Posts by quartzie 118 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jan 2008
Having had first-hand experience with this, I can vouch that most SMBs do not want to dedicate their IT time to deploy Copilot on M365 in a safe and sensible manner.
It is far more involved, requires re-thinking your data storage, labeling and correct permission setup to work as intended - and ONLY as intended.
On top of that, Copilot is still very much under development and it's hard to rely on in anything business-critical.
I have always found these artificially crippled GPUs with cut-down memory bus insulting to both customer and the chip itself.
The performance is going to suffer a lot - a 7900XT has max 800GB/s bandwidth (2900 GB/s effective), the 7600 only sports up to 288GB/s (effective 476,9 GB/s).
8GB of VRAM is going to be the least of the GPU's problems.
It has long been a standing recommendation when visiting east asian countries to buy a local burner SIM card instead, which gets vastly better pricing than whatever roaming service you choose.
EU-roaming price ceiling has been one of the (few?) tangible benefits of EU regulations, which limited the price gouging when travelling within the 27 states.
There are at least two issues with geosynchronous satellites you mentioned.
1. They're out of reach of regular cell phones (4G/5G)
2. The delay involved precludes them from being used for phone service (120ms one-way due to orbital altitude 36000km)
I'm not saying that starlink-on-a-plane IS the solution, but geosynchronous satellites are most certainly not.
It is insane that individuals (or manpower-thin) operations are allowed to use up so much of the energy, without providing virtually any benefit to the local population. Not to mention the dubious value of Bitcoin itself, which is driven simply by speculation junkies which crave anything "in short supply".
All the green talk gets thrown out of the window for the profit of a few maniacs (bitbarns have absolutely minimal workforce, producing virtually no jobs locally, while bringing up power prices).
But they sure can talk up their "good will" in reducing their power usage when needed (and while being paid to do so).
self feels a bit overwhelmed at the memory.
I did learn to tweak Autoexec.bat and Config.sys (+ dismantle and eventually reinstall Win 3.11) at that age, but I probably still preferred playing Wacky Wheels at that age. It may have been the year I learned about TurboPascal, though.
Can't imagine contributing any code whatsoever to a project like that as a 7th grader.
I've had a ton of fun with the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn, and i can confirm the patched version is really a masterpiece.
Compared to that, i was at times underwhelmed by GoW on PC, especially water could use some transparency.
Both are great stories, though, and well worth playing.
As flogging Cisco wares is part of my daily bread and butter, I'm only worried what switching contract commits would entail in our SAP.
At the same time, customers with over $100k in licensing fees alone are not going to be switching very often... if at all. There tends to be a good amount of "if it works, don't touch it" reticence, unless the CFO is "woke" and has a bone to pick with the CIO.
It seems to me that in all this green push, they willfully ignore the growing impact of crypto currencies and the newest bitchain abomination - NFT.
Since the tech industry considers Crypto "cool", it doesn't matter that it consumes enormous amounts of power for 0 real value.
According to my experience, not necessarily.
Most 110V plugs are of the [ | | ] type, or grounded [ | . | ]
I residential buildings, the 220V plugs are for AC's mostly and are keyed [ | . - ], but in legacy engineer shops, you'll often see just RED versions of the 110V [ | | ] socket, which is somewhat disconcerting ;-)
I would strongly suggest to refrain from using glossy paper in your Laserjet. It's designed to work with wet ink, not dry powder toner and certainly not made to withstand the baking process required for Laser Toner.
You might find that the lifetime of your printer has suddenly become much, much shorter.
I beg to differ.
If your airline is cheap enough to cram seats into non-reclining spacing, then it's a madness, but reclining seats are most certainly NOT designed to work only on half-full flights.
I'm 6"2", and will look for extra leg room seats where available, but I will recline, especially on a 10-12 hour flight, since I want to be in working condition at my destination.
In cramped short hauls, it's a matter of consideration, especially in local Asian island hoppers, but on long hauls and red-eyes I'll recline to keep sane. Fortunately, in my experience, these flights have generally been amenable to reclining.
Ay, there's the rub.
These questions are a stupid "solution" to a practical problem - Passwords, and their (often moronic) implementation.
Case in point: My reasonably computer-literate parents already struggle with the idea of keeping separate complex passwords for every account they use - and they use far fewer than I do. Remembering said passwords is a lost cause.
I'm trying to get them used to the idea of a password manager, but they are more likely to use pen and paper, so the complexity of the password is going to suffer.
Want to bet how many people don't really have anyone with at least rudimentary understanding of computer security they could ask for advice?
Because in some countries, the geofences are set up so rigidly it is virtually impossible to fly even in your garden.
Fortunately not the case in most of Europe, but DJI's geofencing has been known to fork up people's toys.
That, and because idiots want close ups of flying jetliners.
@John Savard: As a business oriented person, I found a fly in your soup, corrected below.
"They should be trying to make a product which can be sold at the HIGHEST ACCEPTABLE price, to benefit the maximum number of consumers."
Businesses are striving for profit, not just volume. High manufacturing volume @ near-zero margin can cover your production expenses, but not generate profit - see almost all current Android manufacturers for reference.
Almost all the profit in mobile phone market is generated by Apple, even though they do not have a dominant market share.
I had the same problem with an old Sony Z2 - it just wouldn't stop working well.
I wanted to upgrade to get some new features, but with reasonable maintenance the thing just wouldn't die - or underperform. Until one day the battery gave up ghost, ballooned and took waterproofing away - a downpour on the very same day proved deadly to the compass & IMU.
Took three years of fine performance and a freak coincidence to cripple the phone, otherwise another battery would have been good for another year, at least.
i never quite understood the fetish about cracked iPhone screens. Even with the high replacement cost, there are just too many such sheePhones around.
My S7 lives in a thin silicon bumper case and a glass sticker on the screen. I've had to replace the sticker a few times, but the screen remains spotless. Just why is iPhone equipped with a screen *designed* to be broken?
Mind boggles...
USB-C is in fact fairly compatible with previous standards, but also incorporates high power transmission option, which can be potentially dangerous over low quality cables. Unfortunately, the original standard doesn't sufficiently check cable quality and specs, creating a potential fire hazard
Windows 7 was a success, but it was aging and that showed in the cracks.
The old windowing system and rendering were completely useless on HiDPI screens, and many hardware enhancements were only possible by generally hacking drivers onto an aged kernel.
Windows 8 brought a lot of necessary new guts, with an unfortunate interface.
From what I can see on my Surface, Win 10 is basically an evolution of that, with many things I used to dislike in Win 8 resolved.
My pet peeve is probably about the forced updates, which I hate on both Windows and Android.
Unfortunately, that number is only the theoretical Mean Time Between Failures. Although it may sound confidently optimistic, WD castrated the idea by offering a paltry 3 year warranty on your archive drives.
Surely they must have another business case for this model?
There is a basic problem with the definition of driving in your response.
Technically speaking, you can sit in a car and make it move without ever going through driving school, but actually *driving* a car means you take into account road rules, traffic around you and general safety.
With those included in "driving", then no, it isn't easier to do when drunk.
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