When the high tech companies realize that if they keep shipping jobs overseas, or rather "we'll hire three Indian engineers for every one US based engineer", kids entering college will nolonger choose CompSci/Engineering. We saw this after the dotcom bubble, millions of students went into computer related fields (web dev even...) because the jobs were there.
Now that the jobs are being sent somewhere else, the competition is too great. Eventually it'll be too late.
If I tell my management I don't want to hire overseas personnel, I have to come up with a 10page dissertation and financial analysis... mainly to explain to them how I don't want to comply with the CEO's messaging around "globalization".
Globalization my ass, we're keeping some kid from Ohio from getting a job.
All animals are created equal, yet some animals are more equal than others.
The problem is that those people that created the TSA should have to go through this type of security screening. Make these invasive procedures personal to those in power. They'll have a change of mind when Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi are getting groped instead of hearing stories about some random grandmother. Too bad those three women always fly privately. I guess we're all equal under the law unless you get elected to office.
I'd say showing support for the likes of LulzSec by publicly cheering them on comes about as close as most people can get to really voting for "none of the above".
I guess you keep all your finances in your mattress then?
While you could say "he should have $better_security_measures...." Unlike every bank/checking account I've ever owned, I don't think his PC or whatever you use to secure your bitcoins is FDIC insured.
What "civil liberties" are you worried about losing? I'm not aware of any that explicitly grant you the ability to phone-bomb some organization. Are you still pissed that you cannot send spam faxes to people?
Maybe you haven't seen the former "IBM Plant" facility. In it's hey day it had over 20k employees. Now it is a grassy field, a Lowes and a playground. The 4 remaining buildings are owned by HDS.
I live in the Silicon Valley and I've seen more large high tech companies leave here due to the high costs of living then I'd care to remember. HP gone. IBM gone. The cities around here have to pretty much give away the farm (SanJose I'm looking at you with regards to keeping eBay around).
Why should high tech companies hire engineers in the US if they're just going to ask them to relocate to a cheaper geography (India). I don't see these companies relocating to Oklahoma, Nebraska or North Dakota.
These companies can look at a top US graduate of Indian nationality and say, "Hey, we'll pay for you to move back to Bangalore..." and they'll gladly move back home to their family. They US citizen won't take the same offer.
Employees... you're a resource just like servers, storage, carpeting and office supplies.
Anybody know if there's a mention of being able to backup using TimeMachine to a mac mini running Lion? I always found it silly to have to buy a mac mini for serving up files/music/video and then buy a timecapsule. I'd rather just hang a bunch of disk off of the mini.
Didn't mp3.com get sued into oblivion for something similar to this? You told mp3.com "I have xyz song.." and then they provided you with access to their copy of the mp3.
This is different from what amazon is doing which is giving you a place to upload your copy and if you buy a mp3 from amazon, they would point a link from your library to amazon's copy.
I can't wait for the next "3 hour sitting at the gate in a middle seat" delay, not due to mechanical problem but due to "The pilot needs to charge his iPad..."
I'm sure that the airline has already thought of this...
What's the difference between MSFT bundling IE into windows and Apple bundling in their "App Store" into OSX? Could Apple be forced to unbundle their own app store from OSX?
I think IBM is more or less the Apple of the server industry, the only one left doing any substantial R&D
Check out the Cisco UCS, while my company is an IBM shop, the integration of the networking stack and something called service profiles (like a profile that controls what the hardware on the blade is) are interesting innovations in recent years. I have to admit tho HP and IBM have been doing the same things int he x86 (rackable and bladecenter) for many years (more CPU, RAM etc..)
In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI
Hmm... I've been in the datacenter a LONG time... and a photographer even longer. I don't recall many devices in the datacenter replacing their parallel SCSI with firewire, and I don't recall many cameras/camcorders using parallel SCSI and transitioning into firewire.
In this scheme, known as a âoeswoop-and-squat,â one or more drivers in âoeswoopâ cars force an unsuspecting driver into position behind a âoesquatâ car. This squat car, which is usually filled with several passengers, then slows abruptly, forcing the driver of the chosen car to collide with the squat car. he passengers in the squat car then file a claim with the other driverâ(TM)s insurance company. This claim often includes bills for medical treatments that were not necessary or not received
The squatter could program their car to transmit a "all safe" message to other cars thereby fooling them into causing the crash... The car that crashed (the victim) could them claim their system was malfunctioning thereby suing more people...
Then you'd set a nice example of how to beat the system. Some terrorist could bring their/a baby on a flight and hide a bomb in their stroller/diaper etc..
If the TSA posted a list of "We will search/pat down all people except for the following people/items." This would provide a nice list to those looking to do harm/hijack the plane etc.. for what they can do to get past security.
I know I know... someone will say this will cause irreparable harm to the child. Well, when I took my child to get their measels/mumps/rubella shots, that was a lot more "traumatic" (resulting in lots of crying), but prevents not only my child from getting sick but many others.
Wow... guess you've never been in a datacenter that actually PLANS it's power distribution system. It's planned that both power strips in a given cabinet (or plugs on a larger floor standing system like an EMC disk array) will go to different PDUs. Just in case the PDU itself fails. Now while this doesn't protect you from building supply (Power Company) failures. It does protect you from all sorts of intra-datacenter power issues.
Nobody is randomly plugging power cables in, but you are planning for a multi plug server/storage array/switch/router whatever to connect to two different PDUs.
Ok.. so Vmware is owned by EMC, a dominant storage player. They lost a power supply in a cabinet. So? EMC arrays have had multiple power feeds for years (decades). Even the low end clariion has 2x power supplies. And anybody that racks up equipment knows to connect each rack's powerstrip/PDU to a separate feed. So that if you lost one PDU, the cabinet still has 100% at no redundancy.
I also find it odd that they'd have an application configuration that if access was lost to ONE lun on ONE array, that it would cripple the entire application. Umm... this is bad application design if you ask me. All it would take would be for the host to mirror the lun to another disk array. That way the array could blow up and you'd be fine, and being VMware (a part of EMC) disk is cheap, unlike the brutal prices the rest of us pay.
Either that or the power failure caused a loss of a single path from host to disk and they forgot to configure Powerpath on the server... or verify that vmware's native multipathing was working correctly...
Irony. A storage company having a storage problem.
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When the high tech companies realize that if they keep shipping jobs overseas, or rather "we'll hire three Indian engineers for every one US based engineer", kids entering college will nolonger choose CompSci/Engineering. We saw this after the dotcom bubble, millions of students went into computer related fields (web dev even...) because the jobs were there.
Now that the jobs are being sent somewhere else, the competition is too great. Eventually it'll be too late.
If I tell my management I don't want to hire overseas personnel, I have to come up with a 10page dissertation and financial analysis... mainly to explain to them how I don't want to comply with the CEO's messaging around "globalization".
Globalization my ass, we're keeping some kid from Ohio from getting a job.
If the mice don't learn to fear the cats they will be eaten.
How poetic.
I'm sure glad that Google, Amazon and Apple are in the business of funding the creation of music.
All animals are created equal, yet some animals are more equal than others.
The problem is that those people that created the TSA should have to go through this type of security screening. Make these invasive procedures personal to those in power. They'll have a change of mind when Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi are getting groped instead of hearing stories about some random grandmother. Too bad those three women always fly privately. I guess we're all equal under the law unless you get elected to office.
I'd say showing support for the likes of LulzSec by publicly cheering them on comes about as close as most people can get to really voting for "none of the above".
I guess you keep all your finances in your mattress then?
While you could say "he should have $better_security_measures...." Unlike every bank/checking account I've ever owned, I don't think his PC or whatever you use to secure your bitcoins is FDIC insured.
What's that old expression by Thomas Tusser...
"A fool and his money are soon parted"
What "civil liberties" are you worried about losing? I'm not aware of any that explicitly grant you the ability to phone-bomb some organization. Are you still pissed that you cannot send spam faxes to people?
Maybe you haven't seen the former "IBM Plant" facility. In it's hey day it had over 20k employees. Now it is a grassy field, a Lowes and a playground. The 4 remaining buildings are owned by HDS.
I live in the Silicon Valley and I've seen more large high tech companies leave here due to the high costs of living then I'd care to remember. HP gone. IBM gone. The cities around here have to pretty much give away the farm (SanJose I'm looking at you with regards to keeping eBay around).
Why should high tech companies hire engineers in the US if they're just going to ask them to relocate to a cheaper geography (India). I don't see these companies relocating to Oklahoma, Nebraska or North Dakota.
These companies can look at a top US graduate of Indian nationality and say, "Hey, we'll pay for you to move back to Bangalore..." and they'll gladly move back home to their family. They US citizen won't take the same offer.
Employees... you're a resource just like servers, storage, carpeting and office supplies.
Why hasn't someone started a Engineers Union?
Do they keep the image and add it to their collection or do they toss it away?
Anybody know if there's a mention of being able to backup using TimeMachine to a mac mini running Lion? I always found it silly to have to buy a mac mini for serving up files/music/video and then buy a timecapsule. I'd rather just hang a bunch of disk off of the mini.
Didn't mp3.com get sued into oblivion for something similar to this? You told mp3.com "I have xyz song.." and then they provided you with access to their copy of the mp3.
This is different from what amazon is doing which is giving you a place to upload your copy and if you buy a mp3 from amazon, they would point a link from your library to amazon's copy.
I can't wait for the next "3 hour sitting at the gate in a middle seat" delay, not due to mechanical problem but due to "The pilot needs to charge his iPad..."
I'm sure that the airline has already thought of this...
What's the difference between MSFT bundling IE into windows and Apple bundling in their "App Store" into OSX? Could Apple be forced to unbundle their own app store from OSX?
For many private colleges, $100k is about what it costs to go to school for 2 years (incl room/board).
I think IBM is more or less the Apple of the server industry, the only one left doing any substantial R&D
Check out the Cisco UCS, while my company is an IBM shop, the integration of the networking stack and something called service profiles (like a profile that controls what the hardware on the blade is) are interesting innovations in recent years. I have to admit tho HP and IBM have been doing the same things int he x86 (rackable and bladecenter) for many years (more CPU, RAM etc..)
Because you don't have a 100ft wide screen with more than 7 channels (movie theaters have many more channels than 7).
I bet you also listen to your iPod rather than going to see a musician live...
In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI
Hmm... I've been in the datacenter a LONG time... and a photographer even longer. I don't recall many devices in the datacenter replacing their parallel SCSI with firewire, and I don't recall many cameras/camcorders using parallel SCSI and transitioning into firewire.
In this scheme, known as a âoeswoop-and-squat,â one or more drivers in âoeswoopâ cars force an unsuspecting driver into position behind a âoesquatâ car. This squat car, which is usually filled with several passengers, then slows abruptly, forcing the driver of the chosen car to collide with the squat car. he passengers in the squat car then file a claim with the other driverâ(TM)s insurance company. This claim often includes bills for medical treatments that were not necessary or not received
The squatter could program their car to transmit a "all safe" message to other cars thereby fooling them into causing the crash... The car that crashed (the victim) could them claim their system was malfunctioning thereby suing more people...
Then you'd set a nice example of how to beat the system. Some terrorist could bring their/a baby on a flight and hide a bomb in their stroller/diaper etc..
If the TSA posted a list of "We will search/pat down all people except for the following people/items." This would provide a nice list to those looking to do harm/hijack the plane etc.. for what they can do to get past security.
I know I know... someone will say this will cause irreparable harm to the child. Well, when I took my child to get their measels/mumps/rubella shots, that was a lot more "traumatic" (resulting in lots of crying), but prevents not only my child from getting sick but many others.
In all seriousness, how long until this finds it's way onto Wikileaks?
Wow... guess you've never been in a datacenter that actually PLANS it's power distribution system. It's planned that both power strips in a given cabinet (or plugs on a larger floor standing system like an EMC disk array) will go to different PDUs. Just in case the PDU itself fails. Now while this doesn't protect you from building supply (Power Company) failures. It does protect you from all sorts of intra-datacenter power issues.
Nobody is randomly plugging power cables in, but you are planning for a multi plug server/storage array/switch/router whatever to connect to two different PDUs.
This was just a bone headed mistake.
Ok.. so Vmware is owned by EMC, a dominant storage player. They lost a power supply in a cabinet. So? EMC arrays have had multiple power feeds for years (decades). Even the low end clariion has 2x power supplies. And anybody that racks up equipment knows to connect each rack's powerstrip/PDU to a separate feed. So that if you lost one PDU, the cabinet still has 100% at no redundancy.
I also find it odd that they'd have an application configuration that if access was lost to ONE lun on ONE array, that it would cripple the entire application. Umm... this is bad application design if you ask me. All it would take would be for the host to mirror the lun to another disk array. That way the array could blow up and you'd be fine, and being VMware (a part of EMC) disk is cheap, unlike the brutal prices the rest of us pay.
Either that or the power failure caused a loss of a single path from host to disk and they forgot to configure Powerpath on the server... or verify that vmware's native multipathing was working correctly...
Irony. A storage company having a storage problem.
I don't leave a connected extension cord going out to the sidewalk so anybody can use my electricity...
I lock my doors so they can't use my shelter or car...
My car's gas tank has a lock on it so I can't "share" my gasoline.
Anybody think that these guys don't encrypt their home APs?
Dear China,
Please stop or we'll say stop again.
-Barack