I also heard that Jobs was arrogant, but at least he was competent, he had novel ideas and had the courage to bring them through. Cook is only a boring accountant
Posts by Zolko
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Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment
Re: Sell
We need to be on the lookout for the Chinese trying to work around these sanctions
that's actually easy: buy ALL machines that AMSL is able to produce and set up semiconductor fabs ourselves. Here. Why don't we do that instead of preventing other people from manufacturing stuff that we manufactured before ? I'm really fed-up with such lazy pussycats
Re: The United States Of America are going too far...
Or we can accept the 1/2 century old international policy of recognizing that Taiwan is part of China and let them sort it out. You (*) already buy your iPhone made-in-PRC, why would you be worried that the CPU also comes from PRC ?
(*) my phone comes from Korea
Re: The United States Of America are going too far...
face-it : China will not back down from Taiwan anymore than Russia didn't back down from Ukraine. Actually, Ukraine is a demonstration to the Taiwanese of what awaits them if they don't go voluntarily with China : "see, do you think the USA will be better able to protect you from us than they were able to protect Ukraine from Russia ? We might have a hard time invading you but your country will be destroyed "
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters
and explicitly states that it's a parody account
no, it doesn't, please stop this lie. It falsely states that it was shared on X by a parody account , whereas it was created by that parody account (I hope you get the joke about Trump inventing the wheel). This is cheap political propaganda and ElReg should laugh about such pictures – may-be even participating in the joke noting the obvious factual error of Trump not wearing the black turtle-neck – rather than being snowflakes about such trivialities. This doesn't look like "biting the hand that feeds IT " but more like "barking with the dogs "
CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism
Re: Just ban tracking/targeting
I think that's the crux of the matter : marketing droids of a company buy adverts from other marketing droids in an ad-broker company. And they rake in billions doing that, which increases the price of the products of said company by as much, that every-body *ELSE* has to pay somehow. That's the very definition of parasites: they suck the blood of the host. The entire advertising business is a parasitic behavior, quite identical to the former Soviet propaganda : if the products were indeed as good as advertised, advertisement wouldn't be necessary in the first place
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
its internationally recognised borders
where said internationally recognized borders is also an interesting matter when considering Israel. May-be NSO should re-locate to Gaza so they're in a no-man's-land that doesn't belong to any country and thus can be exempted from any international jurisdiction ?
KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion
Re: I think it looks good
why the downvotes ?
1) no mention of Kwin which is probably currently the best Linux window manager.
2) no mention of Dolphin, which is currently the best file manager on the planet, including ANY other OS
3) no mention of Kmail which is currently the best Linux mail app
4) as for the looks, KDE (or Plasma) can be made to look and behave like any modern or oldtimer DE (including CDE ! try that on Windows) ... if you spend enough time to optimise your desktop
in short, you look at the defaults but most users either make their own configs or use themes found online.
Re: KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm "and confusion"
@Liam : I agree somehow that you seem to miss some of the killer features of KDE each time, and you concentrate on the default aesthetic look-and-feel (which is important I agree, but not solely) :
1) Kmail, Korganiser, Kontact: this is the ONLY usable Linux mail and calendar app that is professionally capable. From what I see, it's on par with what MacOS can propose (dunno about MS Outook). What other Linux offering do you know of that can sync with a Zimbra server online and on your Android phone ? (use DavX) Thunderbird used to sort-of do some of it but it's mostly unmaintained.
2) Kio-slaves: this is even better, because you can use your local desktop (the Dolphin file manager) for remote accesses to FTP, SFTP ... servers as if you were local. I've not seen anything approaching this in usability, surpassing anything that Windows or MacOS can provide.
3) Dolphin can also be made to be used as the legendary MidnightExplorer file manager, including remote server access: what other modern DE do you know that offers natively such a workflow ?
FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again
Re: In the Reg forum?
highly paid and trained engineers
1) they might not be those deciding
2) I'd be interested in the "highly paid" figures
3) didn't all other failed aeronautical and space projects have those highly paid engineers ?
All-in-all, mistakes happen. I think there was a recent aircraft carrier that was designed and built too short for the aircraft that it was designed to carry, they had to "extend" the ship. And think of the 737 Max fiasco, or the Piaggion Avanti with its noise due to the propellers on the trailing edge. The world of (aerospace) engineering is full of "oh sh***t didn't think of that " moments.
Re: payload ?
the engines were throttled down well below maximum thrust
you mean that the rocket exploded despite not being at full power ? So when they decide that the rocket is "ready" then they'll launch it with full payload and full throttle, something they will never have tested before ? You can't be serious
As for 100T payload, a 5x5x5m water ballast would do the job, no security or other dangers on re-entry.
payload ?
If it had had a payload, it would have made it to orbit ... Starship was approximately 150 km up and traveling at around 24,000 kph at the time
but if it indeed did have a 100T payload, then it would have been that much heavier and thus it wouldn't have made it to orbit either. Also, Oxygen doesn't burn by itself, it needs some fuel: where was that supposed to come from ?
All-in-all, I persist in saying that this will never make it to orbit, let alone to the Moon.
Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that
Re: conflicting accounts
The oft-repeated claim that they're "Iran-backed"
the problem with this claim is not only that it's unproven, but that the same label is not used for other "forces" in play : when did you ever hear about "NATO backed Ukraine" ? Or "USA backed Israel" ? As for Iraq, is it USA-backed or Iran-backed now ?
Such "Iran-backed" (or Russia-backed) narrative is only here to build hatred towards the target country by association : nothing concrete is said, but the repeated subtle propaganda settles in. The same could be seen with Julian Assange: he was depicted as an ars****le for years, even here, so there was no sympathy left for him once the extradition to the USA – which he fought against from the beginning – was announced. It's straight from the Nazi propaganda book: repeat a lie often enough and people will start believing it. I find it somehow uncomfortable that ElReg plays that game
EU wants to make undersea internet cables more resilient
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04
iFixit tears Apple's Vision Pro to pieces
Re: Worth mentioning
I've been a 3D CAD user for twenty years [...] which I appreciate is niche
millions of people do 3D CAD, so no it's not "niche". And the difficult bit about CAD is not the CA part – Computer Assisted – but the D one – Design. You need to know and understand (both !) the mechanics and physics behind the design choices, and the computer will only assist you in the drawing part, which is admittedly easier than with a pen and paper. Actually, it's not easier but more forgiving : you don't have to redraw everything if you make a small mistake. BUT: if you're not able to do a good design on paper, you won't be able to do a good design in 3D CAD. These glasses will not help the tiniest bit in doing 3D CAD.
It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety
Re: There is no undoing the AI
Even worse: you can't buy nitro anymore because some "terrorists" made bombs with it. You can't even buy the gasoline for those RC cars with more than 16% nitro where I live. Used to be 25% some time ago.
But aaaahhhhh .... the noise ! And the smell !!!! Electric cars might be faster - dunno - but hell are they boring
Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year
Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail
Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe
Re: I think I disagree, but I’m not sure…
1) I don't drink Nespresso, I drink proper Italian expresso, so I don't really know the issue, it was only something I read. You might be right, thank-you for clarifying
2) for cars on the other hand you're wrong: it is mandatory that you can replace replaceable parts with compatible gear from any manufacturer, there can be no "vendor lock-in". This goes for tires, filters, brakes, clutches .... While it's true that you can't replace the engine of a Fiat 500 with that of a Lamborghini, you can replace the engine of your Fiat 500 with an engine that you buy from someone else as Fiat, for example a refurbished one from your local workshop, without paying a cent to Fiat. Which means that if Apple itself has provided a mechanism to install external programs on the iPhone, then it's in the same ball-park as tires or wind-shield wipers : it cannot restrict from where you get those external programs.
Re: I think I disagree, but I’m not sure…
how exactly is your consumer choice impacted by the iPhone being closed ?
because it's forbidden ! The same way that a car manufacturer cannot restrict your choice of tires, even though he could argue – like you – that you can buy some other car where you can buy the tires of your choice. And it's forbidden for a good reason: to allow interoperability. That's why Nestlé had to allow compatible capsules for their Nespresso machines. Now, some company can come up with an AppStore that would be compatible with both iOS and Android, like Epic or Steam. That's what Apple wants to prevent.
Nice story, quite similar to mine ... except that I switched to Linux, not Windows. I tried BeOS in-between (was great !) but unfortunately that one didn't go very far. So I invite you to try some sort of Linux. My current favorite is the Debian-based MX-Linux. If you're even more adventurous you can try a BSD, but that's beyond my grade.
What I found surprising was that at the beginning MacOS could open any type of hard-disk with any format you could plug-in, but today it refuses to mount Linux Ext4 filesystems and only accepts its own and Microsoft's various FATs.
The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim
Re: So many VR systems collect dust
to be honest, there are niche use-cases for VR headsets: we had a demonstrator for a hang-glider simulator set-up at the Coupe Icare 2023 last year:
Tesla Cybertruck gets cyberstuck during off-roading expedition
United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues
Re: Manufacturing
yes I've read the communist manifesto, and it says that private property should be forbidden. At the beginning, I thought that he wanted to restrict that to private property concerning production facilities – companies – but he says that that's not enough so better ban any private property at all. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy ... where did I read about that lately ?
No thank-you
Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases
Re: Well done Apple, that'll go straight onto tanks and ammo.
you didn't think that one through: IF Apple did that, THEN people would know everywhere in the world that iPhones can be bricked remotely. Even if you have absolutely nothing to do with the official reason. Would YOU buy a phone from such a manufacturer ?
Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next
US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050
@nauticaa
uttered by the people who get paid, with your money – via government research grants...
I think that's the crux of the matter: if you pay people to find something particular, they will have a high incentive to find what you have instructed them to.
...and who are supposed to be smart enough to provide real solutions to this very serious and very perilous problem
ermmmm, no : that problem is only very perilous because the very smart people that you have paid have tortured statistics to make it look very perilous. And yes, one needs to be very smart to be able to twist reality to that point. If you look at the same numbers differently then the problem disappears. Or rather: it changes completely, and becomes "peak-oil ". May-be even "overpopulation ". The same goes for many other recent "very serious and very perilous " man-made problems
Russians invade Microsoft exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server
So don't leave your bloatware undefended
I don't understand: why have bloatware at all ? Isn't that simply lazyness ? If so, nothing can save lazy people, because by definition if they're too lazy to get to the bottom of the pit to find out what they really need, then they're going to be too lazy to defend the unneeded bloat that they didn't take time to get rid of.
Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens
Re: "opting out of linking services could result in limited functionality"
It's only there to help us charge advertisers slightly more
yes, but what I don't understand is *why* do companies not realise that too ? Why does a company spend money on something with no return value ? The only rational explanation I can come up with is Ark-2: the same nutters who are marketing responsible in client companies are *also* the same nutters at Google selling advertisment space. It's only a parasitic behaviour, we could cut it out entirely and we wouldn't even notice the difference.
US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world
Re: Were I an Evil Overlord ...
How are you going to compromise an SoC ?
you don't even need that, the FUD that the US government is spreading is more effective: costs nothing (to PRC) but has the same effect (USA unable to use that tech). What I find passionate is that the USA has defeated the USSR in the cold war with the fake Star-Wars space race (allegedly, reality is more subtle) and now China is defeating the USA by fake cyber-spionage allegations.
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Re: The Singer not the Song
the point is that if you include wikipedia in your search terms, then the results from site:wikipedia.org should be on top of the returned results for obvious reasons. And that's what Qwant does. That lower down in the list you also get other results that merely contain the term wikipedia is acceptable, as long as they appear after them