...that the company will buy IT as a service from the most cost-effectiveXXXXXXXXX cheapest supplier,
FTFY.
And you forgot about the part where your company shows up on the evening news because all of your most critical data has been leaked to former Soviet-block countries. After a mysterious 6-hour service outage.
But it's "cost effective", right?
For the guys who collected the bonuses and bailed, anyway.
Worse. He's claiming that AM has better sound quality than streaming.
In truth, all the songs I can remember by him weren't exactly audibly precise even on FM. There's a lot of artists I'd worry more about losing sound quality on than him.
He's not as famous or as well-played as he thinks he is, and all this is going to do is make him even less so.
Take a look at what Hurricane Hugo did to North Carolina and where it did it.
If you come inland from Savanna, Atlanta is no further.
Besides, a hurricane doesn't need to still be an actual hurricane to really mess things up. One storm came West of Florida, went Northeast through Georgia, came out into the Atlantic, turned back into a hurricane and plowed down into Florida again.
Or, instead of being the perpetual pessimist about it, one could argue that it frees up resources to work on other projects which can herald new jobs.
One could argue that, but the actual state of affairs indicates that there are too many "freed up" resources already.
That's how Jeb Bush got in trouble. By intending to say that today's underemployed need to be able to work more (paying) hours. And got lambasted by Hilary who countered that there are too many people who already work multiple jobs/overtime without their work producing enough income to do anything other than tread water.
Which is the paradox of our times. They're both right, in a way.
There has never been any proof that eliminating jobs creates more jobs. Just because it worked that way in the 1900s doesn't guarantee that that's some sort of simple straight-line function. As they say on Wall Street, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results".
I don't know about you but most IT centers are overstaffed with clueless PC monkeys who tell you, "did you try turning it back of and on?" When I typically respond, "so the entire department should reboot their PCs because we can't access the terminal server?"
The PC monkeys are in an outsourced call center in South Asia. They've probably never seen a server.
The idealized data center these days is a dark building with a handful of cable monkeys scurrying around like rats in the woodwork. They jack boxes in and out and plug in cables and that's about it. Everything else can be handled from a remote control center.
Only problem with NoDak is that if it gets snowed in, some type of outage can take days to weeks to get fixed if the weather is bad, and with temperatures well into the negative 40s, it takes specialized equipment to fix things. Texas and Georgia have their problems, but generally, the worst one encounters are ice storms which make an area impassible for a few days, and those are relatively infrequent. The occasional snow is manageable.
Well, the absolute worst are twisters... but that's what insurance is for.
Think again. Georgia and Texas are both hurricane targets.
A company I used to work in Florida had a hurricane contingency plan that involved shipping a trailer full of mainframe tape files up to Charlotte.
The hurricane that was supposed to hit Florida swept around an nailed Georgia/South Carolina instead. The truck with the tapes was stranded between 2 flooded-out sections of road.
Atlanta is far enough inland that few hurricanes would have enough direct force to faze it (excepting something like what Hugo did to North Carolina), but the more economical place to locate cheap data centers would be among the peanut farms of the Southern reaches of the state. Which do tend to get more hurricane-related storms.
Actually, I think I got early leakage of this when I talked to local reps the other day. Something that sounds in retrospect a lot like it, anyway.
From what I've seen so far, the price quoted is indeed the price.
The catch is that this kind of service isn't delivered to residential areas. You have to be in a business district where their infrastructure can handle it.
Scarcity is only part of the equation. Once you have a few million in the bank, "scarce" isn't generally meaningful. So why do the millionaires struggle so to become billionaires? Because at that point, money is the way of keeping score and everyone wants the high score, whether it's dollars, "whuffie" or gold-pressed Latium.
Conversely, Communism failed because A) the Party were hypocrites, living the high life while refusing to share with the masses. Regular capitalists, in effect. B) there wasn't any meaningful way to keep score. Medals were meaningless - akin to the "gold star for participating", and money was off the table. To say nothing of the very idea of elevating oneself above the others was counter to the philosophy.
We really do need some way to feel special, however, regardless of how you measure it. Money has been the primary way to do so throughout much of history, but post-scarcity is descending even on the lower classes now. So it may be time to find other metrics.
Incidentally, playing the geek for a moment, we'll have to presume that gold-pressed latium is a substance whose expense to replicate is more than its assumed value or the Ferengi were complete idiots. Then again, being obsessed with acquisitions, maybe they were.
And even geekier consideration: If, in fact gold-pressed latium cannot be economically be synthesized, does that also imply that you'd have to manually ship it instead of using transporter beams? After all, if I was to create a synthesizer, the transporter seems like the logical starting mechanism.
Nonononono. This is the 21st Century. We've moved beyond the nuances on non-Aristotelian logic. Everything now must be binary and absolute, you barbarian!
Heretic. There are ONLY two choices. You're either With us or you're Against us. You must side with the party that eats their own babies of the party that eats other people's babies. Everything is exactly opposite and anyone who would dare to suggest otherwise is obviously Not One of Us. Hail the 21st Century!
China is run by the Chinese Communist Party. You are a member of the Party before you can even begin to be a member of the government. When the Cold War was at its height, we weren't told that the Russians weren't really Commies, so that was all right. We were told the Godless Commies were going to come and conquer us and take away our Freedom, fluoridate our water, confiscate our guns and Bibles, re-educate our kids and make us undergo intense scrutiny every time we went to the airport or applied for a job.
And the Chinese Commies were different than the Russian Commies, but they were still Commies and against everything we stood for.
Except, apparently, if if got you Always the Low Price at Wal-Mart.
Just because the Chinese Communist government has exploited Capitalist business concepts doesn't mean that they've forever abandoned the precepts that they once held paramount. The Cultural Revolution came and went, but the Party remained. So, too it may be with their latest experiments. There's been no talk I've ever heard that they intend to so much as remove the name "Communist" from their ruling party, much less rewrite their basic beliefs.
It's true, that no communist part of any scale has truly been "communist" any more than America is the "democracy" we used to proudly proclaim we were until the Republicans got nervous that calling ourselves a "democracy" sounded too much like an endorsement of the Democrat (sic) Party and started insisting on saying "democratic REPUBLIC". But that's quibbling over words.
China is a country that for millenia has been based on the concept of central control. The Communist Party just provided a way to define it in modern terms. Call it what you will - they'll continue to do what they like regardless.
The most incredible thing is there's a piece of legislation titled the "Protect Our Children Act". Unsurprisingly it's being used to "track" "terrorists"
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation whose title includes "Children", "Homeland", "Security", "Safety", "Protect", "Patriot", "Freedom", "Motherhood" or "Kittens".
Maybe their plan isn't to mandate a single master key, but rather a second key which is a function of the lock. Low-level people like local police would have to give the serial number of the lock they want to open to the Backdoor Department, and they would receive a key that can only open that lock.
Well, you could give the master keys to the NSA, who certainly has the storage capacity. But not everyone who works there is as selfless as Snowden, so expect them to be clandestinely for sale.
We all know the Government Can't Do Anything Right anyway. How about instead giving custody to a professional security company. How about these guys? http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
I am neither a machine-minder nor a clerk. I cannot get things done effectively simply by switching on and off like a light. I need to sit down, do stuff, then take a rest to recuperate and meditate what I did so I can come back and make sure that they're done better.
Over the years, I've observed that my most productive workday consists of 2-3 sprints with recovery times of about 2 hours between them.
This is not a good match for the factory-style roll-in at 8, work until noon, roll-out at 5 that's the accepted norm around here. If I'm really going to get that important rest time, I need to get away from the office, and ideally have someplace for a power nap and my commute times mean that it's unrealistic to go home and come back. And for the benefit of those who yammer that I should live closer to work, I would like to point out that residential and commercial areas in my state tend to be widely separated, sprawl is the norm and public transportation is virtually non-existent.
So, you can put me to work under the traditional factory-inspired conditions and get about 60% of my productivity. Or, you can allow me to work in a framework that gets more out of me. And, as a bonus, doesn't require me to relocate to your city. Which I have no intention of doing. I work to be able to enjoy my life where I am.
History says that a code language will emerge that people can use to get around the filters and censoring. People will start using it and in short order, the site will become infamous as a hotbed of sin and vice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne knew what he was talking about when he wrote that the worst sins are the ones committed in the most virtuous communities.
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...that the company will buy IT as a service from the most cost-effectiveXXXXXXXXX cheapest supplier,
FTFY.
And you forgot about the part where your company shows up on the evening news because all of your most critical data has been leaked to former Soviet-block countries. After a mysterious 6-hour service outage.
But it's "cost effective", right?
For the guys who collected the bonuses and bailed, anyway.
As long as it isn't fishy bacon.
Good analog is better than shitty digital.
And AM radio is certainly not good analog. What's the bandwidth. 5kHz?
Worse. He's claiming that AM has better sound quality than streaming.
In truth, all the songs I can remember by him weren't exactly audibly precise even on FM. There's a lot of artists I'd worry more about losing sound quality on than him.
He's not as famous or as well-played as he thinks he is, and all this is going to do is make him even less so.
Take a look at what Hurricane Hugo did to North Carolina and where it did it.
If you come inland from Savanna, Atlanta is no further.
Besides, a hurricane doesn't need to still be an actual hurricane to really mess things up. One storm came West of Florida, went Northeast through Georgia, came out into the Atlantic, turned back into a hurricane and plowed down into Florida again.
And THAT was fairly recently.
Or, instead of being the perpetual pessimist about it, one could argue that it frees up resources to work on other projects which can herald new jobs.
One could argue that, but the actual state of affairs indicates that there are too many "freed up" resources already.
That's how Jeb Bush got in trouble. By intending to say that today's underemployed need to be able to work more (paying) hours. And got lambasted by Hilary who countered that there are too many people who already work multiple jobs/overtime without their work producing enough income to do anything other than tread water.
Which is the paradox of our times. They're both right, in a way.
There has never been any proof that eliminating jobs creates more jobs. Just because it worked that way in the 1900s doesn't guarantee that that's some sort of simple straight-line function. As they say on Wall Street, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results".
I don't know about you but most IT centers are overstaffed with clueless PC monkeys who tell you, "did you try turning it back of and on?" When I typically respond, "so the entire department should reboot their PCs because we can't access the terminal server?"
The PC monkeys are in an outsourced call center in South Asia. They've probably never seen a server.
The idealized data center these days is a dark building with a handful of cable monkeys scurrying around like rats in the woodwork. They jack boxes in and out and plug in cables and that's about it. Everything else can be handled from a remote control center.
Only problem with NoDak is that if it gets snowed in, some type of outage can take days to weeks to get fixed if the weather is bad, and with temperatures well into the negative 40s, it takes specialized equipment to fix things. Texas and Georgia have their problems, but generally, the worst one encounters are ice storms which make an area impassible for a few days, and those are relatively infrequent. The occasional snow is manageable.
Well, the absolute worst are twisters... but that's what insurance is for.
Think again. Georgia and Texas are both hurricane targets.
A company I used to work in Florida had a hurricane contingency plan that involved shipping a trailer full of mainframe tape files up to Charlotte.
The hurricane that was supposed to hit Florida swept around an nailed Georgia/South Carolina instead. The truck with the tapes was stranded between 2 flooded-out sections of road.
Atlanta is far enough inland that few hurricanes would have enough direct force to faze it (excepting something like what Hugo did to North Carolina), but the more economical place to locate cheap data centers would be among the peanut farms of the Southern reaches of the state. Which do tend to get more hurricane-related storms.
I'd rather 90 minutes New York to Paris.
Undersea by rail.
Actually, I think I got early leakage of this when I talked to local reps the other day. Something that sounds in retrospect a lot like it, anyway.
From what I've seen so far, the price quoted is indeed the price.
The catch is that this kind of service isn't delivered to residential areas. You have to be in a business district where their infrastructure can handle it.
When you use it, it feels like it is complete and that everything you need is at your fingertips
No it doesn't.
Which is why I switched to Cinammon.
To get back the stuff that Gnome3 thought wasn't worth carrying over from Gnome2 but just happened to be critical daily functions to me.
Scarcity is only part of the equation. Once you have a few million in the bank, "scarce" isn't generally meaningful. So why do the millionaires struggle so to become billionaires? Because at that point, money is the way of keeping score and everyone wants the high score, whether it's dollars, "whuffie" or gold-pressed Latium.
Conversely, Communism failed because A) the Party were hypocrites, living the high life while refusing to share with the masses. Regular capitalists, in effect. B) there wasn't any meaningful way to keep score. Medals were meaningless - akin to the "gold star for participating", and money was off the table. To say nothing of the very idea of elevating oneself above the others was counter to the philosophy.
We really do need some way to feel special, however, regardless of how you measure it. Money has been the primary way to do so throughout much of history, but post-scarcity is descending even on the lower classes now. So it may be time to find other metrics.
Incidentally, playing the geek for a moment, we'll have to presume that gold-pressed latium is a substance whose expense to replicate is more than its assumed value or the Ferengi were complete idiots. Then again, being obsessed with acquisitions, maybe they were.
And even geekier consideration: If, in fact gold-pressed latium cannot be economically be synthesized, does that also imply that you'd have to manually ship it instead of using transporter beams? After all, if I was to create a synthesizer, the transporter seems like the logical starting mechanism.
Nonononono. This is the 21st Century. We've moved beyond the nuances on non-Aristotelian logic. Everything now must be binary and absolute, you barbarian!
And when do they start creating triple-stranded DNA? Hmmm?
Maltese Falcon?
Heretic. There are ONLY two choices. You're either With us or you're Against us. You must side with the party that eats their own babies of the party that eats other people's babies. Everything is exactly opposite and anyone who would dare to suggest otherwise is obviously Not One of Us. Hail the 21st Century!
China is run by the Chinese Communist Party. You are a member of the Party before you can even begin to be a member of the government. When the Cold War was at its height, we weren't told that the Russians weren't really Commies, so that was all right. We were told the Godless Commies were going to come and conquer us and take away our Freedom, fluoridate our water, confiscate our guns and Bibles, re-educate our kids and make us undergo intense scrutiny every time we went to the airport or applied for a job.
And the Chinese Commies were different than the Russian Commies, but they were still Commies and against everything we stood for.
Except, apparently, if if got you Always the Low Price at Wal-Mart.
Just because the Chinese Communist government has exploited Capitalist business concepts doesn't mean that they've forever abandoned the precepts that they once held paramount. The Cultural Revolution came and went, but the Party remained. So, too it may be with their latest experiments. There's been no talk I've ever heard that they intend to so much as remove the name "Communist" from their ruling party, much less rewrite their basic beliefs.
It's true, that no communist part of any scale has truly been "communist" any more than America is the "democracy" we used to proudly proclaim we were until the Republicans got nervous that calling ourselves a "democracy" sounded too much like an endorsement of the Democrat (sic) Party and started insisting on saying "democratic REPUBLIC". But that's quibbling over words.
China is a country that for millenia has been based on the concept of central control. The Communist Party just provided a way to define it in modern terms. Call it what you will - they'll continue to do what they like regardless.
As long as there are statistics, there will be lies.
Ahem. The Communist Chinese Government.
People seem to have forgotten that at their roots, they're not a capitalist society. They only play at being one.
Well tell me what happens when growth in the economy comes to a screeching halt because people aren't buying anything?
Wealth doesn't trickle down, but poverty definitely bubbles up.
The most incredible thing is there's a piece of legislation titled the "Protect Our Children Act". Unsurprisingly it's being used to "track" "terrorists"
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation whose title includes "Children", "Homeland", "Security", "Safety", "Protect", "Patriot", "Freedom", "Motherhood" or "Kittens".
I've got an idea. Let's enlist the children to report suspicious activities!
Maybe their plan isn't to mandate a single master key, but rather a second key which is a function of the lock. Low-level people like local police would have to give the serial number of the lock they want to open to the Backdoor Department, and they would receive a key that can only open that lock.
Well, you could give the master keys to the NSA, who certainly has the storage capacity. But not everyone who works there is as selfless as Snowden, so expect them to be clandestinely for sale.
We all know the Government Can't Do Anything Right anyway. How about instead giving custody to a professional security company. How about these guys? http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Grandparents manufacture the meth. Sell it to friends.
I am neither a machine-minder nor a clerk. I cannot get things done effectively simply by switching on and off like a light. I need to sit down, do stuff, then take a rest to recuperate and meditate what I did so I can come back and make sure that they're done better.
Over the years, I've observed that my most productive workday consists of 2-3 sprints with recovery times of about 2 hours between them.
This is not a good match for the factory-style roll-in at 8, work until noon, roll-out at 5 that's the accepted norm around here. If I'm really going to get that important rest time, I need to get away from the office, and ideally have someplace for a power nap and my commute times mean that it's unrealistic to go home and come back. And for the benefit of those who yammer that I should live closer to work, I would like to point out that residential and commercial areas in my state tend to be widely separated, sprawl is the norm and public transportation is virtually non-existent.
So, you can put me to work under the traditional factory-inspired conditions and get about 60% of my productivity. Or, you can allow me to work in a framework that gets more out of me. And, as a bonus, doesn't require me to relocate to your city. Which I have no intention of doing. I work to be able to enjoy my life where I am.
History says that a code language will emerge that people can use to get around the filters and censoring. People will start using it and in short order, the site will become infamous as a hotbed of sin and vice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne knew what he was talking about when he wrote that the worst sins are the ones committed in the most virtuous communities.