Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
And that's Germany's problem
All Germans believe that the sole cause of the 1930s naughtiness was hyper-inflation
They also believe that if the inflation target is 2.0% then 2.1% is the start of hyper-inflation
Therefore the government can't borrow to spend on anything
It's why it's taken extreme Russians-being-Russian and the US saying "you're on your own guys" for them to risk spending defense budget on buying defence kit from their own companies.
>there is one thing that messes up the efficient running of a railway it's passengers with their wants and needs!
The only real timetabling problem with passengers is the need to stop the train to allow them to board and alight (what a lovely word)
This could be solved by a system of nets and scoops alongside the track.
And the USA, UK etc wanted Ukraine to give them up because otherwise every other former USSR state would also try and keep the ones on their soil. And we weren't all that keen on a bunch of 'stans' having thermonuclear weapons and no government
It's generally regarded that Israel's nuclear arms are to threaten the USA.
Israel gets into a conventional war with its neighbours. A USA administration vacillates (as in its support for Ukraine), Israel replies that it will have no alternative but to nuke Cairo, Amman, Istanbul, Bruxelles etc etc and draw the USSR whoever, into a global war. Unless of course the USA immediately supplies everything it wants and says nice things about it at the UN
And the arguement is that it wasn't "reproduced, distributed, or transmitted" it was "read" by the LLM, which learned from it in exactly the same way as a student reading a textbook. It's just that the LLM produces a more garbled recollection of the book than the student.
However reading a bedtime story to your child would be a violation.
Or because it's free, open source and everybody know how to program it ?
I'm not sure the inter-process communication on Unix is all that special, most of the supercomputer tasks used something like MPI - which will run happily on almost anything
Although I'm ancient enough to remember when Crays went Unix and the operators tore their grey beard hair out
VMS was also bloody expensive and they played the IBM mainframe game of we want you to upgrade so the maintenance on your existing kit is now 10x
Ironically what finally made us switch was they sold Dec Alphas with NT for half the price of Alphas with VMS. And those could run Linux.
Also being able to have Linux on a laptop, which VMS or Sun couldnt, made a bid difference for traveling scientists.
Is it so great that the world runs on 30years of patches onto a student project to re-implement a hack to do text processing on a system that was small enough to run on a discarded bit of kit that was too under powered to run the "proper OS" that was being designed for it ?
It at least shows that fate has a sense of humour
(Proud user of Linux since version 0.99 and SLS on floppies, and owner of a signed copy of The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook )
>But at least they are taking the time to make up some numbers, to make it look good.
But even the most junior of salesdroid know not to make up an expenses claim for a round number like that.
You claim savings of 9.82% and people think you have pulled the number out of somewhere less anatomical
That's the problem with Blair's Britain.
Up until the 90s Britain was the leaders in domestic terrorist bombings, but then thanks to the so-called government we lost an entire industry.
He did try for a brief resurgence in 2005 but we have to admit that we have lost the crown to cheaper foreign markers
>The cell protocol has provision for priority, so what would happen is that the emergency comms would still get through
In theory yes, in practice no
In GSM the prioritisation is number based and happens in the network so it needs to get a connection to say "yes your good", which is hard to do if the tower is jammed with 1000s of calls being told "no you're not on the list"
In 5G there was a suggestion to have a cell level "shut up, grown-ups are talking" broadcast directly from the cell to tell all non-priority handsets to stop trying to connect. But that meant either needed special handsets or a way of telling every cell the global list of permitted emergency phone IMIEs to allow online.
Don't know what happened in the final agreement - anybody still working in the field ?
>So why's it being stored on a poorly secured legacy system
Welcome t'council meeting. We're closing the children's center to pay Oracle $$$$$ to update that 20year old system that lists which volunteers counted the votes in the 2000 local election.
All in favour ?
>China GDP Growth (1995 to present): 11% per annum
>UK GDP Growth (1995 to present): 2% per annum
So the trick is to start from being an impoverished 3rd world country and industrialize for the first time?
Ethopia has done even better over the same time scale, it's GDP has almost tripled. Perhaps the UK can organise a famine and civil war ?
Because for years (until SpaceX) the actual rocket part wasn't terribly innovative. It was a way to either hide the cost of your ICBM program, or subsidise the costs of your ICBM program - depending on what the treasury needed that year. The UK builds a lot of the high value payload that the big metal firework tube throws into orbit.
The UK aircraft industry is doing very well, it builds the most technically difficult and most expensive parts - Airbus's wings and everyone's engines. Just because de-Havilland don't build an entire aeroplane doesn't mean there isn't an industry
