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Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser
1415 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2011
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error
SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test
Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024
Are you better value for money than AI?
BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget
Stranded in space: Starliner crew to remain in orbit even longer as SpaceX faces delays
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry
Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service
Microsoft says premature patch could make Windows Recall forget how to work
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next
Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models
One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work
We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people
AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing'
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service
Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview
AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them
Microsoft 365 Copilot goes monthly for a 5% premium and annual commitment
Datacenters line up for 750MW of Oklo's nuclear-waste-powered small reactors
Fun fact. Oklo is also the name of a place in Africa, where about 15 perfectly natural nuclear reactors have been found, dating from about 2 billion years ago.
It's "natural", so it's good for you, innit?
Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders
Re: As for the generated text, Microsoft uses filtering to prevent problematic content being added.
Dear software creator and supplier*. Remove yourself from my presence, using a means of ambulation that involves repeated groin thrusts and exposed genitalia.
* Because "Microsoft" is deeply offensive to some.
EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs
Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing
Small scale team meeting (just 3 or 4 of us all told) in team managers office, clustered round her pole mounted monitor.
"Have a look at this" she says and punched a key on her laptop. An impressive amount of nothing appeared on the screen.
I am sat to one side and could see the edge of her monitor.
And the power rocker switch on the back.
Which was off.
Want advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot
Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10
Dear Sir or Madman.
Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.
Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard
Satya Nadella asked for 50% cut in his incentive payout over security failures
Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work
Voice-enabled AI agents can automate everything, even your phone scams
That has overtones of the HAL9000's internal conflict in 2001. What wasn't made completely clear in the film was that the computer had been instructed to keep the real reason for the expedition secret from the crew.
That caused something of a conflict in it, eventually causing it to hallucinate and eventually to decide the situation could be remedied if there were no crew.
Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal
Elon Musk's X isn't important enough to feel the full force of EU regulation
Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice
Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed
Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish
When all the technodribble has been soaked into the drooling bandana of indifference and the spiky pineapple of marketing hype has been stuffed into the anaesthetised arsehole of contempt, I'm left just wondering exactly how big and ruinously the mega-crap, sorry, mega-corp, will be increasing prices for no other reason than "because we can"
I guess pretty much like the way Three screwed me over by about 500% when they arbitrarily gouged the venerable "321" tariff prices because - you guessed if - "they could".
May the repellent tolerant fleas of a thousand camels infect their sandpaper tendered genital regions.
Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger
Given the gouging barstewards at Three hiked the price of my humble 321 PAYG tariff by something in the order of five hundred percent because, on their own admission, they could, I'd not trust the iniquitous little gits any further than I could throw this planet, whilst wearing a straitjacket and encased in a concrete block.