Posts by Steve Davies 3

Corporates

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Four years later they're unsuitable for corporates.

This seems to be opposite to what the likes of IBM are finding.

Perhaps a device that can't be meddled with is just what 'corporate' IT Departments want?

Your guess is as good as mine.

However, the jury is very much hung when it comes to the new MacBooks.

Re: I have no problem with gearing back the corrupt H1-B program

Go look at the videos of how a Tesla is put together and you will see the future for car workers. viz, there isn't one. Almost the whole assembly is automated. They are even talking about designing robots to service the robots.

OTOH, if no one has a job how will they be able to afford a Tesla (or anything else for that matter)

Even flipping Burgers for minimm wage is about to be totally auotmated.

There will be a new revolution in the USA before long. If the new Presidente is concerned about unemployment, then he ain't seen nothing yet. It will get very ugly.

Ned Ludd will be cheering from his grave.

What price that spray tan then Donald?

Re: Sales pitch

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I can buy a ~£200 APU fanless thingie with a quad core Intel Atom CPU + 2 GB RAM, a 30GB mSATA and three Intel GB NICs in it.

Care to tell us where you can buy this from?

Re: yeah terrible ain't it

Strange that the new 'Dear Leader' has pledged to reopen the West Virginia Mines...

I forsee a ban on Renewable energy not that far away. He's got to replay Big Coal and Big Oil somehow.

Re: Man, if Trump does win

too late. He's won.

Abandon hope all you Americans. Better start building that wall.

Perhaps it will hold back the rising sea levels that President Trump thinks and states is a myth cooked up by the Chinese to make US Industry uncompetitive.

How far has the USD crashed?

How far down will Wall St open?

What's your 401K worth today.

Welcome to the Trump World.

A disaster for the world (makes BREXIT look tame)

The only person celebrating will be 'Mines a Pint' Farage.

Re: I don't get it!

I worked with an American who only ate American Food even if he was in foreign parts.

So he would go to Moscow but not to Almaty. Moscow was on because of that thing with the yellow arch.

They want CNN and USA Today as well.

A colleague came over from Atlanta some years back. He wasn't interested in the local cusine. He ordered in Burgers and Bud so he could watch baseball on the Internet.

I asked him why did he bothered coming ther on holiday. His reply was to the point. 'My wife wanted to visit Oxford and Edinburgh. We were on the Isle of Skye at the time. He just would not touch the excellent food at all. He thought it was all deep fried mars bars.

Philistines.

Now that I think about it, they actually deserve to get Trumped.

{and I lived there for two years...}

Re: The ICO is toothless

The poster said that they were calling them and addressing them by name. That removed the 'random' call option.

anyone who calls me with an invalid or 'number withheld' gets blocked.

Sadly the local NHS Trust hospitals have started calling you with 'Number withheld'.

The Trust CEO said that it was for data protection issues. Who's data protection?

Re: no way

Have an upvote for being sensible.

Having worked in the airline/airport industry I know that availability of systems is the top priority.

At one big Airport served by both AA and US on the west coast, getting a baggage system outage (to apply patches) would need at least 2 weeks advance notice. Even a failover (on an active/passive setup) requires a lot of advance planning with the airport and terminal managers. The last thing they want is a Baggage system that does not work and with bags in places where humans would find it difficult to get to.

being 'conservative' is the name of the game.

Yes, using tools like Puppet can speed up things but TBH, that would be the least of my worries if I was running the operation.

Then there are two other big cans of worms sitting waiting to burst open and that is

1) Baggage systems are custom made for the terminal. That means the software is often very customised.

2) These airlines will more than likely have baggage systems from different vendors. Vendors are often very reluctant to make changes to the software that has been accepted into use.

Just saying that using Puppet saves 'n' hours is being very simplistic. The whole thing is far more complex that that and these people know it.

Re: Ok, so...

Ah, the memories of punched cards.

Thanks.

Re: By far the most damage was done by democrat supporters

No it is not the same.

In many states you can change your vote and some more than once if you voted early.

If you have a postal vote you can only vote once and that is it.

You have to apply for a postal vote. In the USA if your state has early voting you can vote at any time from when they start until the polls close on election day (apart from when they are closed eg at night). No special application needed.

Also in the US you have to register with a party in order to vote. IMHO that is a flawed thing because naturally you will register with the party you affiliate to instead of here where your registration to vote is nothing to do with a party. If you don't vote but are registered in the US you get bombarded with phone calls day in, day out urging you to vote for the party your registerd with.

Re: Same wake word for all devices, really?

Ironical that I was listening to 'Ok Computer' as I read these posts. Next up on my playlist was

"Welcome to the Machine". Very prophetic lyrics.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.

don't need to say anything else.

Re: Convert ahoy

But... Lens flare is all part of the 'must have' things that the Selfie generation requires.

Fact : More people die while taking selfies than from shark attacks. {not a fan of Selfies}

Ah the old ONC/OND

I got 4 distinctions in ONC Mech eng circ 1972.

No university would consider me for a degree course until I said that I has 'A' level Eng Drawing and Applied Maths.

Went to a Poly instead. Much better education. Far more real world than a Uni. Sadly those days are long gone when the Polys turned themselves into Uni's.

I think this move by Dyson has merits. At the very least those coming out will have decent problem solving abilities. Something IMHO that most graduates that I have inteviewed in recent years lack.

Re: no ones mentioned OSX yet...

apple only knows what you have installed that is in the App Store. anything else? I doubt it (but will no doubt be proved wrong)

The apple updates can be downloaded manually and applied at your convenience. A bit different to the situation with Windows 10 (AFAIK). There is usually a link to the full update posted within hours of Apple releasing one.

As for Linux, I've seen some less computer literate people shudder when they see the verbose output from say

yum update

One said to me 'Is my computer that broken?'

Obviously they don't understand (or even want to) packages and dependencies

So where is the happy medium? Difficult to say.

And what does the surface run?

Windows and it can work as a tablet.

IMHO, it failed back then because the underlying H/W was not really good enough to work as a tablet.

MS was dependent upon Intel and still is.

Apple has complete control of the H/W and O/S.

One was a hodge-podge that didn't work together and the other was engineered to work together.

MS has learned a lot in the meantime yet their dabble with an ARM device was a failure. That said, the Surface and the legacy Intel X86 seems to run pretty well within bounds.

Software by Tesla?

Nah,

They'll outsource it to Tata hoping that they'll sell some to India.

Re: Think of all that extra landfill

nope, that is not what I'm saying.

It is well recognised that iPads are not replaced every two years, more like 3 or 4 years. Generally they don't get the poinding a phone does so they last longer.

So if an iPad lasts say 4 years and your cheapo tablet lasts two, then there will be around twice the landfill generated.

And due to WEEE the maker is responsible for recycling the device properly. Apple has a big facility in Texas for recycling their kit. Can you say the same for your cheapo Chinese maker?

That's all I'm saying.

Re: OFCOM Powers

hills? Norfolk? what are you smoking?

Ok, I jest. There are some hils in Norfolk. Apparently the highest point in the county is 256ft above the perrishing cold north sea.

As for putting the towers on the hills errrrrr where else do you suggest? That gives the best coverage. There are already a lot of farm buildings in N. Norfolk with masts on them. The farm on the small hill near the Titchwell RSPB reserve spring to mind.

As for the local council refusal, then they can be taken to appeal if the phone companies really wanted to but obviosuly they haven't so perhaps the phone companies are lukewarm to this idea in the first place and have only applied because 'ofcom told them to'.

If the Government were to pass a law mandating the filling in of the 'not spot' the mobile companies would complain but IMHO, if they allowed the carrier roaming in the not spots then the companies could spread the cost out amongst them but that is a far too common sense approach.

My guess is that we'll see the F-35 operational from a UK Aircraft Carrier before anything is done.

Apple are not a virtual monoploly

in the Mobile Phone market in the USA.

That's how they can get away with it and MS couldn't do it with Windows.

Saying that, Safari sucks big time no matter what platform you run it on.

visually recognise self driving cars?

Easy, just have someone with a Red Flag walk in front of the car at all times.

The law that mandated that might even still be on the statute book.

Re: And nothing about desktops

didn't they demo an LG USB-C monitor that would also charge the MacBook?

Re: subtle and clever innovations

Apple do supply the iPhone with a Lightning to analogue adapter[1] so you can do what you are complaining about as before. No need to involve BT which I find as useless as a Politician.

Has to be said, that they wern't the first to do so but it is not known if the competition did it just to have braggging rights over apple or not. The jury is out on that one.

[1] It will get lost in the first week.