What if God was one of us?
Just a blob like one of us?
Just a signal on the bus?
Trying to find His way /home
Posts by Mikel
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I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture
Death to clunky, creaky rip-off cable boxes – here's how it will happen
Windows Mobile users suffer backup super-slurp as Redmond forgets Wi-Fi switch
Microsoft unbuttons shirt, teases glimpse of Azure-in-a-box Stack
Apple growth flatlines ... Tim Cook thinks, hey, $80bn is still $80bn
China has a chip to fry with y'all: Wants its own chip smarts and fabs
Tuesday 26th January 2016 02:38 GMT
Re: Interesting times
The Top500 supercomputer list is something of a superpower penis measuring stick. China took the top spot three years ago with their Tianhe-2 based on Intel Phi coprocessors and has held it since as they build it out. The US has the fewest supers on the list than it has had since the list was started in 1993. Tianhe-2 is nearly twice as powerful as the second best, Titan at a US DOE site, and China is still building it out. China has more supers on the list than ever before.
So of course the US banned Intel from exporting the Xeon Phi coprocessors to China. And of course China responded by starting to work around the restriction.
Monday 25th January 2016 17:20 GMT
@BillG
Oh please. China knows what color underwear you put on this morning, and they got the info from the NSA. They have spies in every major industry - many who don't even know they're spies. They already have this information you are afraid they are going to get, and in many cases their people were involved in making it.
Shocker: Clearing 2015's vast PC backlog was 'costly' for vendors
Microsoft hammers first nails into Enterprise Agreements' coffins
Scandal-smashed OPM will no longer do govt's background checks – for obvious reasons
Show us the code! You should be able to peek inside the gadgets you buy – FTC commish
Microsoft struggles against self-inflicted Office 365 IMAP outage
West Virginia mulls mother of all muni networks – effectively a state-wide, state-run ISP
Google forked out a whopping $16m on govt lobbying last year
Someone please rid me of this turbulent Windows 10 Store
Microsoft requests ChakraCore support in main Node.js repository
It's not just you: Massive Comcast outage blows Bay Area offline
Waving Microsoft's Windows 10 stick won't help Intel's Gen 6 core
Wednesday 20th January 2016 15:53 GMT
There has been a dearth of PC innovation, 'tis true
And more Windows again is not the cure. It is the disease. Intel seems determined to go down with the ship. OK, fine. Samsung has the new shiny. For my last desktop ever - a SteamOS games PC - I believe I'll be going with an AMD server class build.
RAM, bam, thank you Ma'am! Samsung fires up fastest-ever memory
Cisco: Businesses are losing the ground war against hackers
Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs
Monday 18th January 2016 23:06 GMT
Re: And so we come full circle.
Well said, but... we tried to warn you. A thousand times. You would not listen. You berated us, you scoffed at our tinfoil hats, our nerdy calls to "freedom!" When you talked to us at all your answer was "it works," with a sneer.
OK, fine. It sucks. But you we told you it would and you chose it anyway. Own it. Admit some share of responsibility before you go all apoplectic.
Upvote though. That was high art.
Monday 18th January 2016 22:25 GMT
Windows 10 saved my life
It started with my Surface Pro 4, which I was using to synch my meds calendar. It failed to wake from sleep again and I just lost my wits on the train and started just wailing away on a railing with it (it may have been past time for the meds). Another passenger came to help me and I flung it at him, regrettably embedding it corner first in his forehead (did I mention the build quality? These things are sturdy and very slim!). Naturally I was arrested, and so when the train derailed on what would have been my commute home, I was in the pokey and didn't die with everyone else. And now I have an Android phone with Google Calendar for meds tracking and am current on my meds while I await the competency hearing.
Anyway, that's how Windows 10 and the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 saved my life! Windows 4 lyf (but of course, not until I'm off court supervision).
Monday 18th January 2016 21:07 GMT
Re: So you don't like this?
Their software is their software. It is not, apparently, obligated to even recognize your settings let alone honor them. Sooner or later they will find a way to get you to take it. Maybe they will bring it in through your browser and their ad network. Or maybe an update that triggers the upgrade after a period of time. Somehow, some way, they will win. And they only have to win once.
Monday 18th January 2016 17:48 GMT
Re: The more they push
You don't deserve Linux or Apple you dirty cur, and you don't deserve Windows 7. You took Windows 8, and Vista and ME. You took activation, registration, Windows Genuine Advantage and Software Assurance. You stood idly by while they took away your Netscape, your NetWare, your WordPerfect and Borland and Nokia - while they asserted their dominance over the world and you.
You crave punishment because you are not worthy. You don't know what is in the Windows box. You don't need to know. You don't want to know. The existence of the box is proof of Microsoft's dominance over you and your lack of understanding is proof that you are unworthy of anything better. It is their excuse to mete the punishments you hunger for, to mewl about and provide the tears they thirst for, and your excuse to submit. But your hunger will never be sated, their thirst never quenched because it is your natures. Microsoft is your master and you are their bitch.
Now lick the boot. Lick it clean you dirty dog.
/The icon might as well have been the whole comment.
Comet halo theory for flickering 'alien megastructure' star fails
Test burn on recycled SpaceX rocket shows almost all systems are go
Att: Windows Phone owners: Win 10 Mobile has been spotted and it wants your phone
AMD's 64-bit ARM server chip Seattle finally flies the coop ... but where will it call home?
No escape: Microsoft injects 'Get Windows 10' nagware into biz PCs
Cisco admins gear up for a late night – hardcoded password in wireless points nuked
2015's horror PC market dropped nine per cent
Wednesday 13th January 2016 05:51 GMT
Down 10%
As expected, 2015 was the first year that iOS devices outsold Windows PCs (the sum of all Windows PCs from all vendors, laptops and desktops both). So there's that. Apple is now bigger than the entire PC client industry.
Android outsold them both by five to one, but that is a different issue.
The world has changed.
Not good enough, VW: California nixes toxic mix fix in strict interdict
Wednesday 13th January 2016 01:13 GMT
Re: On the hook
Environmental harm was done. That is what the emissions regulations are for - to prevent that harm. Volkswagen did circumvent the emissions testing and ship a huge number of toxic gas spewing rolling smog factories, for the purpose of getting themselves some money. The damage is still being done, and will continue for some time, perhaps forever. Money is the only thing corporations understand, so of course the remedy will also be money.
The problem, as is often the case, is that this corporation has so successfully sold its atmosphere destroying cars that it can't afford to remediate all of them and stop the ongoing harm. Of course, because otherwise it would have sold them in the properly engineered reduced emissions configuration originally, and the retrofit costs far more when it is even possible. And that leaves nothing for remediation of the harm already done.
In other words, fully liquidated damages for this would be far more than the company is worth. Equity would be a death sentence for Volkswagen as a warning to others not to do this sort of thing.
Of course that's not going to happen.
Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 nagware shows signs of sentience
Rejoice, Penguinistas, Linux 4.4 is upon us
American cable giants go bananas after FCC slams broadband rollout
Friday 8th January 2016 23:34 GMT
Tom Wheeler
Ten years after he steps down as chairman of the FCC if it is found that he didn't sell us down the river to the telecoms monopolies he used to be the chief lobbyist for, and he hasn't gone back to work for them to get paid for it, then I will believe.
Until then every single word, every turn of phrase, the placement of every comma needs to be held under a microscope and inspected for traps. Real objective results must be expected and achieved.
Friday 8th January 2016 23:28 GMT
Re: "FCC's fault" & Comcast
Comcast was behind the telecoms investment protection act that banned new municipal Internet in Washington. They also funded Seattle's current mayor, who displaced one who was actively getting gigabit fiber deployed in Seattle. The new mayor put a stop to that literally on his first day. That is why they have gigabit fiber to every home in Moses Lake for 15 years, but not in Seattle today.
If you live in Seattle fiber is not coming. Ever. And Comcast and Centurylink are why.
Friday 8th January 2016 23:19 GMT
Comcast and Co disagree
>"No one actually believes that deployment in the United States is unreasonable.
So I'm a nobody now. Thanks for that.
We should have had gigabit fiber to every home served with electricity as of Y2K. It should be illegal to fill in a utility trench before throwing fiber or at least conduit into it, likewise to touch a power pole without hanging fiber on it. Composite cable with both power *and* fiber should be required for all new construction. We should be on 40 gig now, not 40 years from now when that will be the wireless standard in Bangalore.
Was Android moving to OpenJDK really a Google gift to devs?
Saturday 9th January 2016 00:05 GMT
Re: What a fucking mess!
>We all agree that Oracle products cost money
I feel it important to note here that Oracle didn't create Java. Sun did. Sun went bankrupt and Oracle acquired its stuff, including Java. Oracle doesn't actually have the vision or drive to invent anything new. They are all about extracting the maximum profit from old things.
Friday 8th January 2016 21:40 GMT
Java was needed to bootstrap Android
Now that Android is a dominant power in its own right, the legacy Java platform can be replaced with something more modern and - importantly - completely different. Certainly it *seems Oracle, who owns Java, would prefer that. So replace it with whatever homegrown API you like Google.
* What Oracle really wants: Google made and sold pie with a recipe partially based on their recipe and people love the pie, so they want the pie. All of it. And all the future pies too. Recipes don't work that way.
Cocky SpaceX will try another sea landing with next rocket launch
Friday 8th January 2016 23:44 GMT
Why make things easy? Why not do the hard thing?
I refer the reader to JFK's speech at Rice University:
>But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
>We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
They are doing the hard thing because they are capable of it and have the self esteem to leave the easy thing for others to do.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
