Posts by Old Man Ted 38 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2022
Why should they check anything when it fictional as l the name fictional means they are not responsible for what a fictional garbage that program produces as it is artificial. Any dumb dummy who purchase or uses something which is Named as fictional deserves the results which is produced. The Title of the program means the author or distributor is completely exonerated as what ever it produces is untrue.
Now that the USA has decamped from Europe, NATO etc., and is going it alone the outlook for American Software etc. is going to become a No No in Europe Asia and the rest of the world.
Looks like Mr. Trump will ensure that the rest of the world will have to run a Non USA coded or domiciled software.
Please explain to me how there can be more than 100 parts per? Or has this octonarian miss understood what I was taught in the 1940's , That % was parts per 100. I know that somewhere over the Atlantic the ex French colony likes to use the term % as an excuse to display their lack of education and have a statue in the ex Dutch island.
I often wonder how one can have a sum greater than 100%.
I was taught when I was schooled in the 1950's % stood for parts per hundred.The great unwashed insist on having greater than 100units per hundred then please refrain from referring to this as a %., even if the transatlantic breathen insist in the this oxymoron. Sorry for being pardantict.
Sales people have been doing this for years to the bean counters.The accounting type have been and always will be taken for a ride. They are historians who have been trained to look at the past as creative thinking was drummed out of their brains as forward thinking equates to something evil .e.g. Creative accounting .So they're have no training in forward thinking or the concept of forward thinking, sales people and creative types will be better than bean counters,managers and business managers.
1930's "It should be Peace in our time!"
1958 "The empire rules"
Every dog has its day
This 80 something has seen any number of Great ideas which have been grand fizzers. Why use anything artificial? Is the real thing not good enough? Prime example is food.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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