2013 in Review: Tech Turkeys of the year

Hi there.

I must be missing something here.

I get the intro which talks about Tech Turkeys BUT WHERE IS THE ARTICLE -- I can't be bothered twittering / following or whatever --the Intro has a nice pre-amble about the Top Tech turkeys -- so I'm looking for a READ MORE link to the articles but I CAN'T SEE ONE. Just some discussion groups you have to login / register to view.

Cheers
jimbo

you have two options, at the very top, where it says "image 1 of 21", on the right it says "next", you can click on that.
You can also scroll down just bellow that real turkey picture and you'll see a bar with lots of small thumbnails, click at one at the time.

Very nice article, worth reading.

Hi there.

Seems I don't get that -- I logged again via another proxy -- now it's OK -- so the article might be "geographically restricted".

Thanks - good read.

The Guardian Newspaper in the UK even has its own description for people who read it or subscribe to it --I believe in the UK these are known as "Guardianista's" and the paper is the one that has all the "Public service jobs" in it with all those job titles that are totally meaningless -- For instance in a CITY environment like KINGSTON UPON HULL (I remember the name as this was the UK Port that had issues with Icelandic Fishing vessels during the so called "Cod Wars") they have an "Urban Forrestry Officer" !!!!! - I hope the tax payers of that city enjoy the 0.5 Sq metre of "Forrest" within the City's boundary. !!!!

Government I.T project disasters aren't restricted only to the USA --strangely enough a HUGE UK Health system was cancelled after spending nearly a BILLION GBP on it --mind you the UK health system employs roughly the same number of people as The Indian Railways or just fewer (slightly) than the entire Chinese (People's republic) Army - so whatever the politics of the system there is no way in the known universe of ever managing efficiently an organisation of that size so IT projects are doomed to failure even before ONE CENT is spent.

Happy "Turkey Day" to all US residents on the Forums. !!

Cheers
jimbo

#19 and #21 certainly needed to make the list.

I think the post of Urban Forestry Officer mainly involves supervising groups of young offenders on community service orders, planting trees on roadside verges and in other otherwise barren sites, to spend some of the EU grants the city has been awarded. Where they nick them from is not disclosed.

Since Hull is to be the "City of Culture" in 2017, it needs to present a greener image, so any surviving tree in the city has a preservation order slapped on it by the planners:

https://web5.hullcc.gov.uk/akshull/images/att22693.rtf

Nobody listens to the UFO (as he is affectionately called) in Hull anyway as the above piece shows.

Read number 3. What planet is David Gerwitz on ? :shock:

Hehehe... windows 8 at #2.... Tho personally I would have specified "tifkam"...

Hi there

I think they missed one on that list :

How about APPLE with Icash -- I'm surprised they haven't launched this already to combat Bitcoins. !!!

Cheers
jimbo

SIW2 said:

Read number 3. What planet is David Gerwitz on ? :shock:

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He's from the "School of Thought" that believes, "Ethics, Morals and Treaties only apply to Foreigners".

lehnerus2000 said:

SIW2 said:

Read number 3. What planet is David Gerwitz on ? :shock:

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He's from the "School of Thought" that believes, "Ethics, Morals and Treaties only apply to Foreigners".

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Hi there
If you look at some of the recent evidence collected from Space debris (meteorites, comets etc) - we are ALL ALIENS now !!!.

Cheers
jimbo

evidence collected from Space debris (meteorites, comets etc)

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...must have been watching BBC 4 lately? They aired a fine program about this a few days ago.