Posts by Kleykenb

common-sense

Fascinating, and also something that really shouldn't be flung into the 'common-sense'-verse before actual Proof.

Not even close to a star

It's a misconception that Jupiter got close to being a star. Even to become a brown dwarf it would need about 13x it's current mass.

gullibility

Noun

gullibility (countable and uncountable, plural gullibilities)

The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.

Welding glasses

Pilots will have to start wearing glasses similar to Welding glasses during take-off and landing. Don't wait for planes to crash first.

George Orwell wrong

Not just the Government. Not Big Brother either. Worse, much, much worse.

ET's back?!

I thought E.T. went home in the '80s?!?

try it!

ChromeOS is simply the Chrome browser but on steroids, with many Android apps now also available on may of the latest Chromebooks.

The short of it : everybody should try it at least once, and it's possible to get really cheap but still very capable Chromebooks on the second hand market that should make it almost painless to get a taste.

meh

It's just a Grizzly looking for a CheeseBurger. They'll be fine @MacDo.., if they've got some ready.

No doubt

Not a shred. DevOps is the death of the BOFH. All Hail the new BSYSOFH

Zombi

Some day someone will direct their version of the Millenium Falcon towards it and pick it up, only to sell it further on the black market to some dodgy spacejunk collector nameed D'horku, who will then turn it into a dune buggy.

Click

Bait

Asking for it, they were

Get it, they did.

Exhile

If it's in the Goldy Locks zone then surely bears can live there.

rogue CEO

"Rogue employees" wouldn't do this kind of thing without telling their superiors. You'd want to get promoted for that kind of shit or get a raise.

No. he's dishonest and hopefully he'll answer for that later on.

iFun

Don't doubt the fruit that knows better than its customers what its customers want,

better make a backup

And you might think ... this is Apple , it'll last forever anyway.

Well... not my experience : over the last couple of years I had one macbook air and one macbook pro suddenly fail on me. No front warning, none. Just a black screen.

And that's when suddenly you realise : good thing I've got a backup because there's absolutely no way I'm going to get that data from that soldered on storage.

Google is mean!!

Well, when you're playing with the Big Boys you better play like a Big Boy.

So I guess I'll have to start using Firefox if I still want to be able to reach the Java Consoles of my Blade Servers from now on because Chrome already beat Internet Explorer to a pulp :-/

chromebook killer?

A chromebook killer that is only useable for browsing the web yet requires frequent backups, patches, anti-virus and anti-malware software?!? Seems to me it's a somewhat crippled Chromebook-wannabe.

Maybe some day this Windows OS will be able to compete with ChromeOS ... but that day is not today.

Rich nerd?

There may have been a time when Apple attracted nerds but that time has long passed.

If this were true ...

Meh.

ANSTAAFL

He's gonna have to pay the pied piper.

Trollls

There's money to be had from being a professional troll? No way! I'm shocked!

I may have to revisit all this fear and uncertainty and start being more trusting.

Fact of the matter is that a "professional" journalist tends to gets away with misinformation if he has 2 independant sources but a consumer needs at least a dozen if he wants to avoid investing in yet another lemon.

grain of salt

I've always been told that insects can not be 'very large' because of the fact thaty they don't have longues but a completely different 'breathing system' that requires them to remain small.

So they can't have been 'football' size, but they can be 'ping-pong' ball sized.

saved marriages

I truly hope they aren't just going to limit the possibilities to Split-Screen gaming for that is not going to change my marriage.

What I need is the ability to watch a different channel from my wife on the same screen.

So that I can watch The News or Sports while she watches ... well.. crap, really.

Imagine how many marriages that would save !

hardware company

Oracle isn't just a software company anymore.

Strange as it still may feel they actually sell servers , storage and other hardware.

May want to catch up on that.

mind games

Some people just get their kicks playing mind games... let's press here and see what happens.

It's more of a sociopathy than anything else ... wanting to be in the center of attention, being talked about, proof one exists. Huzar !!

And then think this does the world a favour, changes it , ... for the better ?!

But at best it briefly puts a mirror in front of us makes us refect upon ourselves (great excuse) but let it be clear that the lesson I've learned here is that I can and will from now on start wearing fur coats again and eat puppy-liver. Especially dutch puppy liver.

sparc servers

Not so sure if the SPARC server drop is really all that meaningfull.

Sun EOLed many low-end SPARC servers like the SunFire V240 and did not really put anything in place. The story was that the way to replace them by Niagara based processors split up through the LDOM technology but in the end the price of those machines of course had the end result that many customers replaced their low-end SPARC's with x86 based systems...

So sure there was a drop in Sun SPARC based systems but was this only in the low-end range of thigns because there it's obvious that the sales would drop , with no low-end sparc servers being provided anymore !!!

In the end the whole SPARC line currently depends on one thing and one thing only : ROCK.

Will it arrive and if so ... when ? How fast will it be ? How much will it cost ? ... Numbers of SPARC sales really mean nothing atm , they could sell 10000 High-End Rock servers and it would still be a great result.

just say "No"

This all sounds to me like a more elaborate strategy from HP/EDS direction aimed at getting an extra bonus before slimming down their work-force even more.

The best way to get somewhere is not necessaryly a straight line.

All you people really should do is say "NO" to this but you just know that you're all going to have to come in to the manager his office who will try to pursuade you one by one.

So have you people ever heard of the word "strike" ? No ?

Well, I suggest a 2 day worth unannounced strike so they understand why they have people working for them in the first place. Especially in the US getting fired should not bother most people, there are plenty of jobs around and you really have no reason to feel secure in the company you are in right now so let go of that idea of false security and fight for your rights.

friendly fire

This is so going to give "friendly-fire" an extra dimension !

pay for the bag !!

Am I living in the only country where people actually have to PAY for the damn add invested bags in grossery shops ... and we do not even have the option for a paper bag, only plastic bags with the name of the grossery shop on them ?

Using the environment as an excuse many companies are actually shoving one of their costs right into the throath of the customer.

Even worse is Carrefour, who have their own "Carrefour Visa" card and a cassiere ready for just those few customers that have one of those. Being in controle of how many cassieres are available this has the end result of all customers haveing to wait in long lines except for those with the Carrefour Visa cards !!! All I hope for is that other people, just like me, stop going to grossery stores that feel they can abuse their own customers in subtle but very real ways.

Fuji !!!

Wanna know what I think ?

I think that Fuji IS indeed considering buying Sun but decided that although the JAVA stock is already very low; it would be even more tastier and less risk to buy them when it would be even lower.

So they then contacted a TheRegister editor and promised him a few million $ (or Fuji shares) if he could somehow, by posting a few filtered well-known facts (economy has been in the slumps for a year or 2 now, hadn't you noticed ?), through the TheRegister distribution channel.

Hey. I can invent stuff too, you know. but just think of the consequences ...