Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

No, but it's not normally a signal for your best staff to stick around

Re: Are they allowed pursue other paid employment during that time?

>employer to Intel in Ireland that could accommodate such niche skills

But Ireland is under the boot of a ruthless Brussels bureaucracy - so all those workers can also work in Netherlands, or Germany, or France or wherever Intel/TSMC etc build their fabs.

Re: News article, soon, i'm sure.

>ordered them sent over "to assist". They just killed about everyone: kidnappers, children, the bus driver, …

I believe the US military equivalent is to ask a unit to "secure" a building:

The Marines will storm the building and shoot everyone.

The Army will mount a guard

The Navy will fit a padlock

The USAF will take out a 20 year lease on the property with a buyout option index linked to bond yields.

Re: n balance, Police discretion ...

So if a cop was operating from a drone control trailer 500miles away he wouldn't feel threatened and so wouldn't need to kill every $ETHNIC$ he encountered

Re: WITHOUT putting anyone but the perp into danger,

But much more cost effective, and much safer for the police officers, than storming a high school with an active shooter.

But still the same number of cops, unless you want the Police Union to pay a visit, with their new 'hardware'

Re: WITHOUT putting anyone but the perp into danger,

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just equip the police dept with artillery?

I think estimates form Ukraine are that an unguided 155mm round is $300-500, surely that's a cost effective way of dealing with miscreants ?

Re: Please, not Arizona!

Where else can you build?

You need somewhere shire enough that land is cheap and you get bribes incentives. Need not to be hit by regular hurricanes/blizzards/earthquakes.

And, rapidly becoming an issue, a place where the locals don't think anyone who can read is a communist satanist child abuser (or worse, Democrat)

Re: British innovation

Yes but the French thought of drinking it.

Re: In app purchase?

>Apple probably just asked him to fix his shit,

According to posts by other companies that have abandoned twitter ads - Apple probably called their ad sales rep at Twitter to find they had been fired and nobody would take their call

Re: Moon

I thought you would just do it CGI nowadays, nice to see that they are still using real models. But didn't Doug Trunbull die this year ?

Re: Why aren't fabs in the US

Because it's likely to be a very expensive hassle compared to building fab32 alongside fab31 in your home country.

You need staff. You can wait for the local Ag college to start turning out semiconductor process PhDs or you can try and poach people from other fields. But since you took a big bribe incentive to build you plant in bumfuck Nowhere, it's difficult to attract Stanford faculty to relocate. If they did move, what would their partners do ? If they buy houses they push up prices out of the reach of locals creating political backlash.

You get the fab built and politics change, suddenly the governor that wanted inward investment doesn't want all these foreign companies.

A president announces that it's disgusting that he sees so many German cars in NY, German car maker tries to point out that they are all made in the USA but sales still tank. Import blocks on components / feedstocks / parts / machinery start leading to shutdowns.

Re: I agree

>as we've seen in the SuperMicro case

The totally made up / no evidence story by a news organisation whose owner was considering a presidential run?

>Nothing made in China should go into our military systems,

Every last memory chip, resistor, capacitor ?

That's going to bloat some budgets and lead to a lot of delays.

Unless of course you are happy to look the other way while a "veteran owned" US company swears that the PCB you bought was all American parts and skip any retesting of critical systems built with entirely new components.

In fact given that every component in your military systems are now going to be grey-market sourced with faked documentation I expect a lot of failures.

Re: Batteries != energy

7GW in an hour doesn't mean anything.

7GW means 7GJ per second

You could say a 7GWh per h but that's a bit silly

Re: I've heard of greenwashing

By adding in the rainwater run off from their parking lots into the polluted waste stream of the plant process.

A little like how Chernobyl was net radio-isotope positive.

Re: Get it right please

No Dark Side was Tom Petty. The Floyd had Full Moon Fever

Re: they are obviously just nostalgic for the days of George III

And since then, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.

Re: Just barely on the far side of the Moon is not

Suburban space - within easy commuting distance of Florida

Re: outdated imperial units

We normally refer to them as "medieval units" when dealing with the locals.

It's also nice to remind them that they are obviously just nostalgic for the days of George III - when America was Great Previously

Re: Contrast Orion's journey with Apollo

Road safety tip: Never use your sextant while driving

Re: What's wrong with this statement?

>but convert them to outdated imperial units for reporting to the three countries on the planet that are still backward enough to be using them

But not, unfortunately, to Lockheed Martin

Also, WTF! You can understand manufacturing the parts in the USA using medieval units and even using archaic-standard nuts and bolts. But who in the name of Cthulhu does orbital calculations in foot-poundals ?

Re: Reg standards

Shrinkflation - they had to make brontosauruses smaller

Re: that selfie...

That's why NASA never talk about the 4th crew member of Apollo11

Re: 2 million sign ups daily average

And having fired both the automatic bot detection team and the manual bot counting team - there are now no bots recorded

Re: “eerie quiet”

>Question “What is the worst sound in a server room?”

Velociraptor ?

Re: never turn anything off if you don't know how to turn it back on.

Hope you had an off site backup

Re: How to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate ?

Truck question, if he can count with using his fingers he's already been RIFed

Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."

Thankfully in these days of full stack hyper cloud convergence you don't discover some vital service was running on a developers machine - but you don't know which one

Re: Meanwhile, in the UK...

No it's lithography.

We have skilled neanderthals trainees chipping flints as we speak.

And don't call me Shirley