Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
It can't be used against Monoco or Luxemburg because the laser can't be used within 200km of freindlies.
Iceland have an awesomely effective anti-aircraft volcano
Easter island is out of range and the carrier version doesn't work
And strangely the weapons system crashes with an error message "target contains director's bank account" when pointed at Jersey
>Or military camouflage patterns?
I did nearly hit a Landrover once in a green country lane. It pulled out of a gap in the hedge and I didn't see it - because the owner had painted it in camouflage pattern.
I reckon that "I didn't see it" would have been a valid defence since the owner when to a lot of effort to make it so that people couldn't see it.
Yes you just have to get a visa, apply a few years in advance, and hope that Tata didn't take the full quota for their call-center "specialists", and hope that your partner can also get a visa, and hope that the visa gets renewed next year or doesn't get cancelled because the rules change because some PM is facing UKIP and wants to look tough.
1, Cloud solution. Fire up a million instances of Windows7 on Azure and upgrade to Windows10. Restore them and repeat 1000 times
2, RIAA solution. Download a pirate copy. Claim that this represents a million potential violations who would have purchased a copy. And they had a 48x CD drive so that counts 48x as much. Repeat 20 times
3, Oracle solution. Install on a machine with an 8 core CPU. Claim that this represents 2^8 licenses in use.
4, Google/Apple solution. Claim that you have a billion installs but they all happened in Ireland and so you don't count them when reporting to the IRS.
It also depends on what the taxpayer money was spent on.
I got tax payer money for a way to do early stage drug candidate screening on live cells - it failed to get enough VC funding to continue.
I now get tax payer money (or at least tax credits) to develop a guided surgical system that we are now using on patients.
The difference is that even the failures were developing new technology which still exists and can be used. They weren't just taking public money to pay for the rights to something to give away in the hope that one day somebody else will buy the company.
No it's when an engineer is out on a job and isn't allowed to buy something from PC world but must purchase it through the internal supplier.
What it also doesn't account for is that although they paid 50quid for a 5quid card - they also had to spend an hour filling in the paperwork, and various levels of manager spent an hour authorising and processing it. That wasted time cost 10x as much as the 50quid
But look on the bright side, there will now be jobs for all when we kick out all those foreign researchers and grad students.
I only hope that there will be enough native Britains to fill these roles when we have full employment following the departure of all those Polish builders.
The problem is the cost and delay while they don't decide.
We had almost a years delay on selling a system because the US didn't adopt ISO-some-long-number::2014 but stuck to ISO-some-long-number::2012 while the component supplier moved to the new one. There is no difference (that I have been able to find) but you can't sell a medical device that doesn't meet the correct one.
Having staff sitting around for a year while the UK goes through 1000s of regs and decides what to accept and then there are legal and procedural challenges that decide what effect each of these has on 1000s of other docs. This might not be a big deal for Siemens or Philips but would sink us.
We sell in Switzerland, they accept CE and Eu accreditation. We don't even need to register with the Swiss authorities and our German salesforce can work there freely.
But they didn't just vote to have nothing to do with the rest of Europe.
Can you guarantee what the UK medical device rules are going to be in 5years ?
>don't get me started on university fees,
If you don't want to spend 9grand/year studying leisure center management at the university of Scunthorpe you could always go and study automotive engineering at the home of Porsche/BMW/Mercedes for free.
Or at least you could until yesterday...
You mean have a choice of airlines?
And yet still choose to fly BA
Here in Canada we have a choice between AirCanada (think BA in the days of nationlised customer service) and WestJet (a discount domestic airline without the cheap fares)
