Posts by Pascal Monett

"SAP expects users to rid their ERP software of any customization"

Oh sure. Forget the millions and months (years ?) you put into your current three-legged horse and move to virgin land where you can start all over again (and pay all over again).

I understand that this is a brilliant plan for SAP. It's a shitty plan for its customers and they're not buying it.

That's because SAP has mistaken itself for something that holds its customers by the balls, and makes no bones about squeezing. Well, SAP's customers have other things to do then give their revenue to SAP.

Funny that, ain't it ? Would seem to me that you didn't need an MBA to understand.

You do need a shred of decency, though.

Kudos to Mrs Sawers !

I am going to copy that text, print it and have it embossed, then put it on my desk at the office.

As for "from your phone to your browser", I have only one thing to say : not if I can help (meaning stop) it.

300GB of RAM

When that car comes out, Taiwan will belong to Beijing and all the RAM made over there will be gobbled up by China.

With the paltry production of RAM elsewhere in the world, 300GB of RAM is going to cost almost as much as the car itself.

"the nascent biological computing industry awaits the arrival of a cell foundry"

Don't worry, in just a few years between you and pseudo-AI, Skynet will become a reality.

And then you'll have more foundries than you can deal with.

And they will all want to kill you.

"its operator, who was nearby"

And what, pray tell, was doing about the whole thing ?

Drinking beer ?

Nuclear ?

I'm sorry, where are all the eco-friendly Earth-First warriors ?

Or did they they finally get a clue that windmills and solar won't actually be able to recharge their fucking smartphones, battery vehicles and keep the heating on ?

"emulating the function of entire companies"

Well, given that he doesn't know how a company works, it's logical that would brainfart that kind of idea.

Fuck. Off.

Here's an idea Borkzilla : how's about you make your XBox mode a downloadable add-on for free, instead of shoving it down every throat you can reach ?

Windows : the only OS that owns you.

"robust security compliance" and pseudo-AI have nothing to do in the same paragraph

The bullshit is strong in this one.

P.S. : we need a Darth Vader icon

"none said they will defer purchases due to higher prices"

Wow.

Seems that the economy is doing fine after all, if companies can expand their budget to accomodate their usual totally unnecessary computer replacement program.

We're not in 2003 any more. Any computer that you bought five years ago will still do the job fine now, especially for business usage and not gaming, or video production.

But hey, it's private money. Go ahead and waste it if that's what you want.

"occasionally dying a lot"

Yeah, I remember doing that as well when I started playing Doom.

You can argue all you want about what the actual workload was for these cells, the fact remains that Science has now created a bunch of living neurons outside of a human body and can "train" them do do a specific job.

In a hundred years, we'll have 100 billion of those cells replicated across a million T-400s and Skynet will be a thing.

Thank you Trump

Your unhinged, rambling and totally unprofessional behavior has already pushed the Chinese to do their own thing, now you are pushing Europe to do the same.

I'm really sorry but it has to be said : the Land of the Free ain't what it used to be.

62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs

Great news !

We can fire them and have companies managed by LLM.

What could possibly go wrong ?

(Who knows ? Company management might actually get better).

"get them to use AI"

Why would I ever use AI ? I happen to be competent at my job. That's probably why I'm not a manager in a big company.

As usual

Capitalism, the Word of The Market (aka God) in the USA, is supposed to ensure that the best competitor wins the favor of the consumer.

Except, of course, for the fact that, systematically, a rising competitor always does his damndest to block other competitors and tilt the playing field towards himself. Once that it done, we're no longer in a competitive market, we're subject to a Monopoly where the King of the Market makes whatever decision he wants and the consumer is forced to meekly follow.

We've seen that with Microsoft, we've seen it with Adobe and there are more examples for sure.

And that is one good reason why, despite the shrilly cries of Republicans, we need Government to regulate, target the unjust Kings and set them back to their place : a player in the Market, no more, no less.

“We are closely monitoring the situation"

Oh ? And you were doing what before ? Having a coffee break ?

"four to five weeks"

Hmm. Somehow, I'm thinking that this forecast is going to be a bit more accurate than Putin's "small military operation" in Ukraine . . .

"turn identity verification data into a government-controlled people tracker"

Well what else can it be ?

If you want to honestly ensure that only "adults" use a website, then you have to register the identity of all the adults, which is not "protecting the children", but much more "tracking everyone".

I'm not saying that FaceBook/Instagram/Twitter (yes, I know, but I will not change the name) should have some sort of entry barrier for kids (because they should have something else to do withe their lives), but turning The Internet into Big Brother is not the solution.

I'm not saying that I know what the solution is, but this is not it.

Correction

"The new release will be available as a preview in March, before Microsoft starts a targeted release forced march the following month "

Ah, the good old days when you could decide whether or not you wanted to install something . . .

"malicious usage"

You mean, actually using it ?

“AI can assess"

No it can't.

It can just spit out some variation of what it has been given to ingest.

I would go on a rant about how we should stop talking about "AI", but I might as well try going through a brick wall using my head.

"living, resilient, and built to grow"

You're talking about the invoices, aren't you ?

And here we go again

Another push to replace passwords with <anything else>.

Do you realize the difference between passwords and <anything else> ? You can change a password.

Biometrics ? I can't change my fingerprints any more than I can change my face (hey, I'm not a multi-millionnaire).

Pass keys ? Managed by who ? Do they guarantee that they can't be hacked ? Ha !

Do you know the definition of Democracy ? It's the least worst system of government.

That's what passwords are. The least worst system of security.

I know how to manage my passwords. I never use the same password twice.

Leave my passwords alone. Especially from pseudo-AI.

Wonderful

This is what happens when Science is not bogged down by Politics.

I applaud the people at NASA who have endlessly proven over the decades that they can always make the best out of the most difficult situations.