We do, the Eurofighter was a mind bogglingly expensive project and a fleet of Boeing aircraft would have been a much cheaper option but we went for the locally grown one.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
public key cryptography (invented in the 1970s, mostly down to the RSA authors) was not among this work. --Freddie Widgeon
It was actually invented over a hundred years earlier than that, and GCHQ developed an RSA equivalent with Diffie-Hellman key exchange several years before RSA was created or before Diffie and Hellman published their work. Occasionally the UK does manage to keep something secret:)
Exactly, and in his own words to Alistair Campbell, "I don't believe what I write, any more than you believe what you say". Clarkson plays a character, and it's a lot of fun to watch, but I don't for a second believe he's like that in real life. At worst he plays a caricature of himself.
So instead of spending the fortune on building a new handset/OS, they should have spent time and money developing a decent mobile management server, with associated mobile clients for android, iphone and MS kit ( with plugins for the various data sources; exchange, groupwise, ect... ).
They could have parleyed their reputation on to the entire mobile market for business handhelds, instead of floating a NEW hand held in an already contentious market.
People wrote off the Playbook in 2011 but it outsold the latest generation of iPad in the UK for the last few months of 2012. I'm not convinced RIM is down and out just yet.
I had the same thought. Airliners aren't suddenly going to order A350s. They know the 787 problem will be worked out and new purchases are done years in advanced.
I think the challenge for Boeing will be when the next generation arrives, there may be slightly more reluctance to commit to purchases early in the lifecycle based on the experience of this airframe.
the 737 and lots of other planes have been grounded in the past. these are complex machines and its not a big deal to have initial problems
The last time the FAA grounded an entire commercial airframe was the DC10 in 1979, it is a very big deal. That said, I have no doubt Boeing will sort the problems and normal service will be resumed shortly.
Indeed, I was in Redmond for business purposes a few years ago and part of the arranged evening amusement was a guided tour of the Boeing museum. So many great aircraft came from Boeing, this is an unfortunate bump on the road to progress.
The judge prevented Samsung from entering all manner of evidence for the purpose of demonstrating prior art.
I'd argue that Samsung prevented Samsung from entering that evidence when they missed the filing deadline. To use an old meme, which part of the word deadline did you not understand?
Maybe it's a culture or geographical thing, but I've never worked at a company that counted sick days against PTO days. (Mostly internet companies with 500-ish employees in the Seattle area.)
The sick policy is always, "if you're sick stay home, if you're sick a lot you let's talk about it".
This is how it works in Europe, it does rather boggle the mind that there are parts of the first world that don't work this way.
1. BP does not stand for British Petroleum and hasn't since the late 90s when American Oil Company and British Petroleum merged to format BP AMOCO. The merged company later changed the name to BP, not short for anything.
2. More BP stock is owned by US companies and individuals than British.
BP is multinational, the HQ of the parent company might be in London but it's owned by Americans.
Every one I've got on here I had to sideload, sadly. I'm hoping for more native apps next year as the Playbook is getting a BB10 makeover and hardware-wise it's a good bit of kit.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
Not really, in one IT sounds like a necessary evil barely tolerated by the noble salespeople and in the other they've part of the business working to the same goal as everyone else.
Treat IT as just a cost centre and you might as well just outsource to the cheapest provider because you're not getting full value from an internal team. The unique selling point of an internal team is quite simply 'we're on your side', and having worked both sides of that line anyone claiming an outsourced provider can say the same is naive at best.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
If IT believes that a business process is suboptimal and should be addressed, there is a chain of command for that; you prepare a nice spreadsheet with itemized expenses and you run that up the chain. If the person in charge determines that the waste is in fact unacceptable, he/she will initiate a change.
John Kotter would disagree with you, spreadsheets are a poor way to build a sense of urgency.
> Simply use the net and get all the shows you want WHEN you want and with less commercials to boot.
Oh, really? And where, pray tell, is this magic IP-based virtual cable network that offers realtime IP feeds of the show that's literally running for the first time *right this second* -- as opposed to stuff that's either old (or at least non-realtime), low video quality, openly pirated, or some combination of the three?
BBC iPlayer. Ok, so it's only BBC channels but it's a start.
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He's modded funny because it's a (slight mis)quote from the Blues Brothers.
We do, the Eurofighter was a mind bogglingly expensive project and a fleet of Boeing aircraft would have been a much cheaper option but we went for the locally grown one.
how racist Limey society is
And people say Americans don't get irony.
So it's like a plasma screen tv?
Not any decent quality plasma made in the last 5 years or so.
It really doesn't matter hugely if you can put the connector in first time without looking. It saves the user only a few seconds at most.
You can do that with every USB cable too, the USB logo is required to be embossed on the cable and always on the side facing the user. Ports are required to be aligned to accommodate that. Even a blind person can put a USB cable in the right way round every time, sadly most people don't know this.
public key cryptography (invented in the 1970s, mostly down to the RSA authors) was not among this work.
--Freddie Widgeon
It was actually invented over a hundred years earlier than that, and GCHQ developed an RSA equivalent with Diffie-Hellman key exchange several years before RSA was created or before Diffie and Hellman published their work. Occasionally the UK does manage to keep something secret :)
it's because he's entertaining as hell to watch
Exactly, and in his own words to Alistair Campbell, "I don't believe what I write, any more than you believe what you say". Clarkson plays a character, and it's a lot of fun to watch, but I don't for a second believe he's like that in real life. At worst he plays a caricature of himself.
It cost 910k to repair Rowan Atkinson's after he drove it into a tree and that was still cheaper for the insurance company than replacing it.
I didn't even know you COULD make money as a cellist. Nobody is going to pay money to listen to a cellist at a concert
Yo-Yo-Ma makes millions playing the cello, you might want to re-evaluate your definition of "nobody" a little.
So instead of spending the fortune on building a new handset/OS, they should have spent time and money developing a decent mobile management server, with associated mobile clients for android, iphone and MS kit ( with plugins for the various data sources; exchange, groupwise, ect... ).
They could have parleyed their reputation on to the entire mobile market for business handhelds, instead of floating a NEW hand held in an already contentious market.
They did.
People wrote off the Playbook in 2011 but it outsold the latest generation of iPad in the UK for the last few months of 2012. I'm not convinced RIM is down and out just yet.
The format is well documented and surely you have backups.
He said they were in The Cloud. Why would he need backups?
"Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
I had the same thought. Airliners aren't suddenly going to order A350s. They know the 787 problem will be worked out and new purchases are done years in advanced.
I think the challenge for Boeing will be when the next generation arrives, there may be slightly more reluctance to commit to purchases early in the lifecycle based on the experience of this airframe.
the 737 and lots of other planes have been grounded in the past. these are complex machines and its not a big deal to have initial problems
The last time the FAA grounded an entire commercial airframe was the DC10 in 1979, it is a very big deal. That said, I have no doubt Boeing will sort the problems and normal service will be resumed shortly.
Indeed, I was in Redmond for business purposes a few years ago and part of the arranged evening amusement was a guided tour of the Boeing museum. So many great aircraft came from Boeing, this is an unfortunate bump on the road to progress.
The judge prevented Samsung from entering all manner of evidence for the purpose of demonstrating prior art.
I'd argue that Samsung prevented Samsung from entering that evidence when they missed the filing deadline. To use an old meme, which part of the word deadline did you not understand?
Maybe it's a culture or geographical thing, but I've never worked at a company that counted sick days against PTO days. (Mostly internet companies with 500-ish employees in the Seattle area.)
The sick policy is always, "if you're sick stay home, if you're sick a lot you let's talk about it".
This is how it works in Europe, it does rather boggle the mind that there are parts of the first world that don't work this way.
1. BP does not stand for British Petroleum and hasn't since the late 90s when American Oil Company and British Petroleum merged to format BP AMOCO. The merged company later changed the name to BP, not short for anything.
2. More BP stock is owned by US companies and individuals than British.
BP is multinational, the HQ of the parent company might be in London but it's owned by Americans.
Every one I've got on here I had to sideload, sadly. I'm hoping for more native apps next year as the Playbook is getting a BB10 makeover and hardware-wise it's a good bit of kit.
Getting Android apps onto a Playbook is a pain in the arse, so much so that if BB10 uses the same method they may as well leave it out as a feature.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
Not really, in one IT sounds like a necessary evil barely tolerated by the noble salespeople and in the other they've part of the business working to the same goal as everyone else.
Treat IT as just a cost centre and you might as well just outsource to the cheapest provider because you're not getting full value from an internal team. The unique selling point of an internal team is quite simply 'we're on your side', and having worked both sides of that line anyone claiming an outsourced provider can say the same is naive at best.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
If IT believes that a business process is suboptimal and should be addressed, there is a chain of command for that; you prepare a nice spreadsheet with itemized expenses and you run that up the chain. If the person in charge determines that the waste is in fact unacceptable, he/she will initiate a change.
John Kotter would disagree with you, spreadsheets are a poor way to build a sense of urgency.
Panasonic = plasma
You say that like it's a bad thing, you can have my Panasonic G20 when you prise it from my cold dead fingers.
> Simply use the net and get all the shows you want WHEN you want and with less commercials to boot.
Oh, really? And where, pray tell, is this magic IP-based virtual cable network that offers realtime IP feeds of the show that's literally running for the first time *right this second* -- as opposed to stuff that's either old (or at least non-realtime), low video quality, openly pirated, or some combination of the three?
BBC iPlayer. Ok, so it's only BBC channels but it's a start.
Indeed, my favourite incentive has always been those rectangular vouchers the government prints that people let you swap for stuff.