Posts by The Indomitable Gall

Are you suggesting Outlook is in any real sense a modern client? Seems like a dinosaur in a fur coat pretending to be a mammal...

Re: Odd, isn't it?

Every single one of "his" ideas is something I read about old mid-20th-century adventure comic annuals I bought in 2nd-hand fayres in the 80s. Vacuum tubes, self-driving cars, big one-piece rockets, rockets for international Earth travel... it was *all* in those books. He must have just been reading the same stuff, and he internalised it as "the future". And now he's mistaking things he saw presented as "the future" as a child as his ideas and vision for a great future.

But there's a reason those things never got beyond kids comics...

Re: “You Must Carry Our Content ... And You Must Pay Us”

So if they make content at their cost, they should pay for people to read it for free? I don't think you understand how capitalism works.

Re: RESPONSE IN CAPS

It does save him from having to hit the caps lock every time he writes COBOL and RS232 though...

Re: Should have tested beer

Cloudy beer is on the increase for fashion reasons -- I think you've just predicted a big move towards this in the market.

Re: The American way !!!

Nononono.

You're only allowed to rob banks if your dad was filthy rich.

And even then, you need to dress your bank robbery up as a sophisticated economic model that says that robbing people will make them richer.

That's the real law of the markets!

Re: No imagination any more

I suspect that's deliberate, as people were probably changing Team names for their own reference without realising they were changing something on the SharePoint configuration for all team members. I can imagine a few self-defined "clever" wags renaming teams to "*snore*" or "timewasting corporate comms" and getting hauled up for it in the before-times.

Re: Bit ridiculous

Maybe it took them a while to believe they might be taken seriously...?

Q: How many members of the Apache identity groups are involved in producing the software "Apache"?

Re: There are two hard problems in Computer Science

I would agree, but then again the language is called "Calculus of constructions" and not "Calculus des constructions". If the name is basically English, you really have to consider the other things about Anglophone culture.

Et oui: mon français est superbe ; ainsi j’ai bien sûr le droit de dire ce que je viens d‘écrire.

Re: Another sign of the migration of El Reg Westwards?

The good news is that the early indications that the tumour was back have proven to be a false alarm.

The bad news is that we;ve instead ended up with acute appendicitis, and they're refusing to take us to general surgery to get it sorted.

Re: UK will be OK then

Yeah, but how is summoning a hereditary millionaire playing dress-up as a flying mammal going to help us here...?

Re: I guess that's the main aim?

Hmmm....

" References in this Regulation to the processing of personal data for the

development or demonstration, fundamental research or applied research. "

I reckon "technological development or demonstration" gives a very broad definition of "scientific research". Like... writing a website on the origami might even qualify.

" References in this Regulation to the processing of personal data for the

genealogical research. "

So Ancestry.com is now to be considered on a par with the National Archives/...?

Re: ha ha ha

Don't know.

Are they still carrying out drone strikes in Yemen?

Re: Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that

Very disappointed myself.

I'd assumed good faith and thought there was going to be something in the article referring to some reason why the outputs of the project were not going to transfer across languages, but... nothing.

Just a lazy joke.

I thought the Reg was better than that.

Re: Art history class

This is fundamentally different.

A human looking at a coffee-table book of a particular artist's pieces doesn't automagically gain the ability to produce works that are nearly indistinguishable from the artist's own work

Re: The older the OS...

That was what an OS was.

Re: Assuming facilities wasn't contacted

Was on a training course at a newly-opened college building. We were sat in a computer room when the ceiling turned into a waterfall. Nobody moved until I shouted something like "electricity... water... GET OUT"

Turns out the boiler room was directly above the computer rooms. Rather stupid (and expensive) mistake.

Re: Something C++ can do that Rust can't

If you're properly modularising your code, then you should be able to spin off any existing code to runtime-linked libraries, so that's nowhere near as big an issue as it would have been 25 years ago.

Re: Move along, nothing to see

Or look at it a different way -- all we're talking about is the long overdue shift from plain-text procedural code to a hacky version of declarative programming.

The next generation will hopefully move to true declarative programming with AI procedural code generation in the back end.

Re: What a Tool...

Assigning them to a machine makes them absolutely useless, because how can you get a computer to sign off on a licensing agreement?

Re: The Cloud vs Mainframe+Terminal

Well the point of the term "cloud" was always that the internet is the part of the network you can never know the shape of, hence so it was shown on the network diagrams as a cloud symbol.

When cloud computing started to gain traction, I could not understand why so many companies would use unauditable services.

I was in an IT company that refused to offer cloud services because we insisted our client do due diligence. Vindication came in the form of companies being sued for data loss and being found negligent for failing to do due diligence.

Then the industry decided that maybe cloud computing was bad and just went back to hosted datacentres... but we now called them "clouds".

Re: What I find amusing...

I think all they're saying is "not quite a millimetre each"

Re: Conflicted

Power management you say?

Well surely the solution is a radical new type of computer -- a grid network of 16 RP2040 chips backing a low power SoC "host". Full chips spin up and down to manage USB devices or specific apps.

Not just not neat, but you'll often hear people say "nobody uses it". You don't, pal -- different from "nobody".

And to add insult to injury, Microsoft's free Office Lens app will now let you capture a whiteboard neatly, with a minimum of fuss.

Re: Not the only company....

They work to the beat of the own drum.

Re: Testing boundaries

...and I would further point out that what he's asking for isn't outside of Google's current technological capabilities: they've implemented right-to-be-forgotten for GDPR compliance, and they could (if they chose to) provide those same mechanisms to people outside of EU jurisdiction.

That's the angle I'd've been pushing if it was me: Google can take reasonable steps to mitigate harm, so they should take steps to mitigate harm. The fact that they implemented that for another jurisdiction is by-the-bye -- once the infrastructure exists, it's arguably a reasonable step.