What the fuck does this have to do with DevOps? And besides, if their DevOps guy can find his ass without a flashlight and a map, he'd have some kind of disaster recovery plan, even if it was just daily scripted snapshots of the server VMs.
Unless of course they were running on bare metal, in which case 2002 called and wants to introduce you to a product called VMware ESX.
What babysitting? I pull into the garage, plug it in, and then I go inside the house.
When I want to drive somewhere, I unplug it and drive it. And I always have a full battery.
You do more babysitting with your cellphone battery than I do with an EV. And definitely more with an IC-powered car with the oil changes, the vastly more frequent brake jobs, the transmission service, the filter changes, etc.
This is them offering "5G speeds" using LTE and calling it 5G. They could have accomplished the same thing without the deceit by just increasing the throughput and saying "Hey our network just got faster for everyone. You're welcome!"
Instead they are muddying the waters on the whole 5G thing, because they probably know their rollout of 5G is going to be behind competitors, and they don't want to be selling "less G's" than the other guys. So they do this bullshit, as there really isn't an accepted definition of what 5G actually is.
One thing to remember about most mobile service in the US, is that people get locked into contracts. I'm waiting for mine to expire in March, and then AT&T is fired.
There is literally nothing they can do to retain my service at this point, short of making it 100% free for the rest of my life.
"Tesla isn't profitable" "Tesla can't make more than 10,000 cars in a month" "Tesla hasn't been profitable for more than a quarter at a time" "Tesla hasn't ever made an annual profit"
They've already given guidance of either a narrow loss or narrow profit for Q1, so depending on Q2 they will have shown a profit over four consecutive quarters when the last big loss (2018Q2) falls off. Where will the goalposts move then?
So "the guy you work with" is an idiot. Did he also forget to put fuel in whatever car he had before? Did he ride the fuel gauge until it was below the E mark and the engine was sputtering as he pulled into the pump? Did he complain about having to replace fuel filters constantly?
It literally takes 10 seconds to plug the car in when you get home. Take charger cable off wall, walk to rear quarter of car. Push button on charger cable and charger port cover opens for you. Plug in and walk away.
Oh, and some of us don't like getting food all over the interiors of our cars, let alone the distracted driving of trying to shove food down your gullet while maintain a constant speed and direction. Ironically, the Tesla is probably the best car for you if you eat in the car, because Autopilot will prevent you from driving into someone while you are trying to get that last fry out of the bag.
Be careful to make sure you don't just feel that way because you don't like "the other side" - there's plenty of dirty pool being played by both parties.
Remember that McConnell was able to partially justify that horse shit behind a floor speech made by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee in 1992 - one Senator Joseph Biden from Connecticut. Remember that the Constitution requires "advise and consent" of the Senate for bench appointments, which was technically fulfilled - the Majority Leader advised that the seat would remain open until after the election, and the Judicial committee did not give their consent.
Was it dirty political hackery? You bet. But the Democrats would have done (and basically did) the exact same thing, and you know it. No, that doesn't excuse it; it's just the world we live in, and have for quite some time. See: John Adams and the "midnight appointments" for examples going back to the very beginning of the Republic.
Stop acting like it's "the other guys" who are the problem, because it's your guys too.
His argument is based on global income figures, because clearly Tesla (and every other car manufacturer) is directing their marketing at poor people in war-torn countries that barely can feed themselves. But somehow that matters for Tesla, and not Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen AG, Daimler, etc.; you know - all the other car manufacturers that sell similarly priced vehicles to the exact same markets, and have all announced EVs meant to directly compete with Tesla.
Oh, but Tesla makes "niche" cars that the rest of the industry is scrambling to compete with...
Because engineers never over-think anything, or immediately discount ideas because of past failures.
Sometimes "why not? I want a real answer" is a very useful exercise for an engineering team, as it requires challenging assumptions.
If this team discounted stainless steel from the beginning in favor of other materials because reasons, and then was made to actually enumerate those reasons and found them lacking, then good work was done.
As always, the proof is in the testing. If the rocket spectacularly fails due to the stainless steel construction, then I guess your idiot trolling will be justified. But if it works, then you're just an idiot troll.
What the fuck does horse racing measurements have to do with anything but horse racing?
Nobody in aerospace engineering gives a shit about furlongs or short heads, and never has.
That's like saying that anyone in aerospace engineering is measuring things in (american) football field lengths, or sides of a baseball diamond. It's completely irrelevant.
Except that it's a privately held company, which means there aren't any shares on the market for you to buy / sell, and even if you could get one of the (restricted number of) private investors to play along, you wouldn't be able to get anyone else to play because there are certain windows of time when share sales / purchase are allowed. And a maximum amount of investors allowed.
This is why companies have IPOs and become publicly traded. You don't know what you are talking about.
Short version: you can't short a privately held company.
We? Do we have Congressional representatives posting here anonymously and using that kind of language?
You don't get a vote in Congress. You didn't do a damn thing, and you are parroting what your tribe communicated to you through your bias-chosen media. I'm sure that the Democrats absolutely didn't turn down a win on DACA because they want the issue for the upcoming 2020 election which the Democrats are already tripping over themselves to declare their candidacy for, and they absolutely do not want to hand a win to Trump on a signature campaign issue from the last election. And they certainly aren't looking at polling data that shows the majority of the public blames the Republicans for the government shutdown more than Congressional Democrats, and definitely don't want to keep that ball rolling by not actually solving the problem or compromising on a deal.
Who's a partisan hack now? Hint, it's you. And before you start getting all over me about supporting Trump or whatever intellectually lazy rebuttal you'll come up with: I hate the guy, I voted against him in the primary and general election. There's no way I vote for him in 2020 in either the primary or the general election. I think the wall is a gross misappropriation of funds and legislative time, a horribly misguided policy that would result in zero substantive change in undocumented immigration or unlawful importation of illicit goods, and a complete waste of national attention and debate. Moreover, shutting down the government for an unprecedented amount of time over such a useless, ineffective, and misguided so-called policy was a massive exercise in one man's ego not dealing with the idea that in our representative Republic, he doesn't get to stamp his feet and get what he demands like a petulant child.
None of that changes the fact that you're a partisan shill who is incapable of objective thought or debate rebuttal without resulting to ad hominem attack, profanity, and cliche. Go back to Call of Duty and let the adults talk.
A great idea, but there aren't too many companies or local governments with a few hundred million spare dollars for building out their own fiber networks in a major metro area.
One of the richest corporations on the planet tried (Google) and basically gave up.
I'm personally in favor of the wire operators being declared common carriers regardless of the last mile wire technology, and then having them sell bandwidth to ISPs that can compete for my business based on their price and service offerings. Sell me a bare-bones service that has a static IP and a next-hop route and that's it. I'd switch tomorrow. Other people probably want traditional ISP services that I don't - email hosting, etc. Let them shop ISPs for that stuff too.
It would be like going back to when an ISP's service and pricing mattered in the dial-up days, rather than my home address dictating who I can get service from, and what that service is, and how much I'll get gouged for it per month.
If they're doing it right* they are consulting with the EFF, Mozilla, etc.
IOW, the EFF, Mozilla, etc. have lawyers that write the draft legislation for the good Senator, and then his aides go over it looking for any place to earmark shit or write in loopholes for specific contributors and various other Congress critters to enable yes votes before it goes to the floor for debate.
* I have no idea if they're doing it right, or just slapping together some horse shit retread legislation and the supporters are getting on board because it's marginally better (for them) than what the FCC shoved up the national ass last year. I don't work for this, or any other Senator. Or any other politician.
That's an equivocation based upon thinking nothing will ever improve or be changed in any way.
It would probably be nice to create a level playing field for all involved for the people this does affect today, knowing that as better infrastructure comes along, those that are in the areas of improvement will also get the effects of this legislation.
You are advocating for "let's wait until the telecoms are screwing even more people over before we do something about it" which makes you sound like a massive shill for the telecoms.
If you have $900M in convertible bonds coming due, and the short float is dragging your stock price under the conversion price, it can matter very much.
That's $900M coming out of cash on hand, rather than issuing stock certificates.
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Hillary? Is that you?
Unless they are a publicly traded corporation under Sarbanes-Oxley review.
That's one of the things any competent audit will ask for evidence of - working backup restore.
You want to explain that one?
What the fuck does this have to do with DevOps? And besides, if their DevOps guy can find his ass without a flashlight and a map, he'd have some kind of disaster recovery plan, even if it was just daily scripted snapshots of the server VMs.
Unless of course they were running on bare metal, in which case 2002 called and wants to introduce you to a product called VMware ESX.
What babysitting? I pull into the garage, plug it in, and then I go inside the house.
When I want to drive somewhere, I unplug it and drive it. And I always have a full battery.
You do more babysitting with your cellphone battery than I do with an EV. And definitely more with an IC-powered car with the oil changes, the vastly more frequent brake jobs, the transmission service, the filter changes, etc.
Back when Cingular was Cingular and not absorbed by AT&T, they weren't the smarmiest assholes in the telecom industry.
Corporate mergers tend to change things like that.
This is them offering "5G speeds" using LTE and calling it 5G. They could have accomplished the same thing without the deceit by just increasing the throughput and saying "Hey our network just got faster for everyone. You're welcome!"
Instead they are muddying the waters on the whole 5G thing, because they probably know their rollout of 5G is going to be behind competitors, and they don't want to be selling "less G's" than the other guys. So they do this bullshit, as there really isn't an accepted definition of what 5G actually is.
One thing to remember about most mobile service in the US, is that people get locked into contracts. I'm waiting for mine to expire in March, and then AT&T is fired.
There is literally nothing they can do to retain my service at this point, short of making it 100% free for the rest of my life.
Which has what to do with anything relevant to the topic at hand?
Well, I suppose the first iPhone didn't have actual 5G capability either. Thanks for pointing that out.
Move the goalposts a little more.
"Tesla isn't profitable"
"Tesla can't make more than 10,000 cars in a month"
"Tesla hasn't been profitable for more than a quarter at a time"
"Tesla hasn't ever made an annual profit"
They've already given guidance of either a narrow loss or narrow profit for Q1, so depending on Q2 they will have shown a profit over four consecutive quarters when the last big loss (2018Q2) falls off. Where will the goalposts move then?
So "the guy you work with" is an idiot. Did he also forget to put fuel in whatever car he had before? Did he ride the fuel gauge until it was below the E mark and the engine was sputtering as he pulled into the pump? Did he complain about having to replace fuel filters constantly?
It literally takes 10 seconds to plug the car in when you get home. Take charger cable off wall, walk to rear quarter of car. Push button on charger cable and charger port cover opens for you. Plug in and walk away.
Oh, and some of us don't like getting food all over the interiors of our cars, let alone the distracted driving of trying to shove food down your gullet while maintain a constant speed and direction. Ironically, the Tesla is probably the best car for you if you eat in the car, because Autopilot will prevent you from driving into someone while you are trying to get that last fry out of the bag.
You know that a Powerpack is a fixed asset bolted to a concrete pad, not the battery in a car?
Why would you care if a refrigerator-cabinet sized battery takes longer than 15 minutes to charge?
You know there are hundreds of thousands of people with working solar panels on their roof from SolarCity / Tesla Energy right?
How is that "a scam" ?
You are an idiot.
You know the private sector built all of NASA's hardware, right?
And the Air Force's hardware for those ICBMs you were talking about? Private sector.
Don't be a fucking moron.
Be careful to make sure you don't just feel that way because you don't like "the other side" - there's plenty of dirty pool being played by both parties.
Remember that McConnell was able to partially justify that horse shit behind a floor speech made by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee in 1992 - one Senator Joseph Biden from Connecticut.
Remember that the Constitution requires "advise and consent" of the Senate for bench appointments, which was technically fulfilled - the Majority Leader advised that the seat would remain open until after the election, and the Judicial committee did not give their consent.
Was it dirty political hackery? You bet. But the Democrats would have done (and basically did) the exact same thing, and you know it. No, that doesn't excuse it; it's just the world we live in, and have for quite some time. See: John Adams and the "midnight appointments" for examples going back to the very beginning of the Republic.
Stop acting like it's "the other guys" who are the problem, because it's your guys too.
His argument is based on global income figures, because clearly Tesla (and every other car manufacturer) is directing their marketing at poor people in war-torn countries that barely can feed themselves. But somehow that matters for Tesla, and not Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen AG, Daimler, etc.; you know - all the other car manufacturers that sell similarly priced vehicles to the exact same markets, and have all announced EVs meant to directly compete with Tesla.
Oh, but Tesla makes "niche" cars that the rest of the industry is scrambling to compete with...
Because engineers never over-think anything, or immediately discount ideas because of past failures.
Sometimes "why not? I want a real answer" is a very useful exercise for an engineering team, as it requires challenging assumptions.
If this team discounted stainless steel from the beginning in favor of other materials because reasons, and then was made to actually enumerate those reasons and found them lacking, then good work was done.
As always, the proof is in the testing. If the rocket spectacularly fails due to the stainless steel construction, then I guess your idiot trolling will be justified. But if it works, then you're just an idiot troll.
What the fuck does horse racing measurements have to do with anything but horse racing?
Nobody in aerospace engineering gives a shit about furlongs or short heads, and never has.
That's like saying that anyone in aerospace engineering is measuring things in (american) football field lengths, or sides of a baseball diamond. It's completely irrelevant.
Except that it's a privately held company, which means there aren't any shares on the market for you to buy / sell, and even if you could get one of the (restricted number of) private investors to play along, you wouldn't be able to get anyone else to play because there are certain windows of time when share sales / purchase are allowed. And a maximum amount of investors allowed.
This is why companies have IPOs and become publicly traded. You don't know what you are talking about.
Short version: you can't short a privately held company.
We? Do we have Congressional representatives posting here anonymously and using that kind of language?
You don't get a vote in Congress. You didn't do a damn thing, and you are parroting what your tribe communicated to you through your bias-chosen media. I'm sure that the Democrats absolutely didn't turn down a win on DACA because they want the issue for the upcoming 2020 election which the Democrats are already tripping over themselves to declare their candidacy for, and they absolutely do not want to hand a win to Trump on a signature campaign issue from the last election. And they certainly aren't looking at polling data that shows the majority of the public blames the Republicans for the government shutdown more than Congressional Democrats, and definitely don't want to keep that ball rolling by not actually solving the problem or compromising on a deal.
Who's a partisan hack now? Hint, it's you. And before you start getting all over me about supporting Trump or whatever intellectually lazy rebuttal you'll come up with: I hate the guy, I voted against him in the primary and general election. There's no way I vote for him in 2020 in either the primary or the general election. I think the wall is a gross misappropriation of funds and legislative time, a horribly misguided policy that would result in zero substantive change in undocumented immigration or unlawful importation of illicit goods, and a complete waste of national attention and debate. Moreover, shutting down the government for an unprecedented amount of time over such a useless, ineffective, and misguided so-called policy was a massive exercise in one man's ego not dealing with the idea that in our representative Republic, he doesn't get to stamp his feet and get what he demands like a petulant child.
None of that changes the fact that you're a partisan shill who is incapable of objective thought or debate rebuttal without resulting to ad hominem attack, profanity, and cliche. Go back to Call of Duty and let the adults talk.
A great idea, but there aren't too many companies or local governments with a few hundred million spare dollars for building out their own fiber networks in a major metro area.
One of the richest corporations on the planet tried (Google) and basically gave up.
I'm personally in favor of the wire operators being declared common carriers regardless of the last mile wire technology, and then having them sell bandwidth to ISPs that can compete for my business based on their price and service offerings. Sell me a bare-bones service that has a static IP and a next-hop route and that's it. I'd switch tomorrow. Other people probably want traditional ISP services that I don't - email hosting, etc. Let them shop ISPs for that stuff too.
It would be like going back to when an ISP's service and pricing mattered in the dial-up days, rather than my home address dictating who I can get service from, and what that service is, and how much I'll get gouged for it per month.
If they're doing it right* they are consulting with the EFF, Mozilla, etc.
IOW, the EFF, Mozilla, etc. have lawyers that write the draft legislation for the good Senator, and then his aides go over it looking for any place to earmark shit or write in loopholes for specific contributors and various other Congress critters to enable yes votes before it goes to the floor for debate.
* I have no idea if they're doing it right, or just slapping together some horse shit retread legislation and the supporters are getting on board because it's marginally better (for them) than what the FCC shoved up the national ass last year. I don't work for this, or any other Senator. Or any other politician.
Because there's absolutely no difference between speech rhetoric and actual legislative language, right?
That's an equivocation based upon thinking nothing will ever improve or be changed in any way.
It would probably be nice to create a level playing field for all involved for the people this does affect today, knowing that as better infrastructure comes along, those that are in the areas of improvement will also get the effects of this legislation.
You are advocating for "let's wait until the telecoms are screwing even more people over before we do something about it" which makes you sound like a massive shill for the telecoms.
As with all things, context matters.
If you have $900M in convertible bonds coming due, and the short float is dragging your stock price under the conversion price, it can matter very much.
That's $900M coming out of cash on hand, rather than issuing stock certificates.
More importantly, it would mean that any unvested stock awards continue to vest.