So, Microsoft finally does something no geek could object to...
I see what you did there. You tried to insert a faulty premise to support your argument. Any geek worth the title understands that any encryption technology that can not be vetted is, by definition, not trustworthy. So this latest PR stunt by Microsoft is just that, a PR stunt.
Solar is great for micro/local-level offsets in particularly sunny places
So having exactly that as part of a national energy policy is not viable why, exactly? Oh, wait... you cited some "expert" on why Germany's renewable energy policy is such a "disaster". Too bad your "expert", one Ryan Carlyle, an engineer employed in (drum roll, please)...the petroleum industry. Puh-lease.
The fact of the matter is that the technology commonly being deployed in Germany is a resounding success. Is it yet an economical replacement for fossil-fuel generated electricity? No, but then the key word is "yet". As fossil fuels become more expensive (due to both production and carbon mitigation costs) solar (small local installations) looks better and better. Only an idiot (or a petroleum industry whore) would refuse to recognize this trend.
Really?
Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved. Don't look to them for a solution to energy. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing and let industry develop viable solutions.
Alright up to the last sentence. The effectiveness of an unfettered "free market" is a myth. Get that part right, at least. The mess that is the current nuclear power industry world-wide is the result of that "industry developing viable solutions". Yes, I said mess. Far from the cost-effective solution it is always billed as, and beset with fundamental safety issues stemming directly from the profit-driven desire to circumvent "expensive regulation". Not saying that nuclear doesn't have it's place, but it damn sure will never be what it needs to be if left to the vagaries of the mythical free market.
People here want solar. Like the article mentions, there was a vote this week to raise monthly costs of solar users here in AZ. The public utility wanted an increase of $50 - $100 per month and spent $3.7 million on an advertising and lobbying campaign (in addition to the money they always contribute to the entirely-Republican-staffed committee that regulates them). After the vote, regulators approved a $5 increase per month.
So..., in typical self-hating-conservative denial fashion, they convince themselves that they're not gay because the only fucked their constituents in the ass "a little bit".
POTS supplies its own power. So now insead one one connection worki g you need two connections. VoIP data and some ki d of power, and they have to both be working at the same time.
BTW the cheapest VoIP provider if you are just trying to hold onto a number is callcentric at $3.95/mo incl 911 and pay per minute.
Vitelity - $1.49 per month. Yes, e911 is extra but if you're just "holding onto the number" who needs e911?
Not necessarily so, when it comes to IP. There are codecs that rival, or even exceed the audio quality of a POTS call. Also, never heard of "comfort noise"?
Mobile phones though? Yeah, not so much.
Incorrect. Once upon a time, yes, all phone lines led back to a "central office" which, of course, had stand-by generators. Not so these days and the points where digital backhauls are broken out to the pairs of copper that provide POTS to customer premise are often far from the CO. No generators live in those huts. Only batteries.
We all spend our Thanksgiving with family and friends, giving thanks, watching football, etc. and not playing into the infinitely cynical hands of the retailers. I don't give a flying fuck about what killer deal Wal-Mart is offering to 20 "lucky customers" tomorrow. I really don't. Why do you?
How does adding a virtual machine (and another OS copy) in between the OS and the server program improve hardware utilization?
Ummm.... Because most servers running natively on dedicated hardware are coasting most of the time? You don't really understand virtualization, do you.
Very true. But CEOs are the last people you should expect to realize this.
Because they have no business knowledge either?;-)
No. They have plenty of "business knowledge", but then I expect that you already know that. What they commonly lack, however, is an appreciation for how "all that computer stuff" works, including how much it costs to a proper job of: gathering requirements, design, infrastructure build out, coding, etc. If all you're looking at is the cost per head that can produce n lines per day, without any regard for the quality of that work, the youngsters look like a real bargain.
No it does not, and that is perhaps the greatest failing of modern western medicine; it's utter failure in helping patients and their families address these situations properly. Yes, there are exceptions, WA and OR, as noted, and everywhere else where the easing of terminal suffering is often performed with a nudge and wink. By and large, however, "do whatever you can for him/her" is the plea, and most times the answer is not what the patient and his/her family really need to hear.
No, it's always been a liberal vs conservative issue, because liberals passionately hate anything that's successful without the government being involved.
[citation needed]
Take your time. We'll wait...
/sarcasm
I have to put up with rubes and their mobile phones in restaurants and stores, sharing with everyone within earshot their most personal, and almost always painfully banal, conversations. Please do not subject me to that for hours on end in an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet.
For good or bad (and yes, there's some of both), virtualization is the single biggest change. It is central to our infrastructure. It drives many, if not most, of our other infrastructure design decisions. I could write paragraphs on the importance of integration and interoperability when it comes to (for example) storage or networking, but let it suffice to say that it is a markedly different landscape than that of 2003.
Uhm..., no? Yes? Maybe? What is your point?
Personally, I despise Cisco for their heavy handed business practices. They lost my business a long time ago, but from the "what's good for the U.S. economy, they do still count. So it sucks, hard, to see our government's misguided policies affect them, not to mention just about every other U.S. tech company with an international market.
Who missed the payment to that prick Rockefeller? Come on guys. You had one job - buy off enough Congressmen and Senators so we don't have to worry about this net neutrality crap. Now we're going to have to double his fee and go through all the political theater so he can save face.
Anything three people can do well, takes the government thousands of people and millions of dollars to really fuck it up. And people believe that government is and will be our savior.
Hope (and change) springs eternal!
Straw man much? "Three people" did not build a replacement for healthcare.gov. Get that part right, at least. Then, oh please, stop throwing up the same bullshit, government is always bad meme. If I want that level of ass-hattery, I can go to Fox News. Now, I'm not saying that bureaucracy didn't play a big part in healthcare.gov being pretty much stillborn. Hell, I think the whole Affordable Care Act was a mistake. I'd much rather have seen some lean and mean operation that can deliver health care coverage with a minimum of admin overhead and which has huge buying power. Something like, OMG, Medicare! That's right. Medicare.
Nothing has changed because basic human nature is the same. This is the way it will always be.
Really...
So "human nature" has not changed, ever, in the history of our species? That's a remarkably grim (not to mention) view of humanity and it's potential. BTW, your metaphors don't work either. We are not sheep, or wolves, though I'll admit that the comparison are, at times, tempting. We have capabilities far beyond what those instinct driven animals possess. To suggest that we do not is just absurd.
This is a "slippery slope argument" and therefore invalid. Just because something nefarious could happen in the future does not mean it will and does not mean it will not be stopped before it happens
Your argument proposes that nothing nefarious has yet happened and is, therefore, invalid. To argue that it "might" not happen, in the face of recent events, is a fools errand.
Ask your customers how they feel about losing my business because of your creepy and intrusive technology. Unless there's an easy to activate STFU button, I will take my business elsewhere.
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Really...
Then why the fuck are they still doing it?
So, Microsoft finally does something no geek could object to...
I see what you did there. You tried to insert a faulty premise to support your argument. Any geek worth the title understands that any encryption technology that can not be vetted is, by definition, not trustworthy. So this latest PR stunt by Microsoft is just that, a PR stunt.
If he filled up his thermos with water from the bathroom sink, would that be theft as well?
Damn right! Especially if it was a "whites only" sink.
Solar is great for micro/local-level offsets in particularly sunny places
So having exactly that as part of a national energy policy is not viable why, exactly? Oh, wait... you cited some "expert" on why Germany's renewable energy policy is such a "disaster". Too bad your "expert", one Ryan Carlyle, an engineer employed in (drum roll, please) ...the petroleum industry. Puh-lease.
The fact of the matter is that the technology commonly being deployed in Germany is a resounding success. Is it yet an economical replacement for fossil-fuel generated electricity? No, but then the key word is "yet". As fossil fuels become more expensive (due to both production and carbon mitigation costs) solar (small local installations) looks better and better. Only an idiot (or a petroleum industry whore) would refuse to recognize this trend.
Really? Because the story more or less proves (inspite of its hate mongering) that Viable wind and viable Solar can spring up with out Government picking winners.
There are at least 12 companies working on Micro and Mini Nuclear plants, some of which can be trucked to a city, set into semi-buried location and trucked out again when their fuel or life is exhausted.
The clowns in Congress can't even keep the streets paved. Don't look to them for a solution to energy. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing and let industry develop viable solutions.
Alright up to the last sentence. The effectiveness of an unfettered "free market" is a myth. Get that part right, at least. The mess that is the current nuclear power industry world-wide is the result of that "industry developing viable solutions". Yes, I said mess. Far from the cost-effective solution it is always billed as, and beset with fundamental safety issues stemming directly from the profit-driven desire to circumvent "expensive regulation". Not saying that nuclear doesn't have it's place, but it damn sure will never be what it needs to be if left to the vagaries of the mythical free market.
People here want solar. Like the article mentions, there was a vote this week to raise monthly costs of solar users here in AZ. The public utility wanted an increase of $50 - $100 per month and spent $3.7 million on an advertising and lobbying campaign (in addition to the money they always contribute to the entirely-Republican-staffed committee that regulates them). After the vote, regulators approved a $5 increase per month.
So..., in typical self-hating-conservative denial fashion, they convince themselves that they're not gay because the only fucked their constituents in the ass "a little bit".
POTS supplies its own power. So now insead one one connection worki g you need two connections. VoIP data and some ki d of power, and they have to both be working at the same time.
BTW the cheapest VoIP provider if you are just trying to hold onto a number is callcentric at $3.95/mo incl 911 and pay per minute.
Vitelity - $1.49 per month. Yes, e911 is extra but if you're just "holding onto the number" who needs e911?
Not necessarily so, when it comes to IP. There are codecs that rival, or even exceed the audio quality of a POTS call. Also, never heard of "comfort noise"?
Mobile phones though? Yeah, not so much.
Incorrect. Once upon a time, yes, all phone lines led back to a "central office" which, of course, had stand-by generators. Not so these days and the points where digital backhauls are broken out to the pairs of copper that provide POTS to customer premise are often far from the CO. No generators live in those huts. Only batteries.
We all spend our Thanksgiving with family and friends, giving thanks, watching football, etc. and not playing into the infinitely cynical hands of the retailers. I don't give a flying fuck about what killer deal Wal-Mart is offering to 20 "lucky customers" tomorrow. I really don't. Why do you?
How does adding a virtual machine (and another OS copy) in between the OS and the server program improve hardware utilization?
Ummm.... Because most servers running natively on dedicated hardware are coasting most of the time? You don't really understand virtualization, do you.
Because they have no business knowledge either? ;-)
No. They have plenty of "business knowledge", but then I expect that you already know that. What they commonly lack, however, is an appreciation for how "all that computer stuff" works, including how much it costs to a proper job of: gathering requirements, design, infrastructure build out, coding, etc. If all you're looking at is the cost per head that can produce n lines per day, without any regard for the quality of that work, the youngsters look like a real bargain.
No it does not, and that is perhaps the greatest failing of modern western medicine; it's utter failure in helping patients and their families address these situations properly. Yes, there are exceptions, WA and OR, as noted, and everywhere else where the easing of terminal suffering is often performed with a nudge and wink. By and large, however, "do whatever you can for him/her" is the plea, and most times the answer is not what the patient and his/her family really need to hear.
No, it's always been a liberal vs conservative issue, because liberals passionately hate anything that's successful without the government being involved.
[citation needed]
Take your time. We'll wait...
/sarcasm
Thank you!
Mr Obama knows exactly what is going on and has known this was coming for years.
[citation needed]
I have to put up with rubes and their mobile phones in restaurants and stores, sharing with everyone within earshot their most personal, and almost always painfully banal, conversations. Please do not subject me to that for hours on end in an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet.
For good or bad (and yes, there's some of both), virtualization is the single biggest change. It is central to our infrastructure. It drives many, if not most, of our other infrastructure design decisions. I could write paragraphs on the importance of integration and interoperability when it comes to (for example) storage or networking, but let it suffice to say that it is a markedly different landscape than that of 2003.
No. It was using components provided by a company call Cyberdyne Systems.
Things like SSL are possibly out of question as NSA has corrupted the root certs.
[citation needed]
Uhm..., no? Yes? Maybe? What is your point?
Personally, I despise Cisco for their heavy handed business practices. They lost my business a long time ago, but from the "what's good for the U.S. economy, they do still count. So it sucks, hard, to see our government's misguided policies affect them, not to mention just about every other U.S. tech company with an international market.
Who missed the payment to that prick Rockefeller? Come on guys. You had one job - buy off enough Congressmen and Senators so we don't have to worry about this net neutrality crap. Now we're going to have to double his fee and go through all the political theater so he can save face.
Anything three people can do well, takes the government thousands of people and millions of dollars to really fuck it up. And people believe that government is and will be our savior.
Hope (and change) springs eternal!
Straw man much? "Three people" did not build a replacement for healthcare.gov. Get that part right, at least. Then, oh please, stop throwing up the same bullshit, government is always bad meme. If I want that level of ass-hattery, I can go to Fox News. Now, I'm not saying that bureaucracy didn't play a big part in healthcare.gov being pretty much stillborn. Hell, I think the whole Affordable Care Act was a mistake. I'd much rather have seen some lean and mean operation that can deliver health care coverage with a minimum of admin overhead and which has huge buying power. Something like, OMG, Medicare! That's right. Medicare.
Nothing has changed because basic human nature is the same. This is the way it will always be.
Really...
So "human nature" has not changed, ever, in the history of our species? That's a remarkably grim (not to mention) view of humanity and it's potential. BTW, your metaphors don't work either. We are not sheep, or wolves, though I'll admit that the comparison are, at times, tempting. We have capabilities far beyond what those instinct driven animals possess. To suggest that we do not is just absurd.
This is a "slippery slope argument" and therefore invalid. Just because something nefarious could happen in the future does not mean it will and does not mean it will not be stopped before it happens
Your argument proposes that nothing nefarious has yet happened and is, therefore, invalid. To argue that it "might" not happen, in the face of recent events, is a fools errand.
Ask your customers how they feel about losing my business because of your creepy and intrusive technology. Unless there's an easy to activate STFU button, I will take my business elsewhere.