Posts by Gartal

Five clouds

We predict that there will be a need for more than five computers worldwide

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Nothing more annoying.....

I think that having $6,500.00 worth of tools knocked off from my van last Sunday night was a tad more annoying. Similarly I found some years ago that breaking my leg in seven places and requiring skin, bone and muscle grafts, not to mention MRSA Septicaemia a triffle more annoying than a video having to buffer. Not to put too fine a point on it, my father dying earlier this year and my wife of 38 years buggering on last month overshadows internet connectivity issues fairly substantially..... I might go so far as to say that all of the above trump it.

Jobs and growth, jobs and growth

Do we really need this?

Bean counters and apprentice billionaires are constantly saying that "We" don't want to have to do boring and or repetitive tasks. The We in this case being those not destined for billionairedom.

I started in the computer industry in 1991 when there was a computer store in every high street and every shopping mall. In a very short time they all dried up. Computer hardware got better, operating systems and software got better. We, the technicians asked for this, we cursed at having to wait around while DOS 5 took twenty minutes to FDISK, reboot and format a 500MB drive, or we had to set up WINS and DNS or took forever to create new users or had to reboot NT 3x just because we had changed a value of the network stack.

I have no doubt that AI will improve well beyond what it is now, just as it has over what it was in the 90's. The question though is whether "We" really want it to. Think of all of the people done out of reception jobs just because some smart arse came up with an automated phone answering system. The automated phone answering system moved the responsibility for understanding a problem from the receptionist to the person making the call. A good receptionist can elicit the reason for a call to a company with whom the customer rarely deals far better and far faster than the customer can make sense of the options available in the automated system. But the receptionist is one of the We, someone who apparently prefers to be unemployed than employed, even if in a repetitious job.

I don't think of myself as a Luddite and I do understand that I am short on imagination, just like all of the futurologists and engineers and apprentice billionaires because I can not see where all of the people whose jobs we are casting off are going to be employed. What are they going to do? We have just about completely eradicated jobs which illiterates can perform by requiring a basic standard of literacy for everything. Further, with OH&S, transparency and accountability, we have mandated that you have to go to school and obtain a license to wipe your arse or blow your nose so all of those people of low intelligence who are really quite well suited to many of the boring jobs like chipping weeds on the roadside for the council now have well caked arseholes and snot encrusted faces because they are not sufficiently brainy to get the relevant ticket. And they don't have a job because the other We have decided that it makes better commercial rather than better social and environmental sense to require the former weed chipper to get a quad bike license and a dangerous goods ticket and get out there and spray a nice line of dead brown grass on the edge of the nature strip (if he/she is smart enough to get said licenses).

Are we all going to end up making coffees or working in one of the shoe stores which will be the entire basis of the economy within fifty years time?

I get fed up with having to make my way through phone jungles, "press option 1 for cocks, option two for socks, option three for replacement O rings for rocket boosters, option four for poofters, option five to hear today's definition of what constitutes full employment, there is no option six, and no poofters" Is my life better for not having to speak to someone? Is the life of the person to whom I may once have spoken better for not having a phone to answer and no money in the kitty?

If everyone has their job taken over by a machine, where will the rest of the money come from so that those apprentice billionaires can become proper journeyman billionaires?

Funny

When I suggested this at an MS function fifteen years ago, they laughed at me!

Ahhh.... the 1950's

We had a prime minister who bemoaned that we had left the 1950's. Here is a return of at least one aspect of them.....

Full fat SBS returns......

Recant

If Galileo had just recanted, the Earth would have stayed at the centre of the Universe and Man would have not fallen into a Douglasian irrelevance. If Hawking was sensible as distinct from just a common of garden genius, he would have approached the Pope, recanted his 1970s position, been forgiven and blessed and the need for a tonsorial load of old cobblers would not have been necessary which would have left Prof. Hawking with the time needed to retire from disability.

the IoT era already generates (and will continue to do so) huge amounts of data which is otherwise useless

the IoT era already generates (and will continue to do so) huge amounts of data which is (>delete<otherwise) useless

Finally, I can buy Viagra on line!

Wankers, all(most) wankers

Jeez, what a bunch of cynical no hoping, useless, puissant fucking wanking cunts. Give the bloke some credit for fucksake. How about applauding eh? instead of sitting there typing, trying to out cool each other with nasty shit. You can all go and get fucked. The lot of you.

Bezos, Musk and Branson are doing the stuff. The real stuff. You're just a bunch of cunts.

There. Better now.

<Clap, clap, clap. Well done Mr. Bezos.>

nor do we know how Pluto ended up in the shape we've found it in

It was like that when I got here

Correction

That should be "has reported a hatstand of nine vulnerabilities "

Microsoft's biggest blunder?

Microsoft

Disappointing

The disappointing thing about this is that there is stull media mileage in the notion that having sex is in someway wrong and that looking for it is also morally dubious. For fuck's sake, we get here by sex. Reproduction is why we are here and sex is the means by which it is accomplished. Grow the fuck up Vanity Fair.

That is fucking awful

As stated

Ownership

Hey! I haven't owned Backup Exec yet. When do I get my turn at fucking the guts out of it?

Doncha lovit?

One of the real pleasures of reading Reg comments is finding stuff like this, where people with brains and an understanding of more than bacon get technical in their comments. Thank you ball boys.

(No sarcasm, genuinely pleased)

Who gives a shit?

Who gives a shit? In the words of Alexi Sayle, "My big toenail has more intelligence"

Stay on topic please

Hi everyone, (and you Dave). I have been reading Reg comments for.......... about 40 years now and have to say some pretty harsh stuff.

Scotchbrite. Cheese grater. Smallpox. Hessian undies. Pox Vopuli. Tony Abbot.

Get the picture?

Just asking......

Notice the jowls, is KJoompalompa slowly evolving into Jabba the Hutt?

and as a PS, may we the poor and undeserving please have some new icons? there seems to be a paucity of relevance in the current crop. Perhaps the Director of Icons could be taken out and shot?

Another

Brainless

Bastard

On

Top

Ha!

From the government that brought you reduced spending in education and got rid of the ministry for science and technology.

I bet that if it was discovered that Economists produced anything and that if there was a shortage of them, we would have no difficulty in getting them fast tracked into education.

Multiple desktops and windows 8

Firstly I am surprised that "some people didn't like windows 8" I thought it was universally accepted that Windows 8 was a piece of shit. https://lawrieaj.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/so-is-windows-8-1-as-shit-as-windows-8-00/

As to multiple desktops, I win ad a nauseam. Multiple desktops have been available on Windows since Windows 95/NT3.5 as far as I am aware. Russinovich from Sysinternals has had a version available forever. The main problem multiple desktops is that it not really as useful as it at first seems. I played with them under NT 4 when I had one of the first Matrox Millennium video cards. It was capable but the idea just didn't work too well.

"This is partly related to the fact that the universe decelerated before it accelerated" This implies that there was a second slightly smaller bang doesn't it? Sort of sloppy seconds for the Universe.

Dear World

Dear World

We here in Australia would like you to invest in an increasingly stupid society. We the government are doing everything we possibly can to hasten a medieval darkness in which knowledge and education are no longer available to anyone by the wealthy.

We have removed the last scintilla of imagination from Cabinet and have replaced it with cardboard. We found that we were not very good at thinking of policy for ourselves and so have subsumed the wish list of the Australian Chamber of Arseholes in Business and branded it A Way into the Future.

Although Maggie Thatcher, God rust her box is no longer alive, we pay homage to her Fuckwittist financial theories and seek to emulate them. To that end we have eradicated anything to do with research for which there is not a direct and immediate technological issue. So, CSIRO is now working out of a matchbox, the SKA should just shrivel up and die and we are trying to sell off education to the highest bidder.

Thank you for your time and here is a brief knock knock joke for you all

Knock knock

Who's there?

Garn

Garn who?

Garn get fucked.

This has been a Party Political message from the Liberal Antiparty of Australia. All names and places will have been sold or scrapped by the time you read this.

One other thing....

I notice that you need a car to make your bike work. That is just fucked.

Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist, said: "This is clearly the most undisturbed rain forest in Central America. The importance of this place can’t be overestimated."

Lets get in there and fuck it up.

The light is on but nobody is home......

WTF?

"featuring one-bolt installation which fits in the tight spaces thanks to airflow innovations"

How does improved airflow make it possible to fit into tighter spaces? The two are not connected.

Whilst it may be that by improving the design of the case for improved airflow, improved airflow does not of itself make something fit into tighter spaces.

As a "good" Muslim, wearing looser underpants does not meant that I automatically now fit into more virgins than before.

One word

Bullshit.

A new problem?

I seem to recall Samuel Pepys had problems with the theatre. Really all they are saying is that excess is excessive. One must Om or something and take the road less travelled, the middle one. Then you can be fat and sad and not subject to studies by people who live in a car in Texas.

The Burning Question of course is how do you get sufficient `scientists' into an Austin to perform a decent job.