Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Why is there a problem?

Their parliamentary system is very much based on Westminster but with parties linked with particular social castes and a leader who is all about personality and being the symbol of the country

So if you rename a jpeg as pdf it pops up the same print-to-pdf dialog as if you had right clicked on edit, open with "whatever-mspaint-is-called-today" and selected print then pdf as the the printer - which is of course the obvious way of making a pdf in the Windows desktop metaphor.

Obviously government systems will be exempt because that would be expensive

Re: Engineer ousts bean counters from engineering company

Which is irrelevant if he can't deliver.

He can't pay $$$$ to outbid Apple or Microsoft, never mind TSMC/Samsung, for talent because he has 100K existing employees who are going to want the same.

Stock price is going nowhere so he can't give new hires $1M in options, so he has to pay cash.

He also has to find $100Bn to spend on fabs to even be on the same page as TSMC - nevermind their 5year lead.

Alternately he can lobby that all Federal IT spend has to be on American (designed) chips, and get the states to pay for a new fab while stringing a Xeon monopoly along until the last enterprise customer goes to the cloud

Re: In the world of corporate IT

I always assumed Cisco's build system was linked to their share price, when the stock drops they obsolete a product

Re: Still have my copy of J++

It's only worth anything if it's the original vinyl

Re: The important question

But pronounced JIF

Re: Violation of the law...

If the person viewing the source reasonably thought the SSN were secret and shouldn't have been public then he might have broken the law by publishing them - but he didn't, he reported it.

If you find a bunch of papers outside an army base labelled "top-secret" you presumably break the law by reading them - even if the real crime was losing them.

Re: So what happens when

>Neudesic, a US cloud consultancy services firm

>Neudesic has more than 1,500 cloud and data experts ... in India

So is this just a cheap Indian bodyshop operation with a brass plaque somewhere in Delaware ?

Is this just a way for IBM to offshore a lot of jobs without getting unwanted attention

Re: Is it me?

Back when we had Nazi scientists, racial discrimination, a crook in the Whitehouse, an anti-science administration in Houston and Florida

We're trying .....

Re: Dead Cat

>All this will do is make the IT savvy kids the most popular ones in school.

So this is all a brilliant and cunning plan to boost the level of IT literacy and general respect for STEM in school children ?

Re: Remove the Battery

Were this poundshop 2032 batteries?

Often removing/replacing the battery will clean the contacts and fix it for a while

Re: He has already begun accepting them.

It's a driver with an API, you don't need to know what it will be used for.

Do you not include TCP/IP unless you know what all the websites will be used for ?

Re: Barely legal

That's the irony. If they had hired Prentice McAbe they would have branded this as increasing the proportion of women/minority/LGBTQQ2IAA etc to match current graduate proportions - and got an award for it

Re: "2023/4 looks like being a rocky year for the industry"

The glut is prophesied to be in 28nm, 2 generations ago, everybody is struggling to build the next gen fans that aren't going to be ready for 3 years.

I doubt you are going to be seeing any $99 clearance deals on Nvidia 3090 cards anytime soon

Re: And do you think...

>It was only found unlawful in August 2021

Yes I remember that, MI5 and GCHQ were closed down and the spies were hauled off to the Tower of London in Chains and the Home Secretary was convicted and jailed

Re: (nice wage packet, btw).

That's the problem - it's not.

It's what amazon just raised their base programmer salary to. It's less than a new hire programmer at a FAANG here would expect in a couple of years (with options)

It's a lot of money for us regular minions, but for running an entire G7 governments It - it's not. Which means it's either going to somebody who is essentially on secondment from a supplier and is going to get a bonus on the sales, or it is recognised as a holiday job for some friend of a friend with no actual work required.

If you want government IT fixing, hire the boss of IT of Google/Facebook/Amazon and pay them the $$$$ the are worth - it will save you in the long run.

Re: In before someone says Rust would have enforced memory safety

In C there would be a linker flag for that --1.21GW

Re: It's not an open source problem - you forgot only

Yes the open source may be better quality than mine but it is likely to also pull in other libraries with other functionality.

I might write a logging library that isn't safe against printing unsanitized strings, but I'm unlikely to accidentally implement remote procedure call functionality from scratch

Re: Is that right?

It's a very difficult market to enter. It costs a lot of money to design a new engine and no customer is going to risk buying from a new entrant without the history, of reliability, servicing, global maintenance facilities.

A few countries make military jet engines locally, they are a lot simpler and you don't need to worry that a spare part and a mechanic will be available in 20years time at the other side of the world.