Posts by Emmeran

If the student has used any of the large cloud services to build their paper, then there is a pretty damned good chance one of the AI's has already absorbed it into their 'knowledge base'.

That student may have just plagarized themselves.

and leave my damn Font alone

We don't need a new font. Please stop. I use Time New Roman, my wife a different.

I will not be changing the font my eyes like to read so stop it and go get a real job.

I have a certain respect for Apple

I bought my Ex-Wife an iPad.

Best decision I've made in my entire life.

Go see the Genius Bar and leave me alone.

Ahh this is beautiful....

The ones bragging about disruption and change not whining desperately that things have been disrupted and changed.

Those who happily insulted older workers for not being quick to change now find that they themselves don't like change.

This is the new reality folks please try to learn to deal with it and keep your whining to yourself...

Epic needs to follow the SEMA example

SEMA got past the automakers walled gardens, I have no doubt that their approach can be used to breach Apples monopolistic and thieving policies.

Apparently someone has unmet needs

If you are seeing "Penis" shapes where ever you turn you obviously have an unfulfilled craving.

Try the local dive bar or rent a willing body off the internet - just keep your fantastical cravings outside of our parking spaces.

My first thought was

Being the same age as Bezos my first though was: Whatever, I'm a 54 year old man, nobody is interested anyway.

It would have been more effective to threaten to post nudies of Trump wrapped in an Amazon Logo.

To get real competition municipalities need to re-take ownership of the last mile. When you don't own your infrastructure you are at the mercy of monopolistic corporations and their pet legislators.

Be braver

Buy a car and force them to remove all brand markings and labels from the exterior before you will accept delivery. I did that and the vehicle looked a lot better...

The forgotten part of the story

This particular "Apple Engineer" had repeatedly commented that Tesla's Autopilot didn't work well on this portion of the 101 yet he insisted on personally testing it every time a new software release was pushed out.

Somewhat just rewards for self-testing.

Hash just burns hotter

Let that be a lesson to you all.

It's a moot point in some places

Many towns that still retain their public power grid and simply becoming their own internet providers and negating the corporate markup all together. Yes I know that is about as Socialistic as public roads and fire hydrants but it works well and costs a lot less.

Just a reminder that it's good to own your own municipal infrastructure, it's like owning your own house and vehicles - you are beholden to no one but yourself.

The final death of the teletype.

I lament the lost TTY,

how we yearn for your 3 row keyboards

and the glory of 8 level baudot tape.

Glorious hours of hitting CAR RET, CAR RET

followed by a lovely LINE FEED.

Long lost is FIGS & LTRS keys and

voluminous piles of chaff.

Ask not for whom the BELL dings

for it dings for thee Teletype Model 28 ASR.

Close shave

I applied for that Leominster, MA job; apparently I was very lucky not to get it.

Oh look

Someone reinvented the cuckoo clock. And for our next trick - the waterwheel!

Ludicrous

Like the Fed can't build their own secure cloud. Outsourcing DoD cloud needs is flat out stupid, multi-sourcing it would be even worse.

For the price of one Carrier the DoD could build the world's largest and most secure Cloud and thereby guarantee our sensitive data is safe. Some things should never be privatized.

iPad to the rescue

I spent a decade trying to help my wife (Ex) work with a computer. Finally I wised up, bought her the first iPad and pointed her at the Apple Store whenever she called.

While I hate to see Apple products on my support list at work they seem to be the perfect solution for the "less technically inclined" family members. Kind of like the iTunes/iPod/iPhone combination, buy it and play it from the same place, annoyed me but worked for my wife and daughter.

(To this very day I still swear that iTunes was the true genius of the i-Fad decade)

The amazing thing is the "Timeline" feature. A major software company has decided to give you a glimpse of how much information they and everyone else is recording about you.

I have to upgrade this year

I've been on a Windows phone for who knows how long mostly because it just worked. I'm not going to the AppleWorld so it looks like my next phone is a Cat S41 Android.

The thing is Android is so messy and annoying. I really don't need my phone to do much but it needs to be business like and organized - but most of all shouldn't be frail and lacy like an iPhone.

A picture/video is no longer proof positive and people actually hold conversations with their household appliances; my how we have devolved.

Then only thing under voice control in my house is my dogs and even that is questionable sometimes. My kids can only be managed with router config tricks...

From dumb to dumber

To begin with going with Windows phones was technically savvy but dumb based on MSFTs long term planning. Shifting to the egg fragile iPhone is even dumber.

Looking at the nature of the job they should be focusing on a tough phone like the Cat S60 (or the equivalent). I'm finally giving up my Windows phone this year and it will be the Cat I'm switching to.

Disclaimer: As a middle aged guy who has to wear reading glasses to use any damn handheld device I find them less desirable than I did just a decade ago. That process of: pick up phone, put on glasses, interact with phone, take off glasses is just annoying.

Crappy inventory and audit procedures

Fire CTO and move on.

Back in the OS/2 days of the 1990's

My best buddy at work would map his print spooler to the hot chick in accounting's PC. Needless to say every time he want'd to chat her up he'd kick off a large "test print job" bringing her machine to it's knees. He was always waiting by the phone for her call.

They are married with two kids now...

Socialized TV

Every time I start to admire the Brits something as silly as this comes up. I love me some good socialized roads, safety, education and health care - but socialized entertainment?

Surprised you guys didn't find a way to socialize and tax random happy thoughts.