Posts by macjules

Bit of an embuggerance if your name is Bloomberg I guess.

Re: Apple software quality seems to be definitely dropping...

Nope, it doesn’t even do that now.

Seems to me that Apple must have been recruiting ex-Boeing software developers.

Re: 737 MAX

“We don’t ‘sell’ safety, that’s not our business model,” Muilenburg claimed under questioning.

Says it all really,

And tomorrow I fully expect to see a Blake's 7 image,

Re: Fines ?

Yes, agree. But what do we get instead? "Let's set up yet ANOTHER body to do oversight". We already have a body to deal with oversight: it is called the Serious Fraud Office.

It is high time that we saw Capita prosecuted on a simple charge of deception for winning a contract on their "ability to deliver" yet not knowing how to do the job required.

Re: Bears

carrier strike group

More "carrier gentle tap to remind group" I should think.

No joke for some of us with Alzheimers-stricken relatives. A robot might be useful as it would have unlimited patience for the “what’s my name again and who are you?” questions.

There is actually quite a good movie made some years ago about exactly this, Robot & Frank I think.

Bloody Raptors. Very hard to get the monitoring collars on though. Just ask Jeff Goldblum.

Re: Does this mean ...

"Hey, it looks like you are trying to declare war upon someone! Would you like some help with that?"

Well, you need only look no further than most of the Global Distribution Systems for airline ticketing (Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan, Pegasus, Abacus, Travelport) to see this. Many have problems supporting anything but IE with Worldspan being exception in their incompetence by not supporting any browser but IE10 until around a year ago.

My favourite was a nameless member of the occasionally lamented Tony Blair's cabinet who had just bought a brand new PowerBook 3400c, at the time around £4000, took it out of the box, opened it, started it and then promptly spilled a glass of red wine over the keyboard. Not content with that he thought that white wine would counter the red, so he deliberately poured a glass of white over it as well.

I told him to simply go back to where he bought it and fall upon their mercy.

Let me tell you about 'pain' in 2 words: 'French Tradesmen". The electric security gate on our rental fails so that to open it you have to actually get out of the car. I get the local electrician to come out, who spends 3 hours on a Saturday morning poking about the gate and the house and then decides that the problem was with all the lights, so he replaced all the LED bulbs .. at twice the price I could have bought them from Castorama. Problem with gate solved? Not at all. Cost: €500 including a discount since the LED bulbs cost so much .. "Désolée m’sieur". As my better half said, "Done, and you have been".

Steve made things and made them work right. Cook just really oversees a financial service where they do not know what to do with all the billions they are making. I wonder how much financial commitment is made to QA and user-focussed testing compared with the budget for marketing.

Re: Now, would you please stop proposing to hurl 60,000 Starlinks into low orbit ..

Low orbit ... ISS .. lots and lots of Starlinks in same orbit.

Wait until HPE lose the Autonomy case. Then you will a wailing, gnashing of teeth and renting of clothing as Meg Whitman HP staff suffer.

Re: No need for ballot security

You'll need lots of crayons and abaci then I think.

Unfortunately we live in a modern, digital age with a betamax 1970's government which is bereft of means to steal money from tax the population.

No, the corporate motto is, “Our batteries are perfectly safe.”

Re: 6 mph in Victorian London

"Cycling (even in London) isn't actually more dangerous than not cycling"

Unless you are being followed by a taxi (might kill if no one is looking) or a bus (might kill and claim 'it was an accident'). For some reason both types of driver loathe the idea of cyclists using their privileged lanes.

Re: Ron Wyden gives me cognitive whiplash.

Don't care. If he can get that f&^&ing , lying, b^&*^*d Zuckerberg into jail then Ron Wyden is my God.

Re: anybody can see me coming

Not going to much use in a facial recognition system I'm afraid. If it was an "unusual walk recognition system" then I am sure you would be unique.

Re: Lost For words

And I know where there is another one! 'Video Futur' is a retro store in Cannes La Bocca which has a video dispenser.

Not sure if they offer Betamax though, or would that be going too far?

Re: Also a big shame...

Not going to shed too many tears for anything that Google 'invented'. I most certainly do not want to see Harry Hill compering a "Google Users Do The Strangest Things" in a few years showing previously unknown footage right from AI Clip users' homes.

Re: US ban is little to do with security

What makes you think there needs to be any 'policy'?

Re: Next plan...

If you want a good laugh take a look at WeWork's S-1 filing where they quote, "Among the approximately 255 million potential members across our 280 target cities globally, we estimate a total opportunity of $3.0 trillion."

Lunchboxes? Lunchboxes??

What are they at The Register, vegans? BEER is what you store in a fridge, beer in large quanties. Then again if you are an American I guess your beer counts as water, so you are excused.

Re: WTF?

Q: "Look, are you insinuating something?"

A: "Oh...no...no... Yes"

Re: Hmmm...

For what value of "government"?