IBM ain't safe. Nor are/were they behind the times. This cloud thing you speak of, before it was The Cloud it was On Demand...you may have seen commercials. They did not, however, execute. They had complex network environments before such things were fashionable. In fact, you can pretty much count on the fact that if you are doing it, they already done it.
Back to the point, start your own business. Its scary. Its way better than corporate, at least until the money runs out. I think it look better on a resume anyway, if'n you fail. As I still may.
Based on your posts I see I am not an idiot for salivating about EC2. I am actively trying to figure out jobs I can run on it, just because its so cool. Thanks for your perspective. Sometimes the slashdot comments really, really rock.
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange...a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution...
If you think you can argue burning and mailing a CD costs 1M$.
This was tape and mail era, so asking for the source _for free_ was prohibitive since postage and tapes cost money (you could also be bankrupted by your competitor making frivolous, free, source distribution requests).
Now, mail and CD is about a dollar. This has been noted about a million times.
A majority of people accept that an invisible friend is watching everything you do, and that there were rules handed down on from this supreme all-knowing invisible being that we must accept to gain entrance to a fairytale existence, after the only existence that has ever been proven to exist ends.
Yeah, I don't buy that either.
Weatherpeople have a vested interest in AGW. Their research is very speculative. This is pretty easy to understand, since their models can't predict anything that I have experience with (ie. the weather). So to scale models that don't work on a local scale to the global scale is pretty ballsy. Some of us engineering types get that.
Plus the holier than thou attitudes. Usually when you get that, its a religion not a science.
Al Gore driving his Cadillac around in his movie did it for me, as did the reports of the amounts of energy his house burns. Do as I say, you fscking peons, not as I, the exalted Promethean GOD, do.
And, CO2 is not the big absorber of energy, compared to things like water vapor. Don't take my word for it. http://www.everythingweather.com/atmospheric-radiation/absorption.shtml There is a hell of a lot more water vapor in the air than carbon dioxide (it condenses out all the time as fog and rain, ice and snow). The last 100 years could be the result of irrigation for crying out loud.
And don't forget sunspots, the only measured determiner of climate. Which, you know, makes sense because the sun is the source of all climate on earth except for volcanic/meteoric.
Add that up and I do not believe its time for most of us to party like its 1899. I ride a bike to work, 10 miles each way. I walk as much as possible, sleep with three blankets in the winter, use low power computers, drive a 8 year old fuel efficient car, and do everything I can to minimize my impact to the planet. That just makes sense. I would wager that most AGW believers do not have as small a carbon footprint as I do. But I don't drink the kool aid, sorry. It is pure hubris to believe that by buying a Prius I am going to save the fscking planet. And its wrong to impose your beliefs (which, at this point, is all they are) on others.
Yes but see, that's a problem because the AGW cheerleaders have already discounted the influence of the sun on the temperature of the earth.
All temperature increases are the direct result of human activity.
And if you are a climate scientist, you went from competing with Kelly Bundy to be a TV weatherperson to saving the fucking planet. Anything to keep the big S on your chest.
So the reports will just get more alarming, the predictions more dire. Now its 6C. Next it will be 12C. Until the dire predictions diverge from reality so far that the whole thing goes away.
But not until the Nobel Prize winners, and their cap and trade companies, have gotten richer, and we, all, have gotten a little poorer.
Nice. So executives at Intel, IBM, Bear Stearns, and McKinsey were tipping off a Billionaire hedge fund manager. Any wonder _how_ he made those Billions, then? And all of them massive contributors to politicians. How nice. These idiots should all go to jail, for a very long time. Maybe, use the per capita income of ordinary Americans to judge their prison terms; 25M/43k/yr = 500 years between them. Some of them _might_ get out in time to die.
So patent applications are now attempts to state everything, include a thousand references, be as broad as possible, and litigate everyone? Sounds like we got us a working system. That thing was, technically, a turd. The examiners are just rubber stamping them at this point, if this got through. It says absolutely nothing novel. It does not add to the store of human knowledge. Its just a bunch of shit thrown against the wall, hoping something sticks.
Since they won their last patent battle with Toyota, they seem to have turned up the attack. Might as well turn to the well again.
This is totally ridiculous. We will not survive as an advanced country if this is the standard for innovation.
I had power supplies die. In Cisco routers. Several times. Might have been something in the input or load that was killing them. They were redundant, so no downtime (except the time both of them failed, one several months (!) before the second...). So does, happen, rarely, far less than drives or CPUs or memory, or mainboards. But if you're going redundant and have the budget, might as well; something intrinsically satisfying with having a part go bad and not take the server down. Satisfaction that is rare indeed in the System Admin profession....
Tell that to xbox360 owners; or try it yourself. Take your vertical xbox360, and make it horizontal while the disc is spinning. That Call Of Duty disc you _were_ playing? It now has a nice ring scratched in it and requires a trip to place of purchase to swap.
Discs can and will bitrot, I have had commercial pressed CDs go bad, even though they are in storage and I only used them to rip to mp3. Laserdisc folks noticed it a long time ago. I personally use the async mirrored external method. Turn on mirror discs, mount, rsync each active external to its mirror, unmount external mirror and turn off. This way I can't accidentally delete and they are direct replacements. Seems to work so far.
Unfortunately, I think we are just seeing Adam Smith's invisible hand; the problem is its the invisible hand of the top 0.1% holding down the other 99.9% of us. Money is power, and money will subvert any mechanism available to it to generate more money. We can make inferences to a certain ring here; all evil behaves the same way.
Absolutely. I know, think before post, but seriously....I wonder if this clown is even old enough to drive. Patrick Bedard, who I daresay knows more about speed than anyone on this site, says the same thing. Anyone who drives _knows_ speed variance is more dangerous than outright speed. But, internet and 13 year olds I guess.... By the speed kills logic, all race drivers should be dead because they go fast. Hell, if speed kills, flying in a jetliner should be downright suicidal. Jesus. TBP folks, TBP.
I have an M2N-SLI Deluxe running ubuntu 7.10 and have 7.1 sound; hiss and crackle free. I was actually pretty happy with how good the onboard sound is, their active noise cancellation seems to work well. Best sound I have ever gotten from a computer. Mandatory Disclaimer: I used to stand right in front of the speakers at metal shows so I could really feel the music. So I might be missing the finer points, but the basics are fine.
Damn I hate the RIAA; I just searched for Blonde Dance Clone torrentz and they've removed them. Why is the man keeping us down like this? Why wont they let me listen to music I have already heard before for free? wtf?
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Look at the 5 year for fsck's sake!
andy
Amazon app. Brilliant. Thanks for that!
andy
Mangled movie quote. Frito Bendeho got his Law Degree at Costco. He couldn't believe it himself. His dad had to pull some strings...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
andy
I do. On one of these.
http://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_dummy
Pure awesomeness.
andy
IBM ain't safe. Nor are/were they behind the times. This cloud thing you speak of, before it was The Cloud it was On Demand...you may have seen commercials. They did not, however, execute. They had complex network environments before such things were fashionable. In fact, you can pretty much count on the fact that if you are doing it, they already done it.
Back to the point, start your own business. Its scary. Its way better than corporate, at least until the money runs out.
I think it look better on a resume anyway, if'n you fail.
As I still may.
andy
Based on your posts I see I am not an idiot for salivating about EC2. I am actively trying to figure out jobs I can run on it, just because its so cool. Thanks for your perspective. Sometimes the slashdot comments really, really rock.
andy
He can haz cheeseburger?
Term 3b:
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third ...a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution...
party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution,
a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed
under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
interchange
If you think you can argue burning and mailing a CD costs 1M$.
This was tape and mail era, so asking for the source _for free_ was prohibitive since postage and tapes cost money (you could also be bankrupted by your competitor making frivolous, free, source distribution requests).
Now, mail and CD is about a dollar. This has been noted about a million times.
andy
A majority of people accept that an invisible friend is watching everything you do, and that there were rules handed down on from this supreme all-knowing invisible being that we must accept to gain entrance to a fairytale existence, after the only existence that has ever been proven to exist ends.
Yeah, I don't buy that either.
Weatherpeople have a vested interest in AGW. Their research is very speculative. This is pretty easy to understand, since their models can't predict anything that I have experience with (ie. the weather). So to scale models that don't work on a local scale to the global scale is pretty ballsy. Some of us engineering types get that.
Plus the holier than thou attitudes. Usually when you get that, its a religion not a science.
Al Gore driving his Cadillac around in his movie did it for me, as did the reports of the amounts of energy his house burns. Do as I say, you fscking peons, not as I, the exalted Promethean GOD, do.
And, CO2 is not the big absorber of energy, compared to things like water vapor. Don't take my word for it.
http://www.everythingweather.com/atmospheric-radiation/absorption.shtml
There is a hell of a lot more water vapor in the air than carbon dioxide (it condenses out all the time as fog and rain, ice and snow). The last 100 years could be the result of irrigation for crying out loud.
And don't forget sunspots, the only measured determiner of climate. Which, you know, makes sense because the sun is the source of all climate on earth except for volcanic/meteoric.
Add that up and I do not believe its time for most of us to party like its 1899. I ride a bike to work, 10 miles each way. I walk as much as possible, sleep with three blankets in the winter, use low power computers, drive a 8 year old fuel efficient car, and do everything I can to minimize my impact to the planet. That just makes sense. I would wager that most AGW believers do not have as small a carbon footprint as I do. But I don't drink the kool aid, sorry. It is pure hubris to believe that by buying a Prius I am going to save the fscking planet. And its wrong to impose your beliefs (which, at this point, is all they are) on others.
andy
Welcome to Costco.
Yes but see, that's a problem because the AGW cheerleaders have already discounted the influence of the sun on the temperature of the earth.
All temperature increases are the direct result of human activity.
And if you are a climate scientist, you went from competing with Kelly Bundy to be a TV weatherperson to saving the fucking planet. Anything to keep the big S on your chest.
So the reports will just get more alarming, the predictions more dire. Now its 6C. Next it will be 12C. Until the dire predictions diverge from reality so far that the whole thing goes away.
But not until the Nobel Prize winners, and their cap and trade companies, have gotten richer, and we, all, have gotten a little poorer.
andy
Nice. So executives at Intel, IBM, Bear Stearns, and McKinsey were tipping off a Billionaire hedge fund manager. Any wonder _how_ he made those Billions, then? And all of them massive contributors to politicians. How nice. These idiots should all go to jail, for a very long time. Maybe, use the per capita income of ordinary Americans to judge their prison terms; 25M/43k/yr = 500 years between them. Some of them _might_ get out in time to die.
andy
So patent applications are now attempts to state everything, include a thousand references, be as broad as possible, and litigate everyone? Sounds like we got us a working system. That thing was, technically, a turd. The examiners are just rubber stamping them at this point, if this got through. It says absolutely nothing novel. It does not add to the store of human knowledge. Its just a bunch of shit thrown against the wall, hoping something sticks.
Since they won their last patent battle with Toyota, they seem to have turned up the attack. Might as well turn to the well again.
This is totally ridiculous. We will not survive as an advanced country if this is the standard for innovation.
andy
I had power supplies die. In Cisco routers. Several times. Might have been something in the input or load that was killing them. They were redundant, so no downtime (except the time both of them failed, one several months (!) before the second...). So does, happen, rarely, far less than drives or CPUs or memory, or mainboards. But if you're going redundant and have the budget, might as well; something intrinsically satisfying with having a part go bad and not take the server down. Satisfaction that is rare indeed in the System Admin profession....
andy
I mean, google has all the answers.
http://www.ss64.com/bash/rsync.html
Tell that to xbox360 owners; or try it yourself. Take your vertical xbox360, and make it horizontal while the disc is spinning. That Call Of Duty disc you _were_ playing? It now has a nice ring scratched in it and requires a trip to place of purchase to swap.
Discs can and will bitrot, I have had commercial pressed CDs go bad, even though they are in storage and I only used them to rip to mp3. Laserdisc folks noticed it a long time ago. I personally use the async mirrored external method. Turn on mirror discs, mount, rsync each active external to its mirror, unmount external mirror and turn off. This way I can't accidentally delete and they are direct replacements. Seems to work so far.
Like public schools financed through property taxes?
andy
Because the moderators haven't read Hegel.
Logic is the nothing from which something comes.
andy
Me 2.
You're forgetting the effects of inbreeding. *cackle*
andy
You forgot the red and blue logo thing too.
Unfortunately, I think we are just seeing Adam Smith's invisible hand; the problem is its the invisible hand of the top 0.1% holding down the other 99.9% of us. Money is power, and money will subvert any mechanism available to it to generate more money. We can make inferences to a certain ring here; all evil behaves the same way.
andy
Absolutely. I know, think before post, but seriously....I wonder if this clown is even old enough to drive. Patrick Bedard, who I daresay knows more about speed than anyone on this site, says the same thing. Anyone who drives _knows_ speed variance is more dangerous than outright speed. But, internet and 13 year olds I guess.... By the speed kills logic, all race drivers should be dead because they go fast. Hell, if speed kills, flying in a jetliner should be downright suicidal. Jesus. TBP folks, TBP.
andy
I have an M2N-SLI Deluxe running ubuntu 7.10 and have 7.1 sound; hiss and crackle free. I was actually pretty happy with how good the onboard sound is, their active noise cancellation seems to work well. Best sound I have ever gotten from a computer. Mandatory Disclaimer: I used to stand right in front of the speakers at metal shows so I could really feel the music. So I might be missing the finer points, but the basics are fine.
andy
Damn I hate the RIAA; I just searched for Blonde Dance Clone torrentz and they've removed them. Why is the man keeping us down like this? Why wont they let me listen to music I have already heard before for free? wtf?
andy