collectively turning in their graves
Spinning in their graves I think. Combine that with some copper wire coils and maybe IBM have finally innovated again, and come up with a sustainable energy source...
Posts by Steve K
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IBM CEO Ginni flouts £75 travel crackdown, rides Big Blue chopper
Samsung Galaxy S8+: Seriously. What were they thinking?
Backup crack-up: Fasthosts locks people out of data storage for days amid WCry panic
Thursday 18th May 2017 07:56 GMT
Re: So...
As we take the security of our systems extremely seriously, we are retiring the Windows 2003 platform with immediate effect,
Their statement - nearly 2 years after W2K3 was de-supported - shows exactly how seriously they actually take security.....
I wonder if they typed that with a straight face
Cabinet Office losing grip on UK government departments – report
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 13:03 GMT
Re: @SteveK
No I haven't (I am of the old-ish fart vintage!)
I still think that spin it its current guise can be traced back to 1997 - and possibly coincident with the emergence and wider adoption of electronic communications and a feedback loop to the media that is much quicker than was possible in print-centric days (or before 24-hour TV news).
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 10:43 GMT
Re: Why senior Civil Servants are preoccupied with presentation
Agree with everything except why spin has become the centrepiece of this Government’s communications strategy
Spin has been at the centre of ALL UK Governments' communications strategy since Blair's tenure (and Campbell's media management) in 1997
How would you pronounce 'Cyxtera'?
Oracle links to LinkedIn so its salesware can sniff you out
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 07:13 GMT
Re: Targeted spam is still spam
It's not the same as spam as it's most likely not email that is targeted here.
This will be for targeting on Ad platforms and LinkedIn itself to (try to) show you ads wherever you go on the web where they think they can correlate your presence with the information they have on you...
As is mentioned below, I can't see how LinkedIn information can possibly improve data quality given the fiction and wanky-words used in most profiles in the LinkedIn echo chamber.
(Maybe LinkedIn is like an anti-laser cavity? The buzzwords reflect and resonate off the ends of this chamber until a pure stream of incoherent information of the same wavelength emerges and obliterates all in its path).
SpaceX spin-out plans to put virtual machines in orbit
Tuesday 2nd May 2017 10:09 GMT
What are suitable CPUs?
I wonder what the suitable CPUs?RAM/SSDs are for this?
Space-hardened CPUs/RAM/SSDs are usually a few generations behind ground-based ones because of the costs of hardening them ands because they don't necessarily have to do generalised computing tasks.
I am not sure that multi-core Xeons beasts that you would run a virtualisation task down here would survive up in orbit given the intricate circuit sizes.
I suppose they must have considered this, and maybe that's why they are proposing a fleet of these to allow for redundancy as nodes in the cluster fail.
Super-secure Pi-stuffed nomx email server box given a good probing
Intel redesigns flawed Atom CPUs to stave off premature chip death
Hasta la Windows Vista, baby! It's now officially dead – good riddance
Foxconn outbids WD with ¥3 TRILLION offer for Tosh memory biz
Boaty McBoatface sinks in South Atlantic on her maiden deployment
Ex-IBMer sues Google for $10bn – after his web ad for 'divine honey cancer cure' was pulled
Andreesen Horowitz tips $10m into American AI drone upstart
Tuesday 4th April 2017 12:14 GMT
Not sure who the videos are aimed at...
Following my curiosity, I went to their site and watched the videos, (having just received my Blade Inductrix FPV drone to play with and annoy the cat).
Who are they aimed at? They are a bit like an MTV video for someone with attention-deficit on caffeine and other stimulants.
Just as you get to see what the drone is doing there is a jump-cut to another angle of another one going in another direction. It's like a pop video on fast-forward.
The tech is undeniably cool and technically challenging, but they should spend some of that $10m on getting someone to record and edit their promotional material.
Rant over...
Indian Business Machines? One-third of Big Blue staff based there and Bangladesh
Creators Update gives Windows 10 a bit of an Edge, but some old annoyances remain
Oracle doing due diligence on Accenture. Yep, you read that right
Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay
US military's latest toy set: Record-breaking laser death star, er, truck
60 slow-mo A-bomb test videos explode onto YouTube
Friday 17th March 2017 09:06 GMT
Re: Mesmerising
Being closer towards the "old fart" end of the Reg readership than some, I thought I should share a link to a 1977 book ("Worlds within Worlds - A Journey into the unknown") that I recall fondly from my childhood.
This includes several shots similar to the second video - including one of the bomb tower just after the fireball has started at detonation. The tower is still there, and it has not yet been vapourised - incredible.
There are lots of other high-speed or specialised (e.g. Kirlian) images in there too.
https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Within-Journey-Into/dp/0030194164
Cash'n'Carrion restocks atomic keyrings
Sources: Liberty Global, Vodafone take seats at negotiating table AGAIN
National Insurance tax U-turn: Philip Hammond nixes NIC uptick
Li-ion king Goodenough creates battery he says really is... good enough
If we must have an IoT bog roll holder, can we at least make it secure?
IBM UK: Oh, remote workers. We want to be colocated with you again
Radioactive leak riddle: Now Team America sniffs Europe's skies for iodine isotope source
IBM: Voluntary redundo offer? Ticked. Min stat terms? Ticked
'At least I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss
Monday 20th February 2017 13:50 GMT
Re: Not as good
Unfortunately I have to agree here, whilst I sympathise with her at a personal level.
If people liked StreetMap then they would have been bookmarking the URL and so would not have been swayed by the Google search ranking.
I used to use Streetmap a lot, BUT that was because there was no alternative. Once Google Maps came along, the difference in functionality was clear and I never went back.
I don't know if they would argue that they could have invested in a better interface if their monthly revenues had not dived so much, but once Google brought out a Maps service the writing was on the wall. Bing Maps, Apple Maps and the advent of mapping licensing for mobile devices (Nokia/TomTom) would have killed them off in another few months anyway.
I think that you can see the same thing happened to Yellow Pages (used to be 6 cm + thick, now < 1cm thick and discarded as soon as it hits the doormat), FriendsReunited, FotoServe...
I feel sorry for her, but I think that it was a mistake to pursue things this far - particularly against someone with pockets as deep as Google.
The article suggests she may have had some funding, so at least she may not have had to sell up to fund the case, but if she has sold family assets to refinance Streetmap then she IMHO is once again mistaken.
The world does not need another mapping applicatio - that is a fight from another era, and already won by the giants (or provided by OpenStreetMap if you eschew the commerce-led offerings).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
