Posts by CowHorseFrog

Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures

Which is why they should jailed for irresponsible practices due to their decisions.

Theres no point fining the company, the leadersjip reresponsible for making the decision need to be taught a real lesson, with long jail sentences.

You can be sure a few 20 year jail tsentences will see major changes by companies far faster than a silly fine.

Re: Lipstick on a Pig!

You can thank the american media for making gods out of boards and corporate leadership...

WordPress forces user conf organizers to share social media credentials, arousing suspicions

Every day we see more examples of the similarities between Russia and America.

Social media surveillance would make the KGB of the USSR proud, behaviours as those mentioned in the article again sound a lot like how it is in a dictatorship.

In the end america is ruled by dictators who infringe on the most basic of human rights just like USSR, with pointless stupid surveillancem that achieves nothing.

Congress to Commerce: Sanction more Chinese chip firms to stop Huawei's evasion

Are you seriously telling me that congress FORCES all them companies to send manuf to china ?

The american media have really brainwashed you, into thinking corporate boards are all super wonderful and never to blame. Its always someone elses fault it can never be the greedy corporate boards who are constaantly trying to find more slaves so they can rewaRD THEMSELVS.

You didnt actually comment on my statement...

MachDiamond: In big cities where there's lots of free stuff, there's lots of homeless people.

cow: really ?

How come there are so few homeless in Australia then ?

Go on YT drive around any large american city and there are legions of homeless within a few minutes...

Drive around any Australian city or town and you will need hours ...

Mach:

Some people are just messed up without help but the ones that are choosing are being enabled by so much charity that it's not that hard of an option. In the past, living a hobo lifestyle was much more hardcore and even hobos had to work from time to time.

cow:

How come this doesnt happen in Australia ?

or NZ

or PT

or ES

or AT

or BE

cow: You might want to take a look at Spain or Australia as examples where there are basically zero homeless people.

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Mach: When something is free, you get what you pay for.

cow:

Do americans really tell their parents this ?

mach:

It's great if you can just walk into an A&E and get an injury seen to, but if you need a new liver, good luck. The problem with healthcare in the US is lawyers. If a woman can sue and win millions for "undue and unjust pain" during childbirth, red flags should go up, but juries will hand out those sorts of decisions.

cow:

WTF is wrong with america ?

How come this doesnt happen in AU ?

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Mach: There's paid holidays and then unpaid holidays. It wasn't until later in life that I made up my mind to not request days off, but to submit an FYI. They can pay me what they've promised and I'll take the days off that I want.

cow:

Hey thats American freedom hey, the freedom to work and die to keep your boss happy....

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Mach:

One of my goals is to work hard enough to allow taking plenty of days off to go do and see things. Working 50 to get 2 off is pants.

cow:

Sounds a lot like slaves in ancient rome, work and work hoping to buy freedom...

Maybe its me, but i prefer to be free from the start.

America isnt rich or powerful.

Have you seen the streets of America, homeless people everywhere, and its so rich that americans have the worst working conditions in the western world, no free healthcare, fewest holidays.

Did i also mention how scared america is of actually giving everything (long range missiles) to ukraine to fight russia ?

Yeh sounds really powerful, just like Russia was really powerful until we saw how crap their equipment is in practice.

Congress should be hanging and jaiing all those corporate boards that sent all that tech to China 20 years ago.

Musk claims Cybertruck has become profitable at last

Re: Trucks vs. Cybertruck

WHy does this matter ?

Re: Trucks vs. Cybertruck

WTFis wrong that americans all need to tow something every day of their life ?

Are whitegoods etc that poor quality over there that you are relacing them every week ?

Re: Trucks vs. Cybertruck

How many people actually carry a dead carcass on a daily basis on every trip ?

Zero. There are millions of truck trips everyday and probably less than a dozen carrying a carcass.

Can you count ?

Re: Trucks vs. Cybertruck

WHat job is that exactly besides being a oversized dickhead who gets in everyones way and wastes petrol while lying about how they are always carrying a load.

Re: Can someone please explain why this isn't simply financial engineering?

Maybe Musk went to visit uncle bernie.

Re: A symptom..

Nonsense,

We have entered a new age of bullshitting.

I thought we were supposed to be moving away from mass lying like religion but it seems the masses still fall for professional bullshitters.

Wow shares worth hundres of dollars pay less than a 1c on the dollar ?

What a brilliant investment, not like a ponzi scheme or anything.

A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs

Re: Backward Compatibility

if a new ISA helps clean up the mess sure sounds good!

A large part of this complexity are the legacy 86 modes like real mode, etc they need to go.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

Re: WP now reporting that Hezballah paid 1.9 million Euro [to Israel]

Plastic explosives are plastic, an xray isnt going to tell you much.

Secondly most boards already have large bits of glue blobs etc, most people would nt have a clue telling the difference between plastic explosives or blobs of glue ... or capacitors...

My guess is they simply changed some capacitors,

Yeh most religions preach peace, you obviously have never actually read the bible or quran.

Entering the promise land and killing all the inhabitants or making slaves of them with gods bless on every other page is obviously very peaceful.

Re: rawdogging

And this matters because ?

Arm reportedly warns Qualcomm it will cancel its licenses

Re: Pyrric victory

Todays x86 still suppots the original x86 instructions, even if they are executing in some protected mode.

Todays arms instructions are very very different from the original, encoding, binary and everything.

Re: Huh-what?

JVM is a stack based machine, while the android byte code is for a cpu with a fixed number of registers. Diff cpus have diff general puprose register counts

Re: I can guess where this is leading

double: And those who bother about ARMV8 need to tell the difference between ARMV8 and ARMV8.1 and ARMV8.2 and ... That is done in software.

cow: You are taking things to extremes. Of course there are small differences. The differences betwen 8, 81, 82 are minor or small compared to the differences between all the x86 cpus that run on typical desktops.

How many vector instruction sets exist on x86 compared to ARMs with vector ins ?

Its more than 10, how many does ARM 8 have ? (2 or 3).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings

THis list is crazy there are several completely different FPU instruction sets, which all work on todays 86s and are completely different.

Re: I can guess where this is leading

You fail to grasp the concept i was addressing. Each of those different ARM arch address very different devices. THere is basically no overlap, nobody is trying to use ARM1 or ARM2, they are history and buried. Look at Apple as an example, they dont care and abandoned the 32bit arms a long time ago its all 64b. Again there is no overlap where platforms are trying to support dozens of variations.

The binaries produced for each target are not fat they are not trying to run different archtectures, unlike windows stuff which has a lot of cpuid and functional tests to figure out which code paths to use, which makes for very bloated binaries because of dead code.

Re: I can guess where this is leading

Oh yes the EPIC promise of wonderful compilers that do everything.

This simply does not exist, if you follow the dotnet or java you will see that leveraging unsupported/unused cpu instructions is still a laborous manual time consuming effort. There are very few players that can afford to do this. THe JIT compilers for both simply are no where near able to use all the wonderful instructions available.

Re: I can guess where this is leading

The arms you mention belong too different device markets, there is no real overlap. THis is a very different situation to what we see on x86, where. everybody has a slightly different cpu with slightly different available instructions.

Re: I can guess where this is leading

RISCV will never be a top tier ISA.

The idea of optional packages makes it limited to simple designs that are not performant and create fractured platforms. THe same is happening in x86/64 today and its why ARM is getting ahead recently. There are far too many new new instructions (thinking of the vector stuff) being added to x86. This mess means most s/w can only afford to do the work for the most popular not the cutting edge.

AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover

Another brilliant advertisement for the cloud.

As long as it works today, who cares about consequences.

Thats the america mba way.

Ex-Intel board members make an ill-conceived case for spinning off Foundry

Re: Back to basics.

Company's on the intel scale are very large and have very skilled people.

It doesnt matter what "label" or "company" name is on the outside they are adults and can still get the job done whether they have X or Y on the boxes they ship.

Grow up.

Re: Back to basics.

Your logic is broken... if fabs are a bad idea, then why would anyone run a fab in the first place ?

You are oversimplying and making a lot of assumptions...

Re: China

I dislike the chinese gov as much as everyone... but China will never invade, not in the forseable future...

because for all their evil and selfish leaders, they at least know their limits. They know their equipment is mostly from Russia, and we all know what a joke they are.

China wont even invade Russia today and Russia is completely occupied and needs help from shitty little NK, and you think they will invade someone far more professional like the TW who are backed by the USA and Japan.

Grow a brain.

Re: Or…..they are correct

just: f a bunch of people who have been in the industry for decades, and specifically have seen Intel’s books; believe that *running a foundry* on USA or European soil, is a guaranteed massive money-loser, then maybe they are correct

cow: So they are experts because they give themself titles or called experts by nobodies on twitter or some random media outlet ?

Gotcha....

if we only allowed brain surgeons to be selected by the same group of experts, im sure that would be a true winner aswell.

Sell me another one...

Peter: B) Don't, and make tens of billions profit

cow: Didnt we hear the same stories from the Boeing board ?

I dont think i need to say more.

Who needs enemies like China or Russia when you have boards that waste everyones time with stupid pointless exercise like shuffling things around like this.

SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS

Re: Re-use and encapsulation

AC: HTML works exactly as intended - and for good reason. In fact, the HTML horrors are caused by people with your attitude to it.

cow: My attitude ?

The horrors are caused by fuckwits like you that dont appreciate how fragile cascading causes a change over here in one rule might end up targetting other elements because the rules are not targetted enough or the cascading selects far more than t he original author cared to think about.

Re: Re-use and encapsulation

The way HTML documents work is broken. The attempt to make everything as terse (aka styling and inheritance) as possible makes for a very annoying and time wasting dev eloper experience when one wants to start changing rules that are everywhere in the app, because changing a single css prop can have unknown consequences because it might just change something unexpected.

Re: Frameworks, eh?

Having a class with a single css rule is plain stupid, you might as well just inline the rule or property and value and save the indirection.

Re: Making things simple is very difficult

WHy is using js bad ?

Why does it matter how little or much js is used ?

Many exploits happen on the server, so whether the server outputs HTML or JAVASCRIPT or anyting doesnt change this basic fact.

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else

Re: Alternate world line

AC: Management is a specific skill, which is IME only slightly related to do with the technical skills of the people you are managing.

cow: YOu are confusing the difference bewteen understanding the task and skillfullying directing people to complete the goal because said manager understands the problemspace, and simply giving random directions.

AC: Yes, have been a manager, but am not now, so have seen from both sides.

cow: That says it all does it. You sit on the side of the fence that is nothing more than a fraud than an actual valuable skilled resource.

Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul

Re: Progress!

Zero page is effectively a data register (even if its implied to be the zero page).

Re: Progress!

Zero page and similar concepts dont really work in the modern world. Back in those days memory access was fast enough, and the cpu was the slow part so ther ewas little advanage in having lots of registers.

We can see basically all cpus from that time had the same philospophy.

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

Re: Give away a water bottle and it's jail, give away a million and it's OK.

Is nt there a law that sets out the minimum voting stations and schedules and times for them to be open ?

Re: Give away a water bottle and it's jail, give away a million and it's OK.

Why is handing out water even a necessity or thing ?

If people can reemmber to bring their car keys surely they can manage to bring some water from home.

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

Re: slash file retrieve

I think you could easily replace the word "trust" with something more evil and sinister, like MS somehow made them waste their time w/ OS2 and gave away the windows market to XL.

Re: 123 rules.

WOuld be interesting to hear of some of the Lotus features missing from XL.

Would be interesting to have an essay how much and little has changed in excel since the beginning.

The old row column notation R number, C number is gone i think, its all letters and numbers for columns and rows. However you still are stuck with very basic input validation just like in the beginning, and the same is true for formatting.

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Look at the bible full of contradictions, studied by millions, believed by billions and yet they still believe...