Posts by MrChristoph

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Re: Openreach are run for themselves, not the ISPs forced to buy from them

Starling have said that wind and rain can affect the connection and cause dropouts

Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet

Re: Joke right?

"Which with Azure AD / AD Connect is miles ahead of Google's thrown together offering."

Most decent web-based services online have an option to sign in with a Google account. How often do you see a "Sign in with microsoft(or whatever)" button? Practically never. Google have had this problem nailed for years.

"Again - it's the best on the market. Google doesn't have anything to match it."

There are many project management tools that are leagues ahead of the shoddy sharepoint experience. Basecamp and ApolloHQ are some examples, but there are many more. Both of these have the option to sign in with your Google account and have Google integrations (google docs, etc). Unsurprisingly, they do not do a similar thing with a Microsoft integration.

Many office users are trapped in a cave totally unaware of these superior solutions. It's a shame really.

"And Microsoft's cloud integration options are way more extensive than Google's."

True, from a purely box-checking point of view they do have more integrations, but the integrations are usually significantly worse than how other companies will integrate. Microsoft Teams is a good example of this- from a feature point of view it looks like it can compete with Slack, it has plenty of half-assed integrations, but when you actually use it it's a different story. Slack have some of the best paid programmers ensuring that Slack is a slick effort. Microsoft Teams is really quite shocking. I tried it at our last company and it's just not reliable at doing the one thing it should: ensuring the user you are chatting to sees the message- often it's safer just to resort to using email. Some companies have completely replaced their internal email with slack- this just wouldn't be feasible with Microsoft Teams. And Teams is one of their better products!

Almost everything Microsoft have done in office 365 is half-assed. The only decent things are: Word, Email, and Calendar functionality.

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

Absolute tosh!

This is sheer prophecy - i.e. total BS

It's a bit like when scientists claim that we currently know everything worth knowing except maybe some constants to an even higher number of decimal places. It's happened many times through history and these prophecies have always been wrong.

Who knows knows what innovations will come? Nobody does.

DeepMind needs to think about the broader implications of its tech – report

DeepMind doesn't understand the complexity of what they are trying to achieve? The DeepMind folks must be laughing their asses off at this. If there's anyone who knows what complexity is and how to deal with it, it's deep mind.

If this doesn't terrify you... Google's computers OUTWIT their humans

Re: The Third Nut

We are not even close to understanding the most important nut, which is creativity. We do not understand human creativity. This is a philosophical problem that needs to be solved before we can even begin to create AGI. This has why there has been virtually no progress in the field of AGI.