Posts by Pascal Monett

"it will build once 'funding' worked out"

No problem, Intel. How much money do you have in the bank ?

It would be interesting to see how companies would react if they had to fork over a share of the profits based on how much subsidies they were offered.

Like : "Okay, you say it will cost $10 billion to build this plant. We can offer you $7.5 billion. Then you will pay us 75% of revenue over ten years."

Of course, that scenario only works if every government does the same. Might as well wait for pigs to fly.

ERP. Again.

Didn't we just leave this party ?

Also : isn't it astonishing that the civil service suddenly has £300 million lying around for this ?

Oh, silly me. Sir Humphry's cousin thrice removed hasn't yet had a chance to partake of the trough. Happy snouting !

"Musk has [..] articulated a plan"

Well he can still articulate.

Delivering will be exponentially more difficult given that he has fired or driven away most of the developers.

I wonder how his "search" for a new CEO is going ? I especially wonder what difference it would make to Twitter's image, given that everyone knows that said CEO will not be able to manage any differently than what His Muskiness accepts, so booting out the racists again is clearly off the table.

"perhaps best not to use a program called SETI@Home somewhere other than, you know, home"

I disagree, somewhat.

The mistake was in implementing the plan on his own. What he should have done would be to present the idea to his manager and get approval.

Of course, that meant his idea could also have been shot down, but hey, them's the breaks.

Disclaimer : I was a long-time contributor to SETI@Home myself, and ran it on every computer I had at home, plus my work laptop if I could.

"Most of that spend – $759,983 – went on compute"

No it didn't.

$760K out of $3+ million is definitely not most of that spend.

Now, 8 petabytes of data is nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure. But, if you have a budget of over $260K/month, you have enough money for servers, a local SAS implementation running over 100Gbps fiber and money to spare for the aircon bill and fire suppressing installation.

Apparently, The Cloud^TM does not give you any savings on the IT personnel budget, since there is still need of a bunch of skilled admins to oversee it properly, so you have the people required to manage all that locally.

I'm curious to see next year's local bill and find out just how damning it is for The Cloud^TM.

Warranty obligations ?

You only have those when you risk being sued.

I don't see that Russian citizens or corporations are in a position to sue anybody outside of Russia - although that might be a brilliant excuse for getting out of the country at this time.

The meltdown continues

Clumsy bull in China shop keeps breaking things. Soon will get angry because of all the broken pieces lying on the floor.

The only question remaining is : when will the fire start ?

Business as usual then

"it instead proceeded to lay off many of the company’s most experienced and highly paid employees in order to make cost savings, inflate its apparent financial performance and boost its stock price"

Sounds like standard operating procedure to me, eh IBM ?

Great start to the year

BOFH and workplace accidents. Mmmm.

But seriously, the insurance premiums for that company should be bankrupting it by now.

One more step towards oblivion

I'm starting to feel like it will almost be sad when Twitter dies for good. Almost. So many jokes that won't be made anymore . . .

Because that is where Musk is going with Twitter : to the chopping block.

And once Twitter is dead, we can finally stop hearing about how that twat is such a genius.

His management sucks (surprise, surprise).

"Double-byte characters [are found in] Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese"

And Borkzilla is staffed by pure, red-blooded American programmers who only know about the issue by looking at (gasp!) a manual.

No surprise there.

I wish them well

Got the 32 and 64 torrents in place, will be seeding.

"the non-digital leader can't really understand"

The non-digital leader needs to put his/her ego in a box and accept that not understanding is not an excuse for not taking the opinion into account.

In other words : shut your mouth and do as he says.

Can we get a cluebat icon ?

"will reveal the actual price only once the tool becomes generally available"

So, they're already lying through their teeth ?

Not only is Borkzilla not including the features that people want and need (aka good performance and no headaches), but it can't be arsed to lay down the rules transparently.

I thank my lucky stars that I don't need to use this shite on a daily basis.

"infested with bugs – possibly for a long time"

I think it is time for governments and government institutions to realize that it is not because they say it's secure that it is.

Neither is it secure because whoever they contracted to do the job said it is.

And it's especially not secure simply because the contract said it had to be.

It's not secure until a proper security research firm has confirmed that it's secure.

"there could be a lot of water-rich mineraloids"

Okay, I have just one question : what exactly is "water-rich" when mentioned by scientists ?

I understand that it's not you drill a pipe into it and water flows, but much more you mine a cubic meter and squeeze the water out of it.

Okay, fine, but how much water are you going to get out of that cubic meter ?

Because if you only extract one liter, that's a lot of work for not much water.

I've had six SB cards from 1995 to 2012

I've never bought a sound card from any other maker.

The SB Audigy was really very good, but my first card, the AWE 32, was most impressive.

SB definitely put its mark on PC gaming.

LastPass : "the attacker made off with customer data"

And that is why I do not use a password manager.

I'm old enough to manage my own passwords, thank you very much. I do not need to put my trust in a central entity whose every employee is a potential security risk.

"will now vote and act independently"

Sure they will. Because none of them have a smartphone, or each other's number.

This is insane. They're shareholders, they own the company, and you want to tell them how they should make their decisions about it ?

Only in a totalitarian state can you push such nonsense and expect it to work.

"but AI waits at the end of the rainbow"

Yeah, with a pot of gold. All you have to do is find it.

I would point out that I'm sick of this AI bullshit, but it would be useless as every marketroid in the industry is busy banging that drum senseless.

"healthy competition"

But Capitalism doesn't want healthy competition, it wants monopoly and will do everything it can to obtain it.

Capitalism mandates that you block your competition from accessing resources, non-compete clauses accomplish that.

All this talk about healthy competition is just talk. We'll see how well the lobbyists prove that.