Posts by Herby

The only money anyone will see...

is that lining the lawyers pockets. None will go to "injured" plaintiffs, mark these words.

Just live with it. I did.

How about deploying one of these right now

Off the coast of North Korea? Given the current state of affairs, it would be a wonderful testing ground!

So if the predictions are WRONG then what?

Is there smooth sailing for the 2nd half of the 21st century?

We should ask everyone who DOES make "predictions" the simple question: If what you predict doesn't come to pass what will that mean?

It could be enlightening! (even to Al Gore!).

Maybe if a customer insists?

Linux? We can only hope. Now if they make another model number (901?) and tell everyone it works with Linux (pre-installed) with all the accessories (SD card and all that!), it might sell.

You never know.

Maybe to satisfy MSFT they say "it won't boot W8" just to get around the licensing "feature".

"How hard can it be?"

Proofreading

s/Mayr/Mary/

sorry!

Just remember this about Facebook...

If you don't know what the product they are selling, hold up a mirror, it is YOU!

Then there is Temple Fielding

and his books. I remember them from the late 60's when there was a much different exchange rate for the dollar, deutchmark and the pound. An era of shillings and no euros, and gold at $35/oz. It was a different era.

Well, they could use...

...some of the old HP buildings on the site.

Then again, while they are thinking, they could make a nice patch of grass in the meantime (after they take down all the buildings that are already there, and rip up the parking lots.

Just an idea.

p.s. I had a house a couple of blocks away from the site at one time.

The saying should be...

If you have no reason to investigate me, then go away. (I hide everything!).

The saying "You have done no wrong, so you should have nothing to hide" is the reason we here in the USA have the 4th amendment.

So, we go back to:

I've got the yo-yo...

I've got the string!

Does it include??

A license for Windows 7, which is what people want?

Now if it would work on my old Quadra, that would be another story.

"How about a nice game of chess?"

All of this is...

A never ending arms race. The spammers on one side, and the anti-spammers on the other.

It all boils down to a simple truth. People SPAM because it works. Yes, the yield is low, but the spammers have numbers in their favor. Send out a million emails, and even if you get 0.1% yield, it still is a big enough number (1000) to earn money, or rape users computers.

If we all went back to plain text email (so you had to do things like select then click on a link, and it couldn't be obfuscated, it might be better. The problem is that nobody wants to do this as it makes it very inconvenient. So, we live with spam (hoping to not contribute to is exploitation), and use all sorts of "anti" programs. Life goes on.

So, teach your children well, and don't click that link.

Seems that digital copies...

...ARE like beer. They are not free and you only rent them, not own them. As for beer, when you rent it, it transforms into something else, and eventually exits the body (trying very hard to not be NSFW).

Now a new use?

They can put it to use doing nanowire material behavior, magnetic reconnection, laser backscatter, HIV phylogenetics, and a simulation of the universe at a 70-billion-particle scale.

Sounds interesting...

I was going to put an icon up, but I thought better.

Spaghetti trees and their harvest?

It might be worse, there might be a detected flaw in the kernel that doesn't allow time to be reckoned in the 60's for instance. When you get there, you remember the phrase: "If you remember the 60's, you weren't there!"

Size limitations??!!

These things are pretty nice, but they do have limitations. Mostly in the material, and the size of the object.

Soon there will be a 'standard' file format (like PDFs) that we can all pass around to make cool things. As for 2nd amendment issues, it might be similar to having a PDF of your local currency. The PDF itself is one thing, the output is quite another. I'll leave it to legislators to really put a stop to this nonsense somehow. Given their predilections they might very well ban them.

So, is making something like publishing it? Free speech and all that. Time will tell.

Just more things...

...to have people dance around and attach magnetic keyboards to.

Isn't that what they are for anyway?

Simple solution...

...Just have a single domain for a lot of business, like 'com.id' (unless it has been taken) and then have the server do a bunch of re-directs. Pretty easy if you ask me.

As was one said: "The internet treats censorship as 'damage' and routes around it."

It becomes a bigger problem...

...when you HAVE to perform service. This usually happens in my own house when my wife screams at me that something technical doesn't work. The problems can be wide ranging. The examples are:

Under counter lights (they ARE electrical!). Solution: replace some of them.

TV that is very loud, and can't be turned down. Solution: remove book from top of the other remote.

Any computer problem: Solution: reboot.

IPad funnies. Solution: Look, I really don't know, but I might be able to fix it (no a new one will have the same problem!).

IPhone things: Solution: No, I don't know where you misplaced it. Try calling it.

So, yes, I do love my wife, but I don't ask her about medical things all the time (she is an MD). (*SIGH*)

Comedy relief.

Not much more from those in the north.

You just gotta smile and laugh.

My bad...

My typing is bad. Please: s/out/our/

Thanks.

Smart Judge!

Now if others were as smart, including the patent office. The problem is that "prior art" to the patent office is only what is patented, not much else.

We in the computer field, know that LOTS of stuff is known (possibly "novel") but not patented, and been public for over a year.

Reach for that clue stick!

As is said in church...

Let us pray.

Tools??

Make sure they are Craftsman, then if they break, you can take them to your local Sears store for a free replacement.

The talk with the sales droid would be interesting....Where did you use these?????

Merry-go-round!

One of these days the brass ring will be fetched, and the ride will stop. Until then, we all sit and watch. The same characters keep coming by from our outside point of view, but as they disappear, a new net arrives to take their place. When will it end? Nobody knows, but it is fun to watch!

Do you know the difference between Elephants and Eggs?

No? Then I wouldn't send you to the store to buy eggs!!

Maybe the robotic retina can tell the difference, but will it go to the store? Time will tell!

Some things are better left to humans! As for cleaning up a room, my father had an idea of fitting a garbage disposal in the center of my bedroom and every once in a while, hosing the place down to cure the "mess". Ah, my youth!

Just remember...

Some state lotteries here in the USA use computerized "random" numbers to generate the draws.

So, "Random numbers for fun" takes on a whole new meaning!

Tap France?

They seem to have LOTS of gas!

Unfortunately it is all in the form of hot air, but it might be used to spin turbines. I suppose the same goes for politicians.

Make them ALL blow into a gas turbine to spin a generator.

164 builds??

And this is what they show for it?

I'm sure they are nightly builds, but it takes them THAT long to get an update?

So, glaciers DO move fast (by comparison)!!

So we wait...

Until the price goes back to $777 a share. Then we yell

JACKPOT. Life goes on...

Bummer I didn't sell then...

Microsoft's motto:

Change for change sake. Or how we force people to upgrade by adding in non-compatible options.

Why?? To make money.

Look at it this way: Typewriters really haven't changed in over 100 years, and everyone knows how they work. You hit a key and it makes a mark on paper. The keyboard is pretty standard (yes, I know regional differences), but it works. The "additions" mostly have been in the amount of force needed to make the impression, and the various methods to change fonts (if you can at all). I'd be willing to bet that any user of a typewriter today (if you can find them) can probably use a typewriter of 100 years ago with little (most likely no) additional training. The reverse is true as well, but the examples are more difficult to achieve. Take a user of a typewriter 100 years ago, and plunk them down in front to a modern one (again if you can find one) and they will be good to go.

I suspect there would be similar experiences for automobiles.

Now take a word processor (please). Go back to a modern windowing environment, say Windows 95 (it is only 15+ years!). Try to be usable by such a person then and now without any training. Good luck.

Hoboken has other attributes as well.

Frank Sinatra hails from there, and there is this bakery that stars in a reality TV show as well.

Me? Silicon valley, born and raised! Pacific time zone!

What to do???

Me? I'd go into a local retailer and arrange to brick every Samsung piece of kit I could find (handy little USB key in pocket). Wonderful demonstration it might be. The store puts a new one on display and in 5 hours, it too doesn't work. Maybe a big retail chain could make the proper complaint.

If it were only that easy!

Look, if Microsoft had its way, the BIOS would keep saying "Must...only...boot...Windows", which is what UEFI is all about anyway.

Gone are the days when you would dial the IPL device into the console and let it rip. It was much easier then, and you could even boot from Mag tape, or (showing my age) Punch cards.

Dell gone? There's always...

This small company that has two letters in its name. Based in silicon valley as well. Ready and willing to sell things.

Does anybody really???

CARE??

Other than a small minority of tree stranglers?

Looks nice though, as most window dressing does. No real value!

How much "green" did it cost to make the solar panels over their expected lifetime? Please tell me. Maybe I can be "green" as well with "standby" power from the utility. A solar cell from a cheap calculator might work. OOOPS I need backup power!!

In troubled times...

Money heads for safe havens. No other explanation necessary.

Now what is stuffed in that mattress of mine??

BOFH remark: Boy this gold stuff sure is heavy!

In other news...

HP increased its dividend by 10%.

Nice news around here!

Pretty good!!

For a transmitter with about as much power as a refrigerator light bulb. I believe it has about 15 watts or so in the transmitter. Nice to have a good antenna here on earth, and a slow data rate.

Now everyone apply the inverse square law, and incorporate path loss.

MJS77 is alive and well!

As Forrest Gump says...

...Stupid is as stupid does.

As for exporting data, a micro SD card under a band-aid (bandage) and put it somewhere innocent (back of hand?). 64 Gbytes and pretty easy to transport.

Modern replacement for the "microdot".

Look...

One owner, lightly used.

What could possible be wrong.

Why?

It seems that all of this technology is there to display "talking heads" which you can just bypass for the most part. Maybe we should go back to the 100 year old technology of the telephone and not worry.

Sure, the video impresses people and is nice and "blingy", but at the end of the day smoke and mirrors would probably do as well. I just attended a company "broadcast" and if one had sound and the slides of the presentation, it would have done just as well. The telepresence is VERY overrated. The problem is that those with three letter titles (usually beginning with 'C') like to have the fancy expensive stuff, and show it off to their friends. This starts a never ending escalation and arms race to have the better kit.

Why bother!