Posts by Pascal Monett 19191 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
The European Union was a nice idea, full of hope for the future of peoples and messages of peace.
The the bureaucrates took over, the lobbyists found a way in, and now Brussels is just a shell of what it should have been.
Tear that house down. We'll be better off on our own.
This is all because we continue to be good little sheep, accepting that "employers" and "management" have the right to never stop asking us to do all the efforts they refuse to do.
Fuck them.
You pay me eight hours a day, I do eight hours a day. That's a 48-hour week. If you need me to do a 70-hour week, it's because you need to hire someone else.
So do your fucking job and spend the money instead of running us into the wall.
Well duh, that's how you get people onboard with something they couldn't care less about.
Also, you gotta love the "Consumer trust and transparency are top priorities for Microsoft " bit.
Yes officer, I recognize that I was doing 100km/h in a 30km/h zone, but you see, now that you caught me, I would like you to acknowledge that respect of the law and of my fellow citizen are my top priorities. Now. Since you arrested me. What ? Prison ? Come on, I said something nice, didn't I ?
Apple. Who cares ?
Not Microsoft. And why should it ? It already doesn't care about its own users, why bother about less than 10% of the PC market ?
Because, I'm sorry for all you iPhone, white-Blutooth-earthingy-users who paid a thousand dollars for the privilege, but you are insignificant to Redmond. And to the world market.
By this site's statistics, Apple is credited with 2.2 billion Apple devices worldwide.
It also boasts that, of 3.84 million apps on its walled garden "store", over a million are games. So more than 26% of its apps are time-wasters. What a great excuse to crow about. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy store totalled over 10 million downloads in 2010.
This site also declares that "In Q2 2024, iPhone sales accounted for 50.46% of Apple’s revenue". And ? The Apple share of smartphones in Q4 2024 is 10. Meanwhile, that site totals over 100 for Samsung. Yet, it has the balls to state that iPhone 16 "remained the world’s best-selling smartphone ". Um, really ? The most expensive, certainly, but 3 lines lower the Galaxy A16 is outselling the iPhone 16 by a factor of over 7 to 1. Talk about the Cupertino reality distortion field . . .
Finally, the desktop OS market share declares that MacOS is worth barely 10%.
So, I'm happy that you can afford a month's salary for your latest iThing, but you can fuck off if you think that you represent an actual force in the market.
The only thing you are is a valuable idiot in Apple's eye. And Apple is an expert in making you believe you are important.
But that is only Apple's opinion.
Incompetence.
It's incompetence.
Something that Borkzilla's Scroogesque pile of money has disguised as competence for decades now (remember Ballmer ?) and, thanks to the endless amount of incompetent managers and CEOs buying into the scheme, Redmond continues to be able to pretend it knows what it is doing when any technical person of actual experience and competence (the two do go together, you know) will be able to demonstrate just how much that is completely wrong.
Hello ? Houston to the Board : customers do not owe you their money.
You are supposed to convince them to hand it over.
If your only excuse is extortion and predatory licensing, guess what ? Your "customers" will tell you to fuck off, because you are not the Mafia and you can't say "what a nice procurement system you have, would be a shame if something happened to it" without getting a furious lawsuit you would lose, and rightly so.
The only way to convince your customers that your new license is in their interest is to prove it them, not to your Board.
In that, you are failing.
Deal with it.
Apparently, in the UK there are 254 working days per year (on average).
Given that UK gov is publicly stating that of pseudo-AI will save the peons money, it means that 295 government employees will be facing the chop.
Also, where is the basis for this figure ? Why not 7.5 million working days ? Then you could pretend to justify over 250 thousand redundancies.
What ? Too soon ?
That is going on my blacklist right now.
You can go on pretending that you've seen the light, I don't care.
On the other hand, you probably have a brilliant career ahead of you with Trump. You should ask for a meeting. Don't expect to get paid, though. Trump keeps whatever money he has for himself.
The orange shitgibbon doesn't care what happens to the peons. If anything, he would have invited Ginny to the White House for a nice Big Mac dinner (and posted the required photos saying that he paid for it himself).
Meanwhile, he has harped on green cards and managed to make sure he could make some money off of that, instead of plowing some much-needed funds into the US education system.
But nobody does that because educated people have a big risk of seeing through the bullshit and not voting for a serial loser like Trump.
Yes. They just assumed, and you know what they say about "assumed".
But, if I understand correctly, these "researchers" are based in China - so maybe they don't have access to those pesky studies that are revealing to the rest of the world that "AI" is not all it's cracked up to be.
You are completely right, some of these products can indeed represent a boon for the physically disabled. No one is criticizing that aspect.
It's the physically abled idiots that have more money than sense that garner our ire.
That and the fact that the companies hawking the tat are all using it as a means to monetize our private life under flimsy excuses.
No, it is not.
An artist is an individual who takes care of his artistic vision and strives to improve himself from one work to the next.
Borkzilla doesn't care about improving itself, and claiming that icons have colors does not make Redmond a painter.
I would really like to be a judge just to throw out this case with extreme prejudice.
Nope. Sorry, but not sorry.
If you had any respect for the Open Source community, you would have done things differently.
As it is, you have just demonstrated that you will bend over and take in the ass for anyone with enough money to impress you.
You're history.
The Internet does not forget,.
Agreed.
The hardware for the past ten years at least is more than capable enough to ensure Internet browsing, email and video.
One of these days, Redmond et al will have to recognize that the latest and greatest is just a pipe dream. 90% of users already have what they need.
Gamers and video makers will always be an exception, but you don't make revenue out of them - they're a percentile of the market.
So, basically, a software threat is not a hurricane with an easy-to-define impact index. A category 5 hurricane is something you get out of the way of, a CVE of 9.8 is something you might want to look in to.
Gosh, now somebody is going to tell me that you need to be intelligent . . .
Using hand-waving and chanting well-known corporate words.
Given that they are not going to dirty their hands by actually doing the job, I doubt that their intentions will match their expectations.
Then again, I don't really care. They are setting thermselves up for failure since they are only paying attention to the cost of energy, not to the cost of cooling.
And, as we all know, the Colorado river is drying up at a frightful pace.
So yeah, go build more gigawatt planet heaters. We really need those now.
Companies always splurge for the latest and greatest, but Office 2010 still does 99% of what you actually need, and 2010/2013 don't bug you if you don't register. You'll get a reminder, but you can work.
Given that companies have already paid the license, they can go for Office 2013 and save themselves from the upgrade treadmill.
Which they won't do, of course.
Somehow I doubt that the chip dealing with radio signals is changed in every new iteration.
So I'm thinking that, given that we're on 5G at this point, phones will remain compatible with 5G for a while (they're still compatible with 3G - and 4G of course).
So there may be some revisiting for the new generation, but I don't think it's going to be a "bin what we've done and start over" situation.
Good on them to finally boldly go into the Futur, the one with stability and without endless critical updates that never actually address the underlying pile of crap.
I hope they're not going to pull a Munich and stay the course, domanstrating to an aghast CxO public that, yes, you CAN do without Redmond - even if you have to say goodbye to your favorite Excel charts and PowerPoint presentations.
Life can go on, and it will do so in much better shape when we've all gotten rid of that lodestone stamped with a a Windows icon.
"ICO makes example of outsourcing giant "
Capita. 2024 revenue : £2.4 billion.
Fine ? 0.58% of annual revenu.
You call that an example ? I call that pocket change. The CEO probably has that lying in his sofa cushions.
You want to make an example ? 10% of 2.4 billion is 240 million.
Fine them that and watch them scramble for it to never happen again.
Make 'em sweat, instead of going to a restaurant to celebrate after your piddling little "fine".
So, to properly use "AI", you have to be trained.
Well, given how well <cough> companies are focussed on training their employees, I'm sure they'll have no trouble punting the issue to schools and universities to ensure that the next generation of starry-eyed meat fresh from the diploma mills will handle those pesky AI issues just like today's batch handles Excel formulas : badly.
And I say it's a Good ThingTM. I hope that the whole current generation of AI trash gets dismantled so that we can make a new generation that will no longer be in everyone's hands (save for pretty picture generators) but in the hands of actual, competent people.
And yes, I would like a winning lottery ticket with that, thank you.
