Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Extra points if the off switch is black, unmarked and shaped to form part of the plastic moulding around a corner. Bonus if it's next to a row of USB ports or something else that needs to be poked at.
Double word score if the kit is also used in the dark or somewhere that you can't actually see but need to plug into the ports by feel
At this point why would you buy a BMW/Audi/Merc over a Tesla?
None of the other luxury makers can compete on technology or cool and they can't launch anything electric which disrupts their dealer network. That's why BMW launched the electric noddy car, Audi will do a hybrid LeMans car and MB will ignore it.
Trouble is he has a bunch of fiduciary reasons not to take the meeting.
Apple invests and he gets a bunch of lawsuits from Apple shareholders who complain it isn't a good use of their money, from the Fed claiming he is now a monopoly, from the press with "Apple product kills" everytime a car crashes
If he bought stock personally after the meeting he is in trouble for insider trading and more if Apple does any future deals with Tesla like allowing a Tesla app on the iStore or bundling iTunes with a Tesla
That's not what I said.
The Ariane 4/5 (not familiar with earlier models) were based on French ICBMS
The Ariane4 engines are from their 1980s land based missile and the Ariane5 solid fuel boosters are from France's submarine new submarine based model.
ie the French defence budget ( which is like all defence budgets unlimited) is used to subsidise/hide the cost of the Ariane development, in the same way as the US Delta. So simply deciding that you are going to have a space program without also developing your own nuclear missiles doesn't work out $$$$ wise.
Probably the real reason for the "encouragement" to the UK to drop their rocket program from the USA wasn't the competition in the space business, it was that with it the UK wouldn't be able, financially, to buy Polaris / Trident
>UK developing an orbital rocket, then canning it
I'm not sure about that.
Was the UK going to continue developing it through the 70s,80s,90s with the accompanying ICBM program to justify the development costs ?
Was it going to be a (subsidised) commercial rival to Ariane ?
Or would it be used for a couple of UK military launches a decade?
This is going to be an interesting natural experiment of Brexit - how many of these "Staffing Resource Units" you can move move/replace and what side effects there are from moving a world center of expertise from London to GDansk.
Postdocs or $MM bonus paid traders you can move to Frankfurt on a whim. But telling finance lawyers or meterologists with 30 year careers and families that from next week they are working in Ruritania because of some pork-barrel deal on an office reloaction might provoke a different reaction.
The very first mouse had one button - although the first production model had the correct number of buttons
Generally it's the provenance that matters more than looking at the actual item.
If an Apple I board was for sale by an electrical engineer that was well known at the Homebrew meetings and has some sort of original receipt or documentation and other people have seen him playing with it before it recently became valuable - you can be surer it's legit. Probably more reliable than carbon dating capacitors
>I've long since given up on the thought of anybody being able to read my handwriting.
Just out of interest, would this get you into trouble with RIPA ?
I'm concerned that somebody might ask me to decipher some XLST code I once wrote
(I was young and needed the money and they said it would be artistic)
IIRC he tried to get HP to build the Apple but HP weren't interested in "computers"
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That number is a bit "marketing speak". Imagine listening to radio1 on a software defined radio, that's 100Mhz at 16bit = 200Mb/s. But it quickly cooks down to much less "information" / second.
The reason the data rate from each dish is so high is that the 'raw' data can now be digitised and then a bunch of correlation / filtering /frequency selection etc that we used to do in HW can now be done more efficiently and cheaper in software,
That was part of a diplomatic slap fight between building it in Oz or Za.
Australia expressed "health and safety concerns" for staff in South Africa, to which J'burg replied along the lines of "you're aving a larf - what about giant venomous spiders setting up home in the dishes if you put it in Oz?"
In true diplomatic fashion it is now in both countries.
No obviously the current government is composed of Thatcher-Reagan free marketers.
Having the navy train their own people themselves would be "government doing stuff" which is the very
definition of communism
Ripping off the customer for the benefit of shareholders is the fundamental rule of capitalism - so using the biggest ripper-offs is a vote for the free market
These are VC companies not people.
They take other people's money and invest in companies and try and make money so THOSE people can take their wives to restaurants
It's like saying if I was a bank manager - I wouldn't bother running a bank, I'd just take those billions and buy an island
Ironically for free-market capitalist American types - if there really was a genuine market for jets they would be safer AND there would be no need for an FAA
If a Boeing crashed and they couldn't convince the customers that they had fixed the problem then the customers would all switch to one of the 100s of other competitors and Boeing would go bust.
>These are words I've been told to say. Are they supposed to mean something?
Yes it means the person saying it isn't an engineer and doesn't understand engineering
An engineer would never say that, because then you would build aeroplanes out of rock with no wings or engines. Making them as safe as possible while still economic to operate is the top priority.
