Posts by Pascal Monett

It's only a US patent, aka a rubber stamp allowing US patent lawyers to make mint to get it overturned.

Prior art ? That's for lawyers to find, the US Patent Office doesn't have the time to check that, nor does it care to try.

I'm sure she'll soon be accepted on the Board in an honorary position.

For £150K/year.

That is true for Linux, which can be pared down to the bare bones of what you need to do.

I doubt very much that the latest Windows will alllow you to skip loading ten dozens of "services" for which you have no use, and will just bloat the RAM and diminish performance for nothing.

Especially Windows 1 0, which Borkzilla has specifically set up so the you no longer are in charge of your own computer.

"For your own good", of course.

Re: computers aren't infallible

Ah but Star Trek TOS has already explored that subject, and did a rather good job of it.

Re: How loud is crashing a sub?

The principle with submarines these days is stealth. You're not supposed to know that they're there. That is why they can be a threat - you never know where they are.

Loud sonar and telemetry signals is going to put the kibosh on that pretty quick.

Re: You pay £60 a month to BT

No I'm not. I live in France. I pay €45/month to Orange.

I understand you have a pet peeve, but you need to understand that Firefox in not used only in the UK.

The Internet is wider than BT.

I doubt it's a steel lid.

I just went and tested one of my old IDE disks that I have lying around. A Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, 80GB ATA (hey, just big enough for Windows 11 !).

I scooped it up and went to our fridge, where I proceeded to try and stick a fridge magnet to it.

No luck, they all fell off as if it was made of wood.

I don't know what to conclude from that, though.

Re: what can go wrong?

Humans always are the weakest link. If the Internet-facing computers can only access whitelisted web pages, and if they are, essentially, on a private web, then there likely won't be very many amusing documents to copy to the colleagues.

Of course, said amusing document can always be mailed from home.

Re: Ii can't see the problem.

That's why I don't use "social" media.

Re: more of everything that I've been taught in GUI design to avoid

Absolutely.

Someone should take every single Borkzilla UI developer and drag them, forcibly, to an underground dungeon where proper UI rules get whipped into them.

Back in the late 90s, I was given a copy of a Microsoft report on proper menu management. I have lost that document since and I deeply regret that, but reading that report was, at the time, an enlightening experience. It said logical things, as in : if you have more than 3 layers of menu, you need to rethink your menu structure. If you are coding for an international audience, you need to pay attention to the colors you use, since they can have different meanings on different continents. Etc.

Everything UI I design in my applications today is still based on that report. The one that I lost.

Apparently, Borkzilla has lost it as well.

Re: Still, they are a major.

Only because of the piles of cash that back them.

That said, Google does have a rather large experience of networking and managing massive demand, so I trust that Google won't have much trouble getting itself up to AWS's level.

Bonus : Google will do it differently, so there will be healthy competition, and that's always a Good Thing ^(TM)