Posts by Lord Elpuss

Re: Nothing new about this with IBM

"I got the benefits with the admonition I was to tell no one."

I sincerely hope you told every living soul within a 1000 mile radius.

Re: RAM

"And how often is that speed difference even noticeable?"

PCIe attached memory vs on-die SOC? You'd notice it literally everywhere. From boot to app startup to runtime and probably even screen refresh. Like the difference between walking and driving.

Re: @Richard Speed -- Wait...Wha'?

Yes it matters. Shuttling half a gig between storage and RAM hammers responsiveness, also the half-gig is unlikely to stay at half a gig - memory leaks and poor management mean that'll likely be upwards of 1.5GB by the time you've finished a session. You've also got to ask what the living hell are they coding that could consume 512MB of space, unless it's horribly inefficient. Which brings its own performance issues.

Plus; with the exception of a few top-shelf Androids there aren't many phones that come with 16GB RAM (because they need it to stay afloat - Asus Zenfone 8 I'm looking at you); even the iPhone 13 Pro Max 'only' has 6GB.

Re: Virgin, bringing you the barely-adequate security from 2002

” According to https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Hive-Systems-Password-Table-1-770x346.jpg?x54432 you're looking at 3 days with modern 2022 hardware with local decryption.“

1) I think I trust security.org over a random JPEG

2) Even assuming the table is correct, it says 3 weeks for a 10-digit alphanumeric pw, not 3 days.

appealing, or appalling?

Re: Problem with that

"So if you stop paying your credit card bill, YOUR Bank is going to be the one sending in the enforcers, Visa doesnt give two hoots if you pay your bill or not..."

Visa has already paid your bill on your behalf; the end-creditor already has their money. The Visa bill is you reimbursing them for the payment they've made, so the OP's original point is valid.

That said, I'm certain Visa won't just abandon any money they're owed. They'll probably continue to suck it out of your bank account via direct debits as per the 'agreement' you have with them, just refuse to allow you to make any more purchases on your card.

Re: Wrong job description

Also don't forget his prior history of selling non-existent products i.e. fraud. This is a scumbag pure and simple.

Re: Nothing to see here

Say what you like about her, she has an impressive CV... (and no the downvote wasn't from me)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickle-lamoreaux/

Re: Thomas!

"amanfromMars and jake are the same person, and I claim my £5."

Jake may be an objectionable know-it-all, but does generally seem to talk sense. amanfromMars1 used to be entertaining if incomprehensible; now it's just annoying rubbish.

Going by the downvote I'd say no, you won't go on record. In which case, you and Elon are saying essentially the same thing; we're not anywhere near yet, it's phenomenally difficult and unlikely to appear any time soon, but let's take the first steps and see what happens.

Re: Limit the speed?

""Speed doesn't kill ... Rather, the difference in speed kills."

It's the sudden stop that kills."

And a sudden stop isn't a difference in speed?

Plus; it doesn't need to be a stop to be deadly. A train going at 125mph hitting a rambler walking in the same direction along the train tracks at 3mph will also end up rather bad for the rambler's health, even though neither will 'stop'. Ergo: difference in speed kills.

Re: Ink?

Yup I got the same mail, but for some reason they never started charging. I'm not based in the UK though so maybe there are different country laws applicable

Re: Pong

"I think it may be stretching things a little to describe speak&spell as being microprocessor based, but I don't know much about that. I do know it's somewhat inaccurate to say it had a speech synsthesis chip in it, it used audio compression with a very low data rate."

It used a TMS5100 Digital Signal Processor.

from TI's Richard Wiggins:

Each word was represented by a series of phonemes. This speech data was stored in the device’s memory (on 2 128 kilobit ROMs, at the time the largest capacity ROM in use); then when the Speak & Spell was told to say a word, the command was processed through a 4-bit microprocessor and speech synthesizer.

Re: Where is it? Check this...

Not strictly true. It can slow down due to the effects of solar wind, of particle impact (Space isn't really empty) or even just sunlight. Light has mass so will exert thrust; which at some point will need to be corrected for.

Re: Thanks!

"Well, the issue is actually getting anything to/from the iPad... for example a PDF to read at lunch.

There's simply no way to do it from Linux. "

Go to iCloud.com in your Linux browser, open iCloud Drive, and drag & drop any files you want accessible on your iDevice. Job done.

Or you can email them to yourself if you only need one or two.

Re: Epically wrong.

"You asked, so I'll answer.

"Can you access the App Store from your device?": Yes.

+1.

"Is it safe to use,": I guess so. I don't view that as a high bar, though. A lot of software is safe to use without justifying it being forced on me with mandatory payments.

No. Creating and curating a safe app environment is a lot of work, taking a lot of time and money to do right. As an example of how NOT to do it, have a look at the Google Play Store from a couple of years ago. It's better now, and you'll note that they charge the same 30% that Apple do.

"fast, reliable": Not really. Updates don't show up instantly, sometimes they don't download right and I have to press again. I've had Signal tell me that a new version is available when Apple doesn't think it's true.

Then Signal has a bug. Don't blame Apple for your app's deficiencies.

"and tailored to your preferences?": Not in the slightest. My preference would be for the old layout where the search and updates tabs were not hidden and where search would at least find the app you typed in rather than show five unrelated ads and go into the results list organized with bogosort.

I'll kind of give you this, although if the app you're looking for is in the Store, it'll be shown up top. If not, Apple will suggest others (with varying degrees of success) that it thinks might match what you're looking for. Bear in mind most users don't know the exact name of the app they're looking for, so nonexact matching is a valid methodology.

"Are the apps themselves curated and high quality?": No. They're just what was sent in. A lot of crap apps are there. Apple only tries to keep out active malware and stuff that competes with theirs.

Flat out wrong. Points for trolling though.

"Can you install them without having to learn what sideloading means?": By definition, yes, but the implied argument is a tautology. People on Windows can manage to install software without having to learn the word sideloading, so it doesn't seem to be a problem. I could as easily say that sideloading should be the only mechanism because then you wouldn't have to learn how the store app works, but that would be just as weak."

Re: Source of radiation

Americium 241; same stuff as in smoke alarms. Wouldn't be surprised if they actually DID dig it out of smoke alarms.

Re: "Excluded: Licenced media" etc.

As far as I'm aware, Apple haven't 'disappeared' anything from users' devices, and haven't withdrawn any rights to view. What they DO say might happen is that if a rights owner withdraws a movie from the iTunes Store, it might not be available for redownload at some time in the future (so make sure you have a digital copy somewhere and you will be fine), and also that if you move your AppleID from one region to another, you might not be able to access the same movies on iTunes due to region licensing issues. This is a studio region licensing issue, totally f*cked up in my view, but also not Apple's fault.

I had exactly the same thing when I moved from the US to Europe; all my movies "disappeared" and I thought they'd been deleted (as did the Apple support guy, was the first time he'd seen it happen) but we figured out it was region licensing, I switched my ID temporarily back to US and they all became visible again. I downloaded them and put them on a hard drive, then moved my ID to Europe again. Yes switching between regions is a pain, but it was no different to my DVD player at the time; my US movies wouldn't play on my new European player, so for a while I had two players stacked on top of each other and switched between them.

Note that the 2018 da Silva case (guy was all over the Internet claiming his movies had been deleted) wasn't a case of Apple deleting stuff as he claimed, it was the fact that he'd moved from Australia to Canada, and had transferred his AppleID across locations; which meant that he was not able to (re)download them from the new location which had different licensing laws. What's important here is that if he had set his ID back to Australia, all his movies became available again. I'm not saying he was lying, but he was certainly being economical with the truth when accusing Apple of "deleting" his movies. They didn't.

Re: There's a lesson here

Agree. The concept 'know' is tied to the evidence available at the time, and subject to change.

Re: It's unreasonable because...

Agile when done well (meaning: implemented in the right way, in the right places, and supported by the org) is a powerful methodology. The problems start when it's applied as a one-size-fits-all, is used as an excuse for poor planning or is deployed without support from the business, meaning it's just a vanity project. Then it turns into a disaster.