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Comment Language wars. (Score 1) 286

Oh no...
xxxx is better than yyyy because..

Langugages (and really the platform / libraries are more important) ech have their own strength.

What you don't want to do is to solve a problem, add a prgramming language, because then suddenly tou have 3 problems instead of one:
-being to able to write in 2 langugages. (the subset of emplyess able to do that is much much smaller than those having good skills in one languges
-interface between them (rarely done, so few people understand the details.
-maintaining for a long time mulple languages.

If you run a JAVA enterpise. Fine. If you run perl/php, Fine. If you run C? ueh....cobol? Keep it!

Comment Re:Learn your place (Score 1) 383

And in the end: do not let it give you stress. You are not running your company. Just make sure that the risk of their current decisions are communicated, don't assume they know.

Otherwise ask for a longvacation in 6 months. If you come back and things still are running, you worried too much. Also the fact that the lead IT mananger is a programmer is a bit worriesome. ..

Comment Re:Illegal (Score 1) 153

You will get intelligent drones that can fly standalone, without any remote control. From there is is a very small step to automate the "kill human"decision as well

Termintor drones are not as far away as you might think.

The other solution is not to make them more resistant to such attacks, but to make them so cheap you do not have to worry to loose a drone. You just pcik up a new one, use like one uses other munition/rockets.

Comment Re:Speedtest (Score 1) 93

According to the speedtest app, our wifi network @home is the limitiation, and on android the phone is limited more.
-cabled pc show full network speed.
-modern laptop show almost full speed of wifi network
-android shows less accurate full speed of wifinetwork with higer ping.

Cheapest internet i can get here is the fiber :)

Comment Re:They should upgrade the warning ... (Score 1) 526

So instead of blowing up your car, it will blow up/burn out the next car. Beside that, if the battery is damaged that much the carr will be a total loss anyway for most cases. Rememeber that the battery makes a considerable part of the cars price.

Replaceable batteries are a field that is investigated because replacing a battery would get rid of the load cycle.

Comment Re:Sounds like an MMO launch (Score 1) 346

Which makes me wonder. Why do managers insist on big bang launches. Why not some phasing in , so the problems can be handled, and when the big rush is coming, the bleeding edge problems are solved.

There are always problems in the release of a BIG system. take some time to solve them before letting it loose on the user.

In the MMO some of the best releases have a long public beta time, where in the last phase the beta is open, to get some decent load.

Comment Re:Why are they rethinking nuclear? (Score 3, Informative) 200

Because ....

"Politicians at a congressional hearing on Monday estimated the recent nuclear scandals have cost operator KHNP nearly 3 trillion won ($2.8 billion) in cable replacement, loss of power sales and payment to KEPCO to replace nuclear power with electricity from other fuels. "

In other words: the fuel may be cheap, the total costs of nuclear might be much higher. And you cannot simply solve corruption. If that is possible with a reasonable cost, it would be solved now.

Simply reducing the problem to one point and declaring it will be solvable is armchair activism.

Look at it this way: the worst case scenario should be insured. But no conglomerate of insurers will ever insure your nuclear plant, because the worst case scenario is far too expensive.

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