Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: We must...

The phones would be banned unless they were attached to an assault rifle

Re: Not a good idea

It works in Germany because the large German engineering companies are effectively nationalised. The government, IG Metal and VW get together and agree on lower wages in return for not moving production abroad and the government agrees to set interest rates to accomodate.

What was the plan for Silicon Valley? A nominal 'worker' on the board alongside the nominal women+ethnic minority or an equal voting power with the shareholders?

Not clear that well paid Amazon programmers with $M share options, poorly paid Amazon warehouse workers, original investors/VCs and banks/pension funds are all going to be exactly on the same page.

Because China has more to lose by losing infrastructure and consumer sales in the West than it gains by getting business at home, especially because no govt dept in China is going to buy Cisco anyway.

It wants a ruling that the US applies US law to US companies irrespective of where their parents are from.

Or more strategically, it forces the US govt to be consistent and ban all Chinese telecoms if it is going to ban Huawei. That means no Lenovo, no Motorola etc

Re: Decca chains

For navigating in your home waters they are rather excellent, although a trifle heavy for carrying while mountaineering.

For dropping precision guided munitions on the fuzzy-wuzzys they are are bit limiting.

Once you have successfully negotiated with the recalcitrant natives to install your navigation beacons it seems rater bad form to then bomb them.

Re: Unusual Change -- Just take a look around......

Whoever wins the next election the bosses of silicon valley are going to be dragged through years of congress hearing and inquiries - who needs that? Just appoint some other guy to do it.

Re: Glasses

And don't you just know that there were rounds of emails between the developer = what if they only have one eye?

And the manager = ensure the distance between eyes field is populated and non-zero

Re: Impartial????

>The most terrifying blatant anti democracy anti British anti family organisation

We still talking about the government ?

Re: Poor PR people

Zerothly would be the formal way to introduce the first point

>'minicomputer' has a long-established meaning in the IT industry,

Computer has an even older established meaning - It means a person that performs calculations.

Perhaps we should reserve the original term "computer mecanique" for these gadgets

Re: So obvious, why doesn't everyone do it?

>Alternatively they can just leave a note for the SWAT team that they've upped sticks and gone

The people working on it are still mostly in the USA, it is only the brass plaque that has moved to toblerone land. The list of companies involved (STM, NVIDIA, IBM) still need to stay off Uncle Sam's naughty list.

If a Chinese company wanted to use RISC it probably doesn't matter to them if the lawyer they are ignoring is a redneck or a gnome.

Re: Why does anyone still use this bank?

Fans of "50 shades" ?

Re: El Reg should check their building staffing

Vegetarian sausage, low fat but you do have to pick the piercings out.

Because that's how you grow an advanced tech infrastructure. Suppose we didn't license right hand drive cars outside the UK? Then we would have a giant innovative car industry exporting to Japan.

Re: Double digits!

No they count a single 8core hyper-threaded CPU as 16 parts

Re: Barn door

But with the Oracle pricing model the customer shouldn't have had any money left to lose

Re: Units

>I always assumed they were not magnetic bearings?

You expect a mustache wearing pilot to do sums in their head?

>For one thing, you'd have to change runway names when the poles wander around.

And there was a wailing and nashing of teeth when Heathrow changed 28L to 27L

Re: so much change

Back in the SCO days we had Microsoft resellers telling our customers that they could be sued if they used our Linux product.

Re: Re:because it's exactly how these people think.

> its exactly how you would like to believe those people think

That's becoming a bit of a problem with actual quotes from a current prime minister (and president).

Re: What sort of idiot...

>Did they publish a list of users yet

Yes but only their porn name

Re: A side-effect

What if you had private companies / evil Bond villains launching 1000s of satellites into LEO with a mesh network type system so you didn't need to track one target ?

Re: network speed to locations outside their networks

When they test the 2nd handset on the network at the same time then speeds might go down

2.7M furlongs/fortnight

Re: WTF? Not serviceable in 2011? After all of Hubble's Troubles?

Because just like an iPhone, making it serviceable makes it much bigger, heavier and more expensive. Parts that can be swapped while wearing a space suit aren't exactly compact.

Hubble is reckoned to have cost 3x as much to make it man serviceable (although some of that was NASA being dumb)

>the idea here is to pay the development costs and then prices will tumble

Because the one thing we have learned with large military contractors is that once you have paid for the development costs the unit costs tumble.

Re: 7 Hours

Isn't the obvious solution to have a couple of infantry persons to carry its batteries?

You could even call them sergeants from the latin word for servant

Re: So, now it's back to Think Of The Children

>"Obviously that will never happen".

Well it didn't with in the past with denouncing someone as a communist / anti-monarchist / anarchist / heretic

Re: "not in the best interests of shareholders"

>Screwing the future is not in the long term interests

It is if those shareholders intend to sell as soon as the deal goes through. Or intend to buy it with debt, take millions in fees and then let it go bust.