Posts by Captain Save-a-ho

Re: Feet, stones, pounds...

That's funny. I just assumed my hex scale hated me since it labeled me FF for Fat Fuck.

Re: Ball mark?

It has nothing to do with youth and everything to do with a colossal case of don't-give-a-shits.

Re: Piffle. And annoying piffle at that.

While the marketing douche provided the fodder, don't believe for a second that this originated from their marketing abyss. Network automation is being pushed from the technical/innovation side of the house. I think it's doomed to fail myself, but you should really find a new story to overly bemoan than "HP innovation is dead" and "it's so sad". Your inability to overcome your own personal disappointments makes you far sadder than you realize. Stop mourning and get on with your life.

Re: US Politics

Any dumber than someone who buys a TV having to purchase a license for it? Or how about those Hackney Carriage Laws that let a Male piss on a car in public, so long as he pisses on the rear right wheel with his right hand on the vehicle?

Re: Three wins for Debian in a week

Phase 3: Profit?

Re: "Avoid nasty plugins with this extension, says Google "...

I for one would welcome a Google branded Office product, as LO and Open Office alternatives have been slow in implementing crucial MS-Office features.

I know! I can't understand why it took so long to transition to a ribbon interface! Like, OMFG! :rolleyes:

Frankly, I'm happy for you to plead with your Chocolate Factory overlords, but the majority of us are still using pretty much everything in Office 4.2 (if you can remember that far back) and not much more.

Re: @Buckaroo_Banzai (The scum fleecing the dumb)

I'm not a porn aficionado

Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.

Complete Bollocks

If the skills gap was as wide as it is made out to be, then you would expect market forces to push people into fill it from the local economies, particularly with the unemployment rates the western world is experiencing.

Market forces are working as they are designed for those companies not on the government dole. You just stated that market forces weren't at work, as local government was interfering. In your example, the market pressures didn't come to bear until the gov't money ran out. By that time, cheaper labor sources from abroad overtook local sources who have been demanding a job because they believe it to be a right (my assumption, but likely).

Unemployment rates in IT are quite low (some say less than half the overall rate). But don't let facts get in the way of a fine whine.

Re: Hang on ...

Next time, feel free to NOT real the Apple-bashing and wait until the report on the real figures. If you can stop yourself.

Re: Dear 'The Register'

But a rather tired one.

And I think it's fucking hiliarious, so there!

Re: Junk.

It wouldn't have a 13" screen that does 1080P. It also wouldn't weigh less than 3 lbs.

Re: What’s the point?

Hmm, I think we just found the next Gordon Brown. Congrats!

Re: Confused?

Apparently, your personal circle of hell wasn't available to them earlier.

There's nothing wrong with Texas.

Please share which QNAP device possibly costs less than $259.99 for 4TB. Features are certainly less plentiful, but no one will ever accuse QNAP of being "cheap". Ever.

Re: A good question

Beyond tradition, is there any reason why an OS search field shouldn't also search the internet?

It's not a both/and scenario, to me. It could be very useful to get internet search results, but only when I want them. If I'm searching for local files, I absolutely do NOT want internet search results. And vice versa. There may well be scenarios where both results would be desired, but surely that isn't the norm and it really needs to be up to each user.

Why is it so fucking hard to just make options available to the user? This is precisely why I'm still running Debian Linux and why I haven't bothered to move to a Mac. Give me choices, damn it!

Re: I reluctantly raise my hat

You mean credit for compling with the EU mandate to open up their protocols? That was April 2007.

Glad to see this finally come to fruition, but nearly six years seems like a bit long to play catch-up to Windows Server 2008. Server 2012 was just released, so Samba 4.0 is still behind the 8-ball (no doubt, crouching to avoid the chairs thrown from Redmond).

Re: Quality?

Not as big a mongolian cluster as iOS Maps, but certainly the shine has come off the apple since Tim Cook is calling the shots. No real fanboi can possible deny that things seem more ordinary over the last 14 months.

Re: Globalisation is coming back home

Chinese labour was never the lure for companies. It was the high integration of the supply chain, with all needful elements nearby to the assembly plant. China has been far ahead of most countries in this regard for a while now, even outstripping Japan and Taiwan. The efficiencies of a highly integrated supply chain outweigh the labor costs for assembly.

This is why BMW now makes their X3 in the US, because the suppliers of their seats, tires, etc., are all nearby to supply components on a Just-In-Time basis.

I remain skeptical, given the US regulatory environment, but at least Apple is trying. HP and similar gave up long ago.

Re: The Register

Yes, and the 50s and 60s had massive methods for avoid taxes to protect income and profits. Raise taxes further and you'll see many of those options come back in style.

If you were a company owner and the fuckwits that pass laws were sending you all kinds of crazy, conflicting signals about what tax laws were coming in the future, are you so insane as to hire more and spend all your profits? Or would you sit on your cash like all these companies are doing, investing what you can to fight inflationary concerns, until such time that it's advantageous to start spending capital again?

Think, then speak.

Americans are great at eating

There, I fixed it.

Re: Servers need switches

You can connect 1Gbps to 10Gbps ports, but the costs of 10Gbps switch and its associated SFP+ optics make that a really stupid decision. Why waste the 10Gbps real estate on 1Gpbs when a smaller 1Gbps switch is much cheaper?

One item not addressed in the article is that the uptake of 10Gbps has mostly been reserved for either server virtualization or interswitch/internetwork links. There's not many instances I know of where my clients have elected to spend on 10Gbps for any specific application. All the ones that come to mind are HPC-related and none of those represent the sort of volume that would start to shift the industry as a whole.

Re: Meg Whittman

Why bother? HP isn't even competitive to keep its own people, let alone hire good people away from other companies.

At this point, I'm expecting HP to die on the vine soon enough, so I'm sure the DoJ has other evil corporations to look after.

In less than a million years, humans will have regressed in intelligence so far that we'll only be distinguishable from other apes by our love of porn.

Of course, that nearly describes humans today, so YMMV.

Absolutely right

Asus doesn't meet the Macbook Air display specs. At 1920x1080 for the Zenbook Prime, it demolishes them.

Re: Yes Yes Yes

and for the yanks - an asshat

Would it be legal to use David Cameron's image?

If you consider El Reg where you get real news from, you simply MUST share whatever it is you're smoking.

Quick poll:

Downvote because of complimenting Andrew and Lewis.

or

Downvote because of assuming AGW shouldn't be questioned.

That's all.

Re: Well...

Sadly, these are the finest workers employed by taxpayers. No, really.

All icons are bald?

Paris, because she's bald, but not on her head.

Re: Non Apple user.....

Have you ever used Safari? Ugh...

Re: Translation

** Top secret ** - Mozilla Business Plan

Phase 1 - Dupe idiots into clicking on button

Phase 2 - ???

Phase 3 - Profit!

Re: screen?

900p? Meh. I'd still rather go for the Asus Zenbook Prime (UX31A-DB71), where I can get 1080p. Desktop real estate is always at a premium on a laptop.

Re: An idea

One can only hope Mr. San Andreas beats us to the punch.

Re: Arachnophobia

Arachnophoblia = the extremely confused mental (and likely physical) state resulting from a person simultaneously feeling both arachnophobia and arachnophilia.

You need to trade mark this while you can, before you get sued in the EU and US.

Re: Aloha?

It's at the beginning of the article, so it has to mean hello. Curiosity wasn't sent to Mars like Cthulhu, Destroyer of Worlds.