Posts by Gordon 10 3872 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Nice theory :).
Unfortunately Occams Razor suggests that the one who has demonstrated multiple acts of stupidity plus spoke to the papers editor a couple of hours before the story ran is probably guilty.
For any normal employee it would have been gross misconduct and a summary firing without notice. For him he gets 3 months severance and gets a gold plated pension.
It's not a shoestring budget - however the problem stems from the requirement to send huge barrels of pork to favoured legislators districts. NASA's actual mission is to benefit American Senators, jobs and industries. Sending things to Space is a distinctly secondary task.
Plus it suffers from the usual bloat and political dysfunctions all 60+ year old organisations would suffer from.
The COTS programs like SpaceX have been successes because it limits the ability for Congress-critters to interfere - not for any inbuilt efficiencies the private sector might have.
These are global numbers you muppet. The UK's self inflicted foot shooting will barely register.
However Apple's and Samsungs price related foot shooting seems to be proceeding well. I wonder if Huawei are also suffering for the same reason - they are aiming high on the price side - excluding Honor of course.
Downvoted for confusing Wikileaks with King Julian - they are not the same.
He lost my sympathy when he pissed hundred of thousands of pounds of his supporters bail money up the wall by jumping.
Every action of his appears to have been calculated to gain maximum advantage for King Julian and sod everything and everyone else. His actions have tainted any good he did.
All Hail King Julian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEMTuMzq-1s
Why wont they be? They don't have to be better than Lewis Hamilton - just better than the average human driver - which is a pretty low bar tbh.
If Tesla can show the insurance companies that a Tesla will have less accidents than a human over a relevant statistical sample then they'll be queuing up - especially since they would still charge an extra "AI Premium" and cream off profits for a few years.
The Feynman report whilst an excellent example of no-BS scientific communication isnt relevant...
But I think thats not the point in question - and it should be.
It's worth noting that Supreme Court Appeals are usually for clarifications on points of law - rather than the facts of the case, so I suspect the wrong aspects are being appealed.
Whats being appealed is the applicability vicarious liability in this case, NOT whether Morrisons sufficiently restricted the access of their IT auditor - which is what they should be judged on. If they made reasonable attempts to provide the auditor with a minimum level of access for his role (say logs only), rather than say SA or equivalent, then I don't think they have a case to answer for damages. If they just shrugged and gave him SA then throw the book at them.
AFAIK all Autonomy's hardware sales were flogging 3rd party kit like dell and emc. From that its not unreasonable to call them a pure play software company. I suspect he was also appealing to Leo's vanity as a comrade in arms - ex-SAP.
This trial is doing nothing to dissuade me that this was a catalog of Board failures at HP, arguably over at least 10 years at this point starting with consistently picking incredibly poor choices for CEO.
Depending on the corporate structure thats a crass but not unreasonable statement if following UK good corporate governance where there is a both a Chairman AND a CEO.
Its the chairmans job to set broad direction and manage the CEO. It's the CEO's job to manage the company and its performance to those directions.
If this is a US company where the head honcho is both Chair and CEO - then the suit is deserved.
Small correction - the people bunging money at them now are very keen NOT be the ones in debt when the merry-go-round stops.
2 ways to win at the startup VC game. Ride the unicorn to the finish or glue a spike onto a horse, flog it and run.
He explicitly said taxiway so he's right and you are wrong :P .
The AOA doesn't change until the weight starts coming off the front wheel near the end of take off on a runway.
It also changes if the pilot stamps on the anchors :)
I've read that it only uses 1 at any one time cycling between them at power off. So gawd knows how it determines erroneous inputs.
I've still yet to see an explanation of why the Max doesn't have best of 3 aoa consensus like most Air Buses or whether the MCAS uses other inputs like inertia sensors.
MCAS smell like a bodge to be honest - at least to a layman.
Our companies version of skype can barely reliably connect 2 people long enough to have a conversation.
I think 250 would cause our DC to implode and cause a China crisis.
Mind you Webex and the Horror that is webex teams is the same...
Probably doesn't make sense given she probably has several pool limo's at each site except her home base. Plus other execs probably get to use it when she isn't.
Given the size of the IBM car fleet they probably get better discounts on adding a few more cars to the leasing fleet than buying a few outright in addition. Plus then you have to deal with separate maintenance agreements and the like.
What planet are you from? Dates for conferences are generally known almost as soon as the last conference is finished. Travel for conferences is a different thing to both leisure and ordinary business travel. Especially if you are a presenter rather than a delegate.
You big bag of fail you.
Im looking forward to SpaceX's half century of first stage landings.
But for now I'll just say 35 frickin' times. Thats 35 times more than anyone else who was heading for orbit.
Including the neck hair raising double bubble of the Falcon Heavy twin boosters landing next to each other.
There is another Falcon heavy launch planned later this year. Wonder if they will go for the triple?
No-one ever accused the US Government of being consistent.
Thats why a Chinese owned manufacturer is being nobbled but US companies who outsource to more shadowy Chinese manufacturers are not nobbled in-spite of the case that it would be far easier to infiltrate a 3rd party supplier than a 1st party one.
It's nothing to do with espionage and everything to do with geo-political game playing.
Holby Torchwood crossover more likely,,,,,given most of ts in Cardiff these days.
Capt Jack rogers so many staff senseless that they are too bandy legged push the trolleys down the corridor at a run thus causing all patient waiting times to breach and the CQC to shut them down. Capt Jack is then killed by Jacob and Elles son donuting an ambulance in front of the ED. Only for the CQC to back down when Connie 'miraculously' brings an apparently dead Capt Jack back to life. All is then fine until Duffy realises she's expecting Jacks space baby, so Charlie frowns like he's got mild indigestion.
Meanwhile Holby proceeds as normal with Lofty making a throwaway oneliner about how when he saw Robin off screen she couldn't walk straight. The camera then pans away from Holby mysteriously not showing any of the ED frontage seen in Casualty.
I agree with your point but you are missing a few costs that Apple incur:
Service, warranty and sales support in the country of purchase.
A working mobile payments infrastructure via NFC
A proven software patching program running over multiple years.
(maybe) marginally less bug ridden software.
Now for £279 you can get all of the above with an Honor 10..... thats a more painful comparison still.
(Except maybe the marginally less bug ridden software - Im betting the Poco is similar to the Honor 10 in that respect). MIUI vs EMUI is probably much of a muchness.
BE AFRAID EL REG
Their Vegan Fascism extends to controlling what food vans park next to the office here in WeWork Paddington. Meat Wagons strictly Verboten!
Needless to say once thriving van spots now have tumbleweeds rolling around them. Fortunately most of them only decamped as far as Paddington Basin. Visa's and Voda's gain.
Maybe its just the law striking back against unlawful behaviour? Damn those nasty data privacy regulations!
And just maybe you are using dog whistles like Establishment and Terrorists to make it "them and us" when in reality it was just a bunch of numptys who didn't respect data privacy laws.
Classic trollish behaviour sir. just not sure if you are commentarding for El Reg shits and giggles (which is ok) or you do this semi-professionally to keep the anger quotient high (which just makes you a 1 man daily mail).
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