* Posts by mevets

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Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones

mevets

Re: Generative AI

To introduce some variation in people.

Why have everybody over-enthusiastically gush at the same banal crap when each device owner could have entirely unique banal crap.

Ever hear a band swap a city name in the lyrics to the city they are playing in? Recognizing that their favourite band knows where they are tonight, whips the crowd into an adoring frenzy.

Likewise your favourite TicTok, uh, star, generating content directly for you. It's all you diapers and feeding tubes in this brave new world.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

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RIP: VMware

VMware was an exceptional company.

In Technology, they were the only? pure systems software shop going.

They made crazy virtualization technology work, even when there was little hardware support.

They made assisted virtualization better than the underlying technologies supported.

They were the leader; everybody else followed with grim, hacky copies of what they had.

So, Hock, how many of the *monitor* team are still with you?

They were, of course, targeted for retention, yet have been showing up at interviews for the last 6 months.

It is terrible that these raiders can slash and burn.

There will not be another VMware.

mevets

Re: Way to go : Tan

I appreciate people who embrace the downscale market.

What is the point in quality when users have a refresh button?

Sure, some will never use your services again when you charge them for undelivered items, etc....

But they are only a small percentage of your base.

What company ever went wrong with hugging the fat middle of the curve?

We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs'

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Re: Centrino

`the wrong color of WiFi `: I seem to recall that colouring your wifi antennae with Green Crayola Crayons would make the Ones more Oneier and the Zeros more Zeroier.

VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

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Remember the 6 million dollar man.

He was supposed to be "faster, stronger, cheaper"... oh, uh, no, not cheaper.

How has "We can offer a more abysmal service for less money" become our defining goal?

AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find

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Re: @John Riddoch - Not at all surprising really

I am continuing to Petioning the Lord with Prayer. Petitioning the Lord with Prayer.

You Cannot Petition The Lord with Prayer.

So, okay, an LA Heroin addict isn't an authentic source, but they were little removed in absurdity than those that first read the holy books.

It has been a long tradition that a ridiculous story of one era (ie. walks on water) becomes a literal tenant of an "enlightened" subsequent generation.

I "quote" enlightened to demark its sad perversion in this context.

Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year

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Great malice creates greater opportunities....

I have always been shocked at the loyalty and respect vmWARE's customers have/had for them.

Now that this has been spent, there is a great opportunity for other platforms to offer relief to those customers.

I think it will take AVGO a few years to drain the tank, since most customers were not ready nor in a position to change platforms.

I suspect for every dollar picked from their pockets, those customers have a fiver to invest in breaking the chains.

Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?

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Re: The most important question

In my past, I have shouted at BMC. BMC not only shouts back louder, but does so at a words per minute rate that would make a Scottish Chieftan head (actually heed) for the hills (heels).

mevets

3000 lbs...

My 2U supermicro with 32 cores weighs 40 lbs. About 5/4 lb per core.

So 2560 lb per 2048 cores.

Almost exactly what the 0x1de one weighs; but doesn't include the cross connect, etc.

Not sure where the author got 3000lb.... oxide's spec sheet says different.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

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oblig air canada joke

Two drunks were sitting in an airport lounge, when a couple of flight attendants walked in. One drunk approached the attendants with the tired line "... If I can guess which airline your with, you have to let us buy you a drink ..".

One of the attendants, without skipping a beat, replied "I don't care what your problem is, go back to your seat and shut the fuck up."

The drunk smiled and said "Easy. Air Canada".

iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces

mevets

Re: Frying tonite

Given the Price : Value ratio, I assume the wearer's have all had a little electroshock therapy.

Apple's on-device gen AI for the iPhone should surprise no-one. The way it does it might

mevets

Re: Alibi

Dissection, be it of a joke or a frog, seldom yields any insight; and in both cases, there is no hope for the patients survival.

mevets

Re: Alibi

Ever feel a sort of whooshing over your head?

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

mevets

Re: Alternative uses

There were a series of documentaries about this in the 70s.

One prototype was setup in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas; another in Thailand.

In both cases, UK terrorists sabotaged the prototypes, presumably to keep North Sea oil viable.

I think the chief scientist on one of those projects ended up shilling for Dodge/Chrysler.

Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew?

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idealogical or pragmatic....

"Threatening to call police SWAT teams on cancer patients. " is a bit chilling.

The solution of making ransomware payments illegal is just a variation on the same threat.

Who protects us from the protectors?

ps: Yes, if it was important. No otherwise.

Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere

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Re: Done that.

"have too many children".

well, at least one too many.

mevets

all caps

I find the all caps is what makes this so convincing. Two parts whisky; one part shift lock.

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

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What happened to the mob?

I thought the main role of mobsters in places like vegas included making sure these places didn't get hit.

Even if the mob thinks computers are out of its ken, organizations like okta are directly competing in the protection racquet domain.

Have the movies been lying all along?

Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap

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Re: Denier no more?

The denial of the overwhelming body evidence of supporting AGW is where the plot holes lie.

mevets

Re: CO2 absorption by iron fertilisation of the oceans

Yes, all a conspiracy by the elites to keep their important and highly paid positions.. sigh.

If only there were some way to lookup the possible ramifications of *iron fertilizing* to see why these green meanies are so bent on wrecking everyone's fun....

mevets

Re: Sun block

The only experience with deliberately tinkering?

What about trying to burn everything we could pump out of the ground for over a century?

Given that the dangers were well established by the early 1900s, it seems a bit trump-ish to claim it wasn't deliberate.

mevets

Denier no more?

re: "Discussions centered not on "if" — that's been settled — "

I missed it, when did El Reg drop its global warming denial stance?

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

mevets

Re: No comment on how this has been received by Prime members?

I've always considered prime video and music to be a second class freebee thrown in to sweeten the deal of getting car parts without shipping fees.

That said, there are often shows and series on prime which aren't available elsewhere. Peter Gun was a welcome example.

So, if I have to pay 35$ a year extra for commercial free life, it would be sad. As revenge, I will order and return the shipping cost equivalent of 35$ from Amazon Basics, just to be a dick.

To quote the great Arlo Guthrie:

You know, if One person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and

They won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,

They may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.

And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in

Singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an

Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said

Fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and

Walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

mevets

V'Ger?

Will it be repaired by a race of living machines?

Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units

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spun out?

The monitor is the same in desktop and server variants. So, if I buy this spun-out desktop division, I get the crown jewels with it? I can then use that to make my own junior-virtzilla ?

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

mevets

New OpenAI CEO:

David Tolley, fresh off their good work at WeWork, will take the reigns of OpenAI, after convincing the board they had out-accelerated not just Twitler's personal amplifier X, but even " "X in the race to ground.

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

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A lesson from Tigger and Pooh.

Maybe if he tried to destroy ~~twitter~~ X, he would accidentally save it.

We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig

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star wars II ?

Now a couple of generations past, David Parnas delivered his scathing evisceration of Rayguns STARWARS defence system using the corporate jet as a metaphor.

Could a space based defence system reliably discriminate a lear jet full of executives from one packed with nuclear weapons.

[ edit: not sure which is more dangerous ]

Could this pulse weapon, meant to destroy hostial UAVs, be repurposed by positioning a UAV between the emitter and a commercial airliner?

Surely if it destroys a UAV control system, which could be equipped with faraday cages, etc..., an airliner now sporting 5g bridges is a sitting duck...

New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

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Physics nerds.

They couldn't grasp the concept of recreational pharmaceuticals in secondary school along with the cool kids.

They traipse along their meagre existence until they catch up to their pubescent contemporaries

And finally decide that what was bleedingly obvious to all

Reality is a facade

great news.

mevets

Re: If this is a simulation...

Sure, here is your simulated money : https://www.coinbase.com/

Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals

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Nefarious?

Is "nefarious means" microsoft speak for basic competence?

Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them

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Imagine

A beowulf cluster of those.

Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn't fix it, engineers claim

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Re: There is no possible fix

What could go wrong with relying on yet another layer of half thought out ideas poorly implemented?

The idea of playing "grand theft auto" with live vehicles packed full of people is intriguing....

mevets

The real danger...

This excerpt " ... resulting in motorists putting themselves in dangerous situations.... "

seems to miss the point.

If idiot mode only harmed the driver, that would be sad, but not the saddest thing.

The crime is that these idiots operating and deploying these killer robots are endangering everybody else.

I'm sure I am not the only one that checks for a Tesla before crossing the road.

mevets

what the driver was doing at the time?

1. Madly trying to figure out how to turn murder mode off?

2. Loudly and slowly saying "Alexa, let me drive. "

3. ....

Gelsinger: Intel should get more CHIPS Act funding than rivals

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C-suite metaphores...

where would we be without them? Happier? probably not; mainly feeling less superior to the dolts that 10^6 X our salaries.....

Light a fire for a man; he will be warm for an hour.

Set a man on fire; he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Ultra-rare Apple sneakers from the 1990s on sale for $50,000

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Apple Maps memorabilia....

I look forward to launching an NFT of Apple Maps directing me to the nearest gas station, a mere 2700 kilometres away.

Hopefully I can double down with an audio NFT of Siri insisting I head towards my destination...

Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner

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The V/A R killer app

Prisons. Often a literally killer app; but V/A R could be applied to make prisoners lives less miserable. Or more. It is hard to say; but at least this kit doesn't have to end up in a dumpster.

38 percent of tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report

mevets

Re: Women users seem much more comfortable approaching the women of the team?

Hmm. I do wonder if there are two sides to that anecdote?

Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May

mevets

Re: Should have paid for IT support

Microsoft are a criminally convicted company. While some lawyers view criminals as their most important customers, you might have thought they would have learned a thing or two.

mevets

The real lesson is not victim shaming.....

However, as a lawyer, you would have thought they might have read the terms of service that they agreed to by paying for the service.

It clearly outlines that while the service might provide some sort of electronic mail exchange, the instance of that service was by no means a warranty of a continuation of such service.

Silly lawyer.

Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU

mevets

Chipzilla is name challenged.

Barely 1 score after naming their brave new invincible architecture a word that rhymes with Titanic; they are back with some thoughtful names.

Recently we had Raptor Lake; which poses great imagery. One of the last line of dinosaurs before they transformed into a modern species.

Now Meteor Lake, which summons an idyllic lake, where dinosaurs play in the water as a world changing meteor descends on the planet.

If I were a risc-v company, I would be naming my products after birds. But maybe skip the Dodo; I think chipzilla may rightly claim IP on that.

Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support

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Re: Xen as well

You don't need to fully trust all drivers. There is something to be said for your keyboard driver not being able to over-write your page tables.

The real lacking was intel didn't provide any sort of ring & privileged opcode configurability wrt CPL.

mevets

4 ring OS.

QNX4 also used rings 1 & 2; specifically privileged items like drivers ran in ring 1; the microkernel in ring 0; normal apps and servers in ring 3.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf

Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill

mevets

Re: Mixed feelings today

I am not sure what the exact crime was -- fraud or losing money?

It seems that Theranos did almost the exact same thing as Uber -- used investors money to pretend they had a viable service when they didn't.

One difference is that Uber had a sort of business model.

All it needed to do was drive the traditional taxi companies out of business, then could stop *dumping* its services and charge realistic fines.

In effect, the use of investors money transformed from *providing the illusion of a viable product* to *bankrupting the competition in taxi-like services*.

Yet there is no talk of Uber facing *anti-trust* charges for predatory pricing; nor dozens of others that exploited similar strategies.

mevets

I am sure

You are a real treat yourself. Go burrow back under that bridge, will ya.

Microsoft's big bet on helium-3 fusion explained

mevets

Bad name, won't work.

This is where you need a real mad scientist name; like Dr Otto Octavius at the helm to guide it. And why the mountains of Washington, when downtown New York would be so much safer?

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial

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Was it in one of those Cesnas....

That they ran extra-ordinary extractions through?

Personally, I don't see how HP having their head so far up their ass they couldn't see they were being scammed is a criminal offence.

I understood that to be *buyer beware* in the land of the free and all that.

However, the idea of corporate malfeasance including a junket in a Syrian torture chamber wouldn't exactly have me coughing up a few more dollars for Amnesty Int.

It would likely be good for freedom everywhere if these assholes understood that their *innovative business idea* might lead to a little waterboarding.

Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work

mevets

My Prediction

In the article: a retiring bloke with an overactive imagination.

In the comments: A load of still wet behind the ears oo'n and awe'n over regression, determined that it is a new paradigm rather than second year algebra.

In the cheap seats: A load of folks who remember the last time neural nets awed, over promised, and crashed like a dot com.

Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down

mevets

Re: Need to get away from these names

` We are confused so that you don't have to be `.

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