Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

It didn't explode - the front fell off.

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

Re: RE: engine failure

Don't know about P&W but RR generally don't even sell their engines.

They rent them on a PAYG basis - you pay for flying hours and RR handle all the maintenance / service / spares etc.

Re: Efficiency vs Reliability

These engines are 30years old.

Re: Quick turnaround for the 777?

> On the other hand you may think it safet to be on the ground near a fire engine than fanning the flames at a few thousand feet.

Trade off, you don't know that the wing/control surface isn't damaged or that the engine isn't about to fall off and take your wing with it (El Al Flight 1862)

But landing 32,000lbs overweight with no thrust reversers and the risk of over-heating your brakes, bursting tires and starting a fire - is still risky

Re: RE: engine failure

>this is completely not Boeing's fault.

So P&W also print their own FAA approval certificates ?

Re: Wisconsin, not Minnesota

Did they have to change the state because Trump mis-spoke in a TV spot ?

Or did they just amend the map with a sharpie ?

Re: Maybe

Obviously since Biden is a Marxist he will introduce a strategic 5year plan for US semiconductor manufacturing, to be aid for by taxing the sweat of the proletariat.

Isn't that what Intel's CEO and shareholders are demanding ?

>Are they run by technical leaders who were excellent, or generic beancounters who setup tax efficient structures?

AMD and Nvidia = technical excellent

Intel = Bean counter

We let the Taiwanese and Koreans invest in their fabs.

Re: Been there, Done that

>That Ordnance Survey map of Mars not good enough?

1, OS Licence fees were too high

2, It's a lot of 1:25,000 landrangers to carry for a whole planet

3, The rover is not equipped with a plastic map case around its neck and trousers tucked into hiking socks

Re: Welcome to Mars

There are now a higher proportion of EVs and Linux installations on Mars than on Earth = a good start

Re: Repulsive!

Why are we landing on Mars anyway? We can make the bars here on Earth !

Re: We have well-documented processes

We have learned from our mistakes and can repeat them perfectly

Re: hubris

A plan to kill all the telephone sanitizers

Lots of people called Smith outside the USA - some of them might also have a museum

>Companies owning Copyright is a ridiculous idea and will soon suppress creativity altogether.

Might make it difficult to get funding for films, especially films which aren't opening weekend blockbusters.

With no copyright, or very short copyright, I have no foreign TV, or streaming sales. I can only make money for the initial cinema run, and even then I no longer get any licencing fee from the toys, t-shirt and fast-food tie-ins.

>Allowing Patents to be held by anyone other than the original creator(s) is equally ridiculous.

Then they have no value to the original creator if they can't be sold.

I have a patent on an improvement to MRI machines. It's assigned to the consultancy company I worked for at the time. It's only of value to them because they can sell/licence the technology to makers of MRI machines. Neither me nor the company can make an MRI machine so if the patent couldn't be sold it would never be produced.

Re: Patent the bloody obvious!

>otherwise many more businesses would have signed up to OIN sooner

It only really protects you from being sued by someone else in the business.

eg if Oracle tries to sue say Redhat then they can bring down all of the patents of all the OIN members onto Larry

If you are being sued by Bermuda Patent Troll #123 Ltd whose only asset is this single patent - it doesn't do much good

Re: Footfallcam (formerly known as Nurserycam formerly known as Nannycam) Companies House Listing

I think this is going to be the standard for dodgy ad-tech companies - like the double-glazing that offered 20year guarantees but closed and reopened under a new name every year.

Sleezy-tech_123 is hit by a twitter storm for it selling video from its line of embedded underwear cameras.

Sleezy-tech_124 is spun up by the Bermudaa Chamber of Commerce equivalent of a Docker container 20ms later

Re: So will be now need to press the "Start" button

Updating Volkswagon

don't turn off your car

1 % .........

Re: Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri...

Doing someones Horoscope on those planets is going to be seriously complicated

2.99M of those were either Global-Mega-Corp registering their name so they don't get domain squatted, or domain squatters registering Global-Mega-Corp.eu

Re: We are still in "Europe"

We should create a .eur and allow Russia and Turkey to use it

Especially since any EU address actually being used is probably by some pro-eu group, the others are just companies paying to protect their name, it seems a bit counter productive

Wouldn't Microsoft's purchase of Linkedin mean it would be blocked at every other software company?

I can't imagine google allows it's devs to effectively tell MSFT who is logged in working late and linked with which other devs and what their backgrounds are

Re: @ The cur ... For the love of the wee man

Our small town of 1000 people solves this by having the water system totally air-gapped, off-line and controlled by a dedicated 24x7 team of on site engineers operating from an earthquake and forest fire proof bunker surrounded by anti-terrorist fences and armed security. Of course it does mean our water bill is about $1M/year

Actually I think there is no equipment connected to the internet because there is no equipment, I think Bill goes and tips a sack of chlorine into the tank on thursdays if he isn't busy.

We could do with a computer to detect the occasional dead beaver stuck in the inlet. Unfortunately Googling 'beaver stuffed into my pipe' got the last council fired.

Re: This is why they should be banned.

Well if someone shot the guy doing the POTUS stunt we would be better off

Re: Never understood some names

>Because it's not really "my" local team, it belongs wholly to the ownership group.

What you need in America is more sectarian hatred

Have you tried having historically Catholic and Protestant football team in each city?

That can build extremely strong brand loyalty over centuries