Posts by TeeCee 9435 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Surely focussing on developing products isn't a problem? If that's all they were doing there'd be no issue anyway.
I suspect that it's their ongoing* mission to pwn the whole internets and everything attached to it that's proving difficult to sustain amid the regulatory scrutiny.
*Possibly evil too. At the very least there must be a long-haired white cat in there somewhere.
Competition? Where?
As there's no profit involved (quite the reverse) what are they competing for? "Who can piss the biggest cash stain on the wall"? "Our willy is bigger than your willy"?
That is a fuckload of cash to splurge on possibly getting a better fix on a receiver that's dual system capable, an aim which could have been accomplished far more simply, for a lot less cash and without changing receivers by chucking a few more sats into GPS.
Still, nice to see that there are a few sheep around prepared to buy into the mind-numbing bullshit that 4.8bn and counting[1] is worth it for "not being dependant on the US system". Yeah. Right. Heads up people, what you are paying for here is making the overpaid, fat-arsed Eurocrats feel even more important.
[1] Gets 'em 24[2] and they want 30.
[2] Assuming that the usual cost overruns associated with anything like this miraculously fail to appear.
The majority of the bent Win 7 versions out there are Technet license keys.
Your account is compromised, a large number of keys are generated, MS spot the problem and suspend the account to invalidate the keys.
Rule of thumb: If your apparently vanilla copy of Win 7 came with Ingram Micro shrink wrapping, it's almost certainly bent. Check the license sticker security strip with a magnifying glass......
Typical. Absobloodylutely typical.
Insane pricing, ensuring that early adopters and evaluators were put off, was one of the most significant nails in the coffin of OS/2. When it originally shipped, it cost an arm and a leg as desktop OS's went at the time. Then you found out that Presentation Manager (the GUI) was an "optional extra" that cost more than the core OS did. If you jumped that hurdle you then found that, if you wanted it to talk to anything else, Comms Manager was also required.........
Many did what I did. I lobbed the copy we bought for evaluation into the bin when I found how much extra wonga was required to convert "DOS that doesn't work" into "candidate future GUI desktop OS". If it hadn't been for that, being an IBM shop I reckon we might have taken the OS/2 route. As it was we ended up going GUI with Win 3 like everyone else.
ISTR that most of these SSD controllers get a good deal of their grunt by implementing two drives internally with the data striped across them.
Oddly enough, the last time I saw this behaviour was when Abit shipped a BIOS version for the NF7 mobo, fucked up the bit for the on-board Silicon Image RAID controller and everyone using RAID went to data corruption and bluescreen hell.
Thank you, *now* it makes sense, both from a draining it perspective and a "how the hell do you mistake a lake for a sewage works?" one.
For some reason[1] that important piece of information was missing from every reported version I've seen so far.
[1] Sensationalist journalism looks favourite.
You have a problem in your first numbered point.
There is no such thing as a "basic human right"........well certainly not a universal list of such that everyone agrees on. The nearest thing we have is whatever the jurisdiction under discussion says it is. In this case that would be the US government, with final authority on interpretation of the appropriate legislation held by the, er, Supreme Court. Thus it actually matters very much what the Supreme Court has to say on the subject......
"....Apple isn't worried by an HTML5 threat...."
Ah, the Elephant in the room. I suspect that is the only reason that this works. At the moment.
I also suspect that if it does prove to be a threat to their cosy walled garden and their app store rakeoff, such applications will unceremoniously given the boot. This to be probably accompanied by weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth and a curt "sod off" email sent from Stevie's iPhone.
I'd like to be surprised and see a new, open Apple embracing such things and living with the revenue leakage as a worthwhile tradeoff for being a respected player, but as it's still warmish in Satan's fireplace I doubt I will be...
Hmm, if you "barely saw" it in time you were probably going a shade too fast for the visibility conditions.
The other two cars you mention were obviously going waaay too fast for the conditions....
Doesn't matter how many gadgets you fit to a car, if the driver insists on driving like a twat it's still going to hit something eventually. The only solution there is to make the things fully autonomous.
While radar might be able to see through the fog, surely it would be far more sensible for a camera equipped car to automatically limit the speed to one at which it can still stop when it sees something? Remember here that other things happen on a road that a radar triggered emergency braking system won't deal with and the driver's eyes are at the same disadvantage as the camera......
".....is that mechanical keyboards are going the way of the VCR, and that the virtual keyboard provided on a full touchscreen is good enough."
Ah, so no change there in the meaning of "conventional wisdom" then? I.E: A complete and utter pile of inaccurate steaming bollocks, displaying breathtaking levels of mind-numbing stupidity and a total lack of anything resembling the vaguest fucking clue.
Er, why?
What "thing" is it that gets "worse" because of this?
As far as I can see, the only people who might have a serious objection here would be the likes of Google. They'll be losing out a bit when banging "Hitachi" into your combo address-cum-search-bar thingy goes straight to the default landing page at ".hitachi", as it should, rather than giving them the chance to punt a load of ads for people flogging Hitachi kit.
Ah yes, that mob.
Originally the World Wildlife Fund, then the WorldWide Fund for Nature (now airbrushed from history at their site) and now "just the WWF" according to themselves.
If anyone wanted to know whether it was the animals or the politics that they really cared about, that says it all for me.....
......an Elephant was walking through the jungle and fell into quicksand.
"Help", he cried, "help, I can't get out and I'm going to die!"
A nearby mouse heard his calls and came to see what was going on. On seeing the situation, he called out; "Hang on a moment, I'll get my Ferrari!". Off he went and returned a few moments later in his Ferrari. He threw a rope to the Elephant and tied the other end to the Ferrari. "Hang on", he said and floored it. The Ferrari spun its wheels, the traction control cut in and the Elephant was pulled from the quicksand.
"Oh thank you", exclaimed the Elephant, "If ever you need anything, just call!"
As it happened, a couple of weeks later the mouse also fell into quicksand. "Help me, help me", he screamed. The Elephant, who was within earshot, heard him and came running.
"Hold on", said the Elephant, "I have an idea". He sat down, took out a jazz mag and started looking at the pictures. As he did so, his John Thomas got bigger and bigger and bigger until it stretched out all the way across the quicksand to the mouse. The mouse jumped onto it and ran to safety.
Which all goes to prove that if you have a really big dick, you don't need a Ferrari........
"...Itanium roadmap is good as far as 2014, and says it is exploring what succeeds it."
It's not what's said there that's interesting, it's what's not said. Regardless of what a successor chip might look like or be called, if there were any plans to continue with EPIC beyond 2014, then a commitment to EPIC would have been an obvious point to include here to steady the ship.
The fact that they are "exploring" this suggests that there will likely not be an Itanium successor per se, but a migration path. Probably to something x86ish.....
UN-START????
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, engines will continue to stop, stall, fail, die, flame out.....hell, it's not like there's a shortage of terms here.
I really can't understand this. Is that the Yanks all have piss-poor vocabularies and are too lazy to look shit up or is it that they're prats?
Unfortunately, if the house next door goes up (highly unstable, remember?), taking you and yours with it, the mindset of the bloke making the explosives has no effect on the level of Death inflicted......
He's well into the "too dangerous to be walking around unsupervised" category in my book.
Or a "Dynastart" as it used to be called when it was common on pre-war vehicles.
Next week: Peugeot announce their new breakthrough in circular, rotating, friction reduction devices to run cars on.
@Those saying good things about Peugeot: Get thee to a car tech forum and follow the interminable tales of Peugeot electrical woes. The only thing that stops them being the kings of crap in this area is Renault.
A mate worked as operator on an IBM midrange site (System / 38). Small site, one machine, half a dozen Programmers / Analysts and an IT manager. Mostly bespoke software. One of his daily tasks was to unload the report stacks from the two band printers and split / stack them for distribution.
One day he took a day off. Other staff are busy, so it falls to The Boss to perform the donkey work, including sorting out the reports. He's noticed that Joe has a very efficient way of doing this. Behind the two printers is a nice, wide windowledge with a smooth granite surface, so the drill is: Flick, Tear, Remove, Stack, followed by sliding the stack of reports down along the windowledge and starting a new stack. End result; a set of nice, neat report stacks along the ledge.
Joe knows one *very* important piece of information which he does not. How high the first stack may be built before it hits the EPO push button at the end of the ledge..........
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