The difference is that every minor thing can be recorded forever. To use an obvious example, pretend you picked your nose driving down the road one day. The other drivers might have seen it, but in Facebook terms not only does everybody you've ever known see it, but they can choose to send it to their friends and their friends and their friends. You might eventually end up on Tosh.O or something.
At some point you have to say, wow, this is getting out of hand, now I'm paranoid to go out and do things because something might be misinterpreted and come back to haunt me later. When all activity can be recorded and transmitted easily you lose your privacy.
Having a friend who overshares your content, or someone who wants to cause trouble can cause huge problems. Getting the content taken down can be difficult or impossible. It's only going to get worse as people start to believe this is normal.
In a "major multinational company", you probably can't get to the people whose minds need this extra info. You will likely be competing with the consultants and software vendors who buy them fishing and golf trips. And the one CXO who likes certain software manufacturers or products because his kid told him they were great.
<sigh> I wish logic were easier to grasp for some people in corporate environments, but often politics come into play.
So long as IE6 apps require ActiveX (some do, some don't), this will prevent Firefox from ever working with those apps. Firefox made the decision long ago (a very good decision IMHO) to exclude ActiveX.
+1 Insightful, not funny. Most companies BTW want some sort of vendor lock-in it's just that it can be done in different ways: Consistent good experience, support options, problem escalation, fewer defects, ease of use, ease of integration etc. Not that all of these necessarily apply in this situation. It's better to have your customers want to use your product than feel forced to use your product.
Yes. Metaphorically speaking, Sun engineers watched while the machine they created was used as a weapon against some of their friends. Shocked and disappointed I would imagine.
Yes. It's very likely this is so. Why spend valuable resources customizing a language's adoption on your platform if they also might sue you? Let them handle it. Or not. Apple is making Java less and less important on OS X, and it's never been important on iOS.
Like it or not, it makes sense to use either a truly open platform or a platform you control. If it can be subverted later you may realize all the foundations you were building on suddenly crumble. THAT would keep me awake at night.
+1 Insightful. I was seriously considering spending some real time getting comfortable coding Java. Now not so much. I bet I'm not the only person / programmer who has backed way off on this.
I think the difference is the average person has "bragging" rights and seems to be "cool" because they are plating a popular game. All the crap notifications frustrate a lot of people (I have a few friends that seem to try a new game every week, that I have to then block) but there's a certain amount of people that like to receive these.
5 or 6 year olds would be an improvement in trade chat, with the spammers and teenage angst. I've turned off most of the other chat areas but some are actually useful at times.
If they keep handicapping WoW you will be able to just mash random keys and do well. Already there are some classes that pretty much have a 3-key rotation (or a single key macro). It's also a bit frustrating when you've done some of the harder content to gear up and the next expansion gives greens that exceed your "epic" gear's specs.
Other crazy stuff they've done includes signing up a friend and getting 3x experience when playing in a group, ability to port each other to the other's location, etc. Might as well start at level 55+ -- oh, wait, they already do that too. Having a single level (70? 80?) toon lets you create a death knight on that same server that starts at level (55? 65?)
Some of the issue is the grinding -- so many things you have to do, so many hours of menial tasks / quests when starting a new toon, you get really bored really quickly with that.
RHEL can be had for as low as $400 per year. You are limited to 2 physical CPU's and 4 VM's with that license. Depends on what you're doing if that's inexpensive or not.
I believe CentOS has the freebie version if you want.
We use both ESX and RHEL Advanced Server for virtualization. When Red Hat has better monitoring tools we will be all-RHEL.
If you have the option of running a hypervisor as a host you will get better security, lower target for infections, and better performance. ESX is free I believe and that would fit the bill nicely. I can't imagine recommending a host platform that needs regular reboots to maintain stability (as recommended by Microsoft).
Why set yourself up for those issues if you can avoid it?
True, we tested VMWare Server and it didn't scale. On the same hardware, VMWare ESX works well, and RHEL Advanced Server works better (although you trade the pretty screens and easy-to-read statuses for raw performance).
We tried Xen first and it didn't work well for us. Then we switched to KVM and after ironing out some issues it's working great. YMMV. For our use case, Xen took too much overhead and disk performance was slow. With KVM we can pack in many more VM's per physical CPU while using less memory. The VM's also seem to be more responsive.
Are there still some issues with KVM? Yep. Nothing that impacts us on a day-to-day basis, and I've had to create a boatload of documentation for relatively simple maintenance tasks. Virtualization in general saved our company significant amounts of money -- we will literally have 3 servers not virtualized soon (2 with special physical cards are going away soon).
Look for that to change. Red Hat told us a year ago that Xen was dead and being phased out. If Oracle wishes to continue to use RHEL code with tweaks they will be moving to KVM. I doubt they want to go through the bother of messing with Xen if it's removed in RHEL.
IBM + Red Hat >> the rest of the companies you mentioned, when it comes to business use of Linux. Throw in Oracle too, since they basically tweak RHEL. So the big boys with the support for the largest Linux systems made their choice, even without your approval.
BTW, you come off like a raving lunatic. You're not helping your cause one bit. Take a walk or something.
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The difference is that every minor thing can be recorded forever. To use an obvious example, pretend you picked your nose driving down the road one day. The other drivers might have seen it, but in Facebook terms not only does everybody you've ever known see it, but they can choose to send it to their friends and their friends and their friends. You might eventually end up on Tosh.O or something.
At some point you have to say, wow, this is getting out of hand, now I'm paranoid to go out and do things because something might be misinterpreted and come back to haunt me later. When all activity can be recorded and transmitted easily you lose your privacy.
+1 Insightful. Wish I had mod points today.
Having a friend who overshares your content, or someone who wants to cause trouble can cause huge problems. Getting the content taken down can be difficult or impossible. It's only going to get worse as people start to believe this is normal.
In a "major multinational company", you probably can't get to the people whose minds need this extra info. You will likely be competing with the consultants and software vendors who buy them fishing and golf trips. And the one CXO who likes certain software manufacturers or products because his kid told him they were great.
<sigh> I wish logic were easier to grasp for some people in corporate environments, but often politics come into play.
+1 Insightful. Wish I hadn't spent all my mod points yesterday.
So long as IE6 apps require ActiveX (some do, some don't), this will prevent Firefox from ever working with those apps. Firefox made the decision long ago (a very good decision IMHO) to exclude ActiveX.
+1 Insightful, not funny. Most companies BTW want some sort of vendor lock-in it's just that it can be done in different ways: Consistent good experience, support options, problem escalation, fewer defects, ease of use, ease of integration etc. Not that all of these necessarily apply in this situation. It's better to have your customers want to use your product than feel forced to use your product.
http://bugs.python.org/issue1271
Yes. Metaphorically speaking, Sun engineers watched while the machine they created was used as a weapon against some of their friends. Shocked and disappointed I would imagine.
Yes. It's very likely this is so. Why spend valuable resources customizing a language's adoption on your platform if they also might sue you? Let them handle it. Or not. Apple is making Java less and less important on OS X, and it's never been important on iOS.
Like it or not, it makes sense to use either a truly open platform or a platform you control. If it can be subverted later you may realize all the foundations you were building on suddenly crumble. THAT would keep me awake at night.
+1 Insightful. I was seriously considering spending some real time getting comfortable coding Java. Now not so much. I bet I'm not the only person / programmer who has backed way off on this.
I think the difference is the average person has "bragging" rights and seems to be "cool" because they are plating a popular game. All the crap notifications frustrate a lot of people (I have a few friends that seem to try a new game every week, that I have to then block) but there's a certain amount of people that like to receive these.
When you play the other games, no one knows.
5 or 6 year olds would be an improvement in trade chat, with the spammers and teenage angst. I've turned off most of the other chat areas but some are actually useful at times.
If they keep handicapping WoW you will be able to just mash random keys and do well. Already there are some classes that pretty much have a 3-key rotation (or a single key macro). It's also a bit frustrating when you've done some of the harder content to gear up and the next expansion gives greens that exceed your "epic" gear's specs.
Other crazy stuff they've done includes signing up a friend and getting 3x experience when playing in a group, ability to port each other to the other's location, etc. Might as well start at level 55+ -- oh, wait, they already do that too. Having a single level (70? 80?) toon lets you create a death knight on that same server that starts at level (55? 65?)
Some of the issue is the grinding -- so many things you have to do, so many hours of menial tasks / quests when starting a new toon, you get really bored really quickly with that.
And the whole "can't end a string with a backslash" thing, which bit me as a new Python programmer. I would never have predicted that one.
You know, God’s still up there.
You're recommending letting an imaginary fairy sort it out? Really? I hope you're not in charge of anything important.
+2 insightful. Really, you can't call yourself a scientist when you still believe in an imaginary friend.
Here's a recent one. It states if you don't have a reboot schedule for Windows servers you don't have a patch management plan. http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/C/2/8C21BAFE-3432-48D1-962A-F7A9DD54A2AC/Best%20Practices%20in%20Architecting%20and%20Implementing%20Windows%20Server%20Update%20Services%20(WSUS).pptx
ESX is limited to 4 cores per VM, right? That would be one reason why you'd want to use one of the other solutions.
RHEL can be had for as low as $400 per year. You are limited to 2 physical CPU's and 4 VM's with that license. Depends on what you're doing if that's inexpensive or not.
I believe CentOS has the freebie version if you want.
We use both ESX and RHEL Advanced Server for virtualization. When Red Hat has better monitoring tools we will be all-RHEL.
If you have the option of running a hypervisor as a host you will get better security, lower target for infections, and better performance. ESX is free I believe and that would fit the bill nicely. I can't imagine recommending a host platform that needs regular reboots to maintain stability (as recommended by Microsoft).
Why set yourself up for those issues if you can avoid it?
Our Windows servers require regular reboots to maintain stability. This isn't something new or controversial, even Microsoft recommends it.
True, we tested VMWare Server and it didn't scale. On the same hardware, VMWare ESX works well, and RHEL Advanced Server works better (although you trade the pretty screens and easy-to-read statuses for raw performance).
We tried Xen first and it didn't work well for us. Then we switched to KVM and after ironing out some issues it's working great. YMMV. For our use case, Xen took too much overhead and disk performance was slow. With KVM we can pack in many more VM's per physical CPU while using less memory. The VM's also seem to be more responsive.
Are there still some issues with KVM? Yep. Nothing that impacts us on a day-to-day basis, and I've had to create a boatload of documentation for relatively simple maintenance tasks. Virtualization in general saved our company significant amounts of money -- we will literally have 3 servers not virtualized soon (2 with special physical cards are going away soon).
Look for that to change. Red Hat told us a year ago that Xen was dead and being phased out. If Oracle wishes to continue to use RHEL code with tweaks they will be moving to KVM. I doubt they want to go through the bother of messing with Xen if it's removed in RHEL.
IBM + Red Hat >> the rest of the companies you mentioned, when it comes to business use of Linux. Throw in Oracle too, since they basically tweak RHEL. So the big boys with the support for the largest Linux systems made their choice, even without your approval.
BTW, you come off like a raving lunatic. You're not helping your cause one bit. Take a walk or something.