Posts by Steve Davies 3

It is called playing to the voters

It is election year and Trump himself has said that he's gonna win by a landslide.

"Whatever you are relying on the internet for..."

A quote from their current UK TV advert.

What a load of bollocks.

This won't...

- End well

- cost less than 20 times the original budget

- be delivered any time before 2035

- be recognisable (functionality wise) from what was originally scoped

It will :-

- be dogs breakfast of bodges and horribly cobbled togerher dog shite set of applications.

- not what was asked for in any shape or form

- shite of the highest order.

One thing is certain

and that is that the number of jobs and kit in Blighty will get an awful lot smaller and possibly down to around ZERO.

IBM really does mean "I've Been Mugged" for each and everyone affected by this move.

Upgrading your ERP System? Now?

or within one year must be mad. Who knows where the business area will be like in 2021 or even 2022? Will your company still be alive? Wasting funds on anything other than survival at the present (unless it is allocated and ringfenced and/or needed by impending regulation) is bonkers.

Protecting your cashflow is or should be the number one concern of all top management unless you happen to be a Premiership Footballer when your agent will point to the relevant sections of his players contract and say 'up yours. Pay what it says in the contract or my player is off to pastures new (or words to that effect)

Upgrading any ERP system is iffy at the best of times. To do it now could be considered just pouring large amounts of dosh straight down the nearest drain.

Who'd a thought it eh?

MS going on the 'Never-Never' bandwagon.

I expect an awful lot of people will not join them. There are alternatives as has been mentioned. I really only need Word and Excel. Actually Pages and Numbers work just fine for my limited use. Anything more and there is Libre Office.

MS late as usual and may find that home users will not want to keep on paying forever. My neighbour has axed Sky and Netflix since the beginning of the month due to next to no money coming in.

With an awful lot of people on limited incomes at the moment, they really have chosen a great time to launch this.

That's another footgun moment for MS.

Really?

Big Tech Company 'embiggening' their figures for something that is later found to be wrong?

This is hardly news to those of us who have been around IT for more decades than we care to remember.

Is this really any different to what Facebook etc are doing?

with their moves to limit the amount of Covid-19 related Fake News?

Not worth the bother

This made me smile.

The risk is that when Windows 10X does appear, many applications will not work right, users will try it out and decide it is not worth the effort.

Now where did we see that happening before...

{don't all answer at once}

Yes, you got it, Windows Mobile

MS still trying to foist touch screen goodies onto us even though 99.9999% of us don't have anything more than a traditional desktop or non touch enabled laptop.

How will the Seattle Covid-19 lockdown hit their schedules? Perhaps 'holiday 2021' might be more appropriate?

See that Iceberg on the port bow?

There is a lot more of it beneath the waves just waiting to do a lot of damage.

How many more products that we posess (i deliberately avoid saying own because with all those subscriptions it is debatable as to who actually owns anything these days) have all those compliance labels but are actually non-compliant?

A few decades ago companies would spend millions making sure that FCC regulations were met. The buzz that my radio makes when I switch on some modern IT kit tells me that someone somewhere is cutting corners.

It is not just phones.

My fridge died last week. A £2.00 (or thereabouts) PCB had failed. Could I buy a replacement? 'Nope'. 'no chance', 'Not available' and 'You gotta be joking' were just some of the responses I recieved.

So it was taken to the local Recycling Centre and I bought a new one (different make) at a cost of over £100.00.

Madness.

It won't only be Apple that it putting up a fight to stop this. All those 'White Goods' makers will be on the bandwagon.

Try getting a bearing for your Bosch washing machine? good luck with that. Even dedicated spares providers can't supply one.

This will end in tears for someone....

Wider than that

The lack of updates (mostly due to planned obsolescense by makers) to billions of Android phones made the BBC Radio news this morning.

Then you have Samsung saying that their latest phones will only get two versions worth of updates really leaves me with a lot of confidence in the androis platform (NOT)

https://9to5google.com/2020/03/03/samsung-galaxy-s20-android-updates/

Talk about throwing good money down the toilet. sigh.

Well worth visiting

a great diversion from the hectic M6.

This and the Bridgewater Canal (not named after the place in Somerset but after the Duke of) are well worth a visit.

Halton Lighthouse (also used as a jail) on the Mersey is good as well.

There are lots of other industrial artifacts around the area that are not as well known as this. Get your exploring tinfoil hat on though!