Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: Wrong game

"is bound to sell more as demand picks up"

If the demand needs to pick up it might be an indication the market is saturated.

Re: Make sure you get paid

In advance.

Re: Years ago....

No offline backups for the stuff you had to keep?

Which is fine if you live there but not if it's >100m each way, a long way to drive, especially if you're not 100% confident they'd have stock. You can order from our resellers - who are either out of stock or only accepting orders from existing customers.

Great.

Just great.

Re: What's the monetary damage?

"You do know that using the latest Windows isn't viable if you want (need, in more than a few industrial cases) to keep older hardware running?"

I think that was the OP's point.

Re: .. Paying attention to History

It'll be left on Venus's doorstep instead.

Re: Snowballs grow as they roll downhill

He bought it because he had to buy it. Hehad to buy it because he discovered that when he made an offer it was legally enforceable.

Re: The elderly?

Yup. It starts out OK but then wanders into territory that suggests a US equivalent of Dickens. Written by AI?

Re: Various fixes and reconfigurations have been put in place to prevent the issue from recurring.

One of the great things about software sticking plasters is that you never run out of them.

Re: Would it not be cheaper for Google, AWS, Alibaba

The thing the board needs to consider is what happens if it has a cash flow problem; the business will have replaced capex by opex and now has to meet those bill on schedule or go under.

Re: Two words for Microsoft:

But will this voice commanded stuff obey?

"And those tools are: voice-controlled functionality in Windows 11; the updated Bing search engine with its interactive chat-based interface for looking up info; all that Copilot stuff in Microsoft 365, allowing users to create and edit documents among other things using natural-language instructions"

What happens when it's volubly cursed for yet again getting it wrong? Will it swear back? Will it do what it's told such as Bing finally return only what it was asked for and nothing else? Will it cower in a corner or hide by uninstalling itself?

Re: Do people really only use Facebook?

Better to read it on an aggregator than to be sent to some Reach site.

Back before my time, so it must have been the '60s, a filling station on the outskirts of small toen out in Co Tyrone kept getting done over. It was just nicely positioned for lads who'd been out on the booze to help themselves to a few ciggies & some cash on their way home.

Solution: alarm sensor in the filling station, bell in the local police house and a few quid to the local GPO linesman to run a length of twin core between them.

The way i heard it, at one point there were 3 lads doing time in Crumlin Rd., all nabbed separately.

Re: On the contrary....

"designed to reduce the number of Audi drivers"

And for the rest of us, it confirms our good judgement.

Re: "a cluster of Whitehall departments"

"will eventually receive a new ERP system"

That seems a bit optimistic.

Re: Human behaviour

Or in 3 words: gaming the system.

Re: "As clouds offer elastic access to hardware"

It'll stretch the budget.

"the land-sharks"

That's the problem. They're likely to be the ones who get "compensated" (in that strange US-ese way where "compensation" actually means "ordinary payment for the job"). But the FTC has identified the accounts. They've also identified the more egregious cases. How about the FTC and victims get together, agree a meaningfu*l tariff and send an enforceable bill to Amazon .

And no, the bill can't be paid by vouchers only redeemable at Amazon. We'll have no truck with that sort of thing.

* Meaning big enough to require an explanation in the annual accounts.

Re: It's not a "hack"

Tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion isn't. So, yes, if the alleged hack is legal then it is semantically equivalent.