communications and use same system to issue prearranged code words for the time-critical stuff.
Well, let's put it this way: it's much, much easier to change a password. The biometric data will leak one way or another sooner or later. What are the odds it won't even be stored encrypted? But as the common or garden variety user always puts convenience before security, this could actually be quite successful.
My computers are tools that I use to get stuff done, not shrines of worship. I don't care if an electric drill has a red or a blue casing, the question is if it's the right tool for the job at hand. Likewise I don't care all that much how the GUI looks as long as it is comprehensible and does the job. If the GUI changes due to upgrades/updates/whatever I find it very convenient if the new GUI as least resembles the old GUI so that I don't have to waste time on getting to know it all over again.
Re the install disk-illustration: I've still got the stack og 3.5" floppies that NT 3.5 came on somewhere.
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