Driver?
All they need now is a driver. Wonder if Ben Collins is available between court dates?
Team Lotus started out with four people in late 2009, and has grown to 200 people and two Formula One cars today. It only got a guaranteed place on the starting grid in December 2009 - and then had to create a team, a car and an infrastructure in four months. Sorting out a normal office network and backup systems in that time …
I was about to say, "You buy the Renault F1 team", then I released it was the other Lotus...
Will be 'interesting' if we end up with 2 Lotus teams on the grid this year, especially if they both decide to use the black and gold paint scheme! Tora Rosso and Red Bull is bad enough as it is.
An article of fluff... fluff obviously sponsored by Dell...
We get that the trip was sponsored by them but lines like
"Bill Peters, head of IT for Team Lotus, explained why he chose Dell."
"Lotus tech provider Dell. The direct giant sorted out all the usual office infrastructure along with a high-performance cluster for design work and a datacentre "
... i mean really?!
Since when did this become a marketing hub rather than a news site?
Paris - an article on her sponsored by Dell maybe?
Of the journalists there I would have expected El Reg to have asked a lot more IT questions.
OK the CFD runs on Linux but what flavour of Linux?
What OS runs on the laptops in the pratt perch?
How does the data get back to Norfolk, in the back of a lorry or via satellite broadband?
What coms kit is used?
The virtual servers used, are they in the cloud, if so where, Amazon or with Dell?
Do Dell supply a BOFH to the team?
etc, etc, etc.
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Are you applying for the jobs going in Glasgow.Back in November when they had interviews for 15 tech roles available. Over 500 applied only 98 made it to the first interview and out of them only 20 were asked back in for a 2nd interview. About 12 guys got passed the 2nd interview and started training in end of Nov/start of Dec.Those guys have only finished training and will start taking support calls in Feb. Good luck mate and all the best in your application. they offered you 18K?
I thought they were offering starting salary of 16 and a half K?
The 2010 "Team Lotus" who may be "Team Gone" in 2011 with the legal ranglings over the Lotus name. Lotus F1 is pretty much a dead end for a driver's career. They are extremely under funded, naive, over-confident, in denial and lack good management. Oh yeah, and their cars are uncompetitive. Other than that they really belong in GP2 not F1. I expect them to be gone before the 2011 season is over.
You have no idea about F1 quite obviously, so please leave.
Lotus are quite well funded and have the backing of 3 billionaires (firstly among them Air Asia X founder Tony Fernandes and Air Asia X is going from strength to strength so his money is not at risk).
The fight with Lotus is actually a fight with Proton who own Lotus Cars, however Team Lotus have the rights to the Formula 1 Team Lotus as bought from Mr Chapman grandson of the founder of Team Lotus F1. The legal wrangling is because whilst Team Lotus and Proton had a deal for them to race under the Lotus name, when the new chairman of Proton group came to power he cancelled the deal (illegally) and tried to sue Lotus for using the name. This is in the courts now and everyone involved in the case sees quite a big kicking in the ass for Proton. Expect 2 cars carrying the Lotus name for the next few years - 1 Team Lotus and 1 Lotus sponsored Renault.
As for there cars being uncompetitive, they didnt exist 4 months before the start of a season, of course they were going to be uncompetitive in that first season. However over the course of the season they made up over 10sec per lap in time difference between them and the fastest cars on the grid. With a full year to prepare this years car, and the experience of last year, i expect team Lotus to be firmly midfield fighting the Force India's, William's and Toro Rosso's.
So please dont comment about something you have absolutely no idea about, it just shows your ignorance!
The key bits of the puzzle which either complement and enhance, or degrade and destroy any perceived value in any computer system, [and indeed, in any type of operating system you may imagine] is still always contained in the base/ground zero adage ..... Rubbish In, Rubbish Out.
Highly imaginative and better use of Beta Brain Power is what wins competitive races. What sort of machine delivers that?