Resource consumption of an older person is likely lower than the resource production lost when a prime aged individual has to devote time to child care. If you are alive and functional at 90 you are on to 3rd or 4th generation care depending on breeding age cycles.
You would only say that if you have never been to Japan.
All trains run on time. From all the different operators. Tokyo itself has an absolute myriad of train operators and the standard level of service is that all trains are on time, always.
I agree with your $$ figure. I never negotiate based on hours. But also we are obviously in different industries as I can estimate extremely accurately how long a job will take me. Project variations just don't happen in my industry. If I was dealing with legacy systems that couldn't be scoped accurately I would agree with you. Then its a T&M or highly risk marked up.
I use linux on all my computers and servers at home. And significantly prefer it to windows. BUT I totally understand this decision.
If you are end of life on your server hardware then you realistically are going to be looking at a cloud solution. You can shift a load of your cost and expertise out of your business, move to an OpEx costing model that is tied into various business lines rather than having the big red IT cost line on your balance sheet. So which provider are you going to use?
You could go AWS, but it's basically just IaaS. Or you could look at Azure, which has IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. Everyone needs a mail client and a calendar client and a word processing system. And office365 just gives you that. Zero real setup required. Sure you might need a cloud brokerage setup if your organisation is particularly complex but if that's they case microsoft will fund you part of the way. That's not even looking at the advantages of SQL as a PaaS offering.
Then, since you have Office365, you have single sign in credentials for all windows machines with zero effort. All users have their software they need in a central place.
Sure linux can do ALL of these things. But they require way way more knowledge and investment to get going.
I honestly believe that in 20 years we will telling youngun's stories about how we used to have our own datacentres and servers in backrooms.
It's one of the big reasons I tell my customers they are buying outcomes not time. How long it takes me to do the project isn't relevant. You have an outcome you want and I will provide you with that outcome at a very high standard. And I will charge you X. Just because I automated it to the Nth degree and did it in a fraction of the time of my competitors doesn't mean you pay me less. If anything you should pay me more as your systems were offline for less time and your internal staff were less impacted.
There is a video where gentle music plays and cutesy version of my little ponies slide across the screen into a box full of cotton wool. That is the original version. Goes for about 2 minutes. Sounds like torture when described like that but the kids liked it.
Someone released a version where about 90 seconds in the box of cotton wool is replaced with a box of nails and the pony is eviscerated by them. There is also a change in the audio to a distorted "Oh Fuck". And it then goes back to the cutesy version.
No other reason to do that then to get past the automated filters and mess with little kids.
You uploaded it to a platform that allows you to edit the documents in a web browser. How exactly did you NOT think you gave permission to google to open your docs?
If they can't open the docs they can't give you the ability to edit them. And then you have to expect them to build protections to stop bad docs taking the system off line.
I do store classified data in the cloud. I don't store it in google docs though.
Some of the cloud options offer security that is at military classification. Some of data that I work with cannot leave the country, has to remain inside certain datacenters and has a load of other security requirements around it. We still use the cloud.
Believe it or not Microsoft's Azure product is very secure if configured correctly.
Nope not a google employee. Or a seller of goggle products.
And no one actually involved in cloud transformations advertises it as the ultimate in availability or security. The ultimate option remains having multiple instances of each server stored in diverse on-prem datacenters where you control all access. But the cost of doing that is insane. You price up what it would cost you to have HA between two server groups across two locations, with your own dedicated fibre connections.
Now factor into that 3 year hardware lifecycles, and having enough spares that you can bring a dead machine back online within an hour and the costs really start to mount up.
The cloud options let you leverage economies of scale to get close to that level of reliability. But there are draw backs. This event is one of the risks of a SaaS offering. If you are IaaS or PaaS you have contention risks. And for all of them you have comms circuit risks.
Also why am I only having it in the cloud? Consumer equipment is perfect for consuming. So there is no reason a document isn't replicated there. Given this was google docs it would be trivial for all files to be synced using drive stream and hence being able to access the most recent interation on any PC.
I don't know where that 100 - 170 / hr rate comes from. But I know that the mapping costs for mining and oil and gas companies is orders of magnitudes more than that when it is done by a plane in Australia.
The drone prices are inflated in this story as they are counting the costs of all the specialist sensors. Most of those would be recovered.
I'd estimate that the actual cost of repair and replace after an eagle hit is barely into the 4 figures.
Sure it costs money. It's a tool though that has lots of uses. Cancer. You're right. I disagree. Theft - don't carry a wallet or wear a watch or anything else then? Loss - see above Effort - Um. If you feel that's a lot of effort I guess. I don't check my bill as I don't need to. It's a fixed amount per month. I have basically unlimited usage other than data. And how are they stealing your data? Damage - They really aren't that fragile. And stick a case on them and they are actually robust. Tracking - Turn off gps.... Need - You are saying that as someone who hasn't ever owned one. I bought a 3d printer 6 months ago on a whim with no clear usage case. Now it is one of my most used tools. A phone is similar.
Because the conference is operated by a 3rd party company. They made sure everything is working and the provide pre-tested equipment and setup. You don't setup your own systems at a conference hall.
I'm not sure I get the difference between personally feeling safer vs making society safer.
My father was a general duties police office for 35 years. He carried a firearm every single day. In his entire career he never drew his weapon once. This was working in a large city with all the problems that entails.
I have zero issue with people carrying firearms, or owning them, or shooting them. It was purely a comment on people feeling it made themselves safer (or in your case society) through carrying them.
The reason for surrendering the firearms (well technically I sold them) was that to maintain a pistol license I had to do 6 competitive shoots per year. I was in rehab for 18 months so didn't complete the required shoots.
In my case the firearms were for a sport. Pistols are tightly controlled but I have no issue with that. I appreciate you see it differently, but I didn't want to start an argument about gun control. Even if carrying a firearm at all times was legal where I am my comment is still that it was sad that it is something that was felt to be warranted.
The OP was refreshing in his approach to when he would draw his weapon. And I get the tool analogy.
But going with your tool analogy, if you're a car mechanic then carrying a set of flue brushes on the off chance you have to suddenly service a steam locomotive is about the equivalent.
I genuinely expect to go my entire life, in the country I live, to neither go through, or knowing anyone who goes through an encounter where their life or those of people around them are at risk from an individuals actions.
Seemed like a logical one to me. It was implemented in 2016. Rather than picking 1998 they went 2000 as the cut off. The idea being that smoking would become extinct.
For whatever reason where I live we lack the rough areas like you describe. Sure it's far from rainbows and unicorns here. But your risk of assault or similar is very very low. So while you have your routine it was more that I was commenting that it ever became a routine at all.
And I know knives have their uses as tools. I have one in the toolkit of my motorcycle for example. Mine was more the comment on the knife as weapon.
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Resource consumption of an older person is likely lower than the resource production lost when a prime aged individual has to devote time to child care. If you are alive and functional at 90 you are on to 3rd or 4th generation care depending on breeding age cycles.
Watched the video but there is no annotations or sound. Does anyone have any better ideas as to which bits are fuel?
To me they could just be driving around a sunken ship for all I can identify.
You would only say that if you have never been to Japan.
All trains run on time. From all the different operators. Tokyo itself has an absolute myriad of train operators and the standard level of service is that all trains are on time, always.
Horses for courses.
I agree with your $$ figure. I never negotiate based on hours. But also we are obviously in different industries as I can estimate extremely accurately how long a job will take me. Project variations just don't happen in my industry. If I was dealing with legacy systems that couldn't be scoped accurately I would agree with you. Then its a T&M or highly risk marked up.
I use linux on all my computers and servers at home. And significantly prefer it to windows. BUT I totally understand this decision.
If you are end of life on your server hardware then you realistically are going to be looking at a cloud solution. You can shift a load of your cost and expertise out of your business, move to an OpEx costing model that is tied into various business lines rather than having the big red IT cost line on your balance sheet. So which provider are you going to use?
You could go AWS, but it's basically just IaaS. Or you could look at Azure, which has IaaS, PaaS & SaaS. Everyone needs a mail client and a calendar client and a word processing system. And office365 just gives you that. Zero real setup required. Sure you might need a cloud brokerage setup if your organisation is particularly complex but if that's they case microsoft will fund you part of the way. That's not even looking at the advantages of SQL as a PaaS offering.
Then, since you have Office365, you have single sign in credentials for all windows machines with zero effort. All users have their software they need in a central place.
Sure linux can do ALL of these things. But they require way way more knowledge and investment to get going.
I honestly believe that in 20 years we will telling youngun's stories about how we used to have our own datacentres and servers in backrooms.
Couldn't agree more.
It's one of the big reasons I tell my customers they are buying outcomes not time. How long it takes me to do the project isn't relevant. You have an outcome you want and I will provide you with that outcome at a very high standard. And I will charge you X. Just because I automated it to the Nth degree and did it in a fraction of the time of my competitors doesn't mean you pay me less. If anything you should pay me more as your systems were offline for less time and your internal staff were less impacted.
There is a video where gentle music plays and cutesy version of my little ponies slide across the screen into a box full of cotton wool. That is the original version. Goes for about 2 minutes. Sounds like torture when described like that but the kids liked it.
Someone released a version where about 90 seconds in the box of cotton wool is replaced with a box of nails and the pony is eviscerated by them. There is also a change in the audio to a distorted "Oh Fuck". And it then goes back to the cutesy version.
No other reason to do that then to get past the automated filters and mess with little kids.
You uploaded it to a platform that allows you to edit the documents in a web browser. How exactly did you NOT think you gave permission to google to open your docs?
If they can't open the docs they can't give you the ability to edit them. And then you have to expect them to build protections to stop bad docs taking the system off line.
I do store classified data in the cloud. I don't store it in google docs though.
Some of the cloud options offer security that is at military classification. Some of data that I work with cannot leave the country, has to remain inside certain datacenters and has a load of other security requirements around it. We still use the cloud.
Believe it or not Microsoft's Azure product is very secure if configured correctly.
Nope not a google employee. Or a seller of goggle products.
And no one actually involved in cloud transformations advertises it as the ultimate in availability or security. The ultimate option remains having multiple instances of each server stored in diverse on-prem datacenters where you control all access. But the cost of doing that is insane. You price up what it would cost you to have HA between two server groups across two locations, with your own dedicated fibre connections.
Now factor into that 3 year hardware lifecycles, and having enough spares that you can bring a dead machine back online within an hour and the costs really start to mount up.
The cloud options let you leverage economies of scale to get close to that level of reliability. But there are draw backs. This event is one of the risks of a SaaS offering. If you are IaaS or PaaS you have contention risks. And for all of them you have comms circuit risks.
Also why am I only having it in the cloud? Consumer equipment is perfect for consuming. So there is no reason a document isn't replicated there. Given this was google docs it would be trivial for all files to be synced using drive stream and hence being able to access the most recent interation on any PC.
So there was a minor outage that was caused by software? Could easily have happened for a million other reasons that no one would care about.
Would the outage have exceeded 12 hours? I can't see any RTO details, but if not you are still well within 99.9% availability.
That's way better than what you will ever achieve with crappy consumer equipment.
Do you ignore the "And serves 3000" part?
I don't know where that 100 - 170 / hr rate comes from. But I know that the mapping costs for mining and oil and gas companies is orders of magnitudes more than that when it is done by a plane in Australia.
The drone prices are inflated in this story as they are counting the costs of all the specialist sensors. Most of those would be recovered.
I'd estimate that the actual cost of repair and replace after an eagle hit is barely into the 4 figures.
Light aircraft flying back and forth.
Noisy, polluting and expensive.
Sure it costs money. It's a tool though that has lots of uses.
Cancer. You're right. I disagree.
Theft - don't carry a wallet or wear a watch or anything else then?
Loss - see above
Effort - Um. If you feel that's a lot of effort I guess. I don't check my bill as I don't need to. It's a fixed amount per month. I have basically unlimited usage other than data. And how are they stealing your data?
Damage - They really aren't that fragile. And stick a case on them and they are actually robust.
Tracking - Turn off gps....
Need - You are saying that as someone who hasn't ever owned one. I bought a 3d printer 6 months ago on a whim with no clear usage case. Now it is one of my most used tools. A phone is similar.
Why resist? Nothing makes you answer the phone. Nothing makes you read your email or messages.
But at the same time you have camera and internet and other tools at your disposal at all times.
As for mailing a cheque most countries other than the US have pretty much abandonned those anyway.
Because the conference is operated by a 3rd party company. They made sure everything is working and the provide pre-tested equipment and setup. You don't setup your own systems at a conference hall.
I was working from memory of news items I'd seen in the past. I didn't go and check the bill, I just remembered seeing it on the news.
Bit disappointed it's not gone through tbh.
Really? Damn. I could have sworn that was passed.
I'm not sure I get the difference between personally feeling safer vs making society safer.
My father was a general duties police office for 35 years. He carried a firearm every single day. In his entire career he never drew his weapon once. This was working in a large city with all the problems that entails.
I have zero issue with people carrying firearms, or owning them, or shooting them. It was purely a comment on people feeling it made themselves safer (or in your case society) through carrying them.
Sorry I didn't mean to sound patronizing.
The reason for surrendering the firearms (well technically I sold them) was that to maintain a pistol license I had to do 6 competitive shoots per year. I was in rehab for 18 months so didn't complete the required shoots.
In my case the firearms were for a sport. Pistols are tightly controlled but I have no issue with that. I appreciate you see it differently, but I didn't want to start an argument about gun control. Even if carrying a firearm at all times was legal where I am my comment is still that it was sad that it is something that was felt to be warranted.
I live in the most multicultural country in the world.
Risk has nothing to do with race.
The OP was refreshing in his approach to when he would draw his weapon. And I get the tool analogy.
But going with your tool analogy, if you're a car mechanic then carrying a set of flue brushes on the off chance you have to suddenly service a steam locomotive is about the equivalent.
I genuinely expect to go my entire life, in the country I live, to neither go through, or knowing anyone who goes through an encounter where their life or those of people around them are at risk from an individuals actions.
Why?
Seemed like a logical one to me. It was implemented in 2016. Rather than picking 1998 they went 2000 as the cut off. The idea being that smoking would become extinct.
For whatever reason where I live we lack the rough areas like you describe. Sure it's far from rainbows and unicorns here. But your risk of assault or similar is very very low. So while you have your routine it was more that I was commenting that it ever became a routine at all.
And I know knives have their uses as tools. I have one in the toolkit of my motorcycle for example. Mine was more the comment on the knife as weapon.