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  1. Er, what? on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Departments Look Like In 5 Years? · · Score: 1

    As consumerization of IT and self-service trends becomes part and parcel of everyone's work in the enterprise

    This is stated as if it's an axiom. I'm not going to opine on whether it's true or not, since I'm not sure what the blinking heck it's supposed to mean.

    But the whole article falls flat on its arse if its major premise turns out to be a load of old bollocks, don't you think?

  2. Re:Where these proffessors the same profs who teac on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 1

    Such mustaches were quite popular in the 1930s. My grandfather had one, and kept it all the way through WW2. Woe betide anyone who asked him why he had a Hitler mustache; he claimed he had it first, and therefore it was Hitler who had a my-grandad mustache, and without so much as a by-your-leave. Strong words would be in order when the British army got to Berlin...

    One thing's sure, he certainly had it last.

  3. Re:The robot is the supervisor on IBM Robotic Coworker Will Help Engineers Fix Broken Systems · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, new mechatronic overlords welcome YOU!

  4. Re:Citation not needed on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    Even today, there are plenty of crimes that you can be convicted of for only KNOWING it was happening. Sure you may not have killed that guy, but you were there, you saw it, and you did nothing to stop it. That's accessory to murder, conspiracy to murder and a whole bunch of other crimes.

    [citation most definitely needed]

  5. Re:A smart watch? on Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device · · Score: 3, Insightful

    200x200 pixels is really only useful for animated GIFs of cats

    Make it pink and you'll sell millions.

  6. Re:A smart watch? on Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device · · Score: 1

    with my hands full or occupied, underwater, or covered in jam/cement dust/grease/crap.

    I don't know what your job is, but I don't want it.

  7. Re:Beautiful... on What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? · · Score: 1

    Some licensing schemes with oracle can wind up costing companies almost a million dollars per year.

    I think they can cost almost that much to administer. I once got involved in trying to work out how much the hell we owed them and it was huge PITA to just extract the stuff out of our sales system. This was partly our fault (we hadn't captured some of the relevant info before) but mainly theirs because we hadn't needed to under the simpler old method.

    In fact it was mainly our management's fault. One, for agreeing to the change (though perhaps they didn't have much choice) and two, because they only informed IT 6 months later when they expected a spreadsheet full of the magic lovely numbers to miraculously fall from heaven.

  8. Re:"First Female PM" is not news. on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because, as they say, if females were in leadership positions, there would be only peace in the world.

    It'd last about three weeks.

  9. Re:The problem with NZICT. on New Zealand U-Turns, Will Grant Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Patents artificially sque the economies of scale.

    [Spanish accent]Kew? [/]

  10. Re:Switzerland HAS banned whaling on New Zealand U-Turns, Will Grant Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The cetacean population in the Bodensee has remained remarkably stable recently, so they must be doing something right.

  11. Re:I know what I would do. on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    An agreement between two parties doesn't exempt either of them from obligations to a third party. Just think about it for a minute. Anybody could renege on a contract by forming another contract with that weird guy who goes through the bins at the bus station.

  12. Re:80m? Quite a hair. on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1

    Yeah. If only there was someway to check, in advance, whether your symbols work or not.

  13. Re:i LOL on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    It hasn't even been called "British Petroleum" for a decade, and even when it was it was largely owned by ayrabs.

  14. Re:I am no expert ... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    Flourine isn't, but flouride is.

  15. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    Actually, his original money to fund the record label was made by VAT fraud.

  16. Stop your whining, you pathetic little pipsqueak. on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    At the very least, there should be an option for desperate travelers (like myself, who was stuck in Europe for over a week after planning to be in that miserable continent for less than 3 hours

    My grandfather once went to Frankfurt - it wasn't planned to land at all - and he ended up stuck there in rather low-grade accommodation till 1945. And that isn't what you colonial types quaintly refer to as quarter "till" eight, of the p.m.

  17. Re:Top three recently introduced on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or another laptop. He could probably pick one up with a damaged screen for next to nothing.

  18. Re:"Got it right"? on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 2, Funny

    M Khan is bent?

  19. Re: Nickels and pennies on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    Ah but these are nickles. Maybe that's part of the test.

  20. Re:what is that as a proportion? on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Or mek it so evrbdy az 2 rte lyk dis.

  21. Re:A-levels? on 8-Year-Old Boy Sets A-Level Maths Record · · Score: 1

    s/people/kids today/

    Sometimes I bookmark posts to respond to; seems I sometimes forget that I already did. Shit, that makes it three!

  22. Whatever on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1, Funny

    75 MBit/s? What's that in Libraries of Congress per decifortnight?

  23. Re:Yes, go for it. on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1

    When the ball goes under the coffee table, and the kid goes under to get it - you know exactly what is going to happen next. The kid is going to stand up, full speed, and bang the hell out of his head on the underside of the table.

    Our 11 month old stays down flat like a commando under fire all the way through. On one hand, he can't stand yet. On the other hand, in his normal crawl his head is still too high to go under - but after biffing it once or twice he now keeps it down until he's clear of the other side.

    BAM! followed by half an hour of crying.

    Well, about three minutes, or until something bright and shiny catches his attention.

  24. Re:4 words: on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    They were all going to the toilet together?

  25. Re:A-levels? on 8-Year-Old Boy Sets A-Level Maths Record · · Score: 1

    but I could probably get on to an undergraduate course as a "mature student" due to the experience I have in my fields.

    Universities do degrees in being a thick pillock who doesn't know what year it is? Disgraceful. In my day, you had to go to a polytechnic for that.