I'd almost mod you up, but "classroom training [is] a time waster" is an exaggeration. (Well, unless you had shitty teachers.) The whole point of going to college is to engage in interaction with faculty, students, everything. You're only in class a few hours per week. The rest of the time is just as important. For that reason I wouldn't give much credence to someone with a degree from the University of Mom's Basement.
But I think TFA had less to do with online learning than with large-scale collaboration. That's a hot topic in academic computing right row, so it's a straightforward way to get funding for your IT infrastructure. "We need to promote academic collaboration! Which means of course we need new servers, routers, etc, and that 10Gb LAN upgrade!)
and it has to make deedle deedle deedle noises. While launching a Matrix screensaver.
Although I did see a '24' episode where the computer whiz had nothing up on his desktop other than about two dozen xterm windows. Someone did their homework.
We currently have a problem with old displays and cellphones filling up landfills with toxic materials because these devices are obsolete after a year or two. Just wait until planned obsolescence hits the bionic world. Landfills full of arms, legs, heads, organs, and poor people in the rest of the world will be sewing on body parts discarded by rich wasteful Americans.
Everyone I've ever met who is a Libertarian is either in it for the guns, for the dope, the right to drive like an asshole without getting ticketed, or is just plain batshit crazy. It's just another special interest group.
Silicon Valley votes for competence, the ability to deliver, and little else. There have been rising stars, like Tom Campbell. But Republicans have more or less disowned them as they sink into their own self-made mess of incompetence, corruption, and general ridiculousness.
> F5 is still charging an asinine amount of money for their hardware
Actually, you are paying for the software. Plus support. documentation, etc, that is generally OK. If your IT staff is an army of untrained contractors and support contract administrators it is probably worth it.
But then in a past job I had to stand at attention in front of the CEO and answer the question "WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE THESE F5 DEVICES?", and "Because our CIO likes them?" is not really a good answer in a situation like that. So - Am I biased? A tad!
I guess if you're BofA or Wellsfargo and you have 10gb of traffic and just an army of contractors for your IT staff, this might make sense, but - Seriously! It's been a while since I played with accelerators, and I also hate anything F5 with a passion, but with commodity hardware as cheap as it is (PowerEdge 1950 or Sun X4000-something equivalent), why bother with an expensive magic box which has some cheapo Supermicro-class PC on the inside? Especially if you have an app, like a web app or some random VPN thing, which is easily clusterable.
... then we'd power them off. But, undoubtably this would lead to helpdesk calls.
I have responded to "dead PC" calls when, in fact, the PC was not plugged in, monitor not turned on, etc. At one job, that was like 20% of the work load.
This is why I require all my IT staff to learn karate. Although usually a box of doughnuts will stop the colo crew in their tracks without resorting to any violence.
The TED conferees pay big bucks, you don't want them to think they are just rocking out to the same Moody Blues laser show they've been seeing since 1975.
Don't let anti-corporate hysteria blind you from looking objectively at this problem. Well, if spam did not exist I would not need a state of the art spam filter. That would be 2U less rack space and about 200W less power I would need to use in my data center. Really, just multiply all the instances of dedicated spam filters, proprietary or otherwise, and it's pretty easy to come up with a number. Plus, I'll bet 5% of Google's resources are dedicated to spam blocking and at least 5% of any ISP's resources are dedicated to transporting it. That's a big number.
Of course, McAfee would not exist either. Lots of people would be unemployed, and maybe they could find a cure for world hunger or something else useful instead.
I worked with a lot of Indians in my previous job. The accent thing was a challenge. One day I remarked to an Indian coworker (who had a pretty thick answer herself), "I'm sorry to say this but I can't understand a word is saying."
She replied cheerfully, "Oh! Don't worry! I do not understand a word he is saying either!"
After that I never worried about it and just tried to be patient. After all, their English was better than my Hindi.
Meetoo! And I get cold calls from Verisign and Comodo. Assholes!
On the other hand, I get *zero* spam sent to me from legitimate companies that is not related to my NIC handle, so I don't think the OP describes a 100% confirmed trend.
I went to a free Network World conference once and somehow got on the mailing list of every exhibitor there, but the opt-in links from all those spammers seem to work and pretty much all that spam has stopped.
Well, sort of - but doesn't ald old-fashioned spinning-disk type meter measure current, regardless of the power factor? You get billed for amps, and the utility multiplies that by some factor.
I would guess that new, "electronic" meters would fix this problem.
There is the concept of "maintenance dose" in addiction. I find that just one soda, small cup of coffee / Nescafe, or one No-Doz are enough to forestall the headaches. One or two days of this "maintenence dose" and I can go cold turkey.
Really, cut down on the sodas. The coffee is fine, but as soon as I started working at a place without free sodas, I lost ten pounds and my blood sugar went down 20 points.
Never, ever try to get a French bureaucrat to work after hours. Sarkozy's real problem is he's pushing an American-style work ethic. France will have non of that, unless there's food or wine involved.
Hundreds of thousands of servers == thousands of dead batteries each month, since those batteries don't last more than a few years.
Now I'd think their design could be gentle on the 12V batteries, since it's possible to design UPSes that don't murder batteries at the rate cheap store-bought UPSes do. But still, they must have an army of droids swapping out batteries on a continuous basis.
Or maybe they are more selective, and only swap out batteries on hosts that have suffered one or two outages. It only takes one or two instances of draining a gel cell to exhaustion before it is unusable.
Do what any decent pirate would do, turn 'em in to the Navy (or whoever is in charge of pirated software), collect yer bounty, and, arrr, off to more plunder matey!
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I'd almost mod you up, but "classroom training [is] a time waster" is an exaggeration. (Well, unless you had shitty teachers.) The whole point of going to college is to engage in interaction with faculty, students, everything. You're only in class a few hours per week. The rest of the time is just as important. For that reason I wouldn't give much credence to someone with a degree from the University of Mom's Basement.
But I think TFA had less to do with online learning than with large-scale collaboration. That's a hot topic in academic computing right row, so it's a straightforward way to get funding for your IT infrastructure. "We need to promote academic collaboration! Which means of course we need new servers, routers, etc, and that 10Gb LAN upgrade!)
and it has to make deedle deedle deedle noises. While launching a Matrix screensaver.
Although I did see a '24' episode where the computer whiz had nothing up on his desktop other than about two dozen xterm windows. Someone did their homework.
We currently have a problem with old displays and cellphones filling up landfills with toxic materials because these devices are obsolete after a year or two. Just wait until planned obsolescence hits the bionic world. Landfills full of arms, legs, heads, organs, and poor people in the rest of the world will be sewing on body parts discarded by rich wasteful Americans.
Everyone I've ever met who is a Libertarian is either in it for the guns, for the dope, the right to drive like an asshole without getting ticketed, or is just plain batshit crazy. It's just another special interest group.
Silicon Valley votes for competence, the ability to deliver, and little else. There have been rising stars, like Tom Campbell. But Republicans have more or less disowned them as they sink into their own self-made mess of incompetence, corruption, and general ridiculousness.
> F5 is still charging an asinine amount of money for their hardware
Actually, you are paying for the software. Plus support. documentation, etc, that is generally OK. If your IT staff is an army of untrained contractors and support contract administrators it is probably worth it.
But then in a past job I had to stand at attention in front of the CEO and answer the question "WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE THESE F5 DEVICES?", and "Because our CIO likes them?" is not really a good answer in a situation like that. So - Am I biased? A tad!
I guess if you're BofA or Wellsfargo and you have 10gb of traffic and just an army of contractors for your IT staff, this might make sense, but - Seriously! It's been a while since I played with accelerators, and I also hate anything F5 with a passion, but with commodity hardware as cheap as it is (PowerEdge 1950 or Sun X4000-something equivalent), why bother with an expensive magic box which has some cheapo Supermicro-class PC on the inside? Especially if you have an app, like a web app or some random VPN thing, which is easily clusterable.
... then we'd power them off. But, undoubtably this would lead to helpdesk calls.
I have responded to "dead PC" calls when, in fact, the PC was not plugged in, monitor not turned on, etc. At one job, that was like 20% of the work load.
This is why I require all my IT staff to learn karate. Although usually a box of doughnuts will stop the colo crew in their tracks without resorting to any violence.
The volume controls go up to 11.
The TED conferees pay big bucks, you don't want them to think they are just rocking out to the same Moody Blues laser show they've been seeing since 1975.
Don't let anti-corporate hysteria blind you from looking objectively at this problem. Well, if spam did not exist I would not need a state of the art spam filter. That would be 2U less rack space and about 200W less power I would need to use in my data center. Really, just multiply all the instances of dedicated spam filters, proprietary or otherwise, and it's pretty easy to come up with a number. Plus, I'll bet 5% of Google's resources are dedicated to spam blocking and at least 5% of any ISP's resources are dedicated to transporting it. That's a big number.
Of course, McAfee would not exist either. Lots of people would be unemployed, and maybe they could find a cure for world hunger or something else useful instead.
I worked with a lot of Indians in my previous job. The accent thing was a challenge. One day I remarked to an Indian coworker (who had a pretty thick answer herself), "I'm sorry to say this but I can't understand a word is saying."
She replied cheerfully, "Oh! Don't worry! I do not understand a word he is saying either!"
After that I never worried about it and just tried to be patient. After all, their English was better than my Hindi.
I actually had a coworker tell me once that working on Maui sucked, because "everyone took off and went windsurfing at 2:30".
I can see the Andromeda Galaxy from my house!
Meetoo! And I get cold calls from Verisign and Comodo. Assholes!
On the other hand, I get *zero* spam sent to me from legitimate companies that is not related to my NIC handle, so I don't think the OP describes a 100% confirmed trend.
I went to a free Network World conference once and somehow got on the mailing list of every exhibitor there, but the opt-in links from all those spammers seem to work and pretty much all that spam has stopped.
Well, sort of - but doesn't ald old-fashioned spinning-disk type meter measure current, regardless of the power factor? You get billed for amps, and the utility multiplies that by some factor.
I would guess that new, "electronic" meters would fix this problem.
There is the concept of "maintenance dose" in addiction. I find that just one soda, small cup of coffee / Nescafe, or one No-Doz are enough to forestall the headaches. One or two days of this "maintenence dose" and I can go cold turkey.
Really, cut down on the sodas. The coffee is fine, but as soon as I started working at a place without free sodas, I lost ten pounds and my blood sugar went down 20 points.
The DoD doesn't like losing their pr0n anymore than anyone else does.
What do you expect, they slap themselves on the forehead in 1990-something, saying "Oh s***! We forgot to design it to survive a war!"
Never, ever try to get a French bureaucrat to work after hours. Sarkozy's real problem is he's pushing an American-style work ethic. France will have non of that, unless there's food or wine involved.
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/809646
Probably getting to be standard for small form factor mobos; space, power and noise are definitely on people's minds.
Yep I think you're probably right - when a battery wears out, just scrap the entire container. Heck, scrap the entire data center.
Now, where can I get my hands on all that surplus stuff??
Hundreds of thousands of servers == thousands of dead batteries each month, since those batteries don't last more than a few years.
Now I'd think their design could be gentle on the 12V batteries, since it's possible to design UPSes that don't murder batteries at the rate cheap store-bought UPSes do. But still, they must have an army of droids swapping out batteries on a continuous basis.
Or maybe they are more selective, and only swap out batteries on hosts that have suffered one or two outages. It only takes one or two instances of draining a gel cell to exhaustion before it is unusable.
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Isn't 100 Krona, like $300,000,000 Canadian$?
Brrrr!
Do what any decent pirate would do, turn 'em in to the Navy (or whoever is in charge of pirated software), collect yer bounty, and, arrr, off to more plunder matey!