Posts by david1024

Re: Why are they even making these tools

Easyanswer is that melineals and genZ don't want to work, there aren't enough genX, so we are going to get digital doubles that work for just the cost of hardware and electricity. They aren't going to fake real folks, they are going to make puppets and not pay any talent.

Humans are going to be obsolete. I think we are already counting down to the first digital only influencer. May have already happened.

Slow down there... They ain't starving

They pulled 80-90 billion in profits in 2021/2022. They are paid to take that risk. They just want to keep all the money and never payout. The issue is corp governance incentives that put profits above all--abd you can get a laser and sue to even get what you were promised

... And this saddles the courts with things that should be handled fairly without the need of a lawyer or judge.

I don't do business with them and tell them (and anyone else that'll listen why), but obviously a lot of folks do.

Re: Why did he do it ?

He kept using the assumed ID for a girl. They always get us.

Re: Windoze NEVER worked well.

Yes, it was stable in reliable hardware. But stable hardware wasn't exciting. (And not cheap)

Re: Clone

TikTok problem may be framable as a privacy issue, but they are effectively a cyber weapon.

Maybe this bill is not great, but we need to move on this show.

Re: Confused

Those are your problems. Lemme' say this simply:

They-Don't-Care

And TBH, they own the desktop and are acting like it. Fire them if you can, but you can't --and they know it.

Mare charitible approach would be to say they need to reimplement the mail client sie to all the patching over the years and are letting the customers drive feature priority... But they are duplicating outlook's hodge-podge, wandering development... So it'll be coded just as bad. So meh. Less than 5% of us will be able to move from the crazy and MS will be making tons of subscriptions and not care anyway. Going to have to vault a VM running outlook to get the pst thing accessable--if you are lucky

Extend that

If the speaker can't be bothered to follow ASE expectations, can you expect them to be able to follow your standards and technically complete a job? Your appearance and speech, in the professional setting, are advertising your skills and abilities.

Can a sloppy speaker excel and a SAE speaker fail? Sure, but those are not the rule, they are the exceptions. Sort of how "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

Poor poor Winston

I fear that the ministry of truth will be cutting staff soon.

Not really

The undersea drones that Iran seems to be providing would not function at any significant depth. You get about 50psi per 100 ft of depth (rounded here for convenience, not mathematical accuracy). Seawater is very conductive too. So you have significant problems with the vehicle controls, fuse design, and keeping your 'powder dry' at anything more than a couple hundred feet.

I think the media outlets do the world a disservice when they disparage the folks in the region. It discourages serious assessments of actual capabilities.

Iran and it's proxies will try anything a few times and cable locations/routes are pretty well known. The cables are tough, but just wiggling them can permanently degrade the performance.

Re: A graphical (s)hell for masochists

yes, I will never understand how something so far removed from what xerox did remains so popular. Maybe because you getore unobstructed views of your wallpapers?

Re: Reap what you sow

It's worse than that. They capped raises 10 years ago and aren't paying enough to keep their production talent. Much like the software problems crashing the 'max, this is really another example of penny-wise and dollar poor by Boeing. I like cheap planes as much as the next guy... But there is a reason I don't let the homeless guy change the oil in my car and I pay a bit extra for a dentist I like... Sometimes paying a bit more is worth it.

I hope Boeing is learning from these expensive in dollars and lives lessons.

Re: Why do they need customers' SSN?

They don't need individual consumer ssn. And don't collect them. Those are for larger buyers on credit.

Re: Security

Agree, and HP printers have been off our corporate buysheets for over a decade.

There is no technical reason for HP to make the carts smart. However, I think they have done a good job explaining why they want to. At some point customers are going to have to leave them.

Back when I had an HP printer, I could tell when I was using hp inks because the quality was better. Now I'm not willing to install the spyware drivers they provide. I'm just going to have to hope my ancient laserjet makes it until I no longer need to print at home... Most color jobs I head to a retailer for anyway these days. Printing color at home is really a niche thing IMHO.

Re: Do what you like but give options

KDE is my choice, I run windows in a VM when I must have MS office.

In the winVM, I do what I have to do to get desktop shortcuts to everything I use and search the start menu for the rest. It seems I've manually rolled back to win3.0-like interface. Those guys in the 70's were on to something, I guess.

KDE is not without hazards itself though, for example keeping baloo from going nuts on external drives has been an intermittent problem.

So, the new generation

So, the new generation [re]discovers that rentals make sense and somehow the content providers are overcharging for a feature that none really needs (or actually wants/uses in practice).

What's old is new again, but with a different name so it sounds cool and new. Blockbuster 2.0--enjoy!

Re: Amazing!

There was never a movie; he was [failing to] deploying malware. And when he got canned, went for it. I think maybe he watched too many movies and thought it was part of his compensation pkg to be able to hack the bank for fun and profit.

He mentioned financial difficulties... Wonder if there was a dancer involved?

Malicious Compliance?

Malicious Compliance?

Dunno, Europe was the place where the diesel engine emissions hacks came from too. (Or were at least the first ones caught).

Maybe the corp officers just aren't as smart as they think they are and the coders are just letting nature take it's course.

Re: Microsoft offers 15 years in hardware support terms

Points to surface pro3... No win11, and end of support right at 10 years. So...

Yup

I am so used to unit abuse with respect to power I don't even notice it. Pays the bills though when they confuse themselves and I have to untangle it for them.

But it is likely unknown how much energy storage they plan now or in the future to have available. Probably not much at the start and more later--depending on payload configuration.

Re: At what point do artificial images become "wrong"?

I think one place to find answers is the gun industry in the U.S. and how they struggle to control essentially blocks of metal and CAM files as weapons. Well maybe non answers. They are still struggling with it and will continue to do so.

Goes like this:

At what point is a kit that creates these treated the same as the material they create? Is the AI with training material and the additional inputs needed the csam? Or do you have to actually make the csam?

Re: “The collection and recovery process cost itself could be multiple times the component costs”

This is pretty much the definition case for tragedy of the commons.

It is what humans do, and we will continue to do it, even if folks try to pass laws, until we physically cannot do it anymore. We consume and destroy what we touch. Many of the oldest books we have are about it and we fight wars about it too.

If the processes kill more people, well, we are just not going to live as long anymore so we can have our fancy pocket light boxes of doom.

Re: I guess the Author is missing the point of the Surface Pro

I have been using these for many years as 2nd computing devices and as ultra portables (on vacation or surfing on the couch). With a reasonable dock, I have even used them as displays to debug embedded systems too (I am on my 3rd but the others still work fine). I do miss the heavy desktop docks I could throw them in though.

I really don't have much use for a machine to transcode video while I'm on a plane... just not something that comes up. Now, doing a power point, reviewing technical documents... Nothing better. iPads are toys for the kids these things work for a living.