The company I used to work for implemented Microsoft's Yammer, and it was a vast wasteland devoid of any content whatsoever. Just people wasting time with "shout outs."
This is Facebook being led down a path to nowhere because other companies decided to go there. Unfortunately for all of them, these are solutions to a question that nobody asked.
WiFi is a nightmare if you buy residential / SoHo gear and expect it to do the job of gear meant for radio-dense environments that you see in education or enterprise.
Get a real WiFi network, and it's not nearly the problem most people make it out to be.
I could see people switching away from Java to.NET / C#, specifically because Oracle is being such shitheads regarding Java.
I know of a multi-billion dollar pharmacy business that is running on a Java 6 app, and will take a rewrite to get off of it. Oracle wants to charge over $1M/year for patches they are already writing anyway, because they decided on a whim to kill public support for the platform after creating an incompatible Java 7.
Why rewrite for a new version of Java where you will ultimately end up with the same shithead money-grubbing tactics, when you could rewrite in C# (which has much better functionality than Java now anyway), with the frameworks now open and cross-platform?
What's good for a single State may not be good for the other 49.
I have no problem with Massachusetts or Oregon having their own state health plans - the local electorate hashes it out and passes something that makes sense for that State. The complete mishmash federal giveaway to the insurance lobby that the PPACA (the real title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) gives us is too light in some places, and too heavy handed in other places, resulting in a bill that basically nobody likes.
But I guess that's what you can get through a deeply fractured single-party government like we had in 2009 and 2010.
Reconciliation is only used in the budgetary process - you know, that thing that the Democrat Senate didn't even bother with for years.
It's not about being bad or good, it's just dusty and unused because Harry Reid simply wouldn't do a budget, much less have his members put their name on one.
If the Republicans were smart, they would start blasting bill after bill out of Congress and sending them down Pennsylvania Ave for signature. We've been hearing the narrative that they are the "party of 'no'" for years now. Now, they have the golden opportunity to make Obama set new records for use of the veto and instead of having the obstructionist label applied to 300 or so people, it can all be focused on one guy; and a Senate minority that cried foul at all the filibustering, who will now be filibustering their asses off in the most hypocritical display in political history.
I wonder if it matters what the datacenter is used for. If Amazon shows that it is strictly used for AWS hosting, then there is no Amazon.com retail sales being moved through that facility, and thus no sale has taken place within the State of Ohio?
This could get interesting unless I'm just flat wrong and Ohio will want their taste regardless.
Yeah, what a shithead he is for deciding not to be the richest guy in the graveyard. How dare he leverage those billions of dollars to try to do some good in the world, instead of doing a Scrooge McDuck backstroke in a swimming pool filled with money.
Guess what: the thousands of people that don't die from malaria over the next few years don't give a damn what his motivations are.
For everyone in the western US that is paying $0.10/KWh or less, there are 5 people in California or the Northeast paying $0.18/KWh or more. Or Alaska and Hawaii that are paying $0.20/KWh and up. Real Data rather than numbers pulled from ass.
Yes, on average, it looks like energy production is quite cheap. But, there are people getting squeezed pretty hard if you look a bit deeper, and it's usually the people that can't afford the additional pressure.
Those numbers are all well and good, except that China has 5x as many people as the US, so their overall emissions are still 2.5x as much as the US. There's plenty of room for both to improve without major sacrifice.
Aren't statistics games fun? You can make the numbers emphasize anything you want, even though they are still the same!
Pass a law that says every coal-fired generating station must have new scrubbers in the stacks with spec "X" by July 2015, and you'll have every coal-fired generating station operator asking just who has already manufactured all those scrubbers and have them sitting in a warehouse ready to go, to the exact spec of every exhaust stack of every coal-fired generating station in the country.
You might get 3 of the generating stations compliant by the "deadline." Maybe.
Except that Democrats still have the Senate for another 45 or so days, including a "lame duck" session. If they didn't want to play Political Bullshit: Washington DC Edition, Senator Reid could put it up for a vote during this session and record the Yeas and Nays right now.
But they won't, because they'd rather have the issue to beat over each other's heads in direct mailer donation requests than work the problem. Just like {"Medicare","Social Security","Tax Reform","Budgets","Appropriations Bills","Immigration"}.
For several use cases, it similarly won't work just like newer versions of Windows.
For example - you support a logistics center that has a several million dollar palette stacking machine that saves shloads of money. The computer that runs it uses Windows XP, and the software that runs it will *only* work on Windows XP. The manufacturer of the device is not going to update the software because that particular piece of equipment is 10 years old, so to get rid of Windows XP, you need to get rid of the perfectly functional stacker, which will cost several million dollars.
Linux does nothing to fix this problem, unless you spin up a team of developers to reverse engineer the software and redevelop it for Linux, which won't fix the prompt issue of Windows XP being attached to the network to run a palette stacker; and it will still cost a shload of money.
The only options here are to lock that box down as hard as possible, and figure out if you can get it onto a private network with an air gap. And this isn't a specific case - when you have an operating system that was supported and ubiquitous for 13 years, there are lots of very expensive and very nitpicky things developed to work on it.
This is easily the best idea posted yet. The only issue being training churn - you would have career-minded fly-boys rotating in and out as fast as they can in order to check the "silo duty" checkbox on their military LinkedIn equivalent, and then you are still left with either airmen that hate the job, or similarly disinterested officers "getting it out of the way"
We have a lot of boomers in the Great Lakes? No, I'm pretty sure that we don't need to subtract distance from the midwest to the target if the submarine is in the Pacific somewhere.
When the primary delivery system was airborne bombers, ICBMs were created to make sure that if you got hit first, you could strike back by having missiles scattered all about.
When the primary delivery system was land-based missiles scattered all about that could be targeted by other land-based missiles scattered all about, SLBMs were created to have a truly hidden capacity to strike back.
SLBMs are there to make sure some idiot somewhere doesn't think they can take out the whole arsenal in a first strike. They are an almost-guaranteed retaliatory strike. It's a necessary component of MAD.
1. The nuclear ordinance of the early 60's only has the materials in common with the warheads of today. These were giant lumbering massive bombs that would barely fit on top of a rocket that could also carry two people into orbit using a Gemini capsule. The physics packages of today are incredibly more complex, and incredibly more safe from an accidental detonation point of view. 2. In order for a nuclear explosion of any power greater than the conventional explosives inside, you have to compress the core by triggering all explosive panels simultaneously (as in, within a single digit of milliseconds) or you don't compress that sub-critical mass into a supercritical mass and get your giant boom.
Detonating the rocket below would just result in a somewhat-contained-by-the-massively-reinforced-silo dirty bomb.
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MCP, however, is a pushover. You can get that by simply passing one of the MCSE tests, usually the one centered around the workstation OS.
If you can install it and do very rudimentary administration, you can get an MCP.
Still impressive at the age of 5 though.
Just like the product.
The company I used to work for implemented Microsoft's Yammer, and it was a vast wasteland devoid of any content whatsoever. Just people wasting time with "shout outs."
This is Facebook being led down a path to nowhere because other companies decided to go there. Unfortunately for all of them, these are solutions to a question that nobody asked.
If you're talking about a MacPro1 that shipped in 2006, then yes, you aren't going to receive support.
I'd challenge you to find ANY hardware company that supports stuff that is 8+ years old without an annual maintenance agreement in place.
WiFi is a nightmare if you buy residential / SoHo gear and expect it to do the job of gear meant for radio-dense environments that you see in education or enterprise.
Get a real WiFi network, and it's not nearly the problem most people make it out to be.
I could see people switching away from Java to .NET / C#, specifically because Oracle is being such shitheads regarding Java.
I know of a multi-billion dollar pharmacy business that is running on a Java 6 app, and will take a rewrite to get off of it. Oracle wants to charge over $1M/year for patches they are already writing anyway, because they decided on a whim to kill public support for the platform after creating an incompatible Java 7.
Why rewrite for a new version of Java where you will ultimately end up with the same shithead money-grubbing tactics, when you could rewrite in C# (which has much better functionality than Java now anyway), with the frameworks now open and cross-platform?
but we all know what will usually happen is that most students will spend their time chatting online, playing video games, etc.
Now only if there was some way to manage a device to not allow ad hoc app installs, or disable functionality you don't want the user to have...
Do you really think that people haven't thought of that years ago when they first started doing this?
What's good for a single State may not be good for the other 49.
I have no problem with Massachusetts or Oregon having their own state health plans - the local electorate hashes it out and passes something that makes sense for that State. The complete mishmash federal giveaway to the insurance lobby that the PPACA (the real title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) gives us is too light in some places, and too heavy handed in other places, resulting in a bill that basically nobody likes.
But I guess that's what you can get through a deeply fractured single-party government like we had in 2009 and 2010.
It takes 67 votes to override a veto in the Senate, not 60. "Two-thirds majority in each chamber" is the constitutional language.
Reconciliation is only used in the budgetary process - you know, that thing that the Democrat Senate didn't even bother with for years.
It's not about being bad or good, it's just dusty and unused because Harry Reid simply wouldn't do a budget, much less have his members put their name on one.
If the Republicans were smart, they would start blasting bill after bill out of Congress and sending them down Pennsylvania Ave for signature. We've been hearing the narrative that they are the "party of 'no'" for years now. Now, they have the golden opportunity to make Obama set new records for use of the veto and instead of having the obstructionist label applied to 300 or so people, it can all be focused on one guy; and a Senate minority that cried foul at all the filibustering, who will now be filibustering their asses off in the most hypocritical display in political history.
But I don't think they are that smart.
I wonder if it matters what the datacenter is used for. If Amazon shows that it is strictly used for AWS hosting, then there is no Amazon.com retail sales being moved through that facility, and thus no sale has taken place within the State of Ohio?
This could get interesting unless I'm just flat wrong and Ohio will want their taste regardless.
Do you really think they would dump this to Github without having a guy or two give it the once-over?
Really?
Yeah, what a shithead he is for deciding not to be the richest guy in the graveyard. How dare he leverage those billions of dollars to try to do some good in the world, instead of doing a Scrooge McDuck backstroke in a swimming pool filled with money.
Guess what: the thousands of people that don't die from malaria over the next few years don't give a damn what his motivations are.
Now look at the market numbers for IIS .NET development, versus Java / Python / PHP on Apache.
Understand yet?
For everyone in the western US that is paying $0.10/KWh or less, there are 5 people in California or the Northeast paying $0.18/KWh or more. Or Alaska and Hawaii that are paying $0.20/KWh and up. Real Data rather than numbers pulled from ass.
Yes, on average, it looks like energy production is quite cheap. But, there are people getting squeezed pretty hard if you look a bit deeper, and it's usually the people that can't afford the additional pressure.
Those numbers are all well and good, except that China has 5x as many people as the US, so their overall emissions are still 2.5x as much as the US. There's plenty of room for both to improve without major sacrifice.
Aren't statistics games fun? You can make the numbers emphasize anything you want, even though they are still the same!
It takes time to do things.
Pass a law that says every coal-fired generating station must have new scrubbers in the stacks with spec "X" by July 2015, and you'll have every coal-fired generating station operator asking just who has already manufactured all those scrubbers and have them sitting in a warehouse ready to go, to the exact spec of every exhaust stack of every coal-fired generating station in the country.
You might get 3 of the generating stations compliant by the "deadline." Maybe.
Except that Democrats still have the Senate for another 45 or so days, including a "lame duck" session. If they didn't want to play Political Bullshit: Washington DC Edition, Senator Reid could put it up for a vote during this session and record the Yeas and Nays right now.
But they won't, because they'd rather have the issue to beat over each other's heads in direct mailer donation requests than work the problem. Just like {"Medicare","Social Security","Tax Reform","Budgets","Appropriations Bills","Immigration"}.
For several use cases, it similarly won't work just like newer versions of Windows.
For example - you support a logistics center that has a several million dollar palette stacking machine that saves shloads of money. The computer that runs it uses Windows XP, and the software that runs it will *only* work on Windows XP. The manufacturer of the device is not going to update the software because that particular piece of equipment is 10 years old, so to get rid of Windows XP, you need to get rid of the perfectly functional stacker, which will cost several million dollars.
Linux does nothing to fix this problem, unless you spin up a team of developers to reverse engineer the software and redevelop it for Linux, which won't fix the prompt issue of Windows XP being attached to the network to run a palette stacker; and it will still cost a shload of money.
The only options here are to lock that box down as hard as possible, and figure out if you can get it onto a private network with an air gap. And this isn't a specific case - when you have an operating system that was supported and ubiquitous for 13 years, there are lots of very expensive and very nitpicky things developed to work on it.
This is easily the best idea posted yet. The only issue being training churn - you would have career-minded fly-boys rotating in and out as fast as they can in order to check the "silo duty" checkbox on their military LinkedIn equivalent, and then you are still left with either airmen that hate the job, or similarly disinterested officers "getting it out of the way"
We have a lot of boomers in the Great Lakes? No, I'm pretty sure that we don't need to subtract distance from the midwest to the target if the submarine is in the Pacific somewhere.
When the primary delivery system was airborne bombers, ICBMs were created to make sure that if you got hit first, you could strike back by having missiles scattered all about.
When the primary delivery system was land-based missiles scattered all about that could be targeted by other land-based missiles scattered all about, SLBMs were created to have a truly hidden capacity to strike back.
SLBMs are there to make sure some idiot somewhere doesn't think they can take out the whole arsenal in a first strike. They are an almost-guaranteed retaliatory strike. It's a necessary component of MAD.
Solved very easily by counting backwards. As in: "3... 2... 1... mark"
They do still serve the purpose intended - to make sure someone else doesn't decide to use theirs.
Working as intended, still.
1. The nuclear ordinance of the early 60's only has the materials in common with the warheads of today. These were giant lumbering massive bombs that would barely fit on top of a rocket that could also carry two people into orbit using a Gemini capsule. The physics packages of today are incredibly more complex, and incredibly more safe from an accidental detonation point of view.
2. In order for a nuclear explosion of any power greater than the conventional explosives inside, you have to compress the core by triggering all explosive panels simultaneously (as in, within a single digit of milliseconds) or you don't compress that sub-critical mass into a supercritical mass and get your giant boom.
Detonating the rocket below would just result in a somewhat-contained-by-the-massively-reinforced-silo dirty bomb.