Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21384 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
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
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.
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
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.
We lost a couple of Chinese engineers (one from China, one child of immigrants) to jobs in China
Salary offered was higher, better promotion prospects - but also the chance to buy a house. No new graduate here has a hope of ever doing anything but renting an apartment 1-2 hours out of the city
>How much rental can I charge for installing one on our roof?
About 0.00001% of the cost of getting planning permission, getting the CAA, OfCom, the CoE, the village in bloom committee and the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Arbroath's gamekeepers tea-masher's mate to approve it.
Getting a structural engineering report, a new telecom certified electrical supply, a separate meter because the 50W it uses is taxed at a different rate (actually the same % but calculated in a different way) and a determination if this means your cat now comes under IR35
You also need a copy of the report about how the government is dynamically thrusting toward a new next-generation cloud based high-tech utopia of skills based on Internet of things (only available from HMSO in person)
The streetlight sites are for city centers.
You need lots of cells because a bazzillion punters walking down Oxford st all need to: appear to themselves every day, On TikTok.To make sure they're still real. It's the only connection they feel.
Then having micro cells every 10m helps and it's slightly inconvenient to knock down every building in central London to put up custom large masts.
Don't worry about the lights outside kid's bedroom, worry about what they are listening to on their infernal transistor radios playing the devils music (swanee kazoo)
The council of Europe had more members depending how you count. But the Germans didnt want Saarland included (it had been given to France after WW2), they eventually ended up with 13 and the Italians didn't want an unlucky number so it became a symbolic 12
There is a less fun story of the link to the virgin Mary 12 gold stars / blue. The original proposals had been for crosses because some of the founders where committed to a Christian Europe (having got rid of the Jews, there were very few Muslims and we can soon remove the commies). Its worth remembering that the fascists didn't all disappear in 1945
Good job that British universities won't be involved in researching what happens at 1nm and how to solve it.
There is no point in doing the research because we can just read the Dutch/German research and use it in our own cutting edge fabs, built by all the semiconductor experts we have trained
Because it still costs $$$$ to build a last generation fab
By the time the fab is running in 3-4years there may well be a glut of these parts.
The parts you are making (power electronics, low cost micro-controllers) have a profit margin of 0.0% so you are going to be shipping the wafers to SE Asia for dicing and packaging and making into products - so no strategic advantage to European customers in the next trade disruption.
>Microsoft doesn't care which apps are run on a windows desktop system, in the end the user is responsible for what happens.
They did before they were visited by the Justice Dept carrying a big stick.
They had limits on the number of internet connections you could have before you had to buy the server version.
The licence terms for their SDK banned you from writing anything that competed with Office
They had a business model of simply copying competitors, waiting for them to go bust and then paying a $<1M settlement
>The odds of being taken to court under the Computer Misuse Act have always been vanishingly low.
Unless you upset the government.
There are lots of laws that were only going to be used against terrorists / organised crime / international drug dealers - that got conveniently dragged out when you needed to threaten a journalist
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