Posts by Pascal Monett 19455 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
That is a good thing. It demonstrates that there is some functional backup system that can be relied on, with a bit of coaxing.
It is still to be hoped that a better backup procedure can be implemented, because restoring data in more than a quarter of a year is not exactly a stellar performance.
I'm not sure that I can agree with that statement.
Back in the halcyon days of pre-pandemic, I used to fill my tank once a week. That's give or take €40. Multiply that by basically 50, and that's €2000 per year of fuel.
The annual checkup costs me around €700.
So no, fuel is by far the biggest cost in the life of my car.
And actually, when I think of it, I'll be paying more for fuel than I paid for buying the car.
I understand the importance that mobile phones have today, but if you lose it in a ginormous model dinosaur and you're all alone, maybe you should start by going to the Municipal Hall and ask for help ?
Or even flag down a police car. Anything but going in headfirst without anyone to help you get back out.
Not to mention that he could have damaged the model.
That was an unreasonable act any way you look at it. I'm sorry that he died, but he really should have given the matter a bit more thought.
Thinking about that, it does not give me any confidence "going forward" that I will be inclined to use Apple OS, since it obviously doesn't consider it important enough to maintain properly.
I mean, if Apple is ready to throw it away at a moment's notice to justify something completely different, then Apple OS is not important enough to merit Apple's full attention. Why should I trust an OS when its maker doesn't care ?
I already don't trust Wondows 1 0.
That's what we're going to find out.
All this is The Zucks' fault. He has set precedent in not knowing anything about his company and passed with flying colors and no consequences, so why not do the same ?
Personally, if I were judge and the CEO of a trillion-dollar company stands before me and doesn't know anything on the subject that the Court has specifically been talking about for a week, I would slap him with contempt of Court and jail him until he remembers.
Good thing for Cook that I'm not a judge.
Not only notorious, it's statistical.
More than half of the missions that have attempted to land on Mars have failed. That doesn't make for good odds.
Recentrly, we've been getting better at it, but it's still far from easy.
So kudos to the Chinese for succeeding on their first try !
That's news to me. I've taken part in some, do I need to send a check somewhere ?
I don't think so.
This is apparently a breach of contract, not a copyright issue, and if you're in a breach of contract with Steve Wozniak, well it's a rich man's issue I can't bring myself to be bothered about.
Ever since Trump University I would be wary of any organization using a famous name anyway.
The only right time to reveal that you've a data breach is when you find out.
Eventually, you can take a day or two to ascertain the extent of the breach and what was pilfered.
Every additional day without a word just means two things : you are not competent enough to know what's going on on your network and you don't want anyone to know.
Well I'm sorry, but you were breached. It already doesn't look good, but at least you're hardly the first, so bite the bullet and alert your customers.
Waiting 5 weeks is borderline criminal.
And just exactly what is that ?
Every supercomputer is unique. From the number of CPUs to the amount and type of RAM to the disk space, not to mention the architecture used, there is no such thing as a typical supercomputer.
And excuse me if I think that compressing months of work from a supercomputing behemoth that has thousands of processors, terabytes of RAM and petabytes of disk space, into 16 hours on a desktop GPU means that there has to be loss of precision in the result.
I'm sorry, I can't wrap my head around that phrase. Especially when, litterally in the same sentence, it is followed by "Microsoft’s dominance in the enterprise".
So, the enterprise is not where the professionals are ? That's news to me.
Let's be clear about things : Microsoft is the most used desktop OS, whether you like it or not. Linux is actually what makes the Internet function, is part of the backbone of all communications, and is the spearhead of most things we send into space. It's also what makes The Cloud (TM) work - yes, even Azure. Apple is for the people who work on making things look good. There aren't that many of those, but their work is just as valuable.
Saying that only Apple has professionals is uttely ridiculous.
And how do you do that if you do not sell data ?
This whole mess looks to me like there are too many people in charge of "informing" the public. Each of them inform on their little circle of oversight, without any coordination whatsoever.
So it's a typical UK Gov project. Everything's fine, then.
So, in essence, China is banning competition to its own funny money.
Par for the course, I guess, even though I completely agree with the ban and think all Western countries should do the same.
As for blockchain, could someone please tell me how that non-scalable technology is going to improve any economy whatsoever ?
Except that it doesn't exist yet, so technically it can't lift anything right now.
Firefly has a plan for a rocket that can lift heavier loads and is working on it. Whether that rocket ever comes into existence is another question entirely.
Finally, I note with interest that Firefly's Alpha rocket is not in the list of orbital launchers maintained by Wikipedia. I wonder why ?
I've always found this tiptoeing around money to be incredibly annoying and stupid.
It's a job interview, not a salon chitchat. There's what I'm supposed to do, and what I get for it. It may be treated as a secret outside the room, but it bloody well isn't inside.
We have satellites in geostationary orbit that already have to be hardened to function properly. And that giant open nuclear furnace in the sky creates a much harsher environment than a functioning nuclear power station.
All the computer equipment on the ISS is hardened, if I'm not mistaken, and it is well inside the Earth's magnetosphere.
I agree that we haven't yet created nuclear plant robot butlers, but I would have thought that the process of hardening electrical equipment didn't need that much research any more.
Do those satellites need to be smaller that what we're using in orbit around Earth ?
Due the Moon's reduced mass, of course.
I'm guessing that we can do geostationary around the Moon, but they might need to be at a lower altitude. In any case, I'm sure they'll get the details worked out. We've been managing satellites for long enough to know what to do. One might even say that there are no new technical difficulties in this project. The biggest hurdle will be, as always, getting the sats into space. Once they're there, the rest should not be a problem.
As the old curmudgeon that I am, I initially reacted to this by thinking "that's another load of intellectual masturbation about how to stream a video".
But, as I read further into the article, I started to get an inkling of a notion that that could actually be an interesting development.
I don't yet know how, and I don't expect this pie-in-the-sky, perfect description to actually come into being, but I am now interested in finding out what they're going to deliver.
Of course, I'll have to use a VPN to check it out. The BBC doesn't like being viewed from outside the UK.
A tall order.
India definitely seems to be a land of contrast, that we can agree on.
However, given that 2020 saw millions of laptops sold in India, there are quite a few people that do have the means to use a wired connection.
And I would argue that increasing the means to access the Internet in any country is going to help alleviate poverty because it will lower the barrier to access, meaning even more people will be able to get online and find, or even create, solutions.
Not all Indians cook their meals on dung fires. Yes, there are poor people, even very poor people, for sure. I don't have the solution for that, but I do think that every little bit helps.
Those are not the ones complaining, so that is not an argument.
And don't come complaining about how you're having trouble laying fiber in the hills. You chose the market, you're supposed to have evaluated the situation and accepted the risks.
Finally, the Chapter 11 episode speaks of incompetent management. You didn't do a proper evaluation of what you wanted to promise, you didn't evaluate the costs properly, and now you're finding things more difficult than you'd thought. Maybe you should have thought some more beforehand.
Useless ? Are you saying that after two years your phone stops being able to phone ?
I have a Samsung Galaxy A3, It can phone, manage text messages, take and send pictures, show videos and use apps from the bloody store.
If I buy a new phone, I will be able to phone, manage text messages, take and send pictures, watch videos and use apps from the bloody store. It just might, additionally, be able to do that slightly better. Big whoop.
What can your brand new phone do that my "useless" phone cannot ?
Agreed. At this point in time, it may well seem to be a waste, but we should take into account the fact that, if we want space travel as a species, we want it safe, and to be safe we have to do a lot of it before making a shuttle ride the same thing as a bus ride.
I am willing to let the 0,1% fund that out of their own pockets for a change, and be the guinea pigs.
Have fun. I'll be watching the news when you go boom.
There is only one solution to this : stop trying to use targetted advertising.
First of all, you're targetted adverts are laughable. Either you're showing ads on something I just bought, or you're showing ads on stuff other people bought concerning the stuff I just bought.
True targetted advertising would be you recording that I just bought a light bulb, then six months later, suggesting that I might want to buy a replacement (because light bulbs are shit these days). Or if I buy a lawnmower online (because I've obviously had an aneurysm), then you wait a year and show me ads for lawnmower repairmen in my area.
If you could actually be arsed to do something useful, I might not mind so much the massive invasion of my privacy, but you can't.
So just do regular advertising. Stop trying to track me since you can't actually make it meaningful.
Of course, the hit on your bottom line will be massive, but, to paraphrase, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
You have a tiny screen, a minimal amount of input vectors, and less power than what it takes to make a cup of coffee.
With those limitations, you're not going to implement a wearable version of LibreOffice. What can you possibly create that will have any interest whatsoever ?
You basically can't connect to the Internet, the power drain will kill the thing in no time.
Watch a video ? Are you kidding me ?
MP3 ? Nope. Not until you have a wearable mini fusion reactor.
Tell time, alert to emails with a Blutooth link to your phone that is in your pocket or beltpouch, use existing sensors to give information on temperature and humidity, maybe heart rythm, and that's just about the limit. No wearable is going to do anything meaningful if it's not paired with a smartphone - that's where the power is.
There's not much room to get all hot and bothered.
Totally agree.
Unfortunately, we're talking hospital here. Nurses have other things to do than follow security seminars on email handling. Especially when governments are notorious for cutting down on healthcare spending.
Hospital personnel have been overworked for years, it's not new.
I don't know what the solution is, but to me it should be before the email reaches the inbox. Maybe have a system that scans email contents, quarantines anything with a link for further analysis, then checks all links for acceptability before depositing them at their destination.
The point is hospitals need better email scanning because the personnel doesn't have the time to think about it. It's the email filter that needs to up its game.
Okay, I readily admit that I am not a hardware CPU geek with full credentials, but how is it justified to say that ARM CPUs scale linearly and imply that x86 CPUs don't ?
The wiki page on ARM does not mention scalability in any way.
I've seen server motherboards with 4 CPU sockets for x86 CPUs. It seems to me that that means they scale.
Could someone enlighten me ?
