The 90's called. They'd like Tivoli back.
So it's enterprise management, without an actual enterprise, 'cause y'know, "The Cloud." Blah blah.
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Come on who is not thinking this.
Joking aside the question is how the costs stack up.
Dense, but highly cooled --> fast
But does
Not so dense, passive cooled --> cheap
Given that Google have talked about (have?) locating server bunkers in Iceland to side step the cooling bill this might not be so stupid.
However de-greasing the boards for trouble shooting purposes without CFC solvents could get messy.
A bit of vinegar with the oil could make a nice simple dressing for a salad.
You might like to keep in mind that Tony Blair wanted to introduce them at the time when the IRA (the last serious threat to British security) had just about put their weapons "Beyond use."
What makes you think leaving the EU will discourage this scheme?
Perhaps because all ID card file access have an audit trail to them?
Estonia was the poster boy for the UKG cradle-to-grave National Identity Register scheme (nothing to do with actually verifying you ID but a lot to do with tracking who you are and what you're doing for the rest of your life).
That is rather more impressive.
"although the amount of waste from all those 'middles' seems sad."
LTCC also supports the creation of cavities inside a board and hermetic sealing lids. This is presumably the PWB way to do something like it.
"Also interesting that the BGAs are backfilled, but they haven't gone the next step and filled the whole assembly for thermal and rigidity reasons. "
Possibly. Air convection can be surprisingly effective at carrying heat (as anyone whose been on a draft hunt around an old house knows). Another option would be "thermal vias" under the BGA's just for heat transfer, as it's a shorter path.
405nm is 0.405 micrometres.
That's 0.000405 mm
The System/36 was part of IBM''s mid range hardware, so not a mainframe either.
If you meant 405 micrometres that would be about 16 mils (thousandths of an inch. Appropriate as nearly all PWB dimensions seem to use Imperial units).
8nm would be below the current smallest linewidth on computer chips.
Sorry not really impressed.
I've been doing a bit of delving round printed wiring board tech. People were doing 50 layers for mainframes in the early 80's. This tech may include embedded (separate) or printed (onto, or into) the layer resistors/capacitors/inductors. Standard PCB tech (FR4) is usually stated as good to 36 layers.
This may be cutting edge in very expensive cell phones but has been around for most of the last 4 decades in Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic ("low temperature" is relative. It will also work quite happily up to >500c).
Wot? And no one's tried popping a few on the Barbie?
They sound like every other species of flying rodent, and I'm quite an admirer of the Korean rural rodent control policy
But oh dear what a glorious headline opportunity sadly squandered.
"Flying rodent tells NBN to flock off."
"Flock that. Cockatoos couldn't give a XXXX how much NBN cost"
But if you're going to take down 1 account (I don't see anyone else complaining of losing theirs) that would have to be the one. A real "surgical strike" with no collateral damage.
Or as a Chinese commentard might put it.
"Trump silent. The running dog has been muzzled at last."
And to think, you didn't even mention the Home Office...
The folk behind.
Unlimited Number plate, finger print, mugshot and DNA retention of everyone, regardless of criminal conviction.
The Snoopers Charter
10 year long asylum processing.
Inability to deport foreign prisoners directly home.
But, but,but
No nukes means being subservient to the rascally Fwench.
And even worse being patronized by the Americans, as (IIRC) the Foreign Secretary of the day was when he spoke to his US counterpart just after WWII. Getting his support to start an A-Bomb programme after that was no problem :-) .
But the real horror would be the UK admitting it could no longer keep up with the US and Russia.
I think it's interesting that of the G7 how many are world class economies without the ability to flash fry several million people, although they have very significant military forces.
Of course if push came to shove you could always hand a rifle to every one of the MoD Procurement branch. IIRC that would increase the size of the fighting forces about 5x overnight.
Because they were cheaper than the (inevitable) BAe bid.
IIRC BAe gave the usual whine about "Thousands of British Defense jobs will be lost blah blah."
In fact the factory got transferred to GD and the same staff built the US design, rather than the Nx more expensive BAe thing.
That is (potentially) a quite phenomenal degree of control over a chemical reaction.
Of course doing it to individual molecules, instead of what would normally be a cloud of them, is going to almost equally difficult.
So very high order boffinry.
How sweet.
Only the very young (and/or the very ignorant) can be so delusional.
This breakdown of the results suggests the vast majority were either old codgers or Conservatives (or both?) So, no I think quite a lot of them were dreaming of an Empire on which the sun never set.
You OTOH seem quite young. I think you're going to live a good long life.
I do hope that you're as proud of your choices in 20-30 years as you seem to be now.
Indeed it just occurred to me.
Brexiteers bang on about how "The people have spoken, the decision is made blah blah."
Well the "decision" was made by the British people in 1975.
So Brexiteers have b**ched on continuously about it for 42 years (through how many governments ?), until "The People" made the "right" (by their standards) choice.
All the while incessantly whining about " We hate the EU. We can't do anything to change it.It's corrupt. It makes us do stuff. Blah, blah".
I wonder how many of them have realized that even leaving the EU will not in fact bring The British Empire back into existence?
Or is this the "We're on the internet, your laws don't apply to us" business model?
Yes it does sound like they actually did take this seriously. Hopefully " Check/synchronize release versions of different S/W packages for known incompatibilities" will be on the "lessons learned" list.
I'd never heard of them before.
Let's see what happens next.
Not in any major sense below Mach 1.
Concorde (and any M1+ vehicle) got pretty hot due to skin friction, but it's a very minor factor sub sonically.
Mind you if you're going to fly over Blighty at high altitude (or indeed anywhere at high altitude) and fairly slowly anti-icing gear sounds like a good thing to fit as standard.
Toulouse, where a lot of the French aircraft industry is based perhaps?
Probably not bad over large bits of the Middle East as well.
Not so good over say Northern Europe, like that US "stealth" plane bought down in the former Yugoslavia when it's radar invisibility coating rusted.
Bulls**t.
1) A Corporation is not a person, unless they are an immortal sociopath who's single goal is to make profit pretty much regardless of anything else.
2) You obey the laws of the country you were formed in. US corporation --> US laws.
3) WTF about "Can we be excluded from anyone knowing which politicians we fund?" Are you f**king kidding me?
Here's the thing.
Have you ever wondered where the raw data comes from for long term federal level policy planning?
Right here.
How valuable is being able to skew that to whatever direction you want that planning (and it's associated funding) to go?
Quite a lot.
So I'd like to think it's all encrypted from the moment of collection to the end.
BTW I think if everyone who completed it was automatically included in a lottery, with the prize dependent on the number who filled it in, the paper entries would have been more filled in.
Relying on heuristics with a formal model can lead you into false expectations.
IOW "We didn't think it could exist....but now we know it can."
So another data point for any model to satisfy, which should help to filter out models that don't work.
Although it is true at what point does a very hefty planet become a "proto sun" and at what point could one get so close to its sun (if any) that it ignites?
Ballot boxes are not that heavy. Like pharmaceutical packaging they don't have to be tamper proof, they just have to make it impossible to tamper with them without it being obvious.
Ballots can be counted fairly quickly by humans.
Yes it might take whole hours more to do but SFW?
Comm links from counting sites are good enough. What do you need? 4 or 5 numbers at most from each site?
Testing a very large (and it will be very large) parachute opening in an atmosphere < 1/160 that of Earth SL pressure is virtually impossible.
This could make a major contribution to better (smaller) parachute design
And how far we've come.
20Mpixel camera --> 450g.
True.
It's the massive loss of profit margin they can't deal with.
I'm not sure what hurts them (or makes them afraid) the most.
Realizing their hardware architecture is nothing special outside of the PC/Windows space or how low margins are when people actually have a choice and can dump your chips.
"It's just not fair <sniff> people hand over their whole lives to Facebook to slice and dice and sell to advertisers at massive profits and these state politicians want to stop us getting our slice as well."
That is what they mean, if not what they are saying, is it not?
"We want to share more data and we want to delete less (or any) of it so we can do so."
Their complete failure to handle asylum processing (is 10 years without a decision a record? I don't think so) and bizarre notions about what had to be done to satisfy EU rules were probably a major contributor to the Brexit leave vote.
Incompetents lead by data fetishist aholes.
Hahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
But what does this teach us.
People use the the internet like a utility with 99.999% availability. It's not.
Server based systems are complex and need lots of capacity testing for edge events (But in principal high doorbell use during all public holidays celebrated in many countries at once is predictable).
Failover modes. Internet dies. Internet or servers die system runs straight and level (probably going to be needed as more companies go belly up and the hardware is bricked).
I even have a tagline to go.
"Whatever Corp. Turning the Silicon Valley meatgrinder up to 11."
Because the no BS term for "on-boarding" is "Fresh meat processing."
But what's really important is when it all goes tits sideways.
"Whatever Corp. More efficient over-boarding" (of the company dead wood. Well, they are now).
Conrad's does not seem your neurotypical personality, although he maybe a rather more neurotypical CEO. Unfortunately.
But, but, but.*
The UK is TAKING BACK CONTROL (C Linton Kwesi Crosby 2017) of it's borders. Soon it will be able to (metaphorically) sail the world under its own command, being able to make its own trade deals with whoever it wants (or does not, as the case may be) to.
Granted there may be a few mass redundancies staff adjustments but at last Albion will be free of the yoke of the hated Brussels Jack boot (or should that be Jacques boot?).
Shouldn't you be thrilled at the prospect?
(C Rabid Xenophobia Publications T/A The Daily Heil)
*IRL you are quite correct. Time will tell who is right, just as you find out if there really is a $deity about 1 second after you die, and can do f**k all about changing things.