Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Not useful

It might also be difficult to motivate Taiwanese engineers to keep working for you.

You can't exactly put their families in a Gulag until they comply - Amazon have a patent on that

Re: Been there, done that

Even better grow grapes or hops.

Turns sunlight and air into booze

I think the kids today do that in the metaverse

(pleased to note my phone doesn't believe that is a word)

Re: Dust off Apollo

But this will fundamentally advance on the Apollo missions, it will have a racially and gender diverse (*) group of square-jawed ex-military test pilots.

(* no non-Christian or gays obviously)

Re: Don't you have to go into space in order to be an astronaut?

Unfortunately flying is in medieval and English, while space is metric and speaks German

>Things Nasa does better that private companies:

>1) Toilets

nasa-just-sent-new-23-million-space-toilet-international-space-station

Re: Try the hyper-enhanced security mode.

Laughs as phone's built-in self-destruct charge detonates

In California the wood probably requires a Prop65 warning

Re: Why?

Replacing a CEO with a cartoon character has a lot of advantages

Lower salary costs, no need for private jets, no embarrassment when they take a private jet to beg for bailouts / to promote being environmentally friendly.

Greatly reduced incidence of sexual harassments (except Roger Rabbit)

Reduced chance of racist outburst (except early tom+jerry)

Less likely to do something stupid in public destroying the company (except W.E. Coyote)

Re: Day planner. On paper.

You pull down the first teat to select menu, then 4 pulls to get to settings, one long pull to enter settings, then 2 pulls to get to time and date, then 11 pulls to advance the hours

Don't go past or you have to do it all again

When I worked there, Caltech owned JPL but leased it to Nasa who contracted management back to Caltech. But I wasn't allowed on site at JPL because I wasn't a US citizen!

* Somehow this was cheaper and more efficient (allegedly)

Re: Condemned

Just so long as you don't have any of those big long red tube shaped fuses at the end.

Not joking, we had a high voltage power supply to a flash x-ray (what the kids today call an x-ray laser) where the connection from the bunker full of capacitor banks to the head was a glass tube full of copper salt solution wrapped with explosive tape.

It's rather difficult to turn off 10,000A of high voltage DC with your typical 2 pole switch.

Re: GPUs or Graphics cards?

>..did you simply not read the article in the normal order?

Programmer, Forth, am I

Re: weird components doing funny things

ICL opd (the last vestige of the Sinclair QL) running nationwide Bingo games

Re: Remind me

Remember this is a country founded by rebellious terrorists - it's a good idea to keep them under control

Re: Probably the flapper valve

Or you could have proper syphon cisterns like in the mother country.

Re: Modern Slavery

Mechanics, even if they are employees, are skilled craftsmenpersons who expect their tools to last a lifetime.

They aren't just drones expected to turn up a desk to mindlessly press buttons to generate Powerpoints.

Re: On that GPS replacement

>What is the betting that buried somewhere is a bit of code that means the OneWeb satellites have to check in with an existing GPS system......

Now they will just phone the speaking clock

(is that still a thing? I'm feeling distinctly over 40)

Re: Heat piped to where?

Obviously it's heat pipes all the way down

Re: All too common

But firing 10% of your workforce saves 10% of the budget and that's nearly the same as making 10% more money and if you keep doing it you eventually get profitable once all the people are gone

Re: On call cash cow

Good job if they expected 365 * 24 * 7 in one year

Re: Don't be evil

But less old-hat for their non MAGA hatted employees.

Opinion among the young devs we hire is that Amazon is toxic and Google is the more acceptable place to work. Only those who actually worship Satan, rather than merely being members of the temple, woudl work for Oracle

Re: Let there be smug....

I think it's something they put in the water.

If you made Ghandi home secretary he would be building gas chambers within the week

instrumental - the bit where you're being played

So it's the 3 letter agency equivalent of a 5 star review?

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Re: Raising the Titanic would probably be easier.

> have standard best practice processes

We had that, "standard best practice" was that all the IT infrastructure was to come from a single supplier. Naturally the only supplier that could offer mainframe + mini + workstation + PC (back in the 80-90s) was IBM.

So we had a single "integrated system" that had an IBM mainframe running God-knows-what, AS400s for HR and accounting, RS6000 unix workstations and PS/2s for student desktops.

Strangely this didn't all work together seamlessly and was gradually abandoned. But only after getting rid of all the sock+sandal wearing beardies in this basement that knew how everything worked before.

And yet it's being shown for free on Global Britain's premier hang-out for technology super-influencers