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On the Autonomy deal
"The £7.1bn offer is also equivalent to 47 times the pre-tax profits earned by Autonomy in the 12 months to June this year."
Are they mental!?
Nah, they would be mental if they announced they were going to stop selling hardware also......................... Nurse.
(TBF the HP model has been a low margin one for some time, still an odd move going from #1 HW manufacturer to pulling out)0 -
Nah, they would be mental if they announced they were going to stop selling hardware also......................... Nurse.
(TBF the HP model has been a low margin one for some time, still an odd move going from #1 HW manufacturer to pulling out)
Ye, the only possible reason for paying such a ridiculous price is that it gives big savings to their existing businessFaith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.0 -
It's completely gone wrong because governments have borrowed ostensibly to provide an economic stimulus to their own economies. However, with GATT and worldwide markets, the stimulus has just ended up in the BRICK economies, mainly China. We really urgently need some hefty tariff barriers. Otherwise, it's like filling a bath with the plug out.
Well lots of the cash leaked out to Aus too so it's not just a BRIC phenomenon.
I'm not sure how it would help the British economy recover to force Britons to pay £30 for a T-Shirt made in Chester rather than £3 for one made in China.
I assume you're happy to drink British wine, drive British cars, use British mobile phones (erm?), British operating systems (!!!!) and a British internet browser (!).0 -
Well lots of the cash leaked out to Aus too so it's not just a BRIC phenomenon.
I'm not sure how it would help the British economy recover to force Britons to pay £30 for a T-Shirt made in Chester rather than £3 for one made in China.
I assume you're happy to drink British wine, drive British cars, use British mobile phones (erm?), British operating systems (!!!!) and a British internet browser (!).
The £3 T-shirt maybe does cost us £30 because of all the people out of work in Chester? That's the point.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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I assume you're happy to drink British wine, drive British cars, use British mobile phones (erm?), British operating systems (!!!!) and a British internet browser (!).
British Operating Systems are free! (well, one from the Isle of Man is, anyway).
There is an alternative to the current consumption model.
If we extend the working life of a consumable product by 3 times (say), there is a reasonable chance that product is going to need more service and repair, not less. Things like service and repair are often done by technicians in the local community.
Our throw away society has not helped.0 -
British operating systems (!!!!) and a British internet browser (!).
Imagine if British Layland did software:eek:.
It would log you off every 2 hours so it could have a break.
Would refuse to boot if you purchased anything in an attempt to make it run any quicker.
All backgrounds would be purple, gold or $hitty browns (to match marina and allegro colours
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I'm not sure why the !!! for a british operating system. After all, the british did invent computers. We also invented operating systems. Admittedly, we didn't invent the Internet. That was CERN.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
It's completely gone wrong because governments have borrowed ostensibly to provide an economic stimulus to their own economies. However, with GATT and worldwide markets, the stimulus has just ended up in the BRICK economies, mainly China. We really urgently need some hefty tariff barriers. Otherwise, it's like filling a bath with the plug out.Imagine if British Layland did software:eek:.
It would log you off every 2 hours so it could have a break.
Would refuse to boot if you purchased anything in an attempt to make it run any quicker.
All backgrounds would be purple, gold or $hitty browns (to match marina and allegro colours)
We'd have a square mouse that would only go in four directions and a keyboard that had been decimalised to have 20 keys.I'm not sure why the !!! for a british operating system. After all, the british did invent computers. We also invented operating systems. Admittedly, we didn't invent the Internet. That was CERN.
That's very interesting. Which British operating system do you use?0 -
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That's very interesting. Which British operating system do you use?
I use Ubuntu a lot (Isle of Man).
I use Crunchbang on some of the PCs (courtesy of a nice bloke in the East Mids).
Some people think that there is no choice outside of Microsoft or Apple. Bit of a closed mind mentality if you ask me.
My kids don't care one bit what they have; as long as they get their skype and facebook 0 -
Thats linux based which goes way back, I think some nordic guy did most work on that, its free to own / modify basically
Is it not dam fiddly to get working
Tariffs is what they did in 1930's Its a bad idea because it raises costs, in a recession thats going to hurt.
money goes abroad because its best used there, make free economic zones within UK for brand new jobs and it would be like our own little tax haven for 5 years and its cheaper then giving out unemployment benefit.
Its much more likely to spread if we have it hosted here in a limited zone0
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