I don't think its theft, if you call the company, and try to return it, multiple times.... (they were trying to get apple to confirm it was one of their phones)
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells? you know he works for Fusion-IO, right? that he hasn't worked at apple for 20+ years?
How do you figure? All your communications are routed through a central server. that is just begging for an NSA tap on it. (and probably has one). Its been published that many other countries REQUIRE a set of local proxy servers in country, so the local intelligence agencies can eavesdrop on all blackberry communications. Why do you think the US would be any different?
I just bought a dual 12 core server from Dell. The difference (all other specs being equal) between the R810 with two 10-core Xeon's, and the R815 with two 12-core AMD's is about $8k (we also have 256GB of ram in them. The Intel ram was more expensive for some reason, even though the speed was the same). That difference in price is going towards a Fusion IO card, which will be a nice little benefit to our IO performance on our database.
One of my professors put an "RT" next to some problems on our first test. We asked what that meant. "Rectal Tonsillectomy Son, your doing it the hard way". I Really liked him..
I use a different random 20 character Password for EVERY website and service I use (thank you lastpass!).
Last week, google told me my account needed to be verified, after a mobile phone in korea logged into my account. (I also use Firefox or chrome on linux). Only thing I can think of was that there was some sort of XSS (since I keep myself logged into gmail) on either a website my linux box visited, or my android phone. I'm leaning towards the phone, since I use gmail over https on linux.
You could stop using banks, and go visit a local credit union. I had a long meeting with a loan officer at my bank, and a week later, found out I wasn't approved for a used car loan that I wanted (they got ALL my info backwards somehow, and the loan officer couldn't actually approve, and had to send it off to some department).. Called a local credit union, was talking to a person in less than 3 rings, and was approved for the car loan (at a better rate) over the phone, in about 5 min. I pulled out of that bank the following Saturday. Haven't missed them yet.
Have you tried running a Microsoft App lately without installing the.NET 3.5, 4, 2.2, 1.1, 1.0, and maybe another couple of.Net runtimes? I have a couple of guys at work that are gung ho.NET developers right out of school. And they hate java because you have to install a runtime and its slow.. I laugh every time...
I can't tell you how much I wish Windows Update would update other applications.. I guess I've turned into a crusty, bearded old Linux geek.. but one command to update everything kind of spoils you. (and being able to install and uninstall more than one application at a time is nice too).
Wait a minute.. How the heck is your CPU the most important component upgrade? Seriously Get the 3rd or 4th fastest processor. Do you know how much time your CPU sits Idle? sure, and SSD will help some, but put in more ram, better video card.. heck, get a nicer, bigger monitor so you can see more physical desktop.. but CPU?? Unless you do video encoding for a living you will never know the difference
Well, to be fair. When has someone from the Apache group took your director to a game in the companies luxury box? Oh, heh. they don't have one? they must not sell much. And why would you want it then:)
Sequent was bought out by IBM in 1999. They had 32 processor machines. heck, before they got bought, they sold one that ran windows NT on a ton of Pentiums. IBM did pretty much nothing with them after buying them.
In public companies, Employees are counted as a liability, and contractors are counted as a 'cost of doing business'. They appear in different areas of the balance sheet, and can be used to make your company appear to be doing much better than it is.. That is the reason private corporations routinely hire contractors.. or because they have a single, short term project.
WARF, which holds ALL of the University of Wisconsin patents had a guy in the local paper talk about this very thing.. If you publish it, you can claim prior art.. IN THE UNITED STATES. and that is a huge problem for lots of companies, that they don't even yet realize.. I can come up with something, Publish, and be somewhat protected.. Until people in other countries run out and patent my idea..
Seems like Samsung should just stop that contract.. and see what happens as Apple has to source flash memory from multiple suppliers to keep up with demand..
We use scalix.. but I don't recommend it.. last update was 2 years ago.. nothing in the forums in the last 6 months except an announcement that the company was sold... (you know its bad when nobody bothers to remove image hosting for spammers from the wiki) No ability to store contacts on the server.. If we were to go again, we would look at Zimbra, but the purchase of it by VMWare means it will get much more expensive real soon.
I wish there was an actual, decent open (not half the features in the 'community edition') server that integrated email, calendaring, address book, and ldap authentication (as in the server, so that other machines could authenticate against it. I would switch to it tomorrow. Sure, there are lots of bolt on options, where you cobble together a bunch of pieces, but those are pain.
Why should my beef be with the carrier? If Redhat Provided a mechanism for adding and removing software, but allowed paid vendors to purposely bypass that and not be able to be removed, wouldn't you be mad at Redhat?
Of course, that same freedom does not apply to REMOVING applications. unless I root my phone, there are several applications pre-installed that I cannot remove, and nag me every few weeks to buy.. CityID, i'm looking at you, as well as my cell phone companies "Navigator" product, which is much less useful than Google Maps, which is also installed on the darn phone...
Well, Where i was working.. each office had around 300GB of data on their fileshare, mostly stuff for local office needs. Most offices were connected with a bonded T1 line. We would have had to either ship a large USB drive to each local office, and walk a bean-counter through plugging it into the server, or backup/restore over a dual T1, that was also carrying other traffic. It was decided since all servers were on a 4 year rotation to just deploy new ones with the cluster size increase.. Also, the older servers couldn't hold the files when they were re-formatted to 16k sectors.. basically, every small text and csv and xls file would be a minimum of 16k, and would have shot some directories through the roof, filling the disk on the older servers..
Heck, I'd be happy if the percentages were even the same.. Say, Everyone pays 20%.. (Or even better, the fair tax).. Some people get really mad, and say the rich should pay more, but many of them don't seem to realize that having them pay the same would be a huge boost (and at least a great start). Currently, they don't even pay as much as those that are poor.. I've worked for a large tax accounting firm, the people that can afford to hire out teams of people to figure out how to get out of taxes is just mind-blowing... I love to hear people talk about the "33% bracket".. if your actually paying that much, you should fire your accountants.. because NOBODY with money pays that rate..
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And Alpha.. And Mips.. back in the good old days before NT was intel processors only..
I don't think its theft, if you call the company, and try to return it, multiple times.... (they were trying to get apple to confirm it was one of their phones)
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?
you know he works for Fusion-IO, right? that he hasn't worked at apple for 20+ years?
How do you figure? All your communications are routed through a central server. that is just begging for an NSA tap on it. (and probably has one). Its been published that many other countries REQUIRE a set of local proxy servers in country, so the local intelligence agencies can eavesdrop on all blackberry communications. Why do you think the US would be any different?
I just bought a dual 12 core server from Dell. The difference (all other specs being equal) between the R810 with two 10-core Xeon's, and the R815 with two 12-core AMD's is about $8k (we also have 256GB of ram in them. The Intel ram was more expensive for some reason, even though the speed was the same). That difference in price is going towards a Fusion IO card, which will be a nice little benefit to our IO performance on our database.
One of my professors put an "RT" next to some problems on our first test. We asked what that meant. "Rectal Tonsillectomy Son, your doing it the hard way". I Really liked him..
I use a different random 20 character Password for EVERY website and service I use (thank you lastpass!).
Last week, google told me my account needed to be verified, after a mobile phone in korea logged into my account. (I also use Firefox or chrome on linux). Only thing I can think of was that there was some sort of XSS (since I keep myself logged into gmail) on either a website my linux box visited, or my android phone. I'm leaning towards the phone, since I use gmail over https on linux.
Are you watching, Amazon?
There, fixed that for you..
You could stop using banks, and go visit a local credit union. I had a long meeting with a loan officer at my bank, and a week later, found out I wasn't approved for a used car loan that I wanted (they got ALL my info backwards somehow, and the loan officer couldn't actually approve, and had to send it off to some department).. Called a local credit union, was talking to a person in less than 3 rings, and was approved for the car loan (at a better rate) over the phone, in about 5 min. I pulled out of that bank the following Saturday. Haven't missed them yet.
Have you tried running a Microsoft App lately without installing the .NET 3.5, 4, 2.2, 1.1, 1.0, and maybe another couple of .Net runtimes? I have a couple of guys at work that are gung ho .NET developers right out of school. And they hate java because you have to install a runtime and its slow.. I laugh every time...
I can't tell you how much I wish Windows Update would update other applications.. I guess I've turned into a crusty, bearded old Linux geek.. but one command to update everything kind of spoils you. (and being able to install and uninstall more than one application at a time is nice too).
Wait a minute.. How the heck is your CPU the most important component upgrade? Seriously Get the 3rd or 4th fastest processor. Do you know how much time your CPU sits Idle? sure, and SSD will help some, but put in more ram, better video card.. heck, get a nicer, bigger monitor so you can see more physical desktop.. but CPU?? Unless you do video encoding for a living you will never know the difference
Well, to be fair. When has someone from the Apache group took your director to a game in the companies luxury box? Oh, heh. they don't have one? they must not sell much. And why would you want it then :)
Sequent was bought out by IBM in 1999. They had 32 processor machines. heck, before they got bought, they sold one that ran windows NT on a ton of Pentiums. IBM did pretty much nothing with them after buying them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems
In public companies, Employees are counted as a liability, and contractors are counted as a 'cost of doing business'. They appear in different areas of the balance sheet, and can be used to make your company appear to be doing much better than it is.. That is the reason private corporations routinely hire contractors.. or because they have a single, short term project.
I'd love to be your mechanic! With a $90/hour shop rate, thats $180,000 He's taking home... Right?
How much more is Full Retail then OEM, vs One of the many other MS licensing agreement choices (Like Select and Open)..
Yeah.. Hi Pot, quit yelling at the kettle..
WARF, which holds ALL of the University of Wisconsin patents had a guy in the local paper talk about this very thing..
If you publish it, you can claim prior art.. IN THE UNITED STATES. and that is a huge problem for lots of companies, that they don't even yet realize.. I can come up with something, Publish, and be somewhat protected.. Until people in other countries run out and patent my idea..
Seems like Samsung should just stop that contract.. and see what happens as Apple has to source flash memory from multiple suppliers to keep up with demand..
On the other side.. The SAME complaint was made 6 months ago (or is it a year now) about google's ChromeOS for notebooks doing the same exact thing..
We use scalix.. but I don't recommend it.. last update was 2 years ago.. nothing in the forums in the last 6 months except an announcement that the company was sold... (you know its bad when nobody bothers to remove image hosting for spammers from the wiki) No ability to store contacts on the server.. If we were to go again, we would look at Zimbra, but the purchase of it by VMWare means it will get much more expensive real soon.
I wish there was an actual, decent open (not half the features in the 'community edition') server that integrated email, calendaring, address book, and ldap authentication (as in the server, so that other machines could authenticate against it. I would switch to it tomorrow. Sure, there are lots of bolt on options, where you cobble together a bunch of pieces, but those are pain.
Why should my beef be with the carrier? If Redhat Provided a mechanism for adding and removing software, but allowed paid vendors to purposely bypass that and not be able to be removed, wouldn't you be mad at Redhat?
Of course, that same freedom does not apply to REMOVING applications. unless I root my phone, there are several applications pre-installed that I cannot remove, and nag me every few weeks to buy.. CityID, i'm looking at you, as well as my cell phone companies "Navigator" product, which is much less useful than Google Maps, which is also installed on the darn phone...
Well, Where i was working.. each office had around 300GB of data on their fileshare, mostly stuff for local office needs. Most offices were connected with a bonded T1 line. We would have had to either ship a large USB drive to each local office, and walk a bean-counter through plugging it into the server, or backup/restore over a dual T1, that was also carrying other traffic. It was decided since all servers were on a 4 year rotation to just deploy new ones with the cluster size increase.. Also, the older servers couldn't hold the files when they were re-formatted to 16k sectors.. basically, every small text and csv and xls file would be a minimum of 16k, and would have shot some directories through the roof, filling the disk on the older servers..
Heck, I'd be happy if the percentages were even the same.. Say, Everyone pays 20%.. (Or even better, the fair tax).. Some people get really mad, and say the rich should pay more, but many of them don't seem to realize that having them pay the same would be a huge boost (and at least a great start). Currently, they don't even pay as much as those that are poor.. I've worked for a large tax accounting firm, the people that can afford to hire out teams of people to figure out how to get out of taxes is just mind-blowing... I love to hear people talk about the "33% bracket".. if your actually paying that much, you should fire your accountants.. because NOBODY with money pays that rate..