Re: The entire App model
Because without harvesting your contacts, movements and web traffic they have no data to sell to fund their operations.
Its not like anyone is going to pay for software
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>agreement to solve the Northern Ireland Protocol issue
I think there is a workable technical solution.
3d movies were a flop so there are lots of pairs of 3d glasses around, more than enough to give them free to anyone in Northern Ireland/The 6 counties/Ulster/The ancient lands stolen from our ancestors (delete as appropriate). We can simply swap left/right eye lenses so that those that believe that the flat matso ball is the body and blood of the big man's lad and those that believe pipes and drum are music can have totally opposite glasses.
Then we simply put polarizers on the custom posts on top of the old red/green channels.
That way the sons of the Ard Rí can not see a border post across the island, while seeing one at Belfast docks and the fans of Cromwell can see border posts on land but not the ones facing the Irish sea.
This is cleverer though it let's them right off all non-R&D stuff as well.
So Mega corp could move their HQ to London and write off everything as R&D and pay no tax. Except they can't because then they can't sell in Europe and a company from any country with a functioning legal system would get hit by their own tax guys.
So the only people I can imagine benefitting would be Lord Snooty hedge fund who would declare that because they had a laptop they were a tech company and pay no tax. Except of course they don't pay tax anyway
>So what did Walsingham use when he had Mary's letters deciphered contemporaneously?
They weren't very complex, it was a simple substitution cypher with a few extra symbols meaning 'ignore the last 3 characters' etc
It helped that they were very formal with lots of stock phrases and long-winded titles of people
> National Security is at stake
Surely this puts National Security at risk ?
Dear everyone, the president will be flying along this course at this time, have your 2nd amendment MANPADS ready.
Yes it only gives a 25mi radius but if the 25mi radius path starts and ends at a city you can probably narrow it down to an airport
>Mid-range ARMs are more than fast enough for most people's use of a desktop
Yes but (at least until the Pi4) I couldn't go to Bob's Big Box Computer Store and buy a beige box with a latest and greatest 64bit ARM
I can get a bunch of dev-kits with the right promise of building a product and after signing an infinite number of NDAs - but that's not exactly consumer friendly
>Many will say that the demise of CISC was pretty obvious 30 years ago, but what has taken so long?
Because since the Archimedes you couldn't, and still can't, buy a desktop ARM cpu that compares with Intel/AMD.
So I can't develop software on it.
So there is no market for a desktop ARM machine
Because there is no software for it
>with a black mark against you on a travel watch list
So long as it's a Chinese government travel watch list I'm good.
Don't plan on going and if the Chinese suspect I'm a capitalist - fine.
Now Google/Apple reporting to their government that I was sitting next to a democrat, and them adding me to a no-fly list/credit card blacklist/etc kind of fscks me up - and I don't even live in Americaland
>awarded a multi-billion-£, no-bid contract to our mates for the development of a world-leading chip fab app.
That's just ridiculous. They awarded a multi-billion-£, no-bid contract to their mates for the development of a logo for the project.
Actually developing a world-leading chip fab would involve listening to experts, and possibility even foreigners
>The UK has the National Audit Office (NAO), a permanent institution to audit government and public administration for, amongst other things, value for money in government expenditure.
Or more often to issue a report saying "giving the contract to G4S/Serco with no clear deliverables was a bad idea", about 9months after the same conclusion appears in Private Eye
Anyone stopped to think how amazing that actually is ?
Given the speed these things are spinning at and the precision the heads need to hit a bit of data the fact that only 1% fail each year is incredible (haven't read the report to see if that includes drives that failed so early they should really have been caught by the manufacturer)