Posts by Silverburn 1609 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2011
...the 2008 incident that crashed the facility...
"Crashed" is a bit of an understatement...how about "catastrophic failure"..? Afterall, crash implies a simple "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" might fix it - the 2008 incident involved replacement of considerable number of physical component and cryogas, and *then* it was "rebooted" then slowly re-frozen.
NewsFlash: Electric Cars with enough charge to travel 185 miles should be able to do that, regardless of charge level.
Given the consequences of fuel depletion in an electric car, they should have *even more* accurate range calculators than those in a petrol engined car.
Easy as it might be to call this a QA issue, it probably wasn't in their spec to test LINUX installs on this hardware. They would have been given a number of official scenarios, and tested those and a few secondary scenaros as well. Anything else would not "be supported" so no testing.
And even then, not all found issues are fixed; sometimes they generate a helpline script to be followed, and just accept it as "a feature". Dell, Apple and HP all have history here.
However, if this is indeed exploitable via one of the "supported" OS'es, and all it takes is a different install vector (eg: verbose install from DVD? boot from SD card?), then Samsung really do have some QA questions to answer.
Indeed. Witness a recent "1 hour program" I watched the other day.
10mins of program, 5 mins of ads. repeat a further 3 times.
I downloaded it on itunes later in the year, and without the ads the program was only 38 minutes long. So in one hour, 37% of my viewing was ads. In some US stations, this can be even higher.
Needless to say I download more now, and watch TV a lot less.
ad skipping technology: Something you want to should about, because it's good tech, and ad avoidance is a good thing. But if everyone used it, Ads wouldn't see a benefit in funding stations/media any more, and the costs would have to go somewhere. So you can't shout about it.
So i say - officially - down with Ad blockers.
Unofficially...I'm off to my secret Ad-free lair...
Apple fixed this on their retina displays by offering a control panel for "2 for 1" style upscaling of pixels for certain onscreen elements. The benefit being you can maintain stuff like font sharpness, while maintaining the physical size of "touchable" elements.
I imagine Google will do something similar.
...the unimog truck thingy. Even today, I *want*. eg: Self-loader or theTow Truck
and....oh, god. I MUST HAVE
Why did they not have the train in my day???
Good decision: To recognise that Samsung would be their biggest competitor, even when they weren't really a player (at the time).
Bad decision: To litigate, rather than innovate. At the time Apple had the market by the throat, and could easily have continued their dominance if they'd kept up the pace of progress introduced in the iphone 1 & 3G, instead of resting on laurels and suing. Removing 8bn of revenue from Samsung by changing to another, non-mobile making supplier would also have been a far more effective action than litigation.
Actually, if you decide to go cheap and put in a spinning disk, then you can go cheaper again and go for plain ol' 100bT, as you won't fill it from a 5400rpm HD. They also went cheap with the webcam as well btw.
"Going cheap" is the HP fault here, and you're right to want more from £1200.
2011 that 1.85 million CCTV cameras were watching the British public
And yet...every time I've actually required the use of one, say when I got mugged, or when my bike was stolen and when my car was victim of a hit & run...*none* of the operators had any film in, or they were switched off, or nobody was on duty at the time etc etc.
What happens then?
I should start off by saying I completely agree with you.
However, MS have chosen to render some stuff as HTML/XML etc even for "non internet" stuff, so they've got the engine down in the OS as it is, even if you don't use IE as a browser. So while I advocate the complete and utter removal of IE as well, I can - almost - sympathise with MS for not removing it completely for technical reasons.
However, given the MS programming base, the complete removal of the IE engine should not be a difficult task, FFS. Afterall, they built in in there didn't they, so in classic Haynes process "Removal is the reverse of installation" should be a simple procedure.
"But that will leave you without any web browser!" some shills may scream...err, yes, that would generally be the idea. When your engine is full of holes, I want it's complete and utter destruction when I remove it ta v. much.
Yay...eventually some some drives to max out my Drobo at last. Not because I have to, but just because I want to. Even with my HD movie collection growing, 10-and-a-bit TB is a lot of storage.
And given Seagate's reputation, a chance to see just how good Drobo is at dealing with dead disks...
Interesting sidenote: a 4x4tb Drobo's index overhead requirements ( circa 18gb) is more than my first PC had in total storage. Progress ftw.
China has:
- traditionally low IT knowledge in the masses
- has relatively new access to the internet
- has almost non-existent awareness campaigns about IT Security
- are traditionally skint
- are skeptical of US products, and AV is no exception
Ergo...lots of uneducated internet newbies getting infected and because they were too skint and uneducated about where to get and install AV, and too untrained to recognise the symptoms of infection = huge malware infection rates.
the unholy trinity of a slow economy, incursions by Apple and Android tablets, and the "ambitious" user interface design
Only one of those is outside of MS's control (the economy) or ability to affect, but it's hardly hurting Apple or Lenovo who both recorded increased sales. Maybe...just maybe...Win 8 simply isn't good enough?
I would beg to differ that more people would recognize an IBM Thinkpad and I would put that pot ugly iMac in second place.
Are you saying that the imac is "pot ugly" compared to the thinkpad? Wow...Thinkpad's are great machines - functional, fast, reliable (in IBM, non-lenovo form) and hard wearing. But they're not lookers.
And re: most people. Putting aside the actual aesthetics, you might find people *do* recognise the Apple's more because Apple/media types are extremely good at product placement on TV, in films etc.
but what about the rest. Can GOOD provide the same functionality to separate out things like applications and other data?
Take a look at Sysmosoft's Sense platform. It's a "platform" app, which you can delegate apps into, thus seperating work & personal apps/data. There some downsides we discovered to this solution though, which are probably too detailed to post here.
A portable tablet-based device that requires a cooling vent and fans is obviously doing something wrong, and the battery life is hardly up there with "conventional" tablets (Nexus, ipad etc). It really needs a 7-9hour battery life, IMO, otherwise it's just another win8 laptop, albeit lighter/smaller.
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