Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Tough options

I thought it was originally Timex in Grenock ?

Of course semiconductor companies change hands so often it may have ended up as Siemens.

- One expert in my field has worked for about a dozen US defence/aerospace companies, without changing desk.

Re: Tough options

>Just closing a fab is not really an option.

Yes, that's why Greenock is still today a world center of high-tech manufacturing

Re: Meanwhile, in the UK...

A proper British computer will be made of brass

As soon as the Imagineers in Hoxton have come up with a pleasing font for the logo, then the job of actually making the analytical engineer can be handed off to some skilled artisans - if there is any budget left.

Re: Tough options

I don't know - I'm more familiar with the unbelievable efficiency and effectiveness of UK science funding

Re: Big red "cause a massive problem" button

>The first couple of times, I had to overcome some serious inhibition to actually push the thing.

AKA the Father Dougal effect

So when you need to login to HARDWARE makers site in order to download a driver update (why ?) - you open up the password manager with all your banking passwords in it ?

Sounds like it would be more secure for me to just use "passwd" or my preferred "fsckoff"

Re: On the 7th day

They needed the soundstage for the new Marvel movie.

(Joking - Marvel movies aren't real)

Re: What is in it for Kentucky?

>So what does Kentucky get out of it,

Politician posing in a hard hat by a truck with a bunch of manly-men coal miners plays well to a certain demographic.

Re: Power plants don't have an on/off switch

>We cannot just flip a switch and turn on a natural gas ... generation facility when the weather forecast calls for a calm & cloud day

Erm you can, that's precisely why people have been building gas plants - to do very lucrative peak demand load capacity.

The smaller town scale ones based on jet turbine engines can spin up in under a minute - the larger ones which are basically just coal stations replumbed to burn gas take a lot longer.

Nuclear and hydro can ironically be spun up very quickly but since they are almost all fixed cost - once you've built them you tend to run them flat out as base load.

Re: Atmosphere for life

>Life was around for 800 million years before oxygen started to be produced. I

If we cyanobacteria don't do something to cut back on oxygen emissions we will destroy the atmosphere. These new-fangled photo-synthesizers are producing too much toxic waste - they'll make the Earth uninhabitable in a few billion years

Re: Pie-eating

It's the Banach-Tarski theorem of cakes. If you cut a piece of cake into smaller pieces each has no calories and so even if you then eat them all the total has no calories.

Re: Shortsighted oversight :/

>But Microsoft did its usual foot-shooting exercise and that was that

I wonder if they were still scarred by their monopoly court cases?

The old reliably Evil Microsoft could have made the Winphone a success by simply blocking any other mobile platform from a bunch of Microsoft tools (Exchange server/ Office365/ etc) , while making it very easy to secure and administer Winphone through your corporate tools.

Re: Poor live coverage of flyby, NASA answered criticism with new Nasa stream for Artemis footage.

Didn't they also say nobody was allowed to film the launchpad ?

Re: Let it slide

That was the downfall of French revolutionary time. Rather than a day off in 7 you got one day off in 10.

This forced the French to invent l'automobile so they had something to set fire to in protest

Re: Cop Out

I think that anything involving 'atomic' time probably post dates French imperial hegemony

Re: We fear leap seconds.... Julius added whole eigthy days...

I think in their day it was all MVS

Re: Cop Out

And not for childishly holding up the process until everyone agrees to the acronym so they can go home

Re: TAI = UTC + 37 seconds, am I missing something?

>It's the threat to civilisation we're worried about.

That explains why certain people aren't concerned

Re: Didn't someone previously propose

That was the work-around most big computer users used.

But it means systems could disagree about the time by up to 0.5 seconds during that day.

Re: Cop Out

add in a leap hour, you simply change that offset.

So giving the world a Y5.6k problem ?

Re: Closed my twitter account today

When Poe's law and Godwin's law collide

Re: Requirements

What about if that megaphone is essentially the only way of hearing somebody?

Suppose twitter dropped all democrat candidates a month before the election? Suppose Google decided not to return any search results for Republicans or had Chrome block all Republican candidates sites?

Suppose the credit card companies and banks decided they would only process donations for their preferred candidate

At some point these monopolies have to be regulated in a different way from a bakery not making a gay wedding cake.

Re: Requirements

Especially when you consider what the constitution says about publicity stunt votes inside a privately held corporation.

I believe it was settled in the case of "8 out of 10 cats vs the supreme court"

Re: IT does not matter

But apart from Florida being underwater and Texas becoming an apocalyptic hell scape, there are downsides to climate change

Re: Next up: get rid of that pesky extra engine.

For the same reason that motorbike accidents by young men on the road are so common?

Re: 2 Pilots for a reason

But that only applies to planes above a certain number of passengers.

The single engined float planes that take off from the water in a busy city center, surrounded by high buildings, mountains and suspension bridges, in an uncontrolled airspace full of private pilots, police/news/medic helicopters. These only need one pilot because they have < 16 seats.

I suppose this is much easier flying job than taking a 737 from one Cat5 airport to another Cat5 airport.