Posts by John 104

Because it was side load, it wouldn't have to pass validation. The whole thing smells of rotten fish.

Re: AI 'more profound than fire'

Well, war IS ridiculous...

Re: Private money

No way I'm traveling Wayland....

Re: Alaskan treats

Cadbury, as noted. And dang, those things are SO gross.

Re: How did that work ?

Before notepad++ became ubiquitous, wordpad was a go to because it didn't fiddle with formatting. Not sure if it is the same today. Even Notepad screws with stuff if you aren't careful.

Re: EPYC Fail...?

I think it is more likely an EPYC win...

We have a few servers with those chips in them and they are ridiculously fast compared to our Xeon servers.

Re: Original Controller Only

Agreed.

I have a CD/AM/FM boom box thing that I acquired in the early 90s. It has been my shop radio for decades and still works as good as the day it was new (although it is a lot dirtier).

This whole scheme of theirs smacks of corporate greed and environmental carelessness. I'm firmly in the camp of "question the 'settled science' claims of politicians" (if they are talking, they are lying) There is simply too many billions of $$ involved. But that doesn't mean that I condone material waste like this. Shame on them.

Re: "68 hours of playtime from just 1.5 hours of sunlight"

Probably similar to my watch. Citizen eco drive. always charging and to date, i've never replaced the built in battery - going on 10 years?

Re: How much cobalt per car?

Maybe mined in Canada, but all of it is shipped to China for processing, where they don't give a shit about the environment.

The idea of a 'green' car that is battery powered is a total joke. The whole thing has to be one of the biggest bamboozles of all time.

Re: A better solution?

What? Use the light sensor? Why, what a concept. Except this has always been in place. Up until Android 9, it worked really well. On my LG V40, it is useless. The display darkens so much that it is unusable in low light situations and won't adjust up. As a result, I manually set the brightness.

Hey, Google, How about you fix shit you broke before introducing new features? Or are you just trying to be like Microsoft?

Re: So many flaws

Can is OK to buy in, as long as you pour it into a glass. NEVER drink from a can. Unless it's Carlsburg. At least they didn't waste good beer....

Re: Pittsburg, Colorado, Houston, Texas, California

Don't get all bitter just because the UK has no skin in the game...

Re: Well that was a waste...

I'm with Gumby.

I manage access control among my many IT hats. At least here in the states, you have to have a system that fails to unlocked in the event of a power failure. Otherwise the doors stay locked in an emergency. Such as, fire, tsunami, power failure with fire and tsunami, etc.

If the garbage you are buying fails to locked, I'd dump it. Seriously, what if your house was on fire and your wife was inside and couldn't get to a window? What garbage.

Re: Selective deafness

@Rainer

Don't be obtuse. No one carries a spare battery with them. The point is that when the battery dies, the consumer can source a new one and install it themselves. With the Apple way, it is glued in, and there is no recourse for replacing the battery - WHICH WILL WEAR OUT - other than paying exorbitant amounts at the 'genius' bar, or throwing the device away. Myself, I just replaced my battery in my HP. Cost me $40 and about 10 minutes with a screwdriver.

Re: Want one

But my mobile phone is already portable...

yeah. I have mixed feelings on this one.

On one hand, very cool accomplishments. Keep up the work for science and the improvement of lift/orbit vehicles.

However, more litter? In the name of profit? Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Re: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

To support the same workload today, you'd "need at least an 8-core 64GB server", Jed observed.

So...any reasonably spec'd laptop or desktop. Or, if you want to go nuts, any high spec engineering workstation. Couple of xeons or epycs, some RAM and off you go.

Likely, to support a modern version of these workloads, you need a farm of servers, each handling mail, application loads, file services, etc. Data needs are, naturally, much larger these days. And performance is much faster. Also, one user doesn't have the ability to accidentally screw the rest of the office over due to a mistake.

Thank you!

It's true, other companies have been doing things. But winning contracts isn't the same as actually putting a product to market. The dream chaser is pretty darn cool, but is still really in development as well. And the rockets you mentioned have been in rotation since as early as 2000. To me, this is still SpaceX eating lunch of everyone else. Developing, certifying and launching rockets is no small task. So far, they seem to be leading the pack.

Regardless, it is an exciting time for space technology again. I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and marveled at the Apollo and shuttle programs (although the shuttle program was hugely wasteful). I'm glad to see public companies being allowed by the US and other governments to pursue these programs.

Re: So Good news

@Spartacus

Yeah, I'm sure China, India, and other 'we don't give a fuck' countries were right on board because Western powers decided to play nice. It's right up there with catalytic converters, efficient engines, and carbon neutral ideas that we have been promoting for years. All good for us, but when India and China are pumping tons of the stuff into the atmosphere, it doesn't mean much.

Re: But

If you've set up your group policy correctly, this is true. You can deny install new software, you can deny the Store too, with the right GP objects installed.

Re: White → Orange

@phuzz

Don't forget the crackers!

Why did your wife make her kids play with Lego in the loft? Surely the bedroom or kitchen table is more suitable?

We are a family of 5 and have a 29 sq ft LG. No fancy screen, just water and ice. 29 is HUGE! when it is full, we're like, "Yeah! Flush with the eats!" and when it gets even half full it looks like a wasteland due to the extra space. But the big freezer is sure nice.

Re: No problems here!

At the time, the Windows name was appropriate. Everything ran on DOS. It was all command line, so having a 'window' to look at your software was pretty revolutionary.

I still can't get enough of Command HQ. Graphics are hilarious by today's standards but the play is still pretty solid, especially vs human.