Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

UK chip champ ARM flexes muscle: Shows strong profit and sales

Re: Good or Bad?

The ARM cpu had already been designed and was being sold in PCs several years before that.

What the Apple deal did was fund the spin off of ARM as separate from Acorn.

Re: How long can this go on for?

ARM are (or were) in a race for the bottom with themselves. If you were looking at >100,000 chips it might be cheaper to just design your own core. So ARM's royalty has to drop on large volumes (at least at the low end).

It's a little different at the high end where the cost of support and development of development tools gets important.

Re: Good or Bad?

Which is why Britain's world leading chip company gets less of the price of your iPhone than the person selling the plastic screen protector.

It's worth remembering when you hear about innovation led industry and the value of licensing.

Gov.UK begs Google 'n' U.S. tech pals: Forget Ireland, come to Blighty

Re: The "HQ-UK" initiative is intended to showcase why Blighty

And Google currently employs more than that in London - despite their HQ being in Ireland.

So if they move their brass plaque to London are they going to move all those Irish employees?

Re: The "HQ-UK" initiative is intended to showcase why Blighty

None of them are going to have actual new employees in Britain.

Google's HQ in Ireland only employs one person, admittedly he is the hardest worker int he word - being personally responsible for all Google's EU sales.

The only people that benefit from the HQ being a brass plaque at a lawyers office in London rather than Dublin are lawyers.

Lashed Saudi blogger Raif: Prince Charles has word with new king

Re: One day

4 minutes after the oil runs out Saudi will be the world's biggest above ground nuclear tests by all sides.

Chip giant TSMC, flush with record sales, plans $16bn fab build-out

Re: consolidation

Intel just started making the new i5/i7 at its new 14nm fab in Portland

World's mega-rich tax dodge exposed: Meet the HSBC IT bloke at the heart of damning leak

Re: Didn't realise it was so long ago!

>The level of evasion (in percentage terms) is actually the same.

But their level of evasion would have payed for teachers, nurses, etc

Your level of evasion would only have paid for an MP's lunch

Re: Politcally created issue

"Alternate comedian" hides money in complex off shore tax scam = man bites dog = news

Millionaire rock star doesn't pay tax = dog bites man = not news

Re: In Monaco he had installed computers and software designed to detect fraudulent transactions

No, detecting fraud in Monaco is like shooting dairy cattle with a machine gun and managing to miss all the cows.

Swiss banking industry

>In the past, the Swiss private banking industry operated very differently to the way it does today.

They no longer have a box on the deposit slip for "Gold Teeth"?

Skin colour's irrelevant. Just hire competent folk on their merits, FFS

A good corporate metric

Our west coast startup = 12 people 8 different countries of birth. Only 1 "native"

Dev team 3 different N. European countries + Isreal + Russian + China

QA Indian + Chinese. CFO our only "native"

Strangely our customers in the city seem to have "picked the best of the best" management teams from people who all went to the same public school. the same university and the have same accent. Isn't statistical clustering strange?

Re: Ethnic Origin:

Likewise under "place of birth" I always put "sprang fully formed form the forehead of Zeus", and wait for the resulting religous discrimination

Death knell for Windows with Bing, licences carved up

Price Samsung chromebook in US = $200

Price Samsung chromebook in UK £200

For some smarter consumers, less capable is good. I've had to reboot it about twice in 2 years.

IBM drops patent bomb on Priceline.com

Re: Invention versus Description of the Bleedingly Obvious

That's perfectly legal in US patents.

NERDS KICK PUPPY 'bot in brutal attack

It does have laser beams

That's the spinning lidar unit on it's "head"

Re: It's the result of 2 things comming together

They get together all the time, that's why we have jet engines (and aeroplanes in general), radar, computers, GPS, integrated circuits, rockets etc etc

RadioShack lists 1,800 stores facing the axe across America

Radioshack survived until now ?

Looks like the ceo figured it out

Android Patent Dispute: Microsoft, Samsung hug it out

Times have changed

Negotiations with MSFT used to be them saying "nice little PC business you have here, be a shame if you didn't get any OEM licenses". They even managed to do this to IBM.

Now after they had stopped laughing, Samsung's execs asked if MSFT planned on using any flash in those Surface Pro? Well you can always explain to Intel that you can't buy from anyone else ...

NASA plots methane-detecting laser in SPAAACE

Politics

And depending who wins in 2 years it will be moth balled

$10,000 Ethernet cable promises BONKERS MP3 audio experience

Mein Volks Gott.

VW dealer here is advertising new VWs on finance with $10,000 cash back - to people who need the money.

The ad literally says; "if you need $10,000, whatever you need the money for, come in and buy a new VW and walk away with $10,000" Presumably they need the $10K to get their head examined !

Re: HiFi Power cords

Knew one electronics "cough" engineer "cough" who replaced all the switched PSUs in our labs computers with massive 12V/5V linear supplies - to reduce noise.

Re: Speed of electrons

are you still using electrons?

I use positrons for all my interconnects - of course you have to reverse the 1s and 0s

BEHOLD the magnificent lunar backside in our MOON VIDEO

Re: Wrong Units

3.38 according to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28area+Ireland%29%2F%28area+wales%29&dataset=&equal=Submit

ps. how the fsck do you enter a link ?

Capita lands spot on mega £5bn NHS commissioning deal

Re: I forget

I think you meant is the nation a Capita subsidiary ?

UK air traffic mega cockup: BOTH server channels failed - report

Re: Passenger count

Only 10,000 passengers were affected enough to get compensation claims - the others don't cout

Re: Skimped on IT?

Their idea of resilient was a perfectly safe manual system which they switched to which worked but at a reduced capacity.

Obviously they could have spent more to reduce the risk of this very rare event - in the same way that we always build 3 identical motorways in parallel so we can switch traffic to a backup in the much more common occurrence of an RTA.

France enacts law to block terror and child sexual abuse sites

Re: What a waste of time...

No this is France, if you block something (like a motorway a Channel Tunnel or a port) the Police will turn up and assist you because they are in the same union.

In Britain an 18 year old man could be thrown in prison for having pictures of his 17 year old wife giving birth.

Terrorist sites

like Greenpeace ?

Watch it: It's watching you as you watch it (Your Samsung TV is)

http://www.xckd.com/416/

Re: coming soon?

Would't publishing such a list be a DMCA violation?

Re: It's for the DRM...

Why the joke icon?

I'm sure this will end up as being prior art in some future patent case - unless the patent has already been filed.

"Watch 2001"

"I'm sorry Dave I can't do that - you bought it in region 2 and you are trying to watch it on a region 1 TV in a month with an R in it"

We'll ask GCHQ to DELETE records of 'MILLIONS' of people – Privacy International

Re: Catch-22

Until they also pass a law putting you in prison for 5years if you don't decrypt it.

Shy, retiring British spies come out as MEGA HACKERS

I think you will find that the safeguards protecting the police and the security and intelligence agencies have proved very robust

Google mouthpieces: 'Right to be Forgotten' should not apply on google.com

Re: The google.com thing

Well they could drag BBC employees off flights and arrest them, like the American's do for anyone running an online gambling site outside the USA

Elon Musk: Hover rocket? Check. Hover ship? Check. Let's DO THIS

Re: Who picks up the 'tab' when these things crash?

Not sure about that. Would you pay more for a flight on a plane that has made a successful test flight or is just being towed out of the factory?

We got a very good discount for Cluster to fly on the first Ariane V - that didn't work out too well.

Re: Soft land test

The water landing also lets you land a rocket anywhere, you don't have to constrain your launches so that your return will be in the right place, or carry extra fuel to get there.

Eventually they will land back at base once the saving by retrieving them is enough and the customer can be more flexible on launch and payload - at the moment Nasa is their only, and inflexible, customer.

Biltong, braais, being an 'IT bitch': A UK woman on working in Africa

Re: If I met a woman at a bar..

It's easy; kiwis hiv no vwls. Saffas have vowels but only use them in maaaaaaaaaaan

She's an IT worker in Jo'burg.

The South African mining engineers I work with don't have a clue what it's like to be an unemployed teen in Belfast or a crofter in Orkney - why should they ?

Basic minimum income is a BRILLIANT idea. Small problem: it doesn't work as planned

Overly simplistic?

So you pay everyone the same benefit ( your tax-free allowance is basically benefits) and you make a huge saving by not having all the admin and economic incentive problems.

What about people who need extra help, do they still get more for disability, do people who need nursing care get it or does it all come out of their 15k year?

It's the same argument with flat tax. If we all paid a flat rate with no allowances, bands and loopholes you would raise the same amount paying 13% as we do now with 20%/40%. Except that assumes the billionaires would pay their 13%, which they wouldn't

Re: Working through the numbers

Was made redundant after our company was bought by an asset stripper.

After paying 40% tax my dole claim was rejected (after 8 weeks) because I had started work on the 2nd of Jan so I didn't have enough full years. I applied for income support but didn't get it because I owned a house (or rather the bank did) so was asset-rich.

So I voted with my feet - it's nice here on the pacific coast.

I hope all those Russian billionaires you are attracting to live tax free in London make up for all the scientists and engineers you are losing.

Re: re: doesn't work as planned

32 years ago we 'destroyed' well paid jobs in mining, steel, shipbuilding and have 'created' may more zero-hour part-time minimum wage jobs.

(well if new jobs are "created" by politicians surely old jobs aren't merely "lost")

Smartphones don’t dumb you down, they DUMB you UP

Re: where I art be ?

Depends where in the country you are.

Ex-squeeze me? Baking soda? Boffins claim it safely sucks CO₂ out of the air

Re: Carbonates are how the Earth deals with excess CO2

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of open pit? Hint the clue is in the name.

First look: Ordnance Survey lifts kimono on next-gen map app

Although they are happy to show huge blank areas that are secret.

Like the undetectable top secret cylindrical tower in the center of London

Slurping air passengers' private details not great for privacy, concede EU data bods

>You would just put them in the back of the car

I think I saw a terrorist instruction video on extremist ITV which suggested you had to put them in barrels of oil and get very nervous when the gendarmes poke in the back of the van.

Re: Selective amnesia

Invade Belgium .....