Posts by jr424242
32 posts • joined Friday 20th May 2011 22:21 GMT
What people liked about it
Was that it continued to work as it had without requiring more learning or fuss or configuration than they had already done. And what they dislike about the alternatives is that they all require additional fuss, learning, and configuration. You see what happens when that fact is disrespected. Don't expect them to migrate to Google's preferred alternative after Google cut the rug out from them.
The downside of a free service is that they can always just give you a refund.
Exquisite choice
Thanks for the article. It is easy to lose the thread in acrimonious debate, but women's rights is not about who deserves what and who is guilty of what. Rather, it is about the value of enabling, or at least not impeding, all people to live their lives to the fullest.
For every Grace Hopper there were at least 10,000 women with a similar dream and probably 100 with comparable ability (hey, she was not merely utterly determined, she was also extraordinarily talented) who were forced away from their dream in favor of a droll, merely conventional dream belonging to someone else. Hopper is a hero for resisting, and so revealing to us the sort of thing that we might be missing.
Shocked, shocked I tell you!
That is like a car company offering a stereo as standard equipment on every car instead of allowing you to choose which one you want and having it custom installed. Or including wheels and tires (tyres?) with every car.
That is like Apple or Dell or HP including an operating system in the price of their computers, destroying the market for 3rd party operating systems. Companies like Ubuntu would have to just give their stuff away for free.
Or including a web browser with every operating system; if they did that, it would just destroy Netscape as a viable business.
That is, it is business as usual. There's no crying in baseball. Sorry about your investment. And, by the way, if Amazon copied and released your stuff in two weeks after you did, you had nothing so original to begin with; you as likely copied them.
It's fine for El Reg to report the discontent, and not a bad article. But if this is the first time this occurred to you, do not be investing large sums of your own money in this sector.
Forget the bicycle, it's our children that threaten the planet.
And we must save the planet. For the sake of our children.
Come to think of it, if bicycles lead to early deaths, they might save carbon. So we should ban helmets. And ban health care for bicycle riding accident victims; if they were wearing a helmet, they are degenerate scofflaws. If they aren't, they have a death wish.
Now, credentials established, on to climate science....
Fondleslab, indeed
I blame the Register.
How could they fail to beat a company that sells books?
Perhaps by continuing to charge usurious prices and force big capital investments from their customer they could manage to lose. VMWare should cost 1/10th of what it does.
They could also underestimate the company that figured out how to sell and deliver books and everything else effectively over the internet. Mind you, they figured it out the hard way, but there is a chance they have learned something. Say, perhaps, an estimate of the value of the ability to provision hardware at known rent in hours or minutes, rather than weeks or months after a capital purchase is approved.
Grouchy, commoditized sysadmins notwithstanding, commodity public clouds are the future. There are network effects around sharing of data and the cost of import/export that give EC2 a huge lead. You have 20 seconds to comply.
Re: I have to admire his honesty
And humor. Funniest intentionally-funny corporate communication in some time. His calling out of the insincerity of most resignation statements is refreshing.
This man featured Tim Cook in the State of the Union speech
Is there a bigger patent troll? Or is he the good sort of patent troll, that is to say, a supported of the Democratic Party?
Surely you're joking
Musk: "Broder was so determined to run down the battery so he could give the Model S a bad review that he drove in circles in a parking lot"
Musk is dealing in one small fact (he drove in circles) and a few giant conjectures (he did so intentionally, with the particular intent of running down the battery, with the further intent that running down the battery would enable him to give the car a bad review) and ignoring other salient facts (That he somehow failed to run the battery down, that it was done at night, and at a Tesla Motors dealership parking lot.)
It Must Be User Error.
Tesla apparently is styling its customer service after Microsoft's.
Re: Muzac
Amen. Nothing with background music can be trusted.
Worth reading
The report is very excellent reading. The precision with which it identifies the mechanics of the failure is astonishing.
I think the indictment of the "top brass" for not trying to fix Columbia after it was damaged is overblown. It is not a simple call to take heroic (risky) measures fixing a hypothetical problem.
The real indictment of the "top brass" was for cultivating a culture that ignored many, many clear warnings on reliability and safety on this and other issues, and was unwilling to deliver bad news. On the one hand, this is an organization with Challenger in its past, and had plenty of evidence that things were not generally up to stuff. Nevertheless, an organization like NASA will rally against anyone (high or low rank) who tries to put on the brakes; soon enough, the people to whom these things matter to all leave. That is a problem that will take another 1,000 years to solve.
But what about finding a plumber?
I'd think Facebook's graph search could be pretty useful for vetting plumbers.
You forget the 2009 Hudson River crash
Granted, it was not open ocean. But. it validates the safety card design, and that's the important thing.
Posted in 8086 and All That. Revisited
I always thought
The reason the British didn't make computers is that they couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil.
Sure, nice light, but what about the noise?
Such a monotonous, cloying sound, like guitar gently strumming. Seems like all devices built for the poor produce a noise like this. Strange.
Painfully naive
"A 51 per cent stake would run just under $14bn"
A shamefully stupid bit of analysis, that. Market cap is predicated on the current market conditions, but the article hypothesizes a radically changed market by imagining a take-over. Do you think you could, say, buy half of the gasoline in the US at the currently price? In other words, if we cut the supply by half, the price would be unchanged?
Nice helicopter, but about that CB radio...
Or is that the helicopter muttering autonomously? My GPS speaks better. "Recal-uh-culating."
Obviously a billion dollars only buys your the stripped down base model.
It is just imitating Rob Brydon's small man in a box
Obviously. One gets bored with that after 4 years.
The opposite of confidence building
The fact that the rocket got to orbit despite a failure does not mean the failure was insignificant. It means things are not working as expected, which means they do not understand what they thought they understood. For all anyone knows at this point, there may have been a 90% probability that the explosion would damage an adjacent engine, and they just lucked out this time.
Both of the shuttle disasters are transparent examples of this sort of management self-delusion that problems that occurred frequently (o-rings partly melting, foam occasionally falling) were not problems, because nothing bad had happened. Yet.
That does not mean Space X is a bad company, nor that its rocket isn't better than everyone else's, or that NASA is wrong to contract for it. This actually is rocket science, after all. Rather, it means there is serious engineering work to do; It is 10x more serious since Space X apparently thought they had solved a similar problem, so both the engine and their mechanism for assessing the engine's behavior are both wrong.
Nonshocking nonnews
Owning stock is not like owning a pet; you are not obliged to keep it. Anyone who suggests otherwise should apologizing for not framing their Amazon gift cards and hanging them on the wall rather than redeeming them
If it is insane to pay $30/share for Facebook, it is equally insane not to take that money if someone solvent offers that deal.
The last 4 digits are not secret
They appear on every printed credit card receipt in the US and every my-account page I've ever seen. They are sent in clear text in emails more often than not. The PCI standards do not require them to be hidden. In fact, it is essential they are public, in order for merchants to identify to a customer with more than one card which one they used for a transaction.
If Apple does not start groveling soon they will be deprived of my account.
Re: It's Maritz, gits; mind the little bitz
Thanks for the blitzed editz! Sorry for the hissy fitz.
It's Maritz, gits; mind the little bitz
don't be a ditz.
What will it look like after the earthquake.
And where is the traffic jam?
Freetard for a day
Is this an April Fools post gone wrong?
Publishers, not Apple, constitute the monopoly
The publishers, when colluding on price, amount to a monopoly; had they worked independently, there would have been no issue. Apple, as the vehicle for or instigator of that collusion, has an auxiliary role; still, leading others to collude illegally is not legal, either. Nevertheless, I expect the worst that happens to Apple is they lose several million dollars the right to enforce the "most-favored-nation" clauses in their contracts with publishers. However, it maybe that publishers are forbidden from using agency models, which kills Apple's bookstore business model.
Apple is untouchable, no pun intended
Sure, Apple will have to start selling devices with iOS at close to break-even prices in just a 2-5 years. That would leave it with merely 30% of ALL revenue in the market for iOS apps. That is perhaps 3x better than where Amazon starts today with the Kindle Fire, and likewise for M$ and other Android manufacturers. Everyone else is just playing to stay in business, not to succeed in this time frame. Apple just needs to ensure there is no killer app for android that is not on iOS. Especially given they can nearly buy Amazon or Sony (4x over) with cash on hand. In the meantime, they just adjust the dials to profit maximization.
REGISTER IN GRAVITATIONAL GENERATOR AUTOMOBILE COVER UP
You INTENTIONALLY omitted this, from NASA's FAQ
"So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers (about 22 million miles)" said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably minuscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will."
That's HIS subcompact car, which he does not deny may be some DARPA developed doomsday tidal force and conspiracy theory generating subcompact. Now we understand the bailout of General Motors and Obama's directions to emphasize smaller cars. We're talking about a subcompact car that generates more tidal forces than one of the most worrying comets in decades!
Maybe it is a Comet itself! Or a GALAXY!?!?! Or a Fit.
Red-handed
Go to the pub, have a pint, and reflect on your professionalism.
disappointing choices.
This should give you good liability cover, has the virtue of modesty, and makes a bow to Computer Science.
LOHAN's Only a Helium Assisted Nanoplane
or, nearly evanescing entirely
LOHAN's Only a Hardly Adequate Name
The APP STORE is actually a CHEESE SHOP!
So THAT is where all the cheese from the Monte Python sketch went! And Wallace and Gromit were looking for it on the moon, excellent. "An apple pie without some cheese..." we should have figured it out ha ha steve jobs nice joke now give us our money back.
