Posts by quxinot

Re: "a seamless and cost-effective experience"

Not true.

I've heard of people winning Russian roulette.

Re: They're down to board level repairs ...

Rocket surgery.

Flash to mental image of Atlas rocket with a giant boob job, spiraling through the sky in a very Kerbal way.

Thanks for the laugh... and for the reinforcement of my suspicion that this coffee is decaf....

"Clearly El Reg didn't use an 850 powered ARM Windows PC (they been fast enough already, long before the 8cX chip in this Surface X). I am using that in a Yoga C630, and its more than fast enough."

"The biggest issue is software."

To be fair, a 286 from the mid 80's was fast enough for the overwhelming majority of things I use a computer for. With today's software bloat and inefficiency, it'd be a doorstop at best.

The software is, has been, and probably will always be, the issue.

Re: 110,000 miles per hour

Wool at that speed would give one hellacious static shock when it gets near a doorknob.

Re: On the other hand

That just means you're using the originals as a form of backup. What about the media that you lack originals of, say digital pictures of the family? Can't trust the SD/CF cards to last forever in unaltered/usable state.

Need a more robust strategy, IMO. And once you have one, you no longer need the physical media. If it's free to store, keep them, surely--but play the what-if game harder for where you lack originals (or the originals are subject to damage (polaroids that you've scanned in but are slowly fading with the years, etc).

Main server, backup server, backups on site, backups off site, etc.

Re: The Second Time As Farce

Then they came for MySpace, and I said nothing.

Next time, I'll show the stupid bastards where to find Facebook.

Re: I am

That's quite a bit of lag.

Re: Wow, what a catalog

>She turned me into a newt.

There's no reason to be concerned. You'll get better.

Re: Reminds me of two things..

I'd have suggested a certain John Cage piece. It's only a bit under 5 minutes, but if they're not tracking if it doesn't get answered anyway....

Re: There can only be one standard

Fuck 'em. Anyone dumb enough to be offended by language, and particularly those who will take offense on someone else's behalf, needs to be wrapped in barbed wire and beaten until they understand 'harm'.

The music is always more important than the words. Getting worked up over the words is just nitpicking for people who aren't bright enough to understand that.

Nah. They simply forgot to flip it upside-down before launch. Gotta remember localization settings for the launch, after all!

Re: Obligatory XKCD

Trust in Microsoft's AI?

Hell, I don't even trust most Microsoft employees. Baby steps!

Re: Alt-Title

That is not the 7 'P's that I've normally seen.... Seems that both variations are appropriate here!

Re: Job seekers sit in front of a laptop or mobile phone and complete an automated video interview

> Video interviews analyzed by a computer are going to be just as biased as a face-to-face interview.

To be completely fair, AI on the whole has yet to prove the "I" portion of the title--but HR does not have an "I" in it. And that's quite appropriate.

I believe that every time I've interviewed with the person whom I'd be directly reporting to, I've gotten an offer for employment. Convserely, when interviewing with someone who has a checklist and no true idea of what the job entails, I can't recall an offer being made, with one exception. (And to be completely truthful, I should have turned down that horrible cesspit!)

Re: The English language includes support for lists

>I want barbecue sauce and prawn cocktail flavour.

I want a table in another room, please.

Re: Insurance will just make the problem worse!

I thought you were going to suggest making insurance of all types illegal.

Got my hopes up and everything.

Re: Website. Fucked.

Shibboleet.

( https://xkcd.com/806/ )

Re: The thought processes

>Mind you they'll probably manage to persuade some daft jury not to convict them.

What scares me is that they may persuade some daft voters to elect them.

Re: "should be subject to legal constraints"

To be fair, as opposed to which presidency?

I certainly can't think of one in my lifetime that didn't ignore the law when it didn't suit them. Perhaps they're more brazen today than they once were, but certainly this is not new behavior....

Re: Pointless exercise

>Much simpler to slave a belt-fed Saiga-12 or 40mm AGL to the CCTV and load it with 'less lethal' rounds, all of which are available on the market today! Coupled with facial recognition and AI, and our streets will be so much safer!<

With hilarious results once the hackers show up.....

Re: "Auditors bemoan time it takes"

Keep making puns and everyone will get treed off!

Re: Stallman went there to preach the Gospel of Free Software

I just expected blasphemy from him. Self sacrifice, if he could ensure the smiting lighting bolt hit where he wanted it to hit!

Re: Potentially been falling over for a while

Tenner a month? Youch! You can do better, but what price convenience? I understand the inertia!

As for throwaway email addresses, it strikes me that it would not be all that expensive nor difficult to set up an inexpensive VPS and use something like mail-in-a-box on it, with an appropriately throw-away domain name. omfgscrewyou.com is still available and would be enjoyable to put on spammer's lists....

That may prove to be a project for another day, but a fun one.

Re: I OWN SPACE

This is a lighthouse.

Your call.

Re: Well, on the other hand,

Eats shoots and leaves.

Re: Segmented mirrors

>... so now we are at knee-jerk comments without reading the frigging HEADLINE ?

"Now"?

>Maybe the Year of Linux on the (2nd hand) Desktop/Chromebook is nigh!

That's what I'm hoping. A big glut of these showing up on ebay and the like, driving the price down?

I wouldn't mind having a few chromebooks if they were down in the 'disposable' price range. Slap a linux of choice on it--probably Debian or variants for me, ymmv!--and off we go!

Re: Eh?

>The earth is below the active pins, so if it is partially inserted and a metal part drops from above, you can get into trouble.

Then it's installed upside down, actually. If you look at a US-spec outlet and see a face, it's wrong.

(Nevermind that in practice, basically all of them are that way--they really should go with the single pin skyward.)

Re: Depends on your clearance level

Well that's remarkably blunt.

Re: Rice-Davies applies

>Easy, Dunning-Kruger hard at work.

There is an argument for the Peter principle being at work here, additionally.

Though there's the other thought, looking at who paid for the research--you can pretty much see who did the funding and assume the output.

Re: If a tree falls in the woods....

Please don't. The other readers here wooden't like those jokes.

Re: stop fucking around with the start menu

No, they should absolutely make changes to it (the start menu)--it's fairly easy to override and put in something that undoes their efforts.

Of course, they could impress the hell out of everyone by simply writing in some flexibility so that the user has choices about what it looks like and how it works.... Nope, that won't be happening. This isn't about getting it right and leaving it alone, it's about making silly minor tweaks to justify one's own existence.

Re: Here's an idea

>Plus you're gonna have false alarms when the driver releases a hand to steer (as turning often can't be done with both hands in grip all the time, unless your body is made of plastic).<

A turn requiring that degree of input should pretty much never be made at highway speeds--at least on a public road. Racing etc is a different application, of course.

Re: Disposable income

Super cheap shitpaper is like super cheap beer.

Just say no. Life is nasty, brutish, and short enough already.

Re: A silver lining...

Hopefully so, absolutely.

Time to max out all the machines on my desk (well, the one that isn't already maxed on memory).