Posts by PhilipN

Re: such a surprise

Again - in Scouse..?

design a totally new platform

Good point and makes me a non-techie wonder how much of the R&D, structure, materials and design generally not forgetting massive support facilities are required simply because of the human inside.

FALKPLAN

Thanks for the reminder. Relied heavily on their London map when I moved to the Smokes. Loved it.

Re: "The UK, Hong Kong's former colonial ruler.."

I know it’s painful to confront the UK’s imperial and imperialistic history so you change the subject but have no clue how long the Legislative Council existed, who created it or its make-up following Patten’s disastrous tenure.

Harsh judgment

Slight ambiguity in Cook’s words since it was not 100% clear his reference to double-digit growth referred specifically to past performance, although that followed from what he had already said.

To say he meant future growth is a tortured interpretation which investors happily allowed themselves to go along with.

But this is why lawyers draft listing documents with pages and pages of “risk factors’ which basically say “If you buy these shares you are mad.’

Re: Trying To Stem The Tide Of Defections To LibreOffice

“getting significantly better at reading Office docs”

That’s the point. New Office needed from time to time to selectively break this or that feature on conversion to Libre Office.

Re: "An old lightning charger"

You mean that gender changer you desperately needed to find but turned out to be male-male instead of male-female or female-female

CD-ROM - no less

I remember those but refuse to feel old.

Re: Personality cults ...

My local newspaper no longer franchises Dilbert but given [how many?] decades ago he witnessed VC’ers similarly swooning over “streaming multimedia” - GASP! - Scott would be able to milk this story for every drop.

Right - how many companies were targeted?

Just this one company? Still, that's a lot of work. Which means "they" knew in advance exactly which company to target. Funny that ....

decade+ old CPUs

Well if you must go for the new-fangled stuff

Re: Ramble, blither

I beg to point out that there are literally hundreds probably thousands of Chinese teas from all over the country from different climates soils altitudes etc and more ways of brewing it than you can shake a stick at.

For example some years ago I read about the American (I know - I know) scientist who took something like an hour an a half to brew his perfect cuppa of Chinese (NOT Indian) tea.

And don’t even get me started on Japanese tea ceremonies etc. Nobody West of Java stands a chance with ‘em.

Re: Not convinced

Right. Uncle Sam believe it or not did not invent the pizza but did do interesting things with it.

Similarly China invented (discovered?) gunpowder but it took the West to do something really useful with it.

Re: Biggest problem.

Yup. "Cadillac Desert"

Re: No Justice

Thanks - a must read.

Right but it’s a crying shame either way.

2024 already …..

Is that an African swallow?

Inkwells

Filled from one of those less-than-a-pint-size bottles with the stopper + metal spout on the end?

Blue-black - right! Sufficiently gloomy to presage immediate squashing of those ghastly nibs in the clumsy hands of kids for whom finesse was some years away.

Re: Commodity tat

"As soon as China have viable "mainland" alternatives ..." and when TSMC has its plant up and running in Arizona Taiwan will no longer be worth the bother. It is being sidelined by both the USA and China,

Re: "I" stuff

Right! Forgot all about that. Had one. Nifty little device.

Re: Exactly what destroyed the UK car industry

Yeah. Land Rover Defender parts from all over Europe and finally bolted together in Croatia.

Was that one of those reckoned to be "built in the UK"?

Central console in my UK-branded car "Made in Czech Republic".

That's a UK Car industry?