Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Step 1: Announce that to fight tourism terrorism, there is a Patriotic-Super-Double-Secret Letter that says you must cooperate with the authorities. You can't tell anyone about receiving this, can't question it and can't show it to a lawyer. We can't show you what a genuine letter looks like cos it's classified and if you don't immediately comply we will send your grandmother to Guantanamo and a SWAT team will shoot your dog.
Step 2. Act surprised when hackers send fake Patriotic-Super-Double-Secret letters to victims.
Yes, the company purchasing manager and their Dell account manager spend months going over the details of branch prediction microcode and the relative efficiency of L2 cache coherence in AMD vs Intel core design
And then everyone under the rank of management get a Latitude
I'm in charge of IT for our dept. I got asked how many VMs, how much storage and then a Dell model XYZ arrived to put in the rack. I never got asked what cpu I wanted
>The major difference between large companies and small ones is not that large companies bother having good office spaces and small ones don't
Large companies have fancy office buildings, cos ego + $ = architects
But smaller companies generally have nicer office conditions.
If I need to keep 4-5 programmers happy it makes sense to have motorised standing desks and $10K espresso machines while a company with 50K employees doesn't
>No one serious is going to invest their time in this.
Where do the cool kids go for a small RTOS in these modern times?
VxWorks don't return your calls unless you are NASA. Integrity requires you have your own Airforce.
Use a Linux and hope that with enough spare CPU anything is realtime-ish ?
When I was young, and the world was 8bit, the only place to learn was hoping WHSmith had a magazine with some Basic you could type in.
Now school kids can play with the same OS that runs the world, watch computer-science lectures from the world's best universities and have online tutorials for every conceivable language/technology.
But we should probably stick to waiting until they're 16 and then have them learn how to draw flowcharts in A-level computer science
Tesla are going to be in trouble.
The market of people who want an EV in USA and Europe now hate Musk
Truck driving MAGA are not swapping their F150 for a model 3
China is going to respond to the first tariffs with a ban.
Fortunately if he is made America's CEO, he will have to sell his $Bn of Tesla shares to avoid a conflict. It would be unfair to force him to pay tax so we need a law exempting government appointments from capital gains. So he gets to walk away from the trash fire for free.
Menial jobs outside factories won't get replaced by robots.
Replacing 20 machinists with one $100K CNC mill or replacing 100 women with paintbrushes and a pot of Radium with a printer is quick cheap and easy.
Replacing a <minimum wage illegal immigrant babysitter with a $1M Tesla humanoid robot is not quite such an easy sell to 1000s of working families
I think that's unlikely.
No true patriotic American president is going to put ideology before money.
Government jobs will be open to all party members who pay $$ monthly subscription, half of which goes to the party leader. Promotion will naturally follow those who demonstrate their suitability by subscribing to the higher membership tiers
