Posts by TheRealRoland

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

Re: 56k?

Ahem. '

IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

So, reading even the marketing fluff, Watson Workplace is nothing more than a 'built from the ground up' collaboration work space, with some Watson words sprinkled in. No wonder IBM says that SameTime is a good alternative.

In my mind, this shows the mindless bandwagon-y trend of calling everything AI, even if something's just analytics and trends... Good riddance.

Huawei and Intel hype up AI hardware, TensorFlow tidbits, and more

Re: deepfake?

Yeah, if you want crazy right-wing, watch KOMO (ABC, Seattle) in the morning. I think around 6am they are playing 'must-run' 'news segments' about all the current dangers from illegal immigrants, etc. KOMO is Sinclair-owned.

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

Re: Astronomical

Keep in mind though, 3 in 2 people are bad at statistics... so keep it simple :-)

FCC tosses aside rules, treats Google to a happy ending following request for handy tech

"Those nerds with their radio telescopes. Bah! As if you can make radio waves visible! Ha!"

"Step aside, this is for the greater good (of me and my friends!)"

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Oh, and i want my akira bike, please.

I'll be over there, sitting with the olds.

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

*GASP*

Nested comments!

Be still, my heart.

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

Re: Not enough coffee...

Never mind - i saw that in the actions menu you can execute all changes with one click - and indeed, when something's switched off, and the column says 'recommended' - it needs to be switched on.

carry on.

Not enough coffee...

ShutUp10 - maybe i'm reading between lines, and being ESL, here's an example where i get confused:

Take the first entry in the list of things that can be switched on and off to do 'stuff'.

setting: Sharing of Handwriting data disabled

button is showing red: so this is not yet switched on?

the Recommended column says 'yes'

What's the logic pretzel that i need to visualize? Is it:

it's switched off right now; but I should switch this setting on, based on the recommended column's suggestion, so that it's disabling the sharing of handwriting?

R.

Mystery sign-poster pities the fool who would litter the UK's West Midlands

i see and hear this part of the conversation more and more often: "I'm already paying taxes to own a dog. Part of that money can go to staff someone to pick up the poo". Probably the same with "paying taxes" in general, and saying to hire somebody to clean up the mess.

Selfish bastards.

Amazon's self-driving AI robo-car – THE TRUTH (it's a few inches in size)

Re: a 4MP camera with 1080p resolution

Lawrence of Arabia in Ultra-wide Cinemascope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYho_s24VHk

iPhone XS: Just another £300 for a better cam- Wait, come back!

Re: 2018 is the year of stupidly sized phones

People laughed when I first showed them my samsung note 2. I still use that to control my Canon camera with, via USB :-)

Come to think of it, perhaps i can do something similar with my Blackberry Playbook...

Foxconn denies it will ship Chinese factory serf, er, workers into America for new plant

Re: Bah!

So it's a semantic issue about what's being made in this factory, while nature around it still gets polluted. I see another Superfund site for the near future :-)

People don't understand how important water is, especially in a country as big as the US. Private and community wells are always under threat of seepage, whether it is from ground fills, fracking or oil spills...

If this water is used for cooling, when it's spat out by the factory, that increases the water temperature around the factory, and will kill life in and around that water.

But yeah, let's argue about what's the purpose of the factory itself :-)

Haha! <nelson laugh>

Walker got voted out last night. But Wisconsin still stuck with this deal.

While Trump may not have been at the inception of this deal, he was more than happy to tag along for the political profit he would make.

A deal too far.

Chinese Super Micro 'spy chip' story gets even more strange as everyone doubles down

Re: How can I put this?

You must be new here. Playmobil or it didn't happen.

Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch

Re: 50% restored (for me)

Go fly a kite, will ya?

BlackBerry, Sony, Honor and LG flash their new phones for all to see

Re: Key2 LE : No gesture support, no sale

Yeah, i like the Hub. Not as integrated as on the BB10 (i sure miss the various little things BB10 did for me - like proivde one-click-connecting to phone meetings, how integrated everything was for traveling, stuff like that.

Worried about the patch support for the -03 Keyone model (the Verizon one) - but nothing i can do about that.

Re: Key2 LE : No gesture support, no sale

@Binky

What are the "other disadvantages of Blackberry." ? It's an android.

BlackBerry KEY2 LE: Cheaper QWERTY, but not for what's inside

My guess, this is a phone for corporate bulk buyers. With enough scale that price will go down anyways. Solid, secure Blackberry, not rootable, etc. - they could be on to something.

Developer’s code worked, but not in the right century

Date format history - somewhere?

A couple of weeks ago I watched an ancestry-type show. Documents written in England in the 1600s apparently used the mm/dd/yyyy format back then. But now almost all European countries are using dd/mm/yyyy in their day to day communications. So I guess that's where the US format came from... And got stuck, after "the rest of the world' adopted dd/mm/yyyy as the regular date format

(sure, pedants will find exceptions, already highlighted in previous posts. But in general, i'm saying).

Interesting. Probably off topic. Still interesting.

BlackBerry Key²: Clickier, nippier, but how many people still want a QWERTY?

>If only it wasn't so incredibly expensive

Look into getting a KeyOne - it's still a good phone even though a newer one came out.

It's been working fine for me, having moved from a Passport, and wife from a Classic (or Q10, now i can't remember...)

Main reason for me dropping the Passport was that apps would no longer run in the older-Android-VM that the Passport was using. Not because it was a crap phone :-(

I would love to have one, but i just got one year into my KeyOne.

Is it me or are these product iterations getting shorter and shorter? Built-in obsolescence becoming an issue?

Looks nice and shiny, though. And while the BB apps on Android are still not what BB10 used to be (how integrated everything was in BB10!), it has improved a bunch over the last year.

Huawei Honor 10: At £399, plenty of bang for buck – it's a pity about the snaps

Re: Phone or camera?

You know, i kinda disagree. I live by this rule: The Best Camera is NOT the One You Have With You.

When i walk around, on hikes, through town, other places, i'm certainly not always carrying my DSLR with me. But i see stuff where i would say 'damn, that's the money shot',. And try to get as best a shot with the camera i have on me - mostly my phone. But that makes that whole experience even better: you see something worthy of capturing, you have less than optimal gear with you, so then if the result is better than you expected, even better!

I live nearby a municipal airport where sometimes military planes do flybys. I use my 500mm zoomlens and not my phone for that. Phone would be useless; but then when going for static shots of those planes on the ground - that zoom lens is completely useless. I'm happy I have my phone with me, and that my phone takes pretty good quality photos (or is it the guy behind the camera...)

So to focus (geddit?) on picture quality in a smartphone review - totally warranted.

Bombshell discovery: When it comes to passwords, the smarter students have it figured

Re: Pass the salt...

Perhaps one of those mushroom brushes, to brush off the dirt?

New Monty Python movie to turn old jokes into new royalties

What's that sound?

Oh, must be the Royal Society of Putting Things on top of Other Things working overtime. In this case, stacking all the cash...

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata

Re: Obama

>So what have the Onion ever done to upset you? Or did you actually mean the vegetable?

Both probably made him cry.

SpaceX blasted massive plasma hole in Earth's ionosphere

Re: "The particularly large circular size of the shock wave"

I saw what you did there...

China to offer recoverable satellites-as-a-service

Re: Oak heatshields

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_Models/74-22292/74-22292.html - Walnut grit.

Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites - nobody? Sigh.

Rhode Island proposes $20 porn tax. Er, haven't we heard this before?

Re: Offensive content

>They just keep it hidden. Like good morons.

I like it. I had to read it twice to make sure i did not read what i wanted it to be. Can't imagine what the bad kind will do...

OK, who is shooting at Apple staff buses in California? Knock it off

Re: Use the Trump solution

At the least the State of Illinois begs to differ. .177 pellet gun is allowed without any permit, but for a .22 pellet gun you definitely need to have a permit.

AI racks up insane high scores after finding bug in ancient video game

Re: "Chrabaszcz"

Nicknamed "Scrabble" ?

Actually: Marc Rzepczynski's (MLB Pitcher) nickname...

Gits club GitHub code tub with record-breaking 1.35Tbps DDoS drub

Still some stuff happening?

I see intermittent glitches on anything atlassian - JIRA, Confluence mainly; US East Coast, Central Time zone as well. It all seems stable, but even the main atlassian site itself was still down, a minute ago.

Sheer luck helped prevent mid-air drone glider prang in Blighty

Guess i'm too late to preempt the commentards saying 'but it doesn't have an engine, so how could it damage the glider?' It would just 'slide off' or 'bump it out of the way'.

Idiots.

Put blinkenlights on them, dayglo orange mandatory colors. And. Don't. Fly. Near. An. Airport.

Follow. The. Frikkin. Rules.

Iran: We have defeated evil nuclear-sensing Western lizards!

Re: @TheOldGuy "But when we arrested them, they said they had come for fishing and were tourists."

I was recently 'membered about Louis de Funès. Man, that was a trip down memory lane.

Secret weekend office bonk came within inch of killing sysadmin

Re: Commas are important...

>Let's eat Grandma!

>Let's eat, Grandma!

"Calling Donner party of five?"

"Over here! Now four!"

2018's first spacewalk bugged by software

>Rebooting the robotic arm cleared the problem, but that set back the astronauts by roughly an hour.

As with anything in space, even rebooting an arm just goes slower, right?

The one with the environmental controls on it, please.

Drone crashes after operator failed to spot extra building site crane

Re: I hit the lamp shade

Ah, Bucks Fizz... When we were young.

Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI

Re: Success!

But what about the Women Tai?

Mine's the one with Mai Tais in all pockets.

Apparently it was a person already member of the team for 10 years, and has been reassigned other duties, but has not been fired.

OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections?

Bought one a while back, returned it almost immediately

i hated the fact it was constantly phoning home, and using a lot of bandwidth. Not sure if it's still the case, but it was downloading the background images it's showing while it's not casting. that could only be changed using the Android app, and not by the integrated webpages, when accessing the Chromecast by webpage.

So then i blocked the outgoing traffic of the chromecast - and then it 'glitched' or 'hiccuped' every 20 seconds. Now i know why.

Never again.

Open-source civil war: Olive branch offered in trademark spat... with live grenade attached

Re: "Freedom"

People's Front of Judea and Judean People's Front are watching this with interest.

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

Re: God bless her...

> it's carrying the [teaspoon|bucket] up seven or eight decks from the bilge to dump overboard that takes the bulk of the time!

Just drill a hole in the hull nearby and use a hose to pump the water out? Shouldn't be that difficult.

Or use a commercial cargo ship.

Too soon?

BlackBerry won't kill BB10 until 2020, pulls regular Priv updates

Re: old Android OS not as big a deal anymore

Uhm, the Android VM on the passport for instance is only 4.3, or perhaps 4.4 - a number of apps are refusing to start or even install because of this older version. so while the phone itself may still be working, i was being painted in a corner on what i could easily use.

I switched with heavy heart to the KeyOne / Android. At least i still have a keyboard :-(

But i will miss BB10/BBOS.

Drone collisions with airliners may not be fatal, US study suggests

So, as long as the drones are coming in at the windshield of a plane, we're all good; i guess it's just a matter of pilot skills to weave towards the drone, making sure it hits the windshield, and not the engine.

Got it. (my coat, that is.)

DNS resolver 9.9.9.9 will check requests against IBM threat database

>2620:fe::fe (the PCH public resolver)

FE FE?

CovFE FE ?

Hm...

How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches'

Re: How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air?

No, even easier. Do not allow anything that can act as a computer on board anymore. And the US is moving towards that model, right? Because the batteries can explode. Or something.

BlackBerry Motion lurches into UK stores

Switched to a KeyOne from a Passport last week. While i like the feel of the phone, Android still is just so not ready for business. Almost everything that was integrated in BB10 now needs an app. Resize photos before sending? need an app for that. Bedside Mode? need multiple settings plus an app for that. Stuff like that. Trying to make edits in a text or message? Need to enable some sort of weird virtual joypad that allows you to move the cursor through the text. Just use that scroll-paddy keyboard already!

Infuriating.

But, at least i still have my physical keyboard.

I know i won't switch over to a Motion. I need those keys.

So, yay - another Blackberry released. Here's to hoping more of the BB10 functionality gets built into the Blackberry apps.

Shhh! There's a new BlackBerry and... no, we've said too much

I'll be switching over from a Passport to a KeyOne shortly; having just switched over another family member's Q10 to KeyOne.

All that went well - easy, no hiccups.

However, then getting the KeyOne to behave as much as possible to be a BB10 machine. Impossible. All these Android idiosyncrasies preventing a proper BB experience. Nothing is as integrated as using BB10 to communicate.

I do like that keyboard though. And the battery life.

I would have liked sticking with my Passport, but that only supports sideloading of apps that should still work on Android 4.3 - anything above that wont even work. So slowly but surely, the Passport is pushed into obsolescence.