These Certificates are often expensive, relatively complex to setup rarely ever give any real value. A self Signed Cert will offer the same level of encryption (sometimes more, because the Cert Authorities may pay more for automatically generating more bits). The original value of these Cert Authorities was so we would be sure that the site we went to was an authentic business, where you could prove you are who you say you are. But they have been giving certs to anyone without any research just as long as you pay the bill you are good to go, so you are not getting value out of these Certs except for the artificial browser scary error that you are a horrible person for using a unauthorized Cert.
Hillary Clinton had decades of hate placed on her. Despite her actions as a moderate, thoughtful public servant, after being first lady. She had decades of Republican Propaganda painting her has this unhinged power mad liberal. Mainly because she was a known political threat for such a long time.
Trump on the other hand just kinda appeared into politics based on his fame, seeming willing to say anything that a lot of people were thinking, and willing to shift the blame to some "other".
Why is coal slowing down? It isn't because Natural Gas became a cheaper alternative, it was Obama Environmental Regulations. Why is us not #1 in manufacturing? It isn't because the products in demand require different education skills, and access to different resources. But these countries cheating and undermining our value. A guy known for building landmark buildings, would surly focus on infrastructure and big building projects.
And also we all know once someone becomes president and is shown the actual facts, their approach seems to be more moderate, mainly because the problem is more complex then a stump speech.
We as citizens had decades of being told Clinton was the Liberal Devil, while Trump seems like this guy perhaps overselling himself, would be on the one to shake things up and get things done.
However having 3 Wins in 2 years (Tax Bill, and 2 Supreme court appointments) in a government where all were GOP controlled (House, Senate, Supreme Court, and Executive Branch) A lot more could had been done.
So what laws are they breaking? However, If you pay a lot of attention to EU laws, a lot of them are written to to put non-EU countries at a disadvantage, Such as Corn Syrup (an American Product) vs Cane Sugar from companies that are owned largely by European companies, and operated in countries that the EU has greater leverage with.
Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, and the US does this all the time too. However EU Residence and fans, need to get off their snotty high horse and thinking these laws are based on some Moral Superior ideology, but on your own self interest, like every other economy.
The US has some exports that the EU nations never had made a decent competition for. And the EU Squeal like little girls when their precious idea of their ancient empire just isn't as innovative that it once was.
Southwest is more complex then that. First there is a $10 upgrade fee, where you get prescience over those who didn't buy it. So even if you check in last you still will get a A-Line or early B-Line spot in line. Then you have the fact that there is the ability to check in Online 24 hours before the flight. So right at the 24 hour mark before the flight you can rush online and check in (Normally in the early-mid B line), to give your self an early seat, If you have the upgrade price, then you could get really early often guaranteed to be in the A-Line.
Also Southwest normally manages short flights. Where everyone is nearly equally crammed in. On longer flights you choice on seats is a bigger deal, as the person you sit next to you, will be next to you for the next day or so. In many ways having family separated is a good idea, it prevents extra noise as they will talk to each other, fight, and in general act like they are not in a pressurized aluminum tube, Tens of thousand of feet in the air, going hundreds of miles per hour, with hundreds of other people. Where it is a good idea to be at your best behavior.
Life is getting harder globally so we are all collectively finding someone to blame. We see this with Brexit, Donald Trump, Increased Chinese hunting of subversives, rise in support for terrorism, racism, and nationalism... We are not looking to ourselves to say to yourself "What am I, doing that are making things worse, which I can fix." We are looking at others say "They the others are making things worse" and actively try to make their lives more difficult. While they see you making their lives difficult and equate you the "other" is the cause of all the problems.
This creates a viscous cycle, that makes things worse, because everyone is blaming everyone else for their troubles, and making the others lives more difficult.
The only solution now takes a lot more energy and effort is to be introspective and actively try to break the cycle.
How many Millions of dollars did these companies invest in their mapping data, so their services will have some advantage over their competition?
While I understand the value of shared Map info, but what is in it for these companies. And besides the big tech companies, what about the normal Map Makers who have copy-written their maps.
If the UK think this is useful information, then is should attempt to buy the data, vs encourage or force them to give it up.
But we do this all the time with SSH preshared keys. This isn't anything really new. The only thing that I don't expect Microsoft to realize is that still in 2018 There is still hardware that we share with other people.
There is still often the Family PC, while the individuals may have a tablet or phone, for their small time computing.
I don't think Internet Fame is a Career. But more of a get rich quick scheme. Where the Odds of getting anything meaningful is like winning the lottery. If you have marketed your cat as the Grumpy Cat, You probably have gotten a few years of fame, and made a lot of money. However not really enough to sustain yourself for the rest of your life.
We often confuse talent with low production value. They are a lot of talented actors on the internet, but they have such a low production value, that it distracts from their talents.
AI isn't very smart, its only redeeming value, is it is relentlessness in its calculations. While we as humans can only work on a problem for a few minutes a computer can sit there for years working out a problem, and not get distracted. We as humans find shortcuts to allow us to adapt much more quickly to a changing environment. An AI system may take 6 months to learn how to make a Robot Walk on a flat plain. While it would take a human over a year to walk on a flat plain. However with that AI System, you then give new factors such as a Hill, or gravel or Ice, It will take another 6 months to figure it out. While the human will be able to adapt to the change within minutes, even without past experience.
AI is good for simple jobs, that we as humans really don't like to do too much. Just because they bore us.
However connecting to an other system requires 2 way communication. If the computer knows how to send back its response back to your system saying it had connected and that the packets didn't get lost or didn't collide. Then we can track it back. Most of the time spoofing is good enough, just because the effort on tacking back is higher then what the damage of the hacking is, and the value of finding the hacker.
However if you piss of the right person or government with some real money to track you back. IP Address spoofing will be little help.
The thing with fame, it is almost a catch 22. You can't get famous unless are are already famous. Internet fame is very fleeting, So you don't have time to work up your Social Media Presence until you are a big famous person, You need a kick start to your career. A few thousand likes to boost up your presence, to be posted on the main pages, means other will see your content, then subscribe and watch you if they like it.
The biggest thing is the Algorithm, It doesn't seem to be setup for finding new talent and bringing it up, but showing what is already popular.
The late 1990's was full of stupid. What was the real driving force was the Y2K scare. The Year 2000 was approaching. A lot of businesses running mainframes which were decades old had the choice, of updating their software to handle the 4 digit years, get new systems, or both. BY the late 1990's with the 486 and the Pentium Chip in place as a solid 32 bit platform their decade(s) old mainframes needed to be upgraded anyways, and might as well go with the cheap Desktop systems which were arguable more powerful (in many aspects) and being cheaper then a Dumb Terminal, they could get more of them. So A bunch of Companies and people were getting new computers having new computers all in the same same time. With everyone getting a new computer and finally upgrading their Old Apple II, Commodore 64, and IBM XT (And compatibles) (The big names in America) They now were on the Same OS (windows), with similar hardware, which supported TCP/IP and modem speeds exceeding the 14.4k with was enough to browse the internet with small pictures. This got people hooking onto the Internet. Often with Services such as AOL.
Now with the Consumers and Businesses all on similar protocols. Businesses could actually use the internet for commerce. So other then hiring tech workers to fix Y2k and get the new systems working for business, they were also trying to find people who could manage this new World Wide Web Thing. So there was a shortage of Tech Workers, Companies bent over backwards to keep them hired, even if they couldn't afford it, because they hoped to get a strong foothold before they had to pay all the bills. Also a lot of these tech guys were starting their own businesses because it was so easy to get customers at the time. So there was a High Demand and Low supply. Thus high paying jobs. Like over 50k a year for a Microsoft Front Page web designer.
Now what happened? The Clinton Administration seeing the low supply and high demand decided to open the H1B for more tech workers. While with hind sight this was a bad idea, but at the time, it seemed the only logical thing to do. Because there was so much demand that such shortage in tech workers could bring the economy to a halt, Especially if y2k turned out so bad. So this increased supply, then after y2k people got all their new systems and everything was upgraded. So the economy Upgrade Schedule was in sync. and from 2002-2006 the Tech bubble popped. Demand dropped with extra supply from the H1B. Companies tried to save money, by prolonging their upgrades, and Trying to outsource all IT work with very cheap labor. Around the 2005-2010 time frame, Outsourcing had stabilized, realizing that outsourcing wasn't as cheap as it seemed, and also a lot of jobs didn't scale well. So the Tech industry recovered a bit, Then the great Recession of 2008 hit. While Tech workers were effected less then other sectors, it was still hit. The Recovery wasn't really in effect until around 2012. However now a few Tech Giants had firmly gained Ground, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. The big guys now hold a lot of the keys, and with Cloud being popular method of deployment The demand for the Little guy Tech worker was needed less and less. So while it is better then after the Tech Bubble pop, it isn't like it was during peak bubble of 1997.
Traditional Open Source software could be profitable from the following methods: 1. Distributions. We take the Open Source software, configure it and put it on a nice piece of physical media, and sell it. This worked well until around the turn of the Century. Where broadband has allowed most people to download the content much faster then it is to wait for the media to be shipped to you, and at no cost.
2. Consulting/Support. Early Open Source software was often difficult to use (and some of it still is) Having experts at you beck and call for a modest fee to help you setup and use such products was quite valuable. However this requires the software to be sufficiently complex to use, if the software was too easy to use or configured with good defaults, then the average Joe will know enough to get it working.
3. Coding add ins. There is a fix you need, the community is not jumping on it, so you can pay for a developer to put in that code so you have it available. This is assuming you cannot find a replacement product or such missing feature is so necessary to not wait for.
The move to cloud services of Open Source software is really finding a new way to keep it profitable. By making the application and configurations a service vs an application. So you are paying for the infrastructure more then the software.
True, But how many times has this happen with Microsoft, vs it happening in your office. This is the first time I heard about this particular problem from Microsoft. But if you had it in house it could happen every few months. Putting your pride as a system admin aside, You rarely can keep an eye on all services all the time.
I don't think GitLab is doing a lot of DoD contract work. So you may be mixing apples with oranges. I normally find productivity on a project to be related to the quality of the customer. Government agencies normally give out clear specifications on what they want, if your company really focuses on those type of work bids, then your staff of 50 people are focused on DoD requirements, and methods. So they can be more productive then say a generic consulting firm who deals with a bunch of customers. Because some customers will give out pie in the sky specs, try to bully people into getting a better deal, dropping the product mid design, then ramping back up because they couldn't find someone else to do it. Dumping a lot of additional "one more thing" specs to the design, and getting pissed that they have to pay for it.... This often requires 1 more employee to deal with the BS for every 2 people working on it.
You argument doesn't discredit Remote Work. Your "Private Space" area is mitigating the issues of a work environment, by bringing some of the comforts of work at home into the office. However your business specialty is probably what is allowing the efficiencies, more then your work environment.
This is common with the traditional company. With a corporate culture spanning generations. People with the 20th century MBA's (The MBA Program for many school had modernized in the early 2000's with a stronger focus on Business ethics, and Human Resources) is based mostly on dealing with manufacturing as the core industry. There peoples performance can be carefully measured and rated. Today the economy is more towards the Service sector. where a workers value, isn't as measurable. The companies top coder, my write 3 lines of code that day, however those 3 lines were backup with hours of research, checking to make sure it doesn't have a negative effect on other systems, Runs well, and when other coders see those lines they know exactly what it is doing.
I think it is less about egos (while still a factor) but more to lack of training on how to deal with it.
They are a lot of jobs that still need a human presence to do. However they are a lot of them, that could be done remotely.
I have a 50 minute commute, to drive to my office, to use the Company provided laptop to connect to servers hosted a thousand miles away. Attend phone meetings, or Webex. Then at the end of the day, I pack up my Company provided laptop and commute 50 minutes back to my home. We if there is an issue, I can just VPN into these same servers and if there is an escalation, I call into these same meeting or use WebEx.
So your job at Home Depot, may require you to be there, however during your travel you may get stuck in traffic, due to volume of people like me, who needlessly is required to drive to the office every day.
.NET is nearly 20 years old now. And developers still need to recompile their code (and sometimes write different set of code) for the different platforms, for 32bit, 64bit different CPU's such as ARM..NET is still the performance of Java, with the platform independence of writing and compiling in C/C++. OK, I am being a little exaggerated..NET runs a tad faster then Java, and the executable is a bit more more portable then a system level compile.
But still, In this day and age, ARM apps should be the same as Intel Apps if coded in pure.NET and the migration to 64bit OS should had been much more smoother then it was.
There have been some gaps in the funding for science. We as a culture love to hear about the new hypothesis (they call a Theory in the news) but scoff at the science going on to peer review and trying to duplicate the results, or a lot of research that just confirms what we believe to be true. Doing good science requires a lot of redundancy. Now a lot of funding is going to to study things we just don't understand and are principals beyond our ability to observe, so a lot of money is going to finding a way to observe something that we couldn't previously observe. A particle accelerator the size of a city, to observe a particle that may or may not exists. Launching a space telescope to view the dimmest light from the beginning of the universe. Not that such discoveries are exciting, but what we get for the expense is much less then it was back when we just needed to put some oil on a piece of cloth to see radiation, or shape some glass and put it in a tube to see the Universe.
We are spending a lot of money on science to find the smallest thing, while there is little funding towards understanding what is in front of our face, but just haven't ask the question on why and how. I remember hearing about a scientific study done a decade ago on scotch tape, and how it rips into triangles, and based on force and angles what will be the expected tare in the tape. I have also heard that scientist recently discovered that a horses eyes rotate 90 degrees when their head is down and up, so to change their viewing angle. This is stuff we probably though we knew already, and something that some people may have already known. But putting it in the scientific process it get recorded documented and found to be repeated.
Just like taxes on Gasoline, Cigarettes, Alcohol and Gambling. This is just an other Sin tax, where we are taxing people for products that are deemed by society to be bad for it, but is too popular to ban.
The issue is, the Tax will raise the price of the product, but demand will not be affected by an amount, so it is just free money to the City. And if people just stop using such services, there isn't going to be a public outcry because they don't need it.
I never said ALL I said LEAN. Meaning a general trend in that particular direction. Yes they are a lot of politically right tech workers, that is fine. But more then half of them have a leftward political bias. If a City is willing to use Government money, to attract these workers into their town, and give these people in essence free money to live there, it is a bit more attractive to the leftward individual, who has more trust in government handouts, then someone on the right.
If you have seen the Pixar movie Wall-e made just 10 years ago. It showed a future with the Big Unstoppable Buy n Large (In essence a parity of Walmart) just got so big and influential that it took over and destroyed the world.
Now today Amazon is bigger then Walmart and they are struggling to fight for competition with Amazon. Just as these big box stores dominated the last decade, are now their former self. There are plenty of other forces ready to unseat Amazons spot.
However While Obesity can be a factor in sleep apnea, it isn't the only one. They are some very Obese people without it, and some skinny people with it.
Now Obesity is a more complex issue to treat then just Eat Less, exercise more Calories in is less then calories out...
If you try to starve yourself, your body will burn less calories, as well you will have less energy in exercising. If you just going crazy with exercising, you can injure your self then put yourself in a condition where you cannot exercise for an extended period of time. Also as you start exercising more, you will need to eat more, if you don't then you put yourself in the starvation mode.
Diet fads are always changing, and it is difficult to find the good ones vs the fad of the week.
Now if Sleep Apnea is a complication related to obesity. a CPAP machine which helps them get a good night sleep, is the first phase to help them loose weight. Having a full night sleep gives them more energy during the day. To Exercise and also exhaustion from lack of sleep will tend to make you want to eat more because it is your body saying I need more energy! So a good night sleep and feeling more refreshed means you don't need to eat as much during the day.
We have all made poor life choices in the past. And there is always something better we should be doing. But we can't start judging people from every bad choice they made, and punishing them further beyond the natural consequences of such actions.
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These Certificates are often expensive, relatively complex to setup rarely ever give any real value. A self Signed Cert will offer the same level of encryption (sometimes more, because the Cert Authorities may pay more for automatically generating more bits). The original value of these Cert Authorities was so we would be sure that the site we went to was an authentic business, where you could prove you are who you say you are. But they have been giving certs to anyone without any research just as long as you pay the bill you are good to go, so you are not getting value out of these Certs except for the artificial browser scary error that you are a horrible person for using a unauthorized Cert.
Hillary Clinton had decades of hate placed on her. Despite her actions as a moderate, thoughtful public servant, after being first lady. She had decades of Republican Propaganda painting her has this unhinged power mad liberal. Mainly because she was a known political threat for such a long time.
Trump on the other hand just kinda appeared into politics based on his fame, seeming willing to say anything that a lot of people were thinking, and willing to shift the blame to some "other".
Why is coal slowing down? It isn't because Natural Gas became a cheaper alternative, it was Obama Environmental Regulations.
Why is us not #1 in manufacturing? It isn't because the products in demand require different education skills, and access to different resources. But these countries cheating and undermining our value.
A guy known for building landmark buildings, would surly focus on infrastructure and big building projects.
And also we all know once someone becomes president and is shown the actual facts, their approach seems to be more moderate, mainly because the problem is more complex then a stump speech.
We as citizens had decades of being told Clinton was the Liberal Devil, while Trump seems like this guy perhaps overselling himself, would be on the one to shake things up and get things done.
However having 3 Wins in 2 years (Tax Bill, and 2 Supreme court appointments) in a government where all were GOP controlled (House, Senate, Supreme Court, and Executive Branch) A lot more could had been done.
So what laws are they breaking?
However,
If you pay a lot of attention to EU laws, a lot of them are written to to put non-EU countries at a disadvantage, Such as Corn Syrup (an American Product) vs Cane Sugar from companies that are owned largely by European companies, and operated in countries that the EU has greater leverage with.
Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, and the US does this all the time too. However EU Residence and fans, need to get off their snotty high horse and thinking these laws are based on some Moral Superior ideology, but on your own self interest, like every other economy.
The US has some exports that the EU nations never had made a decent competition for. And the EU Squeal like little girls when their precious idea of their ancient empire just isn't as innovative that it once was.
Southwest is more complex then that.
First there is a $10 upgrade fee, where you get prescience over those who didn't buy it. So even if you check in last you still will get a A-Line or early B-Line spot in line. Then you have the fact that there is the ability to check in Online 24 hours before the flight. So right at the 24 hour mark before the flight you can rush online and check in (Normally in the early-mid B line), to give your self an early seat, If you have the upgrade price, then you could get really early often guaranteed to be in the A-Line.
Also Southwest normally manages short flights. Where everyone is nearly equally crammed in. On longer flights you choice on seats is a bigger deal, as the person you sit next to you, will be next to you for the next day or so. In many ways having family separated is a good idea, it prevents extra noise as they will talk to each other, fight, and in general act like they are not in a pressurized aluminum tube, Tens of thousand of feet in the air, going hundreds of miles per hour, with hundreds of other people. Where it is a good idea to be at your best behavior.
Life is getting harder globally so we are all collectively finding someone to blame.
We see this with Brexit, Donald Trump, Increased Chinese hunting of subversives, rise in support for terrorism, racism, and nationalism...
We are not looking to ourselves to say to yourself "What am I, doing that are making things worse, which I can fix." We are looking at others say "They the others are making things worse" and actively try to make their lives more difficult. While they see you making their lives difficult and equate you the "other" is the cause of all the problems.
This creates a viscous cycle, that makes things worse, because everyone is blaming everyone else for their troubles, and making the others lives more difficult.
The only solution now takes a lot more energy and effort is to be introspective and actively try to break the cycle.
How many Millions of dollars did these companies invest in their mapping data, so their services will have some advantage over their competition?
While I understand the value of shared Map info, but what is in it for these companies. And besides the big tech companies, what about the normal Map Makers who have copy-written their maps.
If the UK think this is useful information, then is should attempt to buy the data, vs encourage or force them to give it up.
But we do this all the time with SSH preshared keys.
This isn't anything really new. The only thing that I don't expect Microsoft to realize is that still in 2018 There is still hardware that we share with other people.
There is still often the Family PC, while the individuals may have a tablet or phone, for their small time computing.
I don't think Internet Fame is a Career. But more of a get rich quick scheme. Where the Odds of getting anything meaningful is like winning the lottery.
If you have marketed your cat as the Grumpy Cat, You probably have gotten a few years of fame, and made a lot of money. However not really enough to sustain yourself for the rest of your life.
We often confuse talent with low production value. They are a lot of talented actors on the internet, but they have such a low production value, that it distracts from their talents.
AI isn't very smart, its only redeeming value, is it is relentlessness in its calculations. While we as humans can only work on a problem for a few minutes a computer can sit there for years working out a problem, and not get distracted.
We as humans find shortcuts to allow us to adapt much more quickly to a changing environment. An AI system may take 6 months to learn how to make a Robot Walk on a flat plain. While it would take a human over a year to walk on a flat plain. However with that AI System, you then give new factors such as a Hill, or gravel or Ice, It will take another 6 months to figure it out. While the human will be able to adapt to the change within minutes, even without past experience.
AI is good for simple jobs, that we as humans really don't like to do too much. Just because they bore us.
However connecting to an other system requires 2 way communication. If the computer knows how to send back its response back to your system saying it had connected and that the packets didn't get lost or didn't collide. Then we can track it back. Most of the time spoofing is good enough, just because the effort on tacking back is higher then what the damage of the hacking is, and the value of finding the hacker.
However if you piss of the right person or government with some real money to track you back. IP Address spoofing will be little help.
The thing with fame, it is almost a catch 22. You can't get famous unless are are already famous. Internet fame is very fleeting, So you don't have time to work up your Social Media Presence until you are a big famous person, You need a kick start to your career. A few thousand likes to boost up your presence, to be posted on the main pages, means other will see your content, then subscribe and watch you if they like it.
The biggest thing is the Algorithm, It doesn't seem to be setup for finding new talent and bringing it up, but showing what is already popular.
The late 1990's was full of stupid.
What was the real driving force was the Y2K scare. The Year 2000 was approaching. A lot of businesses running mainframes which were decades old had the choice, of updating their software to handle the 4 digit years, get new systems, or both.
BY the late 1990's with the 486 and the Pentium Chip in place as a solid 32 bit platform their decade(s) old mainframes needed to be upgraded anyways, and might as well go with the cheap Desktop systems which were arguable more powerful (in many aspects) and being cheaper then a Dumb Terminal, they could get more of them.
So A bunch of Companies and people were getting new computers having new computers all in the same same time. With everyone getting a new computer and finally upgrading their Old Apple II, Commodore 64, and IBM XT (And compatibles) (The big names in America) They now were on the Same OS (windows), with similar hardware, which supported TCP/IP and modem speeds exceeding the 14.4k with was enough to browse the internet with small pictures. This got people hooking onto the Internet. Often with Services such as AOL.
Now with the Consumers and Businesses all on similar protocols. Businesses could actually use the internet for commerce. So other then hiring tech workers to fix Y2k and get the new systems working for business, they were also trying to find people who could manage this new World Wide Web Thing.
So there was a shortage of Tech Workers, Companies bent over backwards to keep them hired, even if they couldn't afford it, because they hoped to get a strong foothold before they had to pay all the bills. Also a lot of these tech guys were starting their own businesses because it was so easy to get customers at the time. So there was a High Demand and Low supply. Thus high paying jobs. Like over 50k a year for a Microsoft Front Page web designer.
Now what happened?
The Clinton Administration seeing the low supply and high demand decided to open the H1B for more tech workers. While with hind sight this was a bad idea, but at the time, it seemed the only logical thing to do. Because there was so much demand that such shortage in tech workers could bring the economy to a halt, Especially if y2k turned out so bad.
So this increased supply, then after y2k people got all their new systems and everything was upgraded. So the economy Upgrade Schedule was in sync. and from 2002-2006 the Tech bubble popped. Demand dropped with extra supply from the H1B. Companies tried to save money, by prolonging their upgrades, and Trying to outsource all IT work with very cheap labor. Around the 2005-2010 time frame, Outsourcing had stabilized, realizing that outsourcing wasn't as cheap as it seemed, and also a lot of jobs didn't scale well. So the Tech industry recovered a bit, Then the great Recession of 2008 hit. While Tech workers were effected less then other sectors, it was still hit. The Recovery wasn't really in effect until around 2012. However now a few Tech Giants had firmly gained Ground, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. The big guys now hold a lot of the keys, and with Cloud being popular method of deployment The demand for the Little guy Tech worker was needed less and less. So while it is better then after the Tech Bubble pop, it isn't like it was during peak bubble of 1997.
Traditional Open Source software could be profitable from the following methods:
1. Distributions. We take the Open Source software, configure it and put it on a nice piece of physical media, and sell it. This worked well until around the turn of the Century. Where broadband has allowed most people to download the content much faster then it is to wait for the media to be shipped to you, and at no cost.
2. Consulting/Support. Early Open Source software was often difficult to use (and some of it still is) Having experts at you beck and call for a modest fee to help you setup and use such products was quite valuable. However this requires the software to be sufficiently complex to use, if the software was too easy to use or configured with good defaults, then the average Joe will know enough to get it working.
3. Coding add ins. There is a fix you need, the community is not jumping on it, so you can pay for a developer to put in that code so you have it available. This is assuming you cannot find a replacement product or such missing feature is so necessary to not wait for.
The move to cloud services of Open Source software is really finding a new way to keep it profitable. By making the application and configurations a service vs an application. So you are paying for the infrastructure more then the software.
True,
But how many times has this happen with Microsoft, vs it happening in your office. This is the first time I heard about this particular problem from Microsoft. But if you had it in house it could happen every few months.
Putting your pride as a system admin aside, You rarely can keep an eye on all services all the time.
I don't think GitLab is doing a lot of DoD contract work. So you may be mixing apples with oranges.
I normally find productivity on a project to be related to the quality of the customer.
Government agencies normally give out clear specifications on what they want, if your company really focuses on those type of work bids, then your staff of 50 people are focused on DoD requirements, and methods. So they can be more productive then say a generic consulting firm who deals with a bunch of customers. Because some customers will give out pie in the sky specs, try to bully people into getting a better deal, dropping the product mid design, then ramping back up because they couldn't find someone else to do it. Dumping a lot of additional "one more thing" specs to the design, and getting pissed that they have to pay for it.... This often requires 1 more employee to deal with the BS for every 2 people working on it.
You argument doesn't discredit Remote Work. Your "Private Space" area is mitigating the issues of a work environment, by bringing some of the comforts of work at home into the office. However your business specialty is probably what is allowing the efficiencies, more then your work environment.
This is common with the traditional company. With a corporate culture spanning generations. People with the 20th century MBA's (The MBA Program for many school had modernized in the early 2000's with a stronger focus on Business ethics, and Human Resources) is based mostly on dealing with manufacturing as the core industry. There peoples performance can be carefully measured and rated. Today the economy is more towards the Service sector. where a workers value, isn't as measurable. The companies top coder, my write 3 lines of code that day, however those 3 lines were backup with hours of research, checking to make sure it doesn't have a negative effect on other systems, Runs well, and when other coders see those lines they know exactly what it is doing.
I think it is less about egos (while still a factor) but more to lack of training on how to deal with it.
They are a lot of jobs that still need a human presence to do. However they are a lot of them, that could be done remotely.
I have a 50 minute commute, to drive to my office, to use the Company provided laptop to connect to servers hosted a thousand miles away. Attend phone meetings, or Webex. Then at the end of the day, I pack up my Company provided laptop and commute 50 minutes back to my home. We if there is an issue, I can just VPN into these same servers and if there is an escalation, I call into these same meeting or use WebEx.
So your job at Home Depot, may require you to be there, however during your travel you may get stuck in traffic, due to volume of people like me, who needlessly is required to drive to the office every day.
.NET is nearly 20 years old now. And developers still need to recompile their code (and sometimes write different set of code) for the different platforms, for 32bit, 64bit different CPU's such as ARM. .NET is still the performance of Java, with the platform independence of writing and compiling in C/C++. .NET runs a tad faster then Java, and the executable is a bit more more portable then a system level compile.
OK, I am being a little exaggerated.
But still, In this day and age, ARM apps should be the same as Intel Apps if coded in pure .NET and the migration to 64bit OS should had been much more smoother then it was.
There have been some gaps in the funding for science.
We as a culture love to hear about the new hypothesis (they call a Theory in the news) but scoff at the science going on to peer review and trying to duplicate the results, or a lot of research that just confirms what we believe to be true. Doing good science requires a lot of redundancy.
Now a lot of funding is going to to study things we just don't understand and are principals beyond our ability to observe, so a lot of money is going to finding a way to observe something that we couldn't previously observe. A particle accelerator the size of a city, to observe a particle that may or may not exists. Launching a space telescope to view the dimmest light from the beginning of the universe. Not that such discoveries are exciting, but what we get for the expense is much less then it was back when we just needed to put some oil on a piece of cloth to see radiation, or shape some glass and put it in a tube to see the Universe.
We are spending a lot of money on science to find the smallest thing, while there is little funding towards understanding what is in front of our face, but just haven't ask the question on why and how. I remember hearing about a scientific study done a decade ago on scotch tape, and how it rips into triangles, and based on force and angles what will be the expected tare in the tape. I have also heard that scientist recently discovered that a horses eyes rotate 90 degrees when their head is down and up, so to change their viewing angle. This is stuff we probably though we knew already, and something that some people may have already known. But putting it in the scientific process it get recorded documented and found to be repeated.
Just like taxes on Gasoline, Cigarettes, Alcohol and Gambling. This is just an other Sin tax, where we are taxing people for products that are deemed by society to be bad for it, but is too popular to ban.
The issue is, the Tax will raise the price of the product, but demand will not be affected by an amount, so it is just free money to the City. And if people just stop using such services, there isn't going to be a public outcry because they don't need it.
I never said ALL I said LEAN.
Meaning a general trend in that particular direction.
Yes they are a lot of politically right tech workers, that is fine. But more then half of them have a leftward political bias. If a City is willing to use Government money, to attract these workers into their town, and give these people in essence free money to live there, it is a bit more attractive to the leftward individual, who has more trust in government handouts, then someone on the right.
If you have seen the Pixar movie Wall-e made just 10 years ago. It showed a future with the Big Unstoppable Buy n Large (In essence a parity of Walmart) just got so big and influential that it took over and destroyed the world.
Now today Amazon is bigger then Walmart and they are struggling to fight for competition with Amazon. Just as these big box stores dominated the last decade, are now their former self. There are plenty of other forces ready to unseat Amazons spot.
My biggest issue is the current political climate.
Tech workers politically lean left. Oklahoma is a conservative state. This type of actions can change the political landscape of the City and State.
According to the the Post Office Tulsa is OK.
It may not be great, but it isn't that bad either.
I hope you are not a doctor (but you could be).
However While Obesity can be a factor in sleep apnea, it isn't the only one. They are some very Obese people without it, and some skinny people with it.
Now Obesity is a more complex issue to treat then just Eat Less, exercise more Calories in is less then calories out...
If you try to starve yourself, your body will burn less calories, as well you will have less energy in exercising. If you just going crazy with exercising, you can injure your self then put yourself in a condition where you cannot exercise for an extended period of time. Also as you start exercising more, you will need to eat more, if you don't then you put yourself in the starvation mode.
Diet fads are always changing, and it is difficult to find the good ones vs the fad of the week.
Now if Sleep Apnea is a complication related to obesity. a CPAP machine which helps them get a good night sleep, is the first phase to help them loose weight. Having a full night sleep gives them more energy during the day. To Exercise and also exhaustion from lack of sleep will tend to make you want to eat more because it is your body saying I need more energy! So a good night sleep and feeling more refreshed means you don't need to eat as much during the day.
We have all made poor life choices in the past. And there is always something better we should be doing. But we can't start judging people from every bad choice they made, and punishing them further beyond the natural consequences of such actions.