Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Plans for UK rival to Silicon Valley ditched

Re: has anyone told those that are building the line?

Yes the only problems with it are at the ends where it goes into Oxford and Cambridge and starts going near "nice" houses.

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

I left the UK for the West Coast 10 years ago.

UK developer salaries aren't bad - as long as you are working in finance, in London.

Outside that - forget it.

I was chief dev / R&D / CTO for a company making high tech off-shore stuff. Not a bad salary for oop North, can buy a house etc (although to be fair you could buy a house on a credit card there)

Our receptionist had a boyfriend, spotty 20 year old with no qualifications who worked in Software Sales to local government - he earned twice what I did.

In the UK a techie is never going to get paid more than a saleman, who is never going to be paid more than a manager. If your only good jobs are worthless finance and government contracting you are not going to be creating silicon valley.

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

>Slight delay envisaged while sufficient horses are produced to move the barges.

We don't need horses, we just make the canal downhill - both ways

Re: Does the Tory Government Actually Know What It Is Doing ?

Waiting for Rees-Mogg's plan for one of these new canal links

Intel selects German city for EU semiconductor plant

Re: Good Luck

>Nordic countries also with strong labor laws earn more per capita than for instance the British

And principalities (Monoco) earn more per capita then Britain

So all we have to do is not crown Chuck and we'll all be millionaires

Re: As we say in Germany

As opposed to "Gluten Tag" which is the day where children hit each other with baguettes

IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO

Re: Not new

>have older workers potentially accrued higher salaries?

The problem with firing the most senior workers on the highest salaries - it inevitably makes highly salaried senior management nervous

FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s

In conclusion

It appears that air may interfere with Boeing 737s

US imposes sanctions as Russia invades Ukraine

Re: Winter is nearly over

It will also make it a lot easier to build pipelines to the Canadian east coast to ship LNG to Europe.

Obviously Putin is just a puppet of Albertan oil men

Re: Freezing Russian assets is the way to stop Putin

>A pile of money is only as good as what you can spend it on.

You can still buy politicians, you just have to pay cash

On the other hand I'm all for giving the Danelaw back to Denmark

Re: Freezing Russian assets is the way to stop Putin

I think it's fair to assume that any Russian citizen that has substantial assets and got to keep them is fully cahooted with Vlady

You could always reopen the pits.

AI really can't copyright the art it generates – US officials

Does this mean

That the scripts of most superhero movies, generated as they are by an Excel sheet and a cliché dictionary, aren't copyrightable

Skills shortage puts SAP projects on hold

Re: Skills shortage

So if everyone paid an extra 50k then they would all

be able to get all the SAP experts they wanted ?

Re: There is no skills shortage.

That's completely unrealistic. HR would simply hire the first three devs who would accept 56k

Re: Skills shortage

>Training? What is that?

For SAP its quite easy, the applicant is just dressed in a robe placed in a pentangle and have their soul removed

Top chipmakers ignore India's semiconductor factory subsidies

Re: Infrastructure....I think this comes into it somewhere....

And yet we manage to build stuff in Texas

Re: Why is there a problem?

Their parliamentary system is very much based on Westminster but with parties linked with particular social castes and a leader who is all about personality and being the symbol of the country

Re: Why is there a problem?

Yes no widespread government corruption in India because they have political parties and elections

Re: Not unxpected

>Muslim men are seducing unsuspecting Hindu women into marriage and using them as child-producing factories to numerically overtaking Hindus).

Not fair ! We got blamed for that first. Bloody Muslims coming over here stealing our jobs as official religous bogeymen

File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did

So if you rename a jpeg as pdf it pops up the same print-to-pdf dialog as if you had right clicked on edit, open with "whatever-mspaint-is-called-today" and selected print then pdf as the the printer - which is of course the obvious way of making a pdf in the Windows desktop metaphor.

Re: It is transparency what is going on below!

Yes fscking Autodesk with your registering 60 file extensions so every file on my machine is now some internal Autodesk component. Double bonus for the fact that Autocad can't open most of the directly anyway

They can if they are generated centrally.

Apple (say) could give out 64bit id to everyone who registers an Apple account, any apps they distribute have that number in their metadata. Then you have another number you use to identify what type of file this is for your app

You can even roll in digital signatures, so not only do you recognise this number as a microsoft doc file you could prove that is was written by a microsoft signed binary.

>Of course, that never stops people thinking they can change a file type just by changing the extension

So why can't it ?

It's an unambiguous task that was described succinctly

It clearly indicates the user's requirements

If you are going to use extensions to indicate type then it's the obvious way to indicate a type conversion

It's like saying "some idiot user thought they could copy a file to a new folder by just dragging the icon - rather than editing the filesystem metadata with edlin - lusers!"

Re: file extensions

We all know that the real file name is "Copy of new Project1_Bobs_version2_revisions.docx"

Re: Still humans in the mix here not just machines

RISC OS on ARM (whatever happened to them?) used a 32bit metadata number to identify the file, IIRC the first 16bits was the software vendor and the rest used for whatever they wanted to identify it as

It also meant that lots of different packages could have bak files without clashing

UK starts to ponder how Huawei ban would work

Obviously government systems will be exempt because that would be expensive

Re: Who's the UK?

But if he can re-apply he is eligible for Pritti-Rendition

Re: Why do you keep tip-toeing around the bush ?

But you need the US for all your exports.

Hey London, suddenly all your banks don't have access to the US stock markets - you know for security.

And Rolls Royce - the FAA says your engines are no longer approved for Boeing planes.

China: Hey UK you aren't allowed to buy fake Apple earbuds on Aliexpress anymore

Re: Why do you keep tip-toeing around the bush ?

Yes but if you are a British govt trying to negotiate a trade deal with the USA to replace all those Eu customers, or find a way to solve an unsolvable Northern Ireland problem with a US president (who is constitutionally required to pretend he is Irish) or you are a UK based world leading chip designer trying to do a takeover deal with a US corporation.

It's important that China can't spy on you

Intel CEO Gelsinger spells out five-year renewal plan inspired by iconic leaders

Re: Engineer ousts bean counters from engineering company

Which is irrelevant if he can't deliver.

He can't pay $$$$ to outbid Apple or Microsoft, never mind TSMC/Samsung, for talent because he has 100K existing employees who are going to want the same.

Stock price is going nowhere so he can't give new hires $1M in options, so he has to pay cash.

He also has to find $100Bn to spend on fabs to even be on the same page as TSMC - nevermind their 5year lead.

Alternately he can lobby that all Federal IT spend has to be on American (designed) chips, and get the states to pay for a new fab while stringing a Xeon monopoly along until the last enterprise customer goes to the cloud

Cisco can't say when long waits for hardware will end

Re: In the world of corporate IT

I always assumed Cisco's build system was linked to their share price, when the stock drops they obsolete a product

In the world of corporate IT

The mythical corporate IT dept in our distant parent company have decided that the CISCO switches we got 3years ago no longer meet the needs of Global Cyber Internet of Things Blockchained Cloud Metaverse and so need replacing with apparently identical CISCO switches - and more importantly there was unspent budget at the end of last year.

CISCO are giving us "end of 2022" as a possible delivery date. Hopefully no new IT buzzwords are invented this year which makes these obsolete

20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java

Re: Still have my copy of J++

It's only worth anything if it's the original vinyl

So not only do we live in the Matrix but it's rendered as stick figures

>Well, whoever thought making indentation part of the syntax

FORTRAN77 - remember we have the nukes and the rockets

Re: Notably missing in action...

Ok, will see if they support it for more than 5mins.

Have been using Qt since the last ice age

Re: Notably missing in action...

So whats the UI for C++ on Windows?

MFC, WPF with managed C++, raw Win32-C ?

RISC-V keeps its head down amid global chip war

Re: The important question

But pronounced JIF

Genuine question RISC-V / ARM

As somebody who assumes that the "adding lightning to sand and making it think" is basically magic and who just does software.

RISC-V just defines an API right ? Presumably there aren't too many innovative new Assembly Language instructions, especially in RISC, they are supposed to be simple right? (This is based on my doing a few weeks of ARM2 assembler after having learned 6502 as a kid)

So what's the massive lead of ARM over RISC-V? Obviously the silicon design of an Apple M1 is incredible, but you get this by being Apple+TSMC, not by buying an ARM license. Presumably Apple could have done the same design around a RISC-V instruction set?

Does ARM supply all the super-scaler / out of order pipeline / branch prediction magic we all rely on - as part of the licence design? Or is it just that there are more optomised ARM core designs out there, more people familiar with them, more tooling, more compilers etc etc ?

Re: The important question

The French have suggested a compromise, RISC-cinq

Re: Sorry, what was the problem again?

Because things like OFAC and EAR controls are going to run up against opensource. If you are in the USA can you accept a pull request on your project from someone in Cuba or Syria or Iran?

Do you have to refuse to supply them with a copy of the source? If that's so are you able to comply with the GPL? Is the GPL invalid in any country that has export controls on opensource software?

It's a lot easier to scare politicians with stories about designs for "chips used in missiles" being given to foreigners than it is to talk about software licenses. If Intel somebody acting purely out of patriotism, gets a case made that you can't collaborate on an opensource chip design with foreigners. Then the same rulings are applied to software.

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

Re: Violation of the law...

If the person viewing the source reasonably thought the SSN were secret and shouldn't have been public then he might have broken the law by publishing them - but he didn't, he reported it.

If you find a bunch of papers outside an army base labelled "top-secret" you presumably break the law by reading them - even if the real crime was losing them.

Re: Only in the USofA

In Missouri he would be described as a dangerous intellectual = he can read

So what if illegal content was embedded as base64 in a comment?

Only hackers would be able to access it - so it's perfectly legal for me to distribute it

Re: Wondering if some monetary damages would make sense. The "american way"

Because most countries have a system to prevent idiots achieving legislative power.

Other nations embrace stupidity

Of course in the UK it would be a crime to simply type a URL

Re: Transcendental question

Just make the value of Pi=1

(Yes I am a physicist)

IBM Consulting assimilates cloud firm for Azure expertise

Re: So what happens when

>Neudesic, a US cloud consultancy services firm

>Neudesic has more than 1,500 cloud and data experts ... in India

So is this just a cheap Indian bodyshop operation with a brass plaque somewhere in Delaware ?

Is this just a way for IBM to offshore a lot of jobs without getting unwanted attention