Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Worth a visit

..cramped for a lanky bloke like me!

Anyone who is taller than about 5' 6" or wider than a 30" waist will find the carriages snug.

To be fair, though, this railway was never designed to transport humans but letters and parcels, so it's fantastic that they've managed to shoehorn in trains to carry humans.

Re: Local Authorities

There was one near me where the council said that the supermarket could only be built if the company also paid for a community center.

One top-of-the-range community center duly appeared!

Re: Measurable KPIs

Our contracts people love putting KPIs in contracts. The problem is that mot of them are unmeasurable or the sample size is too small to be meaningful.

Re: Deskjet - sold for $1,000, and not subsidised.

If memory serves, inkjet printers were in their infancy back in the 80s. At that time, the main printer technology was dot-matrix, with 24 pin dot-matrix being the expensive pinnacle of the technology.

Re: VB, phone home

Some companies have a requirement in their licenses agreement that you have to allow their product to phone home and report usage. Failing to allow the phone home can result in a letter from the vendor demanding more money.

Re: The "Cloud" is great until it's not

I'm pretty sure on-premise services have problems too. The difference is that the outside world rarely notices when an on-premise system goes off-line.

Outages in public cloud services, by their nature, are, well, more public.

Re: No thanks, we've already got one...

Amanfrommars's output is far too complex (& almost coherent) for an AI to generate.

3%.... how can you run a business on 3%?

We've got contracts where the supplier margins are quoted as 1%. Clearly the reseller is getting massive kick-backs from the manufacturer.

Re: re: Once desktop processing power became sufficient to crack the encryption

For some reason [print spool folder] was writable by everyone.

Er, and how else are users meant to submit their jobs to the print spooler?

Re: Please don't call them hackers. That's offensive to us hackers.

Back in the day (70s?) there was a clear distinction between a hacker & a cracker. But the mainstream media didn't understand the difference and settled on the word "hacker" for both use cases.

Re: Conflict withe GDPR?

All the data protection laws have said that you can keep information, but the information & the duration you keep it for has to be appropriate. If a government department is saying you need to keep some financial records for X years, then your keeping of those records is lawful under GDPR (and its predecessors)

Re: Oh dear.

Moore's law was an aspiration

No, it was an observation. People then subsequently took it and turned it into an aspiration.

Re: Alternative explanation

It all comes down to gravity. For a planet/body to ignite to turn into a star, it's more about the mass & density it has, rather than what it's made up of.

Re: How do people with children do it?

I was once asked why I didn't go and work elsewhere as I'd earn a shed load more money. I pointed out that earning lots of money is no good if you're too tired (or dead!) to enjoy it.

Re: 1 year warranty? I don't think so...

I've also noticed that John Lewis don't tend to stock the exact same models that other retailers do, so making the price match even harder to achieve.

Re: Good

In how many of these settlements did an affected end user actually get anything?

Re: Let them dopamine themselves to death

I think you underestimate the power of hormones on the brain.