Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

Re: Really?

"Show us how it works (at least roughly)"

Have you looked at their website? They have a section called "Learn". I don't claim to understand it all but it made a lot more sense when I'd put that effort in.

Also, when can I play GTA on it?

Re: Leisure Sue Larry

Maybe. But it's also my experience of Oracle (in the UK anyway) that they will respond to an RFP or ITT without actually meeting the basic requirements, and still challenge things despite accurate scoring.

It's almost as though their sales and marketing droids have a higher opinion of their capabilities than their company can deliver, or that they just don't understand it all.

Re: I cannot fathom the downvotes

Re : "I cannot fathom the downvotes"

Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Re: Oh Really?

And then nuke them from orbit?

Re: Telsa's requiring "Full self driving beta" customers sign an NDA

Agreed. A whole product line of Boeing aircraft were grounded globally after two high profile crashes due to software incidents.

I'm struggling why the regulators in the US haven't done the same with Teslas.

Why worry. Just accept it. The one thing history teaches us is that ALL empires and powers fall or decay and are replaced with something else - sometimes better, sometimes worse. It may take centuries or decades, but that change is inevitable.

Personally, as a UK citizen sat here somewhat amused as I watch the country slowly go down the pan - I feel no allegiance or obligation to it whatsoever. It's just the country I happened to be born in, and unfortunately I wasn't consulted in advance.

I'm not so sure, but I guess so in certain areas - as those issues are the ones that primarily generate the negative headlines. But IBM Research & Labs have always done, and are still quietly doing very relevant and interesting work in the background.

Re: Not as easy as it used to be

Totally agree. I do have GPS and such like, but I think it's a lot more satisfying using old school methods.

Re: How long is it?

Thanks Adam, response much appreciated.

Re: Welcome to the 21sa Century

"Actually, commercial vessels have used n Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) for some time. No one in the commercial world has used charts for decades."

Agreed. And this stance is also now filtering down to the leisure market where a lot of yachties I know now only use electronic charts such as Navionics on mobile tablets and dedicated integrated chartplotters etc.

Personally, I don't necessarily disagree and everything has its place I guess, but I l still have a love of paper charts and old school navigation techniques to the point where I'm just about to buy a sextant and start my Ocean Yachtmaster course.

That said, my yacht only cruises at about 6knts, and in fog, GPS, AIS, Radar etc. are all invaluable tools.

But in reality, and standard legal bluster notwithstanding, the fact they have paid up means they are effectively guilty as charged.

Probably similar to those senses usually followed by Sussex police, he "used the farce".

Re: How was the ammouncement made?

At least the cat was happy. It had previously had a hell of a time being stuck in that box for so long with not a single person physically checking in on its state of being.

Re: I just don't buy it.

Perhaps, but I didn't get the sense from the book that EH started out to be awful. I got the sense that she genuinely believed she could, and was, changing the world. I think she got carried away with her own press and that brickbat Silicon Valley mentality that "impossible is just an opinion".

More, she then put herself in a tight corner via the slow dripping of real-world design and test problems with the blood machines, which then led to the false statements, lies, mis-directions and threats to cover or hush them all up.

Balwani on the other hand has been repeatedly proven as a serial liar and does read like a nasty and rotten fruit loop.

Re: For those who believe in such things...

But surely this just brings the nonsense all back home. The message I take from that is that Jeebus only lasted 40 days in the desert before he gave into the physiological limits of thirst and hunger. The fact he came back at all only presses home the fact that he never really had the conviction to die for his purported beliefs and should be roundly ignored.

Thank heavens for those Romans who really did the initial experimentation of money vs mouth.

I agree, and this is the sole reason I am and remain a contractor. Yes, the money is good - but I like the fact that I and I alone am in charge of my time and direction. Across my work career I've taken quite a few sabbaticals - or "mini retirements" as I call them and my next year out is planned for when I finish my current contract in February :-)

Re: Catch 22

I have to say I found he article a bit TLDR, not necessarily with the El Reg reporting of it, but I find Which to be a bit of a scaremonger that is quite happy to take " minor risks" and present them as "critical issues" as long as it gets them some publicity.

However, where did you read this about lack of support if you switch routers? I have had a VM router in my house in one form or another for the last 8 years and they have never raised any form of issue with my having it in modem only mode and connected upstream from my 3rd party router.

Re: Clippy!

"And the app only reminds you to wash your hands for 20 seconds when it detects you are actually washing you hands."

If that is the sort of thing you need to be reminded of, when you are actually doing the thing you are being reminded about - then you do truly need all the help you can get.

Re: "anyone can opt to use alternative platforms"

I think you've intentionally missed the point. I read this to mean that Apple see "platform" as both the hardware and software layer combined.

Still, nice of them to keep 30% of my (sometimes) hard earned cash just to "protect" me eh? Can someone get them to explain how? And once they have validated that that transaction has been made "securely" why they aren't only charging a couple of cents on the $ like my bank does.

I'm with Epic on this.

Re: errmmm

I see it similarly, but slightly different...

"It doesn’t matter to me that my reward is £0.00 or that the lawyers take most of it. What matters is that the company at fault is legally held accountable and forced to change their ways with the knowledge that people are now paying full attention."

Re: Depressing

This is my view as well. Bearing in mind that the burden of proving the guilt or "crime" would have been on the Post Office, at what point did the defendents legal teams not reply :

1. Defendants (presumably) all had historically correct accounts up to the point they started using the new system?

2. Defendants (presumably) all started to find and then be accused of accounting discrepancies at the point of starting to use the new system.

It's just too big a coincidence and I'm surprised it even passed the legal sniff test.