Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Right-to-repair laws proposed in the US aim to make ownership great again

Re: The Problem

Or they will simply not sell you a tractor but you can only subscribe to your tractor for a monthly fee and then pay monthly service fees for it. The fee may also be subject to surge pricing at harvest time.

Re: My only concern . . .

I thought it already applied to cars in the USA?

Pretty sure engine codes and tuning settings have had to be 3rd party for years. It got even stronger with dieselgate cos a lot of states don't measure emmisions they just ask the OBDC if you are good.

Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again

That is pretty much the defn of 'law'.

Hey my Royal Society hommies.

It really looks like two massive objects attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely with the square of the distance between them. I think it should be my law.

My Newton why are you talking like that? This is the 18th century ?

I'm hoping that somebody writes a best selling musical about my fights with Leibnitz and I want it to be hip with da yoof.

>X86's long standing advantage is it's pre-existing catalogue of software

When you were running Windows desktop or Oracle on a server.

If I'm running some Ruby service on a container in a cloud somewhere I have absolutely no interest in what endianess the CPU is

Re: It's all about the ISA

And Intel was a monopoly, not just in CPUs but in all the support chips.

Hey Dell/IBM you are shipping only Intel on your new servers otherwise you aren't getting any of the GigE or high performance Sata controller chips that we control

Re: A good thing I hope

But that won't pay off for years and keeping your CEO job is based on this quarters earnings call.

And your new house is based on the price the day you leave in 18months and sell your shares

It hasn't mean the original Moore's defn for a couple of chip generations.

It originally meant that it was cheaper to put more chips on the a wafer with each generation. The wafer costs were the same but you increased the number of parts on it by 1.5x each generation.

BlackBerry offloads its 'legacy' patents – some of the stuff that made its phones hum

Re: unable to pivot...

Unless your govt is currently kicking down the door of your security supplier or banning them from your country you can assume they have a backdoor - whatever they are saying in public,

Re: Live by the fashiom die by the fashion

Although the "status symbol" was that you were important enough to need to be in touch with work 24x7.

The fruity status symbol is just a symbol that you were able to pay for a fruity status symbol

US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea

Re: Why not

>You'll have to explain how the F-35 would survive the exact same threat?

That's the joke

Re: Why not

Only if you're paying US/UK military industrial complex rates.

If you are buying them from Alibaba like the Chinese govt...

Re: Why not

The Harrier is more than 50 years old.

It would have no chance against a cloud of 21st century AI controlled hypersonic missiles all able to manoeuvre faster than any manned aircraft

Just don't upset the Great Old Ones

Or perhaps their toys could be tied on with bits of string like children's mittens ?

Re: F35 A, B & C models

>Time to put the Fairey Swordfish back in production?

Surely the Supermarine seaplane would be better?

Then when it falls off the aircraft carrier it will at least float.

In fact you wouldn't need an aircraft carrier - just some sort of yacht with a floating wardroom and some sort of tender with aviation fuel, stocks of bombs and the necessary grubby mechanics

You're fabbing it wrong: Chip shortages due to lack of investment in the right factories, says IDC

Re: Negligence

>"American and European semiconductor manufacturers are outsourcing most of their production to China,"

Depends on which "China"

Re: The UK is failing

>We rely on chips in everything so it is a strategic blunder to outsource

We don't need any foreign chips.

Nationalise EEV and use valves. Vote British for a return to the glorious 1950s

Re: Oppuortunity knocks

>China is #1 in rare earths, much of it illegally.

Damn our lanthanides got under their country. Just like our oil getting under the middle East.

I blame geography

>Predominently Chinese businesses have come out of nowhere, and buy up everything on a speculative whim.

Those damn Chinese capitalists. If only the socialist banks, hedge funds and investors in the west had the profit motive, organization experience and access to cheap capital to allow them to do this

When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes

Constable Savage you seem to have entered "guilty" in every field in the database ?

Yes sir

Including your password

Yes sir

Why ?

The computer did it sir.

Savage you are an idiot, who obviously understands nothing about police work or computers. i'm transferring you to the home office.

Find the smart guy who came up with that and shoot him, he is obviously some sort of enemy agent

Bouncing cheques or a bouncy landing? All in a day's work for the expert pilot

Re: labelling

And yet somehow are incredibly expensive Das Keyboard

Re: Serial to VGA? All you need is an adapter!

The color space for digital TV was called Rec709 when it was a recommendation before being accepted in the mid90s, we still call it Rec709 instead of Bt709

Not to mention does pressing the separate 'fn' key mean you get F1-F9 or the extra functions, or is that the unlabeled special modifier key

How can we recruit for the future if it takes an hour to send an email, asks Air Force AI bigwig in plea for better IT

Re: Marked up

There is an army dept in an office block next to me. It is obviously some sort of administration dept rather than running-shooting-killing dept.

However they do have to wear boots and uniforms while queuing at Starbucks. They are also of a physique which suggests the typical Texan rather than the Special Forces

Conclusion:

1, Somewhere in the DoD is a supply of camo trousers with a 56inch waist

2, If they ever were to be deployed their camo wouldn't really conceal them - a forest might not be enough

3, They are unlikely to strike terror into the Russian army

Re: Marked up

>could manufacture a single -- quantity one -- aircraft qualified toilet seat for some ridiculous price. ($3000?)

Even without military certification (was this made entirely in the USA by US owned companies, with a certain percentage being veteran owned and all following federal labor guidelines) and aviation certification (did 10 engineers sign off that this part is only a toilet seat and can't emit RF that could trigger the nuclear bomb in bay next to )

It's incredibly expensive to design and tool a single replacement part for some 50 year old bit of kit.

How much would it cost you to make a windscreen for a 1972 Vauxhall Viva from scratch? Probably more than $3000 !

Re: Marked up

>But the basic issue here is that DoD desk wallahs' desks aren't going to be suddenly deployed to the field

So if the whole DoD wasn't a socialist conspiracy to provide jobs for life, free college education, and free healthcare to the unemployable you could contract-out all the non running-shooting-killing part to civies ?

Re: Tax and Spend

Dell obviously aren't doing as much to incentives 'thought leaders' on the funding committee as NothropGrummanLockheedMartinMesserschmidtHeinkel

Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic

Re: So, 0.2% eh ?

But if we increase the tax on cars and made the licence more expensive that would prevent cars being used in robberies

How to get banned from social media without posting a thing

Re: Brilliant post Dabbsy.

So you're saying that a club you don't want to join should pay a massive fine for not letting you join ?

How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers

Re: Concur improves matters beyond belief

On the other hand.

You are a lowly paid academic.

You volunteer to go to the big city to provide expertise for free that would cost $$$$ if they had to pay.

You sit in a meeting with a bunch of consultants/lawyers/PR who are being paid $$$$

And then they nickel and time you on the coffee from the station

Had the opposite. Expenses were cost+15% to the customer, so if I took a 10e budget flight it cost the company money to process the expense compared to me booking 200e on big airline. Got told off for that one

Re: Concur improves matters beyond belief

My prof once did this.

Went to London for some gov dept meeting and got a burger at the station. Claim denied since there had been refreshments provided (tea and biccies).

So he refused to sign off on the official report.

Eventually 2 civil servants were dispatched to our swampy outpost to reason with him. They made the mistake of saying how they had traveled first class .....

I had one and a visit to a very remote site in a foreign country. Card readers were out at the local town so I persuaded the only bank branch to give me a cash advance.

Caught a huge amount of shit for it.

OK my new policy is either a manager comes with me and pays for everything or the next time I have a problem with the official process I abandon the $M of kit I have with me and come home.

Re: keep your conference swag!

Somebody posted about this on reddit.

You trust me to sign off on a maintenance check on an aircraft worth $100M with the lives of 400people on board - but want a doctor note if I'm off sick for a day

Do you know what TikTok is? Then you might make a good magistrate, says Ministry of Justice

Re: ..mmm

Would it be overly cynical of me to imagine that if you are unemployed or on benefits you lose them by being an unpaid magistrate ?

Re: Valar Morghulis

So when plod retire they have to walk the cursed earth (Middlesbrough) rather than joining the golf club

Re: Who else?

So we could just recruit only the unemployed?

Re: "One might assume that excludes the majority of the current Cabinet"

They don't do drug testing for magistrates do they ?

It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

Re: Ludicrous

>We need a Manhattan project for a working commercial fusion reactor and should have started about 10 years ago.

We sort of did with ITER. But that was more like asking the USAF, the Royal Navy the USMC and the French resistance to all design the bits of the bomb they wanted and come together to deliver it at the target

Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

>I think the problem was that the FAA naively let Boeing self approve the MAX and more.

No the FAA has to let Boeing self approve the MAX - they are the only ones that know how it works.

The FAA aren't like the teacher with the "correct" answers in the back.

What they failed on was not pushing Boeing's risk assesments. If you have a critical component you have to consider what happens when it fails, and the various modes that it can fail in, and what sort of redundancies are needed. And all that has to be documented.

This is what the FAA failed to do. You don't need to be an expert on the 737-MAX, or even on aviation, to know to ask these sort of questions !

The problem is that the FAA wasn't just rubber stamping Boeing's approval it was rubber stamping Boeing's auditing of it's own approvals

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

Re: SMRs are expected to produce 300MWe per unit.

>will you tell the Australians how to build submarines

No cardboard or cardboard derivatives, obviously

Re: SMRs are expected to produce 300MWe per unit.

Degeneracy pressure

Re: Is that all

To be fair it is only a Playmobile royal yacht for the prime ministerial bathtub.

It just costs £210 from Hamleys. You can't expect him to shop at John Lewis like some sort of peasant

So the plan is to put it in Wales so nobody can spell the place to protest ?

Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'

Or if you are a cloud provider and your database supplier also wants to be a cloud provider and has a history of 'forceful' business practices

James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth

Those are politician-driven projects, full of power struggles, pork barrels and general incompetence.

While this was designed sub-contracted to the usual pork-barrelled defence contractors, down-scoped, budget reduced, re-scoped, cancelled, restored, sub-contracted, launch vehicles (payload size G forces) changed because of politics etc etc

IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022'

Re: odd wording

Or it's a way of saying, we only sold half as many machines but since they are 2.5x faster we really sold more