Posts by Jonathon Green

Re: Clearly out of control

But why would they do that? Nominees actions seem entirely within the norms for companies conducting business with, for, on behalf of the current government, c.f ferry companies with no ships....

An interesting definition of “...the little guys...”.

Re: @AC - There is a huge bubble with s***talking elephants in the room

When our resident LGM makes more sense than tech company market capitalisations then you just know there’s a reckoning round the corner....

...but hopefully not until my employer conceives and executes an exit strategy which makes the considerable number of stock options I’ve accumulated In the years since we were four people in a serviced office worth more than the paper they aren’t printed on. :-)

Re: targeted by four managers within IBM

This is sarcasm, right?

Re: It is autopilot but not autonomous

There are bucketloads YouTube videos and EV forum posts with Tesla owners proudly boasting of doing ridiculous things with Autopilot engaged and companies have actively marketed devices to defeat the safeguards which are supposed to prevent that sort of thing.

Are Tesla’s accident figures broken down by geographical territory? Given the Standards of driver training and the level of driving standards regularly demonstrated in their home market it probably isn’t at all difficult to outperform the meat there...

Or vice versa...

...and there’s always the next pandemic.

Presumably we should only be accepting special pleading from across the Atlantic and start kowtowing to the USA...

Upvoted for the mention of “The Beiderbecke Tapes”, a bloody fine, entertaining piece of TV which had slid away into the hinterlands of what I laughingly call my memory, and which I’m pleased to be reminded of...

Re: Who was really at fault?

“ I'm wouldn't be surprised to learn that hotel receptionists today would do practically the same.”

My wife works as a housekeeper in a well known budget hotel chain.

And the answer is yes, they absolutely would, because they’re working to inflexible checklists, schedules, and requirements which say that certain very specific things have to happen in certain very specific places within certain very specific timeframes. If they can’t show that those things have happened then the consequences range from loss of bonus payments (which while derisory are still a big deal when you’re dealing with the pay scales at the bottom end of the hospitality industry food chain) to disciplinary proceedings.

So yes, if they haven’t got specific written instructions from local management, signed off by the people at head office who audit and compliance check the time sheets, daily reports etc then damn right they’re going to unplug your server to do the hoovering,,,

Re: Sorry, too late...

Down votes for a cataclysmic failure of imagination.

Being able to decode a signal would be amazing, two-way communication would be awesome, but simply having real evidence that another technological society existed (or had existed, even if it was in the distant past) somewhere in the universe would be world shaking in itself....

Re: Fuck you Boeing

By a strange, dark coincidence I’d just (re)listened to that album for the first time in years when I came across this story, and, well...

Synchronicity works in strange, sometimes rather disturbing ways - it’s a reminder that we’ve been here before and that unless something surprising and unlikely happens to human (or corporate) nature we’ll probably find ourselves back here again.

Re: Imp Y Celyn from Llamedos, spelled backwards, "sod 'em all"

Hmmm... Bud of holly.

Is that sung to the tune of Cwm Rhondda[1]?

[1] Frequently referred to as “Bread of Heaven” by us culturally insensitive English types...

Re: Let's settle this empirically.

Or alternatively we could replace a few CEOs with pro Fortnite players and Fortnite players with CEO and compare results. I have strange feeling that the Fortnite players will turn out to be better at being CEOs than the CEOs will at being Fortnite players...

Re: No Adobe patches

That and fixing the Creative Cloud stuff so that it works on macOS Catalina...

Re: No Meat... No IPO!

Is the cow engaged as a subcontractor is a zero-hours basis?

Re: No s##t Sherlock...

So why is extending the right to buy which public sector tenants have enjoyed to private sector tenants such a bad thing?

Are private sector tenants Bad People who don’t deserve the same opportunities as public sector tenants??

Re: Is that allowed

On the basis of the article nobody’s refusing anything.

The way I parse this is that Lynch’s team decided that they didn’t need the testimony of these witnesses and so aren’t going to be calling them. HPE’s team are trying to make something out of this, but if they felt that this particular set of witnesses and their testimony were important to HPE’s case then surely they could/should have called them themselves...

Re: 50 miles???

“Try using solar power in the UK on a cloudy winters day!!!”

Person with standard ~4kW rooftop solar installation on the roof and Nissan Leaf parked on the drive here.

Actually it seems to work surprisingly well, far better than I’d have expected. On the basis of my electricity bills over about an 8 year period, comparing before and after we got our first Leaf 4 years or so ago, and with a ~30 miles round trip daily commute it looks like a pretty substantial majority of the electricity for the car has been coming from the solar panels. Add a fairly modest battery installation to smooth the peaks and troughs and I think you probably could cover the lot...

Re: Quality Control

There’s a very good back street[1] repair shop near me which specialises in Rolls Royce and Bentley motors, has a world-wide reputation for the quality of their work, and for their apparently magical ability to source high quality alternatives (sometimes better than the original in some respects) for hard to obtain bits for older cars. They also rebuild aero engines, including RR Merlins. Damn right I’d take a poorly Turbo R (or whatever) there...

[1] It’s actually in a rambling, apparently decrepit range of buildings on an airfield in the middle of nowhere, but you get the idea, and they certainly aren’t RR franchisees....

It is absolutely logical thinking. If you treat people in an unprofessional manner then you shouldn’t be surprised if/when they start to behave in an unprofessional manner too.

Since there’s no fucking way I’d ever work for a company where anybody behaved disrespectfully towards me (and when it turned out I had been suckered into a company where such attitudes were common I was back out the door faster than you could say “probationary periods work both ways”) the situation has never arisen...