Posts by Ted's Toy

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Re: Literally a legend

Makes me want to go digging in the garage under a pile of part and boxes dating back to 1975

Intel talks up its 10nm Tiger Lake laptop system-on-chips as though everything is going according to plan

Please tell the marketing dept.

14 + means 14 plus something

so 10+ will be the next generation with the size or something increasing, Surely it should read 14- 14-- 14--- 14---- now 12nm so on to get to a smaller no. Using 10 plus means going the other way getting bigger. All the way back to 14nm

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The correct consept or incorrect concept

I thought that there is only one human race so if the other tribal members of the human race claim racial discrimination are they not admitting that they are from another race or species other than the human race?. This reminds one of the Organic food lobby who will not eat or are unable to work out all plant food is organic?

Are the racial correctors unschooled in the genetics or unable to understand that English is an evolving which has purloined works from other languages and tribal groups? It is the same as people who glibly talk about 200% ask them to explain how there can be more than 100 part per hundred?

Chipzilla or Chipzooky? If Intel's server CPU sales keep on shrinking, El Reg will have to update the branding

Who are run by an Accountants and not Engineers or designers.

Accountants are historians not visioneries. It is a big No No to be a creative accountant, But a big plus to b a creative Engineer or designer.

Paper pushers should be the last people to run any enterprise. They can easily be replaced by any well written program.

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

I "MAY" win the Lotto

I may win the Lotto, Father triplets, Travel in space or a mirad other thing, but is not really going to happen there is a possibility of anything happening, Another though has crossed my mind that the study was done using artificial intellengance, How about using the" Real" thing Intelegance instead of an artificial one and then we may get a " Real " forecast in place of an "Artificial" one.

Cover for 'cyber' attacks is risky, complex and people don't trust us, moan insurers

Insurance Co Or Bookmakers

There is very little difference between these two as far as assesing the odds of paying out to customers. Both are in the same business of paying out as little as possible. One is upfront with the odds the other hides behind a web of b/s with which to cloud the odds offered.

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

The result of a Bean counters running the Company

Bean counters are trained to look what happened as any good bean counter will tell you. Being creative as is a bean counter is frowned upon. Creative accounting is a no no in the commercial world, but a creative engineer or planner is required to run commercial enterprise. The stock market is run by accountants thus the number of business failures one sees. Most suits fail when forward thinking is required.

Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?

I would like to have real intelligence

All this talk of AI when I went to school in the dim and distance past we were taught that the real thing was what one needed, not an artificial something.

Amid Trump-China tariff tiff, Cisco kit prices to resellers soar up to 25%

Non USA residents and resellers should be excempt

Most gear is made \not in China but Taiwan but labeled made in China thus other than Apple products and from Fox-con most would not be affected. Thus there are no price rises or duties if there is a price increase it is from Americans ripping Americans as per usual.

Developer goes rogue, shoots four colleagues at ERP code maker

make the manufacturer or the reseller liable for selling an unsafe product. This applies to all nail gun and similar firearms so all firearms should fall under the same rules.

No need to code your webpage yourself, says Microsoft – draw it and our AI will do the rest

The old adage " Bullshit Baffles Brains'

From Amazon to Ama-gone: Bezos swings the axe on hundreds at HQ

Remember Sears Robuck

Bricks and mortar ended them as well

Intel, Microsoft confess: Meltdown, Spectre may slow your servers

The selling flawed .designed hardware was a big No No with the powers that

I thought that selling flawed products was a big No No as the powers that be could and often do make one replace the goods with no flawed products or a cash refund. In Oz we have a statuary body who is awlfully strict on retailers

Boffins foresee most software written by machines in 2040

Who will program the software writer?

Without human input there can be no machine output.

US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo

An Oxymoran in the title

US Military intelligence or any other countries military couple with the work Intelligence is an oxymoron

Card shark Intel bets with discrete graphics chips, shuffles AMD's GPU boss into the deck

Who owns ARN and a Big slice of a graphic card maker?

Think of ARM cpu's market share of the computing market which includes phones, tabelets, graphics etc. not one segement with x86-64 cpu's and one has the answer or part of the answer.

AMD is becoming a design company not a manufacturing co. With no foundry to design for and multible fabricators of chips it now opens up the hardware and cpu designs to anyone who will pay their fee for the design similar to ARM/Softbank..

Intel is upset that Qualcomm is treating it like Intel treated AMD for years and years

The old addage" Reap as you sow"

eBay threatens to block Australians from using offshore sellers

customer service

I don't like paying tax so I will stop my customers from using my services. The tax is payed by the buyer to seller not the service provider. The service provider is just acting as the middle man and taking a cut for offering the service. They are just collect just collecting the tax from the seller. Thus they have a service charge to cover their expenses . So their argument is hollow the tax is paid by the buyer to the seller who in turn is liable to pay the tax. As a shop keeper I had to collect and pay the GST in Australia the same as Sales tax is collected in most countries. It boils down to paying sales tax either in the selling State or in the buyers State/Country unless the seller is in a tax haven for dodging paying tax. Taxes and death are inescapable.

Congrats, PC slingers. That's now FIVE straight years of shrinking sales

The operating systems are the problem

The over sold hype by the major retailers and trying to turn a business device into something of a toy or entertainment device is the main problem. The rise of the mobile devices smart phones etc which have a user friendly inter-phase. Where as the pc x86 devices were are modeled on a business accounting type of inter-phase. Th first users which computer devices replaced were the typing pool, accounting scribes and general office workers. Some bright marketer sold the idea that every one and his dog needed one for home. So the P.C. was born. P.C. says what it is a glorified adding/ typing unit.

We all fell for this and now most people have one at home which is seldom used as there are better toy for the bulk of the users to keep themselves amused with.. The market for high end personal computing devices is a limited field. Game playing is now done on specialized consoles.. Music is another field which has is leaving the PC.

The operating systems are now a mush up of conflicting uses and not user friendly for any. A specialist tool?Computing device which does one function well is what the public want.

Revamped Cortana finally lands on UK mobe mass market

Another try

Is this another try at Windows on ARM Rt|T didn't work so how much battery power will be used? Even Intel could not get RT to work on any of their low powered cpu's so how do they expect a Windows product to work on an ARM powered device?

Six on capacitor charges

What would have been the outcome if they were American Wall St companies?

Australia spending AU$4.8m to do something about revenge porn

Public servants doing everything they know how to continue receiving a budget handout and a minister listing listening attentively to his so-called department chief so that he/she appears to Joe Blow that everyone knows that they are doing something., worthwhile or not. All for good p.r. and politics a plus for the public service even if it achieves nothing in the long run.

Let's praise Surface, not bury it

It's not the hardware at fault

It's the software which is at fault, If the computing device software is user friendly then the hardware sells regardless of its shape or size. Small phones to tablets are user friendly whereas the laptop PC etc are not so user friendly now. The giant US software organization found that out when they tried to introduce an unpopular OS onto phones etc. It cost them a bundle and an awful lot of people their jobs.

Intel is shipping an ARM-based FPGA. Repeat, Intel is shipping an ARM-based FPGA

I thought that AMD did this a couple of years ago.

US govt straight up accuses Russia of hacking prez election

Government intelligence is an oxymoron. So how can any government have a agency which is intelligent?

Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge

Need beter marketing

Just got rid of the last one, now is about time to do away with the total marketing dept.

Turnbull's Transformers intend to test single sign-on to Gov.au on the offshore, public cloud

Politicians have no or very little say on he governing of a country

When will reporters or the great unwashed masses, news hacks etc. realize that elected representatives have a minute effect or say on the any outcome of policies which the civil servants have on the running of any government policies. " Yes minister" then carry on with what they were doing before.. Bureaucracy rules not parliaments,local councils or elected officials. Even dictatorships have to rely on a civil service.

#Censusfail Australia: Not an attack, data safe, no heads to roll

Who supplied the system?

I believe it is the same company who supplied The Queensland Health dept., with a fool proof system as well.

Civil servant mandarins will award contracts on the basis of the best perks available to said employee.

Unfortunately it is the politicians of whatever ilk who take the blame never the civil service.

Intel gobbles AI chip biz Nervana for $350m

Another fail around for something other to do or distract the market. This is so that it is perceived that management are doing something about a failing business model.

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

xbox and ps4 can't run Dosbox

Only reason for a home PC to have windows now is to play games.

Australian spooks' email guide banishes MS Word macros, JavaScript

Just Banish M$

Simple answer is to banish M$ completely.

Australian maps and GPS will align by 2020

The earth moved

Does this mean that all my boundary pegs are in the wrong place or that all the town and country local maps used by the councils are incorrect?

Who is going to cover the cost of re-pegging boundaries and or re-drawing all the maps, as if we have moved as a country the all international boundaries have also moved. This will keep lots of pen pushers in government dept. busy for the next 50 years.

Telstra's head of ops drops after network flops

Don't you just love the way an Australian teleco's love a failed US execs?

UK's climate change dept abolished, but 'smart meters and all our policies strong as ever'

No more gov sponserd climate change?

As the title of this article states state sponsored climate change is abolished, It is now up the citizens to do it instead?

Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric – it won't hit one billion devices by mid-2018

Re: Perhaps ....

found an old student one with Slide Rule Primer still in the case circa 19658-60. It is for either of or both Faber Castell Student Columbus No.57/86 and Students Rietz 57/87 Could scan the booklet if required. never mind the cocky chew markss

Re: Perhaps ....

For this young lad it was damn near 60 years ago.

Still have my old slip stick.

You can buy Windows 10 Enterprise E3 access for the price of a coffee

Cash shortage ?

One of possibly both using this service would have a cash flow problem or a shortage of the readies. Leasing anything is only for the financially stressed organization as if some one is leasing you something it is to their advantage and your disadvantage. They are making a profit by leasing it and you are loosing. If it was profitable for the to lease, rent it it conversely it is a loss to the other party.

Bullsh*t by salesmen and marketers can always get the gullible the naive etc.

Hillary Clinton: My promises to America's tech industry

Countries work in-spite of governments and elections

If one is in any sort of free/private enterprise one does it in-spite of who is in government and in-spite of what happens in an election. Governments and the civil services generally hinder free enterprise and always seem to favour bureaucratic operations as they can understand these whereas the private risk takers and enterprises are a different breeds altogether. They seem to garner wealth as a bi-product as the enjoyment of being a free agent is the greater and the financial reward comes second.

Now Intel swings axe at sales, marketing peeps

History is a hard teacher

With 4 main (The 4 main PC Makers) customers who are all suffering a sales decline of catastrophic proportions and are loaded to the hilt with unsold stock CPU's etc. Also an unhealthy reliance on one software maker the old adage of putting all your eggs in one basket rings true.

A history of somewhat unethical practices is also an unwanted burden when looking for newer customers.

Russian government hackers spent a year in our servers, admits DNC

A government intelligence service is an oxymoron

Microsoft and LinkedIn: What the CEOs are planning

Will delete my link and mark LinkedIn as Junk

Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform? It's an uphill battle, warns key partner

May be morph 10 back to 7 inter-phase just to get all us 70 something year old's back on side. We still yearn for DR-DOS Norvell etc and remember the sad saga of Win1 and 2.

Easy remote exploit drops for unpatchable power plant controller

Simple don't have the internet connected to the power control software computers, and or have an isolated web connectivity.

Switkowski wades into NBN leak debate, ALP is furious

WHY DOES THE TRUTH HURT SO MUCH?

Microsoft's Windows Phone folly costs it another billion dollars

When I was in business ( Just over 40 years as an owner) prior to retirement the failure rare of a commercial undertaking was 20% p.a. so that give the success rate any venture or enterprise a dismal rate of success and the more one tries the greater the chance of either happening. It is not surprising that one failure leads to a similar failure when it is tried again.

NBN raid fallout continues, with Conroy formalising privilege claim

I thought:

My posting is not siding with one political party or other I take no stance on either side of the fence side just a question of morality and legality of the action. Please remember countries work in spite of governments and the legal systems are supposed to act with impunity in Oz not as in some other countries.

I thought that being in receipt of stolen property was a criminal offense.,or does being a member of a political organization or a member of parliament or senate give one an exemption from the law?

Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers?

Just remember that insurance companies are a nicer way of referring to bookmakers. It is all an odds game with good bookies winning bad ones don't last long. Also it is usually the punter who looses.

Lending Club CEO booted out for dodgy deals

Re: Might this burst the bubble?

Remember it it easy to catch the greedy ,the gullible and the foolish. There is nothing new in thee con world. There are always greedy people who will get caught and always people to take advantage of a fool who waiting to loose his money. Just look at the wealth of the never ending religious organizations who have promised the greatest rewards of all and it is only attainable after ones death. Very cleaver no-one has every returned to dispute their claims.The so called angles/unicorns ( unicorns are only able to be ridden by virgins) very aptly named.