Posts by Amorous Cowherder 1063 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2012
“It’s very exciting to be delivering Windows 8.1 to consumers just before Windows 8 celebrates its 1-year anniversary,” LeBlanc said.
Or as the rest of read it, "Bloody hell it took us nearly a whole year to fix the damn thing to make it usable but hopefully this give us 5 minutes breathing room now!"
"At least the women back then looked like women."
No they all looked like failed Cybil Sheppards, too much make-up, big hair and half the vaseline budget went on covering the camera lens for soft-focus shots!
Now they don't even bother with all that guff, drug up a couple of 15 year-old runaways on Sunset Strip, get them to "act" in a hastily rented house, set up a Nikon D3/Canon 5D3 on a stready-cam shoulder mount and start shooting HD porn! (*)
(*) Note that I'm not an expert on shooting low-budget adult fare, regardless of the investigation I've done when I'm bored!
What do they class as active? Logging in? Pulling pages? I'm sure some people have FB apps set to on full auto-login and auto-update, doesn't mean they actually used the site as such. Most important for the ad-men is to know if people actually looked at the page content. Auto-logins and auto-updates are useless to the ad-men trying to sell ad-space to their clients.
My shop records every single meeting in the main meeting rooms, especially ones where the information being discussed would be of interest to all staff. The vids are then put up on the company intranet for those that were not able to be there, sickness, holiday, the classic "for training purposes" or whatever.
They don't just do it to waste time or be flash, almost every meeting I go even as a shop-floor techie have minutes and agendas so there's no come back if Fred decides to dispute the fact that he agreed to do XYZ, video is just another extension of that.
Ellison is a bit of nutter and most of what he says is pure fluff but once in a while he does come up with something interesting. He was the guy that 25 years ago said one day we'd have network connected devices attached to huge servers, we'd have no need for as many big machines in our homes and offices.
Well the explosion of tablets and phones connected the internet and it's "cloudy" storage is quite popular these days.
With figures showing the faithful are not as enamoured with Jobs' fruit-farm produce as they may have been 5 years ago, they need a bit of marketing push to get them back through the doors of those very expensive Apple stores that much cost a bomb to rent. What better way than to say he was such a genius he left some old style Da-Vinci sketches in only-just-discovered notebooks they found behind his fridge!
"Bill Gate's is still getting blind-sided by the internet again..."
You can sit there in your nice cozy first-world seat, banging on about how the internet is empowering people with access to information. Yeah it does when people can use it and understand it.
A vast majority of people in the third-world don't have have medicine, clean water, safe place to sleep, food to eat and what's more they haven't got a damn clue when the next meal is coming from or even when! You have boys as young at 7-8 or being forced to fight with weapons they can barely lift, the girls of the same age being "trained" to be comfort women for the the troops in war-torn areas. You have all the pharmo-corps dumping out of date medical supplies that are useless to the people. Dump 20,000 cases of out of date viagra on some country that's in the grip of a cholera epidemic. What about the hoo-ha when Nestle would send out baby-formula to countries but never put the right language on the tins so people used it incorrectly and infants died? Let's not even touch basic literacy, so many people in desperate need of the basic 3 Rs that our primary school kids take for granted.
Yes people need information, yes they need education so they can get themselves out of the mess most of the countries of the west have put them in over the last few hundred years but it needs to be done face-to-face by people, where someone can ensure the information, education and aid gets right to the people who need it. We send millions in aid to foreign countries only to have some tinpot dictator nick it, spend it on doing up his palace and maybe 5% trickles down to the poor. Imagine we ship load of top-notch electronic kit out there, Xmas come early for General XYZ fo the People's Liberation Army.
Education and information are too vital to be left to chance, they must be given in a way that ensures people get it, it stays with them and allows them to stand proud on their own two feet, then and only then will they have enough of the basic human rights and needs to be able to consider using luxuries we take for granted.
I think the whole sorry episode is just a another pathetic example of people being famous for nothing. 4Chan gets more (in)famous than before, this women gets famous, the trolls that dwell in the more dank areas of the internet get famous. All a bunch of fecking parasites scratching an existence of the backs of each other!
4Chan needs scum, the scum need a target, this women is obviously reveling in the infamy of winding up the scum and getting some mild noteriety from it all else she would have what most sensible people would have done, told them where to get off and then buggered off to do something a little more worthwhile than wasting time with internet trolls who's collective IQ probably barely scratch double digits.
We used to have such a healthy respect for historic data, we have vast libraries full of the knowledge of people like Plato, Shakespeare, etc.
Another 50 years and we'll have storage centres with billions upon billions of Ker-Jigabytes(tm) of absolutely useless shite data that's of no use to anyone except people in advertising! You'll have "big data" warehouses with reams of stats on the minute movements of every mobile phone buying person on the planet, covering years and years of their lives. I just wish I could see what historians in 4000 years will say about the human race in the 21st Century. Something along the lines of, "They held a false belief that collection of data would somehow empower them, all it did in the end was to make electronic and data storage device manufacturers of the day stunningly wealthy, provide jobs for information technology workers of the day but little else."
Of course there is the aspect that this tracking shite is the wet-dream of every secret service dept on the planet!
It's always yes to things like this....when its all a case of NIMBY!
Sorry to *POP* burst that bubble but does anyone seriously believe that bollocks from Dave and Co. about us getting cheaper energy? My left bollock! You think bankers a greedy, the energy companies make Mr E Scrooge ( pre Xmas Day revelations of course! ) look like the world's biggest philanthropist! It will be as expensive as gas is now and probably more costly knowing those greedy tight-wads a British Gas!
My 9 year old bugged us to get her a mobe, so we said you can have one if...
1. You spend your own money buying it
2. WE get to dictate the carrier and the contract details so we can enforce the security aspects.
And the killer requirement....
At any time Mum has full unconditional access to the phone without any reason needed to look at anything on it! It still causes arguments occasionally when a spot-check is done but the threat of the loss of the phone is pretty good deterrent against stupid arguments and sulking.
YOU may not think it's fair, I may not think it's fair but they're the company and if they want to raise prices above the going rate of other that's entirely their business. This aspect of the Google empire is not exactly a monopoly is it? When a monopoly does that with prices, then yes you could very well complain as much as you like and people might listen.
Ultimately if they want to charge more than others than that's their loss if people don't like it.
This is part of it, the internet is an adult playground and as such you need to have had that bit of life experience to know how to deal with fecking idiots just like you do in real life. Sadly your average kid up to about 15 doesn't have enough life experience to know to fully handle some situations, they get thrown to the wolves online and torn to pieces. Most of us can take it or leave it, it's not the be all end all. I've been in stupid online arguments and you either fight back with stupid comments or just say "Oh bollocks to you!" and walk away.
It's pretty sickening when a bunch of scumbags think it's funny when a kid of 14 has taken their own life but some parts of the internet are not very nice. Much like life it's all about spotting the signs of when you're in a dodgy area and either moving through quickly without attracting attention or turning around and heading back out the way you came.
Bunch of sad little twats with no fecking life hiding behind their keyboards, they feel like big men shouting their purile bollocks at women over the internet. No wonder the feminists think all men are arseholes when the few twats like this spoil it for the rest of us 95% of blokes who do manage to get through our day showing respect and courtesy for other people irrespective of of their gender. Sometimes I am ashamed to be a bloke.
I have pretty much 20/20 vision and love logic puzzles but I've lost count of the number times I've failed these bloody things, I think it took me 7 attempts to sign up for a Skryim game news site, in the end I gave up as each one seemed harder to decipher than the last. You need a degree ciphers and cryptography to work out some of these CPATCHAs!
So basically it's form of Quorn, ie manufactured food grown in a lab, except one is made from mushrooms and this new thing from an animal "soup". £250,000 for all this when you can get a packet of Linda McCartney's veggie burgers down TESCO for £3?! One born every minute!
To quote Martin Crane from Frasier, "No Frasier food is not to die for, your country and your flag are to die for. This is just food, you eat it, you're not hungry. That's it.".
Oh no, Chris Morris was right it's...it's....PAEDO-GEDDON!!!!!
You mean the IWF found about 30 odd well known company websites, they need funding, they want the DM, Sun and "think of the children" crowd to get on their side, so we have this tripe rammed in our faces. No I'm not belittling paedophilia, of course it needs it needs dealing with but a bunch of Chicken Little's running around shouting about the world coming to an end is not helping the serious campaigners who have sensible ideas and genuine desire to get this shite sorted out properly in a sane and rational way, sadly they're drowned out by the nutjobs and DM/Sun readers
Not really always nutters in every walk of life it's just that yonks ago it took a little bit of nous if you wanted to get online and give someone some grief, now the tools are almost instantly available for any platform you wish to use basically for these "tools" to make complete...well tools of themselves!
Usual story, those beloved MPs in power have no idea how technology works, they only see the internet from their little tiny part of it.
"Turn on power, wait for Windows to start, click the blue circle/little Foxxy thingy/SIMON game icon and that's the internet! It's magic! So all we need to do is make sure that square box in the middle of the screen cannot show anything pink, brown or olive coloured when it has hairs in it, listen for "huh-huh-huh" noises in the sound and instant porn block!".
Must be great to be so damn ignorant and get paid 90k a year for talking utter bollocks! Sad part is that those in contracting know this is a loser, just the contract company owners know a Gov contract is a licence to print money so they say they can do something then cock it up for next 5 years, maybe delivering something that does about 20% of the original spec. I've worked in Gov contracting and it's full of managers and admin people, with about one developer/programmer/person-with-brains per 8 managers. Loads of useless tosspots all riding gravy train until it comes off the rails they've obviously but jumped before that happens.
What a great idea!
What about your sister or brother who has autism? Uncle Fred, the benevolent leader doesn't like imperfections ( even though he's probably a short-arse with gammy leg! ) so off to "the hospital" with little Johnny or Sarah.
Your Mum or Dad, being of a different generation, forgot one day that things are different and said something the Great Leader ( "All hail his magnificence!" ) wouldn't like and uh-oh the neighbour they never got along with dobbed them in as state-traitors! They even gave the neighour a nice reward for it so he could get that nice new car!
Your partner and you had a baby and it's got a finger missing? Oh dear, you can't keep it, off the state orphanage with it!
You wanted to read what book that you read as a child? Sorry but that's not the state's agree reading list!
You were heard down the pub talking about "the old days", I think a little red-education with a 240v shock to your dangly bits will sort out that head of yours down at the "the hospital"!
Hey-ho we can lock up a couple hundred kiddie-fiddlers so fuck the 100 million people in the country who've done nothing wrong and will no longer be allowed to have their own opinion on anything ever again!
I upgraded and they gave me a Superhub ( isn't a VM "super hub" close to an oxymoron? ) anyway the thing never got to see my internal network as there is a Linksys with custom DDWRT firmware sitting between it and my network, the only ports allowed in or out are ones I know I set. The Superhub is a piece of cack with no redeeming features, so mine's set to its simplest settings and acts a modem with all options locked down or off.
The biggest advantage is that VM can happily faff about with their Superhub's firmware all they please as the only thing they can bugger up for me is the routing point into the big wide world, the internal network is completely separate. If my wife or kids can't stream off our media NAS boxes my life could well be in danger, life's hard enough as it is and I don't need VM's incompetence making it harder!
Ah come on, who didn't cry when Jessie got left by the side of the road in Toy Story 2? A 38 year old bloke crying along with his kids on the sofa, which my wife still thinks is bloody hilarious!
Disney made "Something Wicked This Way Comes" from the book by Bradbury, then again they did release Hannah Montana:The Movie and The Mighty Ducks, some things should never be forgiven!
Sometimes you have to sacrifice what you hold dear for what you see as a greater good. Soldiers agree to make the ultimate sacrifice, as a desk-bound officer you could say he's made the next greatest sacrifice to lose probably the next 40 years of his liberty to ensure people started talking rather than simply swallowing our leaders so called version of the truth.
If you think mordern warfare is simply about one army fighting another over territory or resources you're sadly mistaken, head over to Vimeo and watch John Pilger's documentary "The War You Don't See".
"We'll kill the golden goose if other countries think US corporations can't be trusted with their data due to the local government, particularly when the law provides virtually no protection from eavesdropping for foreigner's data held by US companies," Bonneau said. "Can we honestly tell people in other countries that they should trust all of their data with US companies?"
Nothing lasts forever, products are either surpassed or market saturation happens. You look at the history mega-corps like Oracle, Ellison demanded huge 300% year on year growth in sales at the start and for 5 years he got it but markets can only take so much until they're saturated. The other factor is that without massive change in a product people will reach a point where it's only the die-hards will upgrade for the sake of it, most of us have a gadget or device and we make it last as long as possible, be it a car, a PC, fridge, washing machine, tablet, etc.
To put it bluntly, now we're about 3-4 years down the tablet road for the time being at least, anyone who wants a tablet probably has one and they'll most likely not upgrade a while yet.
As a bloke I signed the petition to get a woman on a banknote, the campaign was not just to make a point about the notes but to bring to attention the fact that women have contributed so much to our advancement as society yet their achievements are still not fully recognised by some brain-dead trogs who still seem to think that women should be seen and not heard. The irony of this situation is that the primary campaigner, remember that this is in the 21st Century, is being targeted in much the same way as the women she's standing up for were many years ago.
Most of us, both men and women, have grown up and see we both have equal parts to play in making society better, once again it's pathetic minority of bread-dead cretins that get all the attention for all the wrong reasons.
I love you people, "Things were better the old days! Todays music/cars/films/chocolate/children/books are smaller, worse, never work and are full of poodle urine!".
Sorry but given the huge advances in vehicle safety, time-saving gadgets and incredible engine efficiency in the last 45 years I'll stick with my 4 year old Honda CRV and swap it for something new in a few years time. It may have a computer on board that's possibly more powerful than the first PC I owned and my car would be dead in the water if it goes wrong. However all those amazing advancements are probably the reason I was able to simply get out of my car about 2 seconds after some twat smacked into it at 30mph, without any ill effects and also allowed me to turn the air blue for 15 seconds having a go at the other driver!
Just like those paper surveys we got fill in at school, ask a bunch of bored 15 year olds to fill in a survey on something like sexual habits of social problems and you may as well shred the lot without reading any of it as 99% of it will be probably be complete bollocks! I well remember five of us one day thinking up the most stupid answers imaginable to put on forms from the local sixth-form college, just for "shits'n'giggles"!
After Sky more less said "Sorry but your 20Mbps line is running at 1Mbps as it's been oversubscribed and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it!", lucky I was able to go to Beardy's mob and get a fibre line that runs at the speed I was promised it would.
Sky can go take a running jump, hopefully with one of their over subscribed lines tied round their neck!
While I'm not sold on the whole smart meter thing, seems all too invasive for my liking it is an interesting exercise to get one of those £20 mains appliance consumption meters off Amazon and check what your appliances are actually consuming. I have a loaded i7 tower loaded with 4 HD's, two CDs and 750W PSU, the draw is only 95W max even when I tried to run a few intensive processes and got the fans running, by comparison the TV was drawing 300W so switch from console to PC gaming might be in order, ha ha! My old man did the same thing as he has a Koi pond and found he was drawing something like 20 units a day on just his pond from all the pumps and such like, made him think and he's slashed it down to 14 units by alternating the pumps and he's already started to see his bills drop.
While I like the idea of something help me to save money ( and save a few polar bears and penguins in the bargain ) I'm just not in favour of all this smart connected appliance stuff, I don't need Scottish Power deciding my fridge is too hungry, pulling the plug and letting it piss it's melting ice-box all over my kitchen floor!
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