Posts by BiffoTheBorg

Missing a trick here

Surely given that the Chinese are global leaders in tracking people, they should be the main contractors, would probably be the cheapest and ByteDance has demonstrated the ability to build world class systems.

The Musk Derangement Syndrome here is at critical levels.

Calling people names that liken them to historical fascists is puerile and weak minded, how disappointing.

Lemon strikes me as a typical media midwit, surprised that there is so much support for him here.

Legacy media always quoting X

Calls it "hellsite" and uses it as a source of news. ROFL.

One Bing to rule them all

So far I have found ChatGPT to be really useful, I have even swapped to Edge rather than Firefox, Bing with Chat makes Google seem rather basic.

One can imagine a very pleasant environment in a city that permitted only the likes of Zoox Robotaxis, Zoox Robovans for deliveries, Microlinos, and Microlettas.

A logical development of ULEZ.

Maybe Microsoft is right, Edge has a great logo, why do I want to use Firefox anyway, I mean no one else does, right?

The rest of humankind uses Chrome haha and that isn't Microsoft at all.

Microsoft 365 Family starts to look attractive at £79.99 per year, 6TB cloud + latest Office.

What has happened to me, somebody put me back on the straight and narrow.

Space is big

If we could complete the journey at an average 1% of the speed of light, which we can't, it would take 400,000 years to get there, so probably it doesn't matter much.

The peak time for Sea Freight is August/September/October and for Air Freight October/November/December so it will all be over by Christmas, i.e. before the deadline.

Clearly a coincidence

Apparently ebuygumm called Mike Rowe as an expert witness.

I recall a similar datacentre from those times

Reed Group Aylesford had PDP 11/70, Primes, and IBM 360, don't remember any Petes though, but I do recall a Mike.

Before then in the 70's when I was a shift leader at a datacentre in Beckenham the Director responsible for IT used to pay social visits to the computer room whilst puffing away on his pipe. Of course, smoking in the computer room was forbidden but no one ever said as much to the big boss. I always hoped that one day his cloud of smoke would set off the fire alarm, it never did, but one day I had finally had enough and quietly triggered the alarm myself. Profuse apologies from puffing billy and there was no more pipe in the computer room.

Reuters headline yesterday "German automation talent powers Musk's battery move to Europe". Model 3 production last year was saved by 6 plane loads of German robots and "Made in Germany" Teslas is viewed as a big plus. Also Germany has announced huge subsidies for battery development in Germany.

In my experience some folk are much better, one or two orders of magnitude better, at software development than others. Nowadays they get promoted to some role where they don't actually do anything useful. I can't remember now why the IBM Chief Programmer Team system was discarded, I'm sure someone will remind me. However, it seems to me that one good developer with a strong support group can be much more productive than a group following a set of rules, Agifail or whatever, designed primarily to check up on the performance of generally poor team members.

Is Google my friend?

Not sure, usually I'm not that keen on self aggrandising megalomaniac advertising companies.

Perhaps, this time they really do have my best interests at heart.

Not sure if the devices reviewed are dedicated to use with the TV or can be used as more general purpose sound delivery devices.

I use a SONOS Playbar, SUB, and a pair of Play 3s and I am very happy with the sound for films and general TV. Very immersive for watching football. Also, jolly handy for playing music and listening to the radio when the TV is off. I used to have big speakers but my wife didn't like the "clutter".

Many of us these days seem content to trade a bit of quality for a lot of convenience.