Charles my boy, how's it going at the foreign office?
We've finished painting the west side and we start the front on Monday
So no chance of a job inside?
No sorry father, far too dim
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This is a total win for China
America has to start being nice to them to keep them onside for sanctions. What Russia is allowed to export can now only go to China who are presumably now 'negotiating' a 90% discount.
Russia's army has demonstrated it is totally crap. The next map redraw is going to be Russia east of the Urals becoming China
The west would go totally monkey poop and China would gain nothing as the fabs were all destroyed, the engineers asylumed and ASML turned off updates.
But China can happily wait a century as its GOP rises and Taiwan's fortunes perhaps reverse when somebody else takes over as cheapest place to build semiconductors
Gradually it becomes China's Guam, then its Philippines, then its Puerto Rico then its Hawaii
Just a note on the sensors.
These aren't cameras taking a picture as you would think.
They are linear sensors that sweep over the ground, like a scanner on a document each capturing a different colour.
So you get a red image slightly ahead of the green image etc and then stitch them together. That's why you sometimes see a rainbow image of some fast moving plane, because it has shifted relative to the ground between the captures.
It also means the point on the ground each pixel is imaging is moving quite fast, it takes about 90mins to do a lap of Earth at LEO
Not really it's space robotics arm
MDA is a Canadian Satelite company that does similar RadarSats
It got blocked from a lot of US military business cos Canadians are a bunch of no-good-commie-hippies but the Canadians wouldn't let MDA be bought by Americans because they are a bunch of pickup-driving-redneck-Nazis
So there was a deal where they sort of pretend-merged so they could each wave the right flag to their prosepective governments.
They then untangled when everyone came to their senses (and sensors)
The cable probably makes a bunch of drops in other countries, you don't want to disturb those to replace the entire cable. You think 60km of cable is pricey, but 1000s km is a lot more and the time for the cable laying ship. Then the bits going ashore at all the other stops are a lot more expensive to build and lay.
Then you have a bunch of repeaters that cost $$$$$$ and aren't exactly next-day delivery.
You might pull forward the business case for the next upgraded cable but you aren't going to rip and replace a working one
>bunch of arseholes who literally hate the people they are elected by
No, they like the people they were elected by (subject to a certain latitude qualification)
Those people own houses
Those houses will go down in value if the government builds more/cheaper housing
That will make those people poorer and sad
They might not vote for you
@keithpeter
You may be confusing real estate prices with reality.
Brummie estate agent: "House for sale, train to London = £££££££"
Brummie home owner: "Yuppies can buy my house? I'll put it on the market for ££££££"
You don't need anybody to actually commute to London, just the justification that they could
>I'm not against HS2 per se, but I always felt that upgrading the east west routes would of been far more cot effective
The point of HS2 was to make Birmingham a London commuter town.
That increases house prices in Birmingham by 100%
That makes everyone (well proprty owners) in Birmingham rich and therefore will vote Tory.
Somehow making everyone's house twice as expensive increases GDP as so makes the country richer (no I don't understand that either)
>ps I think you'll find sales are generally better paid than the rest.
Yes have always believed that sales commission is the easiest cheque to write.
Except if you are 'selling' software to local hospitals/GPs that some NHS digital program has decided everyone has to have. Its like getting a commission on selling F35s to each RAF unit
The problem is when the most (only) profitable enterprise is getting on some government contract - you start to look like one of those 'less developed' countries.
ps also realised 2006 was more than 15years ago. I can't be old - the 70s was only 25 years ago!
I left the UK for the West Coast 10 years ago.
UK developer salaries aren't bad - as long as you are working in finance, in London.
Outside that - forget it.
I was chief dev / R&D / CTO for a company making high tech off-shore stuff. Not a bad salary for oop North, can buy a house etc (although to be fair you could buy a house on a credit card there)
Our receptionist had a boyfriend, spotty 20 year old with no qualifications who worked in Software Sales to local government - he earned twice what I did.
In the UK a techie is never going to get paid more than a saleman, who is never going to be paid more than a manager. If your only good jobs are worthless finance and government contracting you are not going to be creating silicon valley.
>Are ALL Americans either Democrat or Republican?
Yes that's why they are all getting so upset about pronouns.
In the good old days you could tell if a person was Democrat or Republican, without having to ask them.
Now with the kids you have to ask them whether they chose to identify as Dem or Rep
There are advantages, especially with high skilled staff. Since they know they have a job for decades you can invest in them and they can get a deep knowledge of your business.
Here where a developer can, in theory, just not come back after lunch. You don't invest in employee training or development and no employee with any sense is going to waste time learning any skill that can't be traded for a higher salary somewhere else.
So you are always rebuilding your stack on the latest buzzwords because that's all you can hire/all your existing devs will work on. If you need any "legacy" (ie >10year old) skills you are going to be paying through the nose for a consultant.