Re: sp -1
Well, clearly we are going to be able to interface with Prime, then have a fully immersive real world adventure by controlling an Optimus remotely. It will be a transforming experience: It'll be nearly as good as going outside for real.
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I worked for them until 2015, when I took Voluntary Redundancy. I had ten years under my belt at that point, after we were TUPEd to them in an outsourcing deal. So at that point, they did outsourcing, hosting, and still sold servers. They would project manage software development, and plan hardware installations, and entire lifecycle support. I think most of this stuff went to Kyndryl when they span that off.
Since then? No idea what core IBM does. I just know working in a medium sized organisation now, there's nothing we'd buy from them. Back in the day, there was an AS/400 here, but IBM don't sell any hardware we'd be interested in buying now. The rest, AI and all that, seems too vague, and a luxury or vanity purchase. We haven't got that sort of disposable budget.
The Flame thrower was a Boring Company product iirc. The same Boring company that was going to make bricks from the dirt it mined out of tunnels, sell them, and become financially self supporting. I understand the planned tunnel from Ontario International Airport they were supposed to dig never happened, as costs spiralled from $45M to ~$500M, at which point, they bailed. At least folks that ordered the weed burners got one.
That happened to a member of staff where I work, a member of staff's 'boss' emailed using gmail, asking for Apple gift cards. Real boss was online in our instant messenger app, minion failed to clarify with boss and got scammed. Why are bosses too busy to buy gift cards, but able to do whatever it is they need them for, whilst so busy,... why are they using gmail when they are online,... why not communicate fully through company channels?
Seems people are still a bit naive. I saw a story recently that a gang in Nottingham were approaching young adults, and telling them about some Crypto investment that was a sure fire winner. They then asked for the mark's mobile phone, so they could add them to a social media group, and just walk off with the phone, at which point accomplices appear, and tell the mark to let it go.
I'm an ABC'er, Assume nothing, Believe nothing, Challenge everything, seems a lot of people skip these steps.
Yeah, surely if 'Dojo' cost ~£1Bn to develop, it adds maybe a few $Bn in value over it's lifetime, tops. Anyway, until Tesla start paying shareholders dividends, it's just a massive Ponzi scheme, and whoever is left holding stock when the music stops loses. 'Dojo; is just another monkey to crank the handle.
Er, no. Musk might manage a stable of companies, but that doesn't mean it's legal to give companies in that circle preferential treatment. There's fiduciary responsibility to get the best deal if it's being offered for license or rental. If Musk owned all the companies outright, yeah, he could do that, but he has to answer to investors and shareholders.
I was at 6th form. We gathered soil and water samples from various places around the school grounds into labelled containers, (old 35mm film canisters) marked where the samples were gathered on a map, went back to the Physics lab, tested them all with a Geiger counter and,... well,... were a little disappointed.
I've never used Weather.com, so I just went and had a look. It fails to find my UK postcode, and offers me instead the weather report for Charing Cross, which is over 100 miles away.
Oh, it's worse than that. It fails to find any city name I type in and defaults to Charing Cross. $2Bn huh?
"The Cuckoo's Egg", that was a good read. I started working as a Computer Operator in 1990 and a colleague lent me that book. I'll check out some of the other titles you mentioned, maybe it will rekindle my love of computing. It all seemed to exciting and new back then.
We've had a couple of funnies with Teams telephony sending transcripts for missed calls. One user reported a potentially abusive message to us from 'Mistress Spanky', when the message was from Mrs Stransky. and another from 'ADP Foreign Security' which turned out to be 'ADT Fire and Security'. So we've now got a small worry that transcripts of meetings contain howlers, and people in meetings might be seen to be agreeing with them, and whether this could be a subject access request / FOIA embarrassment.
Many years ago, I got an extra fiver (yeah that long ago, when you could withdraw £5) I asked for £10, and between two of the £5 notes, was a folded fiver, I guess it somehow didn't get counted, I presume they detect the edges. But then I wondered if it was even accounted for going into the machine if they used the same method. So I stopped worrying, and went to the pub.
Vexatious requests, oh dear, I work in local Govt, and luckily, some of our more vexatious citizens haven't realised FOIA means we have to respond, and instead just send emails to Councillors and the City Mayor. Most of our FOIA requests are salespeople fishing for information 'how much have you spent on Y in the last year' etc. The vexatious letters to the Mayor tend to be stuff like 'Do you shield people from the harmful effects of 5G in public libraries' etc.
Indeed, my initial thought was I spent most weekends with my best mate when I was a teen, so if we'd had a two hour limit, we'd have pooled resources, and spent two hours streaming or whatever on one device, then two hours on the other. Just like we used to pool resources when we were 17 year olds and we each rented a VHS then settled down for a sword and sorcery cheese fest many Saturday nights.
I work in local Govt, and we are still IPv4. I have a friend who designs networks, and every now and again I ask him if he's deployed any IPv6 and it's been a 'no' so far. Checking a couple of academic institutions I've worked at, one still appears to be on the same class B as when they were allocated back in the day.
Do you read 'The Independent' Science section by any chance? It's often re-purposed press release BS, without a shred of journalistic investigation or scepticism. Mind you 'Ars Technica' can be guilty of that, they promoted a story about a device that could pull moisture from the air and make water, supposedly without any energy input, and this was going to save the water starved world.
Exactly. I test drove a hybrid last year, pulled onto some dual carriageway and thought "I'd better put my foot down and get up to 50", checked the speedo, and I was already doing 50. Without the theatre of the engine revs, I was a bit out of touch judging speed and acceleration. I reckon I'd have quickly got over that, but I guess some people just won't want to.