Posts by Richard 31

Does this imply that they manged to get a spec, build, test, go through UAT etc all from 10-31st of one month?

Almost willing to call bullshit on that basis alone.

20/20

Amused they they would call thier tech conf "Tintri Tech 20/20"

20/20 vision being the average persons vision, not high visual acuity. An average product for the middle of the market at best. Pity they price themselves like they are a premium storage vendor.

So that's the language they use when the whole thing is on fire and they are trying to shut the whole thing down as fast as possible.

Shame, i rather liked Windows Mobile. Pity they had to mess everyone around so much with it.

If you have bought a sex-bot, you probably don't have a real person to screw anyway.

Anyone seem my order?

Richard Burton

Who care about fry, when you can have everything read out by Richard Burtons baritone voice?

Orville will be safe...

Or at least the twonk he sits on.

Already happened!

Given the size of the Milky Way and the likely distance of any star that will go supernova, it is more probable that the star has already gone supernova, but the light from it won't arrive until sometime in the next 50 years.

Hash DB

With only 18420000 possible password in the default dictionary, you would think that you could just compile a DB of all the hashes and refer to that. It wouldn't even be all that huge.

Always on, and ending

What always concerns me about this always on bollocks is not necessasarily the being online part.

What happens when they decide supporting the console once it is no longer economically viable? You can bet they will drop the Xbox One the second that is true.

Some of us like playing ancient games, i still occasionally dig out old stuff for a quick blast about. I don't want to be dicking about with any fake auth servers or anything like that.

Cleaning products

gif-jif-cif

Does this mean that over time its name will change to CIF to be in line with European cleaning products?

Backwards compatibiliy

A lot of the reason machines and servers end up with old versions of Java is the lack of proper backwards compatibility. All to often there are programs that will only work with a particular version of one particular JVM. As someone who has to deal with this, i do get rather frustrated with Java. My arse is more backwards compatible than this.

Microswitches

You cannot beat a proper microswitch keyboard. It is worth all the comments from people about how loud you are typing to actually be able to tell when you are pressing the keys properly. And they seem to last forever, My Dell keyboard has been going strong for at least 12 years, which is odd because the company i work for never had any Dell servers or desktops. I will be keeping it when i move to another computer. I expect i will have to buy an adapter for it as noone seems to make new computers with PS/2 connectors anymore.

waah waah waah..

.. i'm a big girls blouse is what i heard from the Apache guy here.

He has found an angle to have a go at MS and big up his own software. Are we surprised?

Bored now.

Doubt it....

If you are going to be using "the cloud" as storage, the disk makers are still going to be selling plenty of drives. To the cloud providers.

I am more or less assuming that disk usage in the cloud will even out between being able to store more than one users data on one disk, and the need for RAID and data duplication to keep everyones data.

Also i am not sure we are going to see any significant alterations in network speeds at the user level, plus with the general unreliability of the wireless networks.

Hackers

When i see stats like 779,816 infected machines like in this article, i am reminded of the film Hackers when Zero Cool hacked a pitiful 1706 or whatever machines and got black-ops guys bursting though the door.

Would an infection of 1706 machines even make the radar these days?

Ford Granada

I would make an offer on that Ford Granada :) . Better than the Cortina.

Memory

Can someone explain to me how i can remember exactly how to march through this game, knowing every turn and door to take, where the secrets are etc, despite having not played it since i had my 80386, but i can't remember where my sodding socks are in the morning?

28mph

even 28mph is not particularly fast.

I can maintain that pace on my road bike for a mile or so.

Those that ride the Tour de France maintain almost that as an average.

Why not allow the allow the bike?

Fools. Although part of me does think that if you get on a bike you should bloody well pedal it yourself.

30%

Until you realise that Apple would want its 30% cut of anything you transferred into the bank. :)

Discriminatory?

Am i the only person who thinks the Govs of Jersey and Guernsey are insane for trying to claim that it's discriminatory that the unfair advantage they have is being closed?

Fairer tests.

Why do we never see these tests of observed sound quality performed under anything even approaching a fair test.

In a world where so much of sound quality is perceived, and there seems to be a lot of snobbery amongst audiophiles separation from the system is essential.

In my mind the sound quality should be reviewed in a dark sound proofed room. The reviewer is told nothing what-so-ever about the system they are reviewing. The reviewer may have any music they please played for them, and for as long as they like, BUT they under no circumstances get to touch or see the kit until after they have written the review of the sound quality. This review is then sealed away from them and may not be altered.

Then and only then may they be permitted to see the kit to give the review of the aesthetics of the kit.

Monolith

Where was the Monolith? I clearly saw it in that previous footage. Also what happened to Richard Strauss' music?

The Paris angle? Her backside will never look that rugged. :)

Snow Job?

I dont suppose someone with the pre-requisite coding skills would like to write an app that generates lots of fake data? Then we could just wander about the shopping centres and make a pigs bottom of their trending data.