The problem with "listening to your users" is that the vast majority of feedback you get is going to be negative. People don't usually go to the trouble to post "Yea, love it!" or "Awesome redesign!" or "I totally don't care one way or the other!" You can not please everyone. Just look at comments on any Slashdot or DPReview (the most negative place on the internet) article. Sure, sometime you bone it up, but the only way to really tell is to watch your stats and see if you are really losing users or not.
Unlikely, most rootkits would go to great lengths to not impact performance, thus not be noticeable. Norton 360 seems to have been designed with the opposite goal in mind.
So the devices didn't manufacture a Chinese telco named ZTE? That makes this a much more boring story. Guess I have to put my "Rise of the Machines" supplies back in the closet now.
I see the opposite happening. Self driving cars would mean insurance companies can't screw over people of a certain age or with bad driving records. No tickets? What ever will the governments do to replace that revenue? Police layoffs (no need for so many traffic units). Then there are the lawyers! What will all those traffic attorneys do?
Then you should not make blanket statements like that without making it clear you are referring to just YOUR state. Many two-party states the statute is part of a broader wiretapping law and it is a crime.
As for the recording in public, it stood for over 50 years before someone finally managed to get it struck down. Sad but true.
The thing is: you can record conversations... it's not illegal. You just can't use it as evidence in court.
Most of the calls that you would be interested in recording are already being recorded by the other party anyway (like law enforcement), harassing bill collectors, etc.) and that constitutes "consent", so you can record away and know that you CAN use it in court. If anyone, at any time during the conversation, says "this call may be recorded", you have your consent..
Uh, you are so wrong there. Not sure about all states but at least in Illinois, it's a misdemeanor that moves to a felony if the other (uninformed) party is a law enforcement official or state's attorney. Until recently this also covered recording police officers in public. That part, at least, was finally struck down by a federal court.
There have been several studies on this recently and all had the same results: Complaints against officers as well as officers use of force dropped dramatically.
Careful what you wish for. Two party consent would also punish you from recording your interactions with law enforcement, or recording abusive calls that you receive.
I have to do this. I don't know if it's a neurological quirk or what, but if I really want to learn something I "read it, say it, write it, repeat". Just reading it or listening to the lecturer doesn't work for me. Even with a subject I find interesting, I just can't retain it otherwise.
I hope you're right, but often times it's not the technology, best practice, or even what's best for the company that wins; it's how do we grow so our institutional investors who own most of our stock stay happy with us. In the past year I've had several customers, none of them small, ping me about this. If they are asking us about it, it's on their minds. Like I said though, I think this is all a few decades out. The industry is really just starting to get it's bearings and there are still a number of technological challenges to overcome first.
No, the cloud, in the end, will eat most corporate IT. 20-30 years down the road most companies won't have internal IT anymore. Like everything else these days, corporate cost cutting will eventually win out. Sucks but I can't see it playing out any other way. BR Most of the current instability can be attributed to industry growing pains. They will work the kinks out and the weaker companies (by ability,not necessarily size) will fall away.
I do consulting (including a lot of work with Xen) and there are more differences than commonalities between hosting providers and SaaS companies and internal corporate IT (aka enterprise). Vastly different priorities, skillsets, requirements, etc. They truly are different beasts.
What we are seeing is that the hosting companies love Xen because it's cost effective and flexible, while enterprises really don't like the learning curve and management limitations, and almost all of them have VMWare skillsets internally. The only threat to VMWare that I see on the horizon is Hyper-V. If you read between the lines even Citrix is seeing this and positioning their products (XenDesktop/XenApp) to work tightly with Hyper-V.
That's his point. Xen (or the commercial XenServer for that matter) has had very very little enterprise penetration. Even when it is used in the enterprise, it's usually not the primary hypervisor but isolated to a specific application within the company. VMWare currently owns that space and the only short term threat to them is Microsoft and Hyper-V. Service providers, however, love it because their primary concerns usually revolve around costs (thus why you see commodity hardware in a lot of cloud provider data centers vs Cisco/HP/IBM/Dell in the enterprise space).
What about employment taxes? Fuel tax and registration on their evil little shuttles? Taxes on purchases and services? Hell their new campus will generate an additional $32 million in property taxes. They expect to be paying around 56.5 million in property taxes, every year, after the project is completed. Those taxes, btw, are the bread and butter of local governments. Federal income taxes don't mean squat to the local city. In addition the companies that support Apple with products and services will pay taxes on their employees, property, and yes, maybe even their profits.
Please. Traffic accident, "tragic mistake" by SWAT team, drone strike. Dead is dead. But if I don't have to put up with rubber-necking morons on my way to my doom then I'll take it.
Slashdot Mirror
You hear "Uh, your pants are flashing" a lot
I have it turned on. I still sometimes wake up thinking there is a thunder storm in the area because it goes off when the alarm does.
The problem with "listening to your users" is that the vast majority of feedback you get is going to be negative. People don't usually go to the trouble to post "Yea, love it!" or "Awesome redesign!" or "I totally don't care one way or the other!" You can not please everyone. Just look at comments on any Slashdot or DPReview (the most negative place on the internet) article. Sure, sometime you bone it up, but the only way to really tell is to watch your stats and see if you are really losing users or not.
Unlikely, most rootkits would go to great lengths to not impact performance, thus not be noticeable. Norton 360 seems to have been designed with the opposite goal in mind.
So the devices didn't manufacture a Chinese telco named ZTE? That makes this a much more boring story. Guess I have to put my "Rise of the Machines" supplies back in the closet now.
What is a FAQ? I don't see it defined in your post.
Of course not, the government has a huge fucking military!
Silly citizen, governments add revenue sources, they never remove or replace them!
I see the opposite happening. Self driving cars would mean insurance companies can't screw over people of a certain age or with bad driving records. No tickets? What ever will the governments do to replace that revenue? Police layoffs (no need for so many traffic units). Then there are the lawyers! What will all those traffic attorneys do?
No more traffic tickets... ooops... Sorry, going to have to ban those for the sake of our local financ...er...safety or something.
It felt like a version of Star Trek crafted specifically for people with short attention spans and little ability to spot plot holes.
So like every other Star Trek movie ever made then...
Then you should not make blanket statements like that without making it clear you are referring to just YOUR state. Many two-party states the statute is part of a broader wiretapping law and it is a crime.
As for the recording in public, it stood for over 50 years before someone finally managed to get it struck down. Sad but true.
The thing is: you can record conversations... it's not illegal. You just can't use it as evidence in court. Most of the calls that you would be interested in recording are already being recorded by the other party anyway (like law enforcement), harassing bill collectors, etc.) and that constitutes "consent", so you can record away and know that you CAN use it in court. If anyone, at any time during the conversation, says "this call may be recorded", you have your consent..
Uh, you are so wrong there. Not sure about all states but at least in Illinois, it's a misdemeanor that moves to a felony if the other (uninformed) party is a law enforcement official or state's attorney. Until recently this also covered recording police officers in public. That part, at least, was finally struck down by a federal court.
There have been several studies on this recently and all had the same results: Complaints against officers as well as officers use of force dropped dramatically.
Careful what you wish for. Two party consent would also punish you from recording your interactions with law enforcement, or recording abusive calls that you receive.
I have to do this. I don't know if it's a neurological quirk or what, but if I really want to learn something I "read it, say it, write it, repeat". Just reading it or listening to the lecturer doesn't work for me. Even with a subject I find interesting, I just can't retain it otherwise.
I hope you're right, but often times it's not the technology, best practice, or even what's best for the company that wins; it's how do we grow so our institutional investors who own most of our stock stay happy with us. In the past year I've had several customers, none of them small, ping me about this. If they are asking us about it, it's on their minds. Like I said though, I think this is all a few decades out. The industry is really just starting to get it's bearings and there are still a number of technological challenges to overcome first.
No, the cloud, in the end, will eat most corporate IT. 20-30 years down the road most companies won't have internal IT anymore. Like everything else these days, corporate cost cutting will eventually win out. Sucks but I can't see it playing out any other way.
BR Most of the current instability can be attributed to industry growing pains. They will work the kinks out and the weaker companies (by ability,not necessarily size) will fall away.
I do consulting (including a lot of work with Xen) and there are more differences than commonalities between hosting providers and SaaS companies and internal corporate IT (aka enterprise). Vastly different priorities, skillsets, requirements, etc. They truly are different beasts.
What we are seeing is that the hosting companies love Xen because it's cost effective and flexible, while enterprises really don't like the learning curve and management limitations, and almost all of them have VMWare skillsets internally. The only threat to VMWare that I see on the horizon is Hyper-V. If you read between the lines even Citrix is seeing this and positioning their products (XenDesktop/XenApp) to work tightly with Hyper-V.
You don't really want to use that as your metric do you? HP doesn't have the best track record picking winners.
Xen (which the ISV be loving!)
That's his point. Xen (or the commercial XenServer for that matter) has had very very little enterprise penetration. Even when it is used in the enterprise, it's usually not the primary hypervisor but isolated to a specific application within the company. VMWare currently owns that space and the only short term threat to them is Microsoft and Hyper-V. Service providers, however, love it because their primary concerns usually revolve around costs (thus why you see commodity hardware in a lot of cloud provider data centers vs Cisco/HP/IBM/Dell in the enterprise space).
Last time I checked, $56,500,000.00 > $0.00
What about employment taxes? Fuel tax and registration on their evil little shuttles? Taxes on purchases and services? Hell their new campus will generate an additional $32 million in property taxes. They expect to be paying around 56.5 million in property taxes, every year, after the project is completed. Those taxes, btw, are the bread and butter of local governments. Federal income taxes don't mean squat to the local city. In addition the companies that support Apple with products and services will pay taxes on their employees, property, and yes, maybe even their profits.
Please. Traffic accident, "tragic mistake" by SWAT team, drone strike. Dead is dead. But if I don't have to put up with rubber-necking morons on my way to my doom then I'll take it.
I'm all for anything that removes the driver from the equation as much as possible.