Posts by Old Man Ted

Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales

Re: Oh no, not the shiny!!

If I recall something like this happen in the late 1950's and early sixties in the U.K.

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

The size of the US market is minuscule and shrinking fast.

The world growth rates in the emerging worlds non-American /Chinese dominated economies, these new hungry non-ideological based manufacturing entries. Be they new or old resurrected players in the world trade game, they will take over from countries who are rule by younger hungry leaders.

History is littered with ex super-powers who squander their wealth and ended up with a ruling elite who squandered their nations wealth on their own pleasures at the publics coast.

Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes

Re: It would have worked fine for Amazon

PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW ONE HAS 145 PARTS PER HUNDRED? Or is what % means? Use correct thermology please'

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Re: " Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines."

I found that digging up the old CD which came with the printer and reinstalling this helps in all sorts of way to get back the use of an A3 and A2 printers. Sometimes MS does not like this, so I installed an OLD copy of Office circa 2003 and suddenly could print the A2 paper drawings again.

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

The bookmakers allways win

What's the difference between the local book maker and health insurance companies? They both are take bets that they will win, only that the local bookie is slightly more above board.

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Chasing dreams

It would be better money spent on the real thing by those without it! Playing the Lotto will give them a better return if one believes in dreams*

Artificial is the real word! It's a dream, is artificial, just as I am an Artificial Multi millionaire.

The hardware sales people must be laughing all the way to the bank, as are their bosses.

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

Outdated manufacturing plants

Once the money men gain control. Not the Engineers or Founders or Factory or Floor managers. THEY FAIL

All industries fail when run by money men or with Government subsidies for funding, or both. MBA's are the worst managers. Engineers seem to keep project, factories, cities and organisations going. They seem to better manager than the bean counters. As the bean counter waste, the subsides on bonus shareholder payment not updating the equipment or maintenance as this does not advance their standings with the shareholders. Retired mining engineer.

My son who an insulting err consulting civil engineer (52 years old) is now doing an MBA as he was bored in the evening. Emailed me saying it's so easy compared to engineering he this, he will do an additional 3 subject next year. I think it relaxes me instead of worrying that all the equipment concrete sand gravel etc will arrive by 6 a.m. and I go have my Brekkie.

Just ask an accountant to design and build a freeway bridge without upsetting the traffic flow.

Replace the cities water Storage dam (90-year-old) outlet pipes in the wall., without stopping the cities water supply.

Oh! The joys with talking to bean counters.

No European, there is only 1 USA motor manufacture left who has not yet gone bust. All European manufactures are being kept alive by subsidies The Japanese Co are going now to be followed by the Koreans then China India will be the last one left. Then the whole cycle will be repeated.

Strange that history has a habit of repeating itself.

GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation

Real intelligence required not artifical

When AI replaces all the bean counters and share-traders then we may have some return to having real intelligence running companies again as the bean counters are basically historians who live in the past without any ability to foresee the future, Creative accounting is a no no.

Visionaries are required as managers of organisations not historians. Visionaries are often amiss with timelines and often have to be checked, but without them we would still hitting each other over the head with stones.

Real intelligence is what is required not artificial.

Outlook is poor for those still on Windows Mail, Calendar, People apps by end of year

It now looks like the MS/Intel market is coming to an end. All monopolies have a very finite life and their falls are usually caused by greed.

Arm CEO aims to conquer half the Windows world in 5 years

If I'm not mistaken but aren't about 25% already using arm type chips. Or doesn't Apple Or Google count?

PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history

History repeate itsself

If one were old enough to recall the 1920's and '30's mail order houses and their tie ups with newspapers postal services and delivery companies etc. History tells one about the trade routes.

Nothing in the commercial world changes just as the advertising the marketing of products has always relied on cooperation between the seller and the delivery person. Islam was founded by a trader who co-operated with the bankers and the transporters of good from China to the Middle East,Africa and Europe. The transporters of the goods have always been the the middle man and the biggest sharks. They know what the customer wants and the wholesalers,retailer relies on them.

With ransomware whales becoming so dominant, would-be challengers ask 'what's the point?'

Who are you referring to? The 2 so called good guys or the so called bad-guys Both have Governmental support and backing. Dose one refer east or west? Do we now need a North South axis? Just to complete the equation?

An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

What about us Deaf old Buggers?

Audio books are of exceedingly little use to us old buggers (80+) who have wrecked their hearing after untold hours spent in a loud working space with heavy machinery in the back ground and or a collection of birds ( The Feather kind) all around. Quarrying and mining equipment will quickly cure ones desire for an audio book. For the life of me I fail to hear re reason for an audio book. If one has the desire to just hear a story or a missive it would be a sign of laziness or lack of interest in the written word. With the vast number and dialects in the English speaking world finding just the right accent to listen to.

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition

This may be due to leases of large unused office spaces. Whole floors and associated kick backs. The bean counters who signed large and long leases with lots of personal kick backs are now in the firing line and trying to duck for cover.

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen

AI tells all in the title

I want something which is real be it:a life, food, a car, a conversation, a partner, a chair, or anything . the REAL thing not some fairy tale. This fixation with artificial things is beyond this Old codger.

Us pre atomic generation have seen so many artificial things in our lives. The Real thing is what is needed. This should apply to Intelligence first if one desires a life, food, brains the rest is all real an imagination is what is required for to live in a world of artificial intelligence.

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

I'm Getting Too Old

Just Looked into my desk draw and spied 3 boxes of disks, Dr-Dos 1 to 5 plus DR-Dos instillation & utilities. MS-Dos Institution disks. Windows 3 disks, Windows 3.11 disks, Windows 95 disks, Microsoft Works disks 14 M,S Windows disks Windows 95 plus cd drive disk. There are a Whole pile of Novell disks. Assorted 5" floppies, 2 USB floppy drive disks which are in a far corner. An assortment of cd 's for Novel and NT.

I will be 80 soon and my little boy is in his 50's.

I use a Dos box to play all the old games he kindly left for me when he complete his 2nd BSC degree.

There has been no improvement in the service from MS, Whilst Apple is able to read and use the 1916/7 programs on an M2 unit.

The sooner I learn to use the newest mobile the happier I will be.Till then I am happy with my speaker phone which is loud enough for me to hear without my hearing aids.

I regret loosing the the old units which were store in my garage which was flooded in the last cyclone a few years back.

California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian

The use of AI not the real thing

If an AI driver program malfunctions, when it is in charge of a real car thing is then is the AI programmer is at fault? or the one who installed AI? , or the AI programmer?, or the program seller, or the end user of the said not fit for use product? This could keep the legal vultures in pay for an extended period of time like a couple of aeons?

These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks

Re: A first?

My Me systems Motherboard has blown one of its capacitors and at 79 going on to 80 later this year, us pre atomic age group are going blind deaf and stupid, this is only trouble this venerable system has ex pc has ever had it runs a flat screen View-sonic 24" in and with the original video card bought with the unit in a box bought in about 97 or 88. It was still used up to July to play Morrowind Doom etc. and settlers 1, 2 &3 the kid from over the road (11 years old) wants me to repair it so he can play the original War craft KKND and other dos games off the floppy drives which still work. I am now limited to using dos box tried to emulate to install early 98 and me but had no joy with Win 10 or the dreaded 11, might dig around in the garage and pull an old pc out from a collection of Black boxes which my son donated to me in the late 90 when he moved out and I got my garage back.

Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content

Regional and country of Origin

I have travel from one English speaking country, region or state etc. and the Spoken English varies. The written word is no different., look at the English dictionaries and or the age related dialects. I have visited in number of English speaking countries over the past x number of years and have found that regional languages/dialects and the written word often vary from one suburb to another let alone the spelling in different Islands,County,States,Metropolitan,rural, districts. So machine written texts would surly have the programmers syntax or style in their output?

Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support

O for old timers

This is just to stop me ( pre atomic baby ) a doddery old 79 nine from enjoying Leasuare Suit Larry form visiting his pleasure palace and bar played off an old DRDos 5" floppy on an new 286 unit which I while away the time away with plus loads of pre history game Which I still regually play

Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them

Ye shall reap as ye sows

All power to the people it is about time the small men united against the monopolies even the conservative governments are beginning to feel the wroth of the small men through-out the so called democratically governed societies. Monopolists are starting to think that they are above any law other the ones which they have written.

Corporate power is worse than dictatorial states strong men who are non elected and corrupt, Be it business with large share holder have the governing power over their companies and their lackeys who do what they are told lest the 30 pieces of silver are withdrawn.

AMD's Epyc server chips give strong revenue growth, but profits drop 98%

Re: "datacenter-centeic"

Or coin-centric?

IBM demands $500,000 from boss after she jumps ship

Check the countries laws

What is legal in one country is often against the law of another country.

Wow, so they actually let AI fly an F-16 fighter jet

this is an axmimoran

There is no intelligence when it is artificial

Microsoft's AI Bing also factually wrong, fabricated text during launch demo

Real intelenecne not AI

Some day we may need the real thing not the artificial stuff.

I wonder if the business manager have ever though of this.

It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary

Edge a B/S term to baffle brains invented by a Accounting/ Marketing depart by some Idiot who has an MBA (Master of Bugger All) and is in the accounting side where Creative Accounting is a no no so be creative in a non illegal way.

Block Fi seeks bankruptcy protection as 'shocking' FTX contagion spreads

How about the Accounting folk?

Most if not all have a degree of some description with the MBA in the title. I believe these letter stand for Master of Bugger All. This is why the pushers of ephemeral ideas with promises of excessive profits base on some type of Swindle end up in tears. The greedy usually find someone to take their money., be it bookmakers (Insurance Brokers) and or all manner of con. men.

Intel offers Irish staff a three-month break from being paid

Bean counters

This should apply to all the MBA's who inhabit highly remunerated positions ( MBA stands for Masters of Bugger All) These parasites infest the accounting and management positions having replaced the productive employees who made, designed and or contributed to their employers. Highly paid parasites abound in so-called management positions. It is no wonder that bean counter abound in organisations which have falling revenues and profits. Once they were call clerks and were on the lowest rungs of the pay scales. Engineers designers process workers are the guts of any organisations, a bean counters do not contribute to the profit of any one organisation. They rely on all the other employees and as with all parasites the suck the blood out of their hosts.

Salesforce calls some workers back to the office amid slowing sales

As a 78+ year-old I enjoy talking to cold callers and asking them about the weather, traffic conditions and their families and or any other non subject which I think of and offer them my commiserations for having to do such meaningless jobs.

Swiss Re wants government bail out as cybercrime insurance costs spike

Why it Insurance?

If the bookmakers won't take your bet it means that they will loose. So why not get a better operating or a safer storage system than rely on a pies in the sky cloud?