Posts by Polyphonic
17 posts • joined Monday 7th November 2011 19:47 GMT
World leader wedded to market economy, privatisation and private property ruins the UK
World leader wedded to market economy, privatisation and private property ruins the UK
In later years we will recall that a world leader in the 1980's changed the UK economy and the global economy for ever, and not always for the good.
Not it was not Margaret Thatcher or even Ronald Reagan, but Deng Xaioping who had the most immediate impact when he liberalised the Chinese economy and it became cheaper to manufacture in China than Manchester. Not a new phenomenon, the cotton mills of England went when the cotton was woven nearer where it was grown, but one overlooked when viewed with the parochial eye of blaming everything on M. Thatcher.
I saw someone say she was a warmonger too. Let's balance it up, 1 war (the Falklands), the ongoing Troubles in NI and I think that was about that. Whereas the peacenik T Blair had at least five wars or interventions to his name within 6 years.
She was strong government when strong government was needed. She made mistakes, I feel the poll tax was not one of them, but there again I've always been a rate payer, but she is not to blame for everything. When all is said and done we are responsible for our own lives and shouldn't expect someone else to sort everything out for us.
Degrees of torture
I have an Open University degree (maths and computer science and worked in IT (and still do) whilst I studied. But my children's experiences are:
Number 1 son, civil engineering degree, now works in IT change management
Number 2 son, physics degree and works in Nuclear engineering
Daughter, turned down a place on a media and music management degree course, worked her way up from call handler to area manager in the same firm and on the way up has managed graduates from the course she turned down who are now call handlers.
Posted in Review: Britain's 4G smartphones
Re: Orange or EE coverage
People don't like mobile masts as they think it fries their brains but like huge TV masts, and in our village repeaters, because they cannot do without Bargain Hunt. Even then some of us have to rely on freesat because we cannot get a terrestrial signal. Mobile signal propagation is challenging, as is any radio signal, and up to now the spectrum available hasn't helped.
EDS was not a basket case
EDS was the only profit making part of HP for the first 2 years and paid for itself. Poor management by HP was the reason for any decline.
Shying away from established markets and not following up on leads because services could not make the hardware margin (40% or more) was what screwed an otherwise good business.
The men in suits were the death of EDS and HP had the biggest suits.
Re: EE
I'm on an EE box and it is excellent. Never had any coverage here and now 5 bars all over the house and some distance into the garden. It has been a revelation. We can text our family, and phone them on our mobiles at home rather than going up the to the top of the hill!
Re: 2 Mb/s - whats the point?
I live in a rural part of the area covered and we don't get 3G and 4G is a dream along with fibre. Without fibre for the backhaul we are aren't likely to get 4G
Re: Aim low to ensure disappointment
Well I live in the area, on a very rural exchange, and we already get better than 2mps so it's money for old rope. We don't get mains gas because no one wants the challenge of laying the infrastructure so there was never any hope of getting Virgin interested. Old beardy likes his consumers in a heap.
BT will just beef up the existing infrastructure in the big towns and ignore the rest for a few years.
Re: I still don't understand what 4G is for!
Your 3G problems are down to capacity and it is not just calls. There will be a lot bandwidth taken by data users, I'm guilty of that, I use my phone to listen to the radio (nice all I can eat data deal on my contract). It is better to switch to 2G if you just want to phone as this is under utilised, unfortunately your phone will always try to use the 3G service it that is available. Your signal will show strong it is the backhaul that will lack the capacity.
With a 4G service all the data users should be using the 4G leaving the 3G clear for voice and SMS.
Re: Two people that won't be missed?
Outsourcing works on paper but is based on a false premise. What most companies miss when working up the case for outsourcing is the amount of unrecorded support and "favours" that most companies with in house support work on. Your keeping a block of cheap mice is a prime example. Before we outsourced our facility work I could get a 1 amp fuse from Tech Support and replace the blown fuse in a desk socket (which was normally down to the cleaner and her hoover) in a couple of minutes. After outsourcing it cost us £160 per visit so we had to wait until a lot of the desk fuses had blown before making a call.
Who do I contact at Apple to report a copyright infringement?
I want to report a copyright infringement to Apple. I asked the old woman in the library for directions twice and both times she sent me to the wrong place. Clearly she is using the new Apple maps without a licence.
Re: I completely disagree
@Nine Circles
I understood the interpretation of the Best Buy reports was that people bought a Samsung Tablet thinking it was "just like an Ipad", a bit like the "Just like a Golf" adverts that ran some time back in the UK. In which case should I take my Renault back to the dealer and demand a refund because it's not a Golf?
Defenders of truth and soft porn
I note that in the past the Daily Mail have defended the anonymity of twitter users when other rags have reached for the lawyers. Not so f***ing defensive when the guy is twittering about them.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt
Nothing new here, pass on. EDS culled EDS employees to make the company look good to the vampire squid, then HP started culling yet more employees to boost the share price, so this is nothing new. The unions were rubbish then and no different now. HP won't take any notice.
The fact is HP no longer innovate so the only way they can make money is by sacking employees and looking through their rather bare IP cupboard for some "patent wars".
And what's more
And what's more HP have just lost a couple of contracts with the MOD and others that used to pay the bills. HP were in deficit until they bought EDS with it's big services portfolio.
Nooooo
Paymaster do a good job, they have never screwed up my pension.
Crapita and CSC on the other hand cannot handle anything correctly. I guess they will be "leveraging" their vast employee pool of overseas drones.
Still HP have a habit of losing business that EDS had held for years.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
So dire they never released it on DVD
Cannibal Girls, saw it on the big screen, awful but it kept me out of the rain.
9% not a few pence
The actual extra on an electric bill is 9% for renewables and environment which is a bit different to a few pence.
On a bill of £1000 per year for all electric assisted housing that's a large lump.
This is a transfer of cash from the poor to the well off. It goes to roof renters too, so big business reaps the profit as well.
