Posts by Steve Davies 3 7150 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Anyone involved with the Law in the USA has IMHO to undergo a mandatory frontal lobotomy or other surgery to remove any trace of Common Sense from their body and mind.
Common Sense and Precident do not work well together.
IT is a shame really but Rulez is Rulez and any violation must be punished by 150 years in Gaol even for an offense like slapping a SOB who probably deserved it.
Once they told Apple that there was no way that they'd meet the deadlines for the 2020 iPhones with their 5G Modems it was game over.
What it will do is spur Apple along with developing their own Modems then they'll be able to give QC the finger (Apart from paying them loadsamoney for their patent portfolio).
From other reports it seems that Apple has got excusivity on the 855 modem whereas all the Android mob will have to make do with the older 850.
I was looking forward to QC's double dipping being aired in a court of law. What am I going to do with all that Popcorn eh?
Is this Alexa a real live human and not some blow-up doll that sits next to the black cylinder as sold to him by Amazon (along with the doll naturally)???
{the mind boggles for this time on a Monday... Need more coffee}
Just avoid anything with an Amazon logo (and Google for that matter) on it and eventually the world will be a better place. 1984 is not a sales manual you know.
Being serious for a moment, I feel really sorry for anyone who is really named Alexa (As in a living breathing human). Amazon has put the blight on that name for the forseeable future.
I'll bet that the Grateful Dead would like to send the French Government on a trip to 'Dark Star' and be subject to listening to G-D live sets as recorded by the audience 24/7 on the journey.
I wonder if there is some comeback that those affected by this f**kup can get from the French as in loads of mulah?
As mentioned they may well be going after the Bible next. Lots of violence in there.
as in a 'step too far'?
As for no going back then a 3-finger salute followed by booting a recovery system and restoring your backup should do it for you
unless MS in their infinite wisdom has nuked this as well?
Close to the Edge
Down by the river (of no return)
Seasons pass you by
(but) I get back...
and now want blood.
There were failings all around. In
HP... Not reading the company reports.
HP's Auditors ... WTF were they doing especially not issuing a final report
HP ... for trying to do a deal by a date they imposed
Autonomy... for being a shit company that was all smoke and mirrors
The US courts will side with HP because that's what they do. MAGA and all that.
This will run and run though.
Paris because like Brexit, this has already gone on far too long.
If you are at IBM, you will be hoping to get canned the day after you have your new job offer in your pocket.
Otherwise it should be BAU until the day to tell your boss that you are leaving. Give the PHB no warning at all and you might get that raise you want but be prepared to walk (or be escorted by security) out the door within the hour of giving notice. Garden Leave is very welcome at this time of year for... Gardening. :)
First, do what Ubuntu does, everyone has the option to run an LTS release that comes out every 2 years and supported for at least 5 years.
Or even better IMHO, do what CentOS does and makes the support last 10 years (or as long as RHEL as it is build from their sources).
Either way provides a totally different level of stability over Windows 10. And no nagware about licenses and updates
You mean to say that they haven't got their bolt holes already lined up?
I think that they would have had a 'Plan B' all ready and waiting in case the referendum of 2016 went the way of the remainers????
We are doomed I tell ye, doomed.
Mines the one with the keys to my chateau in the Loire in the pocket. :) :)
According to the guy (speaking on the Radio yesterday) who had the account, it was Instagram "wot did it" because it was pretty well dormant. He'd now going to use his Twitter account a lot more to stop the same thing happening.
but hey don't let the truth get in the way of slagging off someone.
Don't we have one of our own?
I'm talking about Tristan Da Cuna. I seem to remember that it erupted back in the 1960's????
Or we could sink them right onto the mid-altantic ridge. They'll get crushed at those depths and the heat from the expanding plate could even melt them down to nothing.
Perfect for a DC. One previous owner, Apple.
Roll-up, roll-up who would like to sink (as in lose forever) some money into this fantastic opportunity????
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besides, aren't DC's a bit past their sell by date these days. Isn't everything supposed to be in the Cloud (what clouds I hear you ask)
reminds me of a previous case...
SCO vs IBM
and the kerfuffle over the file "errno.h"
Not much has changed then.
If Oracle wins this I fully expect the SCO case to be re-opened.
To Google and ORacle, [see Icon]
And the same goes to the EU for Article 13. Just wait for the lawsuits to start flying just because you provided a hyperlink to something that was copyrighted.
Have an upvote from me.
I am very very glad my pension gets paid in less than a year!
I get my state pension next month and TBH I'm really glad that I called it a day when I did in 2016.
I've just started to think about doing some small scale development again but it is just not that important any more.
I would NOT advise any of my grandkids to go into IT as a career with any decent prospects at all. There aren't until the MBA numpties and BeanCounters realise that sending all the jobs to India etc is not viable in the long term but all they are interested in is the bottom line for the next quarter's results.
The time that RH will continue to thrive inside IBM will depend upon how the latter decides to operate the RH division.
If it is done at arms length then there is no reason for it to carry on making lots of money for IBM BUT... if Ginny and co decide to integrate it right into IBM culture then there will be a big rush for the doors by many key players. Then what IBM? Another Opps and then savage cuts to staff and profits as is happening to the rest of IBM? Can (lay off) anyone over 40? Yeah that is working out really well isn't it Ginny???
Only time will tell.
But IBM hands off Fedora ok!
The appeal will be ruled on by 20 July
If the Apple case is anything to go by El Reg had a rare dose of foresight not to mention the year that the final appeal of the fourth appeal to Europe will be ruled upon...
My guess FWIW will be 2025 by which time the developer will have made the same decision as Apple and gone elsewhere.
There will be a drop when it is officially announced that France and Germany have joined Italy in recession. budget will be cut right back (if they have not already been chopped to the core) so that that all so important dividend can be kept and the CEO and pals can trouser a stonking great bonus before running for them there hills...
seems to be SOP these days when the real reasons are even more unclear and uncertain.
TBH, there is little need to upgrade these days. Intel has Fsck'd around for the last 5 years and not really given us any major leaps in CPU performance apart from stuffing a few more cores onto the die.
Replacing the rotating rust HDD with a SATA SSD or even better an M2 SSD (if possible) makes more of an improvment than a new CPU or shed loads of RAM to most workloads.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire then?
From fighting with BT to giving Google your emails... Oh decisions, decisions... which is the worst? which is the one to choose?
TBH, I'd rather stick with BT than give anything to Google. Not in monetary terms but in data about me any my friends feeding the Evil One aka Google.
This will be on the list of topics covered at the forthcoming El-Reg Lecture on Self Driving?
I am very sceptical about it and a lot of the things that so many Tesladroids (mostly from California AFAIK) want like sleeping during their commute and earning 'loadsamoney' from their car while they are at work with car sharing...
Should be a good session.
Who's to say that the same behaviour won't happen again if by some freak of nature or [redacted] voting in Parliament we get another referendum?
All I have to say is ...
Why has Boris been so quiet? Has someone got him on a leash and muzzled?
He was so vocal in the original campaign. Perhaps he is having second thoughts?
sigh,
At least it makes a change from the incessant calls from BT 'we are disconnecting your service' and Microsoft 'your computer is compromised'
Naturally these are not genuine calls from Apple, BT or Microsoft but these poor Indians with English names working from their former garment factory sweatshops in places like Mumbai, Bengalru or Chennai have to earn a crust somehow don't they?
Well no they don't.
The moment I hear an Indian voice on the other end of the phone I say "What are you trying to sell me?"
Almost always, they hangup right away.
It really is time for BT to stop all this scamming but it won't be easy...
Well said and very clearly put. Have one of these on me!
IMHO there should be mandatory re-certification if the centre of gravity and or mass of the aircraft changes due to new engines and/or engine mounting pylons. The whole flying model will change quite dramatically when this happens.
Airbus saw this when they stretched the A320 into the A321. The A321 seems to fly much more like a lead baloon especially when compared to the A318. Same basic aircraft but...
{I also spent many years working in the Aviation Industry}
People like you are just not worth the trouble of bothering with. They want everyone in the world to use the disaster area that is Windows 10.
I passed on that more than 2.5 years ago and have not looked back.
Linux and MacOS provide a far more sane environment than W10 has and possible could ever do.
Windows is a ship that has sailed a long time ago from my port and there is a battery of 15in guns at the entrance just to make sure it never returns.
you missed off the Cupertino Tat Reseller aka Apple from you list.
She wants them to relinqish control of the app Store because they are a monopoly.
Strange that there are more Androids out there than iDevices but since when has a few facts stopped a politician from jumping on a bandwagon (or 4)?
ROFL
That's where the patent trolls go to file suit.
As this is the Federal Government they are going after, a change of venue will be the second motion put before the court.
The first will be a motion to dismiss which will probably fail but it has to be done.
Then the second motion will most likely be granted. East Texas knows that the Feds are a different kettle of fish from say... Apple or IBM or...
Good luck trying to sue them in DC...
Take legal action. Small claims court for the max allowed. They probably won't defend the action. Then county court and take it to the High Court and send in the Baliffs (with the press and TV present naturally)
USe the money obtained to carry on the war. Just make sure you have no assets for them to go after first though.
OR
make a complaint under the GDPR. You aren't the only one feeling f**ked by Zuck and co.
Not a FB user, never have been and never will be. All FB domains are blocked at my home firewall.
You have to remember that 'Merikans only get a few days vacation a year compared to us laggards in Europe...
This move by the HOA is pretty SOP for them. They will also fine you for NOT taking your bin in within a few hours of the rubbish being collected.
The one HOA that I dealt with was mosly retired people with nothing more to do in the day. Some of us had to go out to work. I even offered to allow the HOA to put my bin in my apology for a back garden but no. Not their responsibility. They just issued more fines which naturally never got paid.
HOA's need one of these up their backsides [see icon]
Which will obviously be the wrong side for a good percentage of the population.
Having it on one side will probably mean that more and more users will opt to use the hand that is closest to that side for their fingerprint "cos it is easier innit?" That's cut the possible choices by 50%.
Security hole anyone?
As for the foldable... How long before 'foldgate' starts appearing on this site in relation to folding problems?
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