Posts by david1024 165 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Apr 2015
Hiring is down, and folks are cutting subscription services. So he's showing how you can continue to pay for their product by example. Quite in character for their (workday's) war on employees... I mean, I spend easily 5x-10x on keeping up with their systems vs what we had before. But hey,they were cheaper on the P.O.
So, the politics are in the article.
But what about the tech angle?
Would this potentially boost Linux development or just get Amazon to fork the corporate structure a bit and build a data center locally for them? Do they have a capability to start a migration away from m365? (May help limit the name-calling-posts to vi vs emacs too)
Countdown timers, some music, and the one he missed--> weather. We set so many timers so often we got the echo clock--and it is great.
However, I'll never understand how these are supposed to make money. MS agreed and killed-off the cortana assistant. if they want a subscription-based assistant to do those 3 things... I'll just repurpose an old tablet and have it display the weather and hook into my lan's music collection. and spend $5 on ebay for 10 digital mini timers.
This has happened before and it will happen again. There are different package techs and paths for them out there. Rpm, debs, snaps, etc... All have similar issues where 'upstream' has a version, but if you want one that works... You have to pull from the actual project's ppa, rpm+sig, etc..., To get working items. Friction and lube are part of the game and have been for decades.
Glad they worked it out--better for everyone!
The delta will be much less than $700 if they can scale up due to volume... but that needs volume sales. This is a chicken and egg problem and I think they want to bump the issue with tariffs and see what happens. It is a lot like a flu vaccine--may be significantly effective, may not--but does change the 'r' value.
What they really need, given the lack of NPU standards... is an "AI-READY" PC... that would have a slot for a module. That way they can upsell the 5%-10% and just have a slot that will likely never get used... then they can upgrade the slot next year and orphan the 1st gen AI-Ready slots. Power users will absolutely need that most expensive NPU upgrade for their AI-READY PC for a few hundred more bucks!
Can't lose!
There was a discussion about releasing the code 20 years ago, and this was why they (the winamp folks) said that they'd never be able to release it as it has so many different proprietary parts they couldn't release and it wouldn't work without them.... so, surprise... they were telling the truth. This is just another "wow coke and icecream taste great--surely I'm the first one to invent the coke float!"
About that statistic:
"According to Microsoft, accounts are more than 99.9 percent less likely to be compromised if they have MFA turned on."
Much like security cameras, the benefits will only be there until everyone is using it.. .then the attackers will pivot. But, network security, and what users will put up with, has always been a blended game of better bears/bear-traps and whack-a-mole with a weird cost-benefit tradeoff thrown in to make it impossible to win.
The updated CGI-animated series was nice. It did up the pacing as it was common for me to take a nap during the originals in my pre-teen days. I liked the re-imagining and the kids liked it too. The originals will always be special to me though.
I did laugh that the new series removed the guns from the uniforms and the vehicles.
Proving you are a person is something we are going to have to get used to. AI/automated methods are crossing the 95% barrier and are getting to be too hard to differentiate from authentic by normal-reasonable folks. That's text, that's voice, and that's video. Until we come up with a root of trust to use--and use it, you can't trust anything stored digital fully. Systems get compromised, files altered after they are created... really a dystopia of what we were promised the internet would do for us.
PKI/Certificates are what current tech looks like and TBH, between this and curated CRLs from a root of trust you 'trust'--This combo is something we 'know how to do' and are continuing to improve. Are there problems, sure. Far less issues with what we have now than some imaginary solution no one as fielded yet. Maybe we could eliminate SPAM texts, emails, and calls using this tech?
So, I'll point to this and say that windows, and PC operating systems in general, with their baseline set of utilities... have been feature-complete for decades.
The only changes made these days seem to be to drum up interest in the OS they are bundled with or try to bring in a subscription model for what is necessarily part of being able to use the hardware to actually 'compute'. I'm not sure what AI is going to bring to the party here, but TBH, if they break MSPAINT.... pinta does the same job without all the MS cruft and is cross platform.
some type of LPS would help with landings for sure. Everyone (nations and corps) seem to be having issues with P+N... getting accurate 't' would help with PNT issues like not being sure how fast you're moving/navigating along the surface and where exactly your pre-mapped landing position is and getting your correction burns in on Time. (PNT!)
After this has been running for a while... won't it prioritize based on it's previous outputs? e.g. if it initially predicts a crime in area 'A', and the cops patrol and find a crime or 2... then repeat this a few months and eventually you create the hotspot you are looking for... and correct me if I'm wrong here... isn't this the problem the AI was supposed to eliminate?
There were/are configuration options that would have delayed the rollout and let the customers perform their own canary tests. Recommended or not, they were not exercised by the victims' IT teams. This is a good reason to TEST TEST TEST and stop firing the folks that would have prevented this from happening at your company! The vendor is not the one signing up for the risk here... it is the plaintiffs. I don't see lawsuits going much of anywhere. But maybe the point is only to bleed Crowd strike a little?
There should be a standardized, regulation-controlled, marker that can be placed on people or objects that these systems should be required to respond to. I don't care how hard or inconvenient that would be... we already have blinkers and brake lights... just add this. Or modify the brake light shape and require the update. There is no good reason for this person to have been killed by that system--I don't care what the capability is or is not. We can fix this and we should--there's no excuse for things being this dangerous and so easy to miss-operate and kill someone so easily with a small omission.
AI is going to freeze the world at early 2000 levels. If we let them, AI will be shouting so loud, no reasonable innovation/idea will be noticeable above the noise. AI has uses, but creating volumes of content is not a good one. They need to be limited and controlled, but the money and hype engines are just so strong right now.
"Do Microsoft not learn from insufficient transition deadlines? "
Folks need to stop confusing user and purchaser. MS problems are not your problems and haven't been for decades. They sell software your boss makes you use because there's no alternative. (Mac and Linux are inconsequential aberrations)
The new copilot will ocr your whole screen and put it in a text file... Just use that.
The folks they are targeting with this machine, for better or worse, will likely have access to native code for the processor--or the emulator will work fine. If you are part of the minority of folks that can't migrate... well, here's where you start migrating your code, or dig in for the long cold path to old iron.
This is another order from the cathedral.... sometimes they stick (like the office ribbons).... sometimes you aren't as big as you thought (sony with memorystick). It wont look good to the power users, but for most of use, non-x86 is not a deal-breaker and hasn't been for decades.
I think it is past that. This is a clear and present danger and should be nationalized. They, MS, are literally enabling our enemies' and competitors' hacking because they have no business case to do anything else.
MS acts like they are in a 'so what you cannot make us and there's no alternative anyway' mode. And I don't think MS is misreading the situation.
They have near nation-state power but not the ability, nor inclinations, to safeguard that power effectively. This is dangerous for all concerned. But I suppose we've been here for 20+ years already.
Lolz.
I'd they had the time or inclination... They would have already done so without recall features. Don't need recall. This is just data for Microsoft to hoover-up to train AI. And you can't stop them.
There is virtually no business value here and a ton of potential liability and problems for employees and employers. I would say never win11, but I will have to eventually... For example, in the states, can't even run tax software in Linux. I think the enterprise will see this initially for what it is, but they can only hold out so long before upgrading anyway--and MS knows that too.
Well said.
What they probably mean is that they expect a 50% reduction in workforce per project. However, I would expect complexity to increase as the AI limitations have to be accommodated. To me, that seems like 20%-40% depending on the project. I know that some day-day automation already is better handled by AI and companies are already experiencing the increased efficiency... it is significant. Fintech firm Klarna claims $10million per year already. That's a workforce reduction somewhere.
ICQ was ubiquitous across my internet social sphere back in the 90's. Good memories. So long, it essentially died with dialup and the AOL acquisition. Was fun while it lasted though... Sending files w/o ftp was game changing for us.
And I miss the internet it operated on too.
So, maybe china will be able to partner effectively with the Mexican govt and 'other elements' to get Mexico to stability
Or more likely, they'll try to buy it via their BRI loans. Mexico stands to benefit greatly from a trans ocean rail/port system as the Panama canal is in distress... Be a real shame if China stole that out from under them.
I don't really see anyone benefitting here. Looks more like another front in the economic war between us/china.
TBH, I don't have issues printing or with sound. 15-20 years ago, sure. But these days, stuff just work. And the issues I do have, windows has issues too. (usually flaky hardware or just plain broke)
There will always be flaky stuff out there... I have an all-in-one that won't install windows unless it is from the recovery image for that particular machine... doesn't mean windows is a suffer-fest to install. that machine is the issue. (but linux just works on it... there are outliers both ways on either windows or Linux)
This is already the norm in a lot of the buisness world
-->Screenshots plus all the event logging above. sometimes even keylogging--the issue is not being able to process all that data... with the AI, it'll all get OCR'd and processed. They'll figure out an efficiency metric and penalize folks.
That's probably going to be openAI's argument. They'd have liked to had SJ permission, but the went and searched out a doppleganger and licensed that.
And that is the issue with the whole situation. AI steals and breaks so much. Going to take decades to stabilize Intellectual and Personal property law.
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