That's why Boeing had to get a 300% tariff on Bombardier's better 737
How can poor little Boeing expect to compete against the massive nation state strategic investment of the Quebec teacher's pension fund
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Fortunately His Majesty's Northern Empire also contains giant nickels
As opposed to the Northern Territories that just contain useless diamonds
>NEVER been a single instance where Chinese hardware has been shown to have been spying
That's how good they are! While of course being mere asiatics with tiny skull measurements - they are nevertheless infinitely in advance of our own technology and able to conceal undetectable tracking devices in every grain of rice.
And secondly your closest allies.
Russia spying on the PM is only a risk in the event of war, and even then it's not clear what advantage the enemy in a world war gets from having your bitchy tweets about a cabinet colleague.
But during a trade negotiation with your closest military ally, having access to their negotiators phone/email might be of more direct use.
You earn $$$$ as a full-stack-web-Javascipt-rockstar-Ninja
You need to buy frozen pizza
You can take an hour off in the middle of the day to search around your out-of-town business park for a supermarket / take your e-scotter and head out from Shoreditch in search of an Asda
Or you pick supermarket delivery and they will deliver to your home, sometime between 12-8pm on Thursday, so you take time off to be at home - and the delivery doesn't turn up.
The whole point of the ISS was to fund Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas-Lockheed-Martin through any unfortunate peace dividend following the end of the cold war, and before we could find any new enemies worthy of a $Bn stealth bomber. And as a bonus make sure the USSR's boffins didn't all find new opportunities in the middle-east.
The 2 suppliers was never to avoid just Russia, it was to make sure that BMDLM didn't end up as a monopoly bidder.
So do they get a special NASA extra $1Bn payment for R&D into "testing procedures for spacecraft" or do they get a $1Bn black ops budget payment for a secret project so secret nobody can be told what it is.
Cos no way are any of our elected leaders letting Boeing getting into trouble.
>Amazon & co may say so, but you only have their word for it
Amazon stand to lose a lot of business if it turns out they are lying to governments.
And get hit with a few things like a monopoly verdict
>Local providers can guarantee that your data stays local
Assuming you have the ability to verify if Bert's Genuine British data storage isn't really run by a guy called Dmitri
>I don't understand why the likes of Amazon & Facebook don't have their own massive turbines built off the west coast of Ireland.
"Target" time for approval and design for an off-shore windfarm in the Eu is 5-8 years (Ironically the data is from a pre-Brexit UK study/report), it notes that local objections can delay this. Payback time is upto 25years
So if Amazon don't mind delaying turning on their data centers for a decade, and don't care about electricty costs - then they should build their own windfarms. Although they will need diesel backup for the summer months when I am informed by tourismireland that the west coast is basically a tropical paradise
We might not be able to compete in manufacturing but with the British elite's love of STEM, the excellent public educational system and extraordinary strategic funding for university and industrial research - Britain will be the scientific center of the world.
I mean can you imagine Asian kids doing maths ?
Which is ironically bad for everyone.
If the USA had been cut off from the civilised world in the 1800s, to prevent it stealing industrial technology from Europe, then perhaps Britain would have been a bigger empire for longer and the USA would be just the world's cotton plantation.
But we would be living in world without a lot of the 20th century's inventions. It would be a cool steampunk future though !
Ok so I don't use any of their products but....
My concern is that Oracle's incentive is to get its hooks into me for licenses, that's why I'm nervous of using even free stuff like VMWare or Java - not sure I want to appear on their radar.
Amazon I know just wants to make money and is prepared to cut prices to be the cheapest place for me to buy anything - including cloud
Microsoft similar, assuming I'm also signed up for every bit of Office365/Teams/Sharepoint infrastructure and paying every month
Google is great until they cancel the product you rely on.
IBM is irrelevant
>As to why you've never heard of HP before, they're only doing B2B sales for their 3d printers afaik,
The problem is that at the moment it's still a very specialised market - so more like the early days of typesetting rather than the heyday of the LaserJet4.
Today I'm going to buy a production 3D printer from a specialist company like SLM or EOS. If there comes a time when you have a standard shop 3D printer then maybe HP is a competitor, but i don't know if that time si coming soon.
Ironically the model would make sense in the 3D printer world.
We have a bunch of printers, from Formlab liquidy-goop-stuff to big scary Titanium machines
But we also have shelves full of early attempts that didn't quite work, or were superseded, or the makers went bust.
Having a bunch of specialised (yes specialised) machines that we can use as little as we want because we only pay for consumables, and the makers are incentivised to replace them with newer models would make sense for such an immature market.
There are a few parts that we can only make with metal printing or are one off prototypes or would need a dozen different processes to make conventionally - but I don't think we are ever going to see 3D printing replacing moulds or CNC for production