Re: The reader, who requested anonymity and so shall be called Bob
Or me.
Posts by Chemical Bob
613 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Mar 2016
A Reg-reading techie, a high street bank, some iffy production code – and a financial crash
The Register Opera Company presents: The Pirates of Penzance, Sysadmin edition
Uber self-driving car death riddle: Was LIDAR blind spot to blame?
User fired IT support company for a 'typo' that was actually a real word
Try our new driverless car software says Nvidia, as it suspends driverless car trials
What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs
Mac fans' eyes mist over: Someone's re-created HyperCard
UK.gov: Here's £8.8m to plough into hydrogen-powered car tech
Adobe: New Unified Customer Profile will personalise ads as never before
Tuesday 27th March 2018 22:00 GMT
Re: “Consumers prefer a personalised experience”
"These people are so full of contempt about people..."
No, they're worse than that. They are too stupid to realize that people are not "consumers" and that consumers are mythical.
So when I walk into that restaurant where the wait-staff person remembers what I like to drink and brings it over right away, that isn't a "personalized" experience, its a *human* experience.
NASA fungus problem puts theory of 'Martian mushrooms' on toast
BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and ....
Probe: How IBM ousts older staff, replaces them with young blood
Prez Trump's $60bn China tariff plan to hit tech, communications, aerospace industries
Friday 23rd March 2018 22:19 GMT
Re: It's almost too late
Outsourcing isn't the problem, offshoring is the problem. Most businesses exist because of outsourcing, its just paying someone else to do work you don't want to do or are unable to do. Like having an accountant do your taxes or having a mechanic fix your car or buying butter (or pacemakers) instead of making your own. Offshoring is having this work done in India.
User asked why CTRL-ALT-DEL restarted PC instead of opening apps
Friday 23rd March 2018 21:53 GMT
Re: Feeling Old...
"I'm getting the impression that the whole development of personal computing was driven by the desire to play games?"
Not entirely. Shortly after sound cards and CD drives arrived there was a tremendous explosion of low-res porno. Had to be low-res because high end video cards back then only had 1 or 2 megabytes of RAM and most monitors were only 14".
Surprise UK raid of Cambridge Analytica delayed: Nobody expects the British information commissioner!
The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam
US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis
Uber breaks self-driving car record: First robo-ride to kill a pedestrian
Tuesday 20th March 2018 23:33 GMT
Re: Clear cut...
"in most countries, motor is required to give way to non-motor which is required to give way to animal or foot traffic - and using vehicle size to intimidate is a serious criminal offence"
You should see the People's Republic of China. The only country I've been to where drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists have absolutely zero regard for others, the laws of the road and the laws of physics. Especially the laws of physics.
Anyone fancy testing the 'unlimited' drive writes claim on Nimbus Data's 100TB whopper SSD?
Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet
Boeing ships its 10,000th 737
Samba settings SNAFU lets any user change admin passwords
Poop to save planet as boffins devise bullsh*t way of extracting gas
Android P will hear no evil, see no evil, support evil notches
Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'
Windows 10 S to become a 'mode', not a discrete product
For all we know, aliens could be as careless with space junk as us
Will the defendant please rise? Utah State Bar hunts for sender of topless email
Does Parliament or Google decide when your criminal past is forgotten?
Fresh docs detail 10-year link between Geek Squad informers and Feds
Half the world warned 'Chinese space station will fall on you'
New algorithm could help self-driving cars scout out hidden objects
Tuesday 6th March 2018 21:58 GMT
Re: New algorithm could help self-driving cars scout out hidden objects
Car and Driver magazine figured out a simpler way back in the 1980's. If you have a strong enough infrared lamp pointing straight ahead on the front of your car, it will swamp the police laser radar unit. The downside was that you had this huge, ugly, unaerodynamic lamp apparatus on the front of your car so the cops would know something was up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
