Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
No it's a legitimate concern that a lot of very useful but lower energy, and therefore less sexy, but useful facilities got shut down while building the LHC.
It's like saying we should invest in sport and fitness, host the Olympics, build massive stadiums but closing all local playing fields to pay for it.
> Do Boeing actually make aircraft now or are they just assembling kits these days?
A charge which could be more accurately aimed at Airbus. There is nothing wrong with having subcontractors if you manage them properly.
Nobody is claiming Intel could make better phones than Apple because they have in-house fabs.
>No make the executives liable for premeditated manslaughter for any crashes caused by cut backs.
But the problem wasn't Boeing it was a totally independant supplier spun off from Boeing
The WhiteStar line can't be held responsible for the Titanic because look-out services was outsourced to a gig worker in the Crow's nest
The Wright Flyer had no windshield and so no requirement for windshield wipers.
Since the Boeing 737 is really just a development of the Boeing 000 (aka the Wright Flyer) there is no requirement for it to have windshield wipers.
All McDonald Douglas Boeing had to do was find who owns the Wright Aircraft company today, buy it and do some renaming
We weren't allowed to reboot the ancient machine serving as a print server for the labs only laser printer - without the permission of the university IT dept, Her Majesty's inspectorate of Print Servers and a letter from at least 3 popes.
So we would stand up and announce "oh dear I have tripped over the power cable" and then power cycle the machine, fixing the printer.
>In which case the only sensible instruction would be to do the first half of the power cycle - power it off and do it now.
In the event of fire consult the operations manual,
Discover that it doesn't mention fire
Start the process to request a change to the manual
This triggers a new testing requirement where you have to set fire to the machine to check the step sin the manual
I'm having a little difficulty with the logic of:
You can't supply to company A in China because they have links to the evil mustache-twirling commie hoards
You can however sell to company B (not evil mustache-twirling commie hoards) in China, because obviously they wouldn't pass on the parts to company A
But if company A are evil mustache-twirling commie hoards = wouldn't they just take the parts from company B anyway ? It sounds like the sort of thing evil mustache-twirling commie hoards would do !
So why doesn't Dell just switch to embedding XEN in its servers instead of VMware?
I buy a Dell server, there is a web GUI to spin up and manage a VM. Unless I'm an expert and doing low level tinkering I don't care how it works. If I am a VMware expert then I'm not relying on Dell anyway.
Dell can save money on paying for VMware and pass the saving on to my C-suite (sniggers)
Does the GPL allow me to distribute copies under a nondisclosure agreement? (#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA)
No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy from you has the right to redistribute copies, modified or not. You are not allowed to distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.
IIRC redhat were saying that only licence holders could get the code and the licence terms said you couldn't redistribute it.
Generally that's what SBAS is for the USA has WAAS and Europe has EGNOS
It both increases the accuracy a bit but also gives a stronger confirmation signal that you aren't being spoofed.
The original purpose for WAAS was actually to ensure that the GPS signal was real, the FAA got really nervous about that. EGNOS was more important to give accuracy at high latitudes
