What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I mean, apart from grey imports destroying the UK media devices business overnight...
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...Jio’s own apps will be integrated...
So less 'optimized', more customised then? The only slight eyebrow-raiser is that a carrier has outsourced their encruftulation of Android to Google, rather than doing it themselves as is more usual.
I suspect the exchange of ${undisclosed_sum} was also involved here.
What a coincidence that this should happen just after they leaked all that spyplane stuff, pissing off the west's intelligence agencies en masse in so doing.
I hate to say I told you so, but.
First rule of a successful criminal career; No matter how big, nasty and teflon-coated you think you are, never step on the toes of any agency with a black ops section...
If you take nude pics of yourself, you're probably stupid (and vain).
If you keep nude pics of yourself on your phone / computer / tablet / whatever, you are definitely stupid.
And if you leave them on there when you send it in for repair, congratulations, you just made yourself the poster child for stupid.
As always I am disappointed to see the legal system reward stupidity, it just brings the idiocracy closer.
Actually they usually do have insurance. The slight problem will be that it's probably invalid for the rather more common reason why they're likely to be bent.
The only way to make money doing that job is to run the taxilift-share 24x7 while using one account, one insurance payment, etc.
Thus the driver is quite likely not to be the guy listed on the license he's carrying or the taxi permit, just someone who looks a bit like him to a cursory inspection in a bad light.
At a Swedish supplier's place, their people buggered off to discuss something and left us with tea and biscuits.
One of my colleagues held up a heart-shaped biscuit and said; "Ah. That proves that they love us."
I held up one that was a sort of extruded swirl shape, highly reminiscent of something nasty you might find on a pavement and said; "Well, what does this say about what they think of us then?".
The three of us were still howling with laughter when the suppliers returned and we couldn't tell them what was so funny.
Actually a rather small PR mistake. To be a very big one would require that more than 0.01% of the purchasers of their products actually gave a flying fuck whether or not they were allowed to open the case.
Remember, when it comes to consumer IT products, the likes of us are the small minority and the vast majority of purchasers' knowledge of maintenance is at the level of; "Ugh, hit with rock", if they can be bothered at all.
Better still, RPG.
That's the standard way of doing things. Huge integer, with the decimals implied by the currency.
The problem currency used to be the Turkish Lira. A million of the things bought a 5 minute taxi ride from the office to the hotel. Hotels would need to swipe my credit card several times, as both Visa and Mastercard could only handle up to a (US) billion in one transaction.
Not surprised the supervisor installed it himself. Back in the day cabling cost real money and was a black art.
Once upon a time, a contractor mate in Novell picked up a job doing the setup for a very tight-fisted bunch. He was bemoaning the fact that a) he'd been screwed on his price and b) they wouldn't pay for decent cabling. He showed me the cabling quotes and said they were going for the cheapest (thinwire ethernet - yes, that long ago).
I saw the big number at the bottom and swore. I asked if they'd like the place floodwired in Cat5 for 16Mb token-ring, with a proper cabinet and patch panel next to the server, for less money. He thought they might, but how? I pointed out that I knew what I was doing and had all the tools required.
We did it over a weekend and pocketed well over half the big number at the bottom[1] between us. No wonder there was no shortage of choice in cabling contractors, the profit margins were astronomical. One of the more profitable items was the patch cables, which I made out of left over cable and crimp-on ends (10 quid for a bag of 500). It seemed cheesy to charge per cable, but I undercut the opposition by 50%, at 10 quid a pop, to salve my conscience.
[1] Even with the higher spec kit, cards and cable than the etherstring lads. They must have been really coining it.
So your Business Analysis team are useless then? It's their job to find out exactly what's required and document it, after all.
Oddly enough all projects tend to go south when the BA process has been royally fucked up and an ambiguous sack of shite has been chucked into design.
...on one of the Classic car forums, there was a post from an owner in Florida.
Not far from his house they'd built a new mall. While working out how to connect the mall slip road to the highway adjacent, one of the local road planners had a lightbulb moment and decided to try out this "Roundabout" thing he'd seen on his travels in Yurop.
Cue the installation of the only roundabout within an extraordinarily large number of miles, thus ensuring that nobody approaching it for the first time had ever seen one before.
Fortuitously, the landscaping process had provided a tree-shaded grassed area adjacent to this new-fangled road menace, handily equipped with a bench to sit on.
His favourite pastime was to wander down there with a sixpack of beer, to sit and watch the accidents.
Exactly. I completely fail to see the difference between arresting the wrong bloke 'cos a computer thinks he looks like the perp and arresting the wrong bloke 'cos you or a witness think he looks like the perp.
Except that some greedy git and his lawyers think they can make a shitload of publicity out of the former, in addition to the usual claim for wrongful arrest.
Many moons gone...
Got into my company car on a hot summer's day at around 40 degrees. Fished out my HP PDA to check something while operating the starter. I needed the car running to cool off as it was bloody hot in there.
The climate control agreed that it was indeed "bloody hot" and went into "everything and the kitchen sink" mode. The freezing cold gale hit the screen of the PDA in my hand and the LCD matrix disintegrated like a shattered mirror.
I tried that "eBay" thing I'd heard about and was delighted to find that I could get a whole new screen assembly from Hong Kong for about a tenner.
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SPACs.....exist solely to raise capital through an IPO...
That's a little simplistic, the clue's in the name "Single Purpose Aquisition Company". The problem they exist to circumvent is that the rules around an IPO are quite stringent when it comes to the viability of the company being floated. Thus what you do is float a company that does nothing, the SPAC. This has books that say it has ${cash}, no liabilities and no expenses and thus easily meets the financial criteria. The SPAC then takes over the real company and as there are no pesky viability rules for takeovers, this goes through.
Presto, a dodgy, high risk business successfully floated without its murky books and iffy practices being pried into by inspectors.
The interesting thing here is that taking this approach is almost invariably more expensive than an IPO, as everyone involved takes a cut, but companies still do it. The fact that they're happy to shell out, purely to avoid proving they meet the financial criteria of the stock market, gives you a really good clue as to how sound their business actually is.