Posts by zebthecat 115 posts • joined 23 Jun 2008
I really like my Priv and am pretty hacked off about this news. The overheating thing was sorted out a while ago and I love the combination large screen and keyboard.
Plan to carry on using it until it finally dies but won't be purchasing another BB after this. If you can't be arsed to carry on supporting your products then don't expect anyone to buy them.
They’re introducing a bunch of new 3D animated emojis that are based on the user’s facial expression...
...when they are having a poo
Eh?
SDI was a catastrophic and expensive failure, not one of the projects succeeded.
D'Amore, however, presents precisely no evidence to back up his supposedly scientific assertions. Firing him was a bit harsh but don't pretend that this was a well researched paper. For all the apparent logic the premises of arguments are worthless
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
So now we know why they were first up against the wall when the revolution came.
Anyone who tries to sneak comms stuff into my toater can go stick his head in a pig!
Me neither - I guess there must be some use case but I can't think of one apart from spying on your own family.
Very weird
Sounds as if they weren't actually doing Agile at all but merely spouting the management bullshit that can surround it.
The projects I have been a part of that did use Agile were all about delivering working software first and foremost. From what i can remember that is pretty much top priority in the original manifesto.
"Traditional relational database system do this by only having one master, the keeper of the truth and slaves which keep copies and may actually be wrong!"
Unless you use the Master/Master circular replication set up that is
You have clearly never coded a Java web properly so shut your cake hole.
Ignorance is not a strong position from which you should try to frame an argument
Long form TV, however, would be a perfect fit.
I'd love to see Netflix/HBO/whoever take on Use of Weapons
"And you forget the only thing that matters: Germany needs to export to the UK. Their auto industry will be rioting if the EU insists on tariffs."
Hi Govey!
You're flat wrong by the way. Politics will trump economics - the EU will not give us tariff free access unless we accept the four freedoms and that is that. They cannot give us a special deal as it will encourage others trying it on.
I have an open mind about this.
Where I work we have a large collection of web applications running on a portal server and deliver new stuff monthly using agile and continuous deployments and it works pretty well. Probably the most productive I have been in twenty years and our business bods are pretty pleased with what we do.
One of our management people is muttering about DevOps (largely because our ops team aren't particularly good) but I have yet to hear anything about how this approach will help us be more productive, it appears to be all about architecture rather than actually churning our working new stuff (which is what the business side are actually interested in).
Does anyone here have any practical answers?
I have read papers that say that data (which, after all, is the heart of most applications) is difficult without actually explaining how this difficulty is overcome.
I thought that sharing personal data without consent was contrary to the data protection act?
Might be pretty hard to get the private to play nicely if the government decides it is above the law
Not surprising that the Hayek inspired IEA are calling for a slashing of regulation as that is their only strategy. Worked for the banks didn't it?
Indeed they do
They are also running a devops security roadshow tour at this very moment
Pretty obvious that one:
Trump and Putin have been acquaintences for a while.
Trump is rowing back on the US's NATO article 5 commitments (collective defence).
Trump thinks Russia didn't invade eastern Ukraine (even though they admitted it).
Trump is, by nature, an isolationst.
All this would give Russia a free hand in foreign policy to carry on its military adventurism unchecked by the US. Trump's comments on article 5 could potentially leave the Baltic states vulnerable to an invasion similar to Ukraine
Got a 3DTV a few years ago by accident purely as it was at a huge discount (and a bloody good plasma screen as well).
Have watched a fair few 3D movies on it and only two have ever worked well (even Gravity was so-so). This two were TT Closer to the edge because the on bike 3D sequences are terrifying and it really brings home how scary the TT course is. The other was Dredd purely for the 3D blood flying everywhere in balletic slomo.
You are in the right anatomical area
Perverse it might be but that is exactly what the leave campaign implies
According to the article they deal with the failing cloud.
Funny old business model that
"He assures them, with apparent belief, that the company will remain independent of the Beast of Redmond."
I give it two years max
Disagree completely - I have worked in three places that did Agile well and it worked very well indeed. As far as I can tell the main thrust of the article is creect in that you really need everyone (especially the business sponsors) to buy into it too. If they don't understand the process then you might as well not bother..
Says it all in one sentence *sigh*
...that is the most idiotic comment I have read for a while. It is satirical I hope.
There, indeed, are - I worked for one.
I am pretty sure their two main cluster incarnations have been since 1990 (I recall rewriting some ancient C++ code that run there where the previous edit had been done in 1992 and this was five years ago).
They also did a full data centre move, mainframes and all, in a weekend which was pretty bloody impressive.
OpenVMS really is spectacularly resilient, the only downside (apart from debugging which was hideously slow) was the boxes puny network cards.
That reminds me.
Years and years ago my department's intranet web server lived in the same office as the network manager (next to mine) as there was nowhere else to put it and it had a dinky UPS to keep it alive just in case.
However, when the time came, and some Thames Water workers accidentally cut the power cable for our building.
1. Everything goes dark with just the sounds of dying fans piercing the silence.
2. There is a loud explosion
3. The slightly singed Network Manager stumbles, coughing, out of his office in the midst of a cloud of smoke.
4. Smoke alarms go ape (thanks to PP3 batteries)
I have been wary of UPSs ever since
Many years ago the company I worked for was merged into our parent and, as a result, we moved into the parent company's office building.
The whole move was organised by the MD including a nice little goldfish bowl for said MD.
Rather callously the MD's prize for the smooth office move was getting fired on the Monday morning directly after the weekend of the move itself.
I arrived on the office on Tuesday morning to find crime scene tape all over the ex-MD's office complete with chalk dead body outline and oodles a fake blood.
We never did find out who was responsible...
No wonder you posted as AC.
Ignorance is bliss and you are very blissed out.
I am old enough to remember the days when most employers recruited bright kids and then trained them. If a company is short sighted enough not to even consider this approach when the job market is competitive then tough titty.
...My home connection went iffy last night and still is this morning,
I called BTs help line to be informed that their fault recording system is down for "maintenance" and could I call back in 2-3 hours.
Useless planks!
I am with you on that, the BBC is too important to leave to (quoting Robin Day) "here today, gone tomorrow" politicians.
The charter renewal should be the responsibility of a non partisan body and this should lead it to be less open to party political abuse.
Also the license fee is becoming increasingly anachronistic (even if it is a simple and cheap way of collecting revenue). I think it should paid from general taxation BUT there should be legislation to protect it from the grasp of the Treasury.
The idea that it should not attempt mass appeal TV is ludicrous and a pretty transparent ruse to make the BBC a lesser broadcaster therefore easier to take to pieces politically (having said that - The Voice is still shite).
A couple of years ago I had the letter asking to change my electricity meter for a smart one as the meter was due for replacement (it looked pretty new to me).
I said no thanks but was happy for them to put a new dumb meter in,
Never heard back
There is now way that this HP will have enough grunt to play Minecraft acceptably and certainly won't be up for video editing.
What on earth are these smart meters meant to achieve?
Unless they have some magic powers to reduce electricity if course. Do they contain some secret electical fairy dust?
...that the GDS was staffed entirely by Agile code ninjas. Have we been misled?
...in that glass was a stupid idea in the first place and no amount of positive PR was ever going to change that,
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