Posts by Blank Reg

The difference though is that when your refrigerator fails then maybe your milk will taste funny. When Boeing's products fail, people die.

Re: Old Codger Talks about the "old days"

I was involved in one of these large projects, we had about 40 people from all over the company involved in writing the requirements and reviewing the vendor responses. It was between our current vendor and 3 others. In the end our current vendor's proposal was ranked dead last. We put together our recommendation and sent it up the food chain for approval. The CEO picked our current vendor.

Then 6 months later he left to become CEO of another company, the parent company of our current vendor.

Re: Still a problem though

Perhaps, but higher voltage also requires more/better insulation. So the weight could come down but the cable might still be huge.

Superchargers are already pushing 300amps at 480v, how much higher can we go before it's too dangerous to allow the average idiot anywhere near the charge? Maybe there will be new job openings for pump jockeys to operate these 1000amp chargers

Re: Who is watching movies on their phone?

I'm still using my 7 year old Sony tablet with it's 1920x1200 screen. After all these years it still works well and holds a charge as good as ever.

Re: Demented?

People age at different rates, and dementia is not inevitable. I've known centenarians that were sharp as ever, and 60 year olds that couldn't find their shoes when they were already wearing them.

that's right, the Java SE license did not allow it to be used in mobile devices. but Google didn't need SE, Java Me could do everything that they needed, they just didn't want to fork over the few pennies per device in licensing fees.

until your battery inevitably turns to crap and then you accidentally bump the cable while in the middle of something important Been there, done that. Thankfully no one is in inflicting macs upon me any longer.

Re: Do they know an open source Windows would be the death of Linux?

"I tend to think it will slow the adoption of desktop Linux"

If it were any slower it would be going in reverse, or maybe it already is.

Too many companies only see IT as an expense, so don't be so sure that they have the resources to prevent such issues. When you only hire the cheapest staff that you can find then you get what you pay for.

"What happens if it doesn't return to service?"

Well, they could put all that aluminum to good use making beer cans.

Re: The only winner in this

I don't even notice online ads anymore, haven't for many years. I just mentally block them out and have never clicked on one except by accident. If everyone was like me then the business model for most of the web would collapse.

Re: I will not use this

There also needs to be finer control of permissions when you do want such a program to run.

So if I give an application access to a local file, then it can only access that local file. If I give it permission to a directory, then it can only access that directory. And under no circumstances should it have access to any system files or directories.

Re: Surprised

So I guess we can now assign musk the new nickname "Pedo guy" and use it freely since there will be no repercussions for doing so.

He unlikely to do worse than the current jokers in power.

Re: Quelle Surprise

Charging for an extended warranty isn't strange, but making to still pay for repairs even though you bought an extended warranty is something I've not seen elsewhere.

Re: It really is interesting

"We have a system which massively rewards utter bullsh't"

When you see tech companies release a prospectus stating that they don't ever expect to make money, and people still buy the stock, then you know that reality doesn't come in to the equation for some investors.

Re: €48.1bn??

If they were a country then they would rank somewhere around 60 on the first list I found. Others may use different acounting but I doubt they would vary that drastically.

Re: More guns = safer for everyone

If you need a gun to feel safe then either you're paranoid or you're living in one of those "shithole countries" that trump talks about.

At least Trump is both a crook and incompetent, just think what might be happening if he was only the former.

Re: Dihydrogen monoxide

I typically stick with beers in the 90-92% DHMO range in order to reduce the risks slightly. I have tried going as low as 86% but I've not found any to my liking that are below 89%.

Re: "Media Bridge, based in Virginia, and LCX Digital, based in California"

I realize that such a person as could pull this off would be exceedingly rare and it would almost certainly fall into a typical dictatorship after they are gone. But it has nothing to do with needing a reassuring father figure, it's about being able to do what needs to be done regardless of what the lobbyists, corporations and even the general populace wants.

Instead we get politicians pandering to the masses in order to get elected, and particularly in the US big donors in order to get enough money to even run for election.

Re: Hmmm...

"Why aren't there more female bricklayers? Do the same impediments apply?"

Have you ever worked on a construction site? The level of misogyny in the construction industry is generally higher than normal. If I were a woman I'd think twice about picking that as a career.

Much like the "make money in real estate" seminars.

Re: ... not about the hiring decisions, but the firing decisions

"pointless change for the sake of it"

No, it was change to make it look like they were doing something. They can't come in and just say "Seems like everying is working ok, just carry on then". They have to make a change so that they can been seen to be having an impact, even though that impact is all too often negative.

It sounds like they have embraced the "fail fast, fail often" mindset to the fullest.

Re: "McNealy, 64, is a free-market, small-government Republican"

No evidence? Are you new to this planet?

Even if you've disabled Java you are likely still using it every day.

Your sim card is almost certainly a JavaCard. Use the internet? You won't get far before hitting a site with Java on the back end somewhere. Most Android apps are written in Java. Blueray players use Java. It's embedded in all kinds of devices, it's everywhere.

Re: Pony up.

I'd rather have this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdWgmp4TaQ

No need for fake flames painted down the side of the car when you can have real ones.

Re: Subscription services

It won't last. There are just too many streaming services for them all to survive on their own. How many is the average consumer willing to pay for, 2? 3? maybe 4? I doubt many will go much beyond that.

I expect over the next few years there will be a shakeout with some of the services folding and others merging to leave us with 2 to 4 big players.

Do server motherboard manufacturers not provide a way to validate that installed firmware is legitimate and unaltered? If not then perhaps it's about time that they did.

Re: Slack

So it's a fancy replacement for the unix talk command I was using as far back as 35 years ago.

Re: Can't understand why anyone would buy the 20TB drive

Except for when you need to replace a dead drive in a raid array and wait for it to be re-populated. I wonder how long it takes to restore a full 20TB drive?