Posts by Simon C

Kersplunk?

Looks like that last stick dropped a hella lot of balls.

now the suit is due...

i would give serious monopoly money for the prosecutors to start the proceedings with

"members of the jury, we wish to defend your right, should you so wish...to hang out...with your wang out.........."

hmmm

One's a Dog with a Sheriffs badge that Guides Kids around the Site.

The other is a Man with a Site that Guides people around his....well you get the picture.

who needs comedy shows....

only real 'normal' life can come up with magic like this.

If the porn industry ....

adopts 3d tv, then expect the takeup of 3dtv to be greater.

Regardless of your morale stance with regards to the porn industry, you can't deny the fact that its a massive driving influence in the technology stakes.

I'm more concerned about this bit.....

"Davies told Parliament on 19 January 2010 that the cost of the whole programme,....<snip> remains unchanged at £7.1bn. He added: "DII is on track to deliver estimated benefits to the department in excess of £1.6bn over the 10 years of the contract."

Now providing I'm not reading this incorrectly, but that is 1.6bn OVER 10 years and not 1.6bn per year over 10 years...

I can imagine the comments from our board if I proposed anything costing that much with such little return.

Surely you want complete ROI within 3-5 years...

oh dear

looks like Darwin awards may have their yearly quota in a month or two.

I've yet to see Avatar and its nice to see that people are experiencing the film as I expect James Cameron (initials JC - coincedence?) hoped it would be.

But what keeps movies magic is that when the lights go up and the auditorium empties, you are back in real life.

I'm often morbidly amused by people and their death rantings.....I find it amusing that people's hold on reality is so stretched that these people are broken by a bloody movie.

Could it be simply down to primal attributes?

Its often accepted that men are inherently problem solvers, and work in a logical format.

Women are little more airy fairy, ruling by emotion and are inherently less prone to be problem solvers.

These are typical primal attributes.

They certainly are not exclusive to either gender, but may have a simpler way of explaining the IT divide.

There are certain job classes that are dominated by women, Nursing/Caring for one. Other classes are dominated by men, mechanics, IT.

I would just wish the PC brigade would get of its high horse of "must fulfill XXX quota of <choose differing party> to show we are a PC industry". Its a crock of horse manure.

As someone said earlier , the job is what it is.., stop window dressing. The women who want to be in IT, will do it, regardless of decor, the men who want to be nurses will do so regardless of emasculation fears.

I couldnt give two hoots what breed the person across the desk is, provided they can do the job, and are a semi-decent co-op/DM player.

Other than that..

Or was Sir Ridly Misquotes

and actually said

"Why do I have to be part of this movie?".

Lets be fair though, if faced with some of the more iconic films of our age as ideas on a notepad, there would be a certain element of cynicism about us.

Reading this "idea" promotes those same feelings, but lets not knock it too much, that kills peoples creativity.

I doubt it'll be a "classic", but could be entertaining and one to take the kids too perhaps...who knows?

could it have been

The Australian peoples front?

or perhaps....the peoples front of Australia?

SPLITTERS!

Shock horror - magic, isnt magic

seriously, what did you expect to find underneath the casing.

a feverish army of translucent (but lightweight) elves doing your fingers bidding with a multitude of levers and buttons?

or perhaps raw concentrated magic....the likes of which Apple could have used to power the bloody device, rather than rely on oldy worldy tech such as the double A.

Im not a Mac user - I dont drive a prius or constantly smell my own guffs, but I have to hand it to their sense of innovation.

O rly?

[quote]Our primary goal is therefore to encourage the spread of good negotiation practice[/quote]

Position yourself as a monopoly and bully your target into submission.

Excellent negotiation practices there.

It would be interesting to see the result of this report if performed 20 or so years ago.

I can't say these companies are bad...they have done what it takes to become the leaders of their respective areas, operating morals beside.

But now to say they are great at negotiating, is it not disimilar than saying a thug with a gun asking for your valuables is also a fantastic negotiater....

How about I give you Mr Thug my wallet without its contents, will that do?

No...what if you keep the cards then, the cash is mine?

Whats that? If I want to live, to give you everything...hmm, let me see what other offers there are?

These companies dont negotiate, they bully.

How to stop leaks no. 3

Dont handover documents to the journo doing an investigative piece of behalf of the WIKI Observer.

Watched the presentation

gotta say, it wet my appetite.

Im not developer, purely an end user, but it looks so useful and as plugged in the demo the odd thing is, is that its ALL done via a browser.

got great potential for both business and personal use.

damn you google, give me my god damn invite.

@ Geoff Spick

Fair comment I suppose.

Buying new black hawks (28 of) would save us $56m,

a) use a portion of that for an immediate training budget = win

b) contract established pilots for that aircraft = win

c) do both = win win.

Choose either a, b or c and you've only scratched the surface of that $56 million saving pot.

Conservatively (based on no accuracy) I'd say $25mil to cover all training bases etc....still leaving a whopping $25 back into the taxpayers coffers.

@ Lukewarmdog 09:08

I was not aware the HA have traded in the trademark leather outfits and Chopper motorbikes for Spandex and Raleigh Grifters

Why don't we do away with warfare completely

instead resolve disputes and conflicts by having a scalextric race, or even better a worldwide robot wars event.

they can put all their tech into one mofo that even Craig Charles would have to be impressed at.

Have to play it in the desert somewhere so as to avoid the nuke fallout when the hari-kiri mode on the robots is flicked.

@ Columbus

Come now Columbus, I feel you are being overtly harsh toward the Redmond Beast. Had you said "upgrading to next version of Windows WITH Office" I think your comment would be more justified.

But you'll find disk space lacking as soon as you go to Windows Update.

I remember when

I used to be part of the rank of the helpdesk back in the late 90's.

It was a laid back affair, in keeping with its trendy image and obnoxious clientele,

Duke Nukem was played across the 10-12 computers there, until some wise man decided to play with an Exec behind him - brilliant.

Then came the great decision to start hosting certain gay mail addresses - cant remember for the life of me the domains.

It particularly sticks in my mind as I was asked by one unnamed customer to resolve an issue he had with collecting his email.

Turns out his pop account was chocka block of the sort of gay porn even a liberal person like myself had to wince at.

Needless to say my jumping ship (along with a host of others) was well timed, 12-18months later they were in the pan and shipped off to GUS.

However I will always have a fondness in my heart for Breathe - for that was my first foray into the tech world which up until recently became a 10 year career.

RIP Breathe, you were sh1t but we loved you.

Despite all the negativity thrown to Sir/Lord/ Alan..

theres one or two things thats not been taken into account.

a) In the form of Harry Enfield - He is considerably richer than yau.

b) he may be a bully, but sometimes thats what business needs to keep going. All the calls about his business practice and lack of business acumen seem to be based on very little.

Last I looked Sir Alan was worth about 800 mill, with his fingers in many different pies.

how many here can attest to such achievements?? - didnt think so.

As for joining the labour squad, I dont think its a good move, but all the best to him.

So the moral appears to be

care less, feck more.

interesting.

@Richard "I wish all non-smokers were like....

One non smoker does not mind the stench and poison that fills the air. Sure its a choice.

But the analogy I use when describing designated smoking/non smoking areas under the same roof is people pissing in a swimming pool

The undesirable ends up in your area regardless of efforts to reduce it.

Id support individual rooms, that are hermetically sealed.

Since the ban I've actually frequented more pubs than before the ban.

Re: The Best Cure For A Hangover...

@Sarah Bee

Drink Appletise or some apple based carbonated liquid between booze

1) avoiding the hangover

2) tell mates it cider, extra brownie points for allegedly mixing drinks

3) have bacon sarnie as reward

win/win/win

@ is it just me

at a tragic accident, possibly.I remember laughing @ the colin mcrae jokes.

at a death occuring due to someones inate inability to process simple common sense - certainly.

death should provide some comfort to others.