With it being incompatible with Metro, and an OS that's going out of support, and nothing but Metro based OS's available. Inch by inch that install CD becomes a coffee coaster.
Affordable SSDs are always a year away. Vendors aren't going to lower their prices until people stop buying the $2/GB ones. I have been waiting for SSD prices to drop for years now, but prices seem to be holding steady.
What ? SSD prices have been crashing for 12 months now.
Free Speech is weak in Australia because there is no bill of rights and defamation laws are so tough you can't say anything bad about anyone which is a real problem if you are a journalist, let alone a twitterer.
You can say bad things all you want, you just can't be defamatory.
(For the life of me I cannot understand people who think the point of free speech is so you can hurl abuse at others.)
Your statement about BGP makes no sense to me. How does BGP interfere with cloud-type connections and not others?
He is rehashing - in a rather rather pained and circuitous fashion - the "if you lose your internet connectivity you can't do any work" argument.
This point is not entirely without merit, but generally fails to recognise that a) most companies these days can't do a lot of work without an internet connection anyway and b) internet connectivity is usually a lot easier and cheaper to make highly available and redundant that server infrastructure.
Or we think that our time costs, but it costs less than business downtime does. If you depend on the vendor and their support contract, you're impacted for however long it takes them to come out. They won't typically let you keep spares, so when a part breaks that box is impaired or off-line for whatever your contract response time it and there's nothing you can do about it. But if it's a white-box server that can be worked on in-house, you can typically keep spares on the shelf. It may cost more in admin/tech time than the support contract would, but you get the choice of paying the time and getting the box back on-line in an hour instead of anywhere from 4 hours to next-day.
If your system is that important, then approaching the problem by keeping spare parts on-site is Doing It Wrong. You need proper redundancy.
On top of that, what vendors won't let you buy spare parts ?
And you get the option of saying "Not worth messing around with. Grab a new box, spin it up and we'll figure out what's broken with this one after we're back on-line.".
So exactly the same as name-brand hardware then.
We techies don't think our time is free, we just don't make the common management mistake of thinking that down-time waiting for a vendor response is free.
I've seen lots of IBM servers have failed RAID controller batteries, which IBM won't replace under warranty because they're "consumable", and won't replace for a fee because they aren't available anymore.
You'd have to be talking about a machine at least 5 years old.
Almost certainly. The problem is most techies - especially young ones - only look at a handful of specifications (CPU, RAM, # disks) and the sticker price, because they think their time is free.
Or, the rising tide lifts all boats, and the currently starving people on welfare can find work that pays welfare rates and provides them the opportunity to learn skills and improve themselves.
Like it has in the USA for the last 30 years you mean ? Where ever decreasing taxes have resulted in worker's wages going nowhere while productivity (and corporate profits) has skyrocketed ?
Or we can just go with your more complex theory. I prefer simplicity myself.
I like theories that agree with reality. Yours doesn't.
Spoken as I'd expect from an individual with no real hardware RAID experience/knowledge. Parity work is a tiny fraction of the operations peformed by a RAID ASIC. And in fact most enterprises don't even use parity RAID due to the huge performance penalty of RMW and the unacceptable rebuild times of parity arrays.
Rubbish. The default and recommended RAID schemes for two of the biggest storage vendors on the planet (EMC and NetApp) are both parity RAID.
Indeed, with the rise of SSDs (and their relatively small sizes) nearly eliminating the performance penalty of parity RAID schemes, expect to see its usage grow, not shrink.
this also helps to alleviate the thought that voting for a third party is a wasted vote (well it would except half the people i talk to don't actually know that this is how our votes get counted)
Which is why the half of QLD that didn't vote for them is pretty pissed off about the LNPs slash-and-burn policies.
Child labor was not stopped by decree of any gov't, it was stopped because the parents of those kids didn't have to send them to work anymore, because the parents were made much more productive than they used to be before industrialization by private capitalists.
Naked bullshit like this is why no-one takes people like you seriously.
So now I have to go through a 600 line changelog to find the version from 10 minutes ago that I was pleased with.
On a Linux system maybe. Other systems will build a decent UI around it so the end user can do revolutionary and unpredictable things like specify "I want to see what this document looked like ten minutes ago".
There would need to be some sort of used defined keyframe functionality to say "I want this version (for now)". I know...I can hit the 'Save' button.
Indeed. Fortunately the idea of a "release" has been around in a version control system for a few decades.
Except he can - and has in the past - run from law enforcement and has shown that he is a risk for flight.
Not in the nearly two years before seeking asylum.
Swedish authorities can't arrest him for interview in the UK or anywhere else that isn't under Swedish law, nor can they have the interview and then file charges afterward to take him away in the UK or anywhere else that isn't under Swedish law. The UK has jurisdiction to arrest in the UK, not Sweden. That's why an interview in the UK or anywhere else is worthless.
This is a straw man. They don't need to arrest him to interview him. They could quite easily have interviewed him and subsequently pressed charges but chose not to. The fact they have not, despite having nearly two years to do so, does nothing to add any credibility to their case.
The politest thing you can say about this case is that it's extremely irregular.
And considering the scandal you mention, I presume the Swedish government is not likely to try it again. Especially not with such a high-profile characters as Assange.
Would you risk your life on it ? Especially given all the other irregularities surrounding this case ?
Assange is not being called to give a "witness statement", he's being arrested in order to be formally interviewed as part of the established criminal process in Swedish law.
Except they can - and have in the past - done these sorts of interviews in other countries.
Assange has had an open invitation to the Swedish authorities since day 1 to interview him in the UK.
I could also ask you a counter-question: Why is he not getting extradited from the UK? Sweden - unlike the UK - has never been an ally of the USA. Not that they are enemies, but they are not active allies. Sweden is far too liberal to be thinking about extraditing Assange to the USA.
How about a NON FLASHABLE bios? - we used to have them. We used to have non shitty programmers that could write code that didn't have to be updated every 6 months.
No we didn't, we had bugs that went unreported and code that didn't get fixed, ever.
You do understand that a single source to define standards of weights and measures is kind of one of the single most KEY parts of Commerce, right? That they were established to make sure that things like "a pound" are defined, and tested and validated.
Rubbish. It's just another tool of a socialist government trying to control the people.
In a true free market, sellers would be able to call anything they wanted to a "pound", and if a buyer wasn't aware of how much each and every seller's "pound" actually was, it would be their own fault.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, exactly the way you described ?
Just substitute Word 2012 (or whatever it's up to) and Windows 7 in for Word 2.0 and Windows 3.1.
So, it's the same as every other bit of software.
Several years down the road, I'd still have the copy of Office bought today.
What ? SSD prices have been crashing for 12 months now.
You can say bad things all you want, you just can't be defamatory.
(For the life of me I cannot understand people who think the point of free speech is so you can hurl abuse at others.)
He is rehashing - in a rather rather pained and circuitous fashion - the "if you lose your internet connectivity you can't do any work" argument.
This point is not entirely without merit, but generally fails to recognise that a) most companies these days can't do a lot of work without an internet connection anyway and b) internet connectivity is usually a lot easier and cheaper to make highly available and redundant that server infrastructure.
If your system is that important, then approaching the problem by keeping spare parts on-site is Doing It Wrong. You need proper redundancy.
On top of that, what vendors won't let you buy spare parts ?
So exactly the same as name-brand hardware then.
This is what's called a non-sequitur.
You'd have to be talking about a machine at least 5 years old.
Almost certainly. The problem is most techies - especially young ones - only look at a handful of specifications (CPU, RAM, # disks) and the sticker price, because they think their time is free.
The overall tax take is at its lowest level in decades across nearly all of the western world and has been in a long term downtrend for about as long.
Like it has in the USA for the last 30 years you mean ? Where ever decreasing taxes have resulted in worker's wages going nowhere while productivity (and corporate profits) has skyrocketed ?
I like theories that agree with reality. Yours doesn't.
Rubbish. The default and recommended RAID schemes for two of the biggest storage vendors on the planet (EMC and NetApp) are both parity RAID.
Indeed, with the rise of SSDs (and their relatively small sizes) nearly eliminating the performance penalty of parity RAID schemes, expect to see its usage grow, not shrink.
Which is why the half of QLD that didn't vote for them is pretty pissed off about the LNPs slash-and-burn policies.
Naked bullshit like this is why no-one takes people like you seriously.
Much like the difference between a plastic seat nailed to a wooden frame with some wheels and a "real car".
On a Linux system maybe. Other systems will build a decent UI around it so the end user can do revolutionary and unpredictable things like specify "I want to see what this document looked like ten minutes ago".
Indeed. Fortunately the idea of a "release" has been around in a version control system for a few decades.
I remember an app on my original Droid two years ago being able to change things like ringtone, vibrate, etc, based on GPS-determined location.
I struggle to believe anyone has "happily" gone from a full vSphere environment to KVM anything.
ESXi free, maybe.
Not in the nearly two years before seeking asylum.
This is a straw man. They don't need to arrest him to interview him. They could quite easily have interviewed him and subsequently pressed charges but chose not to. The fact they have not, despite having nearly two years to do so, does nothing to add any credibility to their case.
The politest thing you can say about this case is that it's extremely irregular.
Why not ?
Would you risk your life on it ? Especially given all the other irregularities surrounding this case ?
Except they can - and have in the past - done these sorts of interviews in other countries.
Assange has had an open invitation to the Swedish authorities since day 1 to interview him in the UK.
Indeed.
No we didn't, we had bugs that went unreported and code that didn't get fixed, ever.
Rubbish. It's just another tool of a socialist government trying to control the people.
In a true free market, sellers would be able to call anything they wanted to a "pound", and if a buyer wasn't aware of how much each and every seller's "pound" actually was, it would be their own fault.