Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
The difference on Linux is that somebody with a sales target to reach doesn't get to decide that if you need access to
certain data you also need to pay for PowerPoint aswell as Onedrive, and then decide that your bulk license has to count every employee from canteen to gardening as 'users'
It's what made me jump to this side of the pond.
Was doing interesting, if slightly underpaid, work at a little tech company oop north.
The receptionist had a boyfriend, a PFY who could barely string a sentence together but had a company 5series and I found out, was paid twice what I made as chief R&D.
He sold software to the NHS, he didn't understand what the software did, or why they needed it - but it was the only approved solution and the local NHS had to buy it. But somehow he was paid to 'sell' it
>So is Ukraine
A country facing the fastest entry to the Eu and Nato ever - with everyone in Europe/USA queuing up to pump investments into it.
>Meanwhile Europe is depleted of the few weapons it had,
Europe is depleted of the USSR era weapons it was stuck with and every arms manufacturer from Seoul to Santiago is booking next years bonus.
>the US is a gentle psychooperative shove away from civil war
The US is always one missed happy meal away from civil war, it has been since before the last civil war
>That pretty much gives China carte-blanche to take Taiwan
We just showed China what the world response is to the worlds #2 superpower invading a little farming country we don't give a fsck about.
What do you think is going to be the response to a bunch of "racial epithets" invading a country we rely on for the chips in our heated car seats ?
>What is a tankie?
It was a schism in 1960s left wing groups in Britain.
The Marxist-Leninists who whore knitted jumpers without arms were known as tanktop wearers - shortened to tankies.
They were opposed by the Moaists who preferred jumpers which opened up the front, these cardigan wearers were known as card-carriers
> it seems to me that if you have a single monopoly supplier for an essential emergency service, that's not a market at all, and it's hardly surprising that the customer is in a poor bargaining position.
For instance there is only one Met Police. Which severely limits the opportunities for local capital based Genuinely Autonomous Network GroupS to provide a service of beating up protesters, sexually abusing women and murdering minorities with a lower cost base and a wider range of options than the current hidebound nationalised industry
And for a small payment, of less than your council tax contribution to the fuzz, you can arrange with the thieves guild not to be mugged for a year
Everybody likes donuts - cos the maths is simpler and it was all worked out 50 years ago
They have a problem that you can't run them continually so tricky for power plants and they work better as they get bigger - in fact small ones don't work at all until we got the new super-duper conductor (*) magnets
* not the official name, but I wish it was
That's why the smart money is on the Wendelstein 7-X - that's a proper Bond villain gadget name
There is also "purchasing power parity", these fabs cost billions to build in Taiwan while in Britain sheds can be built for only a few hundred quid.
If we assume that a cutting-edge 3nm gen-5 fab, and a shed on an allotment are basically the same thing - then Britain could be a major player
DEC decided that we should replace all our Micro-Vaxen with Alphas - so they increased our maintenance contract to ludicrous mode.
Another bit of DEC were selling Alphas bundled with NT for 1/2 price of the same Alpha with VMS
So we bought a bunch of the NT workstations and installed Linux, RedHat IIRC, only issue was a fixed frequency monitor so you couldn't see anything until you got X windows configured perfectly. That took a weekend - thank Dave for an RS232 console port
There is a difference between optimistic view of future performance and outright lying. Especially when the FDA are involved
Assuming the original plan was legitimate, and they were "faking it till you make it", then at some point it became obvious that the tech would never work and it turned into a scam.
This isn't that unusual, the iPhone that Jobs first demonstrated only worked on stage because they had setup a private cell network just for that device.
A lot of pre-release game consoles demo'ed at CES with the game actually running on a bunch of servers behind the curtain.
You're allowed to write to your MP about a planning application and the head of a property developer that just donated a million quid to the party is allowed to chat to an MP (and home secretary) while they're having a free holiday on their yacht = that's democracy
>All they have to do is smile when cutting the ribbons. A royal who's been trained from birth to do what's best for the country is a better choice than many.
That seems optimal, assuming they are paid the going rate for somebody whose only skill is waving and smiley blankely.
Engagement.
Imagine el'reg but instead of handful of drunken scribes scrawling a couple of stories a day (sorry ed) you have an AI writing unlimited purple prose directly targeted at your specific interests and opinions?
Obviously that would be shite - but imagine the same thing for people on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram
If you want VR / Metaverse to take off (for some reason) you can't have an 80s videogame level of polygon graphics, you need beautiful, unique, realistic, scene design - but for free.
