Nothing will ever be worse than the first day of the release of WoW classic. There weren't queues yet, so people would mob a server, crash it, then mob the next open server, crash it, etc.
It took them 6 months to deploy enough server capacity.
See, this is more like me. I logged for a while last night, did some dailys, went to bed. I'll probably play tonight, but I've got to file some bills as well, so it probably won't be until late. I'd probably play a lot this weekend, but I've got family coming, so probably not.
You can enjoy playing it without having to be a slave to it.
The problem is, it's already everywhere. Every time you use virtual machines, san's, offsite backups, whatever, you're working in magic cloud land as far as the phbs are concerned.
Since that's all it takes, just take the amorphous buzzwordy shit and turn it around on them, and sell them on the "local cloud" a wholly incoherent idea if you really understand the point, but one that the absurdly vague nature of the buzzword makes completely plausible.
I did that earlier this year, and got myself a nice new blade server, and the bosses all got to congratulate themselves on how cutting edge they are. It's a great scam...Even better, other business units are getting in on it, and we're setting up redundancies across the WAN, so it actually is "The Cloud"
That's commonly allowed in all sorts of business environments, and is perfectly allowable under the corporate policies where I work.
Unless you commonly send secret and or proprietary information through your email (unencrypted) I'm not sure what the problem is? Not much of a security breach, unless you have tons of password information lying around in your email.
Well, it's not like they've tried strapping explosives to themselves and walking into a big crowd of people, so he doesn't want to give them that idea.
People honestly don't get how bad pollution has been in other parts of the world. In the US you very seldom get air quality of 200, more less 500, which is unprecedented.
China is making a very conscious decision to not worry about it until they've got their economic shit together, but this kind of thing is very expensive to deal with in the long run. Like a lot of things (including their demographic issues) they're hoping to get developed enough to handle it before the internal costs catch up.
The problem with relativist ethics is that everything becomes relative. Murder? Relative. Theft? Relative. You need to be able to say, "In all cases, this thing is wrong" so when a Manson comes along, you can deal with him without going out and holding a vote.
The biggest problem with absolutist ethics is that people start trying to apply them to things like polyamory...Why is this a moral issue? Is anyone getting hurt? Being lied to? Being stolen from? No? Not a moral issue.
Whenever you start trying to lay down an absolute ethical theory, this exact objection comes up. Every society has something that they do, that other societies disapprove of, and so no one can agree on an absolute standard, so they fall back to cultural relativism, which is just as shitty as individual relativism.
Traditional religion (in its self-appointed role as "Arbiter of concrete moral standards") always screws this stuff up, so people become disenchanted with the idea of a bunch of stuck up assholes telling them that eating pork makes them sinners.
But the fact that religion doesn't do it right, doesn't mean it's the wrong answer. Relativism sucks, and it doesn't reflect anything meaningful in human interaction...There are no ethically relativistic societies out there.
The thing that enrages me is that each branch is allowed to implement their own security standards, and then allowed to choose their own contractors, etc, etc, etc.
I hate the whole "run the government like a business" mentality, but in this sense, that's absolutely what should happen. No corporation would let it's business units all set their own standards, buy non-standard equipment, etc, etc. They also need to bring everything in-house.
As long as it doesn't break, then they're not going to sink a lot of money into security and contingency. Hard for management to justify a big expenditure without any obvious problem.
When it does break, then you'll see some meaningful change.
I am two minds about this: one, it's definitely time for someone to put down standards. But two, the government has consistently failed to get its own shit in order, which can only be attributed to crappy bureaucracy.
It's pretty much all of a piece, I suppose.
A simple fix would be to pass a law that lets people sue companies more easily for problems related to their crappy computer infrastructure...Let the market take care of the rest.
We "clouded" one of our primary apps, and it's been hilariously error-fraught. Given our spending on networking gear (and redundant networking gear for a backup), we could have brought the whole thing in house.
No skin off my nose (actually made my life a lot easier to get rid of the app), but I think the whole thing was a bad decision based on short-term savings.
Yea, I hate the cloud for pretty much the same sort of reason...People use it as an excuse to poorly define their hardware needs, assuming the magical cloud has infinite capacity.
When something in cloud-land breaks, the managers get this look on their face like santa claus just died. It's priceless.
You can also use it to prove points that are irrelevant to your givens. Since (in deduction) your premises are all assumed to be true, if you can use them to form a logical contradiction, then you've basically divided by zero in that modality, and everything is equally valid.
It's an interesting article giving us the perspective of one of the many faceless writers who provide the many essays and papers that cheaters love to outsource to the Internet to get their high grades.
It is sad to see that there are many people who treat their post-secondary education as another mountain to cross in a taxi, instead of participating in the planning and preparation of the hiking trip and enjoying the learning experience(s) that they might otherwise miss during the hike across said metaphorical mountain.
It's especially sad because the incompetent and ESL students that the author specifically mentioned are the ones who would stand to gain the most if they tried to get help through avenues other than hiring someone to write their non-technical papers for them.
At my school, there tends to be a huge overlap between the two. The students still don't understand the concepts despite being tutored by competent students speaking the same languages as said problem students. Plus, for some reason, there are a lot of foreign students who decided to come to my school (which is known for its technical and math-related programs) for the English department and such.
Maybe they were aiming to transfer departments after the first year? That rarely seems to happen and you can just see them struggling to keep up in their studies when they have no grasp of the English language at all.
But I think the bigger reason that they are a big portion of the writer's customer base is because in the US (I'm assuming they're students in US schools), foreign students (non-citizens) who come to the schools do not get the benefits of financial aid and the like by law and thus, have to pay the full tuition (high school to post-secondary) and thus they can afford to sprinkle a little money here and there to people who are willing to do their homework for them so that they can take their prestigious post-secondary degree and use it to get a job anywhere.
Maybe not all of them can afford paper writers but here at my school there is a sub-school/department that the students refer to as the Indian Department because the only people in its programs are international students from India doing graduate-level degrees, and they're all incompetent at what they do (with the occasional super-competent guy every couple of years), and they're there only because they bring the school a lot of money.
How these incompetent guys manage to maintain 4.0 GPAs while failing miserably in the undergrad level courses that they take is a mystery to everyone here (they take the undergrad level courses because they had a choice between those courses or the harder graduate level courses). Now I'm thinking that there might be an overlap with the third rich kids demographic.
You need to work on your use of the passive voice. (You are hit by wall of text. Roll 10d4 damage, save for half.)
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Maybe two wrongs DO make a right!
Smart of them to pick on Drudge. Deep pockets, widely despised.
Nothing will ever be worse than the first day of the release of WoW classic. There weren't queues yet, so people would mob a server, crash it, then mob the next open server, crash it, etc.
It took them 6 months to deploy enough server capacity.
See, this is more like me. I logged for a while last night, did some dailys, went to bed. I'll probably play tonight, but I've got to file some bills as well, so it probably won't be until late. I'd probably play a lot this weekend, but I've got family coming, so probably not.
You can enjoy playing it without having to be a slave to it.
The problem is, it's already everywhere. Every time you use virtual machines, san's, offsite backups, whatever, you're working in magic cloud land as far as the phbs are concerned.
Since that's all it takes, just take the amorphous buzzwordy shit and turn it around on them, and sell them on the "local cloud" a wholly incoherent idea if you really understand the point, but one that the absurdly vague nature of the buzzword makes completely plausible.
I did that earlier this year, and got myself a nice new blade server, and the bosses all got to congratulate themselves on how cutting edge they are. It's a great scam...Even better, other business units are getting in on it, and we're setting up redundancies across the WAN, so it actually is "The Cloud"
Little do they know it's only thanks to my magic rock that the country is reasonably terror-free.
How do I know it's magic? Well, I've had it on the shelf for years, and not one terrorist has come within 100 miles of my house.
If slashdot was stupid enough to reprint the full text of an article instead of simply linking to it, then they'd deserve to be sued.
Instead they post links to blogs that write crappy opinions off of original articles, which they then link at the bottom of their page (sometimes).
I honestly have no sympathy here. The internet works by hyperlinking. Anything else is an unfair attempt to drive traffic using someone elses content.
Same with us. CC info or passwords or bank information or customer personal information...You can be fired for any of those.
Without that stuff, who cares?
That's commonly allowed in all sorts of business environments, and is perfectly allowable under the corporate policies where I work.
Unless you commonly send secret and or proprietary information through your email (unencrypted) I'm not sure what the problem is? Not much of a security breach, unless you have tons of password information lying around in your email.
Well, it's not like they've tried strapping explosives to themselves and walking into a big crowd of people, so he doesn't want to give them that idea.
I did that too. It was a shitty plastic one, and I'd long since forgotten about it. Zipped right through though.
I only look like a terrorist in England though (I look pretty irish), so I very seldom get stopped for anything.
People honestly don't get how bad pollution has been in other parts of the world. In the US you very seldom get air quality of 200, more less 500, which is unprecedented.
China is making a very conscious decision to not worry about it until they've got their economic shit together, but this kind of thing is very expensive to deal with in the long run. Like a lot of things (including their demographic issues) they're hoping to get developed enough to handle it before the internal costs catch up.
You both understand that the Clean Air/Clean Water Act made it possible for common citizens to sue over pollution, right? Citation
I assume that you also realize, that, before the act, you couldn't, right?
By the same token, those of us smart enough to buy houses we could afford have had to pleasure of watching everyone who didn't get government aid.
The problem with relativist ethics is that everything becomes relative. Murder? Relative. Theft? Relative. You need to be able to say, "In all cases, this thing is wrong" so when a Manson comes along, you can deal with him without going out and holding a vote.
The biggest problem with absolutist ethics is that people start trying to apply them to things like polyamory...Why is this a moral issue? Is anyone getting hurt? Being lied to? Being stolen from? No? Not a moral issue.
Whenever you start trying to lay down an absolute ethical theory, this exact objection comes up. Every society has something that they do, that other societies disapprove of, and so no one can agree on an absolute standard, so they fall back to cultural relativism, which is just as shitty as individual relativism.
Traditional religion (in its self-appointed role as "Arbiter of concrete moral standards") always screws this stuff up, so people become disenchanted with the idea of a bunch of stuck up assholes telling them that eating pork makes them sinners.
But the fact that religion doesn't do it right, doesn't mean it's the wrong answer. Relativism sucks, and it doesn't reflect anything meaningful in human interaction...There are no ethically relativistic societies out there.
The thing that enrages me is that each branch is allowed to implement their own security standards, and then allowed to choose their own contractors, etc, etc, etc.
I hate the whole "run the government like a business" mentality, but in this sense, that's absolutely what should happen. No corporation would let it's business units all set their own standards, buy non-standard equipment, etc, etc. They also need to bring everything in-house.
As long as it doesn't break, then they're not going to sink a lot of money into security and contingency. Hard for management to justify a big expenditure without any obvious problem.
When it does break, then you'll see some meaningful change.
I am two minds about this: one, it's definitely time for someone to put down standards. But two, the government has consistently failed to get its own shit in order, which can only be attributed to crappy bureaucracy.
It's pretty much all of a piece, I suppose.
A simple fix would be to pass a law that lets people sue companies more easily for problems related to their crappy computer infrastructure...Let the market take care of the rest.
We "clouded" one of our primary apps, and it's been hilariously error-fraught. Given our spending on networking gear (and redundant networking gear for a backup), we could have brought the whole thing in house.
No skin off my nose (actually made my life a lot easier to get rid of the app), but I think the whole thing was a bad decision based on short-term savings.
Yea, I hate the cloud for pretty much the same sort of reason...People use it as an excuse to poorly define their hardware needs, assuming the magical cloud has infinite capacity.
When something in cloud-land breaks, the managers get this look on their face like santa claus just died. It's priceless.
No doubt. Been around long enough. Strange place to pick though...
If it were a management class, sure. But for a class where your grade depends on your ability to exhibit a mastery of a skill, then that's absurd.
Yea. If you can derive a contradiction from the negation of the corresponding conditional you know that the argument is logically valid. Or, in english, if you can prove that the negation of a proposition leads to a logical contradiction, then the original statement is true.
You can also use it to prove points that are irrelevant to your givens. Since (in deduction) your premises are all assumed to be true, if you can use them to form a logical contradiction, then you've basically divided by zero in that modality, and everything is equally valid.
No that makes it less believable. Someone who works at a Dell call center and speaks English? Do they ride to work on a magical unicorn?
It's an interesting article giving us the perspective of one of the many faceless writers who provide the many essays and papers that cheaters love to outsource to the Internet to get their high grades.
It is sad to see that there are many people who treat their post-secondary education as another mountain to cross in a taxi, instead of participating in the planning and preparation of the hiking trip and enjoying the learning experience(s) that they might otherwise miss during the hike across said metaphorical mountain.
It's especially sad because the incompetent and ESL students that the author specifically mentioned are the ones who would stand to gain the most if they tried to get help through avenues other than hiring someone to write their non-technical papers for them.
At my school, there tends to be a huge overlap between the two. The students still don't understand the concepts despite being tutored by competent students speaking the same languages as said problem students. Plus, for some reason, there are a lot of foreign students who decided to come to my school (which is known for its technical and math-related programs) for the English department and such.
Maybe they were aiming to transfer departments after the first year? That rarely seems to happen and you can just see them struggling to keep up in their studies when they have no grasp of the English language at all.
But I think the bigger reason that they are a big portion of the writer's customer base is because in the US (I'm assuming they're students in US schools), foreign students (non-citizens) who come to the schools do not get the benefits of financial aid and the like by law and thus, have to pay the full tuition (high school to post-secondary) and thus they can afford to sprinkle a little money here and there to people who are willing to do their homework for them so that they can take their prestigious post-secondary degree and use it to get a job anywhere.
Maybe not all of them can afford paper writers but here at my school there is a sub-school/department that the students refer to as the Indian Department because the only people in its programs are international students from India doing graduate-level degrees, and they're all incompetent at what they do (with the occasional super-competent guy every couple of years), and they're there only because they bring the school a lot of money.
How these incompetent guys manage to maintain 4.0 GPAs while failing miserably in the undergrad level courses that they take is a mystery to everyone here (they take the undergrad level courses because they had a choice between those courses or the harder graduate level courses). Now I'm thinking that there might be an overlap with the third rich kids demographic.
You need to work on your use of the passive voice.
(You are hit by wall of text. Roll 10d4 damage, save for half.)
Actually, one of the hardest things to shift is language-specific stuff. Pretty sure you're going to get caught when you turn in a paper in engrish.
Math and science on the other hand...