Posts by jelabarre59

Re: Fashion is easy!

Korpiklaani's version of Ievan Polka I hope?

Nah, the Hatsune Miku version.

Re: How long does it take to reboot a 787 ?

Could be worse, could be one of those rechargeable Varta barrel batteries permanently soldered to the mainboard (popular in the late 80's and early 90's). They don't explode or die, they just leak and erode the traces on the board.

Re: Meatball

First time I saw the meatball logo I was reminded of the Blake's 7 logo.

My understanding was the "arrow" in the Blakes7 logo was meant as an intentional swipe at Star Trek's Starfleet emblem. In fact, the United Earth Space Probe Agency emblem looks even more like the B7 logo.

Also just because 100's millions type something wrong doesn't make it right, otherwise the correct way to write OH MY GOD in 2020 would be OMG!!!!

The usage of "OMG" dates much further back than you'd think. And it comes from your side of the pond.

Re: Stealing a (long) March

Sure, which is why they continue to hold a certain appeal. Of course, over time dictatorships tend to become inefficient because power gets handed to yes men.

Which makes me wonder who the particular "yes men" were that decided they'd prefer to cover up a particular flu outbreak in a small region rather than report it and call for assistance while it was still containable. Just be assured if such persons are "revealed", they will be nothing more than convenient "fall guys" to redirect blame on.

Re: Website owners warn Google

Or leave out a vital word.

= Housecats pet-food -Tuna -Brazil.

Or the one that I encountered yesterday, doing a search that included "krb5-config" (even placed in quotes in the search) was giving me results for "krb5.conf". And the latter was outright highlighted in the search results, so I *know* that's what they searched for.

They need to add an option to their search API, something that says "search for *exactly* what I tell you, not what you delusionally *think* I was searching for, you dimwitted squirrel".

I guess they're presuming if they stick their heads far enough up their arse they won't contract COVID-19.

Exactly. irregardless of a bio-crisis, failing to get off their ass for the past four months and do a task they should have done back then does not constitute "expediting".

Re: Sounds like the (almost) perfect App Store to me

> But still no WhatsApp or Facebook. No Uber Eats or Deliveroo. And, for that matter, no Uber.

Excellent. Now if only they didn't have TikTok and SnapChat...

Exactly my thought too. I would have considered those factors in it's favor.

...also means that users of the company's phones are cut off from Google's cloud storage platform – not to mention the Chocolate Factory's music and video stores.

Again, factors in it's favor.

I thing Huawei should concentrate on contributing to the AOSP base. Code that projects like LineageOS could make use of. Might encourage other phone makers to do the same.

Re: it's all curable, and worth it

And as for Windows 10 set-up. MICROSOFT, i DO NOT WANT ONENOTE or a Microsft LOGIN (Apologies for shouting) I have notices that Windows 10 is making it harder and harder to figure out hot to skip creating a microsoft account. I Personally DO NOT want it and never have. I t just for Microsft to try and make even more money out of me,

If you are doing a new install, the trick is to disable the networking (or unplug ethernet and don't give it a wifi connection). And to avoid the security questions, don't give the account a password when you first create it. You can add a password later.

Of course, even WITH OpenShell, there's just no way to overcome the sheer fugliness of the UI.

And if Studebaker/Packard had joined in on the American Motors conglomerate, AMC might even still be around (although seeing how S/P's management was in the latter days of their auto manufacturing, maybe not).

I'm sure the airlines are ramping up their efforts to develop cryogenic-suspension capsules, to avoid all the issues with passengers, and to squeeze more in at any time. Then they could just stick with cargo planes for all but the shortest flights (processing time has to be considered).

Re: Are these numbers right?

Raspberry PI Zero ??

Why not? An OpenStack cluster serving up Pi Zeros...

Re: Less bandwidth

According to French news, Netflix will reduce bandwidth, not resolution.

Will lead to more buffering, I suppose.

Well, I watch Crunchyroll, so I'm USED to buffering and dropped connections...

Re: Bad arguments

I would think one (amongst many) solutions to patents being rubber-stamped simply for filing fees is that when a patent is invalidated, the granting patent office would have to pay 10x the filing fee back to the party suing for invalidation.

Coax Ethernet was cheaper from the very beginning. Token Ring gear I remember being quite pricey, and Token Bus wasn't seen outside of industrial applications.

And ARCnet was the cheapest of all, slow as it may have been. As I remember it was another token-passing system, and woe unto you if any workstation on the line lost it's physical connection.

Re: Timing is off..

I remember having my own small part in the whole OS/2 vs MSWin saga.

At one PCExpo in the early 1990's, Microsoft had their big OS/2 vs MSWin pavilion set up. The dimwitted younger brother of the owner of my then employer was sitting in on one of MS' rigged demonstrations, just sucking up all the hype. Afterwards he was all excited about all the BS MS had handed him, and I knew logic was far beyond his capability.

That evening there was a get-together of members of the PCMag forums on CompuServe. I was sitting with other members of the OS/2 Forum, including William F. Zachmann himself. The decision was made to make a formal challenge to Microsoft the next day, with a properly optimized OS/2 system against Microsoft's optimized 3.1 machines (rather than the intentionally kneecapped OS/2 machines they were using in the demo). Microsoft, obviously, refused.

It was a week or so later that a directive came down to Zachmann that he had to straighten out his attitude and start supporting Microsoft, which led to his eventual departure from Ziff-Davis' "MS Fanclub". Always seemed an interesting coincidence that should have happened shortly after the PCExpo confrontation.

Some fish have them on their forehead. Some squid have detachable ones.

Or some people...

Dell PC/Laptop sales was one of the highlights of their recent numbers.

That's just because Dell has re-entered their "Crap" phase again.

Re: Getting security 100% right is hard

What were they thinking ???

Ah, "thinking". That's where your logic falls apart.

Re: I'm just waiting...

It will play havoc given that most supermarkets have little to no stockroom space these days and order on a just-in-time basis.

Ah yes, "Just-In-Time inventorying". I remember when that concept first came to my attention some 30+ years ago (some now-defunct department store chain was pushing it onto their suppliers for EDI and such). Even back then my thought was it would be all well and good until some piece of the delivery chain broke. And now it's happening (well, not the first time in those 30 years, just very noticeable now). Not such a disaster when you're building Toyotas, but everyplace else, not so good.

Re: these structure predictions have not been experimentally verified

Naaaah. Can't possibly be a stupid marketing stunt.

Well yes, a good possibility. But it can also be trying to build on the open-source model of putting it out there for others to build and improve upon. Essentially opening that "peer review" to a larger audience quicker.

We shall see.

Re: Oh, no!

Absolutely. Given my preference I would be running Cinnamon Desktop as the MSWindows desktop manager. Remember way back in MSWin 3.x when you could replace ProgramManager with your own desktop shell? I quite liked Norton Desktop for Windows back then.

Re: "the current Xerox acquisition offer is not in the best interest of HP shareholders"

You do realize the directors of a company are legally obliged to put the interests of the shareholders first?

And continuing to screw over the customers (who are the source of that income/profits) or the employees (who make the product those customers buy) will not provide that value to the shareholders. Even for the employees that remain, morale will become so low they won't care of the product is any good or not, and might even sabotage things from within as a form of revenge. And disgruntled customers are more vocal than happy ones (I know *I* go out of my way to complain about shoddy products).

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More like https://youtu.be/c4kxn9ualhk?t=515

Re: Judgement

More pertinently if you want your company to be treated like a person, you should be ok with it being taxed on income instead of profit. If you're not happy with that, stop believing the ridiculous notion that a company should have the same legal rights as a person.

If companies are people, we should be able to try and execute them too.

Got to love a bit of Ken Ham. Wasn't he the one who built that ark that was too small to hold all the world animals but too big to float?

You don't need a lot of space to store them. Just digitally encode them on a gold-copper alloy wire...

Re: Beware survival bias

+1 for the SunBeam reference, though their toaster was more important and is the iconic pinnacle of mechanical toasters.

You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

Re: Time Zones

Now *there's* where I see having support staff in India & other countries makes sense. Having staff in multiple timezones means there are fresh staff ready to help with off-hours emergencies elsewhere in the world. And you could have North American staff available for off-hours in APAC.

But you KNOW, of course, these executives aren't doing this with improving customer service (or employee morale) in mind.

" But because Chrome so dominates the browser market,

......

" But because Internet Explorer so dominates the browser market, its unilateral innovations tend to become obligations for competitors, particularly if web developers embrace them."

Which is why I refer to GoogleChrome (and the entire quagmire of Chromium in general) as "MSIE6-revisited". It's the same disaster happening all over again.

Re: If you want to see this in action.

Another damning thing that Google actively discourages use of other browses.

It's definitely the case with the Google Play Store.