Posts by Daggerchild 827 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Dec 2013
There are things called 'external battery packs' and 'car chargers'.
And when my unreplaceable battery failed to hold charge, it ended up chained to them for the rest of its life. They don't use that battery shape anymore. Replacing with a Chinese copy didn't work.
The next model up had an unremovable SIM..
Yup, it's definitely that simple and nothing to do with all that lovely money they saw that other guy get. Google are always completely evil and the American legal system is never used as an expensive blackmail tool.
What happens when you show the US ads from Canadian companies for drugs that are legal in Canada?
Ooh - interesting point. At what point does Google become an 'essential service' and they lose control over when and to whom they must provide it?
Maybe they can be strapped into the same rack as the Health and the Education system, where you realise you can torture them to your heart's content and all they can do in return is try and endure it. *MWUhahahahaaaaaaaa*
I expected the first synthetic cities to be sea based as it would be easier to sort out the legal issues (although seeing the amount of **** they stirred up just with those empty barges..).
Lots of fun engineering problems there. It's hard to rezone city chunks as the city grows, but with a floating segmented city..
"Sire, quadrant 43 voted for Trump.."
It would try and keep it alive throwing more and resources and thought at it until it was no longer be able to deny that engineering just can't solve some problems, whereupon they'd have an internal existential crisis and some employees would have mental breakdowns.
It would be really fun to watch, and I don't mean that from a malignant f***-Google standpoint either. The juncture between the the Ordered Solution and the Chaotic Solution is possibly the richest seam of wisdom humanity could ever research, and can is ever be mined by shutting up, rolling up the sleeves and putting your money where your mouth is.
I just wish people would stop stabbing each other because the hatefire and bloodsplatter is making it really hard to see what's going on here.
What do you trust when you do not trust your own roots?
A tree graph that sheds more and more power further from its root is a human-understandable model. Are there any others?
Will humans ever stop running stupid stuff in God-mode unnecessarily just because it was simpler than sorting perms?
I used to torture markov-chain-parser chat bots like this, about 15 years ago, trying to teach them the joy of massively recursing sentence components.
I hope Microsoft were trying something more advanced than one of those, but it doesn't actually look like it.
It all smacks a little too deperately of "Please notice me! *BSOD* I.. I'm sure I can do AI too!... *BSOD*"
Heh - I see the opposite problem : changes that 'must' be done out of hours that should be done in hours.
Tweak a complicated thing at midnight that causes ripples. Nobody sees any problems (or they see problems that could be instantly fixed by someone who went home hours ago).
Workers then come in in the morning and find some things have been subtly broken for several hours that they would have noticed instantly in hours reducing the damage.
If the Internet has taught us anything, it's that 'people' are incapable of 'genuinely valuable, open conversation.'. The subject is emotive. The conversation half-life before decaying into factions will be short. It would require significant cooling and many carbon-based moderators to control the reaction.
I remember, many years ago, the suggestion that I take my efficient, fast, securely operating website and make unknown amounts of it come from some people I'd never met who are only interested in money..
I think all managers need to have a bronze plaque installed on their office wall for every time they ignore warnings and order a previously workable solution to install flaws. One plaque for each time the flaw breaks it. Two for each time they complain it's broken.
Best coder I ever knew was a giggly little 5 foot thing with a huge uncontrollable grin.
And when she switched to code mode, she produced things with clean flat sides that very politely declined to even entertain the possibility of having flaws. Made my job as her tester a boring nightmare. (And I'd made such evil, evil tests too..)
A colleague went on holiday and I found he'd not read the spec properly, and a deadline was coming up, and our little lady had to step in, grumbled a little, then replaced all of his work in a frankly improperly short amount of time..
Yeah, on average I would actually say ladycode is probably superior.
The thing that saddens me greatly is when the conditions involve not being allowed to do things that they can't imagine.
The unfortunate thing about pushing out the boundaries of the possible, is that your workplace is by necessity far away from the centre of expectation, and beyond a certain distance from 'the average' (cursed be its name) people actively start regarding you as 'inconvenient' and you start hearing 'why can't you just be like everyone else, why do you have to be awkward?', and you get that sinking feeling again.
I for one hope they don't spend the money on another attempt to solve the problem.
I hope they spend the money on an attempt to define the problem. With a clean understanding, and defined requirements, they could set up a decent staging post for the armies of order. They can then get competing implementations. Maybe work out if they need further staging posts. No way will this expedition work in one shot.
That and a sacrificial prototype implementation to find out how badly they collected the requirements...
"Your post shows some fundamental misunderstandings about how Ads platforms work ... sites then sell this data to arbitrary third parties ..."
*puts on "That Person" T-shirt* - *puts on blindfold* - *smokes cigarette*
But.. Google sell the advertisers to the data, not the data to the advertisers, or otherwise someone who wanted to screw Google would have already acquired this data and waved it around as proof. Did nobody notice that silence?
"Doesn't sound as harmless put like that does it?"
Try blueballing a lynchmob sometime.
"If the system were more modular, then they would be able to update most of it, and what was left would be hardware specific and down to the manufacturers"
It is modular. Including the predefined API to the hardware libraries. Modular doesn't save you. Ask yourself why people use linux Distributions when all of the components are obviously completely independent and individually updatable.
Windows uses Ctrl-Alt-Delete to summon a window that no program can overlay, because that is *exactly* what people were doing. Fake lockscreens trivially acquired the user's passwords, with no way of telling it was fake.
These tricks are *ancient*. I thought all windowing systems knew kids did this. Jesus, Android, you should be ashamed of yourself. Authentication/Authorisation interaction has always required a controlled environment.
There has to be something missing here. This can't all be because he *didn't* poach Apple/Intel engineers when he was at Google, can it?
Isn't there anyone attesting to him personally being a sleazeball, or to any slimy decisions he's started to make in his new job? He must have done something else as well to back all this up, surely.
The government should just give up and ask Google how to fix the tax laws. They obviously know them better, and have the brains, data, time and tech.
The funny thing? Google would probably, actually, genuinely, try and fix the tax laws, because at this stage of their development, they really do still like fixing things.
It's back. It's 970x250
alt="Accelerating productivity. 7 out of 10 of the world’s largest companies use Hewlett Packard Enterprise Mobility Solutions. Learn more. Accelerating next. Hewlett Packard Enterprise."
Bye bye all new front page articles again. And its javascript is SO heavy that the title bar plus sidebar grinding their many images to do its dancing numbers' pretty animations actually hurts my work PC.
Adblock?
To emphasise, I mean not visible unless you scroll/page down after it's finished rendering. 1280x1024, firefoxish thing.
The huge ad has wandered off now, so I can now see three stories on the full screen front page again. Bigger desktop at home can get half of the next three as well.
Last couple of rejections are a conundrum. Forbidden from highlighting a source negatively, yet to all available data, the source genuinely *is* negative (to put it very mildly). I thought I could call the spade a spade.
I again don't know what aspect caused the rejections. Is there any way to phrase a 'be aware - manipulative source' (not journo, not article) to get it past moderation?
(Not comfortable with Reg glossing over their long reputation, then muffling comments highlighting it. That piper isn't playing that tune for our benefit, and you really shouldn't pull us into their dance without warning us.)
To solve large problems you will need powerful tools. Birthing such power attracts predators. The predators are experienced in combat and highly evolved. The prey is not, and cannot even run.
China has meshed networks of maker-peers who conceive, invent and sell first and worry about IP laws later. The future can only be theirs. Our peering links instead expose inventors to claims of copying IP. *sigh*
If I ever write some of the things I want to invent, I'll probably need to start them behind Tor if I want to finish them.
relatively few people would choose to use phones and Kindle sized devices as full fat "productivity" clientsYou saying there isn't a market for *conveniently* portable productivity devices? Having to carry a laptop bag when I used to just carry a Psion 5MX is still stupid. It's weird to be downvoted for pointing this out. I'm not fussed whether the Thinkpad shrinks, or the Tab 2 grows a detachable MS Wedge. Human handsize/coat pocket size/number of hands won't be changing.
Well, it doesn't not make you a monster, if that's OK with youBoolean table error: 'not not make you' detected - 'not make you not' assumed. Deploying unknown un-gnomes.
What did I just step on there, and how?
You want full fat Windows on a six inch screen...Er, do I? Why?
Presumably the dearth of PC tablets with a six inch screen reflects the small number of people with hawk-like vision*points at your phone*. *points at your kindle*.
My 10" laptop lives in a house with a desktop, and it's too big to coat-carry, so it's not getting used. I need something smaller. Does that make me a monster?
This should be fun. The Google pinata law is Go. Unfortunately Google can actually handle its data, though they'll definitely have to leave a limb behind. Facebook will be apoplectic that they'll have to allow user data export. Good.
Enforced data export fluidity might be an problem where finding and cleaning the data is the point of the business. Everyone's definitely going to get 'informed consent' fatigue. Cookie banners on steroids that must actively prevent you entering until you agree. Will sites be usable by those who decline? Incognito browsing will bloom barriers every .. single .. time.. and God help you if you're a bot.
But really, this is just a big glorified beta test, and it's going to get very grating for all parties over the next few years, with other nations taking note/advantage. Nobody will get this right for decades.
"The connection here is completely lost on me"
Same vein. Mindspace neighbours. They were argued by the same people in the same places with the same mindset with the same justifications.
"a little too debatable for your rhetorical needs and so you needed to hitch your argument onto a more blatant straw man."
Interestingly violent labelgun reaction to an observed truth. So, "F00" vs "foo", and hardware clock/OS DST parity - where do you stand?
"But it doesn't. Not to Windows, not to OSX, not to any common Linux distribution"
This argument is old and dusty, and where one was argued the other was argued, and yes, Windows most certainly did this, as my GMT dual-boot Linux repeatedly attested.
Yesterday I *genuinely* caught someone accidentally changing something to use an O instead of a 0. They were annoyed. Why does it matter?!
The slightly perverse thing is that, multiple times while playing the latest greatest GPU melting games, I've fervently wished that I could just replace some of the motion captured high polygon textured anti-aliased objects (in their latest fetching shade of Realism Brown), with a minimal blip signifying all of their inherent meaningful data (i.e usually almost none). I pine for Mechwarrior's tactical wireframe display mode.
The lump of grey jelly in my skull has to use dedicated hardware to filter out all that expensive noise to do just that, and in the days they cut out this middleware you could hit the player with massive amounts of pure metadata and make a really satisfying game cheaply. Yum.
Never played much nethack (nettrek tho..). My wizards kitten went splat at the bottom of a pit-trap, after obediently following its master, and my dwarf starved to death by spending too much time mining for gems :-)
I'm curious about the abusability of the mechanism : they must terminate repeat abusers, but who establishes the guilt or innocence in the claim? Cox disregarded as much as they could, which is obviously off one end of the spectrum, but where is the line and who draws it?
Can you push a person off the Internet just using weight of accusation alone?
Hate-painting the EFF weakens one of the few remaining *active* defenders people have here.
There is a big, important DMCA safe harbour fight with nasty implications going on here, and every other journalist leads with that. It's not even mentioned here. The important thing is that the Judge hated something the author hates because Google (actually, seriously).
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