Posts by anonymous boring coward 3266 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2015
My gaming PC has 32GB. Don't see a reason to have any less.
I regard 16GB as a minimum spec for a laptop, but have had to settle for less than minimum spec on my M1 (as I can't justify the steep second hand price jump).
I do like having a lot of stuff going on at the same time. For example "Preview" is using about 3GB due to many PDF manuals being open. (And it's so sh*t at releasing memory.)
"It was cheaper to keep making manual corrections than to fix the software, which is fine"
Upvote from me, but that's not "fine" at all. That's extremely "not fine". The culture of not doing things right is a very bad one, eventually leading to very bad things.
UK is good at this. Dump sewage. Sh*t insulation of houses. Sell our gas reserves. Start massive vanity projects with little planning. Brexit. The list goes on.
"No, managers simply using programmers’ who are not as good as they think"
Why are managers doing that, if they are good managers? Explain...
Perhaps there's a problem in UK where managers thend to know sh*t about what they are managing? Why does Boris the Clown come to mind?
"The developers created the bugs. The IT world really needs to stop blaming managers and clients for its endemic inability to produce secure and effective software."
You don't seem to understand how software development works.
Programmers that don't get paid to do their work, don't get to eat. So the onus is on the ones paying them to get things done.
"Fujitsu is a once in a generation opportunity to start those conversations"
Not happening. Certainly not under the Tories.
Transparency is the enemy of the crony system.
Sure, Fujitsu may get ostracised, rightfully so. But nothing else much will change.
What will happen is that those damaged will be paid off with what is peanuts, relatively.
Sweeping things under the carpet is utterly ingrained in our society,
"We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers."
Good one!
So that's not a design flaw of monumental proportions on HP's part then?
Or is it just a tall tale?
"In English and Welsh law, computers are assumed to be “reliable” unless proven otherwise."
In real life, it should be the other way around: "assumed unreliable, until proven otherwise"
Poving correctness is generally impossible for anything but the simplest system.
Just a a very large sample space can allow us to pretend that we can rely on the computer.
And then something unforeseen happens, and that Tesla decapitates you.
I got a Canon G550 which has 6 tanks.
The main, and very frustrating, drawback is that they disabled proper colour management on Macs (relying on AirPrint).
The printer does do a decent job, but I like making profiles for various papers.
And I hate firing up my gaming PC for printing out photos..
Best price for a 6 colour tank printer I could find though.
The Tories are like a sect, where you are on track for honours and lifelong payouts as long as you don't betray any of the other chancers.
See Liz Truss, for example.
Doesn't matter how useless you are for the nation. They are mirroring the old monarchical system.
This works fine with the serf-like mindset of a majority of the population, learned from generations of cap doffing.
"It's just as unlikely that all 700 were dishonest as it is that none of them were."
What kind of logic are you applying here then?
The system was proven to introduce these errors. This means it's much more likely that discrepancies were caused by these errors, than by the users of the system.
For example, if your calculator introduced random errors, would you blame yourself for probably making just as many errors when copying the results?
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