Posts by Alan Bourke

The old adage remains true ...

3D TV, VR ... if you have to put something stupid on your head, it'll be niche at best.

Are SAP unique in this?

Seems extreme.

Politics is nothing to do with it.

The facts are as stated - the software they need mostly doesn't exist on Linux and LibreOffice is a poor relation for any sort of serious corporate use. It's blindingly obvious. It's why every company I walk into uses Windows. They're not 'all about the pork', they're about running the software they need to do business with the minimum of bullshit.

"By then the MS lock in will be total" - when you're a city council it doesn't matter if you're locked in. Had they got the Linux project to work, they'd be locked into that. It's not like they'd be able to change distros or something at the drop of a hat.

The Amiga failed?

Didn't really get traction in the US because high-end Apples being cheaper but a major success everywhere else.

Buh buh buh the PC dead

The men said, on the internet.

If the guy is an architect and needs to shunt large files around over the web

... why didn't he evaluate the internet situation before moving there?

So they're using a television programme displaying no intelligence

for something that isn't artifical intelligence.

Gotcha.

Two words.

My arse.

I had a WinPho for 18 months or more.

As an OS it was very slick. Of the two 'walled garden' phone operating systems, I'd take it over Apple's Fisher-Price UI any day.

What killed it for me was app support. Not necessarily your Facebooks et al, but 'mid range' apps. Your local transport provider's real time updates app. Your local gym chain fitness class booking app. They all have iOS and Android versions, but never Windows.

So it's like Windows then

... wait until big patch 1 at the earliest.

Hey iTunes can't sync iTunes a lot of the time

so don't feel bad.

Just as well there won't be a rise of the autonomous vehicle ...

since even if we weren't a very long way from it being realistic technically, it's solving a problem that doesn't exist.

Not an AI

there is no AI

I presume

they go and recover them?

IT'S ADORABLE

AND I WANT IT.

Why are they still charging extra for HD?

It's not like it's some new technology at this stage. Gouging.

The AI hype train

has now reached Pulling Spurious Claims Out Of Your Arse Station.

You could knock a Hangman game on the ZX Spectrum

and pass it off as AI these days, it would seem.

The ZX Spectrum does not have 'apps'.

It has 'programmes'.

I never fail to be amazed

that corporates still use SAP.

it isn't going away?

It hasn't bloody arrived yet.

That reminds me

I must look up what's happening with the Rossi E-CAT contraption these days, for a laugh.

Has a thing that doesn't exist gone too far?

Please get off this 'AI' cut & paste bandwagon. There is no AI. There is nothing even in the ballpark.

Flying cars? Pft.

Even less likely to ever appear in mass adoption than self-driving cars. Most people can't drive properly, why would you want them flying?

I thought we needed to encourage new developers ...

Any language that needs the like of TypeScript or CoffeeScript to impose some readability and sanity on it is probably not the best choice for an introductory programming course.

Seen some of the first season.

If nothing else it should be lauded for technical accuracy and restraining itself from the usual OVERRIDE SECRET PASSWORD nonsense.

Just remember passwords

with your brain.

The day that the word 'podule' is deployed on El Reg ...

is a day that I'm happy.

I would contend that the path length messing up Node

says more about Node than anything else.

Pick one ...

"Colour screen with a few more pixels, modern ARM processor, decent chunk of memory, USB, WiFi, maybe a 4G modem, SD slot"

or

"keep the thing running for a week on a pair of AAs"

Yet another bandying of the term 'hologram'

when it's nothing of the sort. Just like those 'Ronnie James Dio lives again!' things you see at gigs which also talks shite about holograms when it's just an updated version of a 150 year old stage magic illusion called Pepper's Ghost.

Basically in any tech story in 2017 where you see the word 'AI'

substitute the term 'bandwagon-jumping bullshit'.

Wah wah wah

big bad Microsoft. Get over it.

AI hype mill bullshit

alert.

Where's Captain Cyborg?

I miss Captain Cyborg.