Posts by Vikingforties 133 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2016
The article's a bit light on detail but this smacks of paying top dollar to go after small fry when looking up their FaceTube accounts might be way faster and cheaper (does self incrimination online like that count as evidence?).
Different dept. but how about paying top dollar for going after the wrong 'uns in the Panama Papers and such like?
No kidding.
Let's suppose his deity happens to be the Christian one. Well, aren't Christians rather looking forward to their own humanity extinction event? Tribulations, antichrist, four horsemen - all that malarkey.
If you're getting your extinction soon, surely it's splitting hairs how it comes. The guy should be working for Altman if he thought a bit more about his ultimate plan.
Ex NHS Spine here so I used to know a little about the NHS backend, not so much front of house.
The company I work for have swallowed the MS pill. The full suite. That, mixed in with our corp protectionware, is a great waste of my productivity. I'm often hanging around waiting for this or that to happen or correcting a wrong click because of Cumulative Layout Shift / Jank. People don't kark it when I don't get something done in a timely way but they potentially do within the NHS. If it's measurable, what's the number? What is the number of people being treated by the NHS that have an adverse outcome because MS is farting around with Notepad AI improvements, crap reskins of Outlook, foisting copilot on folks who never asked for it..... the list goes on.
In fact what's the productivity / good outcome benefit of having NHS staff implement the right IT for the right situation rather than going into protracted negotiations with a behemoth that's intent on extracting the most money possible both before AND after you've paid for the product?
Is anyone reminded of plot points from the 60's comedy Mouse on the Moon over this saga?
I think Rutland* should start a space program. they'd have a sporting chance at this rate.
*Nothing against Rutland, perfectly pleasant place but one of the lesser likely counties to start a space program from.
Given the fairly close locations, channel the waste hot air to the Houses or Parliament and give our hard working representatives some time off.
More widely (and seriously) I think DC heat recovery is a good idea let down by the lack of a planned economy to properly make use of it. Some downsides of planned economies, of course.
Is there any merit in DC builders becoming dual businesses? e.g. build a DC with a leisure centre next to it or a greenhouse complex.
So, he wants to improve the life of everyone on Earth. Fine, but that's motherhood and apple pie.
He also wants to hasten Christ's return. Selfish bar steward! I happen to be vaguely enjoying life and the last thing I want is some guy trying to bring tribulation, judgement and an eternity of pain or boredom on me and the family.
"Vonce ze rockets go up, who cares where ze come down?
Und I'm learning Chinese, sings Wernher von Braun."
Seriously, all this faffing about and marketing renders these days makes me seriously impressed with what was put together by quite a few nations back in the early space days.
Given that the UK has a spying and national security debacle running on at the moment, should we really be tendering out to the one LEO Comms company who's owner, by the evidence of his Xeets, seems not to have the UK's national interest at heart?
Maybe by the time the meetings and lunches are had there'll be others up there. What ever happened to that British / Indian satellite GPS company that Cummings was involved with whilst he was causing trouble?
That's a curious ambition, as Arm servers for mainstream enterprise users remain scarce.
A vast swathe of enterprise won't adopt Arm on prem if it doesn't have VMware and Broadcom won't hurry up porting it or putting carrots in front of sales if there's no estate out there to land on.
