> Especially as my Server licensing is now per-core for reasons I cannot fathom.
Of course you can.
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> austerity
You mean "fauxterity".
You can still have F-35 at several billion a pop, insanely high civil servant paychecks, random pharaonic projects, wars because "X gassed his own people" and freshly printed fiat money in container-sized increments.
Interesting. It never ceases to amaze me that such complex systems of engineering, management politics and economics such as nuclear reactors (based on militarily-usable PWRs, natch) can even be built at all.
OTOH, if nuclear reactors show this kind of problem in manufacture, expect similar problems to occur in wind power installations. Long series of cracked shafts, broken wings and waterlogged alternators (as well as companies going titsup, nullifying expectations of investment paybacks) are likely to await in the future.
Incidentally, Paluel 2 has been offline since May 2015. Its maintenance period is continuing, following an incident on March 31, 2016, in which a 465-ton steam generator tipped over during removal.
OTOH, I have the impression the new generation of engineers is not up to snuff.
I suppose it is not boatloads of economic migrants from south of the Mediterranean who warrant setting up a "total defense perspective". It fits in however with the NATO-embiggening demonization of all things Russia and the forever imminent threat of an "invasion". Very similar indeed to the forever-imminent "nuclear bomb" of Iran, a fat, fat lie served by yellow journalists (looking at you, mainstream clique of "The Economist", you shilling twats) every two months for 15 years or so).
With some luck we won't get a finagled "NATO event" before the US election, but ... who knows.
175 million?
Spare change down the sofa.
The National Endowment for Democracykeeping Raytheon's share price at elevated levels will eventually make sure that this is money well spent. Because you can't just JDAM the Russkies or the Chinks.
Now. We were talking about USD 20 trillion of debt?
IT system was maintained by the postgrads, along with the IT department and the odd comp sci prof (when they were not too busy) .
For me that spells "utter disaster area" (first hand experience of disappearing mountpoints on Solaris ... where is the backup ... owwww!)
The postgrads are barely able to sysop or even program their way out of a paperbag (do they acquire knowledge by osmosis with humming infrastructure?) and are busy working on their PhDs or teaching duties (as they should be) and the profs are are far away from the nuts and bolts in scienceland (as they should be, as that's what they are getting paid for) and are wont to take utterly stupid decisions based on too little experience and perceived relative status.
Better to have a dedicated section of people that deal with the machine crap on a daily basis but that liaise continually with the people for whom they are running everything. You might even have postgrads working on both teams, why not.
The decision to go into Windows is orthogonal to this, everyone is free to open their veins while taking a warm bath after all.
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XML with all its warts for serious stuff
JSON for when quick webcrud is required because the customer (or the boss) asked for something to be done quickly (or with no money forthcoming), and where foisting technical debt on the next intern is standard operating procedure.
(But why is there an image of the Golden Ant leading this article?)
I heard it was just Oswald.
Or maybe Lyndon B. Johnson.
Or the mafia. Could be. There was even a deathbed confession of a sicilian hitman.
Or Smoking Man.
Though I will still go for just Oswald.
Generally all the conspiracy theories make up as if JFK was about to perform the second coming of the Christ. Was he ever. More like Obama the Mad Bomber but with a more active shlong.
At least for small numbers of Li-based batteries, water or the drink dispenser cart filled with non-alcoholic beverage is your best bet.
Do not cover with sand, dude! "Avoid using ice or smothering substances". It's just going to make its burning harder!
Extinguishing In-Flight Laptop Computer Fires - Lithium Battery Thermal Runway
Unfortunately, flight passengers are forced to leave behind their mineral water bottles nowadays.
Is that like blowing one's nose into a pound of festering Haggis?
Choose between crazy dumpf (who will hopefully bring everything down, which might actually be for the best) and the wench of babylon (who will start nuclear war because Putin is Hitler)?
VOTE GARY JOHNSON! IT IS OUR ONLY HOPE!!
Someone is being offended by something that is apparently race-based, this won't do!
Does it make sense to target asian suburbanites with cheap inner-city housing proposals? The hell it does.
And I thought the message was "race does not exist"... the hell it doesn't.
This is snark for the sake of snark.
Of course it is.
Also, I'm sorry. It was not the Guardian, it was the Irish Times raising the issue in question. I don't know how I mixed up those two.
"Hey, Grxlyknurrr, see this ad on the pan-galactic tat bazaar? Think it's for real?"
"Only 3 Hard Money Units? Well, this may be an artifact of an underdeveloped retardo civiization, possibly simian. I would say go for it. We could make some money reselling it to Hoornnooool's "Museum of Curiosities", she needs some good stuff to rekindle visitors' interest."
possession of a PDF document about advances in missile guidance and control, and possession of a book about guided missiles
Well, I have a few of these. Plus a book by Morgan Kauffmann on how to roboticize a small fleet of Humvees.
We have been at war for 20+ years now, the presence of such goods should not be surprising.