Posts by 0laf 1977 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2009
I wonder how good the camera will be in 'normal mode'?
I've a Huawei P20 Pro the camera is great I like it a lot, but the 40M camera is set to at 10M as default. I think I've taken a single number of 40M pictures.
If this has a 108M camera and can do 8k, gimmicks, or can it take really excellent 10M/ 720k pictures/vids
Did you carry out stakeholder engagement to check your project is necessary and appropriate?
Clearly yes they engaged with every stakeholder in the development room at "Shadow" who all thought everything was spiffing and wonderful and the colours were nice and well who doesn't have a nice new iPhone XS with unlimited data and 4 bars of connection?
What I've seen tbh is that most companies pay their techies a pretty reasonable wage. The problem is that they actually need 15 techies on that wage not the 10 who are struggling by doing extra hours for the hell of it.
If they paid more they'd get more applicants for those jobs but there still wouldn't be enough people.
I started out working in "Information Security", through many years and many rounds of buzzword bingo, and marketing fuckwittery I have given up and will call my job and my profession whatever it takes to be listened to. If I need to call myself the "Cyber Security Digital Cloud Architech Blockchainologist" to get to talk to the PHB in charge then I will.
But deep down, I'll always be an "Information Security" man because my remit still covers Yale locks and paper. Even if noone will talk about anything unless it's got fucking 'digital' in front of it.
And if the attack just so happens to come from some abitious scrote in Atlanta is POTUS happy for us to pop a few cruise missiles into an apartment block in the commercial district?
I suspect most NATO hawks are happy to make this statement in the belief that they only get attacked from 'bad' countries. Plus if it's organisaed crime in a less organised state does that justify high explosives in a city?
Teams Team screwup borks customers Teams Teams
Why the fuck call it 'Teams'? It's fucking confusing
And why back it onto fucking SharePoint so it screws up corporate retention all over the place.
Why MS Why? Why not try speaking to your customers before rolling out your next wonder of fuckupppery.
I'm seeing quite a few Tesla S and 3 models on the road now. I think the 3 (and X) is fugly but they're still selling. I think I'm probably seeing more of them (the S) than equivalent sector models like the Porche Panamera.
I can see the appeal in terms of the technology and performance, but I like the sound of a V8.
Apple has probably has a rolling prototype of an SE2 always ready in the wings. They just don't want to release a cheap phone until they really are sure it's not stealing sales from the £1000+ range.
Someone is crunching number to work out if they'll make more money from more £400 phones or £1000 phones. I doubt it's more complex than that.
Are you the Data Owner? Then it's largely your problem.
The cloud supplier is a data processor certainly and has some responsibility but where the configuration of the cloud service is down to you then that problem comes all the way back to you, the data owner.
Where is gets cloudy {many lols :-| ) is that vendors like to imply they give your data complete security and that they are complety solid on providing you a platform to host PII data. Which is true IF you buy the right services and configure them correctly.
If you buy the cheapest no frills option and stick it in vanilla, you'll get nailed and the cloud vendor is not going to step up and take the blame for you.
Massive organisation likely on the target list of pretty much every nation state with cyber capability as well as every terrorist organisation as well as a great number of less moral commercial businesses cannot be bother to patch it's fucking stuff.
Come on FFS.
You've got the most basic threat profile ever-
Who is going to attack us? Absolutely fucking everyone
How good are they? Absolutely the best
Was the decision just to make it easy since they'd get in anyway?
500 miles up. I'd have thought that a little atmospheric drag would have brought these birds down in the decades after they ran out of fuel. Clearly I know Jack schitt about this stuff.
It might have been a better use of his billions if Ol' Elon had worked out some space rubbish collection system rather than plotting on putting another 42k lumps of shite up there.
That's the thing, if I'm getting monitored by the Chinese it's likely to be less obtrusive than monitoring by a US company. They're less likely to sell my data to advertisers and insurance companies.
So to a significant degree if I must choose to be monitored (since my only non-monitoring option is to do without a router) then is seems Chinese monitoring is less onerous.
I went through the same thought process when I got an Android phone and came to the same conclusion.
There is no such thing as "The Special Relationship". It's a meaningless phrase wheeled out by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Either when UK politicians are trying to puff thelsemves up to look big to the home crowd, or as a form of lubrication so the UK doesn't feel so bad as it's put over a barrel by the US.
Yep me too but I didn't realise early. Did a degree in Pharmacology and Biochem then found out that there was little work and what work there was was very poorly paid. Your analogy of a Tesco checkout operator is not wrong. I looked it up at the time (1999). Job as a graduate lab technician doing bloody analysis was the same as a check out operator at Tesco (~£14k). PhD grads were only getting £17k.
Graduate roles with the big companies (Glaxo etc) were taking 300 appliants per post.
Half of my class retrained into IT (mostly java programmers), the other half did PhDs or MSc.
It might be wrong but 'Gooses' is a nice word to use for comic effect. A bit like 'sheeps', 'mouses' etc.
Goose is also a word for the non-PC pinchin of someone's bottom. Gooses would be appropriate for more than one pinch there since you don't 'Geese' bottoms. The importance of gooses in ancient Rome becomes something quite different then.
In Dundee a Goosey (or Gussie) is a segemnt of orange. As in "Guis a gussie".
Remember the hype over 3D TVs? So are they mainstream now with everyone using them all the time..... nope.
I think VR is probably going to stay a thing but mostly for gamers and education I think. AR is on the hype curve descent. As long as you need to hold up a screen in front of you looking like a total prick I think mainstream use might be limited (admittedly some arseholes have phone conversations like this somehow forgetting where their ears are). When AR can be integrated into my specs or my car windscreen then it'll start to take off.
I don't think it's a dead end fad like 3D TV but it's a good few years away from being widely used.
I'm sure someone would sign up to a Mars orbit mission but what a shit deal. 12months in a tin can with a few days of a nice view. Added bonus of muscle atrophy, bone density loss and an increased cancer risk.
If they're going to go and not land at least get them to do something useful in orbit. Set up a way station, poke around Phobos or Deimos. Mine for fuel, I dunno but not just a huge loop.
My SO convinced me that it would be a good idea to cut out meat for a month after a heavy meaty Xmas. This led to us being in a local McDs with the one choice being their 'Veggie dipper' offerings. Being the good partner I am I went for the veggie wrap.
For the benefit of my fellow readers if you feel the need to go to a McDs and are tempted to have one of their flesh-free offerings just don't. They're like a very shit veggie finger your mum might have bought you 25yr ago to go with the processed 25% pork sausages. Think, a few pieces of corn in orange coloured veg slurry. It makes the pink goop that nuggets are made from look appealling.
I can barely stand to be in a car with a rattle. Much to amusment of my mate who drives a 170k+ mile passat that sounds like being on the inside of a recycling skip as it goes down the road. He knows it drives me nuts, it doesn't bother him at all and the fucking thing refuses to die.
I've sold cars that have had unfixable rattles probably losing thousands and nearly crashed trying to find the source of little tappy noises (usually a zip on a jacket or a coin in a door pocket) but I just can't bloody stand it.
I spent hours reformatting the PC of a friend of my uncle (he was a nice chap but this was about the final straw with family whoring me out as IT support). After hours of doing the XP reinstall I'd forgot to put on a firewall from disk before heading for the internet and Windows update. Fucking thing got Pwned in about 30sec. Queue more bloody work.
Thats the perversity of it. O365 works better on almost every browser other than Microsoft's own products. Try to use 365/Sharepoint in IE for everything and it is painfully slow. But Sharepoint needs ActiveX for many tasks and you can only use that in IE. So you have to flick between browsers.
And Woe betide you if you need to use 365 under multiple usernames or with different tenancies (I've got at least 3 to deal with) you need to log in using Incognito (Pr0n mode) to stop 365 gettiong locked into one user and you needing the global admin to get you out.
It's wonderfully Agile. Half arsed, half finished and full price.
Yep you've beat me to it.
Sharepoint is extra shit with IT. Much faster using 'any' other browser except that as you point out Sharepoint relies on ActiveX to do some key tasks users want especially 'Explorer view'. No IE no explorer view.
How typical of MS these days that they can't make their own core products work with each other. It's fucking ridiculous really
I'm having a new house built, part of the spec (not from me btw) was that the downstairs will be fitted out with Sonos speakers.
We didn't want them but we weren't going to get any discount for taking them out.
If we still wanted the house to have buod in speakers what are the alternatives to Sonos?
Ideally nothing that connects back to feckin Amazon, or Google
Most cars now have an automatic disconnect in place so pressing the brake cuts the accelerator. For those that want to drive a little more enthusiastically this removes the ability to learn to left foot brake properly.
But it alos means if you mash the brake and accelerator at the same time the brake should always win.
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