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[tikay]

I like Microsoft and Bill Gates. Despite their imperialism and crap products, at least you know that a bit of what you buy is stopping some third world kids dying at 3 months.

Seconded.

Ditto google, who at no cost to anyone except themselves, are digitalising the entire human genome, such that the entire scientiftic & medical community can simply google such critical & vital information - for free. And digitalising thousands of books from the World's best Universities, so better for anyone, anywhrere in the world, to have free access to them.

[Mango99]

Very interesting thread.

I've always hoped that Boss Media (software suppliers for my company's poker room) would introduce a blackjack / roulette button into their software, as I've heard that the casino part of a poker room can, initially, make up to 50% of the total income earned from that room, without reducing the poker part of the income by any significant amount (if that makes sense?). e.g. you can almost double your income by simply chucking in a "play blackjack" and "play roulette" option.

Incidently, we run a seperate casino to our poker room, but so far haven't cross-marketed it to our poker users - or vice versa even. We have marketed our poker room to an instant-win site we run (with tens of thousands of users) and the take up was abysmal (about 0.1% !). I assume that this is because those who choose to play instant-win type games (scratchcards, hi/lo style games etc) aren't interested in other areas of gambling like poker, or even casino based games. Perhaps the same is true in trying to convert poker players to play blackjack, and casino players to play poker - in any great numbers anyway.

Following on from this, I did hear some interesting facts from two seperate sources from two of the bigger poker rooms on the net. They both had implemented blackjack to their sites for over a year, and had found that to start with the profits soared. However, within 6 months they found they were only just operating above what they'd have been operating at if they hadn't introduced the games at all.

I guess the novelty factor wears off, and those that want to play poker stick to playing the poker. Those that want to play in a casino, will sign up to a site that offers a better incentive than a poker site. This might not be true of all skins of all software, but from the two operators I spoke to, it seemed to be true in their cases.

[Mango99]

I like Microsoft and Bill Gates. Despite their imperialism and crap products, at least you know that a bit of what you buy is stopping some third world kids dying at 3 months.

Thirded. Bill Gates, top bloke, is going to give his whole fortune (aside from a measly few million to his kids ) to a charitable foundation. lol philanthropistaments!

[ifm]

thats a very cynical view, albiet understandable.

The vast majority of UK corporate directors take their social and non profit responsibilites seriously.

I am sorry, but that kite don't fly. They have to please the City, & the Institutions, & only profit matters. They simply pay lip-service to their social obligations - until & unless, of course, it affects their share price. Then they become all socially responsible & cooey-wooey.

I dunno about that, when our company (part of TI) were bought by Smiths group we had to be environmentally friendly, if any TI company didn't achieve ISO14001 they were closed regardless of profit.
We have recently been bought by General Electric (one of the biggest companies in the world) and even though we comply with every environmental regulation there is we have had a huge audit and a list of 96 items that need to be addressed and GE have done this with EVERY company they own at enormous expense, sacrificing profit.
These are all items deemed unnecessary by environmental law.

[tikay]

thats a very cynical view, albiet understandable.

The vast majority of UK corporate directors take their social and non profit responsibilites seriously.

I am sorry, but that kite don't fly. They have to please the City, & the Institutions, & only profit matters. They simply pay lip-service to their social obligations - until & unless, of course, it affects their share price. Then they become all socially responsible & cooey-wooey.

I dunno about that, when our company (part of TI) were bought by Smiths group we had to be environmentally friendly, if any TI company didn't achieve ISO14001 they were closed regardless of profit.
We have recently been bought by General Electric (one of the biggest companies in the world) and even though we comply with every environmental regulation there is we have had a huge audit and a list of 96 items that need to be addressed and GE have done this with EVERY company they own at enormous expense, sacrificing profit.
These are all items deemed unnecessary by environmental law.

I thought you worked for Rolls Royce Ian?

If not, I better sell my lovely shares in them. They were £5.05 at C0B today.

[ifm]

Not for them but we are their biggest supplier of engine rings and casings, also every other turbine engine manufacturer in the world.
Funny thing is GE are RR's biggest competitor and because of this we cannot have GE in our company name at all because RR may think we are taking the p**s
So we are going to be called Unison something or other.

[tikay]

Not for them but we are their biggest supplier of engine rings and casings, also every other turbine engine manufacturer in the world.
Funny thing is GE are RR's biggest competitor and because of this we cannot have GE in our company name at all because RR may think we are taking the p**s
So we are going to be called Unison something or other.

I guess one can understand the "touchy" thing between RR & GE, who, with P & W, dominate the Aero Engine market but are fierce rivals. I believe RR have spent £12 billion on R & D in the last decade, most of it on the RB11 derivatives, that's a whole lot of dough. Fortunately, with the after-sales spares merket locked up for the life of the engine, I think they make more money from spares, over the engine's life, than the engine itself. Bully for them.  It has to be said, Aero-Engines are remarkably reliable & efficent. They use to test them over at Hucknall, I believe, also in Derby, Victory Road was it?

God Bless Mr Whittle, or Sir Frank as I believe he became.

[ifm]

I once watched their engineers firing chickens into an engine at hucknall, awesome sight!!
Aerospace is cyclical, every 7 years, it is now on a major upswing worldwide apart from RR to an extent because of all the delays with the europlane watsitcalled.
RR is a design house now, they do very little manufacturing and have closed most of their factories, the vast majority of machining is done in China.

They actually judge the markets by how many planes are parked up in the desert in Arizona (i think), the more parked up the less demand etc. it's incredibly accurate, always makes me giggle that.
We have monthly briefs and that is always reported on with graphs and pie charts

Spares is a bit misleading as they pretty much rebuild them every few years, we make spares for engines out of production for over 20 years!!!

[RichEO]

I once watched their engineers firing chickens into an engine at hucknall, awesome sight!!

Were they thawed out? http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blthaw.htm

[AndrewT]

I once watched their engineers firing chickens into an engine at hucknall, awesome sight!!

Harsh, but fair.

[kinboshi]

I once watched their engineers firing chickens into an engine at hucknall, awesome sight!!

Harsh, but fair.

I'd pay to fire chickens at him.  A lot.  They'd be frozen as well.

[yellowmagic]

I can assure readers that Corporate and Social Responsibility is not only a requirement as Tighty said, it is also high on list of expectations of many stakeholders. It is practised rigorously by many FTSE-100 companies as well as public sector bodies, and is a key principle to which I, as a procurement professional, am required to adhere.

[tikay]

I can assure readers that Corporate and Social Responsibility is not only a requirement as Tighty said, it is also high on list of expectations of many stakeholders. It is practised rigorously by many FTSE-100 companies as well as public sector bodies, and is a key principle to which I, as a procurement professional, am required to adhere.

"Procurement Official". We used to call them "buyers"!

[Eck]

I can assure readers that Corporate and Social Responsibility is not only a requirement as Tighty said, it is also high on list of expectations of many stakeholders. It is practised rigorously by many FTSE-100 companies as well as public sector bodies, and is a key principle to which I, as a procurement professional, am required to accept as many freebies and sweeteners as i can get my hands on

FYP

[stoneii]

""Procurement Official". We used to call them "buyers"!"

LoL in the same way that "Fuel Injection Engineers" used to be called petrol pump attendants.