Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Only cheaper for the buyer

>China not only has a large domestic market -- the country is the size of Europe ... The UK is an insignificant customer.

So if the UK were to band together with a few dozen other nearby countries that shared a similar culture, political and financial system - would it be possible for its industry to compete on a world scale?

Re: You Can't Buy Something Not Available

>Most of our poles are long since gone. I can remember when there were miles of them festooned with dozens of pairs all over the country.

I think it was something to do with Brexit. Although it does seem a labour intensive solution I suppose it's cheaper than getting planning permission

Fiber subscription is a good idea, I don't want to have to keep going out to buy new fiber.

I want a month's worth of fiber delivered every month, ideally in a range of new flavours

Re: "a length of approximately "5.7 million kilometers" in 2021 alone."

We aren't in the Eu anymore - That's 28.5 Million furlongs !

Yours in green ink

Disgusted , Tunbridge Wells

Did any of that actually materialise ?

Or Yorkshire tea trying to compete with India and China

Re: Only cheaper for the buyer

Although this is a small case. Imagine the £bn saved when the government buys all its software and computer systems from small UK suppliers instead of giant US firms

Re: Interesting

>where you basically have 80%+ of the performance at about 20% of the power consumption.

With M2 Macs I'm not sure you don't get more performance for less power - everyone I've heard running Linux on them seems very impressed

Re: Interesting to point out

I would have thought Intel would be more concerned about ARM in the data center.

Instead of buying those super-expensive, super high-margin XEON chips, the GPU-filled rack you just bought for all that AI stuff now also contains a few 1000 ARM cores for free.

Re: Response

I know the feeling.

What did I come up this branch for ?

Also didn't take off because the vast array of Windows software didn't run on them

Now 'the vast array of Windows software' is Edge running Office365

Re: Failure

I think Apple was very good at threatening patents on design elements without the risk of ever going to court

A little like how Microsoft threatens every manufacturer of Translucent Wall Opening Inserts for copyright and hopes they give in without ever goign to court

Re: I beg to differ

>The focus on phone-like interfaces managed to really ruin their OS releases

Had Windows8 for a very brief trial.

Installed visual Studio and my desktop was instantly covered in tiles to give me direct access to all those "vital components" that shipped with VS, like the Foxpro connection debugger

Ironically if they had done this - Windows Phone would have won

For "security reasons" only Windows Phone is allowed to connect to Exchange server or Teams or O365 and we aren't launching Outlook / Teams / Skype etc on Android or iOS.

If it also integrated nicely into AD and was the only option with remote wipe and security.

>Business loves the stable form factor and OS support

It's also a nice solution below the level where you hire an engineering team and spend a year spinning up your own board and porting Linux, but above the level you are buying dev-kits or having to use USFF PCs

Re: No corruption here.

Hopefully the Tories will get in at the next election and save us from the years of this woke Corbynist government

Re: How many meter-reader-person hours

It's expensive to send out a meter reader every 15 mins when you change the price of the leccy depending on supply market

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

You can use the term "squiggly brackets" if you prefer

Re: Best argument for rejoining EU

>Don't the male equivalents like 4chan prove the same thing about men?

Very few government policies are based on 4Chan posts.

Re: Geolocation Matching Address?

Yes but he's very strict with himself

Re: Best code ever!

From an old ALEX cartoon

I hear Jenkins at $MEGACORP lost £ 100M yesterday.

They did a drug test

Oh, how did it go ?

He was clean so they had to fire him. They're having a big crackdown on stupidity

Re: Techies get drug tests in the US

But at least you kept the ghosts of C17 religious extremists happy

And look on the bright side, you might have lost a valuable contribution to shareholder value to a competitor but you avoided hiring a no good liberal hippie

Re: How is it solid state?

>moving (vibrating) parts which will wear out at some point.

Not if it's well within the elastic limit. A video projector chip has millions of little mirrors moving at 100khz for years

Re: is that good?

Really this is more solving the problem of heatsink as much as fan.

The challenge is to get a lot of heat in a small space (the CPU) into a lot of space at lower temperature (the room)

Instead of metal finned heatsink to get the heat into the local hot air and then blow that air away with a fan - this takes the hot air very close to the cpu and blows it far enough away that it dissipates.

It would probably still benefit from a case fan, otherwise you just end up with a bloom of hot air near the magic fan

Re: Counter productive

Ant powered would work - if only we could get enough bugs in (GNU pterry)

Re: Counter productive

We need to get away from this solid state technology and return to proper brass gears.

No more cooling concerns, so long as you keep everything properly oiled