No Surprise
As long as the management suffer no direct consequences, they'll do nothing significant. It's all about profits innit?
5922 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2007
The only criticism I have of JF is that he didn't properly scope out the ability of the electricians - even that is assuming he was the one who employed them. Most ordinary electricians I have had to deal with are quite frankly numpties.
Also, it is the management's job to assess possible impact on the company not his. Especially when they went directly against his advice on replacing the kit. It seems they didn't even want to know what the risks were, let alone how to manage them.
Being a BBC-ist I went straight from 6502 to ARM2.
The first thing that wowed me was all those (then 24bit addressing) registers, but what really blew me away was that you use any of them for any function - and the instruction set was short enough to be almost instantly memorable!
It seems to me both Intel and Microsoft are now firmly in the 'Me Too' bracket and have no real understanding of what the kit does that they are trying to muscle in on. Neither company appears to have any appreciation of the terms 'lightweight', 'simplicity' or 'efficient'.
c'mon guys. Get your priorities right.
We need countywide high-res full colour CCTV with speech recognition and voice fingerprinting. The spooks will of course have a back door so they can go discretely about their business (along with favoured politicians). The {other} crims will therefore have this ability the following day along with Russia and China. America won't have to bother as GCHQ will pass all the info to them anyway.