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Joe Woodbury wrote: How about laptops that don't fall apart for no reason? Or laptops where the damn touchpad actually turns off when you plug in a mouse? Or one where the function keys work first as function keys then as shortcuts?
You fool, have you not realised that the laptop makers know what you need/want more than you do.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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So the tl;dr is that next years laptops will be better specced than this years?
I never would have guessed that, so it's lucky someone wrote it down for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But at the same time next years software will most likely be slower than this years ...
... so everything will kinda stay the same (w/o an article you probably wouldn't even have noticed).
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's where the computer leaps from your brain, fully formed and armoured
I wasn't aware of any god-like powers that I have. My name certainly isn't Zeus, and my wife's name isn't Hera.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I would like a laptop with an OS that does NOT turn on by itself when its lid is closed. That does not seem like too much to ask but apparently it is. Maybe I just need an OS written by people who have a clue. If they are turning on a laptop when its lid is closed then they obviously do not have one.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Greek mythos, literally translated (concerning Athena) into the venerable Joan of Ark --seeing the similarities yet?
Joan got burnt at the stake for heresy.
We will see how this all turns out I'm certain. Intel being at the center of the table will have undoubtedly good results as well considering how open/transparent and competent they've been in the last decade. An old roman saying comes to mind --buyer beware.
Can't say that I'm not curious, but also speculative/discerning; the name Intel jumped out as to say there's lead in the water pipes.
I was unaware of that...
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AWS launched DocumentDB today, a new database offering that is compatible with the MongoDB API. An infinitely scalable middle finger on the cloud? Where do I sign up?
Let's see - they make open source products on their cloud, and people complain. They don't use the open source products on their cloud, and people complain. Gotcha.
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Didn't MongoDB already give a middle finger to the same community?
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They seemed to be the ones whining about "Dah cloud is stealing all our customers with our free software", so I think this is karma.
TTFN - Kent
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It says something about the character of AWS management that they'd rather spend a fortune developing a database app than offer a few quid to the people whose database app they used for free for years.
"Spiteful little b1tches" is the expression that comes to mind.
I don't think I'll be doing any further purchasing through them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can see some developers getting confused when they search for questions and are directed to Azure DocumentDB which was renamed to Cosmos DB.
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Some want their cake and eat it too and complain; it could be said that we're surrounded by idiots --7.1 surround, stereophonic, stupidity.
Did some reading (lite) on documentDB and it derives from an older release of MongoDB (allegedly). MongoDB developers had a few things to say about the fact that AWS was using a dated, not current implementation most likely implicating concerns for security and support. Seems to me that real world interest lie with safety first rather than the issues regarding project nature like open-sourcing.
Fascinating that the middle fingers have scalar in leu of intelligence behind those icons --an army of well-armed monkeys. Would surmise that any whom utilize AWS documentDB service(s) become more concerned with points stated by MongoDB developers, rather than overly concerned with the project's source accessibility/licensing focus for the moment.
I was unaware of that...
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Security researchers have disclosed three vulnerabilities that affect a system service part of 'systemd,' a core component in Linux that manages system processes after the boot process. That was the service a lot of people hated when it was released, wasn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That was the service a lot of people hated when it was released, wasn't it?
Yup, and journald (the buggy module) was one of the most hated components (because Linux wallahs dearly love wading through plain-text log files).
I have to say, though, that it didn't make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: wallahs
What is a "wallah?"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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systemD is still widely hated in Linux and BSD communities alike. Funny that natural competitors like BSD & Linux hiss in harmony at the simple mention of system --always makes me laugh. Yep, system is considered simile to an STD (and I do not mean standard --think penicillin).
I was unaware of that...
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Facebook Inc. is among the technology companies leading the race to develop artificial intelligence. But Americans don’t trust it to do so responsibly, a survey from a U.K. think tank has found. Oooo, that's got to hurt
Right in their trust issues
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Next headline: Those two thugs down the street who just robbed your house and killed your cat are more trusted than Google.
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That makes sense.
The army's too dumb to get it right, while fb's too evil to use it right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...and this surprises anyone?
It's scarier to think about how the fact would catch anyone off-guard. AI is excellent when watching Jeopardy, but the reality of the matter is: Skynet like spaceships are no longer fantasy, based on previous commercial control over security/personal related information exchange and constant catch-up with patching/hot-fixing argument has become fact in that Identity theft and viral/malicious code targeting AI platforms will occur. Robocop also comes to mind and how about Tron --remember those movies?
Google is great, like many others in their own ways, but security demands more than commercial focus and commercial entities & investment groups are idiots in the field of security. Always connected & clod centric homes will become a battlefield eventually as is already starting.
Facebook on the other hand --wouldn't let anything "Facebook" control or automate anything in my existence to include, but not limited to toilet paper dispensing.
The fact that we're sociological addressing matters concerning AI relational to large, trend setting global companies with proven records in incompetency should raise coconsciousness regarding the current state of our 'digital social climate." 
I was unaware of that...
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Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas. Really Sad, Sayonara
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Surprisingly interesting (given that one of the opening statements is: "a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development", which led me to believe that I would sleep through it).
I was never into feeds, channels, portals, etc, so the article partly filled a gap in my knowledge, which makes a pleasant change.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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RSS (in contrast to popular perception) is not dead, it has only been assimilated most notably by services like JSON friendly web APIs. The unfortunate side-affect of RSS simile is that control is often relinquished to the whims of API providers, so no argument there.
I was unaware of that...
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Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady companies that sold it on to big spenders, who would use the data to track anyone “within seconds” for whatever reason they wanted. They're so sorry...that you caught them (again)
Or I could go with a quote from Animal House, but some people might be offended by it. But it is so appropriate.
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