Re: I doubt it

Not to mention that all the kit in a DC is powered by sockets *inside the racks*.

... and randomly read for MVCC.

Re: I doubt it

And no-one noticed the reboots in the syslog? No-one noticed the uptime looked a bit funny when they ran top (or equivalent)? No-one came in the next morning and wondered why their remote logins had dropped?

I call shenanigans.

Re: He's quite right

I'm a diver, and diving kit is much cheaper on the Internet.

But you can't get your tank filled on the internet, and no local dive shop can survive on doing tank fills alone... For that reason I've no problem paying a little more.;

Re: Right we get the point but

Don't you get it yet? Yes outsourcing IS cheaper... For the first quarter, or maybe the first year. Enough for whoever inked the deal to be hailed as a business genius and get his bonus and promotion. Then the wheels come off and you're over a barrel. Penny wise, pound foolish as they say.

Yes, you would expect this from Ruby "rockstar ninjas" but not from Python users, who're supposed to be grown-ups.

Re: Entropy: Big Problem!

No, red light can barely make it to 10m. There's still a little blue light at 200m. Below that, it's dark. That's why the fish that live down there, the ones that even have eyes, also have bioluminescence.

(I'm a diver).

Re: Chocolate Teapot

A carrier would have been damn useful for Libya, and may well yet be for Algeria.

Helicopter, because, y'know

Re: Damn right

Doesn't that strike you as a little weird tho'? Can you imagine if the same applied to accountants and doctors?

Re: BYOD Policy

The headlong rush into "The Cloud" suggests the mainframe-lovers were right all along.

Maybe organisations should listen to their IT departments...

Re: Fresh Darth of Bespin.

"What is the point of attacking a fixed line defensive position on a snow covered planet by landing slow moving walking(!) tanks miles away from the enemy?"

To be fair that one is explained in the movie - they had to attack under the energy shield the rebels were projecting above their base.

Re: Upvoted

Corporate greed? Or greed of consumers shopping around for the lowest price and free shipping?

We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

Re: EE 'Doc' Smith? Larry Niven?

Right. Your mass goes up as a cube but the cross section of your bones goes up as a square, as you get bigger.

Re: Too right, typical Apple

In both price and performance, Commodore and Atari were superior to Apple all throughout the 80s. C64/800XL vs Apple II, and then ST/Amiga vs Macintosh, it was no contest. Arguably Workbench was much more usable than the contemporary MacOS too (i.e. the Mac didn't get multitasking until 6 OS versions later) and in colour too, so the famed Apple "design" doesn't really get a look-in either.

Apple gets to write history however as it is the last man standing from that era.

Re: a protest against tuition fees that doesnt work

This is actually how the Sorbonne in Paris works. You only need to be enrolled to sit the exams.

Re: Gnat's organ

Nothing was handed to anyone. That mind-boggling sum was the loan guarantees, which were never called upon and have now expired. The actual cash cost of the bank bailout was around £60Bn, the cost of acquiring the majority of RBS. To put that into perspective, it's around the same amount England spends on bailing out Scotland every year anyway. And if Millipede can keep his trap shut for a few minutes, that will eventually be sold at a profit to the taxpayer.

I can tell you've come straight from "Comment Is Free"...

Re: "Attention all women...

Oh please, call it "telegenic" for example and it applies to both sexes. Tony Bliar being a classic example, people voted for him "because he has a nice smile" and completely ignored any of his policies (if they were voting for his policies, they'd have voted Tory).

Lawyers

And Al Gore

Cheaper...

... Than the Eurofighter isn't saying much!

AND

What is this "encrypted government only" lark? If I'm paying for it I bloody well want full use of it.

SCO

When MS sold Xenix back in the 80s, the terms of the deal were that MS couldn't develop another Unix themselves.

NTFS

NTFS is light years ahead of ext-whatever, and nothing to do with FAT.

Nonsense

So precious snowflake developers will tell you, but it's nonsense, no amount of hardware will make O(n^2) into O(n).

ISAs

"Normal people" have ISAs, y'know.

SPARC

They did support SPARC tentatively, but endianness issues in the HAL meant it could never be made to perform and it died a quiet death. Had it running on an UltraSPARC 1/143 at one point.

x86

That doesn't mean anything; it is only very recently that Oracle themselves have started supporting Solaris x86/x64 properly, it used to lag so far behind the SPARC version for feature releases and bugfixes that no-one would ever gamble their business on it.

I'd go so far as to say Red Hat's entire business is based on exploiting this issue, since they were for a long time the only viable way to run Oracle on commodity hardware.

Umm

That's a pretty big leap to make. The Norks have been raised since birth to believe that conditions in the rest of the world are even worse and only the Dear Leader is keeping the forces of evil at bay. It's not that they're gullible, or even brainwashed, they've literally never been allowed to see anything else. Would they fight? Absolutely they would. The Warsaw Pact never did because the Soviets couldn't keep Western media products out, so the ordinary people got a hint of the truth about the West. The Norks need a few years of Baywatch and Friends to soften them up...

I like collages

Made 'em in primary school, but not with C++.

The tickets

should be first come, first served.

Thus rewarding people who have their act together at the expense of those who don't.