Posts by dogged
1994 posts • joined Monday 16th November 2009 12:21 GMT
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Posted in All gov jobs to go online
I noticed that, too
But at the same time, isn't that better than an indirect subsidy on two levels - the first, paying for the advertising and the second, allowing the Grauniad to tax people who would like to apply for a government job?
If your only argument is the Grauniad's funding, then perhaps the correct response would be "sell more newspapers on your own merit because you ain't the BBC".
Remarkable
That's a very low damages claim, as these things go. Which indicates (to me, at least) that she may have had a decent point rather than just a pack of hungry lawyers to feed.
Posted in IT recruiters warn over migration caps
Skilled foreigners needed
Cheap foreigners needed, more like.
Posted in 3D TV: Avatar or Ishtar?
Not really
I'd much rather have UPnP and DNLA built into my telly than 3D.
3D is a gimmick for content-providers. If you've digitised your DvD library and are keeping it on a server, then plug&play connectivity with that library is far more enticing.
And let's be honest here; most TV manufacturers aren't in the content business. They just want to sell more goggleboxes so I'd recommend that they take steps in this direction. Leave the 3D gimmicry to Sky and just let me watch my movies on my TV with a minimum of hassle.
No, no no.
A drummer is somebody who hangs out with a bass player.
In a similar vein:
So the band go backstage before a big gig and they find their bassist beating the crap out of a roadie. They pry him off.
What's with you?" demands the lead guitarist.
"He's a wanker!" replies the bassist.
"Alright," says the vocalist, "but what's he done?"
"He's de-tuned one of the strings on my bass!" yells the bassist. "And he won't fucking tell me which one!"
Standard Disclaimer: I play bass.
MS Hardware
is normally pretty good, too.
And this seems like a perfectly valid invention, especially for XBox remote controls.
Being thick
Clearly, at least one of the Beeb's webmonkeys reads the Register.
This is called "webmaster humour".
Posted in IPVision FetchTV SmartBox 8000 DVR
yes, you can
and it's full MKV files; they're not small.
Posted in IPVision FetchTV SmartBox 8000 DVR
Media streamer also
If it's like the last version, you can also stream any content available in Windows Media Player over wifi or ethernet (provided your filestore is online).
It does that very well, and quickly too.
Posted in Loud sex ASBO woman spared jail again
Agreed.
No pictures.
This is enough to guarantee that: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01669/catwrigh_1669274c.jpg
moderated?
I don't believe Mail-commentards are capable of using "you're" correctly. Have you edited those?
Posted in SAP hit by competition complaint
SAP need a miss-selling suit
They've promised efficiency to millions of companies who ended up either reworking their entire business model to fit alongside SAP or (more commonly) running all their old systems alongside SAP and just copying stuff over by hand.
The sheer amount of billions that this one product has utterly wasted really makes you wonder what kind of incentives SAP salesmen are offering to execs. What is it? Shares? Supermodel hookers?
How much of a grant can you get for a solar panel, then?
I might have to save up for one.
Howso?
It's semi-publicly funded - so is the Beeb, but they already publish their accounts - and frankly, these days it's in the business of self-perpetuation via cruelty to animals.
Found a neglected pony? Excellent! A few sympathetic photoshoots means the RSPCA "Inspectors" with their faux-police uniforms and burning wish to carry a gun or at least a taser can be employed for another year.
I think they need public examination in order to prove worthy of that Royal warrant.
Posted in Apple: we've sold a lot of iPhone 4s
Makes you wonder
how many Amstrad Emailers were shifted?
story?
I don't think any of us care about your "story", you horrible little marketing-turd.
Give us decent stuff and we'll be happy. So Microsoft does not have a Cult of Ballmer - surely that's a positive point?
You want better press? Then release Windows Phone 7 on time, rock solid and with _more_ features than you've been trying to sell. The Office web apps are good - push them. Win7 is good, roll with it. Make CE7 so good that we all end up wanting WinPads instead of iPads or droidPads.
Do something about Windows Live; it needs help. Kill "spaces" for a start. In fact, why don't you just buy Livejournal - "Windows Live Journal?" - .NET it and go with that?
Make certain the XBox redesign has no RROD issues, that would be good.
Throw your weight behind Mono and Moonlight - you want ubiquity? Then actively try for it.
And never, never try to lock us into an MS worldview ever again. Because that pisses us off.
In short, stick your marketing up your arse and produce something decent. That'll work for you.
But...
Having delivered a system that didn't work, did the MoD conform to it's usual practice of paying for the non-working system and then paying the vendor to fix it?
Posted in Indian firm offshores to Belfast
Plus, of course
the vast level of government subsidy in Northern Ireland which is not present in the rest of the UK.
*shrug*
The list is not endless, but quite large
Full MP's accounts, filed every year
Which "consulting houses" civil servants are using and how much they spend
A full breakdown of the REAL cost of PFI
Who gets hired from industry/commerce
Who leaves to go to industry/commerce
Which companies are involved in the above two items (I want that revolving door closed, now!)
Full salaries, names addresses and telephone numbers of everyone currently on or appointed to a publicly funded quango.
A breakdown of the assets of the National Trust/English Heritage/the RSPCA (all of whom are truly in the business of raising money and pissing people off).
I could go on but I need coffee.
Posted in Pakistan set to ban more web blasphemy
I wonder
Why you quote Stalin and use Steve Jobs as an icon?
Lawn grass
produces almost no nutitional value and usually contains a fairly high level of nitrogen fixers such as clover.
You don't get that in cereal crops.
Posted in Vauxhall Ampera extended range e-car
Diesel?
Sure. Biodiesel would tick many boxes. Or old chop fat, even!
An LPG version would also be interesting.
You're half-right
Israel's equipment is cheaper. In the main though, it's crap.
I used to be a farmer
From a pretty much endless line of tenant farmers. I worked for my dad for about 20 years, all told. (Sure, I fitted school and other things around it but work was always the first priority).
The developers of this are not interested in feeding Africa or anywhere poor because of something they appear to have overlooked - crop rotation. In order to use monoculture effectively, you need some pretty stonking amounts of not just fertilizer (and Steven Jones above is bang on in doubting these dirtboffins' ideas about nitrogen fixing) but you also need some fairly vast quantities of of herbicide, fungicide and insecticide or else you're looking at a dead or useless crop from blight, pests and weeds in a very short time.
This isn't for subsistence agriculture. To my mind, it's just an attempt to sell more agrichemicals with no viable means of escaping the lockin.
traffic wardens
"We also have parking enforcement officers and all their equipment (handheld, printer, etc.) are linked by bluetooth. Much better than cables"
WTB discreet EMP gun. PST.
*sigh*
the point is that high-income workers almost certainly aren't spending anything like a similar proportion of their income on the same stuff.
The "essential" thing is just bizarre anyway. VAT is levied on feminine hygeine products, for example. That kind of little luxury that's so unnecessary for working class folk....
What's essential?
How about your fuel, to get you to your low-income job? That's taxed and will rise with VAT.
How about your clothes? Items such as safety boots or any other adult-sized clothing are not exempt from VAT.
The lower your income, the harder you are hit by non-scaling taxes like VAT. Not that Osborne would know; he's never had a low income.
Not so much media studies.
Take a look at the figures and this is what you find:
M1 - Law by Area 17,346
W2 - Design studies 16,674
C8 - Psychology 15,327
G4 - Computer Science 11,328
N2 - Management studies 10,708
N1 - Business studies 10,597
So, we have designers to copy designs, lawyers to sue them for it, psychologists to declare that this all this litigation is stressful, comp-sci guys trying to keep it running, BusSci guys trying to make money out of it and managers getting in everybody else's way and doing nothing of value.
*shrug*
Media studies would be an improvement on some of those.
logically, then
You're suggesting a cull. Would you like to volunteer to be culled or are you going to choose who gets it?
Dawkins vs Gould
"Adaptation and genetic selection works too damn slowly to enable us to natively handle these conditions"
This is also a matter for debate and is not yet decided one way or another.
Balance is toss.
Balance is every time the BBC talk to a doctor, having a homeopathy-fiend in the studio to say "that's all rubbish, what you need is some poison diluted 300,000,000 times". Balance is having a flat-earther on to argue with people from NASA. Balance is giving the same air-time to Nick Griffin that you give to an actual political party.
Bugger balance.
"ow, you fat penguin!"
We should all strive to emulate the Blues Brothers.
Simple solution
Don't buy one of these printers.
Posted in Birmingham jihad-cam network suspended
No.
There's a difference between paranoia and sound judgement based on highly established precedent.
Reason:
Journalist discount.
Posted in Birmingham jihad-cam network suspended
Cloud-cuckoo land
"but presumably once the cameras have done their work they will be removed"
Was that sarcasm? I really can't tell.
No. They would not be removed. They're never removed. That would involve the Police and Local Authority not deeming themselves Supreme Masters of Everything.
Posted in Birmingham jihad-cam network suspended
Watch this space
It'll be interesting to see how/if the the racist press reports this.
One the one hand, they hate CCTV - quite rightly. On the other, they hate immigrants and muslims, too. Editorial meeting time for the Express, Mail and Telegraph, then.
title
"Mahoney told District Judge Donovan Frank in a hearing in federal court yesterday that a 15-year-old child could hack into Wi-Fi and spoof email as Ardolf is alleged to have done."
True story.
Posted in Sarko to walk tall in factory visit
Wellington
was about six foot two, according to wikianswers.
Posted in Sarko to walk tall in factory visit
pedantry
If I'd meant a proper French answer, I'd hardly have used the term "shagging".
et "bon baisers" à toi, aussi.
Posted in Sarko to walk tall in factory visit
Answer:
"Non. Moi, je suis shagging Carla Bruni. En coulez".
I'll get one
My ex took mine when we split up :) Good for her, too, since I didn't need it/want it taking up space at the time.
But I'll definitely grab the chance to upgrade.
