Posts by MrCheese 179 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2010
Well, for starters I don't own any other appliancs that threaten to burn me alive if I don't unplug them and close second would be that if I did own a life-threatening appliance I wouldn't get a flat-out denial of the problem of very begrudging warranty replacement.
What makes and otherwise run of the mill product defect newsworthy is the Jobsian Mob's attitude towards taking responsiblility for the shoddy workmanship you pay the Crapple tax for.
Locking the gate after the horse has bolted eh? And trust the Merkins to try and classify as a terrorist anyone who makes them look foolish or dishonest.
I'm not sure I'm a particular fan of Assange but somone has to hold those in power to account and until someone comes up with a better system we'lll have to settle for Wikileaks.
Note to all western government, keep your noses clean and you won't haveto fear the next data dump now will ya!
It's no excuse to bury the problem and screw your customers though, that's what law-dogs are for...any losses you incur you can reclaim from the dodgy supplier.
Dell are reowned for swithcing suppliers every 5 minutes to keep costs down and you'd have thought they could have done in this case too.
I'd like to see how this develops, if you'd ever worked in any retail environment you'd know that the supermarkets very deliberately make it impossible to find anything, it keeps you looking at more shelves for longer, for instance in an unnamed orange branded supermarket all brand name products are at the centre of the aisles meaning you have to pass the maximum number of alternative products to get to what you want.
Supermarkets even charge suppliers for preferential placement of their products in "high-traffic" parts of the store and I can't see this tidy little system being undermined with a mobile app; I think we'll see many retailers choosing not to share their data.
If it weren't for the fact that any pan-european project has three times it's value skimmed off the top for something that rolls of the production line obsolate.
And for an aircraft manufacturer to so massively misinterperate the costs of building it demonstrates that a hell of a lot of people in this project need a damn good sacking for sheer, mind-boggling idiocy.
Don't make me laugh, what planet are you from, what bridge did you come ourt from under? You're actually suggsting a phone/tablet using 3/4G to remote onto a VM to actually use as you would laptop!?!
With the UKs paltry excuse for a broadband infrastructure I sometimes struggle to RDP to machine in the office a few miles across town, let alone doing it down the end of a mobile connection on the fly...that's the beauty of having a laptop!
And for the money you're spending on the iPad you could have a damn good laptop, and don't give me the "too big and cumbersome angle" because there's not really much difference in carrying one or other apart from the delusion that the £400 couldn't have better spent!
The only reason cloud computing is being touted as The Next Big Thing is to justify these stupidly massive, ever expanding datacentres that everyone's building. Cloudc omputing is a means to prop up the server market thus counterbalancing widespread uptake of virtualisation and reduced spending as a result of the downturn.
Native apps on a fat client are best, it's easier to replace the client than it is your web connection, fact!
It's an optional download, not a critical one so no antitrust here, just AV vendors wringing their hands at the the thought of lost business.
MSE is actually rather good, low CPU overhead and virtually no excessive bloat, I'm about to replace AVG Free with it in fact.
Maybe the AV industry should work on things like cutting out the bloat and making definition updates cheaper (nay free?) if they want rest a little easier at night...
So the USA are trying a different idea are they? Well I'm not going to critisise...noy yet at least. It could well be another demonstration of how far the current administration are willing ostracise the nation to satisfy their oil-lust, but then again can anyone say that cabon trading works? Has it lowered emissions or just made it more expensive for businesses to consume fuel at the same rate they always have (e.g. is a just a fat green tax?)
Until there's solid reliable evidence that carbon trading actually motivates people to converse energy rather than just pay more for it, I don't think it's fair to criticise them that much. This article seems to focus too much on the "next big lucrative market" rather than whether this deterrent really works.
"Jose Manuel deserves a special mention for his balloon-handling technique, which involved calmly smoking a cigar with his free hand while noting: "Well, it's not hydrogen, is it?""
Awesome, just awesome :D I can't believe PARIS appears to have missed all obstacles on her descent, baffling!
What self-important twazzock needs WiFi on a tube platform!?! What's the longest wait for the average train down there? Three minutes, four? What the feck do you need four minutes more access for?? How many digital eggs does one really need to boil, surely this money would be far better in BT's case, on the 21CN upgrade and in the Tube's case, much needed critical infrastructure work?
Fail, epic, epic fail :(
I'd have been lost had Vulture 1 not been recovered after all the effort that went into this awesoem project! Hearty pats on the backs for the entire PARIS team, very glad to hear that from the minor damamge it must've flown rather than fallen :D
Here's beers, to go with Iberian Vino Destructo!
The corporate network and it's connected devices are merely productivity tools, the ONLY reason you get to use them is to make you more productive, they'erenot your toys and the company has every right to decide hat you can and cannot do, if a restriction is in place that prevents you from doing your job then there's a change control system for that but you sound like some freetard who thinks he's above the rules and gets to the corporate network as if it's his own toy
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