Posts by Doctor Syntax

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

Re: Time for creative accounting

"he's encouraging corruption around the world."

He'll expect his cut.

Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

Art imitating life again. Many internet users have been training themselves on made up data for years.

From the BBC's PoV does it mean that it will be bolloxing up summaries of its own invented news reports instead of the Beebs?

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

Re: "Rock-solid resilience"

So is clay.

Japan serves Google a cease and desist order over its Android bundling deals

"this is the first time the Commission has acted against a big American tech company."

Why now, we wonder.

Team Trump readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips

Re: i want my own chips

I think this is one where Poe's law applies if you check his posting history.

"And that’s going to take a decade!"

But ill achieve more. At least more of what he claims to want.

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

No quick fix? With all the money coming in from tariffs China will be paying the US to pick up production in no time. The US has better rare earths than Chine. Even rarer.

Note to pedants: yes I do know.

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

Re: Trump's new book (ghostwriten naturally)

You mean "The fart of the steal".

Re: @Dan 55

Obviously, Dan, it must be fake news conjured up by some Remainer journalist. It usually is.

"even though they got precisely what they wanted"

I'm not sure about that. What exactly was it that they wanted? Did they all want the same thing? As someone else said, many complain it wasn't the Brexit they voted for. The thing is they weren't offered anything beyond leaving the EU and each of them had their vision of what that would have been and that was the Brexit they thought they'd voted for. Excepting a few who wanted to leave the EU as their sole objective I doubt many did get that Brexit.

Re: FOLLOW THE MONEY!

I'm sure it's better following it from a distance rather than close up although there probably isn't a really safe distance.

Re: A solution for US multinationals.

"Forgot to say"

It goes without saying.

Re: Shipments

"most companies do global pricing"

That's an idea whose time has just gone.

Re: Shipments

"Wouldn't you ship them anyway, keep them in bonded warehouse at the port and release them when he tweets in the middle of the night"

By the time you'd got them loaded onto the trucks he might have changed his mind again.

Re: Intended to confuse and distress normal people

"The truly scary scenario for those of us not directly affected, is to imagine what would happen if he and his team become competent in their malignant objectives."

You only need to look at Ukraine to see what happens when a kleptocrat has stolen everything in his own country. Trump has looked and learned from the master and is already eyeing up his next heists.

Re: Exemptions

"all updated before every executive tweet"

Afterwords. Once somebody has been able to work out what it means.

Re: Exemptions

I think there's a missing letter F in that last sentence.

I think the downvoter might have failed to take into account the island platform at Clapham North. It makes all the difference.

Re: A solution for US multinationals.

I think this is mostly what they do anyway. It's just that they have to adjust profit forcasts to write off the US as a market. The real problem for the US is going to be trying to sell to the RotW. They'll not be able to keep their costs steady as tariffs and the dollar fluctuate and they'll be seen as unreliable. The US wants Europe to spend more on defence/ If he was hoping that would be a market for US manufacturing the footgun has already seen to that.

Clapham North

Mornington Crescent!

It seems logical to ensure that DC infrastructure is located outside of the US, even if the users are inside. If the investment is in PCs then maybe the best solution is to repurpose old ones. Or maybe make the entire investment outside the US, locating users there as well. India seems popular for such purposes.

That's not what the USG intended? Any legislator, even a genius like Trump, needs to realise that people will react in the way that optimises outcomes for themselves. To be effective legislation needs to ensure that the optimisations are what the legislator wants.

Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M

Re: Place your bets

"Quantum or Fusion Power"

Or actual AI?

It's good to know there's something to replace the AI bubble when it bursts.

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Re: EFF shows it lacks the historical context of copyright.

I you examine the history carefully you will realise that Stallman was reacting to the fact that work he had done had been stolen by being paywalled. The GPL was designed to make that impossible in the future. The FSF and the FOSS movement comes from academia where the idea is, or was, to publish one's work and, for avoidance of doubt, "publish" meant "make publicly available". It's the commercial world that steals from academia, not the other way around.

This may be hard to grasp for someone who obviously believes that nobody gives stuff away and that anything free of charge must have been stolen, but please make the effort. You would do well to check up on the FOSS contributions of your "molochs".

There has, admittedly been a bit of bad blood resulting from start-ups jumping on the FOSS bandwagon without realising what they'd done and then getting upset when they found out. The moral of that story is that you should check what a licence means before you apply it to your product.

Not that this means I approve of anything OpenAI does - as far as I'm concerned they're just getting rid of the difficult bit in the title.

Re: EFF shows it lacks the historical context of copyright.

"Yet, I'm not surprised by the EFF position. Stallman and Altman share far more than most of the letters in their last name."

And the FSF and EFF share two thirds of their letters. Confusing, isn't it?

You are in marketing but nobody watches TV and your core audience has ad-blockers on all their media - and it's all your fault.

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers

"Incredible". A bit of honesty even if it wasn't intended.

Re: False promises

"By 2029 Trump will be gone"

And quite possibly so may be the market for what they're promising.

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

There's nothing like thorough testing and this was ...

Is it surprising that so many of us fail to see this as an acceptable platform for daily use?

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

"and made other smart foreign policy moves."

I think it's more a case of "they're foreign, they don't need a policy".

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

"it does what they need" and therefore they resist all efforts to put something better in.

If they're in Birmingham they ma have looked at what their local council has been doing and learned from that.

Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree

Tomorrow the tariffs might be 200%. Or zero. Or something else. I doubt Trump knows yet.

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Re: Ah, ya know what?

For real world uses I use Linux but have a W10 on a laptop. I started this month's updates about an hour & 10 minutes ago. It's only just gone to requiring a restate when it will spend ages finishing off what it couldn't update already. You think this is fit for everyday use?

Re: "who was running real-world applications on Unix systems about the same time"

You never heard of "getit right first time"?

Static electricity can be shockingly funny, but the joke's over when a rack goes dark

"handymen were at the door to discuss planning. More important than TheRegister :D."

Yup. Youcan't afford to let them escape.

Re: Shocking experience

Just coil up in a corner.

"We're thinking possible fire."

It's when they stop reporting any temperature that you know you have a fire.

A further addendum is that in the event of a lightning strike the UPS will be the only part of the building so suffer damage.

You test to define them. That puts you in a better position to cope with a real outage.

It's always the DNS except when it's the UPS.

"Has static electricity ruined your day?"

No, but I worked in a place where it had the potential (sorry!) to do more than that. A lab where one branch handled explosives and detonators and another handled live ammunition. I think somebody in that area did have a det go off due to static (I was about as far from them as I could be and still be on-site so didn't know everything that happened there.).

The solution was an earthed brass plate outside the door to any sensitive area. Anyone going in was required to touch it first. I recommend that to the design of any installation where static could ruin your day (or more).

CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle

Wanting to call a system something like Project Future is always a bad sign. It fails the hubris test. Just get Project Present running first.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

"abusing the mechanisms of state security is such a good indicator of bad behaviour"

I've always assumed one of the prime drivers of Brexit was to escape adult supervision so as to indulge in such bad behaviour.

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: "The Trump administration’s strategy"

"then blaming others and weaseling out of the way when the house comes falling down."

Which is why I keep saying the bast thing to do is simply sit tight and not give him anyone else but himself to blame.

Has anyone got a lettuce to spare?

Re: Which hole is this?

I guess they don't want the Trumpistas turning up at the door again. Once the torches and pitchforks are being waved outside the Whitehouse they'll be able to make a move. They'll need to tackle the Spiro Agnew problem first.

Re: Which hole is this?

"Maybe he once learned to love the tariff policies of Calvin Coolidge et al. "

I'm havig trouble with one of the verbs in there.

Re: US companies did this to us

And not all of them running takeaways.

Re: US companies did this to us

If that happened the US would become a low cost manufacturing base able to sell iPhones to China. Of course the standard of living would fall, property prices would tank, houses would be repossessed and so on. Anyone with transferable skills would leave. Anyone without them might become illegal emigrants to Canada and Mexico.

Re: The longer view and risk management

At the moment boards would be hard pushed to make forcasts for next week.