Clearly you are not an american. I feel sorry for you as you have been taught that you are not free to say what you believe.
That is particularly amusing given the US executes people without trial in various countries around the world for saying things the US doesn't agree with. The vast majority of Americans don't object to this policy. So, free speech as long as you don't say the wrong thing? That's very American.
And how much CO2 and other environmental damage would there be from covering vast swaths of land with solar panels? The manufacturing process is filthy, the disposal process even worse, and it results in more human lives lost than nuclear.
Is this from solar panels falling onto people? I'll admit I have never heard of a nuclear plant falling onto someone.
The risks of nuclear are huge - companies demand lavish subsidies and government underwriting before they'll consider building a new nuclear power plant. And the "red tape" you so casually dismiss is government and safety regulations like "don't build in a known earthquake zone" and "don't use substandard materials."
Of course, I agree the waste problem has already been solved - it's not like we're looking for a solution 60 years on, are we? We're just going to give it to a reputable company whose interest is in something other than its bottom line and share price, get rid of "red tape," close our eyes, and hope they haven't dumped it in our drinking water. Problem solved.
Telstra is the Australian telco monopoly. It's a bit like BT in the UK, but without the customer dedication, commitment to upgrades or ethics, fairness, and sense of social responsibility of its management team. The new government sacked the board of NBN Co and has stacked the new board with ex- and current Telstra insiders. It's pretty obvious that once the NBN Co has finished rolling out the fibre network, the plan is to sell it to Telstra. This will ensure a fairer outcome for all Telstra shareholders, but may be a drag on the rest of the country.
Beautifully self-contradicted! You went from "I've done some hiring in the Aussie IT market recently" to "You dont get that non IT, HR people are asking this questions..." And a grammar fail as well.
Half the Unix admins I know use Macs. Some windows admins I know do too. And quite a few of the other IT specialists, like networks and storage, use Macs. And obviously none of them would know anything about scripting or an office suite, of course, because that's what windows home users do, especially if they're PAs and secretaries. They do it when they're not working on their home document control systems, setting up network shares and running their home SAP systems.
Please please please keep shuffling Mac users to the bottom of the pile. I will be sure to avoid any and every hiring manager who's stupid enough to choose staff based not on experience and skills but what they are buying for personal use...
It began a long time ago when Apple started to be "generous" with discounts and donations to schools.
Donating hardware, or heavily discounting it, is a far cry from donating software. The fact that you, in the previous paragraph, pointed that out and then decided that donating hardware by Apple is bad is odd. Is IBM or HP or Dell donating hardware similarly bad? Do you object to schools getting discounted hardware for some reason?
This reminds of how the Australian mining companies stopped growing environmental awareness from impacting their business. They lobbied the Australian Government, and the environmentalists moved from being government employees to mining company employees. I've heard mining company environmentalists say things like "We're not as bad as other mining companies when it comes to pollution" and "Some mining companies don't let their environmentalists leave their office. We have much more freedom" without a trace of irony.
This position will have the same effect. Whoever takes it will find themselves saying "We're better than Google when it comes to people's privacy" without even a trace of Fe to be found.
Then expect Disney's web site to be targeted, for a start. Actually, all the major movie studios' unoriginal and uninspiring copies of each other should make them targets of this law.
So, tell us, how does a company that insists it didn't give the NSA complete access and coincidentally uses cloud hosting providers like Amazon wind up giving the NSA it's entire database, plus updates in real time? Does anyone want to guess if S3 has a rule that states it must be replicated to one or more of the DCs in the US?
No, Bezos, I don't believe you when you say you would fight it, and I don't believe you when you say they NSA don't have complete access to each and every one of your systems at will. Encryption or no, Amazon is a honey pot. People pay them for the privilege of being snooped on by the NSA.
Any and all IP which they claim to own. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, source, legal documentation, real assets, anything that can be registered to have value and used in future court cases. Every scrap of paper. Every disk. All of it. Then lock it in a vault labelled "Danger -- Zombies -- Do NOT Open"
No. Open source the code under the BSD license. Let the world do with the source code as they will, and then it will die forever...
When the amount of development your OS gets suffers "compared to HP-UX" you are in astonishingly deep trouble.
This is so very very true. HP-UX hasn't had any meaningful update for over 10 years now, since v11 came out. And the hardware is obsolete, and appears to be on its way out as well - I've heard nothing regarding new IA64 chips from intel, and HP stupidly bet the farm on Intel not being more focused on destroying competing RISC business than they were on new technology.
If you're not in the US or a US citizen, I have a very hard time believing you'd be targeted so specifically without having done something specifically to deserve being targeted. Rather, I'd be inclined to think that you might believe yourself part of a generalized data snooping conspiracy that you believe the US perpetrates in all foreign domains.
It was just me and about 200 million other EU citizens. The US decided it was going to revoke the permission of SWIFT, the largest interbank exchange company in Europe, to operate in the US unless they voluntarily handed over all financial data for data mining.
The US has also been caught demanding lots of information from individual banks and online retailers.
If regulation is based out if the USA that will make it a no-go for me. The US already illegally snoops my EU-based bank account, illegally gets my UK-based purchase data and has illegally obtained SWIFT data in the past. A US-based regulator is not to be trusted.
Solaris is a technically good and high quality OS but its hardware support was limited. If you bought the Sun-branded boxes and Sun-branded cards, you were OK. However if you are white-boxing a server, you had to be careful to select chipsets that were on their compatibility list. Then support got murky at that point even then.
You sound like you've never had to mediate a 3-way vendor argument between the hardware vendor, the linux support vendor and the HBA vendor, all claiming that it's someone else's fault that the hardware/OS/HBA combo doesn't work, even though they assured you that it did before you bought it. Oh, and you're a top customer, so they want to keep you really really happy. But not "it actually works" kind of happy.
I really, really love Solaris, but let's face the facts. Outside of the SPARC platform, there is no reason for Solaris. Linux does everything as well or nearly as well. Linux is weaker in some areas, but not weak enough to justify the cost and lock-in of Solaris.
Spoken like someone who has never run them side by side in a large estate. Even 10+ years after Linux's enterprise debut, they're not even close. I've just had to reboot 3 RHEL 6 boxes twice each because for some reason they no longer scan the bus correctly. You have to add new disk, reboot, partition, and reboot again. Last time I had to reboot a Sun box because we added new disk was 2004, and that was because the site standards were rubbish and they were configuring their HBAs incorrectly.
There's almost no comparison between Linux and Solaris, still, years after all kernel developers started concentrating on making Linux better for the datacentre. The last time I suggested sending a Linux kernel dump to RedHat or SUSE we all laughed. They don't even look at them, they just blame the hardware and suggest we update firmware. Then they cross their fingers and hope.
And where's the fabled DTrace equivalent for Linux? I'm sure I missed that announcement, as when Solaris 10 was announced every Linux fanboy said it would be shipped and stable in Linux before Solaris 10 DVDs hit my desk. Fail.
Solaris exists for Oracle to milk legacy customers on support contracts who aren't ready or willing to migrate to Linux and commodity x86 hardware.
Or who want to run large databases with more than a few GB of RAM. Small databases seem fine on Linux, but Oracle or DB2 or Sybase don't seem as stable on Linux as on Solaris when you get up to 32+GB RAM.
There isn't much if any new development going on, and Oracle is only pushing Solaris to new customers as part of their big data warehouse solutions (where customers have $$$$$ and want to spend it with one vendor) where they want to get people locked in to one vendor.
Yes, and it's a crying shame. Oracle are terrible. I know of whole enterprises who jumped ship when Oracle took over.
But Linux still isn't there, even though most places I'm working at these days have more Linux than Solaris, HP-UX or AIX, and usually more than all other Unix combined. But there's still too much of the amateur around Linux.
I just had a great idea for a kickstarter campaign - adjustable pressure keyboards. You tell the company what pressure you want, and you get a clickety keyboard carefully adjusted for the pressure you want, from those who like keyboards which are clunky but not too hard to press past the model M 'ideal' 80g through to, oh, say, 5-6 Kg of force to press each key. Keyboards at the upper end of the scale have slightly larger keys and ship with a free mallet. Really good for typing out emails like "No, you may not change the scope of the project because you feel like it, and no I don't feel like holding yet another meeting about it."
Actually, all of what you wrote is nonsense. Eight villages are to be destroyed next year alone: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/24/palestinian-villages-demolition-idf-hebron. There's no doubt in anyone's mind, including the Israeli military's, that the Palestinians own the land, and have done since the late 1800s, well before Israel existed, let alone started expanding. That doesn't matter to Israelis, demolishing Palestinians' homes does.
It's also the case that, where Palestinians have land, they are never allowed permits to build, but that's just a by-product of a racist society that doesn't believe in equal rights or the rule of law. Institutional racism is common and encouraged by successive Israeli governments, who then brag about it to get re-election. The Arab 20% of Israel don't get 5% of the education budget, for example.
Where there is illegal construction by Jews and non-Jews side by side, the non-Jewish buildings are demolished at a rate of 5 times more often than Jewish buildings, for example in East and West Jerusalem, even though there are more illegal Jewish-built buildings in West Jerusalem than there are in East Jerusalem.
I could go on, but as you're either woefully mis-informed or lying your teeth off in an effort to hide the truth about Israel, you'll never admit that what you posted was utterly and completely wrong, so I'll just sign off and hope you don't demolish too many more Palestinian houses in 2013...
Israel would immediately cease to exist as a Jewish state. If the Palesinians don't outnumber them now, they'll easily outbreed them. And then outvote them. Its going to have to be a two state solution.
Actually, the current Israeli PM is expected to explicitly rule out a two-state solution as his running platform as there are elections looming. He ran and won the last election there under the platform of single-handedly destroying the Oslo Accords and preventing a Palestinian state from being formed. I doubt the Israeli electorate are suddenly going to change and decide that, actually, they do believe in democracy or human rights for non-Jews.
Which means, when the borders are all settled, some of the Jews who built settlements in the West bank will find themselves under a Palestinian government.
No, actually this was, again, explicitly ruled out by the last Israeli government during negotiations, where all Jewish settlement blocks had to be a contiguous part of Israel. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Papers#Borders
Apart from the obvious Israeli political abandonment of the two-state solution, the issue of water and resources means that it's just not practical for Israel to abandon the very lucrative occupation just for peace. Right now the occupation is funded by the UN and the EU, with the US flinging billions of dollars at Israel to keep it going. Why abandon such a lucrative source of income?
And I would be interested to find out if they run it to the settlements, or just the west J and metro areas.
It's an awesome excuse to steal more land and demolish more Palestinian villages in the West Bank - "We need it for a fibre optic connection to the settlements." (Never mind that it's likely to be run along existing telephone or power lines.)
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All your adobe software has to be repurchased and that's Apple's fault? Why don't you admit Adobe is price gouging you?
This is still vapurware...
Clearly you are not an american. I feel sorry for you as you have been taught that you are not free to say what you believe.
That is particularly amusing given the US executes people without trial in various countries around the world for saying things the US doesn't agree with. The vast majority of Americans don't object to this policy. So, free speech as long as you don't say the wrong thing? That's very American.
Don't you guys have coax cable over there?
Almost no coax in Australia, maybe a few suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne...
You're not an Aussie, you're a pathetic troll who didn't even figure out which party was in power...
And how much CO2 and other environmental damage would there be from covering vast swaths of land with solar panels? The manufacturing process is filthy, the disposal process even worse, and it results in more human lives lost than nuclear.
Is this from solar panels falling onto people? I'll admit I have never heard of a nuclear plant falling onto someone.
The risks of nuclear are huge - companies demand lavish subsidies and government underwriting before they'll consider building a new nuclear power plant. And the "red tape" you so casually dismiss is government and safety regulations like "don't build in a known earthquake zone" and "don't use substandard materials."
Of course, I agree the waste problem has already been solved - it's not like we're looking for a solution 60 years on, are we? We're just going to give it to a reputable company whose interest is in something other than its bottom line and share price, get rid of "red tape," close our eyes, and hope they haven't dumped it in our drinking water. Problem solved.
Telstra is forced to sell their copper at fixed wholesale prices (which they are continually trying to increase) to other service providers.
I read somewhere recently that Telstra at one point set the wholesale price well above its retail price...
Telstra is the Australian telco monopoly. It's a bit like BT in the UK, but without the customer dedication, commitment to upgrades or ethics, fairness, and sense of social responsibility of its management team. The new government sacked the board of NBN Co and has stacked the new board with ex- and current Telstra insiders. It's pretty obvious that once the NBN Co has finished rolling out the fibre network, the plan is to sell it to Telstra. This will ensure a fairer outcome for all Telstra shareholders, but may be a drag on the rest of the country.
Beautifully self-contradicted! You went from "I've done some hiring in the Aussie IT market recently" to "You dont get that non IT, HR people are asking this questions..." And a grammar fail as well.
Half the Unix admins I know use Macs. Some windows admins I know do too. And quite a few of the other IT specialists, like networks and storage, use Macs. And obviously none of them would know anything about scripting or an office suite, of course, because that's what windows home users do, especially if they're PAs and secretaries. They do it when they're not working on their home document control systems, setting up network shares and running their home SAP systems.
Please please please keep shuffling Mac users to the bottom of the pile. I will be sure to avoid any and every hiring manager who's stupid enough to choose staff based not on experience and skills but what they are buying for personal use...
It began a long time ago when Apple started to be "generous" with discounts and donations to schools.
Donating hardware, or heavily discounting it, is a far cry from donating software. The fact that you, in the previous paragraph, pointed that out and then decided that donating hardware by Apple is bad is odd. Is IBM or HP or Dell donating hardware similarly bad? Do you object to schools getting discounted hardware for some reason?
This reminds of how the Australian mining companies stopped growing environmental awareness from impacting their business. They lobbied the Australian Government, and the environmentalists moved from being government employees to mining company employees. I've heard mining company environmentalists say things like "We're not as bad as other mining companies when it comes to pollution" and "Some mining companies don't let their environmentalists leave their office. We have much more freedom" without a trace of irony.
This position will have the same effect. Whoever takes it will find themselves saying "We're better than Google when it comes to people's privacy" without even a trace of Fe to be found.
Then expect Disney's web site to be targeted, for a start. Actually, all the major movie studios' unoriginal and uninspiring copies of each other should make them targets of this law.
So, tell us, how does a company that insists it didn't give the NSA complete access and coincidentally uses cloud hosting providers like Amazon wind up giving the NSA it's entire database, plus updates in real time? Does anyone want to guess if S3 has a rule that states it must be replicated to one or more of the DCs in the US?
No, Bezos, I don't believe you when you say you would fight it, and I don't believe you when you say they NSA don't have complete access to each and every one of your systems at will. Encryption or no, Amazon is a honey pot. People pay them for the privilege of being snooped on by the NSA.
Any and all IP which they claim to own. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, source, legal documentation, real assets, anything that can be registered to have value and used in future court cases. Every scrap of paper. Every disk. All of it. Then lock it in a vault labelled "Danger -- Zombies -- Do NOT Open"
No. Open source the code under the BSD license. Let the world do with the source code as they will, and then it will die forever...
When the amount of development your OS gets suffers "compared to HP-UX" you are in astonishingly deep trouble.
This is so very very true. HP-UX hasn't had any meaningful update for over 10 years now, since v11 came out. And the hardware is obsolete, and appears to be on its way out as well - I've heard nothing regarding new IA64 chips from intel, and HP stupidly bet the farm on Intel not being more focused on destroying competing RISC business than they were on new technology.
I'm assuming this is a part-time position and she's the only one in her team...
Technically speaking, SWIFT *gave* the USA all that lovely private data free to be mined for the good of the EU citizens being spied on.
Yes, it was entirely voluntary or SWIFT would be barred from operating within the US or with any US banks outside the US.
If you're not in the US or a US citizen, I have a very hard time believing you'd be targeted so specifically without having done something specifically to deserve being targeted. Rather, I'd be inclined to think that you might believe yourself part of a generalized data snooping conspiracy that you believe the US perpetrates in all foreign domains.
It was just me and about 200 million other EU citizens. The US decided it was going to revoke the permission of SWIFT, the largest interbank exchange company in Europe, to operate in the US unless they voluntarily handed over all financial data for data mining.
The US has also been caught demanding lots of information from individual banks and online retailers.
The US government is not a nice bunch of people.
You don't have traffic cameras in the US? Are you sure about that?
And you do know the whole "Van that can detect your TV" is a myth, don't you? I think you've just discredited yourself...
If regulation is based out if the USA that will make it a no-go for me. The US already illegally snoops my EU-based bank account, illegally gets my UK-based purchase data and has illegally obtained SWIFT data in the past. A US-based regulator is not to be trusted.
Solaris is a technically good and high quality OS but its hardware support was limited. If you bought the Sun-branded boxes and Sun-branded cards, you were OK. However if you are white-boxing a server, you had to be careful to select chipsets that were on their compatibility list. Then support got murky at that point even then.
You sound like you've never had to mediate a 3-way vendor argument between the hardware vendor, the linux support vendor and the HBA vendor, all claiming that it's someone else's fault that the hardware/OS/HBA combo doesn't work, even though they assured you that it did before you bought it. Oh, and you're a top customer, so they want to keep you really really happy. But not "it actually works" kind of happy.
I really, really love Solaris, but let's face the facts. Outside of the SPARC platform, there is no reason for Solaris. Linux does everything as well or nearly as well. Linux is weaker in some areas, but not weak enough to justify the cost and lock-in of Solaris.
Spoken like someone who has never run them side by side in a large estate. Even 10+ years after Linux's enterprise debut, they're not even close. I've just had to reboot 3 RHEL 6 boxes twice each because for some reason they no longer scan the bus correctly. You have to add new disk, reboot, partition, and reboot again. Last time I had to reboot a Sun box because we added new disk was 2004, and that was because the site standards were rubbish and they were configuring their HBAs incorrectly. There's almost no comparison between Linux and Solaris, still, years after all kernel developers started concentrating on making Linux better for the datacentre. The last time I suggested sending a Linux kernel dump to RedHat or SUSE we all laughed. They don't even look at them, they just blame the hardware and suggest we update firmware. Then they cross their fingers and hope. And where's the fabled DTrace equivalent for Linux? I'm sure I missed that announcement, as when Solaris 10 was announced every Linux fanboy said it would be shipped and stable in Linux before Solaris 10 DVDs hit my desk. Fail.
Solaris exists for Oracle to milk legacy customers on support contracts who aren't ready or willing to migrate to Linux and commodity x86 hardware .
Or who want to run large databases with more than a few GB of RAM. Small databases seem fine on Linux, but Oracle or DB2 or Sybase don't seem as stable on Linux as on Solaris when you get up to 32+GB RAM.
There isn't much if any new development going on, and Oracle is only pushing Solaris to new customers as part of their big data warehouse solutions (where customers have $$$$$ and want to spend it with one vendor) where they want to get people locked in to one vendor.
Yes, and it's a crying shame. Oracle are terrible. I know of whole enterprises who jumped ship when Oracle took over. But Linux still isn't there, even though most places I'm working at these days have more Linux than Solaris, HP-UX or AIX, and usually more than all other Unix combined. But there's still too much of the amateur around Linux.
I just had a great idea for a kickstarter campaign - adjustable pressure keyboards. You tell the company what pressure you want, and you get a clickety keyboard carefully adjusted for the pressure you want, from those who like keyboards which are clunky but not too hard to press past the model M 'ideal' 80g through to, oh, say, 5-6 Kg of force to press each key. Keyboards at the upper end of the scale have slightly larger keys and ship with a free mallet. Really good for typing out emails like "No, you may not change the scope of the project because you feel like it, and no I don't feel like holding yet another meeting about it."
Actually, all of what you wrote is nonsense. Eight villages are to be destroyed next year alone: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/24/palestinian-villages-demolition-idf-hebron. There's no doubt in anyone's mind, including the Israeli military's, that the Palestinians own the land, and have done since the late 1800s, well before Israel existed, let alone started expanding. That doesn't matter to Israelis, demolishing Palestinians' homes does.
It's also the case that, where Palestinians have land, they are never allowed permits to build, but that's just a by-product of a racist society that doesn't believe in equal rights or the rule of law. Institutional racism is common and encouraged by successive Israeli governments, who then brag about it to get re-election. The Arab 20% of Israel don't get 5% of the education budget, for example.
Where there is illegal construction by Jews and non-Jews side by side, the non-Jewish buildings are demolished at a rate of 5 times more often than Jewish buildings, for example in East and West Jerusalem, even though there are more illegal Jewish-built buildings in West Jerusalem than there are in East Jerusalem.
I could go on, but as you're either woefully mis-informed or lying your teeth off in an effort to hide the truth about Israel, you'll never admit that what you posted was utterly and completely wrong, so I'll just sign off and hope you don't demolish too many more Palestinian houses in 2013...
Israel would immediately cease to exist as a Jewish state. If the Palesinians don't outnumber them now, they'll easily outbreed them. And then outvote them. Its going to have to be a two state solution.
Actually, the current Israeli PM is expected to explicitly rule out a two-state solution as his running platform as there are elections looming. He ran and won the last election there under the platform of single-handedly destroying the Oslo Accords and preventing a Palestinian state from being formed. I doubt the Israeli electorate are suddenly going to change and decide that, actually, they do believe in democracy or human rights for non-Jews.
Which means, when the borders are all settled, some of the Jews who built settlements in the West bank will find themselves under a Palestinian government.
No, actually this was, again, explicitly ruled out by the last Israeli government during negotiations, where all Jewish settlement blocks had to be a contiguous part of Israel. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Papers#Borders Apart from the obvious Israeli political abandonment of the two-state solution, the issue of water and resources means that it's just not practical for Israel to abandon the very lucrative occupation just for peace. Right now the occupation is funded by the UN and the EU, with the US flinging billions of dollars at Israel to keep it going. Why abandon such a lucrative source of income?
And I would be interested to find out if they run it to the settlements, or just the west J and metro areas.
It's an awesome excuse to steal more land and demolish more Palestinian villages in the West Bank - "We need it for a fibre optic connection to the settlements." (Never mind that it's likely to be run along existing telephone or power lines.)