Posts by Nick G
64 posts • joined Friday 25th April 2008 13:43 GMT
"There is also a risk that some of the big players will simply shift their operations out of the UK altogether and run them entirely from a "tax friendly" location."
That old chestnut...
It's basically not true. If Starbucks leave the country, are people going to suddenly stop buying coffee? Nope - the gap in the market will be filled by somebody else. And they'll probably pay their taxes...
So his health "could get worse at any moment".
So could mine - can I get a trip somewhere warm please?
MOST people??
"most people in advanced countries, in their mid-forties or something like that, could put together enough money to make the trip"
$500k??
Is he planning on visiting Earth at some point?
Re: And in another survey
At that age they pretty much want anything they see...
Mine wants a Wii and a Nintendo DS and a Xbox and a phone and a chemistry set and a dog and a lizard and a TV and a Keyboard and a guitar and keyboards and a....
All paid for by somebody else of course.
He'll make a briiliant MP when he grows up
Re: Disappointed...?
Oh... you're all such Riff Raff...
Re: iTV
They'll have to change it for the US too, as ITV have an active presence in the US making programmes for the US networks.
They're also in Australia, France, Germany & Sweden. That's some fairly hefty markets where 'ITV' is already taken...
Er...
I may have misunderstood something, but I thought that this was a EU court verdict, therefore shouldn't this apology be on all EU Apple pages?
Re: What he said
"It didn't merely 'just scrape' previously seen elements, it carefully combined and polished them"
So...
It's the Apple of games then?
Posted in Australian volcano starts to blow
Re: why does this island have a web page
"Would you prefer a Facebook page with bryophytes bragging about the success of their colony and insulting low income lichens?"
More likely to be endless pictures of Cats & dinners...
Re: ^^^ That ^^^
And, of course, we all know that judges are the arbiters of cool...
the repurposing of an airliner...
"the repurposing of an airliner as a weapon would definitely have been seen as movie-plot stuff until it actually happened"
IIRC, the Pilot episode of the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen had that very idea & had to be shelved for a while due to 9/11...
Re: Crossed lines?
A shock that Crapita are still using outmoded technology? You must not have worked for them...
Re: God no
My thoughts exactly when I read the headline...
on the subject of Funnel Web Anti-Venom
Don't panic Mr Mainwaring:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-02/anti-venom-shortage-sparks-call-to-catch-deadly-spider/4239024
'Copter because it sorrt of looks like a spider...
Can we deduce therefore...
That the people likely to buy this product won't have families? I'd love to see how it would work out preferences from our TV...
'my viewer is watching Top Gear...QI...Er Tree Fu Tom...Horrid Henry...For Boyard...er... QVC...Bid TV.. Pick TV... er Russia Today.. Oh bollocks to that, I'm switching off'
Wonder if you could get a job a la Douglas Adams only instead of analysing neurotic lifts in basements it'll be TV's...
"Look up the samsung Tocco , looked nothing like the iPhone yet was full touchscreen and had its own style of icons, totally dropped in favour of the Galaxy ripoff."
I'm looking at mine right now & it's rectangular with rounded edges...
Re: What I don't get
"Wouldn't it be faster, and make more sense to confirm the patents are valid first?"
Well...yes, but that would derail the legal gravy train...
Re: Oh Danny Boy(le)
Did you even read all of that article?
The very last paragraph states:
"All of the reports above are extremely detailed and extensive, with data covering a wide range of diseases and health issues, in which the UK's performance is variable – from very good to very bad. Focusing solely on the negative outcomes may therefore be a bit of a selective analysis."
Posted in TMS puts the boot into flash
Re: Baffled now.
I scan read the article & didn't see a single mention of cakes - what's going on?
And another thing...
Whilst it's all very fascinating hearing about peoples issues with outsourcing (& I have my own experiences...) nobody seems to have touched on the other major show of incompetence, namely - who, in the name of all that's holy, schedules an upgrade to a major finance system in the middle of the week?
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that!
Re: indian call centres fail our children and our banks!
It could have some bearing on the Lady Di conspiracy too!
There - that's the Torygraph taken care of...
Posted in Dinosaurs on a diet shed tonnes
Hmmm
Will this new methodology soon be available in Bathroom Scales? I could do with losing a few pounds...
Re: Asking for it
Or at least encrypt them...
At the trust I work at, any pc with Patient Identifiable Data has to be encrypted - not only for safety when finally disposing of them, but in case a patient nicks them...
Re: Disunity
"Oh, and sack the manager of every IT department which does not support and will not install any modern software that meets the interoperability specs."
Unfortunately, this doesn't account for the oodles of software purchased by the various departments without IT's involvement who then have to try & make work with what they have.
(And this isn't just an NHS issue - had exactly the same problem in the private sector...
Re: Govt IT - Don't work for it
You've obviously never worked for Crapita then...
Adding more validity to the old phrase 'A fool & his money...'
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Re: The Matrix 2
Any film with Monica Bellucci in a translucent rubber dress can't be all bad...
Posted in Galaxy is teeming with homeless planets
Re: Re: No reference to Flash Gordon???
Mongo only pawn in game of life...
Re: Re: Duh!
According to the SOCA image on that article the music files were STOLEN from the artists. I, for one, hope that if anything by Justin Bieber et al is included that the rozzers do the decent thing & burn them so we don't have to hear them again...
"The fact that some accepted a termination of employment with a months pay as severance is probably better than they would have been offered say 2 years ago"
I may have misunderstood something, but I thought the protest was because the Management reneged on the severance pay after workers had resigned...
Yep
You obviously did...
Aha!
I believe the correct phrase is: " Can I haz ur stuff?"
Type something witty here...
and nice green uniforms..
Posted in Feds indict poker sites, seize domains
You are Free..
"Also so much for freedom of choice for the American people. So much for the "Land of the Free", because they are proving once again its a lie. Being told what choices you are allowed to make isn't freedom, because your master has already chosen what they don't want you to do."
As Bill Hicks said: " You are free to do what we tell you... Go back to bed America..."
Posted in Ten... fantasy swords you wish you owned
ooh!
Love the special edition with Mournblade as well! The price however...
I'm Fairly sure that's Cromer...
A sad loss... I echo the comment about him not getting a proper send off. Thanks for the memories. Some Brig related fun on the DVD tonight Methinks...
Posted in BBC apologises for Top Gear outrage
Is it too late?
I'm just wondering - is it too late for me to sue Fox over the Simpsons Book of British Smiles? I've been offended by it many times...
Perhaps
he should've packed it in with a load of Glocks - they'd have let it through then...
Hmm
maybe the Scalextric route?
Posted in DWP will make feuding parents pay
Ooh Good!
Another government IT project - they always work, right?
Also, didn't the CSA etc tend to ignore private settlements & impose their own levies?
Posted in PARIS joins the 17-mile-high club
Yes indeedy do...
"Just superb. A bunch of tech journos and backroom geeks put a paper aeroplane into space. That's an outstanding achievement, and all the better for being almost entirely pointless; it's great to do something this significant just for the fun of it."
Hear! Hear!
Posted in Apple iPhone exec falls on sword
Watergate
Actually, as Mitchell & Webb pointed out, it should now be referred to as Watergategate...
Posted in Should we be encrypting backups?
a single random tape...
If it's anything like our backup system, you'd be lucky if it's just one. I restored an Excel spreadsheet last week that had, for reasons best known to our backup solution, been saved across five LTO-2 tapes...
Kevin Smith...
Disagrees on pretty much every point:
He was actually EARLY for his flight & asked to be bumped up to an earlier flight.
He could sit in the seat, without using an extender & could get both arms down (the SWA litmus test exactly...)
And it happened on the plane...
I wondered
what David Icke had been up to.
Anyway, I for one etc...
Possibly illegal anyway?
Hmm - What's their stand on Collective Punishment then?
Why should I be punished for what my wife does on her computer or vice-versa?
Last time I looked the families of convicted burglars aren't jailed or fined as well as those who actually committed the crime...
Eh?
Sorry, mind wandered off - what was the article about??
Posted in Doctor Who fans name best episode ever
@KorSha
It's interesting to note that 4 of those 5 Baker eps are from the Hinchcliff era.
Also Davisons Doctor lost his Sonic Screwdriver way before Caves...
Mine's the anorak with the bottle of Clearasil...
Well Done!
I, for one, am pleased that an IT project in this country has been co-ordinated to such an extent & brought about a successful conclusion!
Drinks all round chaps!
/sarcasm
