Posts by Cheesenough

Alibaba beats Google for IaaS market share, with IBM out of sight

Fishy figures

Those figures from Google strike me as a touch too "round" and make me suspicous. The original Gartner press release http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3808563 is the same.

Gartner: Can you tell me how much business your IaaS division is doing?

Google: Er...[makes tapping noise on calculator]...we're doing more than we did last year!

Gartner: And how much is that exactly?

Google: Er...I'm sure its...er...loads.

Gartner: There's a free set of steak knives in it for you, if you give me an actual number.

Google: We're behind Microsoft, and ahead of Rackspace, aren't we?

Gartner: You have to tell me...

Google: Ok...ok...FFFFFFour...hundred...

Gartner: 400, that put's you behind Rackspace?...

Google: No! What meant to say is 400 is what we are year to date, I mean 500...

Gartner: Yes, you've pipped in ahead of Rackspace

Google: Get in! ... and we're 3rd now aren't we?

Gartner: No Alibaba beat both you and Rackspace. [Put's down phone]

Google: Fuck! No wait, It's 600! ... its 600! ...

Government lab that gives a crap pushes open source

The EPA believes that methane has 28-36 times more Global Warming Potential than carbon dioxide. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials

Whether you believe them or not, there are departments in the US Gov that do, and that's why they've gone to the bother of encouraging farmers to build digesters.

Wowee, it's Samsung's next me-too AI gizmo: The Apple HomePod

It's not very shiny - is it?

I would have expected a new geegaw from Apple to exude the cool, sleek, shiny design ethos - but that looks like its covered in the sort of netting laundry tablet bags are made of.

SQL Server on Linux? HELL YES! Linux on Windows 10? Meh

Re: SQL vs Linux on Win

>Win 10 is the worst windows so far

Worse than Vista?

If USA wants a say in 5G, Cisco HAS to buy Ericsson

What if Huawei builds an American factory?

Is there anything to stop Huawei building a US warehouse and employing a few dozen 'muricans to screw the boxes together. GE Appliances for instance are owned by a Chinese parent company and churn out fridges "Produced in USA" (i.e. screwed together from components sourced from Mexico and China) http://www.goedekers.com/blog/ge-appliances-made/

OK, fridges are less sensitive to arguments about the security of national infrastructure, but I'm not sure that politicians think that far ahead when the promise of a new factory and jobs for Americans in their state are on the line.

SQL Server on Linux: Runs well in spite of internal quirks. Why?

Re: stored procedures are not enabled,

T-SQL stored procedures are enabled, its the CLR stored procedures that are not. They only arrived in SQL Server 2005.

HP doorsteps Apple shoppers at the altar of dreams

Re: The problem with the HP kit no matter how good it is, is...

...and this year might be the year of Linux on the desktop.

I think you missed the point of the article, it wasn't saying that Windows is better than Mac, or HP is better than Apple. It reports that HP is feeling bullish about its current crop of products because they have a quality [in the sense of a trait] that many believed were the preserve of Apple

Meet Deliveroo's ‘bold and impactful’ new logo. No, really

Re: you weren't in when we called!

Yes, I see a right-handed two finger salute too.

DVLA misses out on £400m in tax after scrapping paper discs

Re: In reality...

The tax rate for Diesel vs Petrol could also take account of the amount of CO2 emitted.

Petrol contains roughly 88% of the carbon as the same volume of diesel, so tax petrol at 88% of diesel!

I confess; I drive a petrol car.

BlackBerry snips Alcatel label off a midrange biz 'Droid, sells it for $299

Not great value

$299 for a bundle which includes the phone and a portable charger brick - probably to make up for the rather limited 2610 mAh the phone has is all a bit meh. Especially when you consider that an LG G4, a Huawei Honor 7 and Moto X Play are all options at that price.

Admittedly none has Blackberry's secret sauce in them, but the added security that BB bestows on this device is pretty much unproven.

Official: Microsoft goes to pot, gives weed growers fix they need

Now this makes sense

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=8228EA9C20F71DDA&id=8228EA9C20F71DDA%21831879&parId=8228EA9C20F71DDA%21107&o=OneUp

Cock fight? Not half. Microsoft beats down Apple in Q1

Re: Not counting all the iPads.

That's interesting, but the point the article makes is that in the business sector in the UK Microsoft sold more Surface Pros that Apple sold iPad Pros.

Czech Republic to rebrand

Will the Czechs change their name to Czechians?

Australia -> Australian

Austria -> Austrian

Liberia-> Liberian

Bolivia -> Bolivian

Czechia -> Czech?

Windows Phone devs earn double what poor Android devs pocket

Windows Mobile surprising...nah! Symbian is surprising.

There's some 5% of Symbian devs out there, that will be doing more Symbian development?

City of London cops in Christmas karaoke crackdown shocker

Jonny Bong

Is Jonny at all related to Shoreditch Steve Bong?

ALIEN SLIME SHOCKER: Approaching comet probably NOT inhabited, say boffins

Invoking the conspiracy theory argument

He doesn't do himself too many favours with that closing comment, "The resistance from people who have contrary vested interests is of course natural and to be expected."

Which *vested* interests?

'Fry-OS 8' iPhone BLEW UP MY PANTS wails roasted Johnson

Altruistic Lawyer

Lawyer reported as saying,

"First and foremost, we have to find out how this happened and prevent it from happening ever again," he said. "That's the whole goal here. Is the product safe?"

Yes, and the best way of achieving that goal is for Apple to award my client thousands of dollars in compensation so that he can pay for the legal advice.

Russian hackers exploit 'Sandworm' bug 'to spy on NATO, EU PCs'

Re: Branding bugs

"XP not affected" is probably indicative that the target victims of the attack probably aren't using Windows XP any more. So it does beg the question, "Who are the 23% of Windows XP users?" in this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/03/microsofts_nightmare_deepens_windows_8_market_share_falling_fast/

Presumably they don't work for Ukrainian Government, NATO or Energy companies.

What kind of mugs do you take us for? Malicious sites in spam scams target UK

Language Timothy

More likely is that the phishers' grasp of English is better than their French or German. I wonder if the Australians and Kiwis get the same amount of attention?

Amazon axes hated Fire Phone price: 99 pennies but a niche? Ain't none

UK pricing of fire

I got some spam from Amazon this morning - "No upfront cost" "with selected tariffs" on O2.

I can't say I'm tempted.

Did they buy the moulds from the Blackberry Z10 production line?

NASA scrubs FLYING SAUCER over Hawaii ballocket mission

Re: Hawaii

Many a truer word said in jest. I bet Middlesborough has equally favourable wind conditions, but somehow just doesn't hold the allure of Hawaii.

Our robot overlords won't be evil cyborgs: Prepare for whisker-equipped ROBO-KITTIES

Ten pound note of pressure

Is this the birth of a new unit of pressure?

... "the same amount of pressure as a ten pound note exerts on a table surface"

so £1million is equivalent to 1 bar

China: 'JADE RABBIT' will be FOUND ON MOON

Why no picture of the real thing?

The picture is obviously of a mock up of the rover - the wheels appear to be attached to a shape cut out of a sheet of black plastic and the communications dish looks a little shonky. I would have thought that if they're planning to launch this next month, they would be well along with the construction of the real thing by now.

Is this whole project really just a publicity stunt for boosting Chinese national pride?

World's first astro-bot sends greetings from International Space Station

My dream is to see human beings and robots live together as friends...

...and as such I can't let my friends leave the ISS for their own good.

Want to go to billionaire Sun kingpin's beach? Hope you're a strong swimmer

Miserable Git

I hope he has to drive 30 miles to the next town to buy his milk.

British support for fracking largely unmoved by knowledge of downsides

Greens not the keen amateurs they once were

The "Green" organisations have ceased to be the friendly, keen amateurs they once were (back in the 80's). Greenpeace now present a professional, business-like, tech-savvy, media-aware, political face to the world where once they were all kaftans, crochet tank tops and muesli. Although they are more effective lobbying force now, they look more like major oil companies they despise. I think the public just view them with the same level of suspicion as a consequence.

Steve Jobs AIRBRUSHED from history by APPLE months before his death

Is there a way out of the store?

There is no mention of how you exit the store - does the entrance serve as an exit as well or are the thousands of Apple fanbois trapped in the hole living off iPad packaging?