Posts by Aitor 1

Re: The good news...

My guess is that there are several reasons for this.

First yeah, security implications.. but also benchmarks. Removing MT allows you to have better single core performance, and with Zen2 on the market intel is starting to lag behind in SC benchmarks.

Either intel gets their manufacturing processes sorted or they are at high risk of losing plenty of the market to AMD.

In this age they cannot simply tell google, amazon etc that they won't supply products unless they stop buying from AMD, as these companies do not sell consumer products, and are therefore mostly not affected by processor branding.

Re: Another one bites the dust

So people should keep using the same things from the same vendors? why innovate with ppl like you!

We should embrace with caution innovation, and buying a ton of product from them would probably not destroy a company.

Also, a leaner company might be more profitable.. or at least less losses.

Note: I work for a startup, and our product is not just good, it is great.

Re: Demand but not margin

HDD manufacturing plants make no sense without all the patents required to build them, and R&D to slowly increase capacity.

The HDD duopoly is just doing what a monopoly does: increase benefit, and it is more profitable to produce less and raise prices. This is why we have antimonopoly laws.

Remember, they want to get paid, not to produce HDDs, that is just what they need to get paid..

Fax

But the email is the superior option, your problem is that DL did not want emails, but faxes.

Re: "unreserved apologies"

Clinical audit etc == sold.

Re: How?

Also desperate intel selling their product with huge discounts to the big players. Massive error, as this puts them on the hands of a few buyers.

Re: Don't be cretinous

Six years in the uk AND more than 3x.000 £ per year.

Re: Stop shilling

And the external keyboard is the reason it still works.

Also the kind of dust/grime the keyboard gets subjected to. Plenty of mechanical keyboards fail as dirt gets into the switches.. and MBPs are just terrible in this sense.

Agree

Tell everyone to move the 10 base 2 cable.. one of the Ts must be the problem...

Antieconomical

If you intervene the medical industry so making scanners is antieconomical yeah, they wont have anything to sell, ane they might go under, but no scanners to be bought.

Re: More job displacement, yay

Constant money salaries have dropped and the pressure on nurses and doctors has increased.

Therefore it is not a "skill shortage". Pay more and improve working conditions, and you will have no trouble hiring.

Same for IT.. there are plenty of people who decided to quit because conditions were harsh (not me!).

As for being a shortage.. well, I am quite skilled and got a new contract as my old one finished.. but the tests I had to pass were tough. What this tells me is that there is NO SHORTAGE. Otherwise they would not aim to hire the best, but whoever is available as was the case in 1999.

So stop importing ppl in IT, no shortage at all, they just want to lower our salaries.

Note: I am a bloody foreigner, and yes, me being here is good for the economy but also lowers the salary for other highly qualified IT ppl.

Well yes but

If you have to take down your big iron, you are out of business while you apply he patches..

Re: Its the Will of the People!!

Actually, there is no skills shortage.

Pay more and people WILL flock.

Re: Yet another Remoaner circle-jerk on El Reg.

Errr no.

There is quite some disagreement over Brexit in thereg and their commentards.

But there can be little discussion about this particular issue: we (as in the UK) demanded that non EU countries had to be barred from providing the essential works for the project, and that is not illogical.

Now we leave, and as we are no longer part of the EU, of course we got out of the project. Quite obvious.

I think we should get reimboursed, at least partly reimbursed, but who knows if we would get that or not... we have almost no leverage on the EU, and they have a lot on us.

As for our negotiating team.. well, they warned us about this, but we chose not to listen to experts, we were tired of "so called experts". Now we blame them when we dont have leverage, exactly as predicted.

you see, we kept moaning about rules, and imposing plenty of rules on the EU "or we leave", and they kept accepting as it was in their best interest to have us in the EU. Now that we have left, well, the damage is going to happen, so they no longer care much about us.

What do we offer them? banking and insurance, and associated services. Hardly anything that they cannot replicate.. and they can take it away from us with things like Tolbin tax.

Re: Is this a form of sanctions against Russia?

Err, they detected and stopped plenty of cyberwarfare from the uk and the us.

I would say that is the problem for them.. they dont want their stuff being detected, and cannot force them to not detect their malware.

Disagree

You have to give your trade partners time to comply. Going into a trade war is bad for everyone, and some times it is more beneficial for you to have a slightly unfair agreement than no agreement at all.

Re: Anybody still have sympathy for those that use fb?

Some friends of mine were stupid enough to publish their political tendices quizz on facebook.

what else can I say?

Re: If only I could pay

Yep, if you pay your data will still be taken/stolen.

I would gladly pay a premium to have quality content.

But, and this is a big thing, there are some conditions for that.

First, I want privacy. And it is quite complicated.. how are they going to track my article consumption if I am not tracked?

Second, while I would agree with micropayments, history tells me that "micro" gets to be confused with "mini" then just "payments". If you dont agree, just look at DLCs.

Companies that think it is ok to be paid 0.07$ per article read though intrusive ads, believe 2$ is a fair price for the same article without ads. Madness.

So I would say that a "premium" subscription would be the best thing. Of course, the problem is that then several competing "subscription networks" would arise, and the internet would get fragmented.

Don't believe me? look at netflix and all netflix clones. I want to pay to watch content, and do pay for not one, but two three content providers.. and it is at the very least "annoying" that I would have to pay at least 6 subscriptions to watch decent stuff. And the more people pay, instead of becoming cheaper, it becomes more fragmented and therefore more expensive for the user.

Re: More inclusive?

It is the same sad thing as deciding that all races, creeds, etc have to be represented in a movie.

Well, if the movie is supposed to happen in China, most people in the movie, unless there is a very good explanation, should be chinese. Same for the us.. most people should be american.

If a minority is 10% of the population, parity in numbers is discrimination. Or you can come up with a good movie and try to be inclusive and thats it, do not force/reqrite characters, etc.

Going back to the egg.. it is NOT more inclusive. Non vegans will NOT be represented by that salad.. and they are a majority. So it is not more inclusive..

My guess is that they are so focused on discriminating people while claiming to be doing it for equality that they lost it.

Note: I feel that I have to qualify my post, as otherwise ppl will make assumptions. I am not a racist (not but..), and dont think discrimination is a good thing. First of all, because I have suffered it first hand in the UK, and second hand though my wife, as she is both american and jew (and boy they hate both in Spain).

I believe in equality, and discriminating majorities is not going to get equality. Of course, people with disabilities have to be helped, that is another matter.

Re: 50%

Nothing to be seen citizen, move along.

Re: Meanwhile...

Well, yes, but eyes have a limited, quite clear limit.

I would say the limit is 8K HDR 3D at 120fps. And of course, more bitrate will always help.

Re: How can it possibly be worth that much?

they do charge money for private repositories, etc.

weight

That is why you should measure the weight of the letters.

Re: Employment law, huh!

More like his boss got the call from the customer, and decided to sack him, alledgeing whatever to HR.

that HR did not check is the big mistake here.

Re: Only an id10t...

Worse still, packets to that port should be filtered at network level unless they come from their router management team. Otherwise there is a window of opportunity to pawn, and scripts WILL get them.

Re: Oh Lord

The average driver knows almost nothing about the innards of the car.

So for example if the accel pedal gets stuck (the carpet in some models tends to get stuck) they are able to overheat the brakes. They are THAT incompetent.

So I dont trust Wetware 1.0

I disagree

When I download an app, I decide to download that app, and the agreemen, if any, is between me and the developer. I am not the one to decide if there are ads or not, and if they are targeted or not.

So yeah, I have to give informed consent.

Also, if I have to agree to provide my personal info in order to get the app or for it to work, and that information is not needed for the app, then that consent is void.

At no point I have a contract with google, they are a mediator.

Another thing is that Google itself should be considered a data controller as they do store that info, and they are also probably breaking the law, but this does not remove the onus from the app writers/owners.

Re: You can marry at 16...

During WWII, many states 18 year old soldiers went to war to kill people yet they could not drink alcohol. You know, bad for their development..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state

Also, if you are from alaska you can marry at 14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_marriage_in_the_United_States .. and 12/14 in Massachusetts...

Re: And how...

Good luck buying a house.. and I rather doubt they will comply.

Nope

The 5 1/4" power connector you cannot connect it the wrong way.. the 3 1/2" you can with quite some persuasion required.

Thankfully we no longer have to deal with those faulty devices.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/30/business/toshiba-faces-1-billion-bill-over-a-lawsuit.html

Re: Rather than big tech 'blabbing n slurping' even more

One problem is that closing an email account can be worse than keeping it.. as if someone hijacks it, they WILL impersonate you with an account known to be yours!

Re: @ Simon 4

FTTH is normal in Spain, and the CPE is as the name implies inside the customers house, they DO have fiber.

Most ppl then connect a CAT6 or CAT6a cable to have 1 Gigabit connections to the router.

Example: (Spanish)

https://ayuda.orange.es/particulares/adsl-y-fibra/configuracion-e-instalacion/2148-todo-lo-que-debes-saber-sobre-tu-router-livebox-fibra

What is weird is to use coax in a country as humid as the UK. My Virgin line already needed to be fixed as the connector got corroded in the cabinet. It is as expensive or more expensive than fiber, gets corroded, and is way slower.

Re: Binding Protocol?

But, as you know, the moment you die you are branded a terrorist/militant.

Re: White Hysteria?

I am also slighty discriminated, for not being born in the UK.. and yep, I am white.

Also, I dont want positive discrimination, I just dont want discrimination.

Give a good, paid by the state education to everyone, and then just hire on talent.

I am ok with that.

Re: Nostalgia ain't what I thought it would be

The high score? just below "Error checking TLS connection: Host is not running"

I guess it is how many dockers are under your command...

Re: Weight?

So way worse that solar panels + ancillaries for orbit arround the earth.. but also way more compact and with less chances of being damaged my micrometeorites. Also depends way less on gyroscopes and reaction wheels + RCS, so less fuel needed.

I guess they will use this for deep space probes? like old RTGs ?

Agree

It is licenses what kills VDIs etc.

The technolgy was there more than a decade ago.. I would say it worked ok 15-16 years ago.

But you can't run anything that uses anything other than named users or floating licenses.

So no microsoft products, even if you CAN get a perfect windows vdi.

Re: I am Shocked I Tell You.......

You cannot ask for information that you are not going to need for a specific purpose that is revealed to the customer.

Not only that, but you must need that piece of data, and be able to justify it.

If the service does not require that piece of data and you require it, then there is no valid consent.

So yes, the big slurp is illegal.

Re: Yes, it is what OPEC do

The UK is not part of OPEC.