Posts by werdsmith 7139 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
Exactly the same here @AMBxx. Developing the role of Postgres in preference to SQL Server wherever possible. A few years back we eased Oracle out, now the same process is being applied to SQL Server.
For the same reason, software licences are only worth the money if they offer value to the business. Pushing up prices squeezes that value margin.
It also matters how much power the devices consume and consequently how much heat they produce in achieving this performance. This information is not in the article but if these processors are efficiently relative to similar performing x86 then I’m sure a song and dance would have been made of it.
Aircraft that can't land at Madeira - which is up to road from Funchal at Santa Cruz and named after a footballer CR7, can go to Porto Santo, The Canaries or Marrakesh. They need to have sufficient contingency if the runaway is closed.
Auta landing systems are for visibility minima, not wind conditions. Pilots going to Madeira need special training so I would say that this route would not be one that is up for automation.
And even the most advanced automated landing system, the "Cat III" system installed at major airports, that can bring a plane right onto the runway in zero visibility, will not work at all if the crosswind exceeds a certain limit.
This applies to human pilots too. If conditions are too bad to land at your destination airport, then divert to another airport that has an into wind runway and better conditions.
A PPL on fixed wing is about $10k. Easily doable with a bit of savings.
I did the self improver route to CPL/IR as it was known, many years ago. At the time there were people supporting training by driving taxis, remortgaging. I did it by instructing, glider towing and eventually taking a share in a plane. As I understand it the door is now closed on the self improver route. I didn’t continue to ATPL.
Any EU nation was free to do its own thing with vaccinations, being part of that EU procurement plan was not compulsory. Just like the Euro currency is not compulsory. Or your traffic using the left side of the road. Anyway, they all got their vaccinations, the whole thing evened out in the end.
People who attempt to defend Brexit using the covid vaccinations are showing their absolute barrel-scraping desperation. Continue with the in denial comedy please, it’s quite amusing. And in no way is it dignified.
In the UK the entire sentence is served, but some of it can be (and usually is) on license. A 15 year sentence is not the same as 15 years locked up in prison. A sentence can include a minimum time to be spent inside, but the length of the sentence includes time in custody and time on licence. On licence means a person can be returned to prison for any offence. Hence a life sentence. When a person is sentenced to life, they remain on license until they die, but not necessarily behind bars.
I was driving through a town centre at a reasonable speed, well below the limit. A pedestrian stepped into the road without looking, and I went for the brake which I was ready covering. But by the time I got on the brake the car was already braking and stopping.
Though I believe I would have stopped in time, the car actually stopped about 3 metres before where the impact would have been.
In the event, the pedestrian hopped back out of the road, but I was very impressed by the car response and I always will have my own driving augmented by these aids - which will continue to improve. I will always use them because I am only human and not arrogant enough to believe I am an exceptional driver who will never make a mistake. Anything that adds to safety is to be welcomed.
And remember it's not all about you. Any time a poor driver or impaired driver could ram your car if there are no safety systems to prevent it.
I don't really understand this weird obsession with nationality and ownership.
Is Guinness an Irish drink or not? Does it make any difference that the bewery is owned by Diageo with a HQ in Park Royal London? I would suggest that nobody would call Guinness an English beverage. Neither would they suggest that the two dozen or so Scotch whisky brands it wons are not Scottish.
So why does ARM, that has their main HQ in Fulbourn Road, Cambridge on the way to Cherry Hinton Tesco, have their nationality discussed and disputed? Because emotionally immature weirdos?
My first cars were designed without power assisted steering and I didn’t know any différent. They had lower geared racks and more leverage from larger diameter steering wheels. So, it was never difficult to steer, and large muscles were never required. We learned to inch the car forward to help and to this day with modern cars I still don’t turn the steering while stationary because I’m aware of the large forces it exerts on the mechanicals.
We also had to manually manage fuel air mixture with a choke, open windows with a rotary handle and separately lock each door.
And the introduction (and retaining) of comprehensive schools has been demonstrated to be better overall for most kids.
I’m a unitary authority here, there are only comprehensive. Across in the wider county there are grammars. Even the worst performing grammar out performs the best comp.
“I read somewhere”
I read somewhere that people who read something somewhere are attempting to give some grounding to their fiction.
But in fact a small ad stating “How to make a fortune…send xx money to P.O.Box xx….” and by return people received a piece of paper saying “place an ad like mine…”.
I've been through it, lived it and come out the other side. Despite warning them, everything went into cloud. Internal data centre was closed down, building that contained it was closed, office moved out.
2 years later, production infrastructure is being rebuilt in co-location data centre, cloud is only going to be used for dev and test.
It's the attractive pricing and flexibility of servers that pulls in the thicko bosses, but the shock of the pricing of the extra stuff needed to do it properly that embarrasses them.
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