Posts by Teiwaz

Re: Kielbasa Fest

"451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

Well, if you will follow a link to an amateur-hour U.S site

Re: Blessed are the poor

for they are rich in personal data.

It's fools gold, looks pretty, lots of data, but worth much less than a years take from 'fingernails-for-cash.com'.

Re: Hmm

Absolutely - what actually IS social class?

Used to be easier to classify, now, I think it's only really indicative of alcohol consumption patterns, the more 'higher class' the more likely you are to have alcohol in the house you don't drink almost immediately.

That put's me middling to low, bottles are polished off in a day or two.

Re: What could possibly go wrong?

Patent says it could server important or famous people first, so it'd go to whoever is on stage :-(

Are you sure that isn't sever?

Re: once you put half a day or a day into it, it's actually easier

That really doesn't matter. You've lost most of the potential users in the first half day.

Anyone with that short an attention span was probably never going to use any piece of software to it's full extent, they'd be better off with MS Paint or something for small children to use with their grubby fingers leaving smudges over the screen.

Re: Now *there's* an EU initiative ....

They might go that root, should the rumour of Trump looking to add tariffs on European IT*.

* There might not be much, but I'm not sure the same can't be said about between Trumps ears.

Re: Staff cost reductions maid

I would have thought skipping maids were more expensive than the non-skipping variety.

What about the cost benefit analysis on stripping maids, bet they're cheaper than the skipping ones (especially when booked from guys in flamboyant costumes).

Re: Oh, doughnuts!

Nope, them assholes are probably too big to stuff.

I think if we could crowdfund a couple of cargoships worth of black nobblers, they could probably be buried up to their pointy ears.

Re: 'Could - while they’re Sleeping'

Most gamers I know, would forego sleep to game longer, if they could.

No point mining on Windows during short as possible Gamer sleep breaks, if you could, get Windows to do it's update thing while you sleep, not while you game (although I think, like most option on Windows, that's pretty much out of your hands now).

No point mining on Nvidia hardware on 'Linux, their prop driver sucks balls, and they've passively aggressively hampering the Nouveau project for years.

A good Ryzen chip handles Nvidia Iray fairly well, not maybe as fast as a Nvidia GPU, but if your scene overloads the GPU onboard available memory, you're going to drop back to CPU anyway.

Re: Google's full of it

a) Isn't that the best way to deflect criticism? Tweak a few words, tell the users that you (google/etc.) care about their wishes, and screw away?

b) Or just mount a HUGE campaign to say that all the critics are stooges of FAKE NEWS!

a) Why not, citizens have been letting governments get away with tweaking a few laws and carrying on after being caught in dodgy or even outright illegal activity for years.

b) Seems to be the general response of the current U.S President to criticism or people reporting his little gaffs.

Re: My carefully curated online presence

Eva Braun secretly had Hitler's love-child without his knowledge and you ate its grandchild?

is how I read that - even more 'US' tabloid than the intended 'Sunday Sport' one.

Re: I still think they're majoring in the minors. again.

Were they spending an EQUAL amount of effort on a Wine-like subsystem that RUNS ON LINUX....

Now that is bloody unlikely.

Gullible idiots (on other sites) keep trying to convince me MS is OSS friendly these days, someone even thought they were the highest annual contributor to the Linux kernel.

Why the hell would Microsoft want to help people run Windows programs without having to pay the MS licence or the dubious benefit of full-fat authentic Windows 10.

There is nothing Ms has released on any sort of borderline OSS licence that does not wholly benefit MS and no one else.

Re: CASH...CASH is the answer....

If you object to being tracked by Google, why the F would you buy an Android phone in the first place?

This is the primary issue, seems most people bitchin about Google tracking also went out and bought an android.

Talk about enablement.

Re: Stuff Like This Should Be Illegal

in the middle of cold war they *had* to tell the truth or the USSR would make fun of them.

Well, there's telling the truth and there's telling the truth.

Funnily enough, the USSR were mostly not that concerned about doing the same. Or maybe their truth was a truth design for their population, and not others.

The problem isn't the voting machines it's the voters.

Dern' tootin'. Either side of the Atlantic.

Even if somehow, the Election manages not to get hacked, and several lorries of votes don't get switched or dumped somewhere, the 'grass roots' nut jobs will have arranged buses for the paranoid extremists, headcases, to vote and hang around afterwards intimidating, fired up by a dollar-eyed politico spewing cliched empty promises. The masses will as usual buy into the promises of some coiffed up borderline preacher type charismatic or pig headed business nut and insist for several years afterward any day now everythings going to be wonderful despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

Re: Shhh! Keep it on the down-low

<whispers>They're finally building the B-Ark</whispers>

<mutters>I'm a little worried it's a Stark*</mutters>

* No, it's not a GoT reference, this was a televised book too though.

comes in a little SD card

When I saw my first CF Card, I was expecting that to roll along at some point.

We should be at the point where you can wander into a shop and buy a book/Music album/Movie on the same memory storage type.

But because the media publishers of all the above would rather sit in their trees collecting nuts until progress starts to pass them by then they panic.

They'll be PDS Now

Personal Data Syphon

Re: 1998 Discuss?

So I scaled down what I was going to show them and then got them to do the work i.e. some SSIS and basic SQL.

Don't know how lucky they are. In 1988 I had to kick up a fuss to get work placement in IT, I was fobbed off with data entry at a Coal Merchants for a week.

Re: I think I'll..

At least, when the dementia strikes, by the time the song ends you'll have forgotten how it started

The kids can keep their answering machine-message length ditties, clearly suited to the short-attention span types.

Re: "We’ve built Android 9 to learn from you—

"We’ve built Android 9 to learn fromspy on you—and work betterthink for you—the more you use it,"

Re: Nothing wrong with a netbook

@Teiwaz

Maybe I'll take another look, it'd be handy to get away from windows on it.

The BCM4313 broadcom wireless card (on the Acer Aspire One 722) is compatible with the open source brcm80211 driver directly included in the standard kernel since at least 2012 - some obscure 'Linux distros make you jump through hoops to get non-standard firmware (i.e. prop blob support) onboard, but that chip should not have been a problem. I think it's the same one as on my D260 (N450 Atom) machine, and it's run Ubuntu since 2011 with only 1GB (upped to 2GB fairly painlessly).