Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> the fact the FCC might have requirements becomes just irrelevant.
Unless you want to use US technology, sell to US customers, raise money from US investors, be listed on the US stock exchange or have any of your executives ever visit a US ally without being extraordinarily renditioned.
If you are China you can probably ignore the rules, if you are a smaller country than China you have to do what Washington says.
Cray 1, 80 Mflops, cost = unless sir has a nuclear weapons program sir can't buy it, but say $35M in todays money
Sony P5, 20TMFlops, $399 = 50MFlops/$
So close to Cray1 / $
(OK so Cray was 64bit double only and Sony is 20TF at FP32, but the Cray doesn't include the cost of a lot of programmers in brown corduroy with pipes)
Intel's new CEO have announced that their new share buy-back scheme will be implemented under a new Rule 483 Part B clause which reduces tax-withholding in off-shore accounts by 15 bpp !
This was made possible by replacing all their semiconductor engineers with world class MBAs
This is a Boris distraction announcement - if this is the best they can do, then either Cummings revelations aren't really that devastating, or they left the work placement kid in charge on friday afternoon.
The original royal yacht probably made sense. In 1952 it wasn't easy to get a Queen, a few 100 VIPs and their security to some small British Caribbean island and if you did the costs of hosting them would have been a huge drain on the local resources. Turning up with your own stage set and roadies made a lot of sense.
The idea that showing up in China with a yacht smaller than Bezos's backup boat is going to awe them into a trade deal isn't even Farage level idiocy.
>If you want to operate your business in a country, you must follow their laws
Or just hire a couple of the Prime Minister/President/Grand Vizier's children as advisors
Then remember to have a big unveiling of the new HQ dedicated to the wise beneficence of the current great leader.
ps. If you are a major European organisation and the great leader in question wears a uniform with too many medals and has penchant for throwing opposition leaders out of helicopters you may have to plant some ivy in front of the the plaque commemorating this event.
>In Emergency, Break Glass' box is your friend.
Phone fire brigade.
Same advice if you are ever stuck in an elevator/lift.
The emergency contact number, even if it works, will connect you to a call center who will call an engineer who will get round to you later when they have done all their other jobs for the day, unless that would go into overtime.
Calling the fire brigade means they get to drive big red trucks with flashing lights and use big tools to break into things. This makes them very happy and gets you out 5 mins.
>autism actually IS a superpower
0, Not understanding why people who know less than you think they are more important
1, Not caring about upsetting these people
2, Being one of the few vital people who understands stuff the company needs someone to do.
3, Understanding this stuff means you are also in demand by the dozen other companies around you.
4, Demanding that lists start with 0
The Challenger disaster happened because there were O rings joining together bits of rocket
There were joints in the rockets because they had to be shipped from landlocked Utah
They were built in Utah instead of Texas because Texas already had mission control. But Utah didn't get any Nasa spending and so wouldn't vote for the Shuttle budget.
Houston has mission control because in the Apollo era it didn't have industry that could be used in Apollo but needed some Nasa spending to get Texas to vote for Apollo.
Fortunately all that has changed today with the Senate Launch System which is made in 33 states
I was always suspicious that the Gay Wedding Cake case was a Republican stalking horse.
1, Fund the case against the baker and get a ruling that anyone discriminating against a customer gets a huge fine.
2, Get a list of Muslim owned business and demand that they make a T-shirt with Muhammad on it, when they refuse fine them out of business
3, Book every synagogue function room for your Hitler's birthday celebration. Similar..
Repeat for every group you don't like
I think a small independent baker SHOULD be allowed to not bake a gay wedding cake if they don't want - they are losing business and there are plenty of other bakers.
But say Alaskan Airlines shouldn't be allowed to refuse gay passengers if they are essentially the only choice to fly to Alaska.
There is a scale at which the company has sufficient power that there needs to be some level playing field.
Although there comes a scale where a private company is effectively a public utility.
Suppose Twitter cancelled all Republican politician's accounts, or Google didn't return any results for Republican candidates, or Visa/Mastercard declined to process donations for Republican causes ?
>Dame Mary Beard is not exactly a rabid Tory, but I didn't think she was on Vladimir's payroll.
I think she is only recruiting agents for the BBC
Of course it may be that senior tutors don't watch the news and are still busy recruiting agents for the NKVD and are a little worried that the nice Mr Trotsky hasn't published much recently
A) The cabinet are all businessmen and so only have the HP financial calculator - it doesn't have an exponent button.
B) Italy it is bad, but they are Italians, we are British so in Britain it will be NOT bad
C) Lockdown hurt profits, that patch of sand looks comfortable, mind if I stick my head in it ?
D) All of the above
