Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Re: This is the way it's going to go, isn't it?

"easier than trying to derive a proof analytically"

I think you are confused about how this whole proof business actually works. The "analytically" adjective doesn't fit in there either.

Re: Pauli Exclusion principle

Trevor: It's a quirk of mine, especially when it comes to science.

I know the feel.

In furtherance of which, an oldish paper (i.e. 2004) explaining the role of neutrinos in core collapse.

Welcome to the current bubble. Which will burst, taking your pension scheme with it.

It's like buying a few Gucci bags while everyone still thinks you actually have a lots a money.

While are you are really just a bum borrowing fine clothes.

Re: SPARC

because the Sparc cores aren't truly simultaneous and will not perform optimally compared to Intel's design

Wow. Much meaningless technobabbly blather. Such sales power.

Re: The reasons why Big Data projects fail isn't a fault of 'Big Data'

I still think that "Big Data" is a thing for large scientific projects with appropriate funding and the appropriate time & brainpower levels.

Nothing for consultancy firms, pointy-haired ones sniffing out the "next big one" and fly-by-nights looking for a big/quick buck.

Re: Today? Today where?

Thank you.

No!!

That Brutish Empire thing with all its gay trappings was dead around the time Keynes wrote "The Economic Consequences of the Peace".

It just took until Maggie to actually make everyone aware that the empire had been resting for some time and was now pining for the fjords with all the smells that go with this. Understandably, she was blamed for it.

Get over it! Adopt metric units now!! [Revolutionary Music swells]

"The Germans may have tried to conquer Europe and murder my ancestors, but god damn, do they ever make awesome hardware."

Listen mate. British Empire could have stayed out of Belgium back in '14 and continued to exploit India and China for fun and profit, while Wilhelm would have bled out against the French and Russia or managed to build a railway from Paris to St. Petersburg, innit? Messed it all up, did ya?

Re: SysAdmin daily cycle

Then an SMS arrives that tells you that a sweetheart deal made by bossman caused delivery a 1 m³ box of shrinkwrapped software nobody knows what it does that you have to install "now".

Next: A iPhone to alleviate White Guilt. It should sell.

It's like a Presidential Election where quite a few "people" are spazzing out as the next Big Honcho is acceding to the Throne of Pretense whereby He is supposed to Make Everything Better, then makes is consistently worse.

In other words, no.

Re: I wrote Maxidos & Procopy

> I was 15 and up until 3am nearly every night for months on end.

My parents would have kicked me down the kerb for not doing my allotted homework and practicing unethical workhours.

I was destined for a staid state employee career, with social benefits, high salary, unfireability and with guaranteed pension scheme, all paid for by unnamed proletarian masses.

Sadly, their design to make me accede to the New Aristocracy went astray...

Some people regret the lost jobs of horse carriage maintenance.

"And just like the AT&T - T-Mobile deal, this will results in thousands of people losing their jobs."

This being a problem how?