Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Try sharing a bed with a duvet stealing partner and a dog

Re: Jumps?

> "The brits can buy real chocolate frogs?!?!" C

But only:

"the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose."

Certainly better publicly, having a bunch of Dutch minimum wage workers hauling a yacht owned by a madman while a German director screams at them

It's Rotterdam's fault for building a city round the shipyard

Re: "creating a free speech czar"

>Also, the descriptions of caves were generally geologically incorrect

Yes I remember that, he said it wasn't fair that all the caves they had to explore were never flooded and always had flat sandy floors !

Re: Lets stop messing around shall we?

And yet they can't keep a birthday party for the Great Leader secret.

Of course Boris could just be a distraction from the man who really runs the place - and lives in a hut somewhere with 'Lord' his cat

Re: "creating a free speech czar"

Just for the controversy but weren't the Guardianistas banning Enid Blyton books from British schools ?

The US Navy launched an investigation to find Dorothy, and determine if they were a Soviet agent making their sailors gay.

Re: "creating a free speech czar"

Presumably czar because they get the same political fate as the first Caesar

Re: My Buddies Use Salsa20...Snoops Are Welcome To Decipher.....

How many years in prison is it for AC not to hand over the keys to that message?

Better hope that wasn't random gibberish, you get to be held indefinitely in contempt if the judge doesn't believe you.

Re: Agree 100%

>Political lobbying by big businesses moves at this speed: >< and possibly faster.

Or this is actually by big business.

If I can specifically target individual visitors by Google/Facebook's data then I can advertise my speciality product to that subset. With no customer data it's only worth advertising if you're ad goes to everyone.

So worth it for McD / Coke / VW showing an ad to everyone online but not worth it for my startup selling developer tools.

This levels the playing field back to the days of ITV being the only mass market ad platform.

Re: Or

Our GlobalMegaCorp parent company just announced that for the 2nd year there are no bonus because of weak earnings (we are in the movie effects business)

Local management seem pretty resigned, and I quote: "Anybody under 40 can immediately go to Microsoft/Google/Amazon and double their salary. Anyone over 40, in this city, made $250K++ a year in house price increase so the pay is irrelevant.

Re: "our people are core to our success"

By which logic the security guard that unlocks the front door in the morning should be the highest paid employee.

Re: The problem with this approach

Except the web developer would return a gif image of the number "150".

Or more likely return a link to an image on Google that will go away at some random point

Re: Why are they doing this?

Or something that can take descriptions of tasks from regular humans and auto generate unit tests so we can test against the real requirements not testing against the same mistaken understanding of the problem by the same programmer who wrote the code

Re: More tools is a good thing (not)

The more tools available the lower the cost of creating code and so the more places code can be used and so the greater the demand for code and coders.

Compilers, microprocessors, mobile computing may have threatened the jobs of mainframe operators but it hasn't been terrible for the programming profession

Re: More tools is a good thing

There are no jobs for programmers because studies in the early 1960s showed that soon everyone on the planet would have to be employed in laying out circuit board designs for computers. So there would be nobody left to program them.

So automatic tools had to be invented, which meant fewer tape-out jobs and lots more computers

Sun would have sent individual pallets containing a US power lead (=0) and then a separate pallet containing a UK lead (=1)

Re: The Problem

Or they will simply not sell you a tractor but you can only subscribe to your tractor for a monthly fee and then pay monthly service fees for it. The fee may also be subject to surge pricing at harvest time.

Re: My only concern . . .

I thought it already applied to cars in the USA?

Pretty sure engine codes and tuning settings have had to be 3rd party for years. It got even stronger with dieselgate cos a lot of states don't measure emmisions they just ask the OBDC if you are good.

>X86's long standing advantage is it's pre-existing catalogue of software

When you were running Windows desktop or Oracle on a server.

If I'm running some Ruby service on a container in a cloud somewhere I have absolutely no interest in what endianess the CPU is

Re: It's all about the ISA

And Intel was a monopoly, not just in CPUs but in all the support chips.

Hey Dell/IBM you are shipping only Intel on your new servers otherwise you aren't getting any of the GigE or high performance Sata controller chips that we control

Re: A good thing I hope

But that won't pay off for years and keeping your CEO job is based on this quarters earnings call.

And your new house is based on the price the day you leave in 18months and sell your shares

It hasn't mean the original Moore's defn for a couple of chip generations.

It originally meant that it was cheaper to put more chips on the a wafer with each generation. The wafer costs were the same but you increased the number of parts on it by 1.5x each generation.

Re: Live by the fashiom die by the fashion

Although the "status symbol" was that you were important enough to need to be in touch with work 24x7.

The fruity status symbol is just a symbol that you were able to pay for a fruity status symbol

Re: Why not

Only if you're paying US/UK military industrial complex rates.

If you are buying them from Alibaba like the Chinese govt...

Re: Why not

The Harrier is more than 50 years old.

It would have no chance against a cloud of 21st century AI controlled hypersonic missiles all able to manoeuvre faster than any manned aircraft

Re: The UK is failing

>We rely on chips in everything so it is a strategic blunder to outsource

We don't need any foreign chips.

Nationalise EEV and use valves. Vote British for a return to the glorious 1950s

Re: Oppuortunity knocks

>China is #1 in rare earths, much of it illegally.

Damn our lanthanides got under their country. Just like our oil getting under the middle East.

I blame geography

>Predominently Chinese businesses have come out of nowhere, and buy up everything on a speculative whim.

Those damn Chinese capitalists. If only the socialist banks, hedge funds and investors in the west had the profit motive, organization experience and access to cheap capital to allow them to do this

Find the smart guy who came up with that and shoot him, he is obviously some sort of enemy agent