Posts by Pascal Monett 18239 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Warning that costs are high, the workforce is scarce, etc . . all of that is just laying down the groundwork for when the Texas plant will never open.
Or, when it does, it will be with reduced capacity and it will stay that way for all the years TSMC has tax exemptions for.
Then it will more everything back to Taiwan.
Just you watch.
As per the article : "[eBay] cooperated fully and extensively with law enforcement authorities throughout the process".
I'm going to leave eBay the benefit of the doubt. A former FBI goon turned security officer obviously forgot that he wasn't working for the FBI any more, and used the usual procedures a tad too automatically.
That says a lot more about the FBI than it does about eBay.
Oh I am certain that Google is absolutely right. AMP is definitely here to help make the web better - for Google.
The only way I would even start trusting Google on this matter is if it were proven that ad revenue on AMP pages was entirely sent to the original page owners.
That is obviously not what is happening. Google found a way to host popular pages on its own servers specifically in order to deprive web sites of ad revenue and rake it all in.
Somehow, I feel that that should result in a class action lawsuit - except hold the lawyers to a fixed revenue, not a (lion's) share of the spoils.
If it's already illegal, then what's the problem ?
The employee leaving goes to a competitor, Infosys sues alledging the non-compete clause, judge throws it out of court. End of story.
Logically, the lawyer Infosys contacts will say so and not take the job.
Why is this an issue ?
So, entangled atoms can be engraved in a silicon process.
Who knew ?
I would have thought that you needed to do something to achieve entanglement. If they have actually found a way to entangle atoms in an engraving process, well congratulations.
Somehow, I am doubtful though.
Come on, that was a bit harsh.
NASA has had plenty of successes, some of them downright awesome. Wasn't there this thing with the telescope last year where NASA learned to maneuver it using solar wind ? Is that not a bloody awesome success ? Don't its rovers regularly exceed their life expectations by years at a time (um, when they land successfully, that is) ?
It's called rocket science. It's difficult.
I think we can cut them some slack.
Well, truth be told, gold does have intrinsic value in specific areas, namely space (satellites/telescopes) and medical (I'm thinking dentures, but surely there are other applications). Also, sometimes gold can be used in computing for, again, very specific cases.
So gold is shiny, but not only.
I'm thrilled that you have enough vocabulary to know the word "fiat", but do you know what it means and what that implies ?
It means that the State (or Country) guarantees the money and its value. It also means that the State will track down thieves and bring them to justice.
<sarc>Except when the thieves are operating in Wall Street. Those guys can steal all they want, it's legal.</sarc>
DeFi cannot turn to the State to recover anything. DeFi has no case because nothing was hacked, some smart ass just gamed the system. He actually followed the rules and used them to his advantage. There is no judge in the civilized world that will blame that guy for anything.
One more thing about fiat currency : it has two thousand years of experience being attacked, taken at gunpoint, broken into and stolen in various ways, and the sum of its rules are designed to thwart all possible attacks.
Funny money is relearning all the lessons - the hard way.
That's why I do not install any Google products (Chrome, Earth, . .) on my home PC.
Install Google Earth and you'll find yourself with Chrome in short order, because Google has decided that you can't possibly want Google Earth without also wanting Chrome.
Your opinion ? Google doesn't give a flying one.
Remove Chrome ? You'll get it back whether you like it or not.
So, since I have to have GMail for my professional laptop, I use Chrome for accessing GMail (I'm already effed there) and I can install Google Earth as well because it's already too late.
Yep, that's about right. You can't move jobs oversees during 50 years then complain that nobody home knows how to make anything anymore.
Remember those 50 years of cost-cutting and employee trimming and executive bonuses ?
This is what they have cost you.
Enjoy.
(P.S.: can be applied to all "First World" countries)
Yep. Apple is notoriously bad for business networks and integration. Having a Windows network is bad enough, a hybrid Windows-Apple networkd must be exercise in frustration.
Apple shines, however, in creation and the arts in general, which are mostly solo endeavours.
So, you're saying that climate change isn't happening ?
Back in the 1980's, I clearly remember trudging to school in winter through 10-20cm of snow for weeks on end.
This winter, we got barely 1cm of snow and it lasted a day.
I think there's a change, there.
As well it should be for many reasons and for many other countries as well.
Eggs in the same basket and such.
Besides, competition is always good in the long run, so I think more companies making and selling CPUs, RAM, network equipment and computer platforms means more choice for everyone and less chance of global shortages generally speaking.
And, of course, there will be the fun of reading a whole new slew of NSA paranoia about how everything made in China phones home without any proof or pics to back it up.
During all the time nobody noticed, she was living large and paying zero taxes on a billion dollar revenue stream.
Then, when she got caught in the spotlight, presto, her access to taxable revenue disappears, so she won't be paying taxes either.
Poor husband, he's now going to be the sole earner for the household. Does he pay taxes in his position ?
Oh, and can we get a kaching! icon ?
Sorry Pichai, but I don't see how trudging to the office of a company that does not create or manipulate physical objects is improving my quality of life.
Now, I will admit that my only daughter is over 25 and working in Paris, so I don't have a gaggle of bawling, roudy offspring to distract me at my home office.
I also admit that I live in a house, not in an appartment surrounded by tenants who all think that the noise they make is quite acceptable.
Finally, I have a wife I love and who completely understands the words "I'm busy now".
Obviously, if one or more of these criteria is not met, I can understand that taking the daily commute to park oneself in an office might be more productive, but that is not my case.
I prefer the view of my front lawn, the bandwidth of my fiber connection and the absence of endless phone calls.
Agreed.
NSO stating that their software could not be used like that is pure cow manure.
At best, NSO could have said that all of their clients were aware that their software should not be used like that. That might have been acceptable, except that they specifically created software that hijacks mobile phones.
You don't do that when you're honest.
I went to check them out.
The most interesting thing I find is that there isn't a dollar quote anywhere to be seen.
You get a boatload of MSU ranges and corresponding AWLC percentage reductions (could somebody translate that into English ?), but after skimming over the blah blah I couldn't for the life of me tell you how much one would cost.
Of course, I'm sure a call to my nearest friendly IBM salesperson would guarantee a quote and a nice monthly charge in the blink of an eye.
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