Posts by Dazed and Confused

Re: I'm impressed.

Photocopiers on the moon,

makes a change from mooning on the photocopier

Re: Mary Whitehouse wanna be

> Probably your standard complaint pattern...

More like that the MW type hears of plans, sets out to be offended and then complains

Re: ..."a whopping 80 per cent of crashes ... involved male drivers"

Is this figure correct? Are you sure about it. I thought the figures showed that women have more crashes overall, its just that men have more bigger crashes.

Re: Resistance is futile

> Then HP could put them up on a shelf, join hands and dance around singing "we have something you can't have."

Nah, HP will let you have them, no problem, you'll just have to sign an EULA agreeing that you won't use it for Oracle SW.

Re: How many are waiting for Windows 8 to be "retired"?

Not sure about waiting for it to be retired, but I've just taken advantage of the chance to buy a W7 refurbished PC because it comes with W7Pro and not W8, so that's one sale lost to them. Wish I could switch to Linux on the desktop, but although I earn my living mostly from Linux these days, my customers systems are only accessible via Windows and the stuff they pay me for requires actual office, even if just in case something is different. I can't see why any small business would want to buy a new PC in the current market, you can get a familiar product for a fraction of the cost of suffering an unfamiliar one.

Re: Doubt it

Before disks became affordable people used tapes like you use disks now. They did random IO, very slowly. Tapes also needed to keep stopping and starting, watch any old SciFi film with rows of tape decks in the background and all the weird stuff they did to reduce the inertia of the bit that was starting and stopping all the time.

There is one other significant difference between tapes and disks. It is easier to take tapes out of the drive and put them in the firesafe.

Re: BMW and Mercedes

I think there are significant differences between the mobile business and the car business. The likes of Apple don't make their own phones and they don't make the components that go into them. Whereas MB make their own engines, gearboxes etc... as well as the main body of the cars. Sure, they have a supply chain, but I suspect they are less dependent on buying a few common components available to all their competitors.

Re: Biiiiiiig Changes

> The logical conclusion of the claimed performance and characteristics of memristor is startling. The only storage anywhere in a computer will be directly attached to its CPUs, just like RAM is nowadays. No SATA, SAS, PCIe SSDs, Fibre Channel, nothing. Just DDRx (whatever the 'x' has become by then).

One problem with this sort of flat design is that the more devices you try to connect to the CPU, the longer the access latencies will be. We've seen this already in designs with memory controllers built into the CPU (and previous generations) where memory expander needs to be deployed to increase the SIMM socket count the memory access times degrade significantly.

The bit of the memory that is performing the role of longer term storage is still likely to want to be connected by some form of interconnect with longer range potentials. You'll still need to have a second copy of all your valuable data 100+ KM away from the primary copy to cope with major disasters.

Re: I don't think so

"If it ain't broke, you don't fix it."

NB. This does not apply to aeroplanes!

I thought it applied to aeroplanes too, just that with aeroplanes you need to check everyday and in every way that they "ain't broke"

Re: Oh dear...

I simply touch the Skype icon instead

Coz like mobe companies are so mega generous at not charging giga bucks for data roaming.

Of course using Skype via WiFi saves a fortune, one Dork of an ex Mate once managed to run up a £1700 monthly mobile bill without any data, just by talking too much when abroad. Skyping has saved me a not particularly small fortune over the years, but you do need the free WiFi to match if you don't want to run up and even larger bill.

Re: With less money you will do more

> Yes, and regulations are in place to make sure they make a profit by creating products and services users are willing to pay for, not by creating cartels and monopolies that force users into submission.

Well, I'd argue that the regulator has no place in forcing suppliers to create products that users are willing to pay for. That is what the market place should do. I'd agree whole heartedly that the regulator should be stopping monopolies and prosecuting those involved in cartels.

My point was that at a time when mobile companies are being asked to invest heavily in new infrastructure, they as companies, will focus there investment where is will reap the maximum return on that investment.

Presumably

When you power it up for the first time it will ask you which OS you want to run.

1) Android

2) Windows

If you click 2 it will then ask for a credit card to pay the Windows license fee.

You'll then think bugger, I'm not paying and try the back button, but too late its pay for Windows or its a brick.

Re: for the greater good

> I wonder if it is possible to capture enough water from the breath of blow-hard politicians to drown them?

and while we are at it, capturing the heat from all the excess hot air would solve our energy shortages for ever.

Re: I don't think it's fair...

Sounds more like Telsa need to work with the fire authorities to find the best way to handle fires on their vehicles and then to make sure that fire-fighters in target market places know how to handle them. The fire crew arriving at this scene will have started off using the techniques they've been taught.

If a new kind of car is going to need a radically different way of fire-fighting, then there is going to need to be a whole lot more training needed all of the a sudden.

Re: padding the numbers with Freeview

They're also underplaying the numbers of FM radios since many phones include FM and they're conveniently choosing to avoid these numbers.

Re: Another brick in the wall.

Looks like the NSA just declared war against the rest of the world.

Everyone spies on their friends.

Every Government in the world spies on their allies

That's how they (think) know they're their allies.

Re: SCSI bad?

and iSCSI is the underlying protocol for most, if not all SANs.

Errrrrrrrrrr is it?

News to me.

or did you mean "SCSI" rather than "iSCSI"

all the real SANs I've worked on have used FC and there's no need for the IP layer there.

Re: Great, you've spilled the beans

Why has Oracle hidden the price cut? Vulture South's money is on the ExaLogic platform being superseded ...

More likely given their recent results, they've hidden the announcement because they don't want to announce to the world they've started a fire sale to shift their HW which clearly no one wants.

Puerile

From my point of view this behaviour is really puerile.

From mine, your posting is puerile, Linus is able to make comments on the kernel mailing list that aren't PC because he has the respect of the audience he's addressing. They know what he means. He doesn't need to kowtow to dumb conventions that might govern most business discussions, any more than you don't need to worry about being all PC when you're chatting to your mates down the pub.