"Nice except the $500 American version paid for patents, marketing, American jobs, American taxes, social security, etc. The Chinese one had none of those inbuilt costs. That's why tariffs are supposed to exist to ensure that globalism doesn't become a one way street for money and goods to flow out of a country but never back in. Without proper trade regulations and tariffs it's just a system to bleed a country dry. Fortunately it seems like we're finally coming to our senses." --AC
"ou Americans need to pull your heads out of your asses and fix your fucking society so you don't NEED to buy cheap Chinese shit."
We know and we are trying to figure out how to do it. We elected Trump to speed along the process. It has so far gone nicely. We have to deal with Trump but any catalyst for a change in direction was game--and so it had to be done. Get the popcorn.
Could be true. I do feel that Amazon kisses my ass way-too much as well. I hear some have been able to exploit the return policy to yield millions of dollars in profit.
Its blue collar if you click and drool and run around putting out fires you started and white collar if you script everything and maintain a resiliant system based best practices and comprehensive monitoring.
It would be great if Microsoft literally rammed each new version onto every server along with the.NET CLR. Instead it is a WMF download. Every machine I touch in an enterprise has a different version of PowerShell. Fuck!
It's not just a lump of computers in a data center you jack off. It is a collection of services and resources that all work together as advertised (well...) and can be provisioned without an act of congress or a massive project kick-off led by a planning committee. It is an ecosystem of software that is cloud-enabled, as in 12-factor, where automated deployment and scaling are a reality. Hand waving comments like "other people's computers" shows your complete lack of relevance and one of the driving reasons for cloud adoption. Get with it.
Way too pedantic dude. You are not making yourself look good...or trustworthy. I doubt the business ever experienced 99% uptime with an on-prem Exchange server(s).
"Yes, it is. My IT professional works for me, for my business."...and they are tired of your lame shit and would like to move to the cloud so they can have a life.
"There is no way that a small SOC at a mid-sized corporation can hold a candle to a 24x7 global operation like Microsoft (or Amazon). It just is not going to happen."
Agreed. I think the simple fact that Microsoft and AWS are technology companies allows them to focus on the technology. IT shops have so much politics and red tape to deal with that technology takes a back seat to a myriad of ancillary concerns that have no bearing on the goal. The Azure/AWS teams focus on developing tech every day...based on what works the best or what will pave the way for a better future. They don't have to deal with managing a CIO that doesn't like GitHub (and therefore we can't use Git) because one of the developers uploaded a bit of company code to a public repo once.
Every Exchange installation I have ever seen required at least one full-time engineer (small company) and outages were not uncommon. Moving to Office 365 is a no-brainer. You immediately free up an engineer to do things other than manage servers, perform database maintenance, plan and implement upgrades that were pretty much back-to-back, manage space and user expectations.... Good riddance.
They developed open source tech that powers cloud scale applications and elastic runtimes. We dont really credit them with building the modern cloud but they did. They also gave us applied parallel distributed data processing through Hadoop. Im sure there are others that I am glossing over.
"And the worst offenders, seem to be the ones driving the largest trucks and SUVs."
Nope. I see a lot of people in Civics and other small-to-mid size vehical who have no idea where their car is in relation to close objects. I drive an enormous truck and I can barrel through tight areas with confidence. People in small cars freeze up all the time when I do this because they have no idea how much room they have (more than enough). I can do it because I rely on my mirrors and I actually size up the amount of room I have and reference it based on the site lines and profiles I can observe without sticking my head out the window. Most people do not know how to do that. My advice? Learn how to fucking drive your piece of shit.
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Bullshit. I know a town where half the 80yr olds have alexa. Total "fan boys."
Not simply freedom of choice but equal and transparent infomation known to all parties.
Spot on. Google tipped thier hand by publicly declaring that they wanted to make internet and phone service universal and free. They met the enemy
"Nice except the $500 American version paid for patents, marketing, American jobs, American taxes, social security, etc. The Chinese one had none of those inbuilt costs. That's why tariffs are supposed to exist to ensure that globalism doesn't become a one way street for money and goods to flow out of a country but never back in. Without proper trade regulations and tariffs it's just a system to bleed a country dry. Fortunately it seems like we're finally coming to our senses." --AC
Chris? Is that you?
If we stop labeling them with words like "republican" then perhaps we will see these people for who they really are?
You are correct. This war started decades ago. I wonder what action spawned this reality?
"ou Americans need to pull your heads out of your asses and fix your fucking society so you don't NEED to buy cheap Chinese shit."
We know and we are trying to figure out how to do it. We elected Trump to speed along the process. It has so far gone nicely. We have to deal with Trump but any catalyst for a change in direction was game--and so it had to be done. Get the popcorn.
Could be true. I do feel that Amazon kisses my ass way-too much as well. I hear some have been able to exploit the return policy to yield millions of dollars in profit.
Its going to turn into eBay if they do not fix this fraud vector. Business moves at the speed of trust.
Does Amazon have a "report" option for buyers to flag fraudulent vendors?
Its blue collar if you click and drool and run around putting out fires you started and white collar if you script everything and maintain a resiliant system based best practices and comprehensive monitoring.
"On the other hand, where do geeks typically want to live?"
Deep in the forrest with electric and telecommunications capabilities.
It would be great if Microsoft literally rammed each new version onto every server along with the .NET CLR. Instead it is a WMF download. Every machine I touch in an enterprise has a different version of PowerShell. Fuck!
It's not just a lump of computers in a data center you jack off. It is a collection of services and resources that all work together as advertised (well...) and can be provisioned without an act of congress or a massive project kick-off led by a planning committee. It is an ecosystem of software that is cloud-enabled, as in 12-factor, where automated deployment and scaling are a reality. Hand waving comments like "other people's computers" shows your complete lack of relevance and one of the driving reasons for cloud adoption. Get with it.
"We can't since most of our customers use older versions of IE."
Time to roll out a deprecation and upgrade notification.
Way too pedantic dude. You are not making yourself look good...or trustworthy. I doubt the business ever experienced 99% uptime with an on-prem Exchange server(s).
"Yes, it is. My IT professional works for me, for my business." ...and they are tired of your lame shit and would like to move to the cloud so they can have a life.
Back to bed grandpa.
But you will not DDoS Azure....and if you try to buy DDoS protection for your on-prem services the bill will be total sticker shock.
"There is no way that a small SOC at a mid-sized corporation can hold a candle to a 24x7 global operation like Microsoft (or Amazon). It just is not going to happen."
Agreed. I think the simple fact that Microsoft and AWS are technology companies allows them to focus on the technology. IT shops have so much politics and red tape to deal with that technology takes a back seat to a myriad of ancillary concerns that have no bearing on the goal. The Azure/AWS teams focus on developing tech every day...based on what works the best or what will pave the way for a better future. They don't have to deal with managing a CIO that doesn't like GitHub (and therefore we can't use Git) because one of the developers uploaded a bit of company code to a public repo once.
Every Exchange installation I have ever seen required at least one full-time engineer (small company) and outages were not uncommon. Moving to Office 365 is a no-brainer. You immediately free up an engineer to do things other than manage servers, perform database maintenance, plan and implement upgrades that were pretty much back-to-back, manage space and user expectations.... Good riddance.
I have noticed that some people can run 10+ miles a day but cannot hike or do much requiring strength without falling out like a couch potato.
They developed open source tech that powers cloud scale applications and elastic runtimes. We dont really credit them with building the modern cloud but they did. They also gave us applied parallel distributed data processing through Hadoop. Im sure there are others that I am glossing over.
"And the worst offenders, seem to be the ones driving the largest trucks and SUVs."
Nope. I see a lot of people in Civics and other small-to-mid size vehical who have no idea where their car is in relation to close objects. I drive an enormous truck and I can barrel through tight areas with confidence. People in small cars freeze up all the time when I do this because they have no idea how much room they have (more than enough). I can do it because I rely on my mirrors and I actually size up the amount of room I have and reference it based on the site lines and profiles I can observe without sticking my head out the window. Most people do not know how to do that. My advice? Learn how to fucking drive your piece of shit.