Posts by Pascal Monett 19191 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"The benefits to millions of Americans for me will be enormous. We I will save time, we'll save make money, and most importantly, we'll save lives sell more merch."
TFTFY
Trump never does anything for anyone but himself. He has a great opportunity here to look good, but just wait to see how the usual suspects are going to be the ones benefitting the most.
NASA, ESA and the Russkies have more experience, is all.
Don't forget that NASA has a well-documented history of launch failures.
ESA is not without stains on its launch history either.
As for the Russians, it's difficult to tell because the Soviets only ever publicised their successes. However, given the rather recent string of failures since 2010, one must ask oneself if they are as good as you think they are.
Funny how, with any company that is valued in the billions, everything suddelny becomes "strategic".
There is no "give it a shot" investment. There's no "We're going to try this" investment.
No. It's all done with military precision - even though the military has the saying "no plan survives first contact with the enemy".
But it makes the suits (who've never seen a battlefield outside of films) feel more important, as if they've carefully considered all the variables and come to the best conclusion.
Yeah, sure.
My, have the mighty fallen.
Time for obituary, I guess :
Here lies Intel, what's left of it's reputation bleeding out as fast as the ink fills its books.
Let us not forget that Intel basically created and the PC market and the upgrade treadmill we all so joyously participated in for more than a decade and a half, with Microsoft reaping much of the rewards.
Alas, poor Intel, your very success attracted the competition that ended up eating your lunch.
I, for one, will remember you fondly, always.
Well duh. You're not the school teacher, now are you ?
Unfortunately for Redmond, you are journalists, and journalists have a tendancy to talk about things.
Publicly. And openly.
And that kind of mistake at this point in time is really not a good thing for Borkzilla.
But, realistically, what will it change ? Nothing. Redmond's history of failures could fill an encyclopedia, yet Microsoft is still a $3.8 trillion company, instead of being the run-from-a-garage failure it should be.
So, business as usual, then, eh ?
Well yeah. A billion+ person market is obviously mouth-watering from a revenue perspective.
What I find interesting is that he was born in Taiwan. You know, that country that China is gearing up to invade.
Does that make him some sort of a traitor to his birthplace ?
Of course, if China does invade and conquer Taiwan, then he will obviously be hailed as a visionary.
Pfff.
With over $3000 of hardware.
I'm pretty sure that the average PC user does not have a $3K+ hardware setup, and the number of individuals with an A100 graphics card in their rig can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand.
So this is a nice research paper, to be sure, and I salute the fact that it is proven that watermarking is basically obsolete.
Now come back to me when you have the figures on a GeForce RTX 50, which I figure is a bit more available to the common public.
Decency is apparently not their best interest.
This whole thing is a vast clown show. HP ignored internal warnings and pressed ahead with a purchase it did not need because of one guy's ego, which the Board did not oppose.
HPE should just swallow the loss and shut the fuck up.
I salute her courage and her own form of protest. She is not reponsible for the budget cuts of the orange baboon and his clique of crazed monkeys.
The message is clear : the US is no longer interested in funding Science.
Another year and Trump will find a way to get rid of STEM classes entirely.
Oh wait, he's already cut the budget of education as well . . .
Well duh.
Look, I have personally seen the benefits that COVID-19 has brought (albeit to horrible expense). I am a freelance Notes specialist working in Luxembourg. Before COVID-19, I was on the road every day going to one client or another. Hours wasted in commute (Luxembourg highways are notorious for being locked up in traffic jams). Up at half past five, on the road at 6:20, get to my destination at best at 8:30 - destination that is at most 50km away. That's an average of less than half a kilometer per minute. The return trip was never much better.
During COVID-19, the lockup meant that my customers all sent me detailed log-on credentials and procedures. Suddenly, I could work from home, log into a secure VPN from my professional laptop (or I was given a company laptop), and work continued. Targets were hit, progress was attained. Life went on. I had a discussion with one IT manager during that period and I told him : "Look, you call me and, if I'm available, I'm logged in and working within 10 minutes. Before, we'd have to schedule a day for me to come in, which might have been tomorrow, or next week depending on my workload and when you were able to recieve me. Isn't this better ?".
It was. But now it's almost over. The majority of my customers have recovered their precious laptops, forcing me to once again go to their office. Those for whom I have a VPN login have, for the most part, left it active - probably because they appreciate the reactivity more than having me occupy a desk in their workspace (some people are actually intelligent).
The fact is : in my line of work, working from my office/home office is 100% efficient - and sometimes I even stay logged on just to see the result of an agent running after hours (without billing that time - hey, I'm just logged on with my work computer, while I wait I'm playing Diablo III on my gaming rig).
I do not have a crystal ball, I have no idea where the workplace is going. I am sure, however, that if we manage to get beyond the "I need to count my peons and see them sweat" type of management, working will be better and more productive for everyone.
In these conditions, I don't need a 4-day week to feel and be productive.
Only in computing do you see so much effort deployed for something that few people actually knew and almost nobody has any more.
Yes, I know that there are people who go through a lot of trouble to restore vintage cars, but somehow it does not strike me as so incredibly useless and impressive at the same time.
Yup.
That's the problem I find with the penguin community. They all laugh at you when you're on Windows, but choose one distro and you get yourself a barrage of insults because you didn't choose their preferred distro.
For all the holier-than-thou behavior of the Linux community, there is a whole lot of pre-teen testosterone behavior in a lot of them.
I absolutely second your point.
I was once involved, as IT support, in a project that was supposed to be a non-profit organizing IT trainings for the poor in order to help them get positions in the workplace. A laudable goal, I thought, so I participated gladly.
At one point, the lead responsible made an off-hand remark about how expensive MS Office was and I immediately offered to install LibreOffice for them, explaining that it was free and had all the functionality they needed. I was showered in thanks and installed LO on their five admin laptops (admin because they were the non-profit management, not because they had any particular IT skills).
A few weeks later I went back to configure this and that, par for the course for a non-profit project, and the lead responsible commented on the fact that everyone had gone back to Excel and Word because LibreOffice was "too complicated".
I kept my mouth shut and made a noncommittal "hm hmm" noise.
From what I've heard since, that non-profit has dissolved into nothing.
Well :
1. There was no central database to check whether he had an exiting loan : that's called administrative overhead - the less you have, the better right ? England prevails and all that.
2. The loans were granted based on a claim of over stated earnings without checking last audited accounts : It was difficult times. The Government did the best it could. God Save The Queen.
3. The responsibility for distributing public funds was given to banks : okay, but seriously, who should have shouldered that responsibility ? Hospitals ?
I agree that the whole management of COVID-19 was a vastly overinflated mess, but the small fry are getting fried now.
The big fish will, of course, continue par for the course and get away scot-free.
It requires a coder. Someone with experience who will understand what you are asking, what the caveats are, and how to implement it on your choice of platform.
In any case, you went from "Wow, this is great ! I'm a coder !" to "Jesus, this thing is shit and I don't trust it" in record time.
And you paid for the privilege.
Yup.
1984, Brazil, and other works (of perfectly valid content and justifiable intentions) were all based on the idea that it is Goverment that is the watchful eye responsible for a dystopian future.
Then along came Facebook and it's been a downhill ride ever since.
I'm rather happy that George Orwell is already dead, because he would certainly have a heart attack if he saw what our "modern" civilization has become.
No. You regret getting caught.
There was no confusion. There was you slipping in a bit of text written by a highly-paid besuited Porsche-driving lawyer to ensure that, in the future, all of your options were open and available.
Unfortunately, it would appear that there are people who actually bother to take the time to read those coma-inducing piles of legalese (no, it's not English, it's its own language) and who have enough knowledge themselves to decrypt and unravel the truth behind the waffling.
And it would appear that, this time, they are not your friends.
Who knew ?
