Posts by DJV 2441 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2009
Yes, of course it would. And it certainly won't start eating your desktop icons and then delete the associated programs off your computer will it! Nope, absolutely not and it never, ever has done either... oh and please don't click any link that might happen to be below.
I left Vodafone because of their bullshit support (I knew far more than the idiots I spoke to in their support dept - and I know almost bugger all!). After a short stint with EE I ended up with Three. So, I'm hoping this merger gets completely canned.
Oh right, so the mess that is the Settings App is better, is it?
Utter bullshit.
If Microcrap really decided that the "bad UI" should die, we'd be back on the Windows 7 interface immediately with none of the crappy leftovers from the awful Windows 8 debacle.
If that's true then he isn't a writer at all. 97 books in one year works out at less than 4 days for each one.
As someone who has several books published whose content all came from my own hand (with absolutely no AI involvement, whatsoever) I know how long it can take to properly write and edit a book, and it's far in excess of 4 days! My latest book, which is currently being printed, had its germination back in October 2022.
So, a pox on all those who call themselves authors but are really no more than manipulators of AI.
Oh $DIETY... that takes me back to my school days in the late 1960s and a classmate whose surname was something like Donague. His nickname had transitioned through Dongo, Pongo and finally settled onto Whiff - and, yes, he did live up to that name. He had been absent through illness on the last day of term. As I sat next to him, it became my job to tidy up the contents of his desk as well as my own. Unfortunately, he did have a habit of not eating the sandwiches that his mother would dutifully make for him each day. These he would store in the desk alongside his books (exercise, reference and hymn*). I seem to remember there were several day's worth of uneaten cheese sandwiches which, once the desk lid was opened, was accompanied by cries of horror as the pong wafted around the classroom.
* The hymn book he had kept especially to occasionally show us the exact page upon which, during one particular morning assembly, he had thrown up onto. On that fateful morning, I had been standing directly to his left but I'm glad to say that he had aimed his stomach contents mainly into the hymn book itself and partially to his right, much to the chagrin of the boy in that direction whose school blazer caught a good proportion of Whiff's deliverance.
Yes, it will be sealed off from civilisation but not before someone has installed a server in there as nowhere else was suitable or available. It will sit there doing its job for years without issue until someone finally decides to upgrade that old Netware 3.12 box to something a bit more modern - except they won't be able to find it until they physically trace the CAT-5 cable through a wall.
My brother "taught himself" welding and attempted to do up his rusty banger on our driveway in front of our and the next-door neighbour's garages. He was banned from using it after said rusty banger was reduced to a burnt-out husk and the paint on the metal garage doors had blistered alarmingly. Parents (and next-door neighbour) were definitely not amused.
Why do I suspect that Boeing probably has a lot of Teds working for them!
They should be fined on the "wheat/rice and chessboard" principle. On the first day of non-compliance they should be fined one penny/cent (it probably doesn't matter which), the second at two pennies or cents, the third at four pennies/cents and doubling every day of non-compliance until the company realises just how soon they will be made completely bankrupt. That should focus their attention a little bit!
"I have used ChatGPT to generate example snippets of how to do a specific thing, but I have been completely unable to get it to produce even a relatively basic program that is functional"
Back in the 1990s when I was doing a computing degree at university, someone assigned to our first-year group project also produced code like that. A quick glance at his attempts at coding would reveal several compiler-breaking syntax errors. "Did this compile?" I'd ask, knowing full well that it couldn't have. "Yes," he would lie.
So... send print job from computer to new HP/Boeing printer. After 3 pages, the printer software decides that all the cartridges are now empty (whether or not they have any ink in them), all the doors on the printer fall off and an oxygen mask dropping down somewhere inside the printer causes a paper jam. Sounds about right...
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