Posts by Steve Davies 3

Re: FEAAS

F***ing Everything As Always (is) Shit

There fixed it for you (well an alternative)

Re: It's San Francisco

Quote:

Icon because I think some of the folks living there are from a LONG way off.

Please tell us where you think those people who are part of the Administration in DC are from. This should get interesting?

Oh wait... the US Gubbermint has shut down for a bit.

Re: But will it get fixed?

You forgot the /s at the end of your post. :) :)

Re: Insane Military buildup

According to Donald 'lets tweet' Trump, he's going to make america great again (MAGA). He said that he's going to 'fix' the infrastructure (roads etc). ROFL

A report a few years ago said that of every 100$ dished out by DC for infrastructure $48 was spent on Lawyers, 30$ spent in the state governments leaving a miserly $32 to be spent on the ground.

That Apple tax take won't go very far if that new metro tunnel in NYC is anything to go by as it costs $3.1B/mile.

The sums are mindboggling. Carillion was a minnow at this game when compared to the Yanks.

DXC Management Skills and Redundo's

They'll probably get a so called expert from say PWC in to do the dirty work for them. To hell with the £1000/day plus expenses at least their hands are clean.

Re: self Driving cars

won't save the world economy. Well, if what I hear coming out of the USA is anything to go by.

There are many forecasts that seem to say that we won't need as nearly as many cars in the future. Alongside Self Driving we will get car sharing. The soothsayers are stating that the average punter won't one a car in the future but be a member of a car sharing scheme.

You will call up for a car to go from A-to-B and this self-driving thing will arrive. It might already have an occupant who also wants to go to B. When you get to B, everyone gets out and the car drives off to charge itself up and then wait for the next call to service. Yes, all cars will be electric.

That's how it is predicted to work. Personally I have my doubts about the sharing thing but I have already gone Electric which seems to attract lots of hatred (aka downvotes) here. Hey-ho, that's life.

Re: Floyd post Syd

Well, if you liked 40 minute jam sessions wrapped up in the 'Set the Controls' riff then great but they did some great stuff post Syd.

Re: So, who trusts them?

For once, I give my support to MS. This is long overdue and very welcome. The sooner it is available to the rest of us and on all platforms the better.

Also, it will give the FBI another Tech Company to complain to. Yesterday, it was Apple for their encryption and that iPhones are rather troublesome to hack into.

The Feds need to realise that snooping on what we say and do is not just reserved for the TLA's.

Re: Hovercrafts

Are registered as BOTH an Aircraft and a Ship. The ones that used to ply back and forth across the Channel all had G-XXXX markers on them.

My guess is that they will be banned under the Hillingdon ruling.

Re: We just got AT&T fiber!

$400/month for 10/10 !!!! Daylight Robbery especially the $400 bit. They really are taking the piss.

Re Musk

Is this the same Musk who has said that he's going to make the Model 3 production more automated than any other car production line?

He is in those immortal words

"He's not the Messiah, he's just a ...."

However the rise of the Robots will lead to proper mass unemployment. Not what the left wing talk about now or in their lifetimes but not seen for close on 100 years. Some estimates show that around 80% of the current jobs will be eliminated by the use of Robots/Automation/A.I. within 20 years.

That is an awful lot of proles who will become useless to society.

I fear that in some places anarchy will be the result.

But, having no or very little income means that all those nice goodies being produced in those automated factory will sit on the shelves as only the 1% will have the money to buy 'stuff'.

What then eh?

There are many SF stories that cover this sort of scenario. I wonder which ones will come true.

Whatever the case, It ain't gonna end well

Re: Alexa puck

"Alexa order me a six pound hammer"

"I'm sorry Dave. I think you are buying that to do damage to me."

"No Alexa, I'm ordering it to kill myself."

"Order accepted. Delivery will be in 60 minutes by drone. Please stand outside in order to recieve the package."

Doh!

Seriously, how do you know that your Alexa device is not spying on your every move including that little trip to the fridge at 02:48 this morning.... :) :)

Re: Let me guess ..

£180 quid will buy about six inches of HS2 track. {rough guestimate}

Re: THAT Price for one View?

"Payed" seems to be an american thing.

There are some 'americanisms' that seem to be creeping into general use that really irk me.

'train station' is one of them. It is a 'Railway Station' for heavens sake.

Re: but they took a clear decision

Ah, but that booklet was probably written by 'experts'

You mean all those PPE Grads that have not done a proper days work in their life.

{PPE Grads naturally want to become and MP and PM again without ever having a proper job!}

Re: Amazon Pricing

Reduce pricing?

Are you having a larf?

They'll up the prices claiming that their AWS service is now 'extra secure' and is worth every penny.

I mean, they have to look on the bright side of life.

Re: Which Intel CPU's

AFAIK,

ATOM's are immune because they don't use branch preduction or Out of Order Execution.

Everything else is vunerable.

Re: no longer a computing company

To be fair, Tim Cook has said many times that he will give away all his money during his lifetime.

So someone will benefit. I can only hope that his gifts don't have the same sort of strings attached as those of other more well known ex IT company CEO's have.

Tim Cook does not strike me as being as personally money hungry as Mr Big Boats over at Oracle but I could always be wrong. But he was until recently not flying on private jets but commercial services. Isn't a private jet (and a white cat) all part of the things you need to get you to your private island?