So long, General Motors, s'il vous platt
HPE, GM, EVP, EVP, CTO? makes you wonder how many TLAs messieurs Hewlett & Packard have left.
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To bad nuclear fusion won't be productuon-ready until2050.
As IBM told us in 1945, the world has a need for 5 computers. According to the graph the world produces 3 TW of electricity, which will be sufficient for the GW class of computers expected in 2020, but if a 2030 supercomputer (1000 Exaflops) draws 1 TW, that will power only three computers.
Now we need a referendum about whether the UK will remain in the Eurovision Song Contest
If the EU succeeds, then the European football competition will see the UK defeat les blues (the EU team, instead of all these 'sovereign' countries).
You must realise that (unless the UK breaks the, eht EU will have few native English speakers, so in a decade or so, continental kids will learn Polish instead of English in school.
Hear, hear! Remember that Corrnish pasties are protected by Britain's Nuclear Deterrent, while the Pain Saucisse has la Force de Frappe behind it, but Brabantse Worstenbroordjes must wait for Uncle Obama's nuclear umbrella, which is busy serving hot dogs.
We'll work out to treaty to save our food.
"I do wonder that if EU nations were given a referendum on whether or not to kick UK out..."
Why not? Of all of the nations of our blue planet, the Dutch people alone were given the vote in a referendum on future EU membership of the Eukraine (excet for the free Crimea and New Russia territories:-).
Electronics is about building computers (hardware), CS is about software.
Not everybody needs to use computers, but programming is a valueble skill for CS students.
"As a result, the ITIF says, many universities are failing to produce the diverse, well-trained graduates that companies seek to hire."
The real problem is that so many CS graduates abandon their discipline for a job in industry. Some people even think that universities exist to train the youth for careers in commerce or goverment.
Have a look at the Wikipedia page. There may not be many engineers familiar with the Series/1 hardware, but even fewer programmers that know the assembly language this machine used, nor are many familiar with the EDX or RPS Operating Systems.
"Systems using EDX were primarily programmed using Event Driven Language (EDL)," I suppose there are not so many programmers left who know that one, compared to the mongiolian hordes of FORTRAN or COBOL coders. But then, learining a new programming language should be a routine occurrence for any experienced code jockey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Series/1
The joke is on you: these drives were designed for Windows '95: enough capacity for Joe's porn videos, just fast enough to play video and the reliability of a politician. Enterprise disc drives don't come with rate limits, are fast and the failure rate is ten times lower.
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/enterprise-performance-savvio-fam/enterprise-performance-15k-hdd/ent-perf-15k-5/en-us/docs/100748152b.pdf
Come to think of it: if discs are made with SSD-like lifetime limitations, that must mean the manufacturer put an SSD into the box as cache.
As Xeno pointed out, motion is paradoxical, so most computers run zero meters per second.
For sequential access, magnetic tape can be faster than disc, but for random access it's the other way around. The author forgot optical discs, which have lousy seek times.
Never mind. That still leave a big amount of unencrypted information.
The consequence of all this intelligence gathering is that foreign groups who dislike Britons need only break into the government's big data warehouse and download all in bulk. Thus you become more vulnerable.
The disgrace is in the idea that software should be patched regularly. If software is good, keep using it indefinitely. If several bugs have been patched recently, your best guess is that some unpatched ones remain, so you should refrain from using unsafe software like Windows, OS/X or Linux.
...remember this is what they feed to refugees in Holland and never pause to think that many Syrians are muslims or jews whose faith forbids them to eat treif.
Should you ever get down and out in the Low Countries, you could buy a 'rookworst' at a HEMA shop.
Stamppot is a generic term for a number of dishes which mash spuds with various vegetables and some meaty substance like lard, and they generally pour gravy over it because farmers need calories. The most famous variety is hutspot (not to be confused with Flemish hutsepot).
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutspot