"Workforce reductions are never easy because they affect people's lives," said Meg Whitman, HP's president and CEO, in a conference call with Wall Street analysts. "But in this case, they are absolutely necessary."
Mine were stolen when I was jumped at the Beuna Park Red Roof Inn (CA, USA), after I met a lady at the bar. We went to my room for some "entertainment". When I came to, she was gone and so were my bitcoins!
What's the difference between the two, and why do I care? I use Dropbox for convenience, and never store anything I wouldn't want to see in court. Why would I change?
I feel you. I've been using a Bluetooth keyboard since day one. I suspect my typicing speed would tick up if Apple would release some human interface that let's me type faster.
BECAUSE I CONSUME MEDIA ALL DAY LONG, I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR THE SHOUTY COMMENTS EXPRESSED PRIOR TO THIS ONE WHERE CAPS WERE USED EITHER IRONICALLY OR BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO SHOUT TOO!
To the point mentioned earlier - the lack of error message means less exposure on search engines regarding specific problems therefore centralizing specific knowledge about Windows problems. This is clearly a tactic by Microsoft to enrich their support services -- and by enrich I mean increase revenue.
Politicos will always have dread of non-violent action. More so when face to face with their own words, identities and actions -- actions often enforced with brutality.
I am an OSS proponent. A recent addition to my team was speaking of how OSSers are ethical compared to Microsoft cretins. The youthful mind often seems to me to be incapable of comprehending amorality. "Yer either fer us, or agin us!"
Local computer nerd climbed into a zoo cage hoping to find a better browsing experience only to have his giblets minced by a lethargic Eurasian Lynx. The cage was strewn with abandoned iPhone 6s and various fondle slabs by would-be photogs and journos that had cheerfully wandered...
blacklist spammy parts of the world = doubleplusgood
@Jon Thompson 1 Here's an example of a list to knock down traffic from Asia, Russia, Africa and a few other places. http://www.wizcrafts.net/chinese-blocklist.html There are larger lists elsewhere, I just can't find the link at the moment. I deploy the list in my .htaccess file for my hosted website, since such hosts are targets. After deploying this list and some bot blockers, my site saw 25% less traffic, and my site became much more available and performant. The case flow looks like this: "if from China, sod off, if not from China are you a bot, if so, sod off". My forum spam dropped from 4 or 5 daily to 1 per week.
@IIStards You can install mysql, php and phpmyadmin in IIS. I have, and now I don't any more.
@Eduard Coli Please assume I'm not a hater or racist as the context for my following remarks. The Indians I have worked with stateside, work stateside so they can be treated like humans in terms of wage and conditions. A couple of my Indian coworkers stateside have the same apprehension about loss of job to outsource farms where, like testing groups, projects tend to go sideways, and under a third wave of reorganization the hairball is tossed back into our laps. Of course, legions of workers in any country should be wary of crafty automation.
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Reductions or people?
"Workforce reductions are never easy because they affect people's lives," said Meg Whitman, HP's president and CEO, in a conference call with Wall Street analysts. "But in this case, they are absolutely necessary."
Come now Meg. Sales guys aren't people!
attacks will be fought through dodgy posts to social networks
How can I tell the difference between a dodgy post on a social network from a normal one?
Can you spare a few bitcoins for a 69'er?
Mine were stolen when I was jumped at the Beuna Park Red Roof Inn (CA, USA), after I met a lady at the bar. We went to my room for some "entertainment". When I came to, she was gone and so were my bitcoins!
I fell safer already
I for one welcome our unhinged boomstick-toting conservative overlords.
GooBox? Dropple?
What's the difference between the two, and why do I care? I use Dropbox for convenience, and never store anything I wouldn't want to see in court. Why would I change?
Re: Am I the only person that quite enjoyed
Spielberg did worse to what should have been a Kubrik masterpiece: AI
'dile Rockin'
I for one welcome our reptilian overlords.
Q
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/
I would have suffocated myself too.
Re: Quite yawntastic
Look for 16 bit polygons soon.
Re: is there anything they can't do?
I feel you. I've been using a Bluetooth keyboard since day one. I suspect my typicing speed would tick up if Apple would release some human interface that let's me type faster.
Let me be point blank with y'all
He'd have fewer problems if he'd just unloaded on his kid...
...emotionally that is.
Mornington Crescent!
BECAUSE I CONSUME MEDIA ALL DAY LONG, I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR THE SHOUTY COMMENTS EXPRESSED PRIOR TO THIS ONE WHERE CAPS WERE USED EITHER IRONICALLY OR BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO SHOUT TOO!
SHOUTING REALLY HELPS ME GET YOUR POINT!
lights out
You could eschew the usage of electricity, fooling everyone into thinking you aren't home, effectively shutting off the meter.
Ever notice you never hear about "billing systems" malfunctioning?
tl;dr
Any chance the exploits by Anonymous were mentioned?
credible doubtfulness
If you don't care about credibility in your sources, I doubt you'll have a problem with Wikipedia, WYSIWYG or not.
An EC2 cloud would be an Elastic Cloud 2 Cloud.
El Reg commentards -- had again
"My colleague, Gyro Gearloose, has unearthed statistics"
Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!
"the software was unable to parse an incorrectly constructed line in the configuration file"
The above translates to "one of our engineers fat fingered it"
Ahh, the vagaries of human error.
Your remarks are doubleplusgood, citizen!
To the point mentioned earlier - the lack of error message means less exposure on search engines regarding specific problems therefore centralizing specific knowledge about Windows problems. This is clearly a tactic by Microsoft to enrich their support services -- and by enrich I mean increase revenue.
Dilutes the brand?
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You don't have to maintain it.
Amazon have already forked Linux internally.
You don't have to roll patches to the upstream project if you don't want to.
Because Amazon is so much more benevolent than Google...
They are doubleplusgood.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/18/amazon_removes_1984_from_kindle/
Herby, don't be a doofus.
Troll...
Didn't Bilbo & Co. burn you trolls up?
Corporate Leprosy
As a former Moto mobile division castaway -- Google has just been infected by old-school management rot.
non-violent to boot
Politicos will always have dread of non-violent action. More so when face to face with their own words, identities and actions -- actions often enforced with brutality.
Yippee!
To the the cloud!
faux show
I have a place to spend my counterfeit cash at long last!
But seriously folks, can we refer to rip-offs as "replicants"? I'm sure Deckard would have wanted it that way.
Wither Google? Wither Government?
I have often wondered if Sam Lowry's* reveries were under the duress of the government or the company.
*watch Brasil
Speaking of ethics
I am an OSS proponent. A recent addition to my team was speaking of how OSSers are ethical compared to Microsoft cretins. The youthful mind often seems to me to be incapable of comprehending amorality. "Yer either fer us, or agin us!"
It should...
...love me. I need a kernel with absolute devotion and unconditional love for me and me alone.
Now you've done it
Sometime in the future on The Register:
Computer Git Mauled At Local Zoo
User thinks lynx a big pussy
Local computer nerd climbed into a zoo cage hoping to find a better browsing experience only to have his giblets minced by a lethargic Eurasian Lynx. The cage was strewn with abandoned iPhone 6s and various fondle slabs by would-be photogs and journos that had cheerfully wandered...
I for one...
welcome our invasive fruity overlords.
ARM'ed combat
I for one welcome our Ninja overlords.
@dlc.usa Very astute comment
How many of our Windows "engineering" buddies will be sucked into the cloud? Lowest common denominator (LCD) clouds for the LCD masses. Cheers!
To the cloud!
I've been telling my mates at work that the cloud has been around for years.
A couple of names
PARIS Parfait
It does have ice cream you know.
Star Wench
Dirty Panties
Futurama Mama
Sex on the Bitch
Duck...
CHAIR!
Those aren't bucky balls.
Buckyballs are truncated icosahedrons. The Google doodle is just bollocks.
@Parsifal Vanity
Ever hear of a vanity press? They don't all make money, but the editors are dead cool!
blacklist spammy parts of the world = doubleplusgood
@Jon Thompson 1 Here's an example of a list to knock down traffic from Asia, Russia, Africa and a few other places. http://www.wizcrafts.net/chinese-blocklist.html There are larger lists elsewhere, I just can't find the link at the moment. I deploy the list in my .htaccess file for my hosted website, since such hosts are targets. After deploying this list and some bot blockers, my site saw 25% less traffic, and my site became much more available and performant. The case flow looks like this: "if from China, sod off, if not from China are you a bot, if so, sod off". My forum spam dropped from 4 or 5 daily to 1 per week.
@IIStards You can install mysql, php and phpmyadmin in IIS. I have, and now I don't any more.
Ballmer Olympics
<insert clever chair throwing or developers, developers, developers remark here>
@Giles
Using Firefox's Agent Switcher plugin I can make it look like I'm using Netscape 1.1 coming from a Commodore 64. Just sayin
Prodigy - Smack My OS Up
Note to Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and etc.:
A faster Prodigy is a shitty Prodigy. AOL much?
natural selection
So they've finally found an Innerwebs virus/scam that only effects the English. Elegant!
Come again!
An' don' let the facking door hit you in the gob on the way oot!
Outsourced Fail
@Eduard Coli Please assume I'm not a hater or racist as the context for my following remarks. The Indians I have worked with stateside, work stateside so they can be treated like humans in terms of wage and conditions. A couple of my Indian coworkers stateside have the same apprehension about loss of job to outsource farms where, like testing groups, projects tend to go sideways, and under a third wave of reorganization the hairball is tossed back into our laps. Of course, legions of workers in any country should be wary of crafty automation.
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