Posts by pauleverett

what do you need a driving license for? what is the point if it, if you expect your car to drive for you and do all the thinking you are meant to be doing and have a license for? IMO being asleep whilst in control of a vehicle should be am instant ban.no questions asked.

Serendipity

sounds like a good find. Perhaps more useful than a "shocking & dangerous threat to VR as we know it"

A cooling fan was not being held properly, by a trainee ?

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hang on ...

firstly, chrome really sucks, and google are evil.

what they really want to teach us is how to make a site that might work, with their browser, and how to make a website that integrates all of their advertising BS, whilst being less awful. Google, and its like, are pretty much responsible for the diabolical, laggy, error prone, state of the entire internet. Advertising may have paid for this internet, but it has also created a snowball of negatives. This data hungry behemoth, requires ever more resources, for the simplest of tasks. I blame google for this mess. They now want to teach us how to work around problems of their making.

not sure I like the power and muscle google is flexing here. I do not see how it is their job to stop a browser from working with certificates from a particular provider. I would not be at all surprised to see google start issuing its own certificates, and a little down the road have chrome only accept google certificates. I am already totally irritated by how they get to decide what they are going to let me view. Not their choice to make IMO. None of this going in a good direction. Too much control.

Karma

When I read this headline, I heard the voice of angels singing. it was glorious.

cheers

Samsumg

p.s. big party at my place, Saturday.

this is 4th major outage I have heard of in the last several days, directly blaming 'the power supply', for a complete tits up. Maybe the power supplies are being hacked, cos this is not normal, and way to big and regular, to pass of lightly.

obviously Brexit

Ai = load of bollocks.

Big Data = load of bollocks

Both are nothing more than new ways to detach big payers from big money. Ai is not much smarter than it was 10 years ago. The only thing that has really changed is the ability to throw lots of computing power at lots of data, and charge someone for it. The actual Ai algo's are still thick as a brick.

ok

Another good reason to not go there. They can seriously gtf. That crackpot in the white-house is off his frickin rocker, and thank's to those paranoid wacko's we can't even carry a bottle of water on a plane. Now my precious laptop is getting banned. Baah, ill take the train.

hang on

if your a contractor, your are basically self employed. You should put money aside for doing things like such as paying tax, unexpected expenses, or payment delays. That is also why contractors receive more money. They are meant to run their affairs as if they where a business, because they basically are, and shit happens much, which you need to be able to deal with yourself. if any contractor is living as hand in mouth as the fella in the article, they are living beyond their means, getting underpaid, or not cut out to be self employed, and should get a no risk job. Seriously, if there is nothing left after you have paid your bills, your doing it wrong, or have your head in the sand on the reality of what you are doing. You have choices. Reduce your expenses, earn more, or get a job that you can live from. If the first time you don't get paid puts on the brink of bankruptcy, your pretty much an idiot.

don't they have an ethics committee? I find these experiments utterly deplorable, and they have lost me as a fan.

the trouble with relying on cloud services is...

Could go down...

Probably will go down...

Guaranteed to go down...

All this is known, but people choose to ignore the realities of cloud storage.

I know it is all super convenient. But if you use cloud storage as the foundation of your livelihood, its just a matter of time before you get burned alive.

70% of the content on this page, as I write, is an add. the backdrop is filled with one add. The right column a bunch of blocks for the same advertiser. The header way too big. I explicitly don't click on them cos they nag the death out of me. Maybe online content providers need to get back to the magic of selling adds themselves. Just like the old days... They offload all the work, losing all the control, and driving their primary content audience nuts. There are people like me that would not mind paying to get a cohesive add up on the register,in a sensible place for sensible money. regardless of clicks. An Add that does not annoy the shit of the people I would want to reach out to. choices? All there is is agents. They take the lions share of your money, and your the site gives up control. The result is kinda bad for everyone, accept the add agency. Clicks can get ridiculously expensive, and the site that the adds go on does not get a fair deal. IMO, they way online advertising has gone, is in the wrong direction, and its about time a little startup showed the big boys how all needs to be done, from a site and audience point of view.

why take your coperation to irland?

lets have a look at why any corporation would take their HQ to Ireland.

1. Fantastic infrastructure ? no

2. Highly educated workforce with the skills they need? no better than anywhere else.small population.

3. plenty of housing ? not really.

4. secure? not really. they depend on others to protect them.

5. easy to get to? er no...

4. cheep energy? hell no.

5. English language? sorta, once you get used to it.

6. A Gateway to the EU. yes.

7. huge tax incentives? hell yes.

there is no reason any foreign corporation would ever want to HQ in Ireland, other than massive tax advantages, and EU access.

holly crap. could the USA get any more completely f*cked up? its like some kind of nightmarish Hollywood reality movie.

Seriously Mr Trump, built that wall, but don't stop at the Mexican border, go all the way around,and make it real high, so we are not able to see the putridity of what goes on behind that blessed wall.

That sword wields just a little bit too much power, for my liking.

as much as I detest Trump, he is calling some good shots.

1. ruffle china's feathers, on Taiwan. About time someone sorted that situation out. F*ck you China, etc,etc.

2. F-35 project is insane. Put a halt to hit. Use that money to build the wall ?

Trump could grow on me. At this rate, if he was not being such a dick on climate, and hired less frightening madmen to do his bidding, I may grow to like him.

shock/horror ! having a complicated, all singing, all dancing tech gadget, on your arm, turns out to be not very useful. Those damn scifi movies got it wrong, what where they thinking? Not everything declared as futuristic, hi-tech and desirable, in the past, proves to be a valuable, good idea, in today, the future. Smart watches are dead in the water. there will be some evolution, but they need another hundred years to evolve into something that i would want to buy, and wear.

might as well not bother. All it does is make things more expensive for everyone. Anyone that is intent on flying a drone in a NFZ will easily find a workaround. Its a complete waste of a lot of time and energy, and I believe the motives have nothing to do with prisons, and once the mechanism is in place, will pretty soon expand to any old crap that plod fancies locking drones out of.

I like what I see, but I will probably skip gen1, and go for gen2, for the following reasons:

1. 32GB is not enough anymore.. as a top of the line ram config, this is too little for real creatives.

2. 4GB is bare minimum for a GFX card now. it needs to be 8GB 1080 levels, or they are behind, before they have even started.

3.CPU needs more beef.

4. it will suck with Photoshop cos Adobe are not capable of making an interface, that works with high res screens. This is not Microsoft's fault, but tiny fonts are nasty when you hit 50, and Adobe sucks(just to get that in there).

Other than these points, I like the direction MS are going in. Apple are treading water with iMacs. I have several, and frankly I am not exited by IMac's anymore. MS needs to recognize that the people that want to buy these designs, want the look, the functionality, but they also need the desktop processing power of 2016, and not the notebook power that apple sell in their iMac's.

All MS have to do to win, is put the best hardware, in the best package. Make quality, and design, that blows people minds, and they win. With this package, they are well on the way to getting my money.

>RussiLeaks confirmed

by?

"no fewer than 17 civilian and government intelligence agencies"

The problem I have with both of these statements, is that I seriously doubt the honesty, and reputation of any US government intelligence agency. They have proven over, and over, that they are quite content to make shit up, as they go along, to serve their purpose. Their track record is awful shity, and I don't trust much of what they say anymore.

so where are we?

russians in denial.

yanks probably just inventing snug fitting stories.

it all sounds a bit too politically perfect to have the Russians take some election interference heat right now. it fits someones agenda too comfortably for my liking.

Maybe nobody knows who really made those leaks, which sounds bad.. Frankly.... why should anyone care? its diverting from the content of the leaks, which seems to me to be the usual political process of distraction.

there are 27 recorded incidents of note 7's catching fire. iphones, (pick a number), had significantly more. Even the perfectly successful s7 has had its fair share, along with every other "pick a name" phone vendor in the market. What I don't get, is the insanity of the campaign against the note 7. 27 out of 2.5 million, is not a lot... taking shots at the note 7 trended, and all sorts of blogs(including this one) and "trying to be funny" people got on the bandwagon, sending it all viral. A popular spiral, out of all proportion. It even got banned on planes, all around the world, with no logical explanation, or reasoning, other than somebody saw on FB that a note 7 can burn,, so fuck it, bann them all. The note 7 is surely not the first phone to set fire on a plane, I have never seen, or heard of such a wide-scale device reaction in aviation, for a phone, and it is shocking that authorities are willing to do this, based on nothing else but popular media. The Note 7 production was not stopped because they could not fix it. there was basically nothing to fix. The media, and an army of fanboys, and shameless idiots killed it, and samsung saw no way out of the situation, other than to kill this fantastic phone. it was the best mobile phone ever built. And I am gutted that it was killed like this.