Have you seen how slow is Sprint's network? Who cares if it's unlimited when your download speed is below 1k/sec!
Where are you at? BFE?
I'm a Sprint user and I have exactly ZERO issues with their service. Downloads aren't a problem (and throughput is MUCH better than 1k/sec). I can even game while tethered to my phone.
Maybe if you come out from inside that faraday cage.
Unlike politics, which actually has the dangerous ability to affect us, how is this random noise from an ages-old culture of shysterism of ANY interest to nerds/geeks/technoliterati culture?
Yeah, maybe there's a "Someone saw Transformers 3. STOOPID LUDDITES!" factor, but come on!
Movie industry execs and telco execs are getting some really FUNKY shit from their drug dealers if they think people have forgotten common skills like...math.
Reminds me of one of our clients.
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They were running an older CRM version that still used direct file access.
Because of this, their backup solution (for which they hadn't bought the live file backup module) would fail every night due to someone in the office leaving the program open.
So they "fixed" it.
6 months down the road they had a server crash and lost everything.
So we're like "Okay, let's roll to backups. There's still data loss, but minimal, a day or so."
Uh. What backups?
Their "fix" had consisted of simply deleting that CRM program's directory from the backups (see: NOT BACKING IT UP) so their backup reports were all nice and pretty.
The latest real backup this company had was over 6 months old.
The company that was in place to handle their IT was out on the curb with smoking ears and a boot-print on the ass shortly afterward.
They're adding stipulations to their credentialing process that REQUIRE hardware vendors to essentially lock out all forms of user choice for alternate OSes on their platform.
So if WidgetCo wants to sell their ARM-Widget 6000 with Windows on there, they have to lock the platform to the point where you CAN'T load the ARM-Widget 6000 with Android or another OS.
Essentially they're forcing hardware vendors to make an irrevocable choice about which market they're going to service instead of allowing them to service any/all of them.
but the diskspace wasted by having the gui software present on disk...[/quote]
My Windows server install weighs in about 40GB total (with all the bells and whistles). That's a whopping 2% of my 2TB array.
Of that, maybe 10% of the space is taken up by GUI components.
So yeah. I'm really going to miss that extra.2% of my disk space.
As for VM space? You're not supposed to be running VMs as huge file repositories. So as long as the VM isn't consuming +90% of the available virtual disk space, so what?
I'm REALLY liking the mindset of the new PR guy for N-Control.
“I can’t worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under. The internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire too."
I'm just glad I didn't have a soda to my mouth.
Nice, blunt honesty in the situation with a schadenfreude-funny quote goes a long way. Kudos Moisés!
You forgot the first rule of a climate crisis situation!
In a climate crisis situation, anything that appears to support your idea that you're in a climate crisis is valid data. Anything that does not is pooh-pooh'ed away! Even if it's working off the same principle!
Not saying that resorting to mischief is ALWAYS the right solution. But in these days of rampant complacency, you sometimes need to resort to something spectacular to draw attention to very real problems. Otherwise, people are just too busy keeping their heads down and their asses covered to give a damn.
And before some shit-for-brains tries to draw a parallel with Anonymous or "Occupy". This was a person pointing out a flaw in a technology and doing it in such a way that it didn't break anything, do any damage (other than to someone's overblown arrogance) or violate any laws.
Essentially this is just going to be an ongoing scam then. One marketing approach fails, they roll onto "Well we're REALLY a *Insert New Scheme* and all of you just misunderstood!"
But hey, a sucker born every minute right?
Cue all the people who now tell me "No no no! You just don't get it!"
Yes. Human pilots can fuck up as easily as anyone else. But in an emergency, I'd rather have a human pilot making the decisions and being in control.
On Airbus vehicles, if the avionics computers crash, the airplane crashes. There's exactly ZERO way to pilot the computer manually in such a failure. Moreover, the avionics system can and does overrule pilot input. So if you get sensor malfunctions like this, even if the pilot is trying desperately to save the plane, the computer can still crash you.
On Boeing, if the avionics computer fails, the pilot at least has a chance of saving the aircraft. You can come up with all the sleepy, crazy, stupid, drug-addled, locked in a bathroom with a stewardess horror scenarios you want.
What would you rather have in a failure scenario? A slim chance or no chance?
No. FanPro has NOT been reprinting a lot of the old books. FanPro stopped being a going concern in BattleTech (or pretty much anything else) after they used FanPro USA as a piggy bank, then when the time came to renew the license, simply removed all the money from FanPro USA and closed up shop, leaving behind developers and other writers/authors who were owed sizable sums of cash.
Catalyst Game Labs are currently the people who have the license from Topps for BattleTech.
There's been a LOT of new material out of CGL in the last several years.
They've only recently completed integrating the Jihad and Dark Age era stuff (that was imposed by Whiz Kids) into the timeline as a congruent whole (as opposed to a couple text blurbs and some very loosely connected novels).
They're just filling in some "cracks" here and there, and then we'll be looking at some completely new development.
Essentially, since the closure of FASA, there have been two main developers on the BattleTech line.
FASA/FanPro/Catalyst: Randall Bills Catalyst (Current): Herbert Beas (Former assistant line developer)
I understand that some environments can be more flexible or more dialed-in to company/user needs with a full time, active development staff doing everything homegrown.
But the talent pool for this sort of thing is woefully limited. I've seen "in-house" development groups come up with some of the nastiest, most byzantine pieces of crap-hackery you could possibly imagine. And there's ZERO planning for what to do when the system reaches obsolescence. And don't give me any crap about how it won't ever happen. It WILL. Then, what's the upgrade path? How do you get the data out? And a million other niggling little things.
There's also the problem of relying on a group of individuals like this. It's essentially a thinly disguised form of vendor lock-in. Save the vendor is a group of your own employees. And what happens if they all up and move on to greener pastures? How do you maintain the system? CAN it be maintained? Can it be extended? Can ANYTHING be done with the system without bringing it crashing down?
How do you know Joe WannaSecureMyJob didn't back-door the system?
Yes, a lot of these are concerns you face with vendors too. But with vendor approaches, if you dislike the direction the project is heading, you can kill it, cut out the vendor, and move on to something you find more acceptable.
Not saying it CAN'T work. Just that the level of care you have to take when risk managing is different from what you need with outside vendors.
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Have you seen how slow is Sprint's network? Who cares if it's unlimited when your download speed is below 1k/sec!
Where are you at? BFE?
I'm a Sprint user and I have exactly ZERO issues with their service. Downloads aren't a problem (and throughput is MUCH better than 1k/sec). I can even game while tethered to my phone.
Maybe if you come out from inside that faraday cage.
Unlike politics, which actually has the dangerous ability to affect us, how is this random noise from an ages-old culture of shysterism of ANY interest to nerds/geeks/technoliterati culture?
Yeah, maybe there's a "Someone saw Transformers 3. STOOPID LUDDITES!" factor, but come on!
Movie industry execs and telco execs are getting some really FUNKY shit from their drug dealers if they think people have forgotten common skills like...math.
They were running an older CRM version that still used direct file access.
Because of this, their backup solution (for which they hadn't bought the live file backup module) would fail every night due to someone in the office leaving the program open.
So they "fixed" it.
6 months down the road they had a server crash and lost everything.
So we're like "Okay, let's roll to backups. There's still data loss, but minimal, a day or so."
Uh. What backups?
Their "fix" had consisted of simply deleting that CRM program's directory from the backups (see: NOT BACKING IT UP) so their backup reports were all nice and pretty.
The latest real backup this company had was over 6 months old.
The company that was in place to handle their IT was out on the curb with smoking ears and a boot-print on the ass shortly afterward.
Okay,
Hockey
Poutine
"Eh?"
"Zed"
Mounties
and a territory full of angry francophone separatists.
Not sure if that fulfills the requirements for a "culture".
He will lead RIM as it attempts to get bought by someone for the IP and then forgotten like every other IT relic out there.
It might actually stand a chance.
Honestly, if they're in violation, take them to court. Have their access revoked THERE. Via court order.
Doing "Shoot first and ask questions later" is ridiculous.
The thing is, you have to go to court simply to RESTORE your access. Not to protect it in the first place.
In the mean time, you could be down for days or weeks.
That's just it shill-boy.
They're not "simply going to another market".
They're adding stipulations to their credentialing process that REQUIRE hardware vendors to essentially lock out all forms of user choice for alternate OSes on their platform.
So if WidgetCo wants to sell their ARM-Widget 6000 with Windows on there, they have to lock the platform to the point where you CAN'T load the ARM-Widget 6000 with Android or another OS.
Essentially they're forcing hardware vendors to make an irrevocable choice about which market they're going to service instead of allowing them to service any/all of them.
That's quite clearly abuse.
but the diskspace wasted by having the gui software present on disk...[/quote]
My Windows server install weighs in about 40GB total (with all the bells and whistles). That's a whopping 2% of my 2TB array.
Of that, maybe 10% of the space is taken up by GUI components.
So yeah. I'm really going to miss that extra .2% of my disk space.
As for VM space? You're not supposed to be running VMs as huge file repositories. So as long as the VM isn't consuming +90% of the available virtual disk space, so what?
Jeeze.
Why not just call it what it is?
An ass-pull number.
My point exactly. It appeals to the dumbest common denominator.
Okay, recreational air/water cooling overclocks? I can dig that.
They're sustainable overclocks, something you can run the system at every day.
Throwing a liquid nitrogen pot on top of the CPU and getting some stupid-high speed while destroying the chip, the board, and most of the components?
Yeah. Not sustainable, and not impressive beyond a half second or so of "gee whiz".
The fact is, they took it and used it.
Do you argue about whether some kid who steals and eats a candy bar would have paid for it?
I understand the reasoning behind "Every copy is a lost sale" unprovable.
However, someone pirating software that they would have had to otherwise buy to get the use of is still benefiting from the the software.
So saying that "Piracy yields NO losses of sales" is also unprovable.
No, 100% can be attributed to him being a dumb fuck.
Just that a subset of that is attributable to dumb fuck + 'roids
I'm REALLY liking the mindset of the new PR guy for N-Control.
I'm just glad I didn't have a soda to my mouth.
Nice, blunt honesty in the situation with a schadenfreude-funny quote goes a long way. Kudos Moisés!
No man! You *just don't "get it"*!
You forgot the first rule of a climate crisis situation!
In a climate crisis situation, anything that appears to support your idea that you're in a climate crisis is valid data. Anything that does not is pooh-pooh'ed away! Even if it's working off the same principle!
A-freakin'-MEN!
Not saying that resorting to mischief is ALWAYS the right solution. But in these days of rampant complacency, you sometimes need to resort to something spectacular to draw attention to very real problems. Otherwise, people are just too busy keeping their heads down and their asses covered to give a damn.
And before some shit-for-brains tries to draw a parallel with Anonymous or "Occupy". This was a person pointing out a flaw in a technology and doing it in such a way that it didn't break anything, do any damage (other than to someone's overblown arrogance) or violate any laws.
Essentially this is just going to be an ongoing scam then. One marketing approach fails, they roll onto "Well we're REALLY a *Insert New Scheme* and all of you just misunderstood!"
But hey, a sucker born every minute right?
Cue all the people who now tell me "No no no! You just don't get it!"
Yes. Human pilots can fuck up as easily as anyone else.
But in an emergency, I'd rather have a human pilot making the decisions and being in control.
On Airbus vehicles, if the avionics computers crash, the airplane crashes. There's exactly ZERO way to pilot the computer manually in such a failure.
Moreover, the avionics system can and does overrule pilot input. So if you get sensor malfunctions like this, even if the pilot is trying desperately to save the plane, the computer can still crash you.
On Boeing, if the avionics computer fails, the pilot at least has a chance of saving the aircraft.
You can come up with all the sleepy, crazy, stupid, drug-addled, locked in a bathroom with a stewardess horror scenarios you want.
What would you rather have in a failure scenario? A slim chance or no chance?
Uh no. You're thinking Starfleet Battles.
FASA produced a Star Trek RPG.
No. FanPro has NOT been reprinting a lot of the old books. FanPro stopped being a going concern in BattleTech (or pretty much anything else) after they used FanPro USA as a piggy bank, then when the time came to renew the license, simply removed all the money from FanPro USA and closed up shop, leaving behind developers and other writers/authors who were owed sizable sums of cash.
Catalyst Game Labs are currently the people who have the license from Topps for BattleTech.
http://www.battletech.com/
http://www.catalystgamelabs.com/
There's been a LOT of new material out of CGL in the last several years.
They've only recently completed integrating the Jihad and Dark Age era stuff (that was imposed by Whiz Kids) into the timeline as a congruent whole (as opposed to a couple text blurbs and some very loosely connected novels).
They're just filling in some "cracks" here and there, and then we'll be looking at some completely new development.
Essentially, since the closure of FASA, there have been two main developers on the BattleTech line.
FASA/FanPro/Catalyst: Randall Bills
Catalyst (Current): Herbert Beas (Former assistant line developer)
Because gadgets don't vote for officials who approve budgets for things like the NTSB.
I understand that some environments can be more flexible or more dialed-in to company/user needs with a full time, active development staff doing everything homegrown.
But the talent pool for this sort of thing is woefully limited. I've seen "in-house" development groups come up with some of the nastiest, most byzantine pieces of crap-hackery you could possibly imagine. And there's ZERO planning for what to do when the system reaches obsolescence. And don't give me any crap about how it won't ever happen. It WILL. Then, what's the upgrade path? How do you get the data out? And a million other niggling little things.
There's also the problem of relying on a group of individuals like this. It's essentially a thinly disguised form of vendor lock-in. Save the vendor is a group of your own employees. And what happens if they all up and move on to greener pastures? How do you maintain the system? CAN it be maintained? Can it be extended? Can ANYTHING be done with the system without bringing it crashing down?
How do you know Joe WannaSecureMyJob didn't back-door the system?
Yes, a lot of these are concerns you face with vendors too. But with vendor approaches, if you dislike the direction the project is heading, you can kill it, cut out the vendor, and move on to something you find more acceptable.
Not saying it CAN'T work. Just that the level of care you have to take when risk managing is different from what you need with outside vendors.