I was going to go in for: the Olympics, and by extension their television coverage, are going to become ever-more-commercialized bullshit that will eventually become completely unwatchable. But perhaps this alternate vision will come true instead.
Don't you find predicting the present to be boring?
I'd still try to get money back. Joyent continued to support the service for some time with no comment - the implication being that they would continue to do so.
Personally, I'd try to figure out a reasonable value for the service you received and just aim for the remainder...
Now I know we don't actually READ the articles around here, but did you even skim the summary?
"If you're not using any vendor-specific APIs, then it's safe to say the experience you get on either Amazon or Microsoft will be roughly the same,' he writes. 'But that means you're also not developing an app that necessarily takes advantage of all possible cloud capabilities—not just add-ons, but scalability"
Not only that, but I have some experience with the amazon cloud. We're talking about virtual MACHINES, right? At some point it's just some [virtual] intel box that loads up some OS and fires up whatever software you've installed. One intel box is a whole lot like another - or it should be. Performance of various systems is gonna vary, but that's what you choose a vendor and a config for.
The company I got the amazon experience with had no real intention of leaving, but we went to some effort to abstract out their particulars, anyway - it's just the right thing to do.
Seems to me that if configuring your VMs and setting up your cloud are really complex and/or hard, then you have either: * Selected the wrong cloud provider * Failed to hire the right IT folks * Got some really boring custom software (because that's what you should probably be spending your time on) * More than one of those...
There are a few degrees difference between Phoenix and Calgary. Most of the planet comes to mind.
The SF bay area is super expensive, but is about as progressive as you could want. If you find the right place to live, then the weather can be great, too. I loved Redwood City. Mountain View was nice. San Bruno sucked.
The LA area is plenty warm and has lots of jobs. San Diego - inland - can stay plenty hot. There are a whole lot of options.
I hate to break it to you, but Google Drive doesn't actually copy the docs down to your machine; the files you see are just metadata that references the file in Google Docs.
Ugh. Silly me - since files I drop in there are mirrored on gdrive, I assumed that the documents they dropped there work the same way.
There are plenty of ways to get data out of google, of course, but it's good to know that the way I thought it was happening is not. I'll have to look into something a little less automagical...
I should note the same issue affects Google... this is not unique to Steam.
I have local copies of all my google docs, thanks to google drive. And they're backed up (using time machine), so even if google nuked 'em before removing access, I'd still have copies.
In reality, the shift from hard drives (HDDs) to SSDs has thus far been confined to the upper end of the PC market.
In reality, 100% of the smartphones, tablets, many/all? of the ultrabooks, and many notebooks now ship with SSDs. In a short time, virtually all laptops will ship with SSDs. Disks will go the way of tapes. You'll be able to get them, but the practical uses will be few.
In reality, I imagine that more computers (yeah, I count smart phones and tablets) are now sold with SSDs than disks.
As to your actual question about accelerators - I have no idea. I went solid state a couple of years ago and won't be going back.
...with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.
The grammar is a little ambiguous, isn't it? Is that copying, republishing, distributing or preparing (derivative works) or is it (copying), (republishing), (distributing) or (preparing derivative) (works)
And what is republishing? Is that publishing something again, or is it republishing in the sense of retweeting - which is to say an automated process of publishing the same thing over again?
My guess is that they are trying to stop scrapers, and that's perfectly reasonable. I wonder: do you agree with that? I think that trying to keep the poster from posting elsewhere is unreasonable, and I presume you agree with that...
In any case, as I said,/. has editors (in theory), and they should have chased this down for us.
FTFA: Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.
Do you think that content means advertising the thing in question or do you think it means the html content of the page.
I think it means the latter, and I can post the same thing wherever I want.
I think it means that scrapers are disallowed.
Relax. This story sucks. The editors should have followed up with CraigsList and posted an informed story.
Seems to me that if you're describing the rest of your career as "25 long years" that you're doing something really wrong. But you and I have made some really different life choices. Me: no degree (dropped out), 2nd house, no kids. But we're both senior developers.
My last job got insourced (h1b's), which was the right thing for them to do - the work was crap and dull and generic - not much need for clever coding. So it was time to move on to something more interesting. But that's what I've done for the past decade or so - new job every 2-4 years, mostly leaving on very good terms and mostly enjoying the new job.
But I like coding. I really like it. I've disappointed previous employers when I told them I would in no way consider doing management. Tech lead is fine, but management is right out. I don't have the temperament, interest, or training. Do you?
Why would you consider keeping with programming? Why would you want to manage at a place where the politics sucks?
It seems to me that you really have two decisions to make: What do you really want to do? Where do you really want to do it?
My advice is that you probably should not keep doing what you're doing. 25 years is a long time to do something you don't enjoy. And certainly you should leave your current workplace.
I disagree. Not knowing the radius of the earth to the point of not being able to visualize 10000km, which would essentially mean not knowing whether it's closer to 1000 or to 100000km (as with any better precision than that you already surpass the articles') isn't trivia for me.
trivia plural of trivia Noun: Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.
I'll bite. What practical/important use do you have for that piece of information?
'cause I don't have any, and I never have. Though, as it turns out, I used to work (in a data/IT support role) on a spacecraft. I guess you could say that I used to work indirectly for NASA.
So I think you're right - most folks would probably guess that the earth is between 1000-100000km in radius.
But I still don't know (or care, frankly) if it is more or less than 10Kkm. And stating distances in radii was a nice touch.
After all, what kind of arbitrary unit is a kilometer when talking about orbital distances?
But the name on the deed is the conglomerate. Want to buy my property? Join the conglomerate, pay me $300 million, do whatever you want with the property, and enjoy the same property taxes we've had since the conglomerate was formed in 1988.
Hang on - maybe we're talking across each other.
If it's a business, then the current assessed value should be taxed. In which case the conglomerate gets taxed the right amount and can figure out how to pay for it. Doesn't matter.
If it's a personal residence, then it is owned by a person or persons. It must be (in my ideal head) the primary residence of 1 person or 1 couple. Any change to the deed (other than survival of one of the people in the couple - does that even cause a deed change?) should cause an assessment.
If a residential property is not owned by a person/couple, or is not lived in by that person/couple, then it is an investment property - which qualifies it under the same rules as a business. It should be assessed every year (or however often).
Slashdot Mirror
It's hard to measure the value of private companies, but we should not ignore the fact that they do exists.
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I was going to go in for: the Olympics, and by extension their television coverage, are going to become ever-more-commercialized bullshit that will eventually become completely unwatchable. But perhaps this alternate vision will come true instead.
Don't you find predicting the present to be boring?
I'd still try to get money back. Joyent continued to support the service for some time with no comment - the implication being that they would continue to do so.
Personally, I'd try to figure out a reasonable value for the service you received and just aim for the remainder...
Now I know we don't actually READ the articles around here, but did you even skim the summary?
"If you're not using any vendor-specific APIs, then it's safe to say the experience you get on either Amazon or Microsoft will be roughly the same,' he writes. 'But that means you're also not developing an app that necessarily takes advantage of all possible cloud capabilities—not just add-ons, but scalability"
Not only that, but I have some experience with the amazon cloud. We're talking about virtual MACHINES, right? At some point it's just some [virtual] intel box that loads up some OS and fires up whatever software you've installed. One intel box is a whole lot like another - or it should be. Performance of various systems is gonna vary, but that's what you choose a vendor and a config for.
The company I got the amazon experience with had no real intention of leaving, but we went to some effort to abstract out their particulars, anyway - it's just the right thing to do.
Seems to me that if configuring your VMs and setting up your cloud are really complex and/or hard, then you have either:
* Selected the wrong cloud provider
* Failed to hire the right IT folks
* Got some really boring custom software (because that's what you should probably be spending your time on)
* More than one of those...
Please google "Cloud Abstraction Layer".
Here; I'll help you out:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+abstraction+layer
... You trust your underfunded, overworked, and undereducated (for security issues) IT department more?
What country/large organization is refusing to use their products without this stamp on it?
There are a few degrees difference between Phoenix and Calgary. Most of the planet comes to mind.
The SF bay area is super expensive, but is about as progressive as you could want. If you find the right place to live, then the weather can be great, too. I loved Redwood City. Mountain View was nice. San Bruno sucked.
The LA area is plenty warm and has lots of jobs. San Diego - inland - can stay plenty hot. There are a whole lot of options.
I hate to break it to you, but Google Drive doesn't actually copy the docs down to your machine; the files you see are just metadata that references the file in Google Docs.
Ugh. Silly me - since files I drop in there are mirrored on gdrive, I assumed that the documents they dropped there work the same way.
There are plenty of ways to get data out of google, of course, but it's good to know that the way I thought it was happening is not. I'll have to look into something a little less automagical...
Thanks for pointing out my error.
I should note the same issue affects Google... this is not unique to Steam.
I have local copies of all my google docs, thanks to google drive. And they're backed up (using time machine), so even if google nuked 'em before removing access, I'd still have copies.
In reality, the shift from hard drives (HDDs) to SSDs has thus far been confined to the upper end of the PC market.
In reality, 100% of the smartphones, tablets, many/all? of the ultrabooks, and many notebooks now ship with SSDs. In a short time, virtually all laptops will ship with SSDs.
Disks will go the way of tapes. You'll be able to get them, but the practical uses will be few.
In reality, I imagine that more computers (yeah, I count smart phones and tablets) are now sold with SSDs than disks.
As to your actual question about accelerators - I have no idea. I went solid state a couple of years ago and won't be going back.
Hear hear!
Time to bring back OS/2!
Thanks. I googled for it and was lost.
...with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.
The grammar is a little ambiguous, isn't it? Is that
copying, republishing, distributing or preparing (derivative works)
or is it
(copying), (republishing), (distributing) or (preparing derivative) (works)
And what is republishing? Is that publishing something again, or is it republishing in the sense of retweeting - which is to say an automated process of publishing the same thing over again?
My guess is that they are trying to stop scrapers, and that's perfectly reasonable. I wonder: do you agree with that? I think that trying to keep the poster from posting elsewhere is unreasonable, and I presume you agree with that...
In any case, as I said, /. has editors (in theory), and they should have chased this down for us.
That's why I always wear jeans and a mock turtleneck.
I kid. I really don't wanna be the CEO of any company.
FTFA:
Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.
Do you think that content means advertising the thing in question or do you think it means the html content of the page.
I think it means the latter, and I can post the same thing wherever I want.
I think it means that scrapers are disallowed.
Relax. This story sucks. The editors should have followed up with CraigsList and posted an informed story.
Not in the US - be law enforcement, I don't think. Certainly it seems to me like that would violate the 5th.
For air travel, who knows. But I certainly have never revealed passwords (nor would I, I should think).
No, it's a sign that /. needs editors.
Seems to me that if you're describing the rest of your career as "25 long years" that you're doing something really wrong. But you and I have made some really different life choices. Me: no degree (dropped out), 2nd house, no kids. But we're both senior developers.
My last job got insourced (h1b's), which was the right thing for them to do - the work was crap and dull and generic - not much need for clever coding. So it was time to move on to something more interesting. But that's what I've done for the past decade or so - new job every 2-4 years, mostly leaving on very good terms and mostly enjoying the new job.
But I like coding. I really like it. I've disappointed previous employers when I told them I would in no way consider doing management. Tech lead is fine, but management is right out. I don't have the temperament, interest, or training. Do you?
Why would you consider keeping with programming? Why would you want to manage at a place where the politics sucks?
It seems to me that you really have two decisions to make:
What do you really want to do?
Where do you really want to do it?
My advice is that you probably should not keep doing what you're doing. 25 years is a long time to do something you don't enjoy. And certainly you should leave your current workplace.
dangerous precedents are being set that this type of warfare is without consequences
Story: Overrated.
Editors: Useless.
I disagree. Not knowing the radius of the earth to the point of not being able to visualize 10000km, which would essentially mean not knowing whether it's closer to 1000 or to 100000km (as with any better precision than that you already surpass the articles') isn't trivia for me.
trivia plural of trivia
Noun:
Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.
I'll bite. What practical/important use do you have for that piece of information?
'cause I don't have any, and I never have. Though, as it turns out, I used to work (in a data/IT support role) on a spacecraft. I guess you could say that I used to work indirectly for NASA.
So I think you're right - most folks would probably guess that the earth is between 1000-100000km in radius.
But I still don't know (or care, frankly) if it is more or less than 10Kkm. And stating distances in radii was a nice touch.
After all, what kind of arbitrary unit is a kilometer when talking about orbital distances?
piloted their Solar Impulse airplane over 515 miles to their destination in Rabat, Morocco... Furthermore, after almost 20 hours of flight
Ownership is easy. It's the name on the deed.
But the name on the deed is the conglomerate. Want to buy my property? Join the conglomerate, pay me $300 million, do whatever you want with the property, and enjoy the same property taxes we've had since the conglomerate was formed in 1988.
Hang on - maybe we're talking across each other.
If it's a business, then the current assessed value should be taxed. In which case the conglomerate gets taxed the right amount and can figure out how to pay for it. Doesn't matter.
If it's a personal residence, then it is owned by a person or persons. It must be (in my ideal head) the primary residence of 1 person or 1 couple. Any change to the deed (other than survival of one of the people in the couple - does that even cause a deed change?) should cause an assessment.
If a residential property is not owned by a person/couple, or is not lived in by that person/couple, then it is an investment property - which qualifies it under the same rules as a business. It should be assessed every year (or however often).
If you think people should reap the benefits of real estate appreciation without paying the costs, then you are in favor of privatizing profits and socializing losses.
What benefits are those?