Posts by PhilipN

Mr. O .... You and I shall have words!

Start of the weekend here but not past Second Coffee time.

Ever again you ask me to watch a video that is going to leave me brain-dead for hours... I shall be .... DISAPPOINTED!!!!

Field test positive

Field test ....ummm .... How?

"paying out the nose"

What? Is this an Americanism? Blimey. Over 'ere we pay "through" the nose, or pay out ...I dunno... rope?

Learn something new ...

Blah blah blah ..

Meanwhile back in the real world the work which MUST be done on a desktop (as opposed to work which could be done on a desktop but which is with relative ease handled on a machine with a different form factor) has shrivelled to a much greater degree than PC sales. Including in the definition of "PC" that few square inches we hold in one hand (stop sniggering at the back) and which is equivalent to the power of a PC very recently total sales have gone up exponentially and will increase.

Does anyone care about these Olde Worlde statistics apart from the desktop-building dinosaurs who have failed to move on?

Total missing of point as usual

Modern music is crap**. Kids only listen to a segment to decide whether they like it or not then either move on or continue streaming. The mentality (and the music**) barely support the "old-fashioned" idea of buying a single.

** Yes it is. By listening to a short segment the kids have heard everything the track musically has to offer. Most tracks are made up of a poorly-formed musical idea and do not go anywhere. By comparison (yes, old fart here) pick almost ANY track by The Fall and there are enough musical ideas for 6 modern singles.

Point?

Article funny, but then I realised most likely we all understood all of it instantly anyway.

So Mr. Sam Sung please just keep and spread widely Bixby Pidgin so we can make it through the day and have a mild chuckle from time to time.

P.S. With apologies to all Across-the-Ponders (since it is only partly your fault) but, I was like, the article was a good deal more, like, literate than what you hear from kids in public when, like, every other, like, word is ..... OK you get the point. May I suggest the kids just copy us Scousers and save up all the "likes" and just put one at the end of every sentence instead.

Boring

So don't buy a thousand dollar phone.

Buy a knock-off and throw it away after a few months

Jobs' Message

I give you .... the finger!

Absolutely will not stop

Nice one, Dabbsy.

You telegraphed the concluding Terminator statement, but that's ok. It's a good line.

SWMBO

I perceive influence from his little lady and the language he has been learning - to read as well as speak, it seems. Kee-rist he may even have been studying Confucius, Mencius and Chairman Mao.

The mission statement is around just 3 characters in Chinese and in that form comes across as a good deal more pithy.

The wordy English version just sounds silly.

But Gmo Zuck will never EVER behave like an Emperor surrounded by eunuchs ..... ... ...

(£47 – cheap!)

Thanks for the MAD Magazine nod.

And now we know where you got your inspiration to go into media : what you read while sitting on the loo (can or john for US's)

To maintain the stance I'm gonna come back later and see if I can downvote my own post.

Business is Business

Be realistic. Every company on the planet would be happy to accept the Cook's Shilling. You then work your arse off meeting the logistics requirements while (if you're smart) background planning for the day the orders dry up. I do not know (anything) about IM but each Apple supplier - Foxconn included - would in turn put the almighty squeeze on its own suppliers and sub-contractors. If this is how IM operated and a raft of their sub-contractors go bust, nobody in IM is going to cry for them.

I know where it is

At least my former boss thought he did - it shone out of his arse

Alternatively, or additionally ...

FB want to do just enough to avoid a charge of conspiring with a terrorist cell.

And, I am not sold on this one (yet) but there could be an advantage in allowing the cells to flourish under the watchful eye of the Bill so's they can, I dunno, catch early signs of increasing radicalism? Otherwise by comparison how difficult is it, for example, to know who goes on the special watch list (and his known associates)? I'm asking.

Sir Humphrey would never have been caught out

If asked to re-affirm loyalty to the President he would without hesitation have declared unreserved and irrevocable loyalty to the Presidency.

Missing the point

The objective of virtual / augmented / [insert latest buzzword here] reality is so I do not have to GO anywhere. I just put on my goggles and "virtual space" suit and it gives the sensation of being where I want to be. The sensation of going there too if I really (sic) want to experience a train ride. So my avatar sits in a meeting with everyone else's avatar and everything is the same - coffee and bad breath; uncomfortable seats and boring flow charts.

I thought Sony had a camera years ago which could in effect digitise a whole city. Why would I want to sit on a crowded train to go to Glasgow if I can just "transport" myself virtually - and instantly - into the middle of town.

Hmmm ... Virtual single malt gets a bit tricky though. That aside - I also thought IBM kicked off this whole virtual reality tourism some years ago with a digitised version of the Imperial Palace Museum in Beijing. Anyone know what happened to that?

Fuel saving

Did the pilot choose to save fuel by starting up only when the passengers were on board?

Or was it so swirling rotor blades did not damage Ginni's statuesque coiffure as she boarded?

Fidelity portable

Luxury!

Mind you - I played to death Concerto for Group and Orchestra (those who know, know) on a 13 quid turntable from Woollies and when I hear it now on CD, accepted it is clearer, but there is nowt coming from the CD which I did not hear on the record.

As for background hiss, unless it gets ridiculous our brains tune it out, just as it does with ambient noise every moment of the day.

Up and running

Still playing but booted and installed from the iso under VMWare Fusion on macos. Fast enough but familiarity with the eCs installation regime helps a lot. Quite zippy but not yet tried anything except Firefox : slow to load but quick to run

Entrapment?

Kept him talking for 2 months.

And where do Delaware cops learn to chat like 14-year old girls?

First they came ...

Excellent allusion to Niemoller's diatribe of which there are various versions a foreshortened version of which is :

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

LSD microdosing?

And this we know how? Enquiring minds etc

P.S. Good article

The penny drops

"Nadella's observation that the typical Microsoft customer will have multiple network-connected devices...."

Bloody hell! He just noticed?