Posts by Steve Davies 3 7142 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
It is rather sad that the Beancounters and the PHB's don't see it that way.
Like offshoring, it can work BUT...
it often doesn't.
Far too often those seemingly running the show think that the latest trend/fad/buzzword is the path to untold riches.
Act in haste repent at leisure.
A significant number of bipeds on Planet Earth (mostly in the USA I'm led to believe) truly believe that the Earth is only a few thousand years old. So how can this :-
It turns out that the total oxygen delivered to the Moon from Earth in 100 million years is sufficient to generate the hematite we see
be true.
Hold the front page. Earth isn't 4000 or so years old! (see icon)
Ok Zuck. Time to put your money where your mouth it. As the majority shareholder in Facebook, you could just close it down. You have the voting rights to stop any protest. Yes, you will lose most of your $100B fortune but if you really, really cared about the human race it would not bother you.
But... naturally you won't close it down and you will continue to get richer on the addictive design of Facebook.
Bah Humbug!
I take it that said hat is a mexican sombrero then?
IMHO, Apple plus Google (Epic have filed suit against them as well remember) will lose this fight. The laws of unintended consequences will take over and I get the feeling that Epic may well have signed their own death warrant despit winning. Win the battle but lose the war.
Disclaimer. I own an iPhone (secondhand iPhone 8) and have never paid Apple directly a brass farthing for an iDevice and all the apps I use on said iDevice are free (train times etc) and I certainly don't game on the thing apart from the odd bit of Sudoku or Solitaire.
Now that web safety has been completely solved,
That sentence needs to go down in El Reg history.
That aside, there is a reason why Chrome is banned from my network. Anyone in the IT world would see the grand canyon sized holes in this idea.
Google really have lost the plot unless it is all part of their next generation slurping system.
to pull the plug on Occulus perhaps?
If (and that is a big IF) Apple get their AR devices right then Occulus is a dead duck. With Apple clearly trying to do more on device processing as they are with Siri they might (and that's a big might) literally clean up in that tech area. All the rumpurs are pointing that way.
Either way, I was not even remotely interested in an Occulus device and with this restriction the chance of me buying one went to around 0.00000001%. The same goes for any Apple device even if it is the bees knees and the greatest thing since... the last greatest thing.
As a long distance biker, I've always carried a spare clutch cable and a set of Thottle Cables (on the old bikes) These were as suggested already laid and ready to go. I had a cluch cable go in the middle of Turkey (1976). Two days later, in Istanbul, I managed to get the old cable repaired (some heavy duty soldering). Cost me under £1.
I've been to an interview less than 24 hours after an accident where I dislocated my shoulder and cracked a couple of ribs. I removed the sling before going into the interview. I got the job and my manager had a good laugh when I told him about the accident after I started working for him.
Whilst you are correct I fear that you are talking to a stable door years after the horse has bolted.
There are hardly any companies or indeed Guberments that are not rushing headlong into the cloud.
I'm sire that it won't be long before a FTSE 500 company goes TITSUP because their Cloud has been hacked and all the data stolen.
the stage is set for an almighty legal shootout.
I would imagine that Apple and Google would try to get the cases conjoined and then they could fight Epic together.
A wonderful time to be a staff lawyer (on all sides)
For the rest of us... sit back, get the popcorn in and see how this plays out.
I expect that the likes of Spotify will join in on Epic's side.
I hope whoever loses has a viable 'Plan B' as someone is going to [see icon]
Please keep this device to yourselves. It is as has been said, over priced, underspec'd and basically shite when compared to what is out there.
I will admit that there might be a few small niches where this is perfect but the SOC is positively ancient and the battery capaicty stinks.
Just take a look at the latest Lexus ux-300e
https://insideevs.com/news/438425/lexus-ux-300e-opens-online-reservations-uk/
It's design is from 2015 (and that is being kind)
Using CHAdeMO is DOA when Europe has gone CCS. Where are the 350kWh CHAdeMO chargers? {cue sagebrush blowing in the wind}
The on board charger is 2013 tech level.
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I see much of the same with this device. If it had been released in late 2018 or early 2019 then maybe but in the second half of 2020 and USA only???
Memories of the Zune come flooding back.
Someone sould tell Trump that he should be setting an example to the rest of his citizens and use a phone where all the hardware and software components are made in the USA. He needs to ditch that NSA approved iPhone at the very least
What? It is not possible?
Oh well... What goes around, comes around.
Perhaps those UK businesses aren't so keen to put all their eggs in one basket?
AI as it presently used is not that sophisticated and relatively unproven. Would you want to risk your business on some almost unproven AI system just on the word of Microsoft who has a vested interest in getting its adoption increased?
It also pointed to 52 per cent of UK workers using AI to "work faster and smarter"
Is an AI system used to prove that fact? If so then it sort of stands to reason.
I guess in 2022 deciding if you should get out of bed in the morning will be decided by an AI?
Sometimes, computers and especially so called smart ones can be effing stupid when it comes to applying even a modicum of common sense.
How about if you cannot get into a hospital or see a doctor if they do not have access to all your personal data.
Oh... you must mean when the NHS is sold off to a US Healthcare Company and we start getting mega sized bills for even the smallest treatment. £1000 per Blood Test seems about right.
I'd go for four of these
https://www.diy.com/departments/diall-dolly-150kg-capacity/1530965_BQ.prd Under £4.00 a pop.
and be done with it..
Apple making the things from unobtanium was just the last straw. mind you, the OWC option is still far too expensive.
almost time for a nice pint of Harvey's Best. It if Friday after all.
We will also work with foreign partners to ensure that undersea cables around the world aren’t similarly subject to compromise.
Should that not be something like
We will also work with foreign partners to ensure that undersea cables around the world aren’t similarly subject to compromise by anyone other than the NSA
I guess that bit was [redacted]
If a rule or piece of local bureaucracy gets in the way of this, let NHSX know and Serco will charge you 1000s to write a propsal for a specification for a pie in the sky system that might in a year of sundays fix it for you.
That's more like the reality. No fixes will come at a cost under eight figures.
is enough to get old beardy to his private island then it will be enough.
PErsonally, it needs to be able to fly from London to Sydney over the ocean all the way (i.e. down the Atlantic, hang a left at Cape Town and over the Southern Ocean all the way to Oz.
Naturally, that ain't gonna happen so this will be another DODB (Dead on Drawing Board) project.
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