Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Let's keep crazy and mad and bonkers and looney etc

Window-licker test or joey test is still OK?

Re: Where will this end....

"the term future perfect was abandoned when it was discovered not to be"

Re: I have to admit...

Possibly if there was just one reported sighting.

But all those people who saw the story on twitter or facebook and then decided to call 999 to let the police know - even the ones who were nowhere near the airport? A million idiots can't all be wrong !

Re: Not an admission of a problem though

> a mention of procedural changes to avoid recurrence?

Yes next time the police will make sure they arrest somebody a bit darker, call them terrorists and hold them for 28days with a bit of "enhanced questioning" until they confess.

Re: Why is this important?

Don't care what's in the zfs source code but this will become the corporate cause for next year.

Somebody in senior management will notice that everyone above the level of serf is a white golf buddy and order some diversity.

Which means they go and play golf and we get stuck in a 'workshop' with a GROLIES 'facilitator' demanding that a racially diverse group of engineers role-play how words can have meanings.

Re: So using the new ZFS terminology...

The fact that you try and put it in, rotate 180deg try again and then rotate another 180deg and succeed would seem to satisfy diversity

>(Miners vs. Tories was a grudge match, pure and simple.)

Effective though, you target a region that not only votes for the opposition but whose union dues fund it.

Not often you get to target your enemy so precisely.

Re: I like colors

>and that fact that approximately 10% of the population can't discern one from the other

Cyclists ?

Re: "There's no slave in git though"

>It's still a reminder of the outdated master-slave trope in computer science.

Glad I don't have a masters degree

Re: Does it have regenerative braking?

There is an optional wind turbine to charge the battery

Re: "Quote"

> US leads the world in chip design".

And they don't even have prawn cocktail flavor

Re: Unlikely to succeed

I imagine their accountants are looking very carefully at this.

Fabs cost a lot of money and take a long time to build. It's not like a warehouse where you can run it for 11 months until the subsidy runs out.

TMSC are going to need either a 10year commitment for tax breaks and govt orders, ie from the next 2-3 administrations, or pick a state where they know can buy the legislature.

Re: Freedom Fries!

>it might be a really Good Thing(tm) to subsidise STEM and key skills.

Subsidise edukation? that sounds like socialism

Re: It's not the building or the hardware ..

The people aren't a major part of the cost of a chip fab and the skilled people you need to run one aren't that much cheaper in Shenzhen than in Toadsuck Arkansas.

The products will still be made in china because that is labour intensive, it's just that the chips will be shipped from USA rather than Taiwan.

For TMSC this is a great move, they get a fab built for free - assuming their tax accountants are any good. They get a captive market with infinitely deep pockets - US military/govt/etc required to buy made in america "Freedom chips" from TMSC at whatever premium they want to charge

Any threat/boycot/law suit aimed at TMSC from anybody in the world becomes a threat to America.

Re: 4 Years

Over here they would claim the novel.

My contract says anything I do outside work also belongs to them.

I did ask if there was a company logo image I should use on my hobby of making dwarf+donkey porn videos but HR haven't replied yet.

Re: Sooo....

>It reminds me a lot of how I heard things work in academia, especially when a tenured position

Possibly a little more justified in a university post.

Otherwise every 4 years it is: Party X is in power, everyone who has researched climate change please collect your redundancy cheque, followed by party Y is now elected, all fossil fuel researchers are fired.

Re: Sooo....

>position which the employee is suited, or can be retrained, for.

The problem is that it isn't a reasonable technical analysis of this route.

It's being decided by unions and lawyers who have a vested interest.

So a salesperson who used a laptop can of course be retrained as a sysadmin because they are both computer jobs. Don't agree then see you in court.

That's where IBM with their nobody-over-40 workforce would have an advantage

Nobody over 40 can tell any members of a typical boy-band apart

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

>The world's crookedest bank.

Typical British anti-German rhetoric.

Deutsche Bank is the Mercedes of crooked banks. HSBC is the Robin Reliant

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

But surely the 6 British marines on guard at the governor's mansion could have held back the Chinese army if they had decided on a rematch ?

Re: The bigger issue is rising Chinese power

> but suggesting that the changes were made purely to disadvantage Hongkongers is inaccurate.

It gave UK residency to people whose grandparents were born in Britain - and that wasn't targeted by race ?

Re: Swings and roundabouts

On a personal level would you rather the local police / council /neighbourhood watch having a copy of all your emails/website visits/phone calls or China's military intelligence having them ?

Re: How?

>Leaving the pilot on the ground gives a few advantages:

But one big disadvantage, it's hard to make a patriotic recruitment movie about comic book guy sitting in a trailer playing video games

Re: Which aircraft will the meat pilot use?

But surely the A10 is more vulnerable to the fighters flown by ISIS ace fighter pilots.

Re: Then, there is Chess...

Except black goes first in chess.

In French chess do you have a guillotine for the king?

Re: master and slave

>When it's a drive that tells another drive exactly what to do then the wording makes sense

Except in IDE sense it doesn't. It's just who is first and who is second.

You might as well call them Gold and Silver

Re: Master changed, really?

What about Master/Pupil to use the original academic meaning?

It's not unreasonable to change black/white where the meaning is white=good, black=bad.

This isn't exactly the Daily-Mail fake frothing about not being able to say blackboard or black coffee