Posts by Aitor 1

Re: What's up with non-.NET developers thinking?

Of course C# is Java only nicer.. they could not get Microsoft Java, so instead they did C#.

The problem is the use case.. Java has its own inertia and just runs almost anywhere.. so it keeps being used.

Oracle ownership is quite bad for Java, so maybe, maybe C# might get some prominence.. by pyton, javascript etc also have their own inertia and use cases.

As for me.. well, I like it, but "uups, thaty is not implemented in mono" etc, just kills it.

Re: Just do a text search

Err,we are all monkeys. Context is important.

Re: "we need clarity on what the laws will involve before we can decide anything"

The peopñe of hong kong lived under our rule with our governor, and only shortly before leaving did we give them democracy.

To complain now that the chinese government is making decisions in china is a bit rich, and frankly, insulting, we no longwr are an empire that can carce concessons in other countries by force of arms.

That being said, I am sorry for the people of hong kong and happy that we are giving them uk passports at last, even if it is just part of our cold war against china.

Re: Gotta agree with Apple for a change

While you are probably correct about google, this does not substract from the main point: the objective of Apple is to prevent websites that compete with their lucrative walled garden.

Re: Yes the juniors are being dumped-on again

We created company cycling and running strava clubs and the competition is fierce.. therefore I am losing weight!

Oh, and spending quite a bit on bike parts, I am on my third COVID bike chain..

Re: Storm in a teacup?

Or maybe they did not even test it...

Federal crime

The problem is, it would be a federal crime.. the same as if you get asked by federal agents "hey, do you have a usb stick on you?" If you happen to say 2, and had a third with say porn, there you have it, federal crime (and this happened already.. google it)

Wakipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_fraud

So this is essentially supression of free speech.

Re: WTF?

I just hope that person got fired.. what a bad manager, and what a chain of self inflicted events

Scam

You make a series of high risk investments, some will fail, but fear not, you can just sue them!

And they already sold the shares

Civil fine

Class actions these days are essentially civil fines, you sue them, they will settle, but it will be expensive.

So they want to avoid the whole thing, it is a deterrent.

Re: Two and a half years ago I wrote

Most patents these days, sadly, are quite suspicious.. and are there more to raise the cost of entry to the market you just created.. even if the patent itself is obvious.

There is one such patent that I appear as co-author.. and while it was/is a good idea, I don´t think a patent should have been granted.. but if was filed and was granted.

LOM

That is why you have proper servers with LOM, on a different network.. they are essentially the advanced pencil...

Re: Networking company...

That is the reason they banned Huawei.. too good to compete on level terrain.

Re: Mitigations, mitigations

That is an issue for many ppl.. they use a workstation to calculate stuff, but it is also their personal work pc.. so they have to patch it thnx to ads!

Re: Admirable effort but didn't think it through

That is why the coercion/blackmail worked!

If I had to choose at the time between Intel giving me money, or being denied sales/highly increased prices for Intel for using AMD, I would have only one option as a computer maker: go Intel.

right now companies are buying for their data-centres more expensive, higher power using less performant Intel bases servers.. and while the excellent Intel management might have part to do with this as it reduces the TCO, for many of them it does not make sense.. yet they buy Intel!

Re: Government and business

And the result is that the police can release you "under investigation" for the rest of your life and put arbitrary restrictions to your life, or expel you without trial.

some Reg readers have been released like that.. for YEARS (not me..).

I would rather have the us version of privacy, just remove the Civil Forfeiture bullshit.

Re: Bah!

Yes, but he had the wrong nationality.

Oracle

It was a good product in 2000.

Right now, it is obsolete, slow, etc.

There are many reasons to still use it.. but it is way too expensive for what it is.. using a supported version of postgresql is way cheaper and you get more for your money... plus you can also design products not to use Oracle but rather way faster alternatives... if you know what you are doing.

Re: Wow, DC is really out to get Huawei...

The thing is statute of limitations and common sense should prevail here.. these are 199x and arly 2000/2001 cases.. either tbey should have been judged before or now it is too late.

Re: HCSEC is auditing Huawei code

The equivalent is KNOWN to have backdoors for five eyes.

Re: What lunch?

AWS makes sense for some companies.

It does not for mine, yet they want to push it.. and we will end up paying four times as much to have less control of it.

Uups!

So crap quality then..

Are you me?

This happened to me about two months ago.

The genius left the whole street without service..

Re: Fault tree

Same with california fires.

Yes, the company has gone bankrupt twice.. but no one has gone to prison.. and they just let the lines degrade for decades..

Nah

Doubt it matters as this point, as 17 years have passed.. and they did nothing, and if yiu dont enforce your rights, you lose them.

Now, lets see the details about this in russian law..

Re: Another criminal fail for people who have to work for a living

Prosecute all those that send false statements to the courts, lock them up and throw away the key.,

Plus 57 million is peanuts for the damages caused.

Re: Things tend to leak from soft backdoors

I remember commentin 10/15 years ago here in the reg that these backdoors/black boxes were going to be terrible.. and, as expected, they are.

So no wonder that now the chinese gvnt wants out of western tech...

Re: Oh FFS!

SAP is great if it suits your business model.

If you have to modify it.. well, hell no, too expensive and convoluted.

Re: He's completely missed the point of everything being a file in unix

Writing an OS from scratch only helps you understand how hard it is.. not to be great or anything.

So the question should be "what great OS have you written?"

Re: design wins

I dont see LIDAR being the future.. what we need is decent processing.. we don´t have LIDAR, yet we drive with way less processing power than a modern ARM processor.

If you think about it, we humans just use two cameras (AKA eyes) plus object recognition to determine distance from objects.. and we should be able to do the same with cars, hence no LIDAR needed.

Re: Desktops and browsers

Or browser tabs spying on my kernel...

Re: Java vs C#

C# is better.. but belongs to microsoft, so limited scope.

It is obvious they want to contribute so they can use it Azure and offer open jdk suport.

Re: Intel contraints

Most development these days takes place using a laptop with 16-32GB of ram, and i7 or i5, SSD(s) and two external monitors, 22" or 24".

I would say that is the standard... and essentially what I use at work.

For my own dev/play time I use a desktop.. and yes, it is better, but not so much better.

As for noise.. no way a dektop makes less noise.. on the contrary, it makes way more noise: active fans on PSU, and 65/95W TDP at the very least

Re: Not an Intel fan...

You sue whoever sells the product.. Amazon, etc.

Re: Red tape

Brexit voters feeling the pain is not a big concern for me, a dirty immigrant.

But while the leave areas and demographics are the ones that are feeling it more, it is not only people who voted for this who are being impacted, and I do try to feel bad about it.

I would say that the worst problem this arises is not economic. It is a big divide in society.