Posts by ComputerSays_noAbsolutelyNo 468 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Feb 2020
"Since 2016, Delta has invested billions of dollars in IT capital expenditures, in addition to the billions spent annually in IT operating costs."
I am a small, simple bod, but I would like to know from some good folks with management experience. Is this ratio between cap-ex and op-ex normal?
Billions since 2016, which is 8 years, so possibly a cap-ex of less than a billion per year; along with billions per year in op-ex.
To me, the op-ex seems rather high; but what do I know ...
The basic, but massive flaw in the argument that AI brings paradise on earth via labour-free riches that feed the masses via a universal basic income (UBI) is that the money earned in the AI future won't go towards UBI. It will follow the same path as money has ever followed: out of the pockets of the masses, via the accounts of the few into the tax-optimized offshore-trust safe havens, where it will be safe for ever and ever.
Two out of the three basic ideas may be sound:
* AI will lead to economic success with much less labor involved, similar to what automation achieved
* UBI is beneficial for people
However, the third underlying idea is fatally flawed:
* big tech, who will own AI, shares its profits
Big customers, who stand to lose much, could send a small sample of their machine park to DownStrike, so that new updates can be tested prior to the full roll-out.
Evil Marketing guy: That's such a nice operation, you have running. It would be such a shame if some bad update would happen to it.
There's a German saying "Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr", which literally translates to "what little Jack doesn't learn, old Jack will learn nevermore".
This saying is generally "translated" as "You can't teach an old dog new tricks", however, I find that the dog-saying puts less emphasis on the missed opportunity of learning stuff during its youth, while the German saying basically says: Hans should have learnt this, when he was young.
With the dog, on the other hand, it just says that an old dog doesn't learn new stuff.
... translation is hard.
Anyway, no amount of artificial intelligence takes away your failings.
When, the false advertising is about software and its capabilities;
do the lies surmount to falsehoods with regards to material facts?
Software is immaterial, after all.
-> Mine's the one with all the software of the whole world in it. You wouldn't notice it though.
It looks like you're about to install a cracked game.
Would you like some advice on how this is bad?
It looks like you're looking at external female anatomy.
Would you like me to collate a highlights gallery for your wife?
It looks like you're making a bank transaction.
How is my non-interference worth to you?
Well, with sufficient use of grid-forming inverters, there's no more argument against renewables.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-inverter
I mean, why invest in a somewhere-in-the-future technology, when everything we need is already there.
The one remaining part to fully mature is to fully stabilize the grid using the inverters of solar and wind, instead of relying on the inertia of huge spinning generators.
"If, say, some Hollywood production company's effort to touch up an explicit scene using AI ..."
So, they want to use something that's labelled "not safe for work" at work? Do they?
But, that's not safe for work.
Does this make this hypothetical Hollywood studio an unsafe place of work?
-> Mine's the see-through lab-coat, that's a bit too short to cover the nether regions when I am wearing nothing underneath. I do this every time, when I am forced to do tasks, that are not safe for work, at work.
One would understand if consumer-Windows went the way of the ad-ridden hell; but when you fork out good money for workplace-Windows (I know there is no difference), then getting shoved all the ad-trash into ones face until the candy crushes - that's an insult.
When the plumber visits, to fix something from the water installation; he does try to sell me live insurance or a new TV. Because, that would be dodgy as hell.
But is "the" broswer really a platform for everything, or is rather "a" browser the platform for everything?
What good does it bring paying for Google Chrome, when every shitty bit of of an application implements its own in-app browser from some minimal-effort, no-guarantees code base?
While it's no wonder that micros~1 know better, and tries to use Edge, regardless of your default browser, I'm sure that more will follow this example.
I am a mere lay-person, but I guess that the average computer has several browsers installed. Dedicated browsers (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and "hidden" browsers (e.g. some help pages rendered using an in-app browser).
While a more restricted access to guns doesn't lower the number of psychopaths, it lowers the death count once the psychopaths decide to run amok.
You can not outrun a bullet,
but with luck you can outrun a loonie with a knife.
This issue nicely demonstrates a common fallacy:
The proposed measure can not fully prevent X from happening, so let's try it at all.
"By their work they created breeds of cattle and horse – later named "Heck cattle" and "Heck horse" respectively, after their creators – that are not sufficiently similar to their ancestors to be called a successful resurrection, although Heinz and Lutz Heck believed they had "resurrected" the breeds by their efforts.[3] Lutz was interested in hunting and he chose fierce fighting breeds of cattle for his breeding experiments. He saw a plan to release his reconstituted aurochs into Hermann Göring’s private hunting reserves planned (as part of Generalplan Ost) in the Bialowieza forest between Poland and Belarus."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Heck
-> Mine's the one leather one, made from re-extinced species
Correct me if I'm wrong.
The so-called new Outlook is a rebranding of the Mail & Calendar apps, which are somewhat terrible.
If micros~1 were to offer businesses the bog-standard Outlook, maybe even with extenability, I guess a lot of companies would pay for it.
Humans have their habits, and they absolutely do not want to change their habits.
Especially in IT, with non tech-savvy users, breaking habits is really disruptive (disruptive in all negative meanings one can think of).
But, what are we to expect from micros~1=?
* messing with the start menu
* ribbon menu instead of classical menu
* shoving apps from micros~1 down the users' throats for all sorts of tasks, even when other apps were already set as default for these tasks
* ... to be continued
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
