Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
No. What you mean to say is : "like all multi-billion dollar behemoths who have departments to waste money on".
Normal companies, like roadworks, construction and maintenance and, <gasp> accounting, they are not laying off. They are always on the hunt for new hires because they know what it is they do and they don't waste time and money with frivolous pursuits.
Your job is Windows, and now Azure.
You need 220,000 people to do that ?
No wonder updates are such a clusterfuck.
We know that the Moon used to be closer. Thanks to the Apollo missions, we can now measure distance reliably, but that does not say anything about the past.
Finding out what was the situation millions of years ago without a time machine is going to require a lot of expertise and correlation.
This is Science at its best. Kudos to all involved.
I'm sorry, but the days are long gone when a country could nuke another one without consequence.
What the USA did in 1945 might have been acceptable at the time, but today it would put it at the ban of civilization.
The only reason we need nukes is to deal with asteroids - preferably far from Earth so as to influence their orbit early on.
Only a madman would actually nuke another country these days. Unfortunately, there are a few with the button available.
If you want to buy alcohol, you need to adult.
If you want to enter a night club, you need to be adult.
If you want to drive a car, you need to be adult.
We have long decided that there are things children shouldn't be doing, and we have put protocols in place. Why should the Internet be any different ?
Especially since the Internet is a place where the worst of human tendancies show up.
Now, I have no idea how this should happen, but I pretty much agree it should.
Which has a good chance of being wiped out by the Kessler syndrome.
As for the James Webb, it's in a Lagrange point, so largely immune to the issue and also, largely impossible to repair.
But hey, yeah, one day we'll have to know how to build in space, so might as well start thinking about it.
"Those arrested apparently include the software developers, its resellers, and the car thieves who used the tool"
Well done to the police forces involved.
Good coordination, good cooperation, and the miscreants go down for the count.
Now all that is needed is for the automakers to analyse the fault and correct it.
Why am I skeptical at this point ?
It is not because there are countries that do not recognize them that Human Rights do not exist.
Just like it is not because the school bully goes bullying that he is justified in doing so.
It would, of course, be nice if every country recognized the charter, but we live in an imperfect world and we have to make do with it.
Why bother with the construction ?
Just plug a cell phone jammer and be done with it.
Honestly, I don't understand how jails do not take this precaution.
Inmates get a cell phone ? Fine. They shouldn't be able to call, so jammer. Job done.
You're in prison. There's no reason for you to be able to contact anyone outside of authorized channels.
"Turbulence is notoriously difficult to model"
What do they say ? "If you think you understand thermodynamics, you don't have a clue" ?
Particle flow. Interesting idea.
Of course, all this new research is only possible because of all the servers that in The CloudTM these days.
So there are cases when someone else's server is useful.
Okay, point number one : if they're that stretched, they need better funding. Take a billion or two from the military budget, that should do the trick.
Point number two : if this tech actually works, it should be generalized and encouraged. A non-invasive, presumably quick method of determining heart risks should become a yearly check-up procedure for everyone.
I have rather high blood pressure even in the best of conditions. My doctor says that I have the heart of an ox. I wonder what my results would be.
It's astonishing to read how much work is being done on a desktop environment that practically no one uses.
Hopefully, these efforts will bear fruit when Windows is finally relegated to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
I had an offer in 2010 from a Swiss bank. They wanted to see me, but they said I had to live in Switzerland to be eligible for hire.
I live in France. At the time, my wife was a school teacher. I was supposed to uproot everything, get a house in the most expensive country in Europe, and then go through a hiring process without any guarantee of actually getting the job ?
You sign me a contract saying I will be hired when I am a Swiss resident, and I'm coming.
You leave me in doubt, you can go frack yourself. I'm not ruining my family's life on a hope.
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