Posts by dbgi

Amazon 3rd Party Seller

I ordered a box of cable clips off Amazon and received a box of Beef Jerky. No idea how they messed that up.

They want more and more access, but they don't seem to have the resources or the skillset to make use of what they have already got.

Adobe can jog on

Adobe can jog on. It was bad enough when it was £5k for the whole caboodle, but when they moved to the subscription model, it made it even less appetising.

I've now bought all of the Affinity products for our machines. In fact it was reasonable enough that I didn't mind spending the money on the extra licenses/copies for the rest of the family (with macs and PCs).

Actually Affinity does a lot of things better than Adobe anyway.

This is coming from an ex-customer that has been using Adobe products for over 20 years. screw 'em.

How predictable

How predictable. When the reg first reported Nominet's change in business, we all said in the comments something like this would happen.

Where did they get the power?

It amuses me to think that they might have rung the door bell to some resident to use their mains electric socket.

I remember I got marked down slightly in GCSE IT coursework because the examiners didn't understand what how the stuff I had done worked. Basically it was to write a student grading database in excel (yeah, go figure. they probably needed one so got the students to write one for them under the guise of coursework). So I put in a VB6 scripts to do various automatic filtering tasks and make it more intuitive/interactive. This was back in the days of Office 2000. It worked, they just didn't understand how it worked and could therefore not grade me on those bits.

Perhaps I need a forwarding email address for every shop

As an interesting long term experiment, it would be good to setup a forwarding email address for every shop that insists an email address. e.g. Mountain Warehouse, Go Outdoors, PC World, etc.

Then when I get some of those spam emails or emails appearing on pwned, I know where the leak came from.

what about the rest of us.

As a non-vegan-egg-eating person, I find the removal deeply offensive.

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM

They can't answer the most basic questions. Everything is about hype that they can't quantify. Totally a scam. It's a scam for investors who know fuck all about tech but think it is going to be the next iPod of the VR world.

A real shame

I grew up with Maplins as a kid. In the early days it was just a mail order company. I used to enjoy flicking through the catalogue looking for components for my next project as a 9 year old. Nowadays it is like society is dumbed down and can't even wire-up a 13amp plug, so no surprise why Maplin had a shift in market. But then they opened so many stores that attracted the average consumer rather than the specialist market they once were.

As people have suggested though, Maplins used to be reasonably priced on components, but then they started opening more stores and replaced individual components with "goody" bags and selling overpriced tat.

Really, they should have never bothered expanding their line of stores. They should have kept to online sales and made it a more consumer version of farnells/RS.

How much for such a Database

Based on previous government performance, we can almost guarantee that the pooch DB will cost £2 billion and will be scrapped 6 months later. That's probably £2 billion in consultations before development even begins!

Clients always want the best price

It can be a difficult conundrum. On the one hand, a team of developers are sat there waiting to build the best system they can dream of, on the other, is the client who wants it cheaper than you've quoted for and by tomorrow. The management team want the work to pay everyone's salaries and it almost always results in a system which has been heavily compromised.

No one cares until the support team need to constantly fix things or the client can't add an extra feature without it breaking something else.Then it's always our fault.

And so the "terrorists" come up with ways to get round the filtering

Like all government policy, ease it in slowly with moral reasons and people won't notice the subtle changes or care. Then before you know it, it's too late to object.

Project Requirements

Of course I can imagine how the project requirements went.

Rudd: "I want a system that blocks hashtags, everyone knows Jihadists use them"

ASI: "Blocks all hashtags. You got it!"