Posts by Mpeler

Re: 50 shades of fail.

Ahhh, so THAT's what Vendor Tie-In means.....

Re: Advance tickets now on sale...

Well, there goes Burning Man, then.....

Re: To be followed by ...

Not forgetting, of course,

"I'm Neither Here Nor There; I Think I'll Throw a Chair"...

Or, he could teach "Little Known Facts" (as in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown):

"Lucy: Do you see this tree? It is a fir tree.

It's called a fir tree because it gives us fur for coats.

It also gives us wool in the wintertime."

Re: Lovely. (Steve spinning powering iFads)

So that's why they all catch on fire :)

Re: He was set up

Ahhh, so THAT's why he's smiling...

Re: Why arrest them?

"whoever is buying this oil has a LOT of explaining to do."

Sounds like a, erm, Shell game to me...

Re: I wonder.... @LDS

"Why MS is giving away Win10 for free and gave up all the money from upgrades? "

As soon as I saw the "free upgrades" in the media, the idea of "fee upgrades" (for Micro$oft) popped into my head (or, rather, slithered). Aside from the fact they've just taken the computing world back 60 years to IBM's view of rental software (ahh, the days of TimeSharing and slooooow modems), they've managed to finally implement "one device, one copy, forever".

Chuck the mobo in the skip because it's failed, replace it - sorry (dumb) customer, you'll need to purchase a new copy of windoze 1 0. Probably the same for other devices (I'm starting to believe all this licensing crap from XP onwards was a dry run for this).

Getting a board which doesn't support UEFI would probably go a ways to putting a spanner in their schemes (btw, who REALLY needs a huge sysdisc in these days of SSDs....). I fear the days when M$ (or whoever, NSA, GCHQ, STASI, etc.) can refuse your UEFI PC booting, or perhaps even brick it. Then again, M$ updates sometimes brick things too.

Using alternatives to Skype and Bing (OK, yeech)(either way) would also stop the implied consent of tie-in. Sad to say, this could be the final nail in the coffin for Windows Phones if people catch on the M$'s illict linking practices.

Micro$oft: get your money-grubbing paws off my PC.

Re: EU law

Yep, they're about due to do something useful... it's been quite a while, what with cucumber curvature, useless lightbulbs, vacuum cleaners that (don't) suck, and dryers that don't dry.

What the HE!! do they do in Brussels anyway? Even their chocolate isn't any good anymore...

Re: Guess I'll stick to 7 until 2020...I know a guy called Linus who did just that....

van Pelt?

(and he was just doing it for Peanuts)...

Re: I can understand only part of this...

Maybe they wanted to hack the

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National Anthem....

Re: Looking at the picture...(It was smashed by a rod?)

No, it was a-rod who was smashed - swung and missed.....

(A's fan here....)

Re: Revenge Attack

Planned Parenthood has been filmed selling the parts, claiming "robots can't feel pain".

Meanwhile the hitchBOT's developers are angry because it was claimed it wasn't viable.

LCD modes

Used to do this (albeit less dangerously) on HP Laserjunk printer displays.....

Birds? What birds?

"Most birds fly below 500 feet except during migration"...

Won't be a problem after all the birdchoppers are done with them.

With Cameroon &co. mopping up tons of money with their ever-increasing windfarms, all that'll be left of the bird population is the mop up.

What on earth is so bl33ding important that it needs to be delivered, essentially unattended, within 30 minutes? If it's medication or legal documents, it had better be in human hands (or at least human control) the whole time.

This "in the air, everywhere" crap has to stop. Money-grubbing clowns.

Just wonder what they'd do when they lose their delivery (or build) slot and the clothes won't be available for another month.....

And don't get me going on delete options and 00A-009 stuff, not to mention ABA and ABD...

Re: Tidy Desk

As the saying goes,

Cluttered desk, cluttered mind;

Empty desk, ............. (empty mind).

Had a colleague once who was obsessive-compulsive (obsessive-repulsive?).

Seems that his cell cubicle mates reversed his cube end-to-end.

I wasn't there, but I heard it was a major incident. Have to be careful which

uber-organized folks ye tweak.....

(Sherlock ALWAYS knows where his pipe is - now about that tobacco.....)

Re: If any writers of Dr Who or Star Trek are reading this article...

Another chance for Khan and Spock to go at it...

Maybe wearing jackets or parkas of "Rich Corinthian Leather" (for all you Chrysler Cordoba fans out there (both of you) (just kidding!!!!!).

Paris, well, she can be on the Red Team...

For Your Ice Only

And, softly in the background, I hear (Sheena Easton):

For Your Ice Only...

Re: CAN Bus

Firesign Theater saw this coming, years ago, with their album,

"I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus".

Al Yankovic did too, with "Another One Rides The Bus".

Hmmm... Early INFOtainment. (And really good, too).

Apparently the Porsche Panamera uses (or used - article is from 2010) SIX CAN buses for various systems, and has gateway ECUs. There's a PDF at http://vector.com/portal/medien/cmc/press/PND/

CANoe_Porsche_PETRA_ATZ_201011_PressArticle_EN.pdf

with more info. (You'll need to splice the two halves of the URL together, somehow it wouldn't fit here).

I would think they could have a "software" firewall to go with the hardware firewall they already have.

Having said that, the "drive" toward self-driving cars (and government control thereof?) makes problems like this more and more likely...

Paris, Prosecco, and Porsches...

Re: WTF?

@ 8Ace " ...The nice display on these Infotainment systems are great for systems messages too ...."

Maybe they hired away some of the people responsible for that M$ Office GUI mess known as "the ribbon".

The more eye candy, the more problems....

One has to wonder, however, just how much automation is necessary. Safety, yes, eye-candy gobbledegook, no.

(Overly) smart cars lead to stupid drivers. An example of this would be people who rely too much on the parking-system sensors - sometimes it pays to watch where you're going.

Re: Lawyer bashing

"/Dons flame retardant jacket

//Replaces with retard retardant jacket"

/// IS a retard, jacket or not.

There, FTFY...

Re: When I were a lad at school

Worse, if ye were caught diluting the peat to make it go farther, ye were told to

Re-peat, and thin no more...

Re: Interesting times for the new regime

"Some people are very heavily invested and don't want to loose their shirts."

Maybe what they should spend their "heavily invested" money in is better development and testing then.

Shooting the messenger never solves the problem, although perhaps in the rarefied boardroom world of "perception is reality" it satisfied their arrant egos.

Re: Well, it looks Avago went well since it was splitted from HP...

Avago was a sub-split, so to speak, and is probably doing better because Bill Sullivan embodied the "Peter Principle" and was booted upwards.

HP split off Agilent (the "original" HP bits) in 1999, and then Avago (semi components, etc.) and Verigy (semiconductor test) was split off later from Agilent.

The fiber test group was, sadly, deep-sixed in the process as no-one wanted to put dark fibre back online after 9-11 killed the economy (even though if they had waited, it would have paid off).

They also managed to miss the LED lighting boom (bye-bye Lumileds), killed off super-duper electron microscopes while HP killed their atomic clocks biz.

Heyyy, if you're killing off the labs, who cares about basic scientific research, or? You can always get it off the shelf (say the folks who stick "Invent" at the bottom of the HP sign and hope it does the trick as well as the humans did).....

Re: So....

Well, jynnan tonnyx all round then... Look in the fridge, Number One...