Posts by jelabarre59

Re: Back in the distant past, before I worked for HP...

DXC don't supply pens, notepads, paperclips or anything else that would be useful to do our actual jobs.

the only reason most of us have paper to write on, is because we take it from the printers.......

One company I worked at many years ago (non-IT company, long since shut down) had one of the owners/execs fussing over having to buy toilet paper. My comment was if we ran out of toilet paper I could just start using incoming customer orders.

Re: colour

I thought Uranus was greenish, Neptune blue. Seems current thinking is Uranus is blue-green.

Actually, Uranus was the blonde. Neptune had the green hair.

(and here I thought Neptune would have been the only one Uranus would have allowed to probe her cold ring... Except maybe Usagi.)

Re: It all works fine in theory

Yes. I have no problem with modelling and running pre-production testing through a simulator. That makes some sense, but once the physical stuff starts being produced, it still needs to be double checked to make sure it is up to spec.

I would think the Software modelling would be useful to eliminate the models that simply won't work at all (the ones designed by the recent engineering graduates of Bonehead University). Find out before you even start building hardware test models, save some time and money that way. That would mean you would *now* have more budget to do the HARDWARE testing on models you have some expectation of success for.

Re: Had this for years already

I think that will find that the internet is a bit more robust that you imagine. It was after all developed from a system designed to survive a nuclear war. (Arpanet)

I think you severely missed the point. Doesn't matter whether the physical infrastructure survives, the a=content thereof is well on it's way to being destroyed, and anti-consumer regulation will contribute to that.

In any case I think that your UScentic view is misplaced. There is a lot more to the internet than the FCC and the US.

Yeah, we'll see how Article13 plays out for you folks...

Re: Or, simply...

Or just DON'T use Google Chrome. There are plenty of other options, and we shouldn't be allowing Google Chrome to become "MSIE6 version2".

Re: Remember Munich?

Even better if the developed something open source that did the full MAPI protocol and was able to use that to talk collaborative PIM/scheduler to an Exchange server exactly as does an outlook client.

Thunderbird has the basics of what's needed already. It needs some committed work to clean up a lot of the old Mozilla cruft out of the codebase, and some actual **COMMITMENT** to do something with it. But seems that **WAY** too many people think a web browser is an email client.

But with federal funds up for grabs, news conferences to grandstand, backs to be kicked, scope had to creep up with the budget, and, the most expensive inappropriate software packages had to be purchased.

It's the same thing that happened with "Common Core". What probably started with a bunch of well-intentioned folks deciding that schools should pool their resources to devise a baseline everyone could build upon as they needed, gaining efficiency and economy of scale,soon became a boondoggle for various companies and special-interests to use to their own benefit. And in the end it's been nothing more than an exercise in checking checkboxes, with little to no concern on whether the process actually works.

That's a perfectly reasonable complaint. I just spent most of a month beating a new smartphone into submission in an effort to make it work the same way as my old one.

Sometimes that's just not possible. Such as some big-name cellphone maker (hello, Moto...) that in their earlier units had a perfectly functional voice-dialing utility, with when connected to your bluetooth headset would allow you to call anyone in your phonebook with a simple "call <Name> at <Home|Work|Mobile>". But ***NOW*** they've decided to remove that completely functional, self-contained and OFFLINE utility with some hack-me/spy-on-me set of apps from Google. All of which demand you have mobile data always-on and always sucking down your mobile data allotment. And they have the gall to call it an "improvement". Yeah, it worked as it was before, and with time to evolve the tech and better processing power, you sould make that OFFLINE tool even better. Or at worst case just leave it where it is and don't fuck with it, since it was working fine before.

I thought it meant playing the bagpipes while drunk.

What, that isn't how they're played normally? Or as the joke Dad would tell goes:

"Why do bagpipers walk around while playing?"

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"To get away from the noise."

Re: Seems good enough to fool most people to me

Why should anyone waste their time spoiling a ballet when it changes nothing and has no effect?

Vote for some obscure 3rd-party candidate then. Heck, your vote is worth more to *them* than to the "major" parties the mindless masses are voting for (such as getting enough votes to gain official status for that party).

Re: Yeah let's frrrryyyyyyy

" going round to your friend's to show them that cake you baked"

How are you going to bake that cake?

It's called a Dutch Oven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtE065II9u8

Always a good windup when you pretend goss ignorance and lead them on unable to do what they want until finally identifying your box as a Linux installation.

I had thought of a whole "Billy-Bob Hicktown" routine to pull on a scammer, but never got one to call while I still remembered it. Of course, to make it really fun I would have had to record it too and post it along with the other "harass the scammer" clips.

Re: So...

You are right in your summary. Shipping tends to mean they are being shipped into the warehouses of distributors and retailers. But these companies wouldn't accept the stock if they were not seeing the demand.

Not necessarily. The major record labels were pulling that scam at one time, shipping large numbers of an album they wanted and getting it declared "Gold" on shipping numbers alone. The RIAA eventually changed their rules to avoid the problem. There was also a saying about overly-hyped records, "shipped Gold, returned Platinum".

Re: Hoping they are using a reasonable file format

Not just on-going investigations. They have a large number of documents that basically are "eyes only" and limited to a very select few if the stories and rumors are to be believed.

*THOSE* are usually kept in the brain of a 14-yr-old nun with eidetic memory...

Re: @Chris G not quite.

And US industry is very good at lobbying the fools in Washington into anti-competitive behaviour and even a trade war that is damaging US trade quite severely.

The steel industry did it at one time. And the US automaker industry got various bits of favouritist legislation and rules passed, yet **STILL** couldn't manage to succeed even in a rigged market.

I may believe in "laissez-faire", but I see it as having TWO sides; you have the right to run your business as you see fit, but you ALSO have the right to fail with no expectation of bailouts. Many companies only see the first part and not the second.

Re: 40,000 people jobless in two years.

"I realise that’s pure speculation as I don’t have an MBA."

I'm sure DXE have some spare they could lend you.

Hell no; they're the first ones to destroy the company and the last ones to leave.

Re: whether if they'd had their sidearms they could have shot the lock off instead

I'd have tried to go through the wall beside the door.

Secure door, good quality lock, 50:50 it's stud partition wall.

Kind of like where dad worked in the 70's. The gate, with a guard shack just inside (at least on the US side) had a nice, impressive tall chain-link fence with barbed wire along the top. The fence ran just as strong and impressively about 50-100 yards into the woods, and stopped. Nothing past that point. For that matter, the Long Trail ran right past the Engineering building (the trail terminated at the Candian border).

For instance, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen the exact same right-wing propaganda posted in forums.

Probably about as much as you've seen left-wing propoganda?

Re: Fascinating stuff

The analysis goes well beyond photos. There were issues of buffering the transmission data to simulate the lag times (there simply wasn't the storage capacity/capability to do it). Transmissions from the Apollo 11 mission were being received by multiple people, not just Mission Control, so there would have to be actual transmissions of some sort, not just Mission Control saying they got it.

But, as is the case for your typical Lunar Deny-er, you focus on merely ONE aspect that you could make reasonable sounding explanations, and thinking if you debunk one item out of 100, you think you're proving something.

But hey, delusionals gotta delude.

That picture of the red system, with the two tape drives, is so Joe 90.

But would it play cool Go-Go theme music when it spools the tapes??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9QZFdW8uQ

Also: Hmmm. Yes, I did receive your urgent SMS to my personal phone. However, it seems I forgot to take the phone off silent after the meeting yesterday, so I didn't notice it until just now.

No one at work *GETS* my personal cell number.

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Not that anyone calls me anyway...

Re: Jesus wept

What a mess. And why oh why did they use the name .NET Core for something that isn't the core of .NET?

Because *MARKETING*!!!

It's a recohnizable name (good or not) and it's easier to market under an illusionary "unified" product line. IBM has been notorious for it well before Microsoft did it (yet another thing Microsoft didn't originate).

Heck it should still be possible to install it on XP or Vista if you wanted

But can you run it under ReactOS?

Re: So it wasn't his job

Try that one with "WWW" ;)

I have heard a radio announcer who would humorously say it as a very fast "WuhWuhWuh" when giving out URLs on air.

Re: Looking forward to "the Facebook brwoser", "the Amazon browser" and friends

Word. FireFox is our only hope.

Shame its such a bitch to fork.

Firefox has had their head so deeply embedded up their ass as of late I don't hold out much hope for them Our best hope is alternate-browser projects like Waterfox and PaleMoon (the latter of which already has it's own raft of problems).

It would *REALLY* have been nice if Microsoft hadn't been so brain-dead stupid to decide to move Edge to a Chromium-base. Should have gone with a Mozilla/Gecko base, if for nothing else but to stick it to Google. A sad situation when you can't even rely on one evil warlord to adequately go to war with another. (And would really have liked MS' help in developing Thunderbird).