Posts by AnotherBoringUsername 13 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Oct 2013
I’ve had Virgin (up to 1gigabit) at two different properties.
The download speeds are good.
The connection quality is poor.
Using their box in modem mode improves things but it’s still bad.
The connection quality on Sky fibre is miles better.
The customer services and sales process on both is appalling.
This just feels like a spork to me.
I’m sure a few people will love it.
The rest of us were perfectly happy with a spoon, are still happy with a spoon, and will continue to be happy with a spoon.
New browser? Looks more like a badly mangled version of an old browser that hardly anybody will really want or like.
My knowledge of the Big4 in general is as follows:
- They have some smart people and some not so smart people
- Whether smart or not, most are quite overpaid, and more importantly, vastly overcharged in relation to actual experience
- Their insane bills mean they can often throw vast resources at some things that others can’t
- You might get a speed advantage as a result
- You’ll likely get terrible value for money
- The quality has a high chance of being lower than if you just employed real specialists in whatever field it is you want them to do
- So, as another poster says, you’ll probably rack up huge cost on middle management / project cost and pay peanuts / get monkeys delivering the actual product if outsourced. If not outsourced then the man hours at their rates will likely be far too low compared to what a specialist company would have used
So chances are this is another example of winning work due to their aura, connections, or weighty proposals/promises.
Yup, one of those things that all of us (who know about this insanity) fix immediately upon Windows installation, and everyone who doesn't gets shafted by at some point, with the chaos of files with multiple extensions, because its hiding stuff you need to know.
And whilst we're on the subject, whoever invented "desktop.ini" files needs to get back in the sea, immediately.
(yeah, I too like to disable the hiding of hidden/system/any files, which leads to the visibility of these stupid unnecessary items)
Rant over. That feels better.
It’s been downhill since Windows 2000.
If they did nothing other than keep a basic layout like Win2k and improved the underlying performance/compatibility/reliability/security of the system I’d be happy.
Instead, with every version, they seem to keep largely the same functionality, but spend huge amounts of time hiding/moving everything around into endless sub-menus. Or obsess over trying to make everything being touch based. Funnily enough, I know hardly anyone who enjoys jabbing their screen at work, and covering it in fingerprints. The keyboard and mouse system has never been bettered and until such time there’s clearly a better option everyone wants to use this attitude is bonkers.
Another judgement which, if upheld, will only serve to see more criminals escape justice, more people become the victims of crime of all types, and the rest of us paying more because it's more difficult to investigate and prevent crime. Great.
Privacy, much like free speech, is great in principle, but applying it to the nth degree just means more bad things happen to good people.
It really doesn't matter what one individual company says.
Brexit is clearly bad for Britain (that's if Britain even stays together in the aftermath) and ensures we'll essentially become a vassal state as Rees-Mogg (rather ironically) put it.
Not only will we no longer have the bargaining power of a big bloc, businesses will still have to follow almost all the EU rules in order to trade with them, rather than having different production processes for different regions and thereby becoming far more inefficient and uncompetitive, and on top of that will have the increased logistical problems that come from being outside the free trade area of your nearest mass-market.
It's a really really stupid move that all stems from politicians desire to blame anyone bar themselves for Britain's problems and the gullible public and their xenophobia lap it up.
The name should have been changed long ago.
I've got no time for un-necessary political correctness, but at the same time, if you name your food recipe app "Nazi-snacks", it's going to prevent it going more mainstream, no matter how good the program is.
Getting upset about it moving to a more sensible name is miles more silly than changing it to a widely acceptable one.
That's not entirely true. The stock market is definitely interested in the past and present. Heavy discounts can be applied for past under-performance by the company in question, or it's management, or its peer group in general as sectors fall in and out of favour (or premiums for those with a stellar record). Furthermore the more risk-averse markets are, the more cash becomes king, and those companies without a proven (or at least extremely credible) route to profit are going to be discounted heavily.
So whilst it is about tomorrow - the past and present do have a bearing.
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