Posts by Khaptain 4053 publicly visible posts • joined 4 May 2008
"A lot of them really hammered battery when in AR mode, which is not conducive to people playing the game for long.."
Ingress was the reason for which I bought my 1st ever external power pack for a Smartphone... you couldn't expect to attend any events without at least one of them.
Niantic did quite a good job of the AR side of things but as mentioned above it was more of a gadget than anything else as the battery was very, very quickly the limiting factor..
Niantic have created several AR games, I didn't play Pokemon Go but I did play Ingress. I loved playing Ingress in the sense that it made you want to go out and capture the portals etc... Pokemon Go is just the same game with Monsters( Pokemons) instead of portals.
Niantic's success was without doubt due to the uniqueness of the experience but we have now mostly outlived and gone through that period.. On top of that their games become hyper-repetitive after a period of time and one completely loses interest, regardless of how much spicing up they try and do..
I highly doubt that they will ever achieve the same achievements as they did with PG unless of course that design something breathtakingly new ( which is extremely difficult to do).
"Wealth accumulation"
This is exactly the reason that people on the left swing to the right when they become successful or wealthy. Because even the hardcore leftists don't want to give up their comforts, which is understandable, if you have worked hard to achieve what you have earned.
The term "wealth" is also a relative word as it always depends on whom or to what you are comparing something. A better term might be "material comforts".
Yes, it has a left leaning bias at the moment, but regardless of whether it swings to the left or the right it will eventually be used against you.
AI will ultimately replace the media and will be used wholly as a political tool that will be controlled by the government/Big Pharma, Big Business in power at any given time.
If you can't trust politicians, or the GAFAs, then you certainly can't trust AI.
The internet went form a Geeks paradise to a marketing masturbation tool. But AI has far more potential than the web as it will become the "sole" source of truth, that's what you will be told and that's what you will believe.. You will be given no other choice, it's already starting to happen.
The El Reg office has decided that only left wingers get a positive review, regarsless of how bad they are doing their job..
I don't care about Trump but I do care about how politicised El Reg has become.
It's like the old Twiiter user's have moved into El Regs San Fran office and started bullying everyone about what is acceptable...
What I truly don't like is how rabid many of the commentards have now become, it's no longer funny. It's almoat as if they don't realise that they are the tiniest pawns in a very large game of chess and that they will be the 1st to get sacrificed
"If you want go drink Musks piss, that's fine, but don't for a moment pretend that it's out of some egalitarian desire for 'constructive criticism' - if you knew of Musks history, as many of us here do, then you'd know that the negative feelings towards him are entirely justified and watching him crash and burn publicly is hilarious.""
This is a perfect example of what I commented about... It's truly sad.
I for one hope it stops the "hate" ( I'll use the wokesters favourite word here) comments that have become so prevalent with anything to do with Musk..
I don't care about Twitter etc but I do care about the level of comments en El Reg. It's become just another echo chamber for those that have no actual opinions on the subject at hand but rather a place where they spout out some nonsense about a man that they do not know, will probably never meet, and if they did they most certainly would not have the courage to use their infantile remarks to his face.
How about we get back to actually making constructive comments rather the childish ideological nonsense.
The actual question, and it was real was as follows ..
The latest update on Win 11 has broken automatic machine Wifi authentification with our radius server.. User are now obliged to manually accept the connection whereas before it was automatic, everything was running fine before the latest update. Where should we look in order to debug this problem. We currently push the parameters via GPO.
The actual problem was due to the fact that a certificate should have been pushed through a GPO but was not.. Windows 10, and Win11 before the update, did not suffer as they could fall back to using using user/machine credentials BUT the latest update forbid this method of authentication, CHAPV2, so broke the radius authentication for W11 which did not have the appropriate certificate installed.. After pushing the correct certificate everything was back to order.
You have to love MS's definition especially the words "expert" and "deep knowledge".
"Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the "bleeding edge" and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services"
Expert = I know how to perform a basic search on the interweb..
Deep Knowledge = I repeat in parrot fashion that which I have managed to glean from Google, Reddit or some other source which goes way above my actual knowledge/experience.
Maybe replacing the "MVP"s on MS forums would greatly increase the level of usefull replies.
Question : I have a problem with our radius authentication and 22H2.
Answer : Hiy name is Chukka I am a MVP. have you performed a SFC /scannow. Have you tried reinstalling Windows. Or, sorry that Is a question for another forum.
Nothing is more frustrating the sifting through this endless drivel.
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
It's getting to the stage where it's hard to find any survey that is not heavily pre-loaded with propaganda, poor attempts at marketing or simply some form of nudging.
Nudging :
Governments are increasingly adopting behavioral science techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of "nudge" interventions that governments are now adopting alter people's decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives
"Okay, bad analogy because MAGA voters are fine with both Trump and Hitler"
Both of my grandfathers, like so many US, UK and other soldiers, fought against Hitler's armies, I am glad they did because both you and I are here living peaceful lives. Neither you nor me has to fight against Trump. What did Trump do that made your life so bad ? Please provide actual facts and not ideological splutterings..
I don't defend Trump, I can't stand the man, but this leftist nonsense is pathetic. You really need to have a look back in history before you start comparing anyone to Hitler.. It truly us pathetic to see that kind of unjustified remark.
Now all those unhappy Anti-Elon Twitterati persons can rejoice as they have a new wonderful alternative. Mark loves strong ideological voices, what's not to like...
No longer will it be necessary to vent ones spleen on El Reg because Twitter doesn't agree with your their ideology.
Oh happy days....
What quite surprising is that Fortinet are not cheap systems so why bother making the effort to buy expensive gear only to ignore the updates, especially this kind of update.
But I can also imagine that some of the kit is just outdated models that are being used as home firewalls without the yearly subscriptions.
One of the best/funniest/upsetting interviews that I have ever seen...
"So what you're saying is "... Cathy Newman beat herself up in that interview....
ESG is causing more problems than it is solving BUT BlackRock etc have an financial investment so they will keep pushing hard....
Australia became Woke so no loss there. Aussie Men are no more....
Once a nation of "quite good" rugby players, lol, and Aussi Rules nutjobs , that has sadly been turned into the land of wussies.
Shame really as I spent a large part of my youth having a lot of fun down the pub with the Aussies and Kiwis when I lived in London, they used to be great folks... And I include the Shielas in that last statement.
"What combination of things?"
It's very simple really, Elon Musk has successfully removed the Echo Chamber nonsense that was manipulating the previous version. This in itself is enough to make it much more appealing to all sorts of institutions. No one is really in a one sided argument. Look at the Left Wing / Right Wing sites, no one really gives a damned about them...
Elon has done something far more important than make a company eventually profitable, he has made the company interesting again.
Never forget that El Reg has a San Fran office who will do anything to get it's left wing readers to stir up nonsense about Musk, even though most of them are far more intelligent than they might appear, they will always defend the woke side of things because that what they do.... They have lost their objectiveness...
I would love to know what the user is doing that requires 200Mb/s for extended periods of time.
Secondly, if they are using Starlink it's usually because local providers can't provide a good service and Starlink presents the best option. Why are they then complaining when they are already getting a service over and above anything else that is available, that just sounds ungrateful and full of self entitlement.
Hater just want to hate....
Just for info : I get 12Mb on download and 0.8 MB/s on upload and yet I can still download several ISOs without it becoming a major problem. You just learn to play as best you can with the hand your are dealt.
Must admit that for us it's the opposite, we are a majority Lenovo Laptop company and we have excellent service. At most a motherboard etc has never taken more than 4 days and thats with FedEx picking up the package from the office and sending it of to Poland and back again.
Personally I have given up on the flag ships, their power, memory cameras etc are only marginally better than the mid range models.
A 10% processor boost is meaningless when you see how much today's mid range procs can already do. 5 extra mega pixels is already above what any actually needs for an image that will probably never get seen for a smartphone pic.
Flag ships are now just a status thing, they gave no actual benefits other than an extremely fleeting ego booster. Everyone loves a new toy but the feeling wears off quickly.(
It's been a along time in our office since anyone even asked what model someone recently acquired .
I would go so far as to state that at a distance most models can't even be distinguishe apart, everyone wraps up their device in the same black plastic casing anyway.
I did like the article even though as it reminded me just how over powerfull smartphones have become. Yes there are tiny percentage of users that might require this power, but they are very rare. We have gone above and beyond even what the Trekkies expected.
You've not been around here long if you are making that statement....
There are many here that spend there time hating Musk for reasons that they can't actually justify other than to push their Ideology of the day. You'll get used to it... Always check which office the original article came from and you'll start to understand that El Reg UK and El Reg San Fran are two completely different entities.....
I agree with the large majority of your reply, except for one point.
Twitter didn't drive away the clients, Politics did.....And this is the true lesson that must be remembered...
The current political situation is dangerous for all us, the division is steering people apart, politicians are jumping on the band wagon and pushing harder a situation which is already on tightrope....
I wish people would stop looking a the details and start looking at the bigger picture, ideologies have to start swinging back to the center... It's time the extremism, regardless of the side, starting re-pushing towards a softer vision, an actual acceptance of the other rather than the false ideologies actually being pushed.
Twitter is merely a Litmus test for things about to come.
If such is the case then the majority of all the major Social Media sites will simply have to pulled of the Internet immediately.
"Minor Anxiety" within a certain community of very sensitive people happens every time they read their Facebook page's, watch YT or even glance at Twitter..
I don't see how such a law cannot is not complete contradiction to all of the Social Media's Industries goals: ie that of thriving on scandal, shock and horror.
In Geneva, the buses that run through the center of town all use this method. At the places where there are no overhead they simply run a small diesel engine which is enough to simply get to the next line or is extremely useful in case of powercuts/problems.
It's been like that for more than 15 years.
Exact, we also have three of these in the office, the PHBs love the idea of the Yoga style tabletty thing, except that all of them have varying problems.. One of them the batter doesn't
charge correctly, another has a failed USB ports and the others has problems with the docking and displays... They all suffer from a badly designed USB-C port, not a solid connection.
The ultra light version of almost all manufacturers are a pain in the real world.. The Dell XPSs were no better..
With Lenovo it is usually a safer bet to remain within a correctly specced T or P range..
Being Woke has nothing to do with being nice to one another, it's all about enforcing one way of thinking...
It boils to the following : If you don't agree/adhere to/with our "current" ideology we will slander you , cancel you, hunt you down where you work and ensure misery upon you. The problem lies in the fact that it will also bite you back..
I travelled for many years and have lived and worked in many countries, including the USA, and I found that most people were genuinely nice people, neither racist, nor homophobe, or *phobe or whatever...
Only the modern ideologues seen to have the opposite opinion. This is what makes me believe that all this woke ideology is causing far more harm than it pretends to resolve.
"Now, I've not listened to the rant myself and I doubt I have to, to get the gist of it;"
So you've not listed to the rant and yet feel capable of writing a public comment about it.
Did you actually read the Poll figures that he cited or are they not important for you either? Are facts not important ?
"...but he fucking up real people lives. How many bouts of mental illness, family breakups and even suicides will he have ultimately caused?"
How many exactly ? Can you provide some figures or at least a study that confirms that rather loaded statement ? And all this because of a Tweet ?
"Scott "Dilbert" Adams finally came out proper (via a major rant) as a man with questionable opinions and the Dilbert cartoon thus got removed from pretty much every publication."
Can you please explain in clear terms what you found questionable about his opinion ?
I believe this is Avaya's 2nd chapter 11, previously before that when it was Lucent it also went into bankruptcy or almost I am not sure which... I am not sure it AT&T ever filed for Chapter 11 though..
I have never understood why investors continue to invest in this company. I say that even though I actually use /administer an Avaya on a daily basis, I like their product, we use it mainly for the call center but also for internal calls, the call routing is simple, efficient and easy to put together complex IVRs and routing scenarios..
It's just a shame that it appears to be managed by scam artists and corrupt businessmen..
We used Jira for a couple of months but gave it up. We didn't find it as productive as they would like you to believe, another web interface offering a silver bullet.
However as a middle man between the TLAs and the previous Twitter Employees it seemed very effective, as they successfully managed to hide a lot of very important information from the public.
As ”narrative control project management” tool it's probably a 10/10, the ex Twitter test platform proven it's worthiness.
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