Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: cycling news

>tuned to only put out 20W or so

What's that in Hamster wheels ?

Re: it is for some a good way to get some social contacts

More realistic:

Me: cough wheeze, new curtains ?

Him: gasp, pant, yes

Me: groans,vomits, nice !

Re: What might have been?

It would have made it to orbit, if not the correct orbit, but that would have been a success - like their previous 'didn't quite make the correct orbit'.

It was a success in that it didn't explode on the evening news

Re: "will put further pressure on the already slim chance of a landing in 2024"

The SLS is useful, how else do people on the science committee get campaign funding ?

Re: Can only load the stage with propellant 9 times

But they can always redesign the forms to allow 2 digits for the number-of-uses field. It should only cost $100M and take 2-3years

Re: That was fast

Also not many enthusiast running Itanium for fun.

Re: mulii-core killed Itanic

At some point Dec were selling Alphas with NT for 1/2 the price they wanted to charge for the same Alpha running VMS. So we bought loads of them and installed Linux.

The only tricky part IIRC was that the screen was single frequency and so you had to login with a serial terminal to get the xconfig right before you could see anything.

Re: EU doesn't legislate for taxes

>Why is the only remedy to charge Apple more tax? Why couldn't they give these other Irish phone makers a better tax deal?...... etc.,

Because it becomes a race to the bottom for Eu countries to offer lower tax rates and lighter regulations to foreign corporations. It's a problem if you are allowed to count sales anywhere in the Eu in one country.

It becomes really risky when it comes to things like safety - although you don't have to be a small country to be regulatory captured - as VW proved.

Re: Lawndering

It also has the potential to get much worse.

The new Eu member state "Dutchy of Grand Fenwick" offers to allow drug companies to register in it's delightful capital and as well as offering only 1% corporation tax it guarantees approval for all their drugs with the hour and promises not to look too closely at the test data.

Re: 01/26/2004 would have been cleared

Julian day numbers, the only sane standard

Re: Waste and saftey

It's not microwaves - it's more like AM radio

Re: If they do HOLD

>P.S. I really didn't understand how hedge funds worked before all of this, now I know more than I want to.

Just like casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime - if the casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime bosses also sat on the committee regulating casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime

Re: bots

>More importantly, Robinhood can take the hit for “the team” because it can go under in a lawsuit, the customers get almost nothing, and the execs can be compensated by the hedge funds, who just want the trading to stop.

Robinhood will get off, although it will go bust/be-quietly-renamed when all it's users realise that they aren't paying and so aren't the customers they're the product.

A few of the Wall St bets crowd will be convicted of illegally offering financial advice because their posts of diamond hands emojis didn't have the correct legal disclaimer.

Millions of ordinary people will continue to get poorer because they will 'invest' their money in zero interest savings accounts, because the market is all rigged

Re: bots

Yes that is rather the point, you are on the reg old chap - I think the sarcasm can be assumed

Re: bots

They are manipulating the price by not selling stock when the hedge funds that shorted it all need to buy

Re: Mondeos have gone downhill (and not in a useful sense)

Follwoign our freedom from oppresive Belgian overlords - the new Mondeo sovereignty will be built in Britain. It won't have any Microsoft computer stuff, or an engine.

It will be pulled by a couple of unemployed northeners, self driving is an option if you buy the add-in whip option package.

I'm Opteronistic about their future

The important difference is that AMD's parts get faster/cheaper every time TSMC drops the feature size. Intel will have to do massive design R&D to achieve more with increasingly outdated fabs.

Re: Pecunia non olet

Well we tried the 1930s "United German" game plan but the president was a golfer and so doesn't like anything that ends in a bunker

Re: Pecunia non olet

>Oh wait, the East German government had to build a wall

The “anti-fascist protection barrier.” ?

Funnily enough that's what Mexico was calling the wall it was building and paying for !

Can you imagine a civilised western country having a political row about the naming of a city that could get you killed ?

Lets just call it 54.9958N / 7.3074W

Re: Jeremy Bentham

The body in the box is real, but the head is a waxwork.

The actual head isn't in such great state and so isn't usually on display

Re: And get a better education...

>Students are getting their lectures online, so why do they have to get them from second rate lecturers in second rate universities

A cynical person could suggest that this is why places like MIT / Stanford put all their lectures online for free - even before all the mooc/covid hype.

It isn't going to affect their student demand but why am I paying $$$$ to take CS at Podunk State U when I can watch SICP 6.001 lectures online?