Posts by Jim 59 2047 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
For anyone who has just bought a Windows 8 machine -> press Win-d and it switches to being a normal PC desktop.
Windows 8 is fine. MS's only mistake was to set the default to Metro with a shortcut to conventional desktop, rather than the other way round. Phablet should default to Metro, PC should default to desktop. Simple.
Bang on Nigel 11. The business desktop tends to get overlooked. By Microsoft. But Redmond has no competition on that market, whereas in the domestic market, they have.
"... based business desktop solution set with a big corporation backing it. IBM? Apple? Oracle? Samsung? China inc.?"
That would be an opportunity for Red Hat surely.
Skaugen is probably right, but the Wintel partnership should not be underestimated. True, it lost the mobile war but seems pretty impregnable on the desktop, even in 2013. Content will always need to be generated and generation happens on the desktop, not the phablet. More phablets will demand more content which will require more desktops IMO.
Agree, the whole article is based on an assumption that the poor employment outlook stems from a quality issue with CS graduates, but cites no evidence for that.
Could it have something to do with offshoring, outsourcing, immigration and intra-company transfers, which together allow employers to demand experienced staff for circa £10 per hour ?
Wanting to make a profit isn't evil. Companies big and small do it. People know that Ford makes cars and Sony makes PCs or whatever. Most people (non-techies) don't realize that Google makes money by following you around and reporting everything that you do to others. Period.
"Keep calm while ...we steal your data"... Google, of course, does no such thing.
Interesting statement. How would you categorize Google Books, a project based on copying copyrighted works, in which Google used its might to simply brush aside the objections of the Author's Guild ?
Google has settled out of court, and the legal process rumbles on. A reasonable person might therefore use the word "take", or "appropriate", or steal.
Well said AC but it won't pan out like that. Eventually, people will get what they want, and what they want is privacy. The message will gradually seep out until the whole population becomes mega-paranoid about *any* privacy incursion. They will be even more anal about it than they were at any time. It will be a zeitgeist in 2050.
In the meantime techies can foil the snooping one way or another. Eg the owner of an LG TV could hook up an alternative like a WD TV live or similar.
and a word can be two words... according to Radio 4 this morning. Interview on Today:
Radio 4: Can you suggest any suitable words
wonk: Bedroom tax
Radio 4: er... that has political connotations
wonk: yes bedroom tax blah want to talk about poll tax too... yeah poll tax right?
Radio 4: what about "seriesbinging"?
wonk: yes that is when a person watches a whole series eg. Breaking Bad, blah blah either digitally or from a DVD... blah...
and DVD stands for...
It is well known that chat with a passenger is different from taking a phone call. The passenger can see the road and what the driver is doing, and adjust their conversation accordingly. They provide another pair of eyes and can see hazards ahead. A caller, on the other hand, will discuss some in-depth subject, push the driver for decisions and generally take 92% of his CPU cycles, while he is trying to lane-merge at 60mph, in driving rain, in the dark, in the rush hour. Agree with coroner, stop this total b0110cks immediately.
My car has full bluetooth whatsit but I would never use it even when standing still. Men hate using the phone anyway FPS.
Article an obvious troll for comments. Okay I'll bite. Yes, virtualization brings benefits but it also increases complexity. All of the old abstractions still exist - server, disk, NIC, OS, memory, swap, switch, vlan, etc., etc., just now they are wrapped inside another set of abstractions. Staff need (much) more training, not less.
Meanwhile vendors throw a few more skins on the onion and say they are saving you money. The hapless Solaris admin was using "format" to partition disks in 1995. Now he is using "format" to partition disks in 2013. Only now you have to send him on a series of expensive VMware courses so he can provision the virtual disks before using "format" to partition...
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Slow-mo video reveals the fleeting link to be
www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=<string>&url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/....
So they are putting your search on file then forwarding to bbc.co.uk (or wherever) but stripping the "q" query so that BBC and other webmasters can's see the query terms. We already knew about the stripping bit - a sharp practice that violates protocols and withholds information from web site owners who then have to use google analytics.
Summary: Google slows you down in order to track you more thoroughly and penetrate more deeply into the business of other websites, pushing them towards Google... and so on.
Difficult to smile about anything Google does today.
Off topic, but has anybody noticed that Google search is slow these days. I mean when you click a result, there is a delay before it shows the page. Google seems to visit another google.com address in between- you see the URL flash in Firefox too quick to read. I am not talking about content linked to the target page or CDN data, this is something that happens while the search results are still showing, before your browser gets the new URL.
Bing feels quicker.
"Youngsters...ants..anglers" etc. etc.
A small child burning an ant doesn't understand what he is doing and is not responsible. The roach device is a different story, where the maiming is carefully engineered and the electro-convulsive control "enjoyed" by the sort of person who will years later end up wearing somebody else's skin and babbling about fava beans.
I need to look at the configuration a bit more closely to eliminate as many writes to the SD card as possible.
SD cards should not "burn through" in a couple of months. The one in my Sheevaplug has been fairly hammered 24 x 7 for a couple of years. I have a Pi whose SD card gets file system corruption occasionally, but that doesn't necessarily mean the card is at fault. I pop it into a Linux laptop, fsck -a and put it back. No problem. Never had an SD card that actually died.
Yes one type of boss not mentioned in the poor old "team leader". TLs are a layer of employee devised by management to avoid contact with workers. The TL essentially does the unpleasant and hard bits of his manager's job. That is, dealing with the team, their issues, performance reviews etc.
The TL gets endless pressure from above, and complaints/issues from below. He/she has no real power, no budget, not decision making input, and is paid as a team member. Team members become TLs because it seems a stepping stone to management. No. Never. When a management slot opens, an outside candidate is invariably chosen. The TL is not even interviewed. Few TL posts are advertised on job sites because no candidate would apply.
In better companies the team leader is in fact a full manager. With the power to both command his team and influence their futures for the better.
No. Exactly the opposite. It is a peer-to-peer, cloud free solution, and that's the whole point. This is where distributed storage needs to go IMO, away from cloud, which is a festival of painful drawbacks. Your data will remain on your premises (es) but be potentially available everywhere, with proper security.
If it works, then it could be big, big I say...
We love it when the devs really push a system almost beyond its limits. Like this game, or the the famous zx81 "chess in 1 kb".
Atmosphere is an important part of any game, but hard to pin down. It's not a technology thing. Chunky pixels can be more disquieting than the latest graphics. I recall even Dragon 32 games that overflowed with atmosphere at just 0.8 Mhz. Inevitably the atmosphere is reduced once you have played more modern games, so it must be something about discovering things for the first time too.
Agree, Lewis has allowed more than a whiff of intellectual snobbery hang around this article. Still good though.
Globalization has complicated things. Get a hard degree and you will be competing with engineers or physicists worldwide (for example), as well as the local population and immigrants. A "soft" career usually involves services delivered locally, and will face less competition. Yes, a Polish teacher can move to the UK, but teaching is not subject to intra-company transfers, remote working and the rest of it.
"while of making millions of analogue sets useless, and reducing consumer convenience."
And making my car's traffic warning systems useless. in the 1960s, transistor radios made music portable for the first time. But we don't have to put up with that anymore, now they are being replaced by heavy, expensive, fragile, mains-only, severely band-limited DAB units.
The article feels like it was cranked out in 20 minutes by someone with a hangover. Perhaps there was an editorial mix-up or deadline snafu? After puffing a "friend" and a previous article, Foxton gives us 200 words of self-aggrandizing invective about runts and wierdos, working up to his main theme that 7 is too young to learn programming. Many might agree, but we don't really care. So boorish and gung-ho is the text that we give it no more weight that we would a Youtuber's turdspurt.
All is not lost, however. Modern software, designed by some wierdo, has rendered Telegraph blogging a strictly repetitive and mechanical activity, unlike plumbung, which requires certificates and exams. Category A Prisoners could be trained to blog for the Telegraph on a regular basis, which would-
Me too. For those of a certain age the Enterprise was an object of unspoken teenage lust. Mainly due to whispers of 672 x 512 resolution. "High resolution" graphics were a key selling point for home computers at the time. Shame is was just too good to be true.
The media, esp. BBC/Guardian, persists with this tired old 80s/90s meme, where any hacker is automatically labelled an elite genius. It hasn't dawned on them that defusing a bomb is more difficult than making one, and the real clever guys are those who detected, decoded and reverse-engineered the amateur's activities.
"That said, convicted hackers are likely to be some of the best in the business ...
Why, because they were roundly pwned ?
How depressing Lt Col White is invoking this childish myth to puff his own organization. It will certainly get attention from the media, but you have to wonder about his own technical appreciation.
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