Posts by Pascal Monett 18989 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
What a great idea. I'm sure Texas has a lot of space, but what it doesn't have is water for an industry that is very thirsty.
1,500 jobs ? Maybe.
1.2 million wafers a month ? I don't think so.
There won't be enough water to satisfy the neeeds of all the chip plants that are being built in Texas.
Gotta start stockpiling the popcorn.
Re-read the article.
A cryptocurrency has no value until people flock to it. The more people flock to it, the more value it gets, until there aren't any newcomers, some start selling short or somesuch, and the funny money crashes like the dead bird it is.
"Luna, wiped $40 billion off the system when it crashed"
How many more billions lost will you need to understand ?
I didn't want to be part of Hangouts, but Google made it mandatory at one point when signing in to Gmail.
I have no use for Chat, won't use it and don't want it.
I have one question : will I absolutely have to be signed in if I want to use my Gmail ?
I would think that, at this point in time, there's a bunch of meetings on the theme "How can we save the Pysche mission ?" and a few others on the theme "What can do with this stuff is Psyche goes south ?".
NASA is generally pretty good at planning, but I'd hate to be one of their planners right now.
What. For.
Signapore already has a currency. Don't tell me that they don't know how to use credit/debit cards and online payments in one of the most highly-connected areas of the planet.
Don't tell me that their online banking doesn't work.
So what is the use of a funny-money currency ?
Someone please explain to me.
Indeed, they are no longer expensive - at least not when compared to their cost fourty years ago.
Unfortunately, in that time we also have learned to use up all the CPU with new OS versions (eh, Borkzilla ?), to no longer really care about our RAM usage and, since disk space is a penny a GB, well we clutter our things with lots of useless data.
All this edge stuff is being implemented willy-nilly, and we are collectively learning the consequences of the absence of planning.
Cloudflare is going to have to revisit its update procedures and its engineers are going to have to revisit their panic intervention process.
Hey, everybody's learning something, so it's all good.
Not really.
If you don't plan to have a family, living off the interest of the interest means that, when you die, there is big pile of money that will eventually be claimed by the State.
I see no reason to let the State get the money - it wastes enough as it is.
If you go to a place where your lifestyle costs you $5000 per month, you have twenty years ahead of you before having spent the capital. Interest comes on top, which will likely give you a few more months.
Back in the day, your costs would likely not have been so high, especially if you move yourself to a country where the cost of living is much lower.
Adjust your capital span accordingly.
These days, the Euromillion lottery hands out a minimum of €18 million to the top winner. Even if I try and push my lifestyle to the €10K/month bracket (you can only eat one Beef Angus steak per meal, after all), that still gives me 150 years of capital.
Forget living on the interest, you're just creating more problems instead of solving the most important one : having fun.
Those are bold words, and I am glad of them, but they mean nothing when faced with a National Security letter.
Now that the puritan assholes have managed to knock women's rights a step down, you can be sure that they will not hesitate to abuse the law in order to track down potential abortions.
Except, obviously, if their own daughter gets pregnant from rape. In that case, they'll use their power to make it happen, discreetly.
Because rules are for the meek.
"[The Bitcoin] ecosystem is a collection of Rube Goldberg devices designed for the express purpose of making compliance with tax, anti-money laundering, disclosure, liability, and other laws difficult if not impossible. Full stop. There is no baby to throw out with this bath water."
I'll have to remember that one.
"the chip industry is heading for a slowdown because of companies stockpiling components"
Stockpiling components from where ?
We've been repeatedly told about shortages, especially in the automobile industry, and now, suddenly, there are companies that have magically created stockpiles of stuff ?
Someone needs to explain this to me.
Those who have done that will not survive for very long.
Machines do not have smarts, they have faulty training data and I have yet to read an article about how absolutely astonishingly good some newfangled pseudo-AI thingamajig is.
If what you're doing is that difficult, make sure you have a fully-staffed engineering department.
You'll last longer.
This just in : 4th quarter revenue is $20 billion.
Pat, if you want to move forward rapidly, I think you have the money to do it.
I am tired of repeatedly seeing that it is the richest companies that profit the most from subsidies.
I'm not bashing the principle of subsidies, I'm sure it's a good thing, but dammit, why do Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Intel & Co get the lion's share when they're already stuffed with cash ?
Something's wrong here.
The discussions about that are going to be interesting, not to mention that any nuclear reactor they send up in space will have to fit inside the payload are of whatever launcher they wish to use.
Here's to hoping that the launcher functions to perfection when the time comes.
I still remember the IT director of an important Luxembourg company (which I will not disclose, obviously), who told me that, when they were looking to replace a mainframe (sorry, don't have the details), they asked Microsoft for a quote.
The answer ? 50 NT servers.
50.
If that doesn't boggle your mind, I don't know what will.
The result ? They went with a Solaris server and Domino 4 (yeah, that's how old this is).
I have to say, I hate IBM. They had a great product, with incredible abilities, and they never approached the Fortune 1000 to explain just how indispensable Notes is.
Just my 2 cents, as we say these days.
I already heard about that when Quake came out.
Doesn't happen to me, but that doesn't mean I'm a fan of VR. I'm not.
What bothers me with VR is having a headset when I have two gorgeous 26"+ screens sitting on my desktop.
What bothers me is that I am already perfectly immersed in today's games (7 Days to Die is unbelievable).
I don't need to shackle myself with a kilogram of poor performance to watch Nintendo-style graphics , thank you very much.
I would think that a surgury is a situation where you stay focused on a very limited amount of space. You're not driving a car, flying a plane or walking around town turning your head every which way.
So yeah, maybe for surguries this tech is good, and so much the better.
The funny thing is, humans tend to not like to have stuff stuck on their faces in order to just move around.
I like the idea.
Electric/hybrid vehicles are certainly nice, and it'll be a great thing for city dwellers when the noise of traffic is lowered to just the sound of tires on the road, but I've always been sceptical about the battery issue.
Not to mention that, if this is truly supposed to be a "green" solution, then we'll need to get rid of coal power plants - but okay, baby steps.
It will however be quite reassuring to know that batteries have become like aluminium cans - endlessly recyclable.
If we ever get there.
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