So nearly all species in the animal kingdom have inherent behavioral differences between males and females - except humans? You really believe that?
You know, just because men and women are different doesn't mean they can't have the same rights. You don't have to be so petrified at the thought of differences between the sexes.
The risk is trusting your infrastructure and data to a third party
If you say so, but I have yet to work at a place where that I would rate with a lower risk of such a failure than Amazon. And hell, that was when EC2 was beta.
Look at it this way, what would it take for you to run a lower risk operation than Amazon?
Will you have better Internet connection redundancy? No.
Will you have more scaling capacity? No.
Will you have greater response times from upstream vendors (e.g., Sprint, IBM, Cisco)? No.
Will you have a larger pool of disaffected peer users? No.
Faced with the same service-disrupting problem, Amazon will be working much more efficiently on solving it than almost any business with less than 50,000 employees possibly could.
For most small-to-medium size businesses, there is a MUCH greater chance of theft or natural disaster leaving them without infrastructure (or worse, their data) than there is of Amazon fucking up.
Amazon has been doing this FOREVER, do you really think one morning you're going to wake up and find out that Amazon has forgotten how to run their global hosting operations? Give me a break.
My advice is this: Back up all your data locally, but run your services at Amazon. If the shit hits the fan hard enough and Amazon is shut down for so long that it has severely impacted your company's bottom line, then you may find yourself looking for another job. Fortunately the chances of that actually happening are less then the chances of a natural disaster annihilating your home town, so don't lose any sleep at night.
Yeah - I'm going to have to second that. I've been using Google Apps for my personal domain for a couple years now and I have had ZERO problems. I certainly have less downtime than when I was running it myself with Postfix and Courier on a cable modem.
Call me a Luddite, but it disturbs me greatly to think that we have diluted the term "friend" to nothing more than a form of moderation roughly translating as something between fandom and "I like something about your web page".
Hmmm - what scrumptious irony it is that I have added you to my Slashdot friends list because I completely agree with your post.
the real question will be whether or not you can convince consumers that the three minutes of coasting up to a red light is worth the 33 percent less gas and replacing your brake pads/cylinders less often
I'm afraid even my grandmother would resort to road rage after being stuck behind some douchebag coasting to the stoplight 8 blocks ahead...
I like how the deal excludes the Beatles. Oh no! What will the iPod generation do? Guess what Beatles - you aren't that hot anymore. Nobody with an iPod gives a fuck if you don't come to the party.
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
Are you serious? So you contend that impoverished areas are have no property theft crimes? That is easily the most ignorant statement I have read this hour. (That's not as easy as it sounds, I just came from Digg.)
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All that just so you can have a decent funeral in World of Warcraft?
So nearly all species in the animal kingdom have inherent behavioral differences between males and females - except humans? You really believe that?
You know, just because men and women are different doesn't mean they can't have the same rights. You don't have to be so petrified at the thought of differences between the sexes.
Yeah - Americans invented nationalism. Get serious. It's moronic statements like that earned liberals the "Blame America First" crowd.
this is yet another case where we see regulations, that are supposedly put in place to improve things for consumers, do the exact opposite.
Bingo. And it's exactly what you're going to see if you get the network neutrality legislation Slashdotters are pining for.
That's the nature of government regulation.
Fork it! We'll do it live!
So what? The guy is pointing you towards something you're interested in. What does it matter if he makes a little scratch from it?
Now if it were a Slashdot editor's affiliate link, that would be a different story.
The risk is trusting your infrastructure and data to a third party
If you say so, but I have yet to work at a place where that I would rate with a lower risk of such a failure than Amazon. And hell, that was when EC2 was beta.
Look at it this way, what would it take for you to run a lower risk operation than Amazon?
Faced with the same service-disrupting problem, Amazon will be working much more efficiently on solving it than almost any business with less than 50,000 employees possibly could.
This reservation baffles me every time I hear it.
For most small-to-medium size businesses, there is a MUCH greater chance of theft or natural disaster leaving them without infrastructure (or worse, their data) than there is of Amazon fucking up.
Amazon has been doing this FOREVER, do you really think one morning you're going to wake up and find out that Amazon has forgotten how to run their global hosting operations? Give me a break.
My advice is this: Back up all your data locally, but run your services at Amazon. If the shit hits the fan hard enough and Amazon is shut down for so long that it has severely impacted your company's bottom line, then you may find yourself looking for another job. Fortunately the chances of that actually happening are less then the chances of a natural disaster annihilating your home town, so don't lose any sleep at night.
Not only have they not tried to sink Mono with patent lawsuits. I can't think of ANYONE they've EVER attacked with patents.
I'm tired of hearing this lame FUD scenario from the Slashdot crowd every time MS dabbles in open source.
Greener? Ha. Thousands of noxious lithium-ion batteries and a car that burns > 1 MWh per year while parked is not my idea of green.
Damn - your first post blew my mind, but this one REALLY blows my mind.
Yeah - I'm going to have to second that. I've been using Google Apps for my personal domain for a couple years now and I have had ZERO problems. I certainly have less downtime than when I was running it myself with Postfix and Courier on a cable modem.
Ohhhhhh - I thought you could only use asterisks for passwords.
I thought we all agreed on just writing GTFO all over the place?
Teaching skepticism is easy. Just consistently fail to meet others' expectations.
Argh - that joke is so fucking old. Way to be creative.
Excellent. In the name of science I vow to triple my current sperm production output. Hmmm - I wonder if I can get a grant...
First and First, right? You were at the nexus of the universe.
Call me a Luddite, but it disturbs me greatly to think that we have diluted the term "friend" to nothing more than a form of moderation roughly translating as something between fandom and "I like something about your web page".
Hmmm - what scrumptious irony it is that I have added you to my Slashdot friends list because I completely agree with your post.
the real question will be whether or not you can convince consumers that the three minutes of coasting up to a red light is worth the 33 percent less gas and replacing your brake pads/cylinders less often
I'm afraid even my grandmother would resort to road rage after being stuck behind some douchebag coasting to the stoplight 8 blocks ahead...
Oh come on, you know you wanted to make your point with a Star Wars quote.
WTF are you talking about?
I like how the deal excludes the Beatles. Oh no! What will the iPod generation do? Guess what Beatles - you aren't that hot anymore. Nobody with an iPod gives a fuck if you don't come to the party.
they are really pushed to find any real-world reason for having 4 cores.
On the desktop sure, but there is no shortage of even mid-size server scenarios where 4 or even 8 cores come in handy.
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
Are you serious? So you contend that impoverished areas are have no property theft crimes? That is easily the most ignorant statement I have read this hour. (That's not as easy as it sounds, I just came from Digg.)