Posts by Jonathon Green

Re: Are they serious?

Or you could simply accept the need for an extra coffee stop or so and get on with it.

I’ve been running a Nissan Leaf for five years now, regularly doing 400+ mile round trips in a day and even with current mass market vehicle ranges and rapid charging infrastructure provision it’s no more than a minor inconvenience adding about 30 minutes or so to each leg…

To be fair The Bearded One has another operation to do orbits…

https://virginorbit.com/

Re: Just a grunt

Ed Zander was omnipresent in (what later turned out to be) the latter days of Motorola,

I was working as a contractor with the team which used to be Sendo at what (from the mention of TTPCom) I suspect to be around the same time, and at one point when money got tight all of my timesheets had to go to EZ to be signed off. I assume that this actually meant someone in his office rather than The Man Himself but still…

Re: Law enables organisations

It’s probably perfectly safe for the organisations. You and/or I not so much…

Re: £37 billion

“…the sum of £37 billion is what has been set aside rather than what has actually been spent. ”

So it’ll probably end up somewhere around the £100 billion mark in the final accounting then?

Re: Pointless Document Format.

PDF is an ISO standard and has been since 2008.

Download[1] a copy here…

https://www.iso.org/standard/51502.html

…develop from it to your hearts content, and as long as you don’t infringe anybody’s IP on the actual implementation you’re free to sell it or give it away without it costing anybody a penny in license fees.

There (in my view at least) are many things wrong with PDF, but being an Adobe proprietary standard hasn’t been one of them for some time…

[1] Having paid your 198 Swiss Francs…

Actually I imagine it will be those members of staff currently engaged in gardening in that “complex landscape” which has been magicked into existence by the current board, and that if they do walk then there will be no impact at all on the core services Nominet is actually supposed to be providing to its membership...

Re: cuts out a lot of scope for dispute

Bear in mind that if the 2016 election had been decided on popular vote rather than electoral college it wouldn’t have been Trump in the White House in 2020 so, (unless you think HRC would have had the need and the will to resort to similar tactics) the question would never have arisen...

Re: It's all homoerotic crap.

So how’s the weather today in Scarborough...?

This. The reason I have an iPad rather than something significantly less expensive is GarageBand, along with Positive’s Grid Bias amp modelling and a nifty little box which lets me plug a guitar in it provides me with a very handy, hugely effective musical sketch pad I can take (and use) pretty much anywhere...

Re: re: free school meals

If only the SNP fielded candidates on our side of the border...

Here in Braintree I’d certainly take one of theirs over the ironically named James Cleverly given the choice...

Re: But will it be cheaper?

Dunno, but it’ll definitely be cheaper than buying a new house with an extra room which has room for 5 screens... :-)

Re: Airline safety = lives

You still can.

But in a somewhat different way...

Re: ...and where exactly do you live in the US?

None of which has ever stopped the USA interfering in and destabilising the politics of other Nation’s internal politics in pursuit of its own ends.

There’s a certain joyless irony in the sight of the USA visiting the sort of chaos it generally reserves for other nations who deliver election results it doesn’t approve of upon itself...

...but on the other hand when you’ve got decent corporate policies backed up by a proactive HR department it’s a lot harder for shitty local management to screw things up for you....

Re: MRDA/YMMV/SNAFUBAR/Don't Panic ... All Systems are Normal and under our Command and Control ....

Oh God, he’s making sense again. And it’s never good when that happens...

Re: Naughty step

That is indeed absolutely wrong of you. This sort of behaviour is right up there with fast forwarding through the ads on recorded TV or holding magazines over the bin and shaking them so that all the advertising inserts fall out...

Re: Yay! Party time!

‘I think that if the republicans attemp to desenfranchise 10's of thousands of voters there is liable to be civil unrest (I guess)‘

Nobody needs to disenfranchise (or to have seriously attempted to disenfranchise”) anybody for that to happen. All it needs is for someone to reinforce and enable sufficient people In their preexisting beliefs that the system is corrupt, connect them with each other, and encourage them to act on those beliefs. But it’s not as though anybody in a position of influence would ever do anything as irresponsible as that is it. Oh, wait...

Hold on people, it could prove to be a bumpy ride over the next few years yet...

Re: "Our failure was not for lack of trying"

This.

Who cares what happens to the business, it’s employees, it’s creditors, and it’s investors as long as you can skim a few % off the cash flow and exit with sufficient credibility to repeat the cycle a few times. There’s always another plausible idea and a new batch of gullible punters to fleece just around the corner.

Business 2.0[1] baby!

[1] Which I see from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_2.0 0 was the title of a publication covering “The New Economy” which enjoyed impressive growth in the late ‘90s before being sold off to a large corporation and eventually closing down in 2007, never having made enough profit to justify its own existence. Quite apt really....