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Yes but:

a) we're not allowed to put phones in it due to the lithium content.

b) I doubt in the moment of anger at the piece of shit, taking it home and politely disposing of it would have the same mental satisfaction as smashing the bastard thing to bits on the motorway.

Irresponsible or not, humans aren't perfect unless they make condescending remarks on the internet.

Ha that's hilarious! This one hit the ground at 70mph and basically exploded to bits.

You should try Microsoft support. Straight through to a human who knows what they are talking about without waiting EVERY TIME.

Not only that, Office even works ENTIRELY offline.

And it opens all our documents absolutely perfectly EVERY TINE.

Yes this is facetious: Google have forced peoples standards down.

Yes my wife threw her galaxy ace out of the car window on the M1 the other day because of a persistent lock up bug.

However I've got a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and I'm rather happy with it.

you win some, you lose some.

I tend to delete all the shit photos up front. I perhaps end up with 10-15 a trip that get kept (60-90 Mb off my D3100 in jpeg fine).

Storage is cheap but ending up with so much noise you can't see the interesting bits is expensive on time, and that is finite.

I'm sure some people are just crap hoarders. I've got a 128gb ssd and my data backup size for the last 30 years is about 12Gb including music and photos leaving the disk about 60Gb used.

1Tb? Never shall I fill one.

Acetate rocks, especially when its well written and you can pop into the prof's office and have a tea and chat and do some photocopying. I learned much more this way.

Chalk, we spent more time dictating and deciphering the babbling fool who can't communicate it all concisely from memory.

It's not that high a success rate. We have escrow agreements and all sorts in place because people don't trust our SaaS.

It's definitely not balanced. It's a cat and mouse game with temporary advantages on both sides.

However, all advantages are lost the moment someone legislates always in favor of the rulers which is what happened in the UK. Now we're tied and gagged with permanent threat of imprisonment for having an opinion (this has happened a LOT recently).

You are correct.

I'd say magnify is the wrong term. It empowers people who have disingenuous motives.

Unfortunately technology's progression via marketing has turned it into a king of magic that is impossible to understand and is out of reach of them (past consumption). Look at most consumer IT products these days - black boxes for milking people.

DRM, the cloud, closed source software, unified communications (commercial and government internet control) and surveillance already are enslaving us.

I work remotely. Management were fine when they worked out they could stuck someone else at my desk :)

This is an interesting dilemma. I'd rather have no technology than live under oppression powered by it.

Always have deterministic known behavior :)

We shot ourselves when we first implemented NHibernate by setting our transaction boundary at the wrong place. This caused all sorts of portability problems.

I think the interesting part about the BBC is that I agree they transmit at IQ average 100, but the upper standard deviation is quite high too :)

Her election success is only because the voting system here is biased and most of the population aren't really evolved past primate level. The media control the outcome of an election.

Her popularity is a myth perpetrated by the media.

There is no respect from anyone who knows the facts.

Its not a drop in replacement. You have to write code/configuration (but not much). Its definitely suitable for your use case - we use it for the same thing.

Feature set is comparable. We tend to avoid specific platform features as they are a migration risk.

Ha - our SQL license fee is around £60k a machine one off per major drop. We're not dropping that again for 2012. No way. Not when we have 8 machines :)

Yep. I saw this with my own eyes once. I had a disreputable youth in the 1980s which involved trying to steal linesman sets (for phreaking) from those old yellow BT Bedford vans (anyone remember Busby?)

One of them turned out to be a spook wagon. This was in Islington in north London. Really nearly got in deep shit on that one.

People might think you are nuts but its spot on and its worse now than ever.

Until we start killing them (it will happen).

Equilibrium is inevitable.

Bargain. The content is great across the board.

I happily pay my license.

Nhibernate. No issues.

To be honest we're shifting to java. Our license fees are well into 7 figures for MS stuff for no gain. This is the first step. Some subsystems are moving from asp.net web forms+mvc to spring, tomcat, hibernate, postgres. Cost savings are huge, staff available are orders of magnitude better and reliability is higher as to be honest, windows has been a piece of shit to manage over the last 10 years.

Fortunately we've got a pretty well designed system so we can move it over piecemeal as and when we update major subsystem features.

We had to throw nolock into a few things but to be honest, they should have been solved by better architecture and stopping the DB engine doing everything including app logic.

We plugged spring integration, spring batch and jasper in and we're sorted.

The main problem with SSIS and SSRS is that you just can't put it in version control or scale it up inexpensively. Plus to be honest the tooling is shitty and unreliable (says me who spent all day fighting T-SQL debugger HRESULT crashes in SSMS whilst trying to reverse engineer a huge shitty black box SQL sproc into something scalable and testable in Java). Ugh.

We run both massive SQL server and postgres installations.

Me too. Scary game. Nothing else has come near to it.

As a tribute, my workstation and laptop are names xerxes and shodan.

Indeed it inspired:

http://pissonthatchersgrave.co.uk/

Horrible witch. Good riddance.

I'm sure history will not be rewritten to glorify her to support the current conservative agenda.

I'm sure the Daily Mail will be right on top of this one like Diana.

(sorry for the cynicism).

That's awesome - great work! :)

Cool. Thanks for your detailed reply - much appreciated. Going to stick it on my T61 this evening.

Nope nothing wrong with it at all :) I respect your way of working.

Considering a big chunk of 3.x is the same as 2.6... hmm.