Posts by Jim 59538 posts • joined Wednesday 24th June 2009 19:13 GMT
Well written article, good pictures.
"...likelihood of a civil servant leaving my 'strong' password on a USB stick in the back of a taxi or a sacked call-centre underling in Bangalore selling my 'strong' password to the highest bidder."
Passwords don't work like that. The Man does not have your password, so he can't leave it on a USB stick. The System does not store your password, so the underling can't sell it.
"Michael Keegan is Executive Director,Technology Product Group at Fujitsu UK and Ireland Region"
The author really should have declared his interest at the outset of the article. Could The Register please ensure that happens in future. As a reader I need to differentiate between editorial/comment/advocacy/advertising and what-have-you.
Given the Author's job, the tenor of his article is unsurprising. I have nothing against Fujitsu, but they don't want to lose business to SMEs, and the views here expressed are redolent of that old IBM slogan - "Nobody ever got sacked for buying IBM". Mr Keegan referring to himself as "We..." does not help matters.
Let's have less GLONASS and more GLASNOST from you m'lad
The only film I ever saw where the cinema audience audibly hated it. About 40 minutes from the end, the film seems on the point of ending. Audience relief is palpable and we are about to leave. When it didn't end, the audience jeered, only to be punished with another 40 minutes of tedium.
Films that employ the worn out "robot wants to be a real person" theme are tiresome anyway (except for Terminator 2). Basically remakes of Pinocchio. Why would a robot want to be a human? Did the director think of addressing that ?
Companies with fancy sounding names have been selling small speakers that "sound just like big ones" since 1973. They *all* sound like small speakers.
When it's at home, my laptop is attached to a 21" monitor and proper keyboard. The built in 15" feels restrictive by comparison. Even 21" feels too small nowadays.
Desktops are sexiest, most upgradable and generally better at every thing than laptops, which are better than tablets, which are better than smart phones.
Laptops good for DVD viewing ? If you like whirring, clanking, and sitting in an office chair to watch your films.
What the hell is a company like Nokia doing not being at the Android cutting edge. And getting into bed with an old dinosaur like MS ? It seems to go against all Nokia values.
I worked for Nokia '94-97 and it seems to be now the exact opposite of what it was then, in every way. The whole company seems to have gone through a crappification process.
Never owned a Commodore but still remember that name from the mid 80s, when he was an easily recognisable industry figure. As C Hill pointed out, good picture at http://justclaws.atari.org/images/tramielf.jpg
Wasn't Edgecombe based on Durham (small) ?
Comments on this forum make me want to read these 3 (on paper). I read That Hideous Strength at the age of 12, which was much too young and an odd experience. There is a right age for some books.
Regarding Christian Music, some of it is not bad - Handel, Beethoven etc.
Much of CLS' work was influenced by his Christian Faith. Most authors are influenced by their own beliefs/philosophy/politics. How could they not be ? I wouldn't describe all his fiction as allegory though.
Are you Oliver Cromwell or Henry VIII ?
I watched the video and the guy's conduct is appalling. I am nontheless disquieted by the fact that you can be jailed in the UK just for saying some appalling words on a single occasion. Oppression is dangerous for all of us, even if it seems right at first. The guy is frightened when he realizes his mistake, even apologizing 7,8,9 times.
Not sure if the chap is a genuine racist or just a sweary dickhead, probably the latter.
I congratulate the guy for making an effective, fun and entertaining video. It may have fooled a couple of Guardian readers, but noone who studied a science beyond the age of 12. Any fule know humans can't power flight in that way for the same reason birds have proportionatly huge chest muscles. Look at a pidgeon - breast muscles bigger then your biceps.
Unless your breast muscles are the size of a car, you're not flying anywhere, not by flapping.
Free market capitalism does not exist like that. It is "restricted capitalism" carried out under a large system of rules. The issue is about what the rules should be and who should benefit from them. In the UK, the rules are usually couched so as to benefit those at the very very top - heads of big coorporations, government minsters and senior civil servants, at the expense of everyone else.
Also in the UK we have the scandal of "intra company transfers", ie. large coorporations importing their Indian workers to the uk (but still paying them Indian wages - kerching!!) to replace Uk staff. Regulations were recently tightened but are half-heatedly enforced, as with many laws governing large companies, so tha scandal continues.
What a load of nationalised horlicks. Brings back memories of when BT was the GPO and the only phones we could get were grey. They are showing similar flair over this "rollout".
Oh yes I nearly forgot, like all citizens Thompson is also eligable for Tax relief on any personal contribution he chooses to make to his pension. Unlike most of us he can claim up to 50%.
How do you hold an iPad ? Put it on a flat surface ? Hold it up and get a tired arm ?
I might be mistaken, but doesn't this chap have the biggest public sector pension in the UK ? Aren't we paying 163k annually into his pension, quite apart from his 600000+ salary ? Why doesn't the state pay into my pension ?
"The law (established by the legal profession) says that you must engage lawyers under a closed shop to persue any percieved infringement in this field no matter how trivial or ill-founded, or lawyers at a later date reserve the right to jeopardize and confiscate your trademark."
Artificial Intelligence.
It would seem reasonable and fair to remove Wood's image from the loyalty card - that image is derived from the films after all - and otherwise leave the pub unchanged.
Unfortunately the legal profession seems to be about "how to make maximum money", and little else. It is certainly of no benefit to the Tolkien estate to rename the pub, nor is it in the public interest, nor will it favourably affect the copyright holder's fortunes in any forseeable way. It will simply keep lawyer's busy for several months at $300 per hour, talking about legalistic trivia which they themselves have enacted specifically to fill time. A socially useless closed circuit.
My FM radios are almost impossible to tune in for the last 3 months. I guess that's when the neighbours got power line networking. Just sayin'.
I can't disprove that of course, just as I can't prove/disprove the existance of God. However, although there are reasons to believe in God, I can't see any reasons to believe He is preoccupied with pasta. Jesus was partial to fish, apparently, if that helps.
PC/Laptop, iPad, tablet and smart phone are complementary products in the ever expanding tech marketplace. One does not always replace the other. However, it is part of a senior marketeers job to say that they do, or will, to make a splash and get attention on his/her firm. That's fair enough.
Tablets are exciting, but the boring truth is that they are unsuitable to replace PCs because they don't have a keyboard.
Off topic, but a startling write up this week in Private Eye about the Vodaphone's tax avoidance infrastructure. According to the article, there is an empty office in Switzerland that Voda rents for like £300 a month, nobody there just a phone line and one accountant in the office above. The office is manned about 1 day in 20 for meetings. But this office makes 2 billion in profit annually. Now that's magic !
Still, if we got that 6 bn we would just have to spend it on boring stuff like keeping pensioners warm, educating kids and defending the Falklands.
Our council executives have to have something to spend their annual 250k on.
Indeed. Skoda in drag, Seat in drag, Golf in drag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_A_platform
Blimey. One mention of "creationism" and we all rush to the forums desperate to be right.
Indeed. It would be the worst scandal since The Phantom Rasberry Blower of Old London Town.
Today's Guardian takes the expected view that these people are zorro-like heroes because they smash other people's computers. Why is a person a dick if they rob/vandelize property, but a hero if they trash other people's computers?
The terms 'genius' and 'brilliant' are bandied as usual, and the back story is also somewhat familiar: Disgruntled IT worker, a bit inadequate, unemployed, has a hack. Thinks he is brainier than the cops, his old boss, FBI, everyone. He isn't, and winds up in custody.
If anyone was clever here, it was the engineers at the FBI, but that idea is not something the Guardian could compute.
Hey look we stuck some lights on it
Looks a bit pricey compared to sheevaplug (£80) and others.
And the battery life is ?
In some ways it is unfortunate that we are shoving unidirectional broadcast traffic onto a voice-optimized packet switched network. You end up with something not very goot at either and very overburdened.
Samsung fell out of my pocket and overboard while rowing on a Lake in Milton Keynes. Afterwards invested in one of those waterproof pouches that keep your phone dry and float.
Five Cores ? The point of a mobile phone is to be mobile, not to be stuck in orbit around the nearest AC outlet.
I've heard it said that nearly all car magazines are on back handers. Not sure about that, but some of them are definitely "committed" to certain brands. Pick up a copy and count the number of pictures in the first 5 or 10 pages. If 90% are of the same brand or two, you are reading xxx. If you can be bothered, count the rest of the pics in the mag. It returns to random after the first 10 pages.
Agree. However the power is eventually generated, a sorted electric car would torch combustion models. An electric motor is small and produces huge natural torque for its size. Never race a tram.
"...Top Gear had staged scenes..."
The whole of TG seems staged, for which reason I fast forward through most of the show. The heavily scripted exchanges are embarassing. This saddens me as a JC fan. He is genuinly insightful about cars and his books are funny and well written. He was the first motoring journalist to spot the "moose" disaster with the early Mercedes A class.
However, in my view the Tesla item was an assassination. JC is part of Murdoch now, and these days you never know what labyrinthine back channels might be operating. For all I know, Murdoch or his buddies might own an oil rig.
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Careful with that despising-your-readership stuff
You misunderstand. I am saying we can't condemn the people who sent kids down the mines in the 1830s, while we ourselves treat people with similar inhamanity in order to satisfy our lust for shiny toys.
While teaching, did your brother have to put up with aluminim dust explosions ? Was his working life so horrifying that suicide nets were spread outside his window ? Etc. etc. Puts you in mind of Britain sending kids down mines in the 1830's. We can't condemn that inhumanity while indulging in a the same game ourselves.
I would rather pay more money for a crappier phone made by people treated like human beings.
Dated maps are a problem. Considering the mapping companies, builders, OS and many others know where every road is, to the centimetre, and when every new road will be opening, to the minute, it is bizarre that a typical satnav is years out of date, even when brand new, and subsequent updates are also years out of date. It is amazing that paper maps are actually more up to date than electronic ones.
We already pay the OS to make Britain the worlds best mapped country. Why can't we just download updates from them every week ? Either that or there is room for some open source solution. Honestly, distributing up to date map data should be almost a no-op.
Are you sure you were working at a bank ? Or were you just at home watching Jurassic Park ?
American companies often provide palatial office environments but what people really want is to enjoy their work and feel valued. A great job in a grotty office is much better than being a nobody in Herman Miller heaven.
