Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>How much rental can I charge for installing one on our roof?
About 0.00001% of the cost of getting planning permission, getting the CAA, OfCom, the CoE, the village in bloom committee and the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Arbroath's gamekeepers tea-masher's mate to approve it.
Getting a structural engineering report, a new telecom certified electrical supply, a separate meter because the 50W it uses is taxed at a different rate (actually the same % but calculated in a different way) and a determination if this means your cat now comes under IR35
You also need a copy of the report about how the government is dynamically thrusting toward a new next-generation cloud based high-tech utopia of skills based on Internet of things (only available from HMSO in person)
The streetlight sites are for city centers.
You need lots of cells because a bazzillion punters walking down Oxford st all need to: appear to themselves every day, On TikTok.To make sure they're still real. It's the only connection they feel.
Then having micro cells every 10m helps and it's slightly inconvenient to knock down every building in central London to put up custom large masts.
Don't worry about the lights outside kid's bedroom, worry about what they are listening to on their infernal transistor radios playing the devils music (swanee kazoo)
The council of Europe had more members depending how you count. But the Germans didnt want Saarland included (it had been given to France after WW2), they eventually ended up with 13 and the Italians didn't want an unlucky number so it became a symbolic 12
There is a less fun story of the link to the virgin Mary 12 gold stars / blue. The original proposals had been for crosses because some of the founders where committed to a Christian Europe (having got rid of the Jews, there were very few Muslims and we can soon remove the commies). Its worth remembering that the fascists didn't all disappear in 1945
Good job that British universities won't be involved in researching what happens at 1nm and how to solve it.
There is no point in doing the research because we can just read the Dutch/German research and use it in our own cutting edge fabs, built by all the semiconductor experts we have trained
Because it still costs $$$$ to build a last generation fab
By the time the fab is running in 3-4years there may well be a glut of these parts.
The parts you are making (power electronics, low cost micro-controllers) have a profit margin of 0.0% so you are going to be shipping the wafers to SE Asia for dicing and packaging and making into products - so no strategic advantage to European customers in the next trade disruption.
>Microsoft doesn't care which apps are run on a windows desktop system, in the end the user is responsible for what happens.
They did before they were visited by the Justice Dept carrying a big stick.
They had limits on the number of internet connections you could have before you had to buy the server version.
The licence terms for their SDK banned you from writing anything that competed with Office
They had a business model of simply copying competitors, waiting for them to go bust and then paying a $<1M settlement
>The odds of being taken to court under the Computer Misuse Act have always been vanishingly low.
Unless you upset the government.
There are lots of laws that were only going to be used against terrorists / organised crime / international drug dealers - that got conveniently dragged out when you needed to threaten a journalist
>Spend the $52b on housing the homeless instead.
Haven't read the bill (nobody does)
But generally only 50% of the headline figure will ever be handed over (eg it's over 10years, subject to the next president reconciliation etc)
Then 50% will be kickbacks "other vital investments" of interest to the senators supporting it. So it will go on college sports stadiums, farmers/miners/modern dance studios/whatever the committee member from NoWheresville needs to agree to sign up.
>ONLY purchase military and NASA hardware that is 100% made in the USA
Which will cost 10-100x as much because the suppliers will "cooperate" to be the only supplier of eahc aprt.
And you will have no export market because all your foreign customers will demand that a % is built there. So your costs will go up again.
And of course you can't use any foreign equipment/designs so no ASML lithography kit or ARM cpu cores.
North Korea is certainly one economic model, but perhaps not one to emulate ?
>Isn't it true though that some of the famous Hubble images were coloured to make them look that bit more impressive, rather than to add scientific value?
The press release / coffee-table calender shots yes.
BUT the data was still taken in multiple bands for science and is analysed a channel at a time = ie in greyscale.
The colors chosen for to represent each measured band for pretty picture s are chosen to look nice and not necessarily to match the actual wavelengths the data was taken in - so in that sense they are artistic impressions
The original number was made up to sound big enough that this was a serious problem that would get you on the news talking about how something had to be done - but not too big that the other party would block it.
Then you ask the industry how much free money they would like and are shocked when it's higher
