Re: Might need to rethink those layoffs, eh ?
Those very thoughts were just relayed to me by our SI partner, not normally a hot bed of labour sentimentality.
Turns out you need smart techies even when everything is "inside the cloud" - who knew!
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Where I live it's not unusual for the 4G to barely register one or two bars, and then the phone to default to 3G, which is pretty shit, but will carry some data.
With 3G being retired will I now be left with no data? Or will the retirement only be done once the Telco is confident that 4G service is in place?
I think I know the answer to that last one, and I'm not comforted, but thought I'd ask the more knowledgeable amongst you.
I think we might fail, because the other El Reg units are interesting (or comical) as they scale, but nobody is going to describe a temperature of 23 degC as "23 Slightly Melty Vanilla Ice Creams", because your vanilla ice cream wouldn't be slightly melty at 23 degC, it will just be a runny mess.
- MyffyW, 490 milliHelens on a good day
@Joe_W this is the Zen of air travel. Leave your cares and false dignity behind. I was once a regular commuter on the Dublin - Liverpool Ryanair route. No pre-assigned seating. The knack was not boarding until the vary last minute, when you are literally the last passenger. Don't keep them waiting, just walk up once there is no longer a queue to board. You walk serenely onto the plane, to possibly the only remaining seat, the staff find somewhere for your luggage to go, you buckle up and off we go. Even the screaming child you're probably beside can't pull you out of this moment of perfect mindfulness.
Dave, the venerable driver of the My Whippy van round our way, has a novel take on the cleaning regime. He wears blue nitrile gloves, and wipes everything down with a jay cloth, and if he should notice a spot that he's missed he just spits on the cloth and wipes it away.
But bless him, he doesn't seem to mind me paying for a 99 Flake with handfuls of 2 pence pieces.
Business rules being slanted towards megacorps really isn't that much of a partisan issue, this is why our politics (in this sceptered isle) are broken as surely as they are in the United States.
The real battle, this century, is between those who are open to reason and argument and those who are deaf and blind to any evidence that contradicts their petrified ideology.
Turning this into a partisan point makes it less likely that any progress will be made.
I asked ChatGPT to quote the first 2 pages of Orwell's 1984. Replying that the novel was published in 1949 and was in the public domain, it got to the second paragraph "The hallway sm..." before it paused and then seconds later displayed the error message:
"This content may violate our content policy or terms of use. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area."
So there's something getting in the way of simply quoting. Ask it to quote Henry V, Act IV Scene iii (We few, We happy few) it provides an excerpt of the famous speech, not the whole "The king himself is rode to view their battle etc. etc."
Well I guess they leave out the "how" because they are a regulator, not the operator.
I do sympathise with being asked to do the impossible. It's the gap between overreaching ambition and reality that exists whether you are in the public or private sector. I just see the large amounts of profit taken since privatisation, and a curiously close alignment with the level of indebtedness accrued in the same time period.
Speaking as a North Country girl, many is the time I would hear weary mothers on the bus shouting at their misbehaving progeny "Pack it in, our Wayne or I'll get yer Dad to leather you". Such tender maternal care! This demi-paradise! This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings! Sigh ... makes you proud to be ... half-Welsh
I started playing with Linux because it was a free (as in beer) way of practicing my UNIX skills, for the day when I'd be let loose on the big beasts of AIX, HP-UX or Tru64 (yes I know that dates me).
How ironic that the "sandbox" OS I was using turned out to be their successor.
I do like the fact I don't have to manage a complex set of licenses and sub-clauses too. No count of processors and quibbling about cores. Or wondering whether the shifting sands of T&Cs have been massaged to make me owe the worlds 4th richest man a substantial portion of my company's net worth.
If I've done my Maths right* I calculate that all we need to do is put a massive radio telescope 0.7 light hours (~750 billion kilometers) from Earth, where Voyager 2 is actually pointing and we're back in business. I'm sure there's an egotistical billionaire or three that would be willing to try.
[*It's been a while since I put any real trust in my prowess with trigonometry, so your mileage (or km-age) may vary.]
@Chris Coles, very very rough calculation* by yours truly estimates that Earth absorbs 500 Exa Watt Hours of energy from the sun annually. And it will absorb more if you add extra CO2, even in the parts per million range.
So the total heat emissions from heat engines are not material. But their CO2 is. Now let's get on with fixing that.
[*please do check my maths]