Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Is Dell in NL an 'IT' company or is it just sales/service for shipments in Europe?

There is a lot of difference between SAP needing to got to 4day because otherwise programmers will leave, and a call center+warehouse operation staffing more shifts

If you do it in the right direction you gain a day, so you can have 3day weekends every week !

So you want to do overtime for the same rate as your normal hours?

Re: 4 days, nah not for me, happy with WFH though

I find I have a lot more focus if I'm working 4 days.

It means I have what needs doing on each day plotted, while if you are working a 'full' week, Friday seems so far off that you aren't really in the zone til Wednesday

Re: There s no way to buy more time

>It does seem like that visa specifically excludes doing work

It gets complicated. You can go to the USA to sell / install / service /train people on your foreign kit

You can't do any work or receive training.

Once had to get a special ticket for a conference I was speaking at, stating I was banned from attending any of the training sessions.

One got stopped when I was heading to our US office for a week - asked if I would be doing any work while I was there. Told INS there was a corporate re-org and we were going to spend a week being Powerpointed at - and I could guarantee nobody in the company was going to get any work done that week.

They waved me through with a smirk

Re: There s no way to buy more time

>I am not entirely sure I'd appreciate a 4-day work week over a 5-day work week with, say, 6-hour working days

If you have a 2 hour each way commute here on the west coast.

> however, within reason, I am pretty sure I would gladly accept a decrease in salary for these benefits.

I requested to work 4 day/week for 80% salary and work said no, because we have too many big projects and it's impossible to find staff. So I'm leaving at the end of June (end Q2, tax reason) - they just don't know yet !

What are they going to pay in? Rusty warships?

Soon Ericson could have the 6th largest navy

Re: Never get the chance to do it again

>The accurate weather forecast

if Wimbledon | cricket:

rain()

Re: Much Worse

>They are willing to perform wicked medical experiments on mankind, paired with draconic "lockdowns" on the populations.

Ohh kinky, do they get leather uniforms too ?

Re: The burden is as alaways...

State has a bot that submits the same CV with male/female/different ethnicity names - runs stats on the results - take company to court

Company either has to argue that it is guilty of using ML which just looks for CVs that match the board members OR it has people deliberately screening out women and low albedo candidates

Re: not tokamak, as it's a knot tokamak :)

More importantly a stelerator is stable, a tokamak only holds a plasma while the field is changing. The field can't increase forever so it has to dump plasma and start again every few minutes.

Re: Tokamak, or not tokamak, that is the question...

>Re: Tokamak, or not tokamak, that is the question...

To which the answer is Stellerator

Re: @NoneSuch

The US will probably require that Federal users, then anybody doing business with the feds or getting getting federal grant money - have to use freedom CPUs (for national security).

More difficult for the Eu to insist everyone uses American company's chips made in Europe

Re: how many

Even if the fab was coming to their state 50% would still vote against it.

Denying the opposition a good news story today is better than your constituents getting jobs in 5 years.

>Can't compete with global mega-corps?

Intel's Oregon fab can't compete with Intel's fabs in Ireland and Israel?

Then the US needs to offer the same 'incentives' that Eire and Israel offer.

Intel's European fabs can't compete with the new fab in Arizona ? Looks like they are going to need more 'incentives' to keep the European fabs open

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>However, it doesn't force the manufacturers to make it easy for us.

So the same law that makes it legal for the homeless to stay at the Ritz - assuming they pay the room rate

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>Are you saying right to repair is a bad thing?

I'm saying that if the UK doesn't introduce the same right to repair standards as Eu ( because we have taken

back control to free us from oppressive Euro red tape ) then local makers are screwed having to meet higher standards for their export market while being undercut at home.

Hope this doesn't apply to a more important market than cell phones.

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>in the U.K. there is a law that gives consumers a right of repair

So in the UK I can buy all the Apple spare parts unlocked?

There is a bunch of money to be made reselling them here over the pond

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>What if the maker refuses to sell you the parts and insists that only their repair centres carry out the work?

That would be totally illegal. Unless it was a safety requirement, or cybersecurity, or they license the software from a 3rd party (with coincidentally the same name) in Elbonia where the law doesn't apply.

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

But by being free from this regulation the UK consumer gets a worse product dumped in them and UK business gets fucked and 'fuck business' is the core philosophy of Brexit.

Fuck poor people who buy cheap phones is just a bonus.

Re: This is all about hardware

>This would screw up Android handset vendors, that's for sure...

Depends which ones.

The cheapest makers will just include Google's stock base android and rely on updates from Google, or even ship with Lineageos, that might give them an advantage over the likes of Samsung

Re: (Yet) another regulation the UK will need to abide by

>And that would be a bad thing how exactly?

Because a UK manufacturer would have to build to this standard if it wants to sell in Europe and apply this to all its products because the UK is a small market. But it is competing in its home market with cheaper imports that don't have to meet this standard

Re: Wasn't "maximize shareholder value" idea thought to hinder this?

The were maximizing shareholder value, for certain small and specific values of shareholder

Re: Optional warhead

In operation Blair Freedom 2 - (this time it's personal), British Challenger tanks fired the concrete filled practice version of their HESH rounds.

This had the advantage of making holes in the walls of buildings, allowing the infantry to meet new friends - without converting the entire building to rubble.