I perticularly liked the help desk emails going out to the same distribution list saying 'Your incident has been raised with the Help Desk. Your incident number is 5235"..
They did shut down the list. Unfortunately there was about an hour's worth of emails launched before they did. I am still receiving emails sent at 9:23 this morning; I am pretty sure that this particular distribution list can't be used any more, but I suspect it will take most of tonight and tomorrow to get the backlog sorted out. It's only Exchange running this - 190M emails might take a while to send.
If you RTFA, you'll find one HUGE get-out clause saying "These findings cannot support conclusions on causation. Effect-cause remains a possibility: poor sleep may lead to increased screen-time"
Meaning if people have a poor night's sleep, they may be spending more time on their phone BECAUSE THEY ARE AWAKE.
I wonder how much these geniuses spent to work out yet another statement of the bleeding obvious?
When 'secret developments' are hyped, and the detail is left obscure to scare up interest, it ends up in a damp squib of an implementation; a project that 'fails to commercialise' as they said about Project Ginger, aka Segway.
The absolute best way of training anyone in a new (technology, language, API, set of bindings, class library, toolset etc) is to give them some worthwhile, engaging and difficult problem to solve.
I'm older than I care to admit, and I am the one who is trying to tempt a bunch of much younger people who think they know better into adopting a new technology, since it solves a problem that they otherwise could only solve by spending a *lot* of money. However, they are now recognising that this "new" technology (FPGA in this case) is the only way to solve a particularly worthwhile and engaging problem - viz, how to crunch clinical exomes from the output of an Next Gen Sequencer without having to move a ton of data across the Internet to a big cloudy HPC, or buying one so they can keep it mildly busy. They are going to learn a whole new set of tools and programming methods, and there is some significant paradigm shifting going on; but the problem is that the problem itself is intractable without such a change.
Couldn't agree more. I have a number of Linux machines at home running services like Asterisk, Plex, web services and so on. I have one Linux machine for music production, and I used to have a Linux laptop - BUT the controls didn't all work, it failed to suspend all the time, and occasionally on resume the mouse would cease to function. I had to tab round to find a command prompt and do the "sudo rmmod psmouse &&sudo modprobe psmouse" to wake it up again.
And then there are the MS Office applications. I have used OpenOffice and LibreOffice for a number of years, but eventually the frustrations of silly little things happening when transferring between.doc,.docx and.odt file formats meant I gave up and went for a Macbook; my customers demanded Microsoft formats for my work products. I tried, I really tried to be a non-Microsoft person, but in that respect I decided that life is too short to pursue an idealistic vision too far.
As a contractor, I often have to use what I am provided with to do my job, so I have ongoing experience with Microsoft Windows, and I can say with some conviction that the user experience of a Mac is still better. The gap is shrinking, but it is still there. If Apple continue to obsolete perfectly good working hardware, including power supplies and USB 4G sticks, I might have to reconsider.
.. and get back to just generic hypocritical government bashing.
What is so hypocritical about government bashing? I didn't vote for them. Actually, I think it's fair to say I have never voted on the side of a winning party. Pollsters really should start using me as a bellweather for losing political candidates.
When I was in the business of designing stuff, our company would only normally patent implementations that found their way into a product. The process for a patent was too expensive to be frivolous with. They published everything else in a house journal to put a mark in the sand for demonstrating prior art, or obviousness should any other bunch of idiots try and patent it.
However this meant that we were an early victim of a patent troll, which might have been avoided if only we had patented something that might be regarded as 'obvious'. Basically a bunch of lawyers in California had bought up the patents for a number of methods, including the use of exclusive-or to put a graphic representation of a cursor (arrow, bar, cross-hair) on a monochrome display, and using the same exclusive-or to remove it again, returning the display back the way it was. In our investigations we realised that we had several hardware products out in the marketplace that this patent pre-dated that used the same method.
A meeting between IP lawyers was convened, our guys went in with $3M in their pockets as a reasonable outcome, offered $300K as a starting offer which the trolls accepted gleefully. I suppose it was a win-win. It still rankled.
Where there are big things, there is always a source of static electricity build-up which needs to be managed carefully. I would bet on static being the ignition source, the bang being a small puddle of fuel igniting somewhere, and the rest being history.
I mean, the Queen has the theoretical power to have peoples' heads cut off, but she doesn't go around doing it.
I have a number of NHS Trusts among my customers. One reason they need to have end-to-end encryption is to secure patient identifiable data in transactions. If a reporting radiologist is on call, working out of his home, how is that traffic going to be sent across the Interwebs without breaking the rules in the Care Record Guarantee about keeping patient data safe, and only available to those who have a genuine clinical need?
We are seriously going to run out of simile soon. This is quite the most bizarre and unlikely position to be in, truth being stranger than fiction and all that.
She's put Bam-bam in as foreign secretary, and she's left a homeopathy supporter in charge of the NHS. However she HAS had the good sense to get rid of Michael Gove (snake in the grass has been returned to the green pastures of the Back Benches).
... which really implies that what I am looking for is an HDMI equipped dumb monitor that does nothing more than that. No speakers, no volume control, no add-ons, no scaling, not even a second HDMI port or a DVI-T tuner or a smart card socket or USB or wifi or RJ-45 or ANYTHING apart from an on/off switch and a power cord.
I guess it is possible that the bomb (assuming it is) was planted not in Paris, but in some other airport. This was its 5th flight of the day; maybe its pressure trigger failed to go off until this moment.
I guess this is an echo of the chess computer problem. You either develop a very smart algorithm to infer correct choices based on limited data, or you have a very dumb algorithm that exhaustively ploughs the data and uncovers the best outcome.
Agree. I have several Linux machines, one of which is dedicated to music production. I use (at the very least) Rosegarden, Renoise, Ardour, SooperLooper, Hydrogen, Rakkarack, a few soft synths, kmidimon, a real-time kernel and JACK. I have an M-Audio 24/96 card, and a Tascam US-122 for real world interfacing. I use an M-Audio short keyboard as a controller, a DX7s for a real keyboard feel, external reverb/echo, Kawai K4r, Roland D-110, Soundcraft mixer and a Sennheiser mike. I have a Yamaha FX-770 for a guitar interface and my whole workflow is controlled from Linux, sequenced by Linux and recorded in Linux. The only thing I would add is the use of an external MIDI clock with stop/start/resume and tempo; that, and I am currently experimenting with BLM controllers; I re-brained a Novation Launchpad and I now want MORE.
.. of course it would be quite easy to design an in-circuit programmer, but generally they were read-only with the exception of a UV light or being left on a window sill..
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Since this is for the 1%, post Brexit there won't be a London where the 1% want to be. Try Frankfurt to New York.
You just need to switch to Hard Light holograms. Worked for Rimmer.
I perticularly liked the help desk emails going out to the same distribution list saying 'Your incident has been raised with the Help Desk. Your incident number is 5235" ..
They did shut down the list. Unfortunately there was about an hour's worth of emails launched before they did. I am still receiving emails sent at 9:23 this morning; I am pretty sure that this particular distribution list can't be used any more, but I suspect it will take most of tonight and tomorrow to get the backlog sorted out. It's only Exchange running this - 190M emails might take a while to send.
If you RTFA, you'll find one HUGE get-out clause saying "These findings cannot support conclusions on causation. Effect-cause remains a possibility: poor sleep may lead to increased screen-time"
Meaning if people have a poor night's sleep, they may be spending more time on their phone BECAUSE THEY ARE AWAKE.
I wonder how much these geniuses spent to work out yet another statement of the bleeding obvious?
When 'secret developments' are hyped, and the detail is left obscure to scare up interest, it ends up in a damp squib of an implementation; a project that 'fails to commercialise' as they said about Project Ginger, aka Segway.
The absolute best way of training anyone in a new (technology, language, API, set of bindings, class library, toolset etc) is to give them some worthwhile, engaging and difficult problem to solve.
I'm older than I care to admit, and I am the one who is trying to tempt a bunch of much younger people who think they know better into adopting a new technology, since it solves a problem that they otherwise could only solve by spending a *lot* of money. However, they are now recognising that this "new" technology (FPGA in this case) is the only way to solve a particularly worthwhile and engaging problem - viz, how to crunch clinical exomes from the output of an Next Gen Sequencer without having to move a ton of data across the Internet to a big cloudy HPC, or buying one so they can keep it mildly busy. They are going to learn a whole new set of tools and programming methods, and there is some significant paradigm shifting going on; but the problem is that the problem itself is intractable without such a change.
Couldn't agree more. I have a number of Linux machines at home running services like Asterisk, Plex, web services and so on. I have one Linux machine for music production, and I used to have a Linux laptop - BUT the controls didn't all work, it failed to suspend all the time, and occasionally on resume the mouse would cease to function. I had to tab round to find a command prompt and do the "sudo rmmod psmouse &&sudo modprobe psmouse" to wake it up again.
.doc, .docx and .odt file formats meant I gave up and went for a Macbook; my customers demanded Microsoft formats for my work products. I tried, I really tried to be a non-Microsoft person, but in that respect I decided that life is too short to pursue an idealistic vision too far.
And then there are the MS Office applications. I have used OpenOffice and LibreOffice for a number of years, but eventually the frustrations of silly little things happening when transferring between
As a contractor, I often have to use what I am provided with to do my job, so I have ongoing experience with Microsoft Windows, and I can say with some conviction that the user experience of a Mac is still better. The gap is shrinking, but it is still there. If Apple continue to obsolete perfectly good working hardware, including power supplies and USB 4G sticks, I might have to reconsider.
.. and get back to just generic hypocritical government bashing.
What is so hypocritical about government bashing? I didn't vote for them. Actually, I think it's fair to say I have never voted on the side of a winning party. Pollsters really should start using me as a bellweather for losing political candidates.
When did /. turn into an Apple hate rag? (he said, typing with eight fingers and a thumb, true Pitmans style).
When I was in the business of designing stuff, our company would only normally patent implementations that found their way into a product. The process for a patent was too expensive to be frivolous with. They published everything else in a house journal to put a mark in the sand for demonstrating prior art, or obviousness should any other bunch of idiots try and patent it.
However this meant that we were an early victim of a patent troll, which might have been avoided if only we had patented something that might be regarded as 'obvious'. Basically a bunch of lawyers in California had bought up the patents for a number of methods, including the use of exclusive-or to put a graphic representation of a cursor (arrow, bar, cross-hair) on a monochrome display, and using the same exclusive-or to remove it again, returning the display back the way it was. In our investigations we realised that we had several hardware products out in the marketplace that this patent pre-dated that used the same method.
A meeting between IP lawyers was convened, our guys went in with $3M in their pockets as a reasonable outcome, offered $300K as a starting offer which the trolls accepted gleefully. I suppose it was a win-win. It still rankled.
I can finally get a real APL keyboard layout on my Mac!
Surely being in a movie renders a concept unpatentable either for obviousness or for prior art. Actually, I prefer the latter.
This is what happens when you let an ex-LISP programmer make comments.
"Matthews .... we're getting another one of those strange 'aw blah es span yol' sounds ..
Where there are big things, there is always a source of static electricity build-up which needs to be managed carefully. I would bet on static being the ignition source, the bang being a small puddle of fuel igniting somewhere, and the rest being history.
Ask me a more difficult one, like
"Do you remember using an acoustic coupler?"
"Did you write the code for your final year project on an ASR33 teletype?"
"Do you remember having to write the bootloader for the paper tape to the core memory, using the front panel switches of the computer?"
"Remember when changing the font involved changing the golfball on the 2741 terminal?"
I mean, the Queen has the theoretical power to have peoples' heads cut off, but she doesn't go around doing it.
I have a number of NHS Trusts among my customers. One reason they need to have end-to-end encryption is to secure patient identifiable data in transactions. If a reporting radiologist is on call, working out of his home, how is that traffic going to be sent across the Interwebs without breaking the rules in the Care Record Guarantee about keeping patient data safe, and only available to those who have a genuine clinical need?
Let's hope they never use these powers.
We are seriously going to run out of simile soon. This is quite the most bizarre and unlikely position to be in, truth being stranger than fiction and all that.
She's put Bam-bam in as foreign secretary, and she's left a homeopathy supporter in charge of the NHS. However she HAS had the good sense to get rid of Michael Gove (snake in the grass has been returned to the green pastures of the Back Benches).
Where is Spitting Image when you need it?
... which really implies that what I am looking for is an HDMI equipped dumb monitor that does nothing more than that. No speakers, no volume control, no add-ons, no scaling, not even a second HDMI port or a DVI-T tuner or a smart card socket or USB or wifi or RJ-45 or ANYTHING apart from an on/off switch and a power cord.
Just checked the flight data. It had flown in from Cairo a few hours earlier, before making the return journey.
There was seemingly no distress call. The rate of descent was swift.
Some reports of a feiry explosion.
My prayers are with their families. So sorry for your loss.
I guess it is possible that the bomb (assuming it is) was planted not in Paris, but in some other airport. This was its 5th flight of the day; maybe its pressure trigger failed to go off until this moment.
I guess this is an echo of the chess computer problem. You either develop a very smart algorithm to infer correct choices based on limited data, or you have a very dumb algorithm that exhaustively ploughs the data and uncovers the best outcome.
Agree. I have several Linux machines, one of which is dedicated to music production. I use (at the very least) Rosegarden, Renoise, Ardour, SooperLooper, Hydrogen, Rakkarack, a few soft synths, kmidimon, a real-time kernel and JACK. I have an M-Audio 24/96 card, and a Tascam US-122 for real world interfacing. I use an M-Audio short keyboard as a controller, a DX7s for a real keyboard feel, external reverb/echo, Kawai K4r, Roland D-110, Soundcraft mixer and a Sennheiser mike. I have a Yamaha FX-770 for a guitar interface and my whole workflow is controlled from Linux, sequenced by Linux and recorded in Linux. The only thing I would add is the use of an external MIDI clock with stop/start/resume and tempo; that, and I am currently experimenting with BLM controllers; I re-brained a Novation Launchpad and I now want MORE.
.. of course it would be quite easy to design an in-circuit programmer, but generally they were read-only with the exception of a UV light or being left on a window sill ..