I'm not so sure about that. It felt like a pretty safe bet to short Tesla stock while Elon Musk was going though his public pot smoking phase where was bad mouthing the SEC on Twitter every day.
Yeah, the strength of the smell really varies on how long it was sitting on the lot.
I got my new Mini Cooper customized straight from the factory, and damn smell of the plastics off-gassing was enough to give you a headache for the first few weeks I owned it. I ended up having to leave my windows open in my garage to let it dissipate. First world problems, I guess.
New Yorkers are used to this... the MTA complains that they are on the brink of bankruptcy every time they ask for a toll increase. It helps them get the budget passed, I guess.
Doesn't the MTA have their budget? They have quite the little government funded transportation empire now, which extends into rural New York and Connecticut thanks to Metro North.
If we've learned anything from recent Sci-Fi movies, it's that you can send Matt Damon anywhere and he'll somehow survive.
Perhaps we should send him to Antarctica and have him make that place habitable before moving to Mars. Unlike Bill Nye, I think that people would miss having Matt Damon around if we lost him in space.
I think that they needed to compete with Red Hat, which has been offering 10 years of support on their OS releases since RHEL 5.
Even that doesn't seem to be enough time for some organizations, who are still using RHEL5 on their servers and friggin Windows XP on their client systems.
I think that they would survive a small to moderate recession OK, as most of their profits are coming from AWS from customers with longer term contracts. There is a reason they give those nice discounts for reserved instances, since they're basically money in the bank for them.
I'd think that they could probably cut back on the retail side and milk that cash cow until the recession was over.
I'd imagine that even after he dies/retires, the company will continue to be a behemoth for another decade or so until finally getting out innovated and eventually becoming the next Sears.
I mean, look at Apple... almost nothing new or really innovative has come out of that company since Steve Jobs died, but they're are still printing money selling products with slightly better specs than last year's model.
Why would they sue CentOS? Red Hat has owned the management of it since 2014, which means that IBM owns it now.
In theory, they could shut down the project the day after the sale gets approved. Realistically, though, someone would just fork the project and call it "NotBlueHat Linux" or something. It's 99% open source, the only part that's really copyrighted is the logos.
Yeah, we really need a new technology company to shake things up. The Apple/Amazon/Google/Facebook/Microsoft tech Oligopoly all seem to be in a race to copy each other's small product improvements, but none of them are really trying to do something genuinely innovative at the moment.
Sure, but there always seems to be "that guy" in every organization with no social life who's willing to work any time to keep things running. You rarely see that guy get fired unless they do something REALLY stupid.
They are often revered as a minor workplace deity, and are usually safe unless the entire company goes bust.
I think that I've been "that guy" in a few places that I've worked at, until I came to the sudden realization that's just not worth it. Extra work often just even more busy work. Sometimes you just need to let some "deadlines" slip and force management to staff up to help with the increasing workloads.
No offense dude, but did you ever think that you're not in a long term romantic relationship because you haven't given yourself enough free time to actually HAVE one?
I've successfully pulled off holding together a relationship while working 60 hours a week, but 84? Hell no. I would be too tired to go outside and do anything after a week like that.
You realize that the guys who actually leave at 5 PM every day are usually the first ones to get laid off, right? If the boss man doesn't see you slaving away in your cube while he's walking out, it means that you're likely expendable in his mind.
I know that's not a big deal at the moment because the economy is pretty good and there are other tech jobs out there, but when the job market goes to shit you really need to more conscious as to how your work ethic looks to other people.
Yeah, people have been promising flying cars since the 1950's. They look great on the cover of Popular Science magazine, but will probably never be practical in real life until we have self driving AI perfected. Of course, the robots will probably become self aware and take over by then.
Yeah, you have to wonder what's worse... setting a default longer password that's alphanumeric, or letting the customer set the password on an Internet facing device to "password" or "abc123".
Yeah, I wish California the best of luck with that one. What are they going to do, have inspectors check every piece of IoT garbage that gets imported from China to make sure that it complies with their password policy?
So, basically, he doesn't care what platform they are on, as long as they have Office 365 subscriptions and are running applications hosted on Azure. Gotcha.
The problem with that logic is that when the process changes and the automation breaks, now you're not going to have the employee around to quickly update the automation. Someone else is going to have to figure out how the automation works, or they'll have to go back to the manual process. Either way, you probably lost more in productivity gains than it would have taken to pay that person's salary.
When you get someone who's smart enough to automate themselves out of a job, firing them is the wrong move. Instead, you promote them to be the "automation specialist", and give them a new task to automate. Once they have that job automated, move 'em onto the next one once they've fully automated and documented everything. If you work at a place like where I work, it will NEVER happen.
Perhaps Netflix should follow the example of the Slashdot story right above it, and run their servers on solar power as well?
I'm not sure if Amazon is going to like that plan, though, considering that AWS hosts most of the Netflix Infrastructure.
But, hey... Google and Facebook are going the renewable route as well for their data centers, so some fellow hosting platform peer pressure might not hurt.
You have a point there. I was an Android user before I was an iOS user, and one of the reasons I made the switch is because I could use most of the Google services I was accustomed to on my iOS device.
If Apple starts shooting my search requests over to Bing (and let's face it, Microsoft is the only other company with a search engine would would be willing to write Apple a ten digit check), because of a licensing spat, that's going to become one less reason I'll be willing to get a shiny new iPhone once they come out.
I would like to think that Facebook would have a special lockout at the database level on high priority accounts like celebrities.They probably completely block the ability to remove them from the UI or a remote API call, and would actually require DBA access at the database layer to remove them.
That said, I'm sure that someone at Facebook is now on standby to restore's Mark's Facebook account within seconds if this kid figures out to bypass their safeguards. Dumb move on his part to publicize this.
Of course he is. The keywords from the summary for me were "He has also invested $50 million in encrypted chat app Signal".
He needs to trash WhatsApp in order to get users to switch. He's hoping that lightening strikes twice and that he has another multi billion dollar company on his hands. It probably will not happen, but he's doing what he needs to do to help make it happen.
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I'm not so sure about that. It felt like a pretty safe bet to short Tesla stock while Elon Musk was going though his public pot smoking phase where was bad mouthing the SEC on Twitter every day.
Yeah, the strength of the smell really varies on how long it was sitting on the lot.
I got my new Mini Cooper customized straight from the factory, and damn smell of the plastics off-gassing was enough to give you a headache for the first few weeks I owned it. I ended up having to leave my windows open in my garage to let it dissipate. First world problems, I guess.
New Yorkers are used to this... the MTA complains that they are on the brink of bankruptcy every time they ask for a toll increase. It helps them get the budget passed, I guess.
Doesn't the MTA have their budget? They have quite the little government funded transportation empire now, which extends into rural New York and Connecticut thanks to Metro North.
If we've learned anything from recent Sci-Fi movies, it's that you can send Matt Damon anywhere and he'll somehow survive.
Perhaps we should send him to Antarctica and have him make that place habitable before moving to Mars. Unlike Bill Nye, I think that people would miss having Matt Damon around if we lost him in space.
I think that they needed to compete with Red Hat, which has been offering 10 years of support on their OS releases since RHEL 5.
Even that doesn't seem to be enough time for some organizations, who are still using RHEL5 on their servers and friggin Windows XP on their client systems.
I think that they would survive a small to moderate recession OK, as most of their profits are coming from AWS from customers with longer term contracts. There is a reason they give those nice discounts for reserved instances, since they're basically money in the bank for them.
I'd think that they could probably cut back on the retail side and milk that cash cow until the recession was over.
I'd imagine that even after he dies/retires, the company will continue to be a behemoth for another decade or so until finally getting out innovated and eventually becoming the next Sears.
I mean, look at Apple... almost nothing new or really innovative has come out of that company since Steve Jobs died, but they're are still printing money selling products with slightly better specs than last year's model.
Why would they sue CentOS? Red Hat has owned the management of it since 2014, which means that IBM owns it now.
In theory, they could shut down the project the day after the sale gets approved. Realistically, though, someone would just fork the project and call it "NotBlueHat Linux" or something. It's 99% open source, the only part that's really copyrighted is the logos.
Yeah, we really need a new technology company to shake things up. The Apple/Amazon/Google/Facebook/Microsoft tech Oligopoly all seem to be in a race to copy each other's small product improvements, but none of them are really trying to do something genuinely innovative at the moment.
Sure, but there always seems to be "that guy" in every organization with no social life who's willing to work any time to keep things running. You rarely see that guy get fired unless they do something REALLY stupid.
They are often revered as a minor workplace deity, and are usually safe unless the entire company goes bust.
I think that I've been "that guy" in a few places that I've worked at, until I came to the sudden realization that's just not worth it. Extra work often just even more busy work. Sometimes you just need to let some "deadlines" slip and force management to staff up to help with the increasing workloads.
No offense dude, but did you ever think that you're not in a long term romantic relationship because you haven't given yourself enough free time to actually HAVE one?
I've successfully pulled off holding together a relationship while working 60 hours a week, but 84? Hell no. I would be too tired to go outside and do anything after a week like that.
You realize that the guys who actually leave at 5 PM every day are usually the first ones to get laid off, right? If the boss man doesn't see you slaving away in your cube while he's walking out, it means that you're likely expendable in his mind.
I know that's not a big deal at the moment because the economy is pretty good and there are other tech jobs out there, but when the job market goes to shit you really need to more conscious as to how your work ethic looks to other people.
I figured that most Slashdot users have their CVS receipts e-mailed like I do. I don't want that crap ending up in my car.
Yeah, people have been promising flying cars since the 1950's. They look great on the cover of Popular Science magazine, but will probably never be practical in real life until we have self driving AI perfected. Of course, the robots will probably become self aware and take over by then.
Yeah, you have to wonder what's worse... setting a default longer password that's alphanumeric, or letting the customer set the password on an Internet facing device to "password" or "abc123".
Yeah, I wish California the best of luck with that one. What are they going to do, have inspectors check every piece of IoT garbage that gets imported from China to make sure that it complies with their password policy?
So, basically, he doesn't care what platform they are on, as long as they have Office 365 subscriptions and are running applications hosted on Azure. Gotcha.
So, what's Microsoft's endgame here? A custom branded version of Android with Microsoft extensions? I'm not really seeing a lot of profit in that.
The problem with that logic is that when the process changes and the automation breaks, now you're not going to have the employee around to quickly update the automation. Someone else is going to have to figure out how the automation works, or they'll have to go back to the manual process. Either way, you probably lost more in productivity gains than it would have taken to pay that person's salary.
When you get someone who's smart enough to automate themselves out of a job, firing them is the wrong move. Instead, you promote them to be the "automation specialist", and give them a new task to automate. Once they have that job automated, move 'em onto the next one once they've fully automated and documented everything. If you work at a place like where I work, it will NEVER happen.
Perhaps Netflix should follow the example of the Slashdot story right above it, and run their servers on solar power as well?
I'm not sure if Amazon is going to like that plan, though, considering that AWS hosts most of the Netflix Infrastructure.
But, hey... Google and Facebook are going the renewable route as well for their data centers, so some fellow hosting platform peer pressure might not hurt.
You have a point there. I was an Android user before I was an iOS user, and one of the reasons I made the switch is because I could use most of the Google services I was accustomed to on my iOS device.
If Apple starts shooting my search requests over to Bing (and let's face it, Microsoft is the only other company with a search engine would would be willing to write Apple a ten digit check), because of a licensing spat, that's going to become one less reason I'll be willing to get a shiny new iPhone once they come out.
I would like to think that Facebook would have a special lockout at the database level on high priority accounts like celebrities.They probably completely block the ability to remove them from the UI or a remote API call, and would actually require DBA access at the database layer to remove them.
That said, I'm sure that someone at Facebook is now on standby to restore's Mark's Facebook account within seconds if this kid figures out to bypass their safeguards. Dumb move on his part to publicize this.
Of course he is. The keywords from the summary for me were "He has also invested $50 million in encrypted chat app Signal".
He needs to trash WhatsApp in order to get users to switch. He's hoping that lightening strikes twice and that he has another multi billion dollar company on his hands. It probably will not happen, but he's doing what he needs to do to help make it happen.
Well, for one thing, your phone will stop backing itself up properly once you hit the 5 GB storage limit on the free account.