DevOps is a job description that merges development and system/database/cloud administration into one job. This is why we have security holes galore in modern software and web applications. One person can't learn it all, code it all, and secure it all.
Everyone, listen to me, don't play the game. Just freeze your credit at the big three and call it it good. It is not a big deal to unfreeze for a period of time or unfreeze for a specific creditor.
These guys created a solution to a problem that consumers didn't ask for and now that it is a security disaster, they want you to pay them for protection and cleaning up their mess.
The credit reporting agencies have a track record of incompetence and apathy toward the people who have their identity stolen, (spoken from experience).
Freeze your credit, do it now. It takes about 20 minutes to do all three. Make sure you print all the screens, write down your PINS, and file them away safely.
College Board: We heard that the BioEngineering field is really growing, we should have a program? College President: Great, we lead the world here at UofAwesome. What's Bioengineering? Dean: I don't know, but it sounds trendy, maybe we can get lot's of students to signup for a trendy sounding course. Profs: What's Bioengineering? Dean: Just Google it and create a 4-year program. It'll be amazing, I have total faith in you!
Graduating BioEngineers: We can't find jobs in this new trendy field.
Just like BE, AI is going to be the next bubble when everyone realizes the limitations of the current implementation. And... if you don't believe me, just as Siri or Alexa, they can help you understand the limitations.
The old adage is true, competition is good, but too much competition is bad and leads to market fragmentation.
Listen up you Weekend Harvard MBAs. NOT EVERY COMPANY NEEDS THEIR OWN STREAMING SERVICE, YOUR CONTENT ISN'T THAT VALUABLE. You don't have to fragment the market just to justify your existence and try to show everyone how you saved a penny by not letting Netflix rob you blind.
Seriously, negotiate a long term deal with one of the following and go play golf or mine cryptocurrency:
Netflix Amazon Hulu YouTube
Done...
New flash! people can only watch one show at a time. We realize your catalog is Huuuuggggeee, but remember, only one show at a time, and people pretty much want the NEW shows.
If everyone in the USA watched a show simultaneously, that would be 300 million shows. That is the max.
Remember, no matter how you slice it, Amazon and YouTube own the streaming cloud, so you are paying either Amazon or YouTube indirectly at some point. Even Netflix hosts in the Amazon cloud.
So stop it already, pick a streaming partner and go play nice. Stop the fragmentation before it bites you in the ass.
I wish we could have an agreement that lists, arrays, elements, and anything put into a list, table, query, associative array, start with an index value of either 0 or 1.
I don't care just pick one, and don't use two different standards in the same environment.
Hi... I have all six devices: 1. iPhone 2. iPad 3. Yoga Laptop Running Win10 4. MacBook Pro 5. Chromebook 6. Multibook Desktop WIndows or OS/X
Out of all the devices, the Chromebook is the most useless device. It reminds me of the modern dumb terminal that needs to connect back to the mainframe to get any work done. I seldom use it.
If you are just a consumer user: surf the web, use web services, and have a good WIFI connection, the Chromebook could be the device for you. If you are planning to create, possibly make a video, music, program, or do anything CPU intensive, it is a lost cause. Working as a school consultant, the #1 request I get every year is how do to shoot and edit video on a Chromebook, short answer is, you don't.
Ranking my computing devices in order of usefulness: 1. Desktop 2. MacBook Pro (love the retina display and trackpad, best, period, not in love with the keyboard) 3. Yoga (Whoever designed this keyboard should never be allowed to design again, trackpad ok, lacking useful ports, touchscreen and tablet mode are mostly useless) 4. iPad (I can use it as a computer in a pinch, it is just harder) 5. iPhone (Like an iPad only smaller) 6. Chromebook (In your right hand you have nothing, in your left hand you have a Chromebook, the Chromebook is slightly better than nothing)
The only time I ever use the Chromebook is when I have to train others how to use a Chromebook. Usually the limitations of the device surface quickly.
I am not sure that is an accurate statement, most of the Republican areas are rural (by USA landmass) and served by DSL. Think farmers and small town American. States like North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc....
No problem, just remove the SSD and errr.... yeah I guess that won't work.
Good job Johnny Ives, making everything so flat the it is irreparable.
Johnny, we don't like you and want you to go away. Please let someone who understands computing, upgrading, and repairability design the computers, ok buddy? We are willing to sacrifice the 2 mm in increased width for a card edge connector and a real fan that can cool the machine.
As a person that works a provisioning, VPN, and remote setup, this really complicates my life. This was the last backdoor I had to all the CISCO gear. If anyone knows of another backdoor, could you please message me. What a pain, not customers are going to have to give me their password.
If water is going to rise as predicted, the Internet infrastructure may be the least of the problems, especially if New York City is under sea level, unless the subway is converted into an underwater subway system.
Not so much destroying unions, only the unions that give money to the opposition. The Police and Fire Unions get special carve-outs and opt-outs for Right to Work laws. Teacher unions, no so much. The process is very similar to gerrymandering.
Union Power was more than balanced by the Citizens United ruling, where corporations could be considered persons for the sake of contributing to a political campaigns.
Power can not and should not be this lopsided in America, or you end up in a cut throat race to the bottom for anyone that is not at the C-level in a company.
I want to live in a country where people can be dealt with fairly and not just at a "sector competitive" or "industry competitive" rate of compensation and benefits. "Industry Competitive" is code for our competitor figured out a way to cheat their employees, so we are going to cheat you in the same way.
Do we really want to live in the hunger games?
Do we want to continually "dummy down" and have the "race to the bottom".
Walmart has already achieved this feat and I recommend spending a few hours there just to get a feel for the bottom. Look at store quality, talk to the employees, ask for help, maybe have lunch at the local restaurant.
America may not be awash in newfound oil, but the USA is a wealthy country that keeps creating wealth. Take an American company like Apple, awash in cash. The CEO gets $3 million base salary + $9 million for meeting his numbers for a total of $12 million. An Apple Genius (often a millenial) makes $15/hr and may get $10 off an Apple device for their perk.
In your judgement, is Tim Cook is worth the same as 400 Apple Genius in terms of contribution to the company and wealth creation?
In the USA wealth is not evenly distributed and any gains flow to the top 10% as seen in Tim Cooks performance bonus.
How to fix it?
Last I checked, the economy is booming and in the USA there are more jobs than workers available. It is time to use your social media skills to get organized and get a fair wage for your contribution, unless of course you think you are worth 400x (times) less than the CEO of your company.
Who should organize?
Apple Geniuses Big Box Store Works (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, Best Buy, Walmart, SamClub, Costco, Target) Fast Food Workers (Taco Bell, McD;s, BK) Dollar Store Workers Convenience Store Works Department Store Workers
Everyone has to do it together, or it won't work. No single company can have a competitive advantage with cheaper labor. However, most CEO's in a competitive sector like fast food can't raise wages without raising prices or cutting staff, because their competitors can still run cheaper. The entire segment needs to band together and demand higher wages/benefits.
Millennials! Pay Attention. There has never been an better time to organize and get your piece of the American pie, or you can just settle for the crumbs. The question you have to ask yourself is what value do you contribute to the company in which you work?
This worked at the turn of the century for AutoWorkers and it could clearly work again.
Apple is really lagging as a VR development platform which needs a substantial video card. This EGPU will allow Apple to finally get into the VR development world. You can't get the following specs in a skinny laptop with a sad little fan and butterfly keyboard:
Newegg Recommended VR PC Specs:
i5-6500 or Greater CPU NVIDIA GTX 980 or AMD R9 390 GPU or greater 16GB+ RAM SSD (PCIe NVMe recommended) Check out our Newegg approved VR systems
Official Oculus Rift Recommended Specs:
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 or greater 8GB RAM or more HDMI 1.3 and 3x USB 3.0 plus 1x USB 2.0
Here is my bit of wisdom. Get everything running locally in a cloud container framework like Heroku or whichever on you prefer. When and if you get to the point where you need disaster recovery or more scalability you can shift everything to the cloud until you recovery or at peak periods load balance to the cloud.
The cloud is not magic. It just means that other systems administrators are running your servers and they do screw up quite often.
If you are really serious about running in the cloud and having high reliability, let me introduce chaos monkey https://github.com/Netflix/cha...
This is what Netflix uses to make sure that they can keep running with Amazon availability zones, instances, or whatever they call them disappear. I believe that the day that Amazon accidentally took all of it's storage offline and killed half their cloud, that Netflix survived as was able to keep going.
Slashdot Mirror
DevOps is a job description that merges development and system/database/cloud administration into one job. This is why we have security holes galore in modern software and web applications. One person can't learn it all, code it all, and secure it all.
Everyone, listen to me, don't play the game.
Just freeze your credit at the big three and call it it good.
It is not a big deal to unfreeze for a period of time or unfreeze for a specific creditor.
These guys created a solution to a problem that consumers didn't ask for and now that it is a security disaster, they want you to pay them for protection and cleaning up their mess.
The credit reporting agencies have a track record of incompetence and apathy toward the people who have their identity stolen, (spoken from experience).
Freeze your credit, do it now. It takes about 20 minutes to do all three. Make sure you print all the screens, write down your PINS, and file them away safely.
College Board: We heard that the BioEngineering field is really growing, we should have a program?
College President: Great, we lead the world here at UofAwesome. What's Bioengineering?
Dean: I don't know, but it sounds trendy, maybe we can get lot's of students to signup for a trendy sounding course.
Profs: What's Bioengineering?
Dean: Just Google it and create a 4-year program. It'll be amazing, I have total faith in you!
Graduating BioEngineers: We can't find jobs in this new trendy field.
Just like BE, AI is going to be the next bubble when everyone realizes the limitations of the current implementation. And... if you don't believe me, just as Siri or Alexa, they can help you understand the limitations.
Tesla wanted to produce an autonomous car factory.
How did that end up?
The abandonment of expensive robots and tents setup in the parking lot with a lot of humans busy building cars.
While I applaud the effort, don't oversell the abilities of autonomous anything.
The old adage is true, competition is good, but too much competition is bad and leads to market fragmentation.
Listen up you Weekend Harvard MBAs.
NOT EVERY COMPANY NEEDS THEIR OWN STREAMING SERVICE, YOUR CONTENT ISN'T THAT VALUABLE. You don't have to fragment the market just to justify your existence and try to show everyone how you saved a penny by not letting Netflix rob you blind.
Seriously, negotiate a long term deal with one of the following and go play golf or mine cryptocurrency:
Netflix
Amazon
Hulu
YouTube
Done...
New flash! people can only watch one show at a time. We realize your catalog is Huuuuggggeee, but remember, only one show at a time, and people pretty much want the NEW shows.
If everyone in the USA watched a show simultaneously, that would be 300 million shows. That is the max.
Remember, no matter how you slice it, Amazon and YouTube own the streaming cloud, so you are paying either Amazon or YouTube indirectly at some point. Even Netflix hosts in the Amazon cloud.
So stop it already, pick a streaming partner and go play nice. Stop the fragmentation before it bites you in the ass.
I feel ya brother.. the off by one still gets me 30 years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wish we could have an agreement that lists, arrays, elements, and anything put into a list, table, query, associative array, start with an index value of either 0 or 1.
I don't care just pick one, and don't use two different standards in the same environment.
Hi...
I have all six devices:
1. iPhone
2. iPad
3. Yoga Laptop Running Win10
4. MacBook Pro
5. Chromebook
6. Multibook Desktop WIndows or OS/X
Out of all the devices, the Chromebook is the most useless device. It reminds me of the modern dumb terminal that needs to connect back to the mainframe to get any work done. I seldom use it.
If you are just a consumer user: surf the web, use web services, and have a good WIFI connection, the Chromebook could be the device for you. If you are planning to create, possibly make a video, music, program, or do anything CPU intensive, it is a lost cause. Working as a school consultant, the #1 request I get every year is how do to shoot and edit video on a Chromebook, short answer is, you don't.
Ranking my computing devices in order of usefulness:
1. Desktop
2. MacBook Pro (love the retina display and trackpad, best, period, not in love with the keyboard)
3. Yoga (Whoever designed this keyboard should never be allowed to design again, trackpad ok, lacking useful ports, touchscreen and tablet mode are mostly useless)
4. iPad (I can use it as a computer in a pinch, it is just harder)
5. iPhone (Like an iPad only smaller)
6. Chromebook (In your right hand you have nothing, in your left hand you have a Chromebook, the Chromebook is slightly better than nothing)
The only time I ever use the Chromebook is when I have to train others how to use a Chromebook. Usually the limitations of the device surface quickly.
Almost same, money + vacation days. :) You are never gaining or losing as much as at the time when you are negotiating.
I am not sure that is an accurate statement, most of the Republican areas are rural (by USA landmass) and served by DSL. Think farmers and small town American. States like North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc....
Trump tried to help rural Republicans with broadband, but only has so much power:
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
I think taxpayers have plowed something like $4B into rural broadband, it is time for Ajit to call Comcast and Charter and ask for a refund. $2B each.
Or, municipalities could just grow their own, oh wait, they can't, every time they try Comcast and Charter sue them.
No problem, just remove the SSD and errr.... yeah I guess that won't work.
Good job Johnny Ives, making everything so flat the it is irreparable.
Johnny, we don't like you and want you to go away. Please let someone who understands computing, upgrading, and repairability design the computers, ok buddy? We are willing to sacrifice the 2 mm in increased width for a card edge connector and a real fan that can cool the machine.
As a person that works a provisioning, VPN, and remote setup, this really complicates my life. This was the last backdoor I had to all the CISCO gear. If anyone knows of another backdoor, could you please message me. What a pain, not customers are going to have to give me their password.
Which Thinkpad Model are you running as a Hackintosh?
It is a mess over at Amazon today. Orders are not being processed due to a massive DDoS and workers are walking out all over.
They should have called it D-DAY instead of Prime Day. I tried to place an order repeatedly for some items and kept getting this error...
https://drive.google.com/open?...
Looks like Jeff got a kick in the nuts today.
If water is going to rise as predicted, the Internet infrastructure may be the least of the problems, especially if New York City is under sea level, unless the subway is converted into an underwater subway system.
Not so much destroying unions, only the unions that give money to the opposition. The Police and Fire Unions get special carve-outs and opt-outs for Right to Work laws. Teacher unions, no so much. The process is very similar to gerrymandering.
Union Power was more than balanced by the Citizens United ruling, where corporations could be considered persons for the sake of contributing to a political campaigns.
Power can not and should not be this lopsided in America, or you end up in a cut throat race to the bottom for anyone that is not at the C-level in a company.
I want to live in a country where people can be dealt with fairly and not just at a "sector competitive" or "industry competitive" rate of compensation and benefits. "Industry Competitive" is code for our competitor figured out a way to cheat their employees, so we are going to cheat you in the same way.
Do we really want to live in the hunger games?
Do we want to continually "dummy down" and have the "race to the bottom".
Walmart has already achieved this feat and I recommend spending a few hours there just to get a feel for the bottom. Look at store quality, talk to the employees, ask for help, maybe have lunch at the local restaurant.
There is no unrest in China, nor will there ever be.
America may not be awash in newfound oil, but the USA is a wealthy country that keeps creating wealth. Take an American company like Apple, awash in cash. The CEO gets $3 million base salary + $9 million for meeting his numbers for a total of $12 million. An Apple Genius (often a millenial) makes $15/hr and may get $10 off an Apple device for their perk.
In your judgement, is Tim Cook is worth the same as 400 Apple Genius in terms of contribution to the company and wealth creation?
In the USA wealth is not evenly distributed and any gains flow to the top 10% as seen in Tim Cooks performance bonus.
How to fix it?
Last I checked, the economy is booming and in the USA there are more jobs than workers available. It is time to use your social media skills to get organized and get a fair wage for your contribution, unless of course you think you are worth 400x (times) less than the CEO of your company.
Who should organize?
Apple Geniuses
Big Box Store Works (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, Best Buy, Walmart, SamClub, Costco, Target)
Fast Food Workers (Taco Bell, McD;s, BK)
Dollar Store Workers
Convenience Store Works
Department Store Workers
Everyone has to do it together, or it won't work. No single company can have a competitive advantage with cheaper labor. However, most CEO's in a competitive sector like fast food can't raise wages without raising prices or cutting staff, because their competitors can still run cheaper. The entire segment needs to band together and demand higher wages/benefits.
Millennials! Pay Attention. There has never been an better time to organize and get your piece of the American pie, or you can just settle for the crumbs.
The question you have to ask yourself is what value do you contribute to the company in which you work?
This worked at the turn of the century for AutoWorkers and it could clearly work again.
https://youtu.be/vrw_WRhUfog
Windows 10 Finally Killed them all, grinding them to a halt.
Apple is really lagging as a VR development platform which needs a substantial video card. This EGPU will allow Apple to finally get into the VR development world. You can't get the following specs in a skinny laptop with a sad little fan and butterfly keyboard:
Newegg Recommended VR PC Specs:
i5-6500 or Greater CPU
NVIDIA GTX 980 or AMD R9 390 GPU or greater
16GB+ RAM
SSD (PCIe NVMe recommended)
Check out our Newegg approved VR systems
Official Oculus Rift Recommended Specs:
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 or greater
8GB RAM or more
HDMI 1.3 and 3x USB 3.0 plus 1x USB 2.0
Here is my bit of wisdom. Get everything running locally in a cloud container framework like Heroku or whichever on you prefer. When and if you get to the point where you need disaster recovery or more scalability you can shift everything to the cloud until you recovery or at peak periods load balance to the cloud.
The cloud is not magic. It just means that other systems administrators are running your servers and they do screw up quite often.
If you are really serious about running in the cloud and having high reliability, let me introduce chaos monkey
https://github.com/Netflix/cha...
This is what Netflix uses to make sure that they can keep running with Amazon availability zones, instances, or whatever they call them disappear. I believe that the day that Amazon accidentally took all of it's storage offline and killed half their cloud, that Netflix survived as was able to keep going.
Read this for amusement: https://aws.amazon.com/message...
Ooops, we deleted AWS....
It is amazing to me that Wells Fargo stock still keeps going up, even after the fines, the stock price is almost back to the midpoint.
ZTE is going down! Where will the Dollar Store source their phones from now?
I am still bitter about the headphone jack and even if Apple puts 50 cameras on it, I am going to pass.
In my opinion, Apple's bad design decisions since 2015 are only getting worse and worse.
Johnny Ive's needs to be demoted.