Financial contributions to the UN are based on a country's GDP (something like that). Last I knew (which was a really long time ago still), the US was also the most delinquent country with its UN obligations.
I would consider adding "cloud" to the "fights for control" category. Azure seems to have a decent response from windows shops going the remote hosting route.
Avoiding those disastrous products would have made Microsoft billions, and those decisions were made by you, Ballmer.
I'd go back farther to like 2006 or so.
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It's not that Microsoft is 'late to the party', it's simply that they make bad products.
Apple was late to the tablet party but ended up dominating it with pretty and functional products.
As far as tablets go, Microsoft was there before Apple....they just did it wrong. It's kind of like Microsoft throws a party and nobody shows up. Then Apple throws a party, has the Rolling Stones there, and then everybody shows up. So Microsoft has another party with a Rolling Stones cover band and wonders why nobody is showing up.
Every once in awhile they come out with something good, but it's a few years too late...take the latest Zune. Too bad everybody was using their phones to play mp3s by that time.
You would be amazed - or maybe shocked - to see some of the banking systems out there. I have worked for several financial institutions and their systems are usually very very old legacy crap stuck together with bubble gum and faith. One place was dealing with 70% of the countries financial messaging and they were not using transactions, if there was a problem (and there often was) messages were lost. Asked if I could change it to use transactions, couple lines here, couple lines there. NO.
Why?
Cost to test would involve the entire country and would cost millions.
OK.
So they are still losing messages.
Do you live near the city dump? Your sense of smell isn't very good. LinkedIn is a public company, LNKD, and they are profitable...somehow. Last quarter their profit was $314 million, and their last four quarters' profit adds up to over $1 billion. They also sit on about $1 billion in assets with about half as much debt. I don't really know where their money comes from either, but there is a lot of it. I thought the same thing about google when they went public, and I was pretty wrong there.
Which is in a different universe from where students are today.
Go back to school at 3x the cost and then spend a year sending out resumes before you presume to lecture today's grads. Why is there's always some dude who starts up with their "back in myyyyy day" crap when costs have exploded since they graduated when Clinton was still president.
Did you read the rest of the sentence you quoted? here let me help you:
posted annual 2014 tuition of $3333 x 4 years that is only 13,333.
There. See, shuz is saying that the costs are (still?) cheap. I don't possibly see how since my state school that used to be $1920 in tuition / year is now $6300 / year, but I guess there are still more affordable places out there.
Also, Clinton was not president 10 years ago. 10 years ago, Bush was president and the economy was crap because of the dot-com bust and some terrorists. I spent a year sending out resumes as well while working as an office assistant at $7/hour....with a computer engineering degree. Seems that there were a lot of people out there with computer engineering degrees who also had 10 years of experience that were looking for work.
I implore you to point to the federal law that makes this universal in the USA.
There may be no single US CFR one could point to on the matter, but remember that some employee/employer relationships are governed by state laws, rules, and regulations. and also possibly under a collective bargaining agreement or other types of contractual stipulations (some which are covered by a multitude of federal laws).
Yeah, that's what quetwo is saying....there is no federal law.
I don't think you know what the hell you are talking about!
vacation time IS money. they fully 100% owe you un-taken vacation. in the US this is true. I know this for a fact. not sure what your experience is - how long have you been working and where did you get this misinformation from??
vacation pay has value and for them to deny you that is to rob you of EARNED value.
How does unused vacation time evaporate at the end of the year then? There are some states where employers are required to carry over some amount, like California, but most states do not have such a law. I've worked at places that paid untaken vacation time, and others that didn't. For the ones that didn't, I used what vacation time I had left during my notice period. And yes, everybody talks about getting a lawyer and suing for the unused vacation, but most people don't actually do that since the lawyer should tell them they don't have a case.
I can't say I enjoy working with RHEL (or its derivatives); I'm known for making a sour face whenever RHEL or CentOS are even mentioned. I can see why it's so popular (extensively validated rock-stable code), but these very same attributes make it very poorly suited for our needs (scientific computing - often using bleeding-edge software features and needing to squeeze the last bit of power out of bleeding-edge hardware).
It's not a crappy product, it just isn't viable for what you do. It's like you're complaining about a freightliner semi because it gets horrible gas mileage, won't fit in your garage, and is impossible to parallel park downtown. If I want bleeding edge, then I'll go with Gentoo, but I'm not going to use it for an Oracle server.
Freenx and R & Bioconductor. I eventually found that R and Bioconductor still lagged on centos, so I compile them myself now.
That is pretty normal then. Red Hat maintains the base distro, they don't maintain every piece of software you need. It is expected that you will be installing 3rd-party software on top of Red Hat.
CentOS is still largely dependent on a small group of individual contributors. I have do not qualms about its stability or performance, but if I need 100% reliable updates and bug fixes and my revenue generated by these servers is in the 7+ digits, then I'll pay the $150 for RHEL. I don't need the phone somebody support, just an OS with the backing of a company that has billions on the line since I am not entirely comfortable trusting my millions to 6 guys who are largely volunteers.
I'll certainly trust development and testing to CentOS though.
Oh jeez. Granted it's been a few years, but I had "personal support person"-level support for SLES. They could barely spell Linux, and their "support" was essentially, "let me google that for you". Their solutions were seriously taken straight from OpenSuSE forums. Any moderately complicated support query would take weeks at-best, and a couple took months. Their entire support infrastructure was built around hand-holding NetWare and Windows admins through common tasks.
Never really had a problem with RHEL though. They usually came back within a day or two with a correct or acceptable response. We never had any "your disk setup is unapproved" kind of responses. What kind of disk setup did you have to get that kind of response anyways?
Just wanted to mention that I hate it when people don't follow the proper phone number cadence when reciting a number...I can't even remember past 4 numbers long enough to punch the digits into my phone when that happens.
Obviously anecdotal, but I was similar. I bounced between phases of taking notes religiously and not taking any notes. When I would take notes religiously, I found them useless because I would flip through them before the test or get stuck on a homework problem and see if there were any hints there and think "I already know all this, I have no need of notes". Then I would not take notes for awhile and find that I forgot everything even doing the "conciously listen to the lecturer" since when taking notes I generally wasn't paying that much attention to what was said and just focusing on the notes.
I never really found taking notes on a laptop terribly useful...didn't quite have the same effect, and a lot of my lectures involved circuit drawings and mathematical equations. Even the ones that didn't I would add boxes and dinosaurs to highlight various points, which is harder to do on a laptop.
1) You have to double the estimate of your Software Engineer. In MBA school they taught us to always double the software guy's estimate. 2) You haven't included any quality assurance!?! At least another $120k for a good QA team, plus the tools necessary for automated testing. 3) You've got 3 people on the team now, so you should include a PM. That's another $240k at least. 4) And you'll need a business analyst. Luckily, it should be easy to find one who isn't so "morality constrained". Say another $180k for them.
Just to be on the safe side, you should overestimate everything by 50% (yes, I know we already doubled the dev estimate, but this is what Joe's MBA School of Mastering Business Administration and Cheap Web Hosting taught me).
So overall, the cost is: Software Engineer: 240K Elecrical Engineer: 120K QA: 120K PM: 240K BA: 180K Subtotal: 900K Total (add 50% for good luck): 1.3 Million.
Now you should add 15-20% per year for support/maintenance, etc. So it's 1.3 Million capital outlay, plus $260,000 per year.
Pretty pricy, but still....it's cheaper than SAP.
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You could just buy the cars yourself at sticker price, then cut them up and ship out the parts, and it would still be cheaper than SAP.
Didn't read the article of course, but does this guy have a BES server? I thought this was always how BlackBerries worked. If you weren't running BES, then RIM essentially took over that function. Granted, I haven't touched a BlackBerry in like 6 years, so maybe I am only remembering the good times at this point.
A brilliant idea. Gotta make sure though that it's laid out enough beforehand that it doesn't end up being nothing but planning stages and no actual results by the end. Like any such event, preplanning is key. Involve the participants in the planning of course, but the event should be about getting those plans accomplished.
In order to be like a "Real Job", then it needs to be done with no planning and result in wasted effort with no results.
...in the meantime, they're throwing ads on the site unless you want to pay $50/year (current, well former, cost for Pro with unlimited storage is $25/year), and if you want twice as much space, then that will be $500. Personally, I was fine with the way that flickr was. Now I need a plan to rescue all my photos on there while I wait and see if I want to stick around the new ad-based site.
You want to solve them? Drive like the GP. Ever notice how 18-wheelers drive on a highway in heavy stop-and-start traffic? Notice how they generally let giant holes open in front of them? Even though some aggressive people will hop inside those holes, the truckers are actually trying to solve the traffic jam. If they can drive a constant 30 MPH or 20 MPH so that all the traffic is moving, it can actually clear the jam. Instead, if everyone suddenly accelerates to 40 MPH and then slows down to a stop a mile later just to keep on the tail of the person in front of them, it will actually take the jam many times longer to clear.
They aren't trying to "solve" the traffic jam. They do that for a few reasons: 1. The stopping distance of a fully loaded semi is far greater than any car. They need a buffer so that they don't plow into the car in front of them and an extra buffer on top of that because somebody is going to jump into the space they just created. 2. stop/go is really costly for a semi...not sure if you've noticed how long it takes for a semi to get up to speed when fully stopped. 3. They have cargo that can't be sent flying all about. It should be secured properly, but there's no reason to upset it further with a lot of starts/stops.
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$1B for Linux on Power architecture? Are they just looking for a tax writeoff? Is it cheaper than updating AIX?
Financial contributions to the UN are based on a country's GDP (something like that). Last I knew (which was a really long time ago still), the US was also the most delinquent country with its UN obligations.
I would consider adding "cloud" to the "fights for control" category. Azure seems to have a decent response from windows shops going the remote hosting route.
There was a perfect time for the transition:
Avoiding those disastrous products would have made Microsoft billions, and those decisions were made by you, Ballmer.
I'd go back farther to like 2006 or so.
It's not that Microsoft is 'late to the party', it's simply that they make bad products.
Apple was late to the tablet party but ended up dominating it with pretty and functional products.
As far as tablets go, Microsoft was there before Apple....they just did it wrong. It's kind of like Microsoft throws a party and nobody shows up. Then Apple throws a party, has the Rolling Stones there, and then everybody shows up. So Microsoft has another party with a Rolling Stones cover band and wonders why nobody is showing up.
Every once in awhile they come out with something good, but it's a few years too late...take the latest Zune. Too bad everybody was using their phones to play mp3s by that time.
....I swear I didn't look up the stock quote before posting. Microsoft is really up 8.5% right now.
...in response, Microsoft's stock jumps up 10%
You would be amazed - or maybe shocked - to see some of the banking systems out there. I have worked for several financial institutions and their systems are usually very very old legacy crap stuck together with bubble gum and faith. One place was dealing with 70% of the countries financial messaging and they were not using transactions, if there was a problem (and there often was) messages were lost. Asked if I could change it to use transactions, couple lines here, couple lines there.
NO.
Why?
Cost to test would involve the entire country and would cost millions.
OK.
So they are still losing messages.
How much do the lost messages cost the company?
Do you live near the city dump? Your sense of smell isn't very good. LinkedIn is a public company, LNKD, and they are profitable...somehow. Last quarter their profit was $314 million, and their last four quarters' profit adds up to over $1 billion. They also sit on about $1 billion in assets with about half as much debt. I don't really know where their money comes from either, but there is a lot of it. I thought the same thing about google when they went public, and I was pretty wrong there.
Which is in a different universe from where students are today.
Go back to school at 3x the cost and then spend a year sending out resumes before you presume to lecture today's grads. Why is there's always some dude who starts up with their "back in myyyyy day" crap when costs have exploded since they graduated when Clinton was still president.
Did you read the rest of the sentence you quoted? here let me help you:
posted annual 2014 tuition of $3333 x 4 years that is only 13,333.
There. See, shuz is saying that the costs are (still?) cheap. I don't possibly see how since my state school that used to be $1920 in tuition / year is now $6300 / year, but I guess there are still more affordable places out there.
Also, Clinton was not president 10 years ago. 10 years ago, Bush was president and the economy was crap because of the dot-com bust and some terrorists. I spent a year sending out resumes as well while working as an office assistant at $7/hour....with a computer engineering degree. Seems that there were a lot of people out there with computer engineering degrees who also had 10 years of experience that were looking for work.
There may be no single US CFR one could point to on the matter, but remember that some employee/employer relationships are governed by state laws, rules, and regulations. and also possibly under a collective bargaining agreement or other types of contractual stipulations (some which are covered by a multitude of federal laws).
Yeah, that's what quetwo is saying....there is no federal law.
I don't think you know what the hell you are talking about!
vacation time IS money. they fully 100% owe you un-taken vacation. in the US this is true. I know this for a fact. not sure what your experience is - how long have you been working and where did you get this misinformation from??
vacation pay has value and for them to deny you that is to rob you of EARNED value.
How does unused vacation time evaporate at the end of the year then? There are some states where employers are required to carry over some amount, like California, but most states do not have such a law. I've worked at places that paid untaken vacation time, and others that didn't. For the ones that didn't, I used what vacation time I had left during my notice period. And yes, everybody talks about getting a lawyer and suing for the unused vacation, but most people don't actually do that since the lawyer should tell them they don't have a case.
I can't say I enjoy working with RHEL (or its derivatives); I'm known for making a sour face whenever RHEL or CentOS are even mentioned. I can see why it's so popular (extensively validated rock-stable code), but these very same attributes make it very poorly suited for our needs (scientific computing - often using bleeding-edge software features and needing to squeeze the last bit of power out of bleeding-edge hardware).
It's not a crappy product, it just isn't viable for what you do. It's like you're complaining about a freightliner semi because it gets horrible gas mileage, won't fit in your garage, and is impossible to parallel park downtown. If I want bleeding edge, then I'll go with Gentoo, but I'm not going to use it for an Oracle server.
Freenx and R & Bioconductor. I eventually found that R and Bioconductor still lagged on centos, so I compile them myself now.
That is pretty normal then. Red Hat maintains the base distro, they don't maintain every piece of software you need. It is expected that you will be installing 3rd-party software on top of Red Hat.
CentOS is still largely dependent on a small group of individual contributors. I have do not qualms about its stability or performance, but if I need 100% reliable updates and bug fixes and my revenue generated by these servers is in the 7+ digits, then I'll pay the $150 for RHEL. I don't need the phone somebody support, just an OS with the backing of a company that has billions on the line since I am not entirely comfortable trusting my millions to 6 guys who are largely volunteers.
I'll certainly trust development and testing to CentOS though.
If I were to pay for RHEL or CentOS support, I would sooner pay SuSE https://www.suse.com/products/expandedsupport/frequently-asked-questions/#faq21
Oh jeez. Granted it's been a few years, but I had "personal support person"-level support for SLES. They could barely spell Linux, and their "support" was essentially, "let me google that for you". Their solutions were seriously taken straight from OpenSuSE forums. Any moderately complicated support query would take weeks at-best, and a couple took months. Their entire support infrastructure was built around hand-holding NetWare and Windows admins through common tasks.
Never really had a problem with RHEL though. They usually came back within a day or two with a correct or acceptable response. We never had any "your disk setup is unapproved" kind of responses. What kind of disk setup did you have to get that kind of response anyways?
At least, no true scots-admin needs vendor support.
Just wanted to mention that I hate it when people don't follow the proper phone number cadence when reciting a number...I can't even remember past 4 numbers long enough to punch the digits into my phone when that happens.
Obviously anecdotal, but I was similar. I bounced between phases of taking notes religiously and not taking any notes. When I would take notes religiously, I found them useless because I would flip through them before the test or get stuck on a homework problem and see if there were any hints there and think "I already know all this, I have no need of notes". Then I would not take notes for awhile and find that I forgot everything even doing the "conciously listen to the lecturer" since when taking notes I generally wasn't paying that much attention to what was said and just focusing on the notes.
I never really found taking notes on a laptop terribly useful...didn't quite have the same effect, and a lot of my lectures involved circuit drawings and mathematical equations. Even the ones that didn't I would add boxes and dinosaurs to highlight various points, which is harder to do on a laptop.
Ahh...but you are forgetting a few things:
1) You have to double the estimate of your Software Engineer. In MBA school they taught us to always double the software guy's estimate.
2) You haven't included any quality assurance!?! At least another $120k for a good QA team, plus the tools necessary for automated testing.
3) You've got 3 people on the team now, so you should include a PM. That's another $240k at least.
4) And you'll need a business analyst. Luckily, it should be easy to find one who isn't so "morality constrained". Say another $180k for them.
Just to be on the safe side, you should overestimate everything by 50% (yes, I know we already doubled the dev estimate, but this is what Joe's MBA School of Mastering Business Administration and Cheap Web Hosting taught me).
So overall, the cost is:
Software Engineer: 240K
Elecrical Engineer: 120K
QA: 120K
PM: 240K
BA: 180K
Subtotal: 900K
Total (add 50% for good luck): 1.3 Million.
Now you should add 15-20% per year for support/maintenance, etc. So it's 1.3 Million capital outlay, plus $260,000 per year.
Pretty pricy, but still....it's cheaper than SAP.
You could just buy the cars yourself at sticker price, then cut them up and ship out the parts, and it would still be cheaper than SAP.
Didn't read the article of course, but does this guy have a BES server? I thought this was always how BlackBerries worked. If you weren't running BES, then RIM essentially took over that function. Granted, I haven't touched a BlackBerry in like 6 years, so maybe I am only remembering the good times at this point.
A brilliant idea. Gotta make sure though that it's laid out enough beforehand that it doesn't end up being nothing but planning stages and no actual results by the end. Like any such event, preplanning is key. Involve the participants in the planning of course, but the event should be about getting those plans accomplished.
In order to be like a "Real Job", then it needs to be done with no planning and result in wasted effort with no results.
social and cloud?
...in the meantime, they're throwing ads on the site unless you want to pay $50/year (current, well former, cost for Pro with unlimited storage is $25/year), and if you want twice as much space, then that will be $500. Personally, I was fine with the way that flickr was. Now I need a plan to rescue all my photos on there while I wait and see if I want to stick around the new ad-based site.
You want to solve them? Drive like the GP. Ever notice how 18-wheelers drive on a highway in heavy stop-and-start traffic? Notice how they generally let giant holes open in front of them? Even though some aggressive people will hop inside those holes, the truckers are actually trying to solve the traffic jam. If they can drive a constant 30 MPH or 20 MPH so that all the traffic is moving, it can actually clear the jam. Instead, if everyone suddenly accelerates to 40 MPH and then slows down to a stop a mile later just to keep on the tail of the person in front of them, it will actually take the jam many times longer to clear.
They aren't trying to "solve" the traffic jam. They do that for a few reasons:
1. The stopping distance of a fully loaded semi is far greater than any car. They need a buffer so that they don't plow into the car in front of them and an extra buffer on top of that because somebody is going to jump into the space they just created.
2. stop/go is really costly for a semi...not sure if you've noticed how long it takes for a semi to get up to speed when fully stopped.
3. They have cargo that can't be sent flying all about. It should be secured properly, but there's no reason to upset it further with a lot of starts/stops.