Posts by phil_4

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis

AI Marketing itself?

Yet another wrapper around Generative AI with yet another flashy name, because they've still not worked out yet how to shoe horn it into many of the jobs and tasks most of population do. For most people, it is still a solution looking for a problem.

Wondering when AI will turn up at your work? Microsoft says look behind you

Still not convinced

Personally, as said above, it seems to have a few niche uses... but nothing that applies to most. It can sort of write code, sort of produce pictures... but if you're a sysadmin, then that's no use really.

I find it a bit cheeky that they want you to temper your expectations, when they're quite happy to charge you for something that isn't much use.

Much better to find a proper use (many I can think of), and then charge people... but no, they need your money now.

If you look at what the Humane Pin or Rabbit R1 are trying to do, I think we're on the edge of someone working out how to make it work for more people. We're just not there yet, and typing "write me some sql to..." in a box isn't really it.

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Rushed? We know why... because without the fancy new scheduler 12th Gen Intel procs with their fancy P/E core stuff wouldn't have worked so well. They both needed to ship at the same time.

Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'

Over Committed?

Is this is as simple as the contention ratio in SK?

Ie. SKT previously worked with a 20:1 contention ratio. Then along came Netflix and Squid games, and suddenly they're getting complaints because it's not enough bandwidth, and so they've now having to drop that to 10:1 or 5:1 or whatever, put in faster pipes to exchanges and the like, and so it's costing them quite a lot of real money.

The Open Connect box wouldn't solve that, as the issue isn't between Netflix and SK, it's SKT to it's subscribers. And yes, although that's SKT's problem, if it's anything like the UK market and the race to the bottom, the subscribers are paying pennies.

That's conjecture on my part, and I could be very wrong. Equally I don't really know who's to blame nor how to solve it. Just an idea as to what might actually be the problem.

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

Crisp Packet?

We struggle to recycle a crisp packet... let alone a small complex electrical device.

Let's be honest, the council tip will do one of two things... landfill if it's old, or flog it to a company who refurb it and sell it on.

watchOS 5 hints at new Apple wearables and life beyond the Watch

cheapest option wins

There's not really 20 watches though are there... there's one... which comes in two sizes (38/42mm), and with a case made of Aluminium, Steel or Ceramic, and then for any of those a range of strap options.

Sure, if you multiple out the possibilities, and call that the watch, there's a lot, but the reality is it's one watch with a few options.

My view is less about apple attracting people about wanting a sport watch, but two other factors. Firstly the high price, regardless of which materials you choose, it's expensive, and second by pricing differently per strap choice, making the cost of the strap almost entirely transparent.

So for example when I bought my V2, I saw that a steel strap costs £150... I figured I didn't want to spend a) that much in total and b) certainly not £150 for a steel strap... and so bought the cheapest option, the sports band.

As such I expect many buying the "sport" options are doing so as they're the cheapest.