Posts by Thing
56 posts • joined Wednesday 9th November 2011 12:16 GMT
Re: @ LarsG (@ AC 08:32 GMT)
'Stop hitting yourself'
Unless they know actual Nobel prize winners or porn actresses then what they are following are public feeds of public people. If you want interesting updates from real people:
A) only befriend people in reality who you actually want to be friends with.
B) only befriend people on Facebook who you are friends with in reality.
Most people seem to instinctively grasp the former, but a lot of people (like you and your friends) seem to struggle with the later. I don't eat food I hate, I don't sit and watch TV I don't like, I don't read Barbara Cartland so why would I follow the feeds of 'uninteresting, boring, self-important people' on Facebook/twitter and then complain about the content of the channel which I have crafted for myself.
Off to do something I want to do, and as far as possible, avoid doing things I don't.
Posted in Autonomy to HP: bollocks
Re: Based on what I know of Autonomy...
"what's KPMG's excuse?"
the man who did not want to see it signed their pay cheque so they told him what he wanted to hear.
Have we not seen all this before with Anderson Consulting and Enron?
Wot no C64?
Greatest selling single model of any computer (until very recently being overtaken by the iPad or iPhone - AFAICR)
Indeed...
I uninstalled Java a few weeks ago because of the security issues, then re-installed it because I really, really wanted to play Minecraft (sigh)
Would it be too obvious...
... to take way their cars?
Re: Move production to the USA.
Automation is not purely about cost. Certain assembly steps are just too complex to be done quickly machines. Part of the engineering process is to minimize and simplify those manual assembly steps to keep the manufacturing costs down (and to make the quality easier to control).
You building it wrong!
I think the point is that Apple apparently forgot about DfM (Design for manufacturability) or somehow convinced themselves that is was no longer important. Either that or their contract with Foxconn is structured in such a way that the loses caused by the manufacturing complexity fell on Foxconn rather than Apple.
Fail... because it is. And just like antenna gate it is Apple's sainted designer's fault.
Re: "No Chines workers, No iPhone" ...
You really need to buy a new keyboard
Time to dispense with channel numbers altogether?
Don't the DTV standards already provide metadata for name, genre etc? Is it not time to hide channel numbers from the user? What is a channel number anyway except a poor man's UID?
Then it's up to whoever designs the UI for the box to present useful info to the user, make it organised, searchable, allow storing of favourites etc. Maybe all the required info is already there but TV and STB designers are just too damn lazy.
In the DTV era a TV 'channel' doesn't mean much in terms of the underlying transport so why not make it a clean break?
Re: the sub headline?
Yup... took one look at this back in the day when I moved to a street that did not have cable.
'The latency is what!?'
Did not look any further :-)
Re: Ban em all
'Does that mean that there were situations where they would better suit the task at hand'
Nope... never.
I am not punishing them for someone else's poor planning because that would suggest my UNIVERSITY had a plan. I am punishing them because I do not want to be associated with the army of self-satisfied, sandle-wearing, hipster drones which they have cultivated via their marketing (and in which my university print shop had apparently enlisted).
Ban em all
I remember my university print-shop used Apple Macs being 'arty' designer types (or at least suffering from the delusion of being 'arty' designer types). The only problem with this was that every other computer on the entire campus was a PC. Since the university print-shop insisted on only taking documents in a format that no other computer on campus was capable of generating, all students had to nip round the corner and pay in a private print-shop or in the public library.
I haven't used one since, just on principle.
Re: I'll get it in first
'All your face belong to us...'
'epic fail' of meme recognition
Posted in Nokia after the purge: It's so unfair
Re: Sad
'The shares can be compared to lottery tickets now.'
By which of course you mean a tax on stupidity.
Re: Shutdown button
Not on my laptop it ain't. Which means I have to walk over to my tv (I use a wireless keyboard/mouse) open the lid, press the power button, close the lid than replace the laptop.
I for one used the sodding on-screen power button.
Re: Nokia
'they make chips for LAND MINES'
No they don't - they make mobile phones. If you want to buy something that will kill innocent people you should buy american.
Re: "What do you think?"
'MS, HP, Nokia, Sony, and others are all driving with no brakes into a massive crater of stupid.'
Thumbs up just for that remark.
...confusing "opinion I don't agree with" with "conspiracy"
I'm so glad you cleared that up... So global warming is not a conspiracy between the majority of the worlds politicians, scientists and media to take over the US, raise taxes and install a 'one world goverrnment'.
Just so we are abolutely clear on that...
'Few Americans are taken in by that kind of nonsense'
Actually there are plenty of them reading this site, thanks to the right-wing, heartland funded ass-hattery of Page and Orlowski.
Re: Yay
'people who see flaming crucifixes floating over dead saints' resting places'
So now I'm thinking it was an early Black Sabbath concert. How old is Ozzy?
Re: Yay
Apparently someone likes a biased agenda.
Mmmm... Pagan toast! (drool)
'Jesus in a piece of toast isn't christian at all. That's a pagan talisman with a christian label applied.'
Re: You're missing the point
'I beleive that it has been some time since the belief in AGW was the popular view'
For 90% of the world and 99% of the worlds scientist AGW is still the prevailing view. It's only if you've been raised in a trailer in Buttfuck Alabama on a diet of Fox News, Glenn Beck and tub-thumping evangelical creationist idiocy that you are likely to think otherwise. By using the phrase 'one world government' you have very neatly saved everybody here the trouble of working out whether you were or not.
Re: Great job Lewis as always! =)
'enjoying life without having to pay 100% in tax?'
WTF has any of this got to do with tax? Always suspected the people who came here to support this garbage were republicans. It would be nice to put a firewall around the US to keep the opinions of cousin Cleetus contained in whatever century they're living in.
Re: Was it only me.....
'A lot of us are old time Vulture readers fucking annoyed with Lewis and Orlowski hijacking the site for their own personal and deliberately divisive crusades.'
This...
Re: Dear Reg editors :-
Remember the good old days when the reg used to debunk stupid reporting, before it became the source of it? I want that site (i.e. the British site) back.
If I wanted to read this shit I'd go to fox news with the rest of the slack-jawed yokels.
Eh?
Someone appears to be a little confused
1) Symbian phones are smartphones
2) S40 is not Symbian
Rigged game
There is a difference between small investors making wrong choices and losing a little money and the large financial institutions rigging the market so that the ONLY people who can make ANY money are their own large private clients. Morgan Stanley's own employees (the ones responsible for retail investments rather than private equity) have publicly stated this is unacceptable.
Perhaps the problem is that some bankers have realized there, now that the 1% have the majority of the money, rather than providing any service to the 99% there is more commission to be made by using them as cannon fodder, allowing the 1% to short sell and squeeze the sponge just a little bit harder.
Need a Citizen Smith icon
Re: Yep
Not true... Depends on the city. In Melbourne at least pints seem to be more common than schooners.
Not 'uniquely confusing'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Sizes
If Aussies can handle this lots JUST for beer I think we can cope with pints and litres geoff
i just think damn,wh.at a mess
Pot calling a kettle?
Re: The clever attendee.....
Indeed... most engineers I know will never turn down the chance of free food - work on the assumption that ever free meal could be your last.
Unfortunately most conference organisers are no longer stupid enough to offer a free bar (at least not when there are hardware engineers in the room).
Posted in Biennial boner blights Beemer biker
Re: Hang on a mo..
'Priapism is a very painful condition.'
For who?
Re: Wil who?
Wil... is that you?
or perhaps Wil's mum
Re: Parliament was outsourced
I want to upvote this twice.
I'm easily amused.
Re: Quibbling with semantics
The obvious problem is what handset manufacturers and operators will call 4G when it really arrives in the shops and how they will differentiate it from what, by that time, they will have been selling for a few years...
4G+
Genuine-4G
4G-for-real-this-time
4G-better-than-those-other-guy's-4G
5G?
It will all end in tears. Perhaps it was a mistake to make the jump between 3G and 4G quite so large in the first place, but for sure the relaxation of the definition by ITU is just postponing the problem to later.
Re: Sticking Windows where it's not easy to get at.
Actually, if you lock down both the hardware and software configuration (as you would in an embedded system) Windows is perfectly stable.
I've seen it used in both safety critical applications (air traffic control, military radar control, in an x-ray imaging system system for use in key-hole surgery) and in remote infrastructure (as supervisors in wireless base stations). In the latter configurations the average 'tech' might not know anything about the O.S. They just get told by email that a board in location X has failed, they drive out, pull out the module with the red light, put in a replacement and wait for the light to go green.
It's only when you throw in a bunch of cheap RAM from PC-world, some dodgy drivers for some no-name hardware and allow the user to install crapware from web that Windows turns to shit.
That said, this kind of stuff is all very much at the top end of embedded systems in terms of performance. In terms of volume it is dwarfed by the number of ARM and myriad lesser embedded systems out there. As has been said elsewhere, any high end system will probably have a few low end micro-controllers running independent sub-systems.
Re: Dirty linen
You don't have to post pictures of drunken binges. I usually only post random stuff which I come across which I think my friends might also like to see e.g 'Celebrities Who Look Like Mattresses'.
Not much help to any potential employers I'm afraid.
Posted in Solar storm arrives, nobody notices
Re: I just went ouside, looked up
If it makes you feel better, I've been living in Finland (65 degrees north) for over 2 years and have seen eff all for that time. When the sun is active it is cloudy, when it is not cloudy it is a full moon, when it is not a full moon it is sodding midnight sun.
Re: BBC Article was scathing
So a BBC Article was rubbish... and your are surprised by this why? :-)
agree and disagree
As a consumer, the only power over the corporations who supply you is the power NOT to buy. If you buy, they really have no incentive to give a shit when you complain.
Where I disagree is that I am prepared to pay more to buy ethically.
You can also vote...
... and I will not be voting for a government that ratifies this next time around.
