If those are important to you, spec Oracle Linux instead. It's like CentOS, in that it derives from RHEL, but you can get the Internet only support contract for the server OS at 1/10th the price of RHEL's annual charge.
You're almost right. But only almost. In the days that working through Summer could pay for college, colleges were heavily funded/subsidized by your state.
So if you want to go back to the good 'ole days, let's go ahead and go back. All the way.
This establishes to Google your exact name, filing address, and a statement (notarized, I believe) that you have the right to be doing what you are doing. Fair Use is one of those rights, although the first thing an attorney will tell you is that fair use is extraordinarily vague. Before filing this thing you may wish to consult with an attorney. Defending yourself against a lawsuit, which the DMCA Counter Notice will surely enable them to file, will cost a $15,000 simply to get started.
OP made the common mistake of projecting things as he knows it into contexts he shouldn't.
Happens all the time even in the US. State laws are similar here, not the same. Many folks can barely distinguish between States and the Fed, for that matter. So it only requires a smidgeon of unworldliness to make a mistake. And granted that we are of course the natural masters of the world (grin), please don't expect too much of us when it comes to worldliness:
Room at the top is an illusion; you make your own room.
This is certainly true. What is also true is that the guard fades away, creating a vacuum, making room. The mistake of your message is a false dichotomy: an attempt to paint things as all one way or the other.
And yes, the message was an insult, a direct shot across the bows of the OP.
Certainly, if you pause to think about it, you will certainly realize that if you hung out with a group of folks who had plans like that, your circle is nowhere near your every-person. Not at all. What you are doing is using associational projection to determine what "most" is. You know "most people like my friends," is a lot different than the majority cross section of America. Most people reach "retirement age" without notable retirement savings at all, having started, far, far too late. As someone who's 94% percentile in income, I doubt I will be retiring particularly early. Maybe a little. And I started saving at a young age.
Your average person (50% percentile) earns $44,389.
Anyway, I've seen the "retire because you can't work anymore" statistic in an authoritative fashion previously, but can't find it for you right now. Certainly, however, you can read between the lines and reason out the truth from what I've said so far.//C
Hate to break it to you but the baby boomers are not the ones holding you back that's just you.
That was an insulting, unnecessary, and worse--ignorant comment. Even as someone who has had a meteoric career, I can tell you that room at the senior executive level is important. So can anyone, having been there. Sure, there are exceptions. Even the seniors eventually get stale. But seriously; a great many of them are getting stale because their minds are aging. What if they weren't?
Heh. I would offered to buy it, and when checking it out, said "I'm taking this and not paying you" to see if he would call the cops. With ownership material in hand, and cops in tow brought by the kid, that would be pretty god damn funny. He'd be caught in a dead cold lie, which would be adequate grounds for arrest, because he wouldn't be allowed at that point to change his story to something else. That is... of course... if you wanted to arrange that outcome. Still, you should have probably told his parents.
There's also the possibility they are both innocent AND armed. This will be very, very bad mojo for the poor sorry soul with the baseball bat. The law authorizes quite a lot more force for use in self defense than what they even authorize as reasonable force for a police officer. In short, if someone is attacking you with a baseball bat, in most states you can "fill 'em full a' lead." Or "spill their entrails upon the ground, most untimely". As the preferences in personal weapons thereby dictates.
I have no doubt that the biggest a-holes you can think of are all psychopaths.
Far more often, the biggest a-holes you can think of are high on the narcissism scale. Politicians often rate high as narcissists, and seldom lack empathy (as does a psychopath).
Do what you love. Make sure that much is true, no matter what you do. More money isn't worth it.
Pursue new opportunities, whenever you can. Mix things up. Internally at your current place, or externally if you have to leave to get the new challenge.
Don't let yourself get idle and waste away with boredom for fear of the unknown.
Exploit new opportunities.
If the new place has a good reputation, GO. Don't take the counter offer. Just GO.
Loyalty is mostly misplaced in the modern corporate world. However, it might be worthwhile to tie up your current project, and then go hunting. A bold move would be a nationwide hunt, and not just one next door.
Some part of you wants to be comfortable, and the unknown is uncomfortable. Big changes are uncomfortable. Look that in the eye.
Many people go through their entire lives not looking themselves in the eye.
Yes; you can start doing things like using fusionio as a storage cache aggregation point; that would be prohibitively expensive to do on 50 physical hosts, but if you do it on just one (or two) virtualization hosts, it hardly costs anything. Cached read IOPS can jump into the 100,000 range.
Likewise with IO fabric. When 40gig Ethernet fabric comes out, we will be able to upgrade a few fat hosts affordably enough, but that's nonsense talk for the 50 physical hosts use case.
Well, this is all true. You have to know your workload.
There are workloads where performance -15% is still twice the performance the workload needs. Each year going buy, the number of workloads for which that is true grows. Alot. It's not that hard to make a database do 30,000 IOPS in a VMware environment, presupposing the right network and storage to support that. 30,000 IOPS covers a hella-lot of workloads (the vast majority of all corporate workloads), but certainly not all workloads, and let's be honest; you're not running Citibank's transaction enterprise on VMware yet.
But you know? There are programmed trading companies who care a VERY GREAT DEAL about latency running virtualized workloads on Infiniband. Not many, but they are trying. See where this is going? I look at this whole big picture from the perspective of trend analysis. The trend is; virtualization eats all (standard) workloads. Eventually.
I can appreciate the resistance on the vague "cloud" subject, but the criticism of virtualization is strange. You're talking about virtualization robbing the enterprise of CPU cycles when, in today's world of servers starting at 8 cores and going up, the average CPU utilization is something like 2% or less. So it's the bare metal servers that are robbing the enterprise, by using budget to by 98% of something that they don't need (or seldom need). This is disregarding the major boon of virtualization to end users: decreased deployment time often 100 times. Yeah, that number is real, and sometimes it's more like a thousand times or better. I'm not making this shit up.
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You haven't read the license very carefully.
Oracle Enterprise Linux has been CC'd; as to whether or not they are keeping that up to date, I am unaware.
Consider the notion of going to a college where there are 11 guys per 10 girls.
No further consider the idea that 9 out of 10 of the girls may already be dating.
What is the competition for the remaining girl?
2:1.
Now you understand why small deltas in availability of a product (apologies to the ladies) may create disproportionate competitive effects.
If those are important to you, spec Oracle Linux instead. It's like CentOS, in that it derives from RHEL, but you can get the Internet only support contract for the server OS at 1/10th the price of RHEL's annual charge.
Plus Steve liked to park in Handicapped spots. Seriously. Dickhead. Brilliant, but a dickhead.
Plus, Google and Apple are the New Evil... aren't they?
I mean Microsoft, Bill Gates is just so cuddly.
BTW, thank you for the link. Most informative.
Sorry. I was on a roll. I don't disagree with Ron Paul, but I disagree with only removing the deep-pocket funding source.
Part of it is a passion: while I am oddly libertarian, public education is one of the few "socialist" programs I'm entirely on board with.
I don't think the market is a sufficient answer, alone, for education.
How about this? Go back to the "old way," and fund the colleges better so that they don't have to charge tuition as much.
You're almost right. But only almost. In the days that working through Summer could pay for college, colleges were heavily funded/subsidized by your state.
So if you want to go back to the good 'ole days, let's go ahead and go back. All the way.
File a DMCA Counter Notice.
This establishes to Google your exact name, filing address, and a statement (notarized, I believe) that you have the right to be doing what you are doing. Fair Use is one of those rights, although the first thing an attorney will tell you is that fair use is extraordinarily vague. Before filing this thing you may wish to consult with an attorney. Defending yourself against a lawsuit, which the DMCA Counter Notice will surely enable them to file, will cost a $15,000 simply to get started.
C//
OP made the common mistake of projecting things as he knows it into contexts he shouldn't.
Happens all the time even in the US. State laws are similar here, not the same. Many folks can barely distinguish between States and the Fed, for that matter. So it only requires a smidgeon of unworldliness to make a mistake. And granted that we are of course the natural masters of the world (grin), please don't expect too much of us when it comes to worldliness:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1120_021120_GeoRoperSurvey.html
Anyway; while his subsequent behavior itself has no excuse, one thing is true: it wasn't necessary to personalize the matter.
Were we cranky today?
The median net worth at age 55: $182K. It's not much better at age 65: $200K.
This is not going to facilitate any kind of early retirement at all.
C//
Well; I don't want to ping on your example too much, but your average R.V. costs the entire life savings of someone at age 55.
Which is back to my comment: most people can't do that.
Just start looking up income and average savings at certain ages to see why.
Room at the top is an illusion; you make your own room.
This is certainly true. What is also true is that the guard fades away, creating a vacuum, making room. The mistake of your message is a false dichotomy: an attempt to paint things as all one way or the other.
And yes, the message was an insult, a direct shot across the bows of the OP.
C//
Certainly, if you pause to think about it, you will certainly realize that if you hung out with a group of folks who had plans like that, your circle is nowhere near your every-person. Not at all. What you are doing is using associational projection to determine what "most" is. You know "most people like my friends," is a lot different than the majority cross section of America. Most people reach "retirement age" without notable retirement savings at all, having started, far, far too late. As someone who's 94% percentile in income, I doubt I will be retiring particularly early. Maybe a little. And I started saving at a young age.
Your average person (50% percentile) earns $44,389.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
For a measure of average retirement savings of retirees, look here:
http://www.retirement-income.net/blog/retirement-savings/average-retirement-savings-of-retirees-2011
54% have less than $25K.
Sad.
Anyway, I've seen the "retire because you can't work anymore" statistic in an authoritative fashion previously, but can't find it for you right now. Certainly, however, you can read between the lines and reason out the truth from what I've said so far. //C
Hate to break it to you but the baby boomers are not the ones holding you back that's just you.
That was an insulting, unnecessary, and worse--ignorant comment. Even as someone who has had a meteoric career, I can tell you that room at the senior executive level is important. So can anyone, having been there. Sure, there are exceptions. Even the seniors eventually get stale. But seriously; a great many of them are getting stale because their minds are aging. What if they weren't?
It's a perfectly valid issue to raise.
If I ever retire, it'll be because I'm sick, not because I've decided not to work any more.
It is noteworthy that most retirements are because people cannot work any more.
Heh. I would offered to buy it, and when checking it out, said "I'm taking this and not paying you" to see if he would call the cops. With ownership material in hand, and cops in tow brought by the kid, that would be pretty god damn funny. He'd be caught in a dead cold lie, which would be adequate grounds for arrest, because he wouldn't be allowed at that point to change his story to something else. That is... of course... if you wanted to arrange that outcome. Still, you should have probably told his parents.
There's also the possibility they are both innocent AND armed. This will be very, very bad mojo for the poor sorry soul with the baseball bat. The law authorizes quite a lot more force for use in self defense than what they even authorize as reasonable force for a police officer. In short, if someone is attacking you with a baseball bat, in most states you can "fill 'em full a' lead." Or "spill their entrails upon the ground, most untimely". As the preferences in personal weapons thereby dictates.
I have no doubt that the biggest a-holes you can think of are all psychopaths.
Far more often, the biggest a-holes you can think of are high on the narcissism scale. Politicians often rate high as narcissists, and seldom lack empathy (as does a psychopath).
C//
My advice:
Do what you love. Make sure that much is true, no matter what you do. More money isn't worth it.
Pursue new opportunities, whenever you can. Mix things up. Internally at your current place, or externally if you have to leave to get the new challenge.
Don't let yourself get idle and waste away with boredom for fear of the unknown.
Exploit new opportunities.
If the new place has a good reputation, GO. Don't take the counter offer. Just GO.
Loyalty is mostly misplaced in the modern corporate world. However, it might be worthwhile to tie up your current project, and then go hunting. A bold move would be a nationwide hunt, and not just one next door.
Some part of you wants to be comfortable, and the unknown is uncomfortable. Big changes are uncomfortable. Look that in the eye.
Many people go through their entire lives not looking themselves in the eye.
So to speak.
C//
Yes; you can start doing things like using fusionio as a storage cache aggregation point; that would be prohibitively expensive to do on 50 physical hosts, but if you do it on just one (or two) virtualization hosts, it hardly costs anything. Cached read IOPS can jump into the 100,000 range.
Likewise with IO fabric. When 40gig Ethernet fabric comes out, we will be able to upgrade a few fat hosts affordably enough, but that's nonsense talk for the 50 physical hosts use case.
We're already 100% 10GE to all our ESX hosts.
Well, this is all true. You have to know your workload.
There are workloads where performance -15% is still twice the performance the workload needs. Each year going buy, the number of workloads for which that is true grows. Alot. It's not that hard to make a database do 30,000 IOPS in a VMware environment, presupposing the right network and storage to support that. 30,000 IOPS covers a hella-lot of workloads (the vast majority of all corporate workloads), but certainly not all workloads, and let's be honest; you're not running Citibank's transaction enterprise on VMware yet.
But you know? There are programmed trading companies who care a VERY GREAT DEAL about latency running virtualized workloads on Infiniband. Not many, but they are trying. See where this is going? I look at this whole big picture from the perspective of trend analysis. The trend is; virtualization eats all (standard) workloads. Eventually.
I can see that writing on the wall very clearly.
C//
I can appreciate the resistance on the vague "cloud" subject, but the criticism of virtualization is strange. You're talking about virtualization robbing the enterprise of CPU cycles when, in today's world of servers starting at 8 cores and going up, the average CPU utilization is something like 2% or less. So it's the bare metal servers that are robbing the enterprise, by using budget to by 98% of something that they don't need (or seldom need). This is disregarding the major boon of virtualization to end users: decreased deployment time often 100 times. Yeah, that number is real, and sometimes it's more like a thousand times or better. I'm not making this shit up.
C//