Posts by TeeCee

Slight snag.

1) World + Dog goes: "That sounds safe, I'll put my money there."

2) The rest of the banking system has no money to lend out.

3) Economy collapses.

Modern policing.

Says something that a nice photo of a crime gets the plod out of their comfy tea room like a shot, yet it doesn't occur to them that the prospect of someone having been beaten to death on the street in broad bloody daylight without them having heard a peep is in any way odd.

Maybe if they relied on cameras less and traditional policing methods more, they wouldn't expect things like this to be possibly genuine....

Read all about it!

Elderly bloke tries to understand modern tech, uses buzzword on tw@ter in attempt to sound "with it".

Pictures at 11.

Translation.

“IBM had a simple argument: ‘We are by far the biggest. It’s a safe decision to come to us’,”

I believe that this was more usually and succinctly expressed as; "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.".

Just replaced mine.

My previous phone was a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. Right size, ludicrously thin, and using "Link2SD" to circumvent the storage issues.

While still working reliably, it was becoming a shade long in the tooth and beginning to have trouble with some of the newer stuff.

So my checklist included thinness, expandable storage[1], more RAM, a decent amount of internal storage, newer OS versions available, as near "stock" Android as possible and enough grunt to handle everything I can throw at it. Price was also a major consideration. I don't do long contracts as I have no idea where I'll be in six months' time.

Huawei Ascend P6. Unbeatable for the money, fits nicely in the paw and built like a tank too.

[1] Dear Google. If you really must do away with SD card expansion, the minimum internal storage on such a device is 32Gb and ideally it needs 64. That writes off all your flagship devices at a stroke.

I think they should have kept quiet.

it wasn't any kind of update or software glitch in Lloyds' systems. An HP server had gone down in the UK:

So an even more basic fuckup then. A lack of redundancy / failover for critical systems.

Want a real laugh, ship internationally.

Maybe someone could please explain why Japan Post, China Post and the legendarily godawful US postal service all seem to manage to get a package to continental Europe rather more reliably than the British postal service?

The odd thing here is that, while you can pretty much set your watch by the delivery times from everywhere else on the planet, anything coming from Britain will arrive sometime between next day and three weeks later. Package type, size and content do not appear relevant to this, so I'm guessing that dice rolls are involved somewhere along the line.

Well something just had to be broken...

....as in: "Have a break, have a KitKat."

Yes, advertising culture is that subliminally ingrained at Google......

Not just the landing.

A colleague told me this one from many years ago, when Milan was almost perpetually fogbound and blind landing was a very new-fangled thing. Fog at Milan usually meant a diversion and then a bus ride from hell back to Milan.

She was on a BA flight to Milan and a very smug pilot spoke on the cabin tannoy: "Ladies and Gentlemen. Those of you who fly this route regularly will be aware that Milan is often fogbound and today is no exception. However, this aircraft is equipped with the new automated landing system and Milan also now has the necessary equipment, so we will be landing on time. Thank you for flying BA."

The plane descended into the very thick murk, landed, rolled out and stopped. Out of the windows was visible only a uniform grey blankness. After a few minutes the, now somewhat less smug, pilot piped up; "Ladies and Gentlemen, Those of you who can see out of a window may have noticed that you cannot see anything at all. Well I am sorry to say that it's exactly the same up here and while I have my taxi instructions, I can't see the taxiways. Control are sending a follow me truck and I'll keep you posted."

Fifteen minutes later, the now rather harassed sounding pilot says; "I've been told that there is a follow me truck 50 metres ahead of the aircraft. I can't see it. The airport is working on a solution to the problem, but we may be here a while."

Four hours later, a truck with a searchlight on it turned up from the nearest military installation and they followed that in. This meant that the passengers were later than if they had diverted......

Hmm.

Problem: You're losing money hand over fist and so seriously stuffed for cash that the vultures[1] are circling.

Solution: Splurge 14m paying off one boss and 89m hiring another one.

Is it just me, or is this as monumentally fucked up as it appears to be?

[1] No offence.

Hmm.

earlier this week issued an explanation to would-be investors about what its service actually offers

Now you'd have thought that, in this context, an explanation of how its service makes bucketloads of cash[1] would be more appropriate. I wonder why they didn't do that......?

[1] i.e. some reason why its shares would be more likely to hold their value rather than tank when the music stops.

Once upon a time......

All smartphone displays were plastic. These used to scratch and require the use of screen protectors which also screwed up the display as a side effect. Any flexing of the phone chassis would cack the screen as it had little rigidity. They were, in a word, crap.

Then a miracle happened. Someone made displays out of hardened glass. No scratches, no stick on placcy layers, no ruined LCD bits.

Now, could someone please explain why the f**k we would even talk about going back to plastic displays?

"...his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

If Apple collapses, will they blame him for holding it wrong?