Posts by Denarius

wouldn't be products ?

something about borkware code in printing supplies annoying customers ?

did you write

IBM think about something ?? Implausible

so MS are using the Ignite label ?

so has HP buried HPUX completely with its bootable image for server cloning also known as Ignite ? Personally, prefer AIX mksysb as bit more configurable once one knows which files to edit. Read no recent reference to ElRegs pithy Itanic perjorative either so assumed entire post ParaRisc plan a complete failure

From a Lucas joke

Vacuum since their products usually suck so much

Intel has lost it

Still stuck on 14nm. Competition down to 7 nm. RISC devices much smaller again. Has Intel rewritten the Minix code running the silicon badly to mitigate design flaws leading to Spectre et al ?

except the CEO ?

One may suppose the patients should be protected from the Cloud of Stupidity that clings to some of the PHB class. I was going to say Cloud of Unknowing, but that would offend Pommy mystics.

dislike taxes but

I wonder if an outsourcery tax directly on boards and senior management of companies would help pay for the social costs of exporting jobs ? Things like unemployment. Not to mention the need to have realistic and enforced standards for hardware, so that random changes to standard sensors is discouraged. The recent plethora of different light bulb types as in sockets, not technology Oz is suffering from is an example, as well as ACs comment.

state of play

There appear to be slight evidence of concentric shells of galaxies and galactic clusters, with 2000 million light year spacing. Yes this challenges the isotropic concept. So more data analysis from whatever sky survey is relevant. Given the fudges to make Big Bang theory appear workable perhaps it is time for a new model. And no, I have no idea of what that might be. It is just a model where most of what is claimed to exist, but cant be seen or directly measured seems a kludge.

And there was I

thinking the evidence for a Hadean period was shrinking. Earliest ( by whose measurement I dont know) suggests a cool wet world shown by old zircons. Even New Scientist published article on Hadean period belief becoming harder to sustain. Given the things that happen to rocks, assuming anything like water, pressure, temperature and enhanced radiation events seems to be guessing rather than empirical science. NOTE: tests have shown decay rates do vary under pressure and ionisation far more than expected. Bring back Poppers rule on what is science.

aren't they doomed anyway ?

Given the shrinking IT business, the question is when, not if they close down

physics

Most planes are fixed wing for a reason. Efficiency. Helicopters use 10 times more fuel than a fixed wing for same distance and are slower for same energy. Whether rotary wing, prop or jet, vertical flight is demanding and mechanically complex. So just as helicopters have a role but not general use, I expect delivery drones will also. As in the Rwanda case. I know of a spot weed spraying business where the drone carries a weed recognition system and only sprays where needed. Drone is very expensive, but cost effective compared to helicopter or mass spraying. As for delivering routine pizza or groceries, until a silent propulsion system with immense and energy dense storage is developed, drones as cargo carriers are still a local annoyance outside of specialist rural cases. Fun to round up sheep with though

More Artificail Stupidity

Bad enough that I have to use MS "products" in a volunteer role. But having to battle an AI that, if like all others "smart" software I have had to use, will be wrong 90% of the time, causing an increase in effort to do simplest things. If MS wants an improvement, update Office 97 for current doc formats and leave the interfaces alone. Odd that MS dont admit to having a Teams agent for Debian, but one downloads from there in DEB and RPM formats. Now if it only worked simply.

Farewell and RIP

First read Asterix when courting the woman who became my wife in a small outback town. Immensely popular with tribal aboriginal children also. Both writers, artist and translators were brilliant to create humour accessible across time and cultures. Oz SBS occasionally run Asterix movies. One of the few things I watch these days. Ironically I found and read a copy of Caesars Gallic Wars in my favourite bookshop which survived the bushfires.

Albert and Renee, thanks for the laughs.