Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: App Stores

Have FIFA said who is going to win? Or are they keep it as a big reveal for the finale ?

Re: Well, manglement ....

Yes but I don't think the University of California ever threatened people with nuclear weapons.

If it did then other institutions wouldn't play college football, but would have to compete in DnD leagues instead.

Re: IBM's help...

Making a single 2nm transistor isn't difficult. An AFM can make single atom features.

The tricky bit is making a few billion on a chip for a $, and doing millions a month and have them all work

Re: Some functions are very simple

It would depend on the amount of code it emits

My phone's auto complete is based on a list of what words most commonly follow other words - that's from analysis of a large number of copyrighted works n English.

If I type "it* and the phone suggests "is" I haven't violated copyright of every author who ever wrote "it is". But if the phone writes " was a dark and stormy night "and I use that in a novel I'm on shakier ground.

BOFH doesn't really work on the other side of the pond.

Over there if the BOFH offends a luser - they just come in the next day with an AR15 and kill everyone.

Undeniably effective, but lacks a certain narrative flair

Re: How many of these fake accounts have been set up by ex-employees?

Even better, if your account gets banned for posting %!&#$% - you get your $8 back !

It was from a world's fair in the 1880s (ish) in Chicago.

They needed a founding hero in a city with a large Italian population.

The viking colonies in Newfoundland weren't known back then and the first landing in the actual USA was a British expedition by John Cabot (ironically also an Italian) which didn't sell as well to American patriots.

Re: I assume that

The obvious solution is a sun-synchronous polar orbit. This will sweep over the UK from the Seven to the Firth of Forth in a diagonal line each day.

During this few minutes it will beam a laser death-ray line of free and non-polluting energy along the ground track.

All we have to do is build a large solar receiver approximately along the line of the Danelaw and we can not only get a burst of energy once a day - but we can keep those southerners out.

Re: Meta's metaverse division has lost $9.4 billion this year already

VR is currently shit and expensive and useless for anything other than a few technical roles.

But if you imagined what mobile internet would be like in 1991, you might think of a 16char LCD display with stock tickers

Even when Apple launched the iPhone they didn't have apps because they were afraid it might drop calls - and a mobile phone that couldn't ensure 100% calls would be unthinkable.

Well that's what you have to remember when you buy a new car company - it loses 40% of its value when you drive it off the lot

Re: Maybe

Well they did build it on a swamp

Re: I too use my PC's as heaters

>I know it's not efficient.

There's not a lot of difference in efficiency between heating a big wire wound resistor and heating a bunch of semiconductor junctions.

Although a system manager who was properly qualified, having a CS degree rather than my physics PhD, informed me that we didn't need cooling for a rack full of servers because "there might be half-a-dozen 1200W PSUs, but they are gold standard 95% efficient so the whole rack only wastes a tiny bit of electricity as heat"

Re: Maybe the roads will last longer

>Electric vehicles typically weigh considerably more than their ICE equivalents

Average USA car weight in 2020 according to the EPA = 4,156 a BMW i3 = 2,635 lb

According to Tesla:

4,766 lbs – Model S Plaid

4,561 lbs – Model S Long Range

4,416 lbs – Model Y Long Range/Performance

4,065 lbs – Model 3 Long Range/Performance

3,582 lbs – Model 3 Standard Range Plus

Re: If only we could convince them the way to hurt the US

TikTok is the shadowy Chinese controlled app that threatens our national security by leaking 3min dance videos by teenagers?

Gentleman we cannot let an air-guitar gap develop

>like an Osprey

At which point you have, as they say, 2 problems

Re: Tactics

Something that Intel was convicted of doing multiple times.

If Dell wanted to sell cheap AMD laptops it didn't get Xeons for its servers

Arguably worth more. If Facebook's slump was because Apple cut off tracking data for valuable iThing buying cultists then if you could track these people you would make $$$$

Re: This Is My Only Account

So this is a perfect reason to up the price.

$20 for a blue check mark, $100 for bronze, $1000 for silver and $10,000 for gold

Then if I see a post (which I don't because like all el'reg readers I'm not on twitter) from a famous person or a global brand and it doesn't have gold I know it's a con.

Also why pay for ads when you can tweet for free? Just pay some sports/music/movie star with lots of follows to tweet your stuff?

Re: The cure is ....

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True North is going out in sub-zero weather in a t-shirt