Posts by Luis Ogando 135 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2009
I don't believe it for a minute. Unless we see evidence that the email was actually from the aforementioned lady then we must assume that it is some saddo trying to cash in on the poor woman's plight.
Until she sends a full-length photo of herself in a bikini* we will remain unconvinced!
*Unless she's a right minger, in which case a photo of her driving licence will do!
Well, I notice that the leader of the Left Party in Sweden (no, really, that's what it's called) is Lars Ohly. Everyone knows that Lars is a SURNAME! As in OWEN LARS - Luke Skywalker's uncle! By that rationale he cannot have Lars as his first name!
It's one bloody rule for political party leaders and one for everyone else.....
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Hmm.. Not sure about this. Normally my comments support electric vehicles, but this looks a little too gimmicky for it's own good. The price is a bit high, too. I'm not sure many parents would be happy shelling out ten grand on a run-around for their 16 year old offspring when a slightly less lethal (to others) moped/scooter/hairdrier is a fraction of the cost.
And all those 'added extras' are waiting to be by-passed within a week of release (my mate's already fixed the annoying chime his Toyota makes when you don't wear a seatbelt and he only had it a day!).
Stopped-by-text sounds good. Until your phone's nicked and you can't even drive to the police station because the thief's texted that bizarre 'My Car' number you've got stored!!
Nah, this looks too much like an expensive toy to be viable and doesn't seem that practical (removable windows..?? Come on!). Looks good, but not much use.
Paris, because, well, looks good, but not much use...
Must admit, the whole article seems to be a thinly-veiled bit of advertising to me.
Also, the company I work for has about 30,000 PCs, laptops, tablets, etc. I've not heard of any problems with infected machines, so in order for the numbers to work some businesses must be FULL of infected PCs... Mind you, some probably are!
@EnricoSuarve - Those stats are spot on. Interestingly only 126% of stats are exaggerated!
It's never good when folk lose their jobs, but at least Seagate is addressing the problem properly. Take a look at the likes of DSGi - when they need to save money or restructure they lay off shop workers and call-centre staff. The fat-cats at the top still get their bonuses and salaries.
UK companies take note...
"DSGi crosses fingers on new store format "
I'm surprised. Normally they just flick the middle one up at customers and staff alike (unless they're the board-member-staff-types).
DSGi is, and probably will remain, a haven for the uninitiated to purchase over-priced tat from undertrained monkeys.
This smacks of utter stupidity! Firstly, there has to be at least one law that ensures people are able to perform their excretory duities. Not to mention pregnant women, those with illnesses and medical conditions and children!
Also, it won't be long before someon takes total umbridge at this farce and just craps in their seat. The cleanup cost alone would be more than a flight would make in bog-fare!
Ryanair are to air travel what DSGi are to retailing - a rubbish, liberty-taking half-penny operation that has no business whatsoever in being there!
No matter how you dress this up, BG were in the wrong. A former customer advised a human being (not a computer) that they had changed provider and the human being (again, NOT a computer) assured the (ex)customer that all had been resolved. But it hadn't. BG has a broken process which is the result of people, not computers, and should admit their incompetence.
Also, their claim that computers sent the letters is utter drivel. Did the computer actually WRITE the letter? No. It was written by a person and stored on a computer. If I leave a dozen threatening voicemails on somebody's answer machine I can't get off scott-free because the MACHINE actually spoke to the recipient. Total rot!
Finally a positive result for common sense!
Whether or not you think the Police are thugs the 'poor defenceless kiddies' have only themselves to blame. I've seen them (as have many others, I'm sure) mouthing off at Officers, giving them the 'come on' and acting the big shot. They do this because they KNOW they can do it. After all, who is going to stop them? Nobody. It's against the law to prevent a youngster/minor/child from misbehaving.
And, technically, if you do something because you feel your victim is defenseless, this classes as bullying. Simple as that. Taser the friggin' lot of 'em. Let's see how Kingpin they feel when they're street-dancing on the end of a Voltgiver! Perhaps then they'll learn to stop, listen and show a little respect.
I enjoy reading the Leccy Tech articles, mostly for the comments, so this time I'll get in early before my blood boils too much.
Slagging off companies for at least trying to progress new technologies is Luddite in the extreme. When horseless carriages came along over a century ago people said similar things. And they were right; the 'cars' were clumsy, difficult to drive, unsafe, prohibitively expensive and didn't involve horses! Fast-forward a hundred years or so and we'd be lost without them.
I like the look of this effort. If it catches on then, perhaps in another hundred years, we'll be lauding its descendants over the new wave of [insert as-yet-uninvented propulsion technology here]-powered perambulation.
This survey is total rubbish! Ask any person, let alone an internet-loving student, if they've displayed any form of (slightly) aggressive behaviour recently and the answer will be 'yes'. Add to this the fact that they're dealing with teenagers in an environment where the urge to be the testosterone-filled Alpha Male is very high and the slightly obtuse microcosm of university life (with its associated social structure) upsetting the balance and you have results that bear no relation whatsoever to real life. What an ingenious waste of effort this research was!
And that's before we mention the average internet-loving student's penchant for enhancing their status through tale elaboration. </rant>
I'm off to frag some large-breasted, bikini-wearing, bespectacled secretary cyber-vixens now..
That second picture, the one where the Axel is negotiating "vertically-sloped promontories" (what?!?). Was that done by someone at NASA/JPL?? For feck's sake it looks like something my 6-year-old neice could throw together in about 5 minutes!! I'm in the wrong job here!!
@Dave - Yeah, I can remember. It was about the same time that NASA were actually using cool lunar rovers that could be driven by people.....
"fourty feet long and ten feet diameter? This lard ball only crushed its prey by rolling over them. it couldn't bend itself with dimensions like that. Like folding a phone book in half."
I think you mis-read; it's 40 feet long and 10 feet in GIRTH around it's fattest bit. I suppose all things are relative, so if it was squishing a sabre-toothed tiger or something it would be able to bend enough.
Can't wait until global warming gets to the point where we can expect to see these at Twycross Zoo. Hell, we could feed elephants to it!!
Paris, 'cos she knows what to do with a big snake (allegedly).
I'm sure this won't be the last story about DSGi sacking people. It certainly isn't the first...
The real shame is that not every member of staff within DSGi is a complete moron. In the 'Contact Centres' (even in the old DSG<no i> days they hated the term 'Call Centre') a majority of the staff work hard, do a thankless task and get treated like cattle. Let's face it, most commenters are less than complimentary about DSG(i) and a huge majority of callers to their customer service lines hold the same level of contempt. These staff are in the firing line and get treated like crap by the customer (perhaps with good reason due to poor products) and then by the company who want more than the standard pound of flesh. Then, when things go bad, due to the company not learning from its mistakes, the poor customer service bods in the call centres get the rough end of the stick.
It isn't (entirely) the fault of the workers. DSGi is, and always will in my opinion, be an organisation of box-shifters with no concept of humanity, worth or direction (other than 'down' it would appear).
Good luck to the soon-to-be jobless. I hope you find something better. Good riddance to DSGi. I hope you find the exit!
Surely the perp would be easy to spot; they'd be driving a go-kart with a white steering wheel about the size of a saucer, with no steering column, being chased by an ape, a mutant tortoise, a mushroom and a bizarre (and, let's face it, slightly hot) princess in a peach dress!
Mines the one with the fishing rod cloud on the back..
Surely, once eaten, digested and passed unceremoniously through the digestive tract of any dog, frog or Japanese chef who would dare to eat one of these impossoblobs, the damn things would just remorph themselves back into jellyfish and then feed on the host poo!
Worse still, what if they decide to clone themselves while in the stomach!! EW!
I think I'll pass on that <gag!>
Nottingham is neither North, nor south. It's in the Midlands. The East Midlands, actually. We know this because the telly has East Midlands Today on it..... I think.
Still, a massive clint is wildly entertaining!
Incidentally, it's snowing here in Hannover (that's Germany - possibly North) and all the trams/underground trains are running fine. Vorsprung durch bloody-mindedness!
Paris 'cos, well, she's got a huge clint too (probably)
Come on, let's face it. The ONLY reason the Airbus A380 was even mooted was because of its size. 'Mr President' is regarded as the Most Powerful Man On The Planet (ppfha!) and 'needs' to have the biggest, most sumptuously decked out passenger airliner available. It's got sod all to do with anything else. Fugging ego trip! It's not even like he's fat! We should have RAF-1 in the shape of a flipping GUPPY for our fat 'leaders'!!!
@AC-Runways. Limbs aren't an issue. Most airliners built in the last 15 years can take off, fly and land on autopilot (most of the time better than the actual pilot..). A flight attendant could land the plane if they know what button to press.
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Maybe I'm just being skeptical here, but I'm sure I can smell a scapegoat. If these reviews had resulted in Belkin selling a truckload of products, thus awarding the Big Man huge bonuses, would he be so quick to hand the bonus back? Would he Nancy!
He's the boss, he's responsible AND accountable. They got caught and they need a lag to pin it on. I wonder if this has happened at all in the past.....
As JCL stated above, I also have had a number of Belkin products, all of which have been fine. Mind you, I'd probably write them a good review if they flow me a few freebies...!
Twice I worked for DSG (as it was). First in the shops when I was told by a 'Regional Manager' that the stockroom is 'full of boxes and it's our job to shift them' which probably explains why most staff know cock about what they're selling, and secondly as a projects manager at their Customer Contact Centre (ooh, no. definitely NOT a call centre) where I was made reduntant because, despite cutting a HUGE profit, it wasn't as much as the anal-ysts had TOLD DSG they would DEFINITELY get!! And the CEO? He awarded himself a performance bonus that would have kept me in a job for the best part of 10 years.
I feel sorry for the staff who are about to lose their jobs, I can sympathise with them, but the sooner that cr4ppy, box-shifting excuse of a 'quality retailer' slouches forlornely of the surface of this once-proud land the f*cking better!
<\rant> ...and, breathe..
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