Posts by MOV r0,r0

Every time my VM download has gone up, my upload has gone down. Another dirty VM secret.

Re: Fair enough, but as a matter of balance

nothing special happening in terms of extra teaching

The class teacher would have been required, with few additional resources, to ensure the child picked up English - even at the expense of the achievement of the rest of the class. Fine with one child, but when it's four or five or six...

Sounds like your example pupil did OK but you don't mention outcomes for the rest of her class.

Re: Multiple Patterning?

Article is right, 'feature size' doesn't mean much, it is what it says: the smallest distinguishable feature, the actual components are a whole lot bigger.

And yield ain't what it used to be since per-transistor cost started going up instead of down, a particular problem for Intel since their profitability depended on spawning smaller versions of their high-end product at cheaper prices.

There's a good thing to come out of this, since software developer's machines stopped getting faster they've optimised for platforms approximating mine - I've not had to upgrade CPU for six years now.

Re: Disk Doctor

Looking through those photos, there are so many places to fsck in that house!

Re: Meatbag option

Councils are the ones who are supposed to fix pot holes, and yet they don't get any of the road tax.

Correct, in fact nobody has had any of the road tax since 1937

Re: Normal really

I've heard from a digger driver that they don't worry about things like digging through power cables or water mains

I heard that too, from a BT staffer. If you wrote to them weeks in advance they'd send a map saying where not to dig but if you put a JCB bucket right through they'd actually come out on site, same day too!

Re: Musk is crazy

In mine and "for my own safety" I expect to be banned from the same road space as robocars, a space currently for everyone and funded by everyone through general taxation but I won't expect the new robousers to pay tolls and I won't expect compensation for loss of access.

It's not what I want but it's the only way I can see this working: Moore's Law ran out of road and we're in Amdahl country now.

<q>Did it make a sudden movement - e.g. to avoid a pothole</q>

The "it" JetSetJim refers to had clocked up 80 years therefore simply on Darwinian grounds is likely to have been a careful and conscientious road user.

Re: If you have issues with the Telly Tax...

no chance of me ever watching the BBC, its for brain dead people, every program is mundane, if they have anything intelligent on it, its all dumbed down for 11 year olds who watch eastenders to understand it, i have'nt watched nothing on the BBC for 20 years, and it is all deleted off of my freeview channel list

should'nt need to pay for something you care nothing about

Be careful what you wish for: if we ask gov to abolish the Licence Fee they'll just add the sum to income tax.

TV-free for 20+ years here too and neither do I pay, if El Reg mucks this arrangement up I'll be annoyed!

Re: **straining**

the utter hypocrisy of a government stealing/ wasting billions and then spouting this off...

There are rightly big penalties for not paying it but seeming none for wasting it? Funny how it's "tax" on collection, "tax payer's money" at local government level but then suddenly it's "Westminster money" as soon as MPs get involved.

I really don't understand your message downvotes.

Except that MS DOS was dominant long before Windows arrived.

'One on every desk' - every business, schoolhouse, home was his goal. So he broke IBM's stranglehold by commoditizing the hardware and supplied a cheap, dirty little OS for others to sell their applications on.

I suspect he's always been an altruist but that's not mutually exclusive with being a money grabbing filthy rich capitalist animal :)

Re: Markets are mostly psychology

If the pound falls in value against the value of foreign currencies, it takes more pounds to afford to buy those items from foreign countries, irregardless of trade deals.

A slightly selfish viewpoint as conversely, the things they buy from us get cheaper. As an exporter, a rising gate price can be passed on under such circumstances. Your problem here is that you're not exporting your house!

Is this projected saving just based on usage?

It's not about savings - there are practically none! It's about forcing a change of behaviour through differential pricing as there is no longer enough generating capacity to allow further increase in peak demand.

Old and polluting capacity reached end of life with replacement green generating capacity too small and variable to properly replace the base load loss. That variability also distorts the market making it difficult for your energy supplier, who is in essence a big hedging company, by increasing risk. It's an ages old problem that successive governments all saw coming and all chose to kick the can down the road.

Also, Hinkley Point C. Also, legislative commitment to electric vehicles and the massive load they'll present. We have no energy security, that is the sort of thing we used to fight military battles over and I think we're about to find out why.

Re: They still call it Autopilot?

Indeed - plus the benefit of a bunch of human beings on the ground making sure no other vehicles are in the way

Re: Risk Management

Of the >140,000 million NHS yearly budget, only about 40,000 million is available for things like buying drugs, new hospitals, MRI scanners and desktop refreshes. The rest goes on wages. That's a political failure.

Sony laptops, so many acronyms! VAIO, RMA, DOA...

Re: Two sets of traffic lights are needed

Hey, maybe we could have them follow each other in a kind of, I don't know, erm - train! Then the one at the front could have a real driver, let's call them the, erm, train driver!

If you're going to rework city infrastructure at public expense to cater for transport, do it properly and put in a decent mass transit system. This ticks not just the 'cheaper' box but also the 'safer' and 'less polluting' ones.

If Uber want something different they can lease the space to install and maintain their own equipment, city by city.