so much easier to support than winblows. the only issue you ever run into is training
I'm guessing the irony of that statement is lost on you.
Most people in this world run Windows or to a lesser extent Mac at home. Save the linux religious crusade for the computer club and stick with what people want to use, not what you want them to have.
$100k/hour, cold spare dead, NBD replacement... the problem isn't the lack of a hacker, more than likely these types of operations are caused by a team of guys who think they're hackers and don't need to follow proper process. Any system that generates $100k/hour should have fully tested and monitored resiliency with tested and available contingency. The solution to cowboys isn't more cowboys.
Instead of being a skilled professional with power to change things and work on a problem, when you go to the cloud you demote yourself to a gopher
That is the point. As a manager I am looking to reduce costs. Why would I pay an engineer $80k/year to manage our infrastructure when I can pay an MSP to supply the same service for $10k/year? Maybe I then hire a $30k/year helpdesk 'gopher' to be the gateway between users and MSP support and I save 50% off my budget while delivering the same service.
Cloud isn't the answer for everything, but for a lot of cases it is a lot more cost effective way of delivering IT.
Gates like Rockefeller, and Jobs like Ford. And I suspect each would be content with that.
No chance. Jobs is the equivalent of any number of new car manufacturers in the 30's or 40's that no-one remembers now. Gates (the foundation, not the man) will be closer to Oxfam, UNICEF or Salvation Army, or some other major charitable foundation that helps a lot of people over the course of many decades.
When the iDevices go the way of MacIntosh in a few years, will anyone really care that there was a mildly popular electronic device for a couple of years back around 2008? Who designed the original Pong? Atari 2600? The first actual mobile phone? That stuff has special interest value, but the man on the street doesn't care.
He is, however, entirely wrong that Jobs will be forgotten. Jobs is, simply put, the most successful CEO in history. I don't think that can even vaguely be debated (at least not intelligently). Some could even argue that his success as a CEO makes him also the most successful _leader_ of all time.
Wow. Bigger than Jesus or Mohammed now? RDF at maximum levels... I think it's gonna blow. Not only that, but these are irrefutable facts which cannot be intelligently debated either!
Steve Jobs designed a slightly shiner mobile phone in 2007. Hardly an inter-generation inspiring break-through that our grandchildren will be talking about in 2050. Unlike say a multi-billion dollar charitable foundation that will still be saving lives in 100 years.
Leading a successful company just isn't interesting enough for you to be remembered for hundreds of years.
I think the point is that Bill Gates name will still be around because his name is the name of the foundation not necessarily his software. If Columbus' boat was called the Ferdinand V then that name might be a bit more well known today too.
. Bill Gates has never done anything for the benefit of mankind. If you fell for the Gates Foundation, you need a course in critical thinking in the worst way.
Says the person who throws around phrases like "big pharma" as if it's some kind of doctor evil movie baddie, and gets cites the LA times as their research.
You do know critical thinking means more than just paraphrasing the local paper?
I don't know about you, but curing Polio and Malaria globally will be a pretty big achievement by anyone's standards.
I don't know where you live, but Finland is not the same as the US. Like in all Nordic countries, the taxes are actually used for something other than military ventures - namely providing education and healthcare for everyone and a stable society with functioning infrastructure.
The funny part is that the US actually spends just as much if not more on health and education as the Scandinavians, the difference is in how that money is spent.
I'm on the fence about corporate tax, because I consider it triple dipping. After all, people buying Rovio's products are spending their post-tax income. Rovio's employees pay income tax. Why should that same money be taxed yet again at the corporate level ? Does the Finnish gov't do anything of value with those taxes ? Mine does not (Canada).
For a place that prides itself on being smarter than the average person, there sure are some really crazy attitudes about tax in here.
How do you think schools and hospitals are paid for?
If you want a easy demonstration, go to your nearest zoo and climb in the lion's cage. That is how life works with no tax or government.
So the fact that the government doesn't use its power to take your gold by force isn't thanks to your impressive weapons collection (however much you have isn't enough to stop a navy seal team)
Unless you gold collection is somewhere in Vietnam, protected by some farmers with some bamboo, then your navy seals couldn't do shit about it:)
There's no libertarian society in the world; there never has been. How do you perform a test?
The closest we have to true libertarianism is the jungle. From the little experience I've had being in a real jungle, that system doesn't work so well.
Most people confuse targetted marketing with showing them "ads for stuff they want." That's not true. Targetted marketing is no different from any other form of marketing - the goal is to increase sales, full stop.
And how it does that is by looking at what you searched for and sending you ads about it. It's no more complicated than that. If you search for " I'm a jew and hate the nazis" you'll get ads about how to enlist in the german army.
It isn't necessarily about click-throughs, it is about planting the seed of an idea in your head.
Well this isn't very cost effective marketing for a particular brand. If company A spends millions to plant a concept in my head, then sometime later I get brainwashed into liking the idea, but because the idea was subliminally inserted I proceed to buy the product from company B then how does this help company A?
In my experience there is nothing even remotely clever going on. If you search for "cars" you will get bombarded with ads for cars, even if you've also searched for "I'm legally blind and can't legally drive", you'll still get ads about new cars. targeted advertising is rubbish, at least for anyone with not easily manipulated by a sock puppet
Seriously, where have we gone wrong? Somehow, ads seem to have become so important that they have to be crammed into every waking second of our lives (and perhaps into our sleeping time too, at some point).
I think about this everyday, not just the physical assault of advertising that I have to confront every day, but also just information in general, especially regular old signs. My house is almost ad free, I listen to commercial free radio, and generally watch recorded TV which I can FF through ads, so when I step out of my house it is immediately apparent how bad it is getting.
At my bus stop there are a least half a dozen signs telling me it's a bus stop, what buses stop there, that I'm not allowed to park my car there, that I can't smoke there, and I should put my litter in the bin. Then I get on the bus. Let people off the bus first, don't talk to the driver whilst bus is in motion, you can't buy a ticket on the bus as it's prepay only, I have to stand behind the line, I should give my seat up should someone older/worse gets on, don't put my feet on the seats, put your hand over your mouth when you cough, here's a number to call for updated timetable info, here's the graffiti hotline... It is absolutely absurd. Next time you go for a drive in any half decent size city see if you can count the amount of council road signs you come across. You can't even count them let alone read them all. There must an economy of a medium sized country being spent on plastering every centimetre of countryside with signs that no-one pays attention to.
I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...
*facepalm*
Yeah I never really understood the logic here. The best site for searching isn't search.com, the best site for porn isn't porn.com, the best site for buying books isn't books.com, and we all know the best social networking site isn't socialnetwork.com. In fact I'm struggling to think of even one case where the name of a TLD actually is the best site in it's category?
I don't understand why anyone would pay a premium for a TLD when it is demonstrated to make no difference to the success of your site?
Another obvious complication with a "real" war is that it would with 100% certainty trigger WWIII and the obliteration of mankind
I actually think a WW2 style war is impossible today. As you say the US couldn't just steam roll Afghanistan or Iraq even if they wanted to. Too many mobile phones and internet users would stop it before it got anywhere. On the other side, "bad guys" like Hitler or Pol Pot couldn't exist because as soon as anyone tried anything worse than what Saddam did they'd end up dead. Yeah sure we have the Kim Jong whoevers and the Mugabes running around but they are hardly a threat to western civilisation to the same level.
If I had time I reckon I could make a case that the internet has made major global conflict (WW2 or 1980's WW3 style) obsolete....
I am also an Australian, but I do not produce anything, I consume. And when I consume I do it the most efficient way possible regardless of local customs and traditions, and I agree with everything you wrote.
How does one qualify as a "consumer group"? I am a consumer unit so all I need is some more consumer units and we can then form a group? Is that how it works?
You do realize there are all of about 600 of us working in the US who have been trained in any aspect of accident investigation, and like all but 30, I'm in the military.
I'm surprised, are there that many crashes to keep you all busy? If I had to guess (completely uneducated guess) I would've thought that NTSB crash investigators would number about 10.
And THAT is the problem in a nutshell. I have been told by several radio stations that if they DARE play anything not on the corporate list? they are FIRED. I thought payola was illegal? Not anymore it isn't, the labels either own directly or through corporate contracts with groups like clear channel own entire areas with no competition. Try to book most of the large venues and it doesn't matter if you have the money, why? Because ticketmaster owns the sales and they won't take your money, because they only work with the major labels.
I don't deny this happens I used to work for a 'radio station' once upon a time, and the whole business is merely a marketing arm for the major labels. I've seen it first hand. I merely question the Eagle Eye story, because it didn't ring true IMO (despite the fact I agree that this behaviour is very common)
Facebook is making a phone because Facebook is a huge brand and people will buy it just because it has the Facebook logo on the case.
The thing about that is that mobile phones are incredibly difficult products. You can easily make a good in shop demo. The first few people may well buy the phone and try it. However, as Microsoft is finding out with Windows Phone, once the early adopters find they have a dud, no amount of marketing can fix that.
Look at Justin Bieber and Hello Kitty, do you think the owners of that merchandise give a flying fuck about what other people think?
BTW, you might want to check how WP sales are going outside your group of friends. last I read WP are outselling iPhone in the biggest phone market in the world
Hello from my vacation in Indonesia. There is no automated solution.
It seems wherever you are that Slashdot is working ok so it can't be too bad.
I travel to Indo at least twice a year for both work and play (Java, Borneo, Bali and Lombok) and never have many issues (sure it doesn't work out in the bush but the major centres are no problem). Facebook from my SGS2 might cost a lot with roaming charges, but it does work and the company is paying:)
What evidence is there that porn is bad for children?
None. I grew up on a steady diet of porn and turned out ok. If anything it was probably part of the growing process. When my mum found my mags she threw them out and told me not to bring them in the house. Sure it didn't stop me, but I learnt about boundaries, and how to hide stuff better:)
the only reason we stopped clubbing girls over the head and dragging them back to our cave for a bit of the old in-out is because we've been encouraged to feel guilty about it and will get criminally prosecuted if we did it.
Civilisation is just a scam played on thugs by smart people. With civilisation, smart people get to be the boss and have sex too.
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so much easier to support than winblows. the only issue you ever run into is training
I'm guessing the irony of that statement is lost on you. Most people in this world run Windows or to a lesser extent Mac at home. Save the linux religious crusade for the computer club and stick with what people want to use, not what you want them to have.
$100k/hour, cold spare dead, NBD replacement... the problem isn't the lack of a hacker, more than likely these types of operations are caused by a team of guys who think they're hackers and don't need to follow proper process. Any system that generates $100k/hour should have fully tested and monitored resiliency with tested and available contingency. The solution to cowboys isn't more cowboys.
Instead of being a skilled professional with power to change things and work on a problem, when you go to the cloud you demote yourself to a gopher
That is the point. As a manager I am looking to reduce costs. Why would I pay an engineer $80k/year to manage our infrastructure when I can pay an MSP to supply the same service for $10k/year? Maybe I then hire a $30k/year helpdesk 'gopher' to be the gateway between users and MSP support and I save 50% off my budget while delivering the same service. Cloud isn't the answer for everything, but for a lot of cases it is a lot more cost effective way of delivering IT.
Gates like Rockefeller, and Jobs like Ford. And I suspect each would be content with that.
No chance. Jobs is the equivalent of any number of new car manufacturers in the 30's or 40's that no-one remembers now. Gates (the foundation, not the man) will be closer to Oxfam, UNICEF or Salvation Army, or some other major charitable foundation that helps a lot of people over the course of many decades. When the iDevices go the way of MacIntosh in a few years, will anyone really care that there was a mildly popular electronic device for a couple of years back around 2008? Who designed the original Pong? Atari 2600? The first actual mobile phone? That stuff has special interest value, but the man on the street doesn't care.
He is, however, entirely wrong that Jobs will be forgotten. Jobs is, simply put, the most successful CEO in history. I don't think that can even vaguely be debated (at least not intelligently). Some could even argue that his success as a CEO makes him also the most successful _leader_ of all time.
Wow. Bigger than Jesus or Mohammed now? RDF at maximum levels... I think it's gonna blow. Not only that, but these are irrefutable facts which cannot be intelligently debated either!
Steve Jobs designed a slightly shiner mobile phone in 2007. Hardly an inter-generation inspiring break-through that our grandchildren will be talking about in 2050. Unlike say a multi-billion dollar charitable foundation that will still be saving lives in 100 years.
Leading a successful company just isn't interesting enough for you to be remembered for hundreds of years.
I think the point is that Bill Gates name will still be around because his name is the name of the foundation not necessarily his software. If Columbus' boat was called the Ferdinand V then that name might be a bit more well known today too.
. Bill Gates has never done anything for the benefit of mankind. If you fell for the Gates Foundation, you need a course in critical thinking in the worst way.
Says the person who throws around phrases like "big pharma" as if it's some kind of doctor evil movie baddie, and gets cites the LA times as their research. You do know critical thinking means more than just paraphrasing the local paper? I don't know about you, but curing Polio and Malaria globally will be a pretty big achievement by anyone's standards.
Great post.
I don't know where you live, but Finland is not the same as the US. Like in all Nordic countries, the taxes are actually used for something other than military ventures - namely providing education and healthcare for everyone and a stable society with functioning infrastructure.
The funny part is that the US actually spends just as much if not more on health and education as the Scandinavians, the difference is in how that money is spent.
I'm on the fence about corporate tax, because I consider it triple dipping. After all, people buying Rovio's products are spending their post-tax income. Rovio's employees pay income tax. Why should that same money be taxed yet again at the corporate level ? Does the Finnish gov't do anything of value with those taxes ? Mine does not (Canada).
For a place that prides itself on being smarter than the average person, there sure are some really crazy attitudes about tax in here. How do you think schools and hospitals are paid for? If you want a easy demonstration, go to your nearest zoo and climb in the lion's cage. That is how life works with no tax or government.
"Government cannot create private sector jobs" the military industrial complex disrespectfully disagrees.
And the education industry. And the health industry. And the transport industry.
So the fact that the government doesn't use its power to take your gold by force isn't thanks to your impressive weapons collection (however much you have isn't enough to stop a navy seal team)
Unless you gold collection is somewhere in Vietnam, protected by some farmers with some bamboo, then your navy seals couldn't do shit about it :)
There's no libertarian society in the world; there never has been. How do you perform a test?
The closest we have to true libertarianism is the jungle. From the little experience I've had being in a real jungle, that system doesn't work so well.
I think your criticism is naive.
Most people confuse targetted marketing with showing them "ads for stuff they want." That's not true. Targetted marketing is no different from any other form of marketing - the goal is to increase sales, full stop.
And how it does that is by looking at what you searched for and sending you ads about it. It's no more complicated than that. If you search for " I'm a jew and hate the nazis" you'll get ads about how to enlist in the german army.
It isn't necessarily about click-throughs, it is about planting the seed of an idea in your head.
Well this isn't very cost effective marketing for a particular brand. If company A spends millions to plant a concept in my head, then sometime later I get brainwashed into liking the idea, but because the idea was subliminally inserted I proceed to buy the product from company B then how does this help company A? In my experience there is nothing even remotely clever going on. If you search for "cars" you will get bombarded with ads for cars, even if you've also searched for "I'm legally blind and can't legally drive", you'll still get ads about new cars. targeted advertising is rubbish, at least for anyone with not easily manipulated by a sock puppet
Seriously, where have we gone wrong? Somehow, ads seem to have become so important that they have to be crammed into every waking second of our lives (and perhaps into our sleeping time too, at some point).
I think about this everyday, not just the physical assault of advertising that I have to confront every day, but also just information in general, especially regular old signs. My house is almost ad free, I listen to commercial free radio, and generally watch recorded TV which I can FF through ads, so when I step out of my house it is immediately apparent how bad it is getting. At my bus stop there are a least half a dozen signs telling me it's a bus stop, what buses stop there, that I'm not allowed to park my car there, that I can't smoke there, and I should put my litter in the bin. Then I get on the bus. Let people off the bus first, don't talk to the driver whilst bus is in motion, you can't buy a ticket on the bus as it's prepay only, I have to stand behind the line, I should give my seat up should someone older/worse gets on, don't put my feet on the seats, put your hand over your mouth when you cough, here's a number to call for updated timetable info, here's the graffiti hotline... It is absolutely absurd. Next time you go for a drive in any half decent size city see if you can count the amount of council road signs you come across. You can't even count them let alone read them all. There must an economy of a medium sized country being spent on plastering every centimetre of countryside with signs that no-one pays attention to.
One of my favorite books that I've collected is a junior high school general science text from 1932.
Care to tell us what it's called, or even better scan and pdf a version for us all?
I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...
*facepalm*
Yeah I never really understood the logic here. The best site for searching isn't search.com, the best site for porn isn't porn.com, the best site for buying books isn't books.com, and we all know the best social networking site isn't socialnetwork.com. In fact I'm struggling to think of even one case where the name of a TLD actually is the best site in it's category? I don't understand why anyone would pay a premium for a TLD when it is demonstrated to make no difference to the success of your site?
Another obvious complication with a "real" war is that it would with 100% certainty trigger WWIII and the obliteration of mankind
I actually think a WW2 style war is impossible today. As you say the US couldn't just steam roll Afghanistan or Iraq even if they wanted to. Too many mobile phones and internet users would stop it before it got anywhere. On the other side, "bad guys" like Hitler or Pol Pot couldn't exist because as soon as anyone tried anything worse than what Saddam did they'd end up dead. Yeah sure we have the Kim Jong whoevers and the Mugabes running around but they are hardly a threat to western civilisation to the same level. If I had time I reckon I could make a case that the internet has made major global conflict (WW2 or 1980's WW3 style) obsolete....
I am also an Australian, but I do not produce anything, I consume. And when I consume I do it the most efficient way possible regardless of local customs and traditions, and I agree with everything you wrote. How does one qualify as a "consumer group"? I am a consumer unit so all I need is some more consumer units and we can then form a group? Is that how it works?
You do realize there are all of about 600 of us working in the US who have been trained in any aspect of accident investigation, and like all but 30, I'm in the military.
I'm surprised, are there that many crashes to keep you all busy? If I had to guess (completely uneducated guess) I would've thought that NTSB crash investigators would number about 10.
And THAT is the problem in a nutshell. I have been told by several radio stations that if they DARE play anything not on the corporate list? they are FIRED. I thought payola was illegal? Not anymore it isn't, the labels either own directly or through corporate contracts with groups like clear channel own entire areas with no competition. Try to book most of the large venues and it doesn't matter if you have the money, why? Because ticketmaster owns the sales and they won't take your money, because they only work with the major labels.
I don't deny this happens I used to work for a 'radio station' once upon a time, and the whole business is merely a marketing arm for the major labels. I've seen it first hand. I merely question the Eagle Eye story, because it didn't ring true IMO (despite the fact I agree that this behaviour is very common)
Facebook is making a phone because Facebook is a huge brand and people will buy it just because it has the Facebook logo on the case.
The thing about that is that mobile phones are incredibly difficult products. You can easily make a good in shop demo. The first few people may well buy the phone and try it. However, as Microsoft is finding out with Windows Phone, once the early adopters find they have a dud, no amount of marketing can fix that.
Look at Justin Bieber and Hello Kitty, do you think the owners of that merchandise give a flying fuck about what other people think? BTW, you might want to check how WP sales are going outside your group of friends. last I read WP are outselling iPhone in the biggest phone market in the world
Allow me....
Hello from my vacation in Indonesia. There is no automated solution.
It seems wherever you are that Slashdot is working ok so it can't be too bad.
I travel to Indo at least twice a year for both work and play (Java, Borneo, Bali and Lombok) and never have many issues (sure it doesn't work out in the bush but the major centres are no problem). Facebook from my SGS2 might cost a lot with roaming charges, but it does work and the company is paying :)
What evidence is there that porn is bad for children?
None. I grew up on a steady diet of porn and turned out ok. If anything it was probably part of the growing process. When my mum found my mags she threw them out and told me not to bring them in the house. Sure it didn't stop me, but I learnt about boundaries, and how to hide stuff better :)
the only reason we stopped clubbing girls over the head and dragging them back to our cave for a bit of the old in-out is because we've been encouraged to feel guilty about it and will get criminally prosecuted if we did it.
Civilisation is just a scam played on thugs by smart people. With civilisation, smart people get to be the boss and have sex too.