Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Why not NOT make primary schools responsible for their computer systems?
Perhaps have some sort of education authority locally responsible for hiring IT staff, purchasing hardware and software and administering it ? A Local Education Authority if you would.
I know we spun off every aspect of public service into some sort of independent anarcho-syndicalist commune, in order to be hyper-dynamic and not at all as a precursor to privatisation, but perhaps it's better to make someone king.
We don't make every train driver responsible for building their bit of HS2
The number of bits per parity is presumably a trade off between cost and number of double bit errors you want to detect.
Even have 1 parity per 32 bit word is better than nothing and only reduces your available memory by 3%
Like how drives used to reserve space for bad blocks.
PS. I wonder why memory errors haven't gone up massively as we made gates smaller and lower voltage, presumably the amount of damage a passing muon could do is now much larger?
Yes, sorry - knew there was something wrong but when I spotted it I had missed edit window.
Is there any reason why some competitor to Intel (cough AMD) don't do ECM in the memory controller together with a bit of extra cache so you can do ECC with regular RAM? It wouldn't seem to cost too much performance or silicon
Same reason we don't have desktop ECM memory. You reserve support for expensive Xeon processors so the memory stays expensive so never becomes ubiquitous
Trying to explain to non-technical users and regulators that sometimes the computer can just randomly change data and it's not our fault and there's nothing we can do.
>Flying is a miserable experience, from parking the car at one end to leaving the airport at the other.
Law of conservation of misery, as flying gets cheaper, more comfortable and more convenient they have to make the airports worse to maintain the overall experience.
Once Musk-Rockets (tm) are able to ballistic missile you to Oz in 20mins, you'll have to turn up at the airport 23.5 hours in advance for security
I used to do Chile regularly (was an astronomer) before there were direct flights.
Chatting to some Kiwi's in Santiago airport - they stood out among the stylishly dressed South Americans as the only others wearing down parkas and carrying pelicases.
They were Antarctic researchers, their commute was Antarctica -> Tierra del Feugo, Santiago, Miami, LA, Auckland. Assuming they weren't flying business class either !
It's hard to see the economics of this.
For a flight over about 6000km its cheaper to land and refuel and climb than to carry the weight of the extra fuel all the time.
The service is going to have to be setup with more business and premium economy to get passengers.
You are limited by the number of people who want to pay more to fly direct in premium so you aren't going to be running a daily service, so you need other shorter all premium destinations to keep the planes busy.
And all the Gulf airlines are going to cut fares to recover customers when the US gets bored in Iran and they reopen
Its almost as if the whole thing is security theatre that the airports go along with because it makes you spend 3hours at their shopping centers.
Fortunately they discovered that Toblerone prevents terrorists and it's now mandatory for every passenger to carry one with security.
Many years ago, as an April fools, FedEx announced a next-day express service for people.
A 6ft long padded envelope that you popped your sedated executive in and they were dropped off before 9;00 next day anywhere in the world.
They were overwhelmed with people calling them about the service.
But NOAA is Oceans and Atmosphere - nothing to do with weather.
For the last 20 years certain politicians have been campaigning to stop NOAA being allowed to publish weather reports. Instead they will licence the data to Fox and Acuweather etc who will sell the forecasts to the public.
It's just a question of fairness.
We can afford to sail over there in a $20Bn aircraft carrier and drop $M missiles on their water plants but you can't expect a 3rd world country to be able to afford retaliation on the same scale. So we are just doing this to level the playing field
But do you think that people who didn't come from Europe are really human ?
Do you think slavery would be a good way to boost GDP, do you think slavery should be extended to anyone who doesn't own crypto ?
Do you think women have a role in society beyond making babies, do you believe there is such a thing as society?
Your views sound like some dangerous socialist Democrat
