₦airaland Forum

For the love of mike, can you people stop using the word 'Pentium' in your product descriptions?

The intel Pentium line has been discontinued ages ago. As a marketer you should endeavour to know more about your product!

@Naijaking
Your mentor - Cecilia Ibru - is not facing EFCC charges over morality issues, but on illegal issues. Stop attempting to muddy waters with your 'morality' argument.
i took pains to show you that morality in itself does not solely stem from religion. Yet you're still too fixated on your islamophobia to show reason.

Your motive is clear - you lost money. Big deal! I lost lots of money too, you don't see me desperately looking for a scapegoat to blame.

Kratos007:
no need for him to get hammered. let's get some facts straight, ryan shawcross has a history of being a violent tackler. october 2007, ryan shawcross breaks the ankle of former arsenal player franny jeffers. november 2008, shawcross slides in hard on adebayor, injuring him for 3 weeks. february 2010, ryan shawcross breaks the tibia and fibula of aaron ramsey in a 50-50 challenge. did he mean to break the leg? no he did not, but he did. you do not make those kind of crunching challenges day in day out without knowing that one day you will cause some serious damage. look for videos of shawcross when he was on loan to one of the man united feeder clubs, i forget the name now, and you will see him making wild lunges every 5 mins. this same shawcross was whingeing like a bleeping kitty when fabregas slid him in the first half. i dont mean to come on hard on him like this, but he is somehow being made out to be the victim in all this. rooney offered him public backing. that demento fergusson called him to lend him moral support. tony pulis, sky sports, alan hansen, alan shearer, stan collymore and the media hacks at itv have all come out to say "oh, he is not that kind of player", well, who is? if he were a foreigner, he would be hounded to death. i remember when that deportivo player broke beckham's metatarsal, the british journalists stopped short of calling for his head, personally went to spain and hounded him all the while. but because it involves just another of the 'brats' from arsenal, and a welsh one, suddenly its shawcross that needs support or counselling? what of the young man who may never play footie again? if it was rooney that had his leg broken, we would have had a public hue and cry the world over that you would be forgiven for thinking that someone just shot obama. perspective people!!! shawcross is a dangerous player. him and all the thugs at stoke, bolton and blackburn. just read ricardo fuller's pre match notes to know the stoke grand plan for the match. a team packed full of body builders with little or no skill, with their best player being a towel on the sidelines

It's easy to pick out these hard tackles now simply because this player is under scrutiny. How many Premier league players haven't made hard tackles on others in the past 3 years?

Football is a physical sport and there are definitely going to be hard tackles. As long as it's a fair tackle and there's no intent to cause harm, what's the issue?

Perhaps you folk should call for an age limit on players in the premier league. Bringing young folks whose bones have not ossified into close physical contact with hardened players is a recipe for disaster. That makes more sense than calling for a ban on poor Shawncross.

ziga:
This is what Nigeria should have been doing since. I hope it is sustained though and the world will know that the 419 stereotyping of Nigeria is only possible because we have collaborators from their own country.

Yeah right. Any number of 'collaborators' is infinitesimally small compared to the number of victims.

naijaking1:
Now, I get it. I am sorry I failed to notice your ignorance of basic tenets of capitalism a long time ago.
The market place, the fighting ring, and capital market is not a place to play judge of people's morality. You go to church or mosque for that. I recommend the most basic book about capitalism to you and Sanusi.

No wonder you agree with the guy that people should not own banks, own private jets, cheat on their wives, miss church every sunday, log on to indecency websites, own houses every where-while other Nigerians wallow in abject poverty, refuse to feed almajiris, or even fail to marry a 4th wife. ---- these are moral issues, and my friend, they're quite subjective, religious, and even cultural-based, but have no room in a democratic economy or capitalism.

Too much Islamic education rubbing off on you guys from Khartoum?

I was referring to those bankers in the US, you numbskull. even a child can see that from the way my words were structured. Has your antipathy for sanusi addled your brains?

You also display your lack of exposure: morality as a word is not synonymous with religion. It's best summed up as proper behaviour, and is influenced by either philosophy, culture or religion.

Nice of you to expose your views on sanusi's Islamic education, though. So we can add religious intolerance to your list of motives.

4llerbuntu:
where did i say that MS makes money off it? @ texazzpete?

u pple need to get off this fanboy thingy abeg jare!!! I DONT SEE THROUGH THOSE GLASSES AT ALL, I USE MS TOO when i cant avoid it, eg at work on anor persons system, or during the wonderful freegate saga lol AND I STARTED THERE ANYWAYS, LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, I FORGET MORE STUFF THAN 80 PERCENT OF WINDOWS USERS EVER BOTHER TO LEARN! yup, i tried to learn it too!!

my point is windows have all the opportunity in the world to do better stuff, they just dont wanna!

the flaws that virus programmer exploit are known, how come they survive every new windows incarnation! a virus for win7 was out 3 hrs after they released the free test copies u pple used!!!!!

there are OS like solaris and MAC and even dare i say linux who dont suffer that plight! yes i know linux for example has a few, but they way its built from base code up, its secure, u not gonna get crazy situations like on MS, and they frankly dont spread and are a waste of time. the way it works u wont get the effect u desire!

yes i know the too few users angle, but isnt that like an admission that the virus market is a lucrative one! for moneymaking? therefore the folks who sit on their hands while the market thrives want it to thrive. (more licensing and related revenue) the net is symbiotic and the top of the chain is MS!

there are proven ways of mitigating this wahala, if MS can rip ideas for eyecandy, why not for base stuff? the MS kernel for example? needs new ideas, and they can afford the worlds best talent!!!

even stuff like filesystem structure? reiserfs, ext etc, all perform better than FAT or NTFS, simply because people approached the ideas differently! and MS still wont support them even when FAT and NTFS get killed by viruses easily
i mean lets be honest here who is fooling who? is windows the absolute best it could be? NO!

MS can afford to redo the whole jig, they have had two releases in 5 years! the customers are not going anywhere soon. if they take any OS today and name it windows 1000, all u guys will be screaming "ahhh its soo smooth!!!" lets get real!

the system is designed to maximise profits but so its good biz, bad for consumership!!! the anti virus industry thrives cos windows wont make a concerted effort to put them out of business!! they pay for licenses too dont they?

Yeah, rejig the entire filesystem and throw out the registry. Then when 90% of Windows software don't work, what do you do?
Most of the FUD and outcry that surrounded the Vista launch was due to the program incompatibility. Now you want Microsoft to throw everything out the window.
Have you even heard the furore around Microsoft's decision to completely overhaul Windows mobile, rendering all legacy applications unusable on their upcoming Windows Phone 7?

Any more bright ideas, Einstein?

oyb:
oga i am suprised you have never sought to impart this advice to 4llerbe, whose thread invasions are far more annoying and juvenile. this is what is called pot calling kettle black

You beat me to it.
and Dual Core's right. You need a sense of humor.


Seeing as i'm on the Linux thread, i may well ask: anyone here still running Ubuntu on their PS3? I gave it up long ago when i still had an old CRT, but now with a HDTV i may well take the plunge again. Just would like to see if there's anyone out there doing that right now.

irohadis:
Apparently, this writer has no ideas of his or her own. The whole article is based on paraphrasing other western writers and thinkers and framing judgements based on the applied implications of the borrowed phrases. Take away the quoted phrases and there is little left. Again the density of the references to other authors, apart from diminishing his or her own place as a thinker exhibit the authors narcissism. The article is about the author, to attract attention, to sound so shocking to be noticed, to play with words and throw out names in order to be seen as 'well read.' Such literary self-service can't be taken seriously. It will be more time well spent if author spent more text, fleshing out argument to compel readers. But, that is far from his or her intentions. I doubt if Idontcare paid for such empty promotion.

Man, you spoke my mind 100%. +1 for you.

mikeansy:
Can somebody kindly tell us when Sanusi's policies will start supporting the economy to create jobs again?

in 10years time?

Sounds like what thats what Sanusi is saying

I don't know about you but that does not sound like a good deal to me. Whoever is the next President in 2011 can help change this horrible destiny by replacing Sanusi.


Now we are told that we will now have various banks with different capital base. Trust me we will soon be back to pre-consolidation when banks going into bankruptcy with peoples live savings trapped was more beneficial to small bank owrners than remaining in business.

I'd much rather the new president focused his efforts on improving the power situation in Nigeria. Now THAT will get jobs going again.

The draconian banking loan policies under Soludo didn't exactly do much to help small scale businesses get going, did they?

naijaking1:
I'm not working for Cecelia Ibru in any way, I'm one of the shareholders who have lost real money, thanks for Sanusi's stupidity, and he will never be forgiven.

So we have a motive now. Good!

naijaking1:
I don't know in what bubble you have been for the last year, because you have never heard of the salaries, compensations, and stock options of mega banks like Chase and Citibank.

yes, hefty bonuses and stock options. But not on a magnitude approaching Cecilia Ibru's grasping ways, and not one of those bonuses were illegal or shady in any way.
The main issue the public had with those bankers was on the morality of collecting such bonuses even in the heart of the crisis, not the[b] legality[/b].

Even a child should know the difference.

mikeansy:
What you fail to realise is that there is no evidence that it is not the current CBN under Sanusi that is actually doctoring its records to support their convoluted and irrational policies.

But you know what? in the midst of this confusion as to who is wrong and who is right? the economy is hurting and people are loosing their jobs and this is a direct result of Sanusi's prefered approach to running the economy.

He should own his failures.

And in that same measure there is no evidence that without Sanusi's interference, there would not have been an outright collapse of at least one of the Big Five banks.

And you know what that would have meant to the workforce and even the economy.
People are losing their jobs, yes, but even more would have lost their jobs. And worse, depositors may have lost their hard earned money. Simple as that.

mikeansy:
At a time when Sanusi was running around reporting our Banks to the world including his London road show. The following revelation came out from a more serious country where they understand the importance of investor confidence in the economy


You will think since this revelations came out while Sanusi was junketting around the world destroying the reputation of our economy he will have a rethink? NO . . . . . . .  . marxists never have reality check. They act before thinking. Sanusi is in the wrong job.

And in how many of those countries did the near-collapse of the banking sector come about through greed and corruption on the part of their Bank chiefs. Or in how many of those did the CBN Governor turn a blind eye to all the warning signs in a bid to boost his political career?

mikeansy:
http://www.ainewswire.com/?p=161

This is Fitch rating for Intercontinental bank in 2007 which Sanusi now describes as house of fraud. So who is lying?

So forget theories and ratings lets talk about the realities

The ratings work based on what the banks release - cooked up data in 2007. Enron did the same thing way back in the late nineties. Hell, Enron used to have a great rating, who knew what sins they were hiding until they went bust?
The post-enron reforms were tough, but they've ensured that things took a turn for the better. Ditto the CBN reforms.

mikeansy:
People have lost job since Sanusi came in, people have also lost confidence in the economy since Sanusi came in

All of these drags us back to what Donald Duke was saying which I posted above. It's all based on perception and Sanusi has simply destryed our economy.

Now, ask yourself one simple question; why are the banks letting people go? The simple answer is that they needed to cut down on superfluous staff to get back to profitability. The banks had become bloated with assets that had since turned into liabilites.

Now ask yourself who was the CBN Governor when this unhealthy bloating was taking place. Every savvy economics knows that when there's a bubble, there's a bust coming along soon enough. Now which CBN Governor failed to keep a closer eye on this artificial bubble?

The Banks are not charitable organizations. They have to make a profit to remain viable businesses. reducing cost is a clear way of doing that, and terminating staff they do not NEED is an easy way of doing that.

If Soludo had acted earlier and decisively to prevent the rot in the banking sector from spreading, none of these would have happened. But the man had one eye on governing your state, and gullible people like yourself nearly voted him in.
Good thing he lost, eh?  

naijaking1:
Interesting to see how folks who have no genuine point to add to the converstaion always quickly go personal.

naijaking1:
So, he's not a fool my brother, but just an outright politician operating in an environment manned by his fellow Katsina mafia folks, and with nobody to challenge him.

'Katsina mafia', does that fall under professional opinion too?

mikeansy:
those are sanusi's figures which we have no way to verify whether they were just made up just like some of the names and figures in the debtors list.

right now we have no reason to trust sanusi more than anyone else.

Those were BankPHB's PUBLISHED figures - can't you read? Made up, my butt.

mikeansy:
right now we have no reason to trust sanusi more than anyone else.

And what reason do YOU have to trust Soludo more than anyone else? His grandiose 'africa-dubai-taiwan' campaign speeches during the last election in Anambra?
The only reason you're here making these allegations is because he's exposing Soludo's reluctance to oversee the banks properly during the latter days of his tenure as CBN governor.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201002221635.html

Fitch predicts growth in Banks, Okays Sanusi's Reforms

Lagos — Fitch Ratings has expressed confidence in the governance structure of Nigerian banks, stressing that the initiatives of the Central Bank of Nigeria in that regard will achieve the desired objectives.

The global rating agency said in a report yesterday that "the Nigerian banking sector's historically weak corporate governance and limited accounting disclosures have begun to improve."

The Senior Director, Fitch's Financial Institutions Group, Anthony Walker, said "CBN's initiatives to improve corporate governance and overall levels of transparency should assist to further stabilise the Nigerian banking sector."

He added: "Investors will now begin to benefit from improved financial statement and periodical reporting disclosures, together with a common year-end for all Nigerian banks which will assist investors in assessing the risks within these institutions.

"At the same time, further improvements made to corporate governance regulations since the conclusion of the CBN's special examination have also been considered to be positive."

Fitch Ratings, however, noted that disclosure could be improved further, while urging the strengthening of non-executive directors in the Board of banks.

Following the conclusion of its special examination, the CBN sacked the managing directors and executive directors of eight banks it found to have violated governance principles and dragged their banks to distress conditions, among other infractions.

The CBN then injected N620 billion in the banks and commenced a restructuring process in areas such as governance, disclosures and risk management, all part of another round of banking reforms.

Fitch noted in the report that "most of the non-executive directors of these institutions have remained in place," adding, "Fitch considers this surprising given the apparent breakdown in corporate governance and risk management controls at the institutions."

A director in Fitch, Denzil De Bie said "one of the challenges that Nigeria will face, a feature of most emerging markets is the ability to find suitably qualified and experienced individuals to serve as non-executive directors."

"Although Nigerian regulations provide guidance on the structure and composition of board committees, the agency considers that the shortage of adequately qualified and experienced non-executive directors will continue to impact overall levels of corporate governance.

"Moving forward, Fitch believes it would be beneficial if bank compliance functions are strengthened and given a greater role in identifying and reporting corporate governance weaknesses to relevant Board committees and the CBN," it added.

RoadStar:
Mr Sanusi, you are now in charge, Just fix it !
I cannot help feel that this man has not been able to shake off the shadow of Soludo.
This I believe is due to the fact that people still look back to the days of Soludo with a lot of Nostalgia.

If he is doing a good Job we should start to realise the fruits in years to come.
I hope he is not conceding to the fact that this cannot be achieved.

fix it, yes, but that doesn't mean the evils done in the past should be overlooked.

RoadStar:
This I believe is due to the fact that people still look back to the days of Soludo with a lot of Nostalgia.

If he is doing a good Job we should start to realise the fruits in years to come.

Is that so? We're reaping the ill fruits of Soludo's tenure right now, yet you still insist on looking back with rose-tinted glasses. Nostalgia my butt!

I don't see why Sanusi should be 'living in Soludo's shadow' as you put it. In Nigeria, what we need are people who can do the job they are being paid to do with little fanfare. We don't need superstars, we need good, competent and honest people who will do the job!

As far as I can see, sanusi never called Soludo a fraud.

naijaking1:
No need to get into Sanusi vs. Soludo---history will take care of that after their tenure.
However, the governor's suggestion and impication that somehow the money used to form and build these banks were somehow not real money is simply a cheap attempt to succeed at his core objective- the reduction of shareholders equity in these banks.
Even if these shareholders used monoploy money to form these banks, they don't need to be pushed out to make way for people who couldn't invest at the begining.

you're always keen to cast aspersions on sanusi's character and motives. Why no comment on Soludo's actions as described by Sanusi?
It's clear your interest lies not with the economy, but with flagellating Sanusi for his actions against one of your patrons.

ibugreats:
bros , come to kaduna . and buy iphone 36GB for 11,000 naira only . i am a seller too.
that is wat we here in kaduna sell iphones , cheap koooooo .

Except that there are no 36GB iPhones. Keep your china rip-offs to yourself!

entinvest:
i hot a ps3 and a b bold2 from him and he called me up that he wants me to comment on his credibility over the items he sold and i will get a free cod modern warfare2 cd if i did that on atleast 5posts and i did that, and now you are accusing me of what,
i was not foolish enough to pay money into his account, he said he was located at enugu and then i said i had someone at enugu and he then said no he is now in lagos and then i suggested we meet and i paid cash and carry
please lets be logical and

Yeah right. Which is why both of you seem to have similar interests on Nairaland, and how you who has been selling PS3s on your own now in 2009 suddenly bought a ps3 from the fellow.

Emzybrown:
I like mikel in chelsea even if his team didnt win any trophy,mikel being in man u,i dont think he wil play a single match in a racist club like man u,who said if he plays for man u he would have been a worldclass player,for your info who will consider him the best if he doesnt play in champions,premier league.if mikel went to man u, he would have destroyed his carrer.

Racist club with black players like Anderson, Valencia, Djemba Djemba, Fortune, Yorke, Cole, Evra, you must be re'tarded.

sjeezy8:
There is NO WAY IBB can win in a free and fair election as a civilian president. and America knows that! They know that the only way he can gain win is from rigging.

No one in PDP will vote for him, No one in AC will vote for him, APGA NO,LB No . . .

There americans are saying they want a person who has experienced being head of Nigeria to rule in 2011 WTF type of thinking is that. What of Obama in America- why cant Nigerians have their own NEW fresh president that will restore a new hope in Nigeria of all regions?

All Biafrans, OPC, MEND should know the cause of their problems and all Nigerians problem is the USA and britian- as they clearly dont any southerner to be president of Nigeria unless he has been head of state before(like obj).

typical Nigerian, placing all the blame on others.

The real cause of our problems is the large number of cowardly Nigerians (mainly southerners) that will not come out to vote PDP out. Simple as that.

igodieoh:
It is not reading any discs, both old and new ones, could it be the lends or need a cleaner

then get it modded so you can run backups from a hard disk

Chuckdee:
[size=14pt]SOLD, SOLD, SOLD![/size]
10X Yall.

Crap! I was just gonna buy it

Chuckdee, u still got my number? Abeg give me right of first refusal next time when u have such good deals.

Know anywhere i can get good used PS3 pads from?

I have all three

Prefer the 360 for First Person Shooters
Prefer the PS3 for fighting games and PES
The wii is played infrequently, gathers dust most times sha

Of all three, i play the PS3 most because i have more games for it. Why? Because it's region free!

Region free means that any game i buy, either from the UK, the Netherlands or Dubai will work on my console. it also means i can trade or swap games with anyone out there.

So in that regard, i actually prefer my PS3. With the new reduced prices, the PS3 is now easy to recommend for cash strapped gamers.

Why the need to generalize? Why insinuate that all civil servants are lazy?
There are many hardworking civil servants out there. This list even includes teachers in public schools etc.

My mum has been a civil servant in the Ministry of Education all her life, and she even works harder than most people i know in the private sector. Even in ill health, even in the face of job adversity and marginalization, she puts in a herculean effort. And there are many many more like her out there.

N100k monthly IS unreasonable as a minimum wage, but that does not give you fuc'kheads the right to make such idi'otic allegations.

And please, don't refer to it as a 'Mac airbook' again. it hurts my eyes

funkybaby:
Someone should please help out.

There has to be someone/somewhere in lagos to get the laptop fixed

What's wrong with the laptop?

4llerbuntu:
bsides @poster i meant that as a new user who was not conversant wit linux its not usual to just put ubuntu solely on your pc wham bam. besides i guess u got into the linux movt by interacting wit folks. one thing i knw 4 a fact is we always mention d dual boot thingy just to like give a soft landing. your d 1st new user i knw who did a sole boot on his only pc! sorry if i sounded off. besides why not partition d drive and dual boot?

I guess probably what you said happened: someone convinced him that Ubuntu would run better and faster than his native XP.
He just never realised that the learning curve may be steep for a newbie until he installed it.

Glad you've changed from 'noob' to 'new user'. I hate that word!

Check to see if your laptop supports hardware virtualization and if you're running Win 7 Professional, you should be able to install and run 'Xp Mode' on windows 7

Hanoobaba:
^^^After all the unfolding events of the past 2-3months, you still haven't learnt this simple lesson, "Don't believe everything you see or hear". I pity you.

Hanoobaba:
Spare me the lectures, I knew you were being sarcastic. So was I. But I guess you were too dumb to realise that.

I think everyone knows that you weren't striving for sarcasm there.