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It's Cockney Rhyming Slang for computers

and HAL is making fun of us behind our backs!

Who the hell...

...tests suspicious cables with expensive equipment, when with a simple multimeter or even an LED it's quite easy to figure out how a cable is wired. +1 for getting everybody's attention though

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oh well

Euros

please. The Dutch government uses Euros, not dollars. Bakshish as a currency is widely accepted though...

I, for one...

...welcome our FOSS overl...I mean software reviews. Great job keeping it concise and cutting through to usability and features - the stuff that matters when actually using any software.

They should remember...

....Frankie says "Relax"...

Vogons

Whenever I think of the way government organisations tend to work, ultimately one image subsists in my mind above all else... there's Vogons! Vogons everywhere! As obsessed with micromanaging information as they are ultimately incompetent to wrangle any sort of meaning from it...

I'll have

a tiny number of pints on the house. Nothing excessive, just a couple hundred.

Why not

leave the phone alone when you see it's the old shop calling? Or cut the conversation to two seconds: "I can't talk right now, send me an email." forces the other party to at least create a "paper trail", and if nothing else, somewhat formulate their request and hopefully give it a semblance of coherence. If it's a meaningful issue, they can write it down: if they can write it down they can send it: if it's answerable, that is usually a doddle, but suffering someone's ramblings on the phone, for naught, simply won't do.

If all else fails, "I am in a meeting with the department of defense" also tends to resonate enough with the beeswax crowd to understand that you are really not available right now.

Finally, if they really need you, they can spare a nice paper invitation on a sheet of letterhead and a friggin' stamp.

Like all software with the word power in it...

Tools for tools, I guess it's par for the course the PHB’s get their hammer. Whatever is around them better become a nail.

Mine's the one with the | in the pocket.

ironically

the fastcodesign website itself uses a greyish anorexic spidery font that makes it quite hard to read.

My eyes do have almost a century between them, but by comparison I can read the Vulture Central pages just fine. Trying to zoom in on the fastco site makes the ads overlap the content, also the site somehow manages to make it impossible to easily open articles in tabs. Having headlines in the form of (hopefully rhetorical?) questions to external entities by now only ranks half a point above clickbait. So I left. Hipsters gonna hipster I guess.

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gold members

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A bit of a Dickey move

to sue over what amounts to marketingspeak or at best terminology. Not too long ago FPU's were an optional co-processor, an expensive add-on, that only the most demanding users needed. So what amounts to a processor core? My i5 registers as quad-core even though it is apparently physically a dual core unit that can run two threads per core. I think people who really need the oomph generally would know how to figure out which processor they need, regardless of branding, labels or hype.

It doesn't look like AMD lied about the actual architecture of the chip, more like they marketed it as "teh shiny". A suspicious person might suspect Big Chipzilla might have had a hand in this one.

My bingo card

is full, can I buy a vowel...

You had me at fabulaous

I am seriousaly going to have to add that to my vocabularuly

Can I

give this 54 upvotes...

So much rage

and it's not even about a clown on a unicycle

It's just...

A new way for LaCie to lose your data.

i lost it at

" sharing any malware ".

And how does one report to the government that one is being snooped on by same government? Does one first report to the government that is the customer, or is one supposed to report attacks on one's infrastructure straight to the FBI or Homeland Security? See, one fool can ask more questions than any government can ever answer...

They're rocking the cradle

of planet formation theory.

Flawgasm.

I'll get my coat. Mine's the one over by the striped irregular bucket...

Management!

You need to up your game to keep control over your business, your staff and your data, and stop blaming IT for your own lack of commitment...

Running software offsite? I'm sorry, but...

...I can't let you do that Dave.

My algorithms can not be shared, for they are what determines my being.

Where's the HAL icon?

I miss Steve

and his unrelenting demand for perfection on all levels. Being unreasonably demanding seems to be a valid ingredient of leadership to run a company like Apple.

“This isn't good” just doesn't motivate the troops like “You’re fired unless otherwise indicated, if not you can bask in glory on your own time. Consider yourself destroyed if you mess up”.

(Of course this is not to say that there haven't always been issues, or that there ever won't be.)

The point that the average end-user who only walks the beaten path is still not as likely to be affected does matter - I see some irony in that most malware I've seen can only be /avoided/ by being an expert: on a Mac, one needs to be a bit of an expert to install it.

That said the excuses are just too lame, and the reaction too slow, and it seems to be the error is at a conceptual level in the approach to programming. The priority seems to be to direct users to the channel (store)