And... taking tax money, buying billions in war machines and such, that's not wealth redistribution?
I never said I agreed with the war either. But to address your point, buying war machines is not anything close to the same thing. First, I must have missed that class where 1 rich person can build HumVees and sell them to the government. Last I checked it requires an entire company of people who are also getting paid. If you want to say they are receiving wealth distribution then at least they are producing something.
In my original post I stated that I can see the argument for building infrastructure as a method for redistributing the wealth. At least then you are putting people to work and at the same time improving the countries infrastructure. Handing out checks...not so much.
I also wasn't talking about welfare in my original post. Some level of welfare where we can help people when they are down is needed. Obama wants much much more than that. He wants to make things 'fair'. He wants to take from those who are successful and hand out to those who aren't. He's not talking about people who still need necessities, he's talking about handing out money to anyone who he doesn't deem rich.
That would go against his long running wealth redistribution idea. I don't know why people ignore this, but it's clear that wealth redistribution is exactly what he wants to do. He's even said it himself.
It's easy to postulate that the reason Obama didn't become a lawyer and then a potential judge is that he saw early on that the current court system can't get his wealth redistribution plan done. The only way to do this is through politics and the 'gun' of the US tax system (we will take your money or you'll go to jail).
Well it's clear from Obama's current and past talks that one of his biggest goals is wealth redistribution. Tax cuts for 90% of Americans when 40% don't even pay federal income tax means taking money from those who have it and giving it to those who don't. Beyond the fact that I think taking money from someone at gun point and handing it someone else is just wrong, I also keep failing to see how handing out more money to people who don't earn it is going to help anything. If he came out and said that instead of passing out more checks he was going to start a federal program on mass transit and start building rail and putting people to work I would at least understand the argument.
Clinton also presided over the internet revolution. The country went through a huge upswing in growth and productivity. This also included a huge bubble that finished popping while Bush was in control. Did Clinton actually do anything to make the internet revolution happen or was he lucky to be in the right place at the right time (the same way Bush was unlucky to be in charge when the internet bubble really collapsed and 9/11 happened)?
I'm not saying that Democrats never engage in the same activities, by the way, though I do think it's worth noting that I've seen almost no mention of it in the foreign press, while Republican shenanigans have been widely commented on.
So ACORN and the registering of the entire Dallas Cowboys football team in, I think, Arizona was completely glossed over by the press? There are people wondering now if Obama really won the primaries. If Hillary and Bill weren't playing such good little democrats I'm sure they'd be raising hell right now.
No joke. Watch CNBC sometime and you can hear everyones CrackBerry going off during the whole show. They finally starting keeping them off set, but many times guests still have them on.
Okay, I've been in IT a while, and I know plenty of developers. I'm unaware of a developer "Needing" a console at his desk in order to do his job, unless he happens to be a game developer on that console.
I agree. And people wonder why companies are trying to outsource development work to India. They are tired of dealing with prima donnas who consider themselves better than anyone else in the company.
That's exactly what the gov. is attempting to do. All of the imaginary gains in house values could be evaporated pretty quickly with flat house prices and a high level of inflation. Instead prices are falling and putting people and the banks underwater. The only problem with inflating our way out is that it pisses off the countries who hold our debt, the 2 largest being Japan and China.
True, but given that a large % of the population doesn't remember the interest rates of the 80s, a 15%+ interest rate would seem like hyper inflation them. Personally, I would argue that we've been seeing near double digit inflation for a few years now. It's just that the gov. does its best to cover it up.
They believe that ALL money should consist of, or be 100% backed by, a valuable commodity. The value of the money would fluctuate ONLY according to the value of the commodity (and, in the case of "backed" tokens, by the perception of the reliability of the commodity warehousing operation).
The problem is that there is not enough of any commodity to support the actual amount of productivity in the US, much less the world. I agree the Fed reserve printing money at will is a crock, but money doesn't have to be backed by anything as long as everyone agrees that it can be used as an exchange of goods and services.
And yes, printing money right now is a horrible mistake. 1 trillion there another trillion here. I hope everyone is ready for the upcoming hyper inflation and 15%+ interest rates!
Greenspan did exactly what all the Republicans and Libertarians wanted... lowered the interest rate the Fed charged for money and kept their fingers out of market regulation.
What are you talking about?? First, the fed rate has little to do with the mortgage rate. Second, deregulation didn't cause this mess as much as the government entities named Fannie and Freddie. When you're implicitly backed by the government you can easily offer below market rates to people who otherwise shouldn't get a loan. This drove out most other mortgage market buyers.
Government regulation and the idea that everyone, even those who have bad credit and can't be bothered to save a down payment, deserve a house is at the base of this problem. The popping of the tech bubble and low fed rates helped by funneling money out of the market into real estate, but they certainly were not the cause.
Having experienced all sorts of failures by this point, recovery time is one of the big questions I pose to management. If a system can be down for 24 - 48 hours b/c of a failure, then we can do things a lot cheaper/differently than if you need to be back up and running in 1 hour. In the first case we can wait for new parts (obviously we keep spare HDs onsite, but not stuff like back planes and RAID card batteries ugh...lol) to be shipped and arrive and in the other you need to have a hot spare system sitting idly by. Even then, if you have a huge backup to restore you may need to have a replicative system up and running all the time that you can fail to if needed. Luckily most systems that I've had to manage allowed for 1-2 days downtime in the case of a major failure.
That is all I can afford, and I feel that I'm doing my best for my employer given my budget and still maintaining my professional integrity as a sysad.
As long as you have fully explained the risk to your employer they do end up getting what they deserve. They have made a decision about how much their data is worth to them. In this case roughly $4000.
Business operations ask me for things all the time at work. "Can you do X?" My response always is "Of course given infinite time and resources." That way we immediately bring the conversation to what they really need and how much they are willing to spend. Backups never seem to be an issue as they will pretty much write blank checks to make sure the data is safe.
I hesitate to even call MySQL a database. Sure it's a database by the classic term of a collection of files containing records, but when the original creators didn't see a need for things like RI, constraints or ACID compliance I have a hard time calling it a DBMS. I mean really, it's similar to saying Access and Oracle are both closed source, pay for databases so why can't I just lump them together.
That's fine in theory, but remember that ICANN, who controls the root servers, is a US corporation based in California.
Then ICANN should have gone to a court in CA and filed against the motion sent to them by KY. ICANN has no business or offices in KY, so I'm failing to see what jurisdiction a court in KY has over them.
Please don't group mySQL (crap) and Postgres (great system) into the same grouping. As others have replied, Postgres is a very capable DB system.
I'm surprised that people use Oracle for installations as large as you have described. The largest database system I've used is a Terradata system running many terabytes of data.
The new MB really should have $999. The features at that price make a lot of sense. I'm guessing that at $999 they figured too many people would opt out of a MBP.
For reference I have a SR MBP and it's by the far the best laptop I've ever owned (I've been through Dells, HPs, etc...). When I do upgrade again I think I'll go with the the 13" MB and buy a big monitor to use when I'm at the house. I don't need firewire, the bigger screen, or the card slot.
1. Enterprise space - along with whatever mission critical application you care to name that isn't available on Linux
The enterprise space is actually one of the places where linux is strong. It's one thing to save $100 on a windows license, it's another to save $1000s on windows licenses and other licenses when using the MS software stack.
OS X but there are many (perhaps most) LARGE 'artistic' groups in advertising and publishing
I don't know of the current stats, but macs have typically dominated these groups in the past. Until the whole switcher thing started in masse, the main users of macs were the artistic types.
How big is this laptop you're carrying around? I think the market has mostly spoken that people don't want/need the option to have a second internal HD in their laptop when they can carry around USB drives for that extra storage.
Changing out the GPU is nice, but how many laptops actually have that feature. Are you playing games on your laptop so often that you need the latest and greatest GPU? It would seem to make more sense financially and performance wise to buy a desktop and just keep that up to date for gaming.
I guess I just don't understand the 'desktop in a laptop' crowd. The whole point of a laptop is portability and desktop is power. You can often get both for less money than trying to cram it all into one.
Quit making sense LOL. The whole argument about Apple charging for 'point' upgrades is a dumb argument anyways. If Apple called the upgrade 11 instead of 10.5 would that make these people feel better? One has to look at the features to see if it's a significant upgrade or not (and if you look at the upgrades that Apple, and MS in this case, charge for they are normally pretty significant). The version number of the upgrade doesn't matter!
My take on the keeping the white MB at the $999 spot is that they needed a computer in that price point. I bet they originally wanted to have the low end new MB in that price point, but the numbers just didn't work yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see a refresh in 6 months where they drop the price of the MBs (possibly the MBPs) and discontinue the white older MB.
So true. I responded above with my 'hobby' even though it wasn't as exciting as some of the others wanted it to be. I was thinking about it though. If this guy can function on a level that he can juggle and entire raid by himself then why the hell is he playing WoW and not doing some crazy job like air traffic control or something similar lol...
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I never said I agreed with the war either. But to address your point, buying war machines is not anything close to the same thing. First, I must have missed that class where 1 rich person can build HumVees and sell them to the government. Last I checked it requires an entire company of people who are also getting paid. If you want to say they are receiving wealth distribution then at least they are producing something.
In my original post I stated that I can see the argument for building infrastructure as a method for redistributing the wealth. At least then you are putting people to work and at the same time improving the countries infrastructure. Handing out checks...not so much.
I also wasn't talking about welfare in my original post. Some level of welfare where we can help people when they are down is needed. Obama wants much much more than that. He wants to make things 'fair'. He wants to take from those who are successful and hand out to those who aren't. He's not talking about people who still need necessities, he's talking about handing out money to anyone who he doesn't deem rich.
That would go against his long running wealth redistribution idea. I don't know why people ignore this, but it's clear that wealth redistribution is exactly what he wants to do. He's even said it himself.
It's easy to postulate that the reason Obama didn't become a lawyer and then a potential judge is that he saw early on that the current court system can't get his wealth redistribution plan done. The only way to do this is through politics and the 'gun' of the US tax system (we will take your money or you'll go to jail).
Well it's clear from Obama's current and past talks that one of his biggest goals is wealth redistribution. Tax cuts for 90% of Americans when 40% don't even pay federal income tax means taking money from those who have it and giving it to those who don't. Beyond the fact that I think taking money from someone at gun point and handing it someone else is just wrong, I also keep failing to see how handing out more money to people who don't earn it is going to help anything. If he came out and said that instead of passing out more checks he was going to start a federal program on mass transit and start building rail and putting people to work I would at least understand the argument.
Clinton also presided over the internet revolution. The country went through a huge upswing in growth and productivity. This also included a huge bubble that finished popping while Bush was in control. Did Clinton actually do anything to make the internet revolution happen or was he lucky to be in the right place at the right time (the same way Bush was unlucky to be in charge when the internet bubble really collapsed and 9/11 happened)?
So ACORN and the registering of the entire Dallas Cowboys football team in, I think, Arizona was completely glossed over by the press? There are people wondering now if Obama really won the primaries. If Hillary and Bill weren't playing such good little democrats I'm sure they'd be raising hell right now.
You'd find a lot more people voting early and often...
No joke. Watch CNBC sometime and you can hear everyones CrackBerry going off during the whole show. They finally starting keeping them off set, but many times guests still have them on.
I agree. And people wonder why companies are trying to outsource development work to India. They are tired of dealing with prima donnas who consider themselves better than anyone else in the company.
That's exactly what the gov. is attempting to do. All of the imaginary gains in house values could be evaporated pretty quickly with flat house prices and a high level of inflation. Instead prices are falling and putting people and the banks underwater. The only problem with inflating our way out is that it pisses off the countries who hold our debt, the 2 largest being Japan and China.
True, but given that a large % of the population doesn't remember the interest rates of the 80s, a 15%+ interest rate would seem like hyper inflation them. Personally, I would argue that we've been seeing near double digit inflation for a few years now. It's just that the gov. does its best to cover it up.
The problem is that there is not enough of any commodity to support the actual amount of productivity in the US, much less the world. I agree the Fed reserve printing money at will is a crock, but money doesn't have to be backed by anything as long as everyone agrees that it can be used as an exchange of goods and services.
And yes, printing money right now is a horrible mistake. 1 trillion there another trillion here. I hope everyone is ready for the upcoming hyper inflation and 15%+ interest rates!
What are you talking about?? First, the fed rate has little to do with the mortgage rate. Second, deregulation didn't cause this mess as much as the government entities named Fannie and Freddie. When you're implicitly backed by the government you can easily offer below market rates to people who otherwise shouldn't get a loan. This drove out most other mortgage market buyers.
Government regulation and the idea that everyone, even those who have bad credit and can't be bothered to save a down payment, deserve a house is at the base of this problem. The popping of the tech bubble and low fed rates helped by funneling money out of the market into real estate, but they certainly were not the cause.
Having experienced all sorts of failures by this point, recovery time is one of the big questions I pose to management. If a system can be down for 24 - 48 hours b/c of a failure, then we can do things a lot cheaper/differently than if you need to be back up and running in 1 hour. In the first case we can wait for new parts (obviously we keep spare HDs onsite, but not stuff like back planes and RAID card batteries ugh...lol) to be shipped and arrive and in the other you need to have a hot spare system sitting idly by. Even then, if you have a huge backup to restore you may need to have a replicative system up and running all the time that you can fail to if needed. Luckily most systems that I've had to manage allowed for 1-2 days downtime in the case of a major failure.
As long as you have fully explained the risk to your employer they do end up getting what they deserve. They have made a decision about how much their data is worth to them. In this case roughly $4000.
Business operations ask me for things all the time at work. "Can you do X?" My response always is "Of course given infinite time and resources." That way we immediately bring the conversation to what they really need and how much they are willing to spend. Backups never seem to be an issue as they will pretty much write blank checks to make sure the data is safe.
I hesitate to even call MySQL a database. Sure it's a database by the classic term of a collection of files containing records, but when the original creators didn't see a need for things like RI, constraints or ACID compliance I have a hard time calling it a DBMS. I mean really, it's similar to saying Access and Oracle are both closed source, pay for databases so why can't I just lump them together.
Then ICANN should have gone to a court in CA and filed against the motion sent to them by KY. ICANN has no business or offices in KY, so I'm failing to see what jurisdiction a court in KY has over them.
Please don't group mySQL (crap) and Postgres (great system) into the same grouping. As others have replied, Postgres is a very capable DB system.
I'm surprised that people use Oracle for installations as large as you have described. The largest database system I've used is a Terradata system running many terabytes of data.
The new MB really should have $999. The features at that price make a lot of sense. I'm guessing that at $999 they figured too many people would opt out of a MBP.
For reference I have a SR MBP and it's by the far the best laptop I've ever owned (I've been through Dells, HPs, etc...). When I do upgrade again I think I'll go with the the 13" MB and buy a big monitor to use when I'm at the house. I don't need firewire, the bigger screen, or the card slot.
Why not just hide their message in slashdot troll posts? Not like anyone reads them anyways...unless you know what you're looking for...
The enterprise space is actually one of the places where linux is strong. It's one thing to save $100 on a windows license, it's another to save $1000s on windows licenses and other licenses when using the MS software stack.
I don't know of the current stats, but macs have typically dominated these groups in the past. Until the whole switcher thing started in masse, the main users of macs were the artistic types.
How big is this laptop you're carrying around? I think the market has mostly spoken that people don't want/need the option to have a second internal HD in their laptop when they can carry around USB drives for that extra storage.
Changing out the GPU is nice, but how many laptops actually have that feature. Are you playing games on your laptop so often that you need the latest and greatest GPU? It would seem to make more sense financially and performance wise to buy a desktop and just keep that up to date for gaming.
I guess I just don't understand the 'desktop in a laptop' crowd. The whole point of a laptop is portability and desktop is power. You can often get both for less money than trying to cram it all into one.
You're basically asking for a 12" or 13" MBP. A lot of people have been asking for one of those ever since they dumped the 12" Powerbook.
Quit making sense LOL. The whole argument about Apple charging for 'point' upgrades is a dumb argument anyways. If Apple called the upgrade 11 instead of 10.5 would that make these people feel better? One has to look at the features to see if it's a significant upgrade or not (and if you look at the upgrades that Apple, and MS in this case, charge for they are normally pretty significant). The version number of the upgrade doesn't matter!
Then worry about when it's time to replace yours.
My take on the keeping the white MB at the $999 spot is that they needed a computer in that price point. I bet they originally wanted to have the low end new MB in that price point, but the numbers just didn't work yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see a refresh in 6 months where they drop the price of the MBs (possibly the MBPs) and discontinue the white older MB.
So true. I responded above with my 'hobby' even though it wasn't as exciting as some of the others wanted it to be. I was thinking about it though. If this guy can function on a level that he can juggle and entire raid by himself then why the hell is he playing WoW and not doing some crazy job like air traffic control or something similar lol...