Posts by Pascal Monett 16741 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Sounds like paradise. And, made faster and easier means making more with the same resources means each unit costs less, so it's a win-win-win.
Except that they're going to want to recoup the costs of putting it in place, so we're not going to see price drops any time soon. And the gaming crowd won't care because it'd DDR5, man, look at those framerates !
a Podference is : "Downloadable or non-downloadable podcasts [..]; Downloadable or non-downloadable video recordings [..]; Downloadable or non-downloadable written articles"
In other words, videos or documents that can or cannot be downloaded. That the subject is supposed to be technical is irrelevant.
So, my question is : how can you trademark something based on stuff that is not only not yours, but pre-existing since practically the beginning of the Web ?
I might as well push for a trademark on Monettference, where I blather on about any specific subject. Who cares ? It's a video, like the gazillion other videos that are out there. Each and every YouTube channel could push for <channel>ference and what would change ? Nothing.
This is marketing at its finest. Requalify something that already exists for your own benefit. It costs nothing and changes nothing but might increase "brand awareness".
Yes, I have an increased awareness of just how stupid Dell is now, mission accomplished.
This should not be considered a COVID-19 response app, but a pandemic response app. The next time a pandemic occurs, the app should be quite capable of handling the info for that pandemic, no need to reinvent the wheel.
Of course, the timeframe for a response app to be actually useful for this round is limited, so consider that whatever you can cobble together is basically a trial run. Limit the functionalities to the bare minimum. Right now there is a perfectly functional website. People can go there, so it's not like we have no information to go on.
By all means, make an app if there's any chance that it can help get the right information out to people, but take the long view. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to hit us, and it certainly won't be the last.
That means that the miscreant is sending me a mail with a document attached and expecting me to open it because COVID-19 or my bank or whatever.
I have a very fine bullshit detector and I can assure you that your mail will be filed in SPAM faster than you can blink and your document will not be opened or previewed in any way.
That settles that problem.
Now, I've checked my Win 7 installation and it has, in perfect Microsoft form, no less than 12 copies on disk. Two that are in Windows\System32 and \SysWOW64, and ten copies in \winsxs\ followed by a slew of characters that would take way too much time for me to type here and nobody cares about reading that anyway.
Then there are two more copies in \winsxs\Backup, in which the file names start by "amd64_microsoft_windows_gdi_" and another slew of characters etc etc.
Which ones can I get rid of, anybody know ?
Just how much is enough ? Windows has long been the specialist in eating up the disk space, nice to see that the latest version is keeping with tradition.
Microsoft has always considered that it has the entire disk to itself. Partitions ? Yeah, it's heard of them - there's even a built-in tool since, I think, Vista, but if you actually want your OS on one partition and your data on another it's a world of nuisance to get it done, and there are still parts that cannot be elsewhere than on C: - whether you like it or not.
So yeah, dumping all the security updates on C:, what can possibly go wrong ?
A big red flag indeed. It likely means they weren't there before, but cobbled something together in a hurry to profit from the situation.
There are no products "for COVID-19". There are videoconferencing products, there are networking products and there are calendar and planning products and all of them have existed before this pandemic. Analyze one of those for suitability and steer clear from the ones who have just popped up now.
I agree that it does seem that CO-OP missed a crucial step : a tech demo of the alleged whitebox product.
I'm pretty sure that it should not have taken much time for actual experts in UK tax law to sniff out the major issues, and then tech wizards would have had a field day explaining how difficult it would be to get stuff changed.
Not really blaming CO-OP, but hey : if you didn't find any ready-made package in your own country, why did think going to foreign source was a good idea ?
Sophisticated pattern matching. Sounds about right. When I did the Google Beginners Course in AI, I followed a dozen lectures in statistics. There wasn't a hint of AI, it was just how to define a slice of dataset to get the desired result.
Now a head of company has finally called it. Good. I'm not expecting that to actually change the media's mind, but I'm glad that somebody is putting "AI" back into its place.
Well, there's at least somebody else that agrees with you concerning the markets.
Personally, I wouldn't set foot in such an area. I need my meat to be cut, cleaned and lay in a refrigerated enclosure without flies or anything running around.
What ? But that's not how you do things these days ! You go Agile, you Scrum around and create lots and lots of functionality that you break fast and often ! You make sure that your customers are regularly complaining about stuff because that means that dialog is well and alive !
In the old days, programmers would hole up for months and years, carefully crafting a monolith of functionalities that, when released, would work out of the box with only minor adjustments needed. In the old days, nobody knew who was working on the project because nobody ever saw them ; they were in their office, coding.
But that's not how it's done anymore. These days you engage with the customer, you meet to explain why what broke and how the next release will not only correct that issue but include new things that are broken. Then you meet again, after release, to explain that the issue is not solved because a side-channel in the new functionalities is having an unforeseen effect that the next release will correct for, as well as correcting the new broken stuff and adding yet more stuff that nobody asked for that won't work anyway.
That's how developers have become visible, and that's important to show everyone that they are working. Of course, meanwhile nobody else gets to work because the tools are broken, but hey, the developers are working.
I have a new revenue opportunity for you : make Thorium reactors work.
Nuclear is not going to go away, not when we all have at least one smartphone, not when electric or hybrid cars are being sold at the rate of half a million a year, going up.
We are continually pushing the grid to do more and more things. Once, it was just the lights, now its lights, heating, kitchen appliances, computers, handhelds, washing machines, water purifiers, and soon electric cars everywhere.
We need nuclear, and we need safe nuclear. Thorium is safe. Let's get that running.
I am relieved to see that there is at least one other person that considers framework churn to not be the bee's knees of development environments.
And, as for decisions, removing frameworks because of lack of popularity is the kind of thing that makes me wince. Popularity is more important than features and stability ? Everything seems to be a show these days. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a shit show.
How does that work ?
Unless I missed something in science class, in space you need some form of propulsion to go faster. This quasar tsunami (as awesome as it is named) is just gas and particles hurtling across a galaxy and encountering other gas and particles.
Those are not conditions that are favorable to acceleration.
Please use official sources to report on this pandemic. WHO's situation report indicates 8778 deaths globally as of yesterday.
Let's not go rounding up for no reason, shall we ?
And porn. Never forget the porn. It's not just the lowest rungs of the ladder either - CxOs and manglement are quite capable of having an interesting browsing history as well.
That said, my sister's oldest used to be an expert in getting his mother's laptop into such a state that I had to go and purge the system. Curiously, when I pushed for him to have his own laptop, that stopped. What a coincidence, eh ?
But we have failed as a society. We are selfish, we raise our kids to be consumers, we elect blithering idiots who can't see farther than their next election, and we are ready to blame all the foreigners for everything we aren't doing right.
Yet, somehow, society endures.
Amazing, isn't it ?
I have two hosted servers and I need FTP to update the files and check the local versions. I am, obviously, using a dedicated FTP client to do that, but if everyone is throwing FTP to the dogs, I do hope someone is going to think of a solution because managing my hosted files via a browser would be, I believe, a pain in the neck.
I rather like LDS's idea of an FTPS. Is there a good reason not to do that ?
Um, just a question to the FBI : can't you fucking get a handle on these guys if they have an actual PR channel ?
Maybe you should go ask help from someone capable, like Jim Browning ?
I've been upgrading my graphics card since - (checks records) - 1992. Yes, I've read up on interpolation, yes I know what NURBS are and can tell that I want a card to do that. But know how it works ?
Sorry, bud, I'm a gamer, not a mathematician. I check the specs and choose my card because I've been told what to look for. I have a vague idea of how stuff works because I read about it. I absolutely cannot fathom the math behind it and, being a gamer, I don't have the time. Those games aren't going to play themselves, you know.
Now, if only I could get a version of Minecraft that used Toy Story graphics. That would be awesome.
And I have to admit that, one, I like their approach to my security and, two, I like the Librem 15 laptop a lot. Its aspect, the fact that ruggedness and reliability is repeatedly mentioned, and the specs are nothing to sneeze at either. The $1400 price tag is surprisingly acceptable for the quality and specs that are put forth, at least in my opinion. I was expecting a larger price tag then that.
Unfortunately, I have no use for PureOS at this point in time. Still stuck with Windows until I retire. I hope they'll still be around by then.
Peng is not the guy compromising the security of the USA, he's just the courier.
The guy doing the compromising is, apparently, Ed. He's the guy the FBI should find.
Of course, Peng is part of an espionage ring and guilty, no doubt there, but I think the wording is wrong. Peng participated in compromising US security, but he did not do so directly himself.
If they work, that is. I find it extremely unlikely that a phone app can do any medical diagnosis whatsoever. With the exception of a bad-quality heartbeat monitor (the microphone that you can put against your chest), the typical mobile phone has no monitoring hardware for temperature, blood pressure or anything.
And if you're just asking questions to the user, then you run into the issues of response reliability. Not to mention understanding the question appropriately.
In short, I'm skeptical.
Yes , the app will know where you are, but I think the HK government is honestly not interested in knowing that. Apparently, the app does not upload that information, it just keeps it internally to compare with the new location. I guess it squawks to the government when it has nailed a new location, telling that the location has changed but not giving away the new location.
At least, I hope that that's how it works.
I wonder if anybody at NASA made a comparative cost evaluation of how much it would be for NASA to upgrade its DAACs to meet the 240+ PB storage mark vs properly costing AWS to get the job done.
With the download costs added to the mix, I really wonder if it wouldn't be better to go and upgrade the DAACs.
I'm sorry, Apple is touting a laptop for video editing and the basic version only has 128GB of storage ?
If you're editing video, you know full well that a terabyte these days is not too much. Yet, the terabyte version is the priciest.
That's like Renault selling you a Twingo named Ferrari. It's cheating, pure and simple.
Way to demonstrate just how fake the whole thing was. You prepared all the marketing material beforehand, so you could make a point about how "progressive" you are.
Unfortunately, you just underscored how fake all that progressiveness is.
The better way would have been to hold the fiesta, take pictures of actual participants, and post a news blog after. Of course, that does not allow you to run ahead of the news. It does, however, prevent you from smacking your face into the wall of shame, like you did.
. . is that it is time to stop trusting small startups with your private data.
Yeah, I know, that is going to put a crimp on startups that propose money. In the meantime, we need a certification that proves that the startup knows what security is and knows how to manage cloud accounts.
I know, I'm dreaming. Just don't trust financial startups that don't have a banking charter.
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