Posts by hohumladida 25 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2024
Saying it as one see's it is a good trait and lacking in most corporate double speak. However his statement was very poorly worded. Why even mention Taiwan? He made it sound like there was something wrong with a fab being in Taiwan (maybe there is a risk coming from up north). Steer clear of politics. Running his mouth like that when Intel does not even have their new nodes to stand on is extremely short sighted.
True, Solaris is the OS. I should have said Sun's SPARC which was their own microprocessor. Sun Microsystems had to contend with competition on both the hardware and software, SPARC against x86 PowerPC and Solaris against Linux, BSD (you could also argue Win NT which would be Wintel).
Intel's whole model was reliant on the Wintel hegemony. They benefited immensely by this lock in. If you are really sympathizing, do not forgot all the chip makers that went bust because of this monopoly. (DEC, SG, Cyrix, Motorola's x68000, Solaris, Amiga, Atari). Intel only thrived while Moore's law was applicable. That law has broke down many years ago, Intel is coasting at this point. It is too late for this behemoth to correct ship. Pat's parting sob love letter is just his nostalgia kicking in.
"VSCode". Hahaha.
Like the last reply alluded to, VSCode was never FOSS. It is just an example of a covert operation employed by big tech to get developers work for free because it is "FOSS". These operations are running rampant nowadays. Never contribute to these projects unless it is truly FOSS in origin. The sooner people start realizing that, the sooner big tech will be forced to hire developers again.
You must be joking. Sure the Pis are not as performant but they are significantly more reliable than NUCs. You never need to reboot the Pis. You might get something similar if you run linux on the NUCs, but Intel CPUs are crap. With the whole 13 and 14th gen debacle, people are forgetting that Intel's 11 gen are equally unstable. I learned that the hard way with my ASROCK NUC running Intel i5. Constant reboots the moment you want to do something useful. I had to fight for a RMA. And guess what? The replacement NUC does the same think, BSOD and reboots.
"I'm not saying everyone at Atos is terrible, but they certainly have more than the usual quota."
And how are you quantifying that? That could be said for pretty much any IT services company because they all end up eventually outsourcing from a single major shared resource pool. There are worse places, a la Infosys, where they don't even pay new hires (another article on the Register). It is only now that A.I. has been able to provide some alternatives for certain use cases that is even cheaper than human labour (call centre jobs are already facing extinction).
The work that is outsourced (mostly to India) is of such poor quality that it is inevitable for the decline to occur. The execs just think they are going to make a killing initially by outsourcing. Siemens had a internal IT services division that they sold off to Atos over a decade ago. Even IBM spun off their IT services division (look at the story of Kyndryl (also struggling) which IBM spun off on Register), IT services and consulting is on the decline as we embrace our new over hyped overlords, the AI for our consulting needs.
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