There are some advantages to true cloud solutions, though. No mucking around with VPN connections or RDC connections that fail (due to end user error more often than not) and paying someone else to handle the headaches of database corruption and equipment maintenance. (We had a site go through a triple punch of having 1. a stick of RAM go bad on the main server, causing blue screens randomly 2. their main database getting so corrupted it would take thirty minutes to open and 3. these two issues causing corruption on their backups so their backed up image wouldn't virtualize so we could run a temporary server while we fixed the problems with the real one! Thankfully the worst of it is over, but the SBS 2008 server told me the Recycle Bin had somehow gotten corrupted during this whole process. I didn't even know that was possible.)
Even though their proof of concept system may not ultimately be the best way to fusion, they invented a HELL of a lot of technology in the process of getting there. Those laser pulses are amplified by sheets of giant crystals, so they had to invent a process to extrude them. And they always knew that their system was merely a demonstration of what could be done: they hope to license the technology to private energy companies who want an alternative to nuclear. Without the R&D component, the price tag of a NIF style fusion plant should drop from four billion down to 200-300 million, on par with the initial investment cost of a nuclear power plant. (I toured the facility a few years ago. Holy moly that place is cool and awesome. And the wine off Tesla Road is pretty good, too.)
I think the safest bet is to have local copies in addition to copies in the cloud, even if all the processing and computing is actually done in the cloud. Companies should set stuff up to keep a local copy of critical services on a good old fashioned tape drive or backup server. This is sort of a reverse of the cloud based backup solutions, where local processing and databases took place on local servers, but had backups in the cloud in case of a local disaster. Same idea: Have a local backup in case of the meltdown of the cloud. You may find your primary app is temporarily useless, but you at least have all your critical data (hopefully in a format that can be transferred.)
However, if the 5 are humming along at much greater productivity than the 4, and the work output and thus the profit of the division increases, then the 5th person has justified the same benefits as the other four, without anyone losing any benefits at all. If you have a more productive team and don't provide them with additional work, then you're not really expanding at all and doing it wrong. And if you don't have enough work to justify increasing the productivity of everyone, why are you having them slammed with overtime in the first place?
If they have enough probable cause to suspect there's even more evidence on the phone and are going through the proper procedures of obtaining a warrant, then I don't have a problem with this. If they were not in the middle of a trial case, however, I'd think this would fall under "unreasonable searches and seizures."
Need to know how to do X thing in five minutes? Google, my friend! Today it was figuring out how to unlock a locked virtual server via RDP... whoever decided to make it CTRL ALT END was a genius, a sheer genius. I could have spent $500 for a seminar on virtualization and never been told that, but Google told me in ten seconds, for free.
Partially because they've tried a lot of high tech ways to determine if there was a second fresco already, including trying to raise 400K from a Kickstarter to pay for lasers and Xrays and other things (they didn't make raise enough, alas.) And even if this low tech method has shown there's a second Fresco, it's going to take a lot of high tech work to move the existing painting.
How boring would it be to log into NA-WOW-015 instead of Ironforge? Or SE-FFXI-09 instead of Bismarck? I think sticking with the industry names is good enough. A lot of our clients are medical offices, and some of the servers have boring names, but others have names like "Baby" for an obgyn office. No one knows where SURG-446-SAV is, but just say "Scalpel" and you know immediately it's the surgery center server.
Best Disney movie that Disney never made. It was out of print for a couple decades until J.K. Rowling listed it as a book she loved as a child, then it was suddenly reprinted. My introduction was via a ratty 1948 UK copy that had been brought over to the US sometime in the 60s, based on the used bookstore price of 25 cents. It's a fantasy story set in England during the early Victorian period, involving lions and unicorns and lost pearl necklaces.
You're right, a great many jobs done in the US are not worth $10 an hour. Unfortunately, the majority of the ones that fall into that description are the jobs that are getting paid ten times that much already.
It's an election year so they're probably happy to accept any money they can get, but I wonder if anyone within the administration or the DNC itself is going to get some smackdown for this incident.
When I was growing up, we had this happen to a family on the next street over. A two year old escaped the house unnoticed and thought it would be funny to hide behind daddy's car before daddy went to work. Daddy didn't see his son "hiding" behind the rear passenger side tire, because Daddy was not in the habit of making a complete circle around the vehicle in the driveway to check for debris and/or children prior to rolling out. Daddy was charged with accidental vehicular manslaughter. And his son was dead too. This technology didn't exist at the time, but that's one tragedy that could have been prevented right then and there.
My Pontiac Grand Am died at 120K miles with a cracked head. My Honda Accord just rolled over 200K miles, and at my last oil change my mechanic said my engine was in "perfect" condition and that he could probably get it to 300K miles without major problems. (Although he warned that the next timing belt change at 280K would be his standard "heart to heart talk" about maybe, possibly, putting the old girl down one of these days.)
Depends on if there are kids involved and who gets majority custody. If you have 5 children and you only win weekend rights, then yeah, 80% sounds about right.
They are my anti-drug. $7 a bottle for a month's supply, $30 if you want the ultra pure phsophyldatylcholine extract from Vitamin World, and both work as well or better than prescription drugs for ADHD. But because they can't make billions of dollars off a waste product of the soy industry, they're not interested in funding further studies on it. The only side effect I've ever encountered is having a particularly large one get stuck in my throat...
For pretty much the same thing. We say you needed new servers two years ago, you said no. We recommended a software upgrade because your version is five years out of date, you said no. We told you it was silly to spend $5000 on iPads and then demand we get you apps for your five your old software, which won't work because iPad apps simply don't exist for your version, you refuse to do a version update, and that $5000 would have been better spent replacing your seven year old server!
There's only so much of this that even reasonable people can take before we suggest the client/patient kindly take his business elsewhere, ideally before the server crashes. (I think we left an apology note for whatever IT company took over that office on the desktop of the server. 'We're sorry. We tried to get them to listen. We really did.')
Part of this is also because adults don't get their recommended booster shots. The whooping cough vaccine wears off after about 20 years, as I learned when I was 26 and came down with it. Oh my goodness, that was miserable. I would feel normal for 10 minute stretches. Then I would cough violently for a minute straight, and then feel fine for another ten minutes. The recommended adult booster shot is the TDaP, which includes tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis (whooping cough.)
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There are some advantages to true cloud solutions, though. No mucking around with VPN connections or RDC connections that fail (due to end user error more often than not) and paying someone else to handle the headaches of database corruption and equipment maintenance. (We had a site go through a triple punch of having 1. a stick of RAM go bad on the main server, causing blue screens randomly 2. their main database getting so corrupted it would take thirty minutes to open and 3. these two issues causing corruption on their backups so their backed up image wouldn't virtualize so we could run a temporary server while we fixed the problems with the real one! Thankfully the worst of it is over, but the SBS 2008 server told me the Recycle Bin had somehow gotten corrupted during this whole process. I didn't even know that was possible.)
Even though their proof of concept system may not ultimately be the best way to fusion, they invented a HELL of a lot of technology in the process of getting there. Those laser pulses are amplified by sheets of giant crystals, so they had to invent a process to extrude them. And they always knew that their system was merely a demonstration of what could be done: they hope to license the technology to private energy companies who want an alternative to nuclear. Without the R&D component, the price tag of a NIF style fusion plant should drop from four billion down to 200-300 million, on par with the initial investment cost of a nuclear power plant. (I toured the facility a few years ago. Holy moly that place is cool and awesome. And the wine off Tesla Road is pretty good, too.)
I think the safest bet is to have local copies in addition to copies in the cloud, even if all the processing and computing is actually done in the cloud. Companies should set stuff up to keep a local copy of critical services on a good old fashioned tape drive or backup server. This is sort of a reverse of the cloud based backup solutions, where local processing and databases took place on local servers, but had backups in the cloud in case of a local disaster. Same idea: Have a local backup in case of the meltdown of the cloud. You may find your primary app is temporarily useless, but you at least have all your critical data (hopefully in a format that can be transferred.)
Dying early from stress related metabolic conditions, for one.
However, if the 5 are humming along at much greater productivity than the 4, and the work output and thus the profit of the division increases, then the 5th person has justified the same benefits as the other four, without anyone losing any benefits at all. If you have a more productive team and don't provide them with additional work, then you're not really expanding at all and doing it wrong. And if you don't have enough work to justify increasing the productivity of everyone, why are you having them slammed with overtime in the first place?
Just clicked on the link and saw "You're a backer!" on it and had a sad.
If they have enough probable cause to suspect there's even more evidence on the phone and are going through the proper procedures of obtaining a warrant, then I don't have a problem with this. If they were not in the middle of a trial case, however, I'd think this would fall under "unreasonable searches and seizures."
Need to know how to do X thing in five minutes? Google, my friend! Today it was figuring out how to unlock a locked virtual server via RDP... whoever decided to make it CTRL ALT END was a genius, a sheer genius. I could have spent $500 for a seminar on virtualization and never been told that, but Google told me in ten seconds, for free.
Partially because they've tried a lot of high tech ways to determine if there was a second fresco already, including trying to raise 400K from a Kickstarter to pay for lasers and Xrays and other things (they didn't make raise enough, alas.) And even if this low tech method has shown there's a second Fresco, it's going to take a lot of high tech work to move the existing painting.
This, actually, is one reason Siri will always remain a gimmick.
How boring would it be to log into NA-WOW-015 instead of Ironforge? Or SE-FFXI-09 instead of Bismarck? I think sticking with the industry names is good enough. A lot of our clients are medical offices, and some of the servers have boring names, but others have names like "Baby" for an obgyn office. No one knows where SURG-446-SAV is, but just say "Scalpel" and you know immediately it's the surgery center server.
Best Disney movie that Disney never made. It was out of print for a couple decades until J.K. Rowling listed it as a book she loved as a child, then it was suddenly reprinted. My introduction was via a ratty 1948 UK copy that had been brought over to the US sometime in the 60s, based on the used bookstore price of 25 cents. It's a fantasy story set in England during the early Victorian period, involving lions and unicorns and lost pearl necklaces.
You're right, a great many jobs done in the US are not worth $10 an hour. Unfortunately, the majority of the ones that fall into that description are the jobs that are getting paid ten times that much already.
Silence, peon. Your must wait your turn. And not yell. If you speak out of turn or too loudly, you will be muted.
It's an election year so they're probably happy to accept any money they can get, but I wonder if anyone within the administration or the DNC itself is going to get some smackdown for this incident.
When I was growing up, we had this happen to a family on the next street over. A two year old escaped the house unnoticed and thought it would be funny to hide behind daddy's car before daddy went to work. Daddy didn't see his son "hiding" behind the rear passenger side tire, because Daddy was not in the habit of making a complete circle around the vehicle in the driveway to check for debris and/or children prior to rolling out. Daddy was charged with accidental vehicular manslaughter. And his son was dead too. This technology didn't exist at the time, but that's one tragedy that could have been prevented right then and there.
Invasion of the Buckeyballs just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
My Pontiac Grand Am died at 120K miles with a cracked head. My Honda Accord just rolled over 200K miles, and at my last oil change my mechanic said my engine was in "perfect" condition and that he could probably get it to 300K miles without major problems. (Although he warned that the next timing belt change at 280K would be his standard "heart to heart talk" about maybe, possibly, putting the old girl down one of these days.)
- is that you can't get upset when someone uses them universally.
Depends on if there are kids involved and who gets majority custody. If you have 5 children and you only win weekend rights, then yeah, 80% sounds about right.
They are my anti-drug. $7 a bottle for a month's supply, $30 if you want the ultra pure phsophyldatylcholine extract from Vitamin World, and both work as well or better than prescription drugs for ADHD. But because they can't make billions of dollars off a waste product of the soy industry, they're not interested in funding further studies on it. The only side effect I've ever encountered is having a particularly large one get stuck in my throat...
It's called capitalism, baby. It works both ways.
For pretty much the same thing. We say you needed new servers two years ago, you said no. We recommended a software upgrade because your version is five years out of date, you said no. We told you it was silly to spend $5000 on iPads and then demand we get you apps for your five your old software, which won't work because iPad apps simply don't exist for your version, you refuse to do a version update, and that $5000 would have been better spent replacing your seven year old server!
There's only so much of this that even reasonable people can take before we suggest the client/patient kindly take his business elsewhere, ideally before the server crashes. (I think we left an apology note for whatever IT company took over that office on the desktop of the server. 'We're sorry. We tried to get them to listen. We really did.')
Part of this is also because adults don't get their recommended booster shots. The whooping cough vaccine wears off after about 20 years, as I learned when I was 26 and came down with it. Oh my goodness, that was miserable. I would feel normal for 10 minute stretches. Then I would cough violently for a minute straight, and then feel fine for another ten minutes. The recommended adult booster shot is the TDaP, which includes tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis (whooping cough.)
Stick more cell phone antennaes on all those buildings before they sell them!