Middle ages, Huh? What about the Spanish-American and Indian wars of the late 1800's? The middle ages ended in the 1500's, well before the Europeans stole most of the new world from the original occupants.
Then by your logic the Americans should get out of the parts of the country that were won by conquests, which is most of the country including the original 13 colonies.
I'm not even going to start on the European countries, or the precious Arabs.
Get over it. Israel won it's wars fair and square. If the Arabs won a single war do you think for a minute that there wouldn't have been a holocaust that would make the Nazi's look like amateurs?
Bullshit. The people at the top of the pyramid could easily be replaced for a fraction of whay they're being paid, salary, perks, stock options. It's more of the same old boy network that's been very well documented by anyone who hasn't imbibed in the right wing anti-worker kool-aid as you obviously have.
I've lost track of how many failed executives and managers I've suffered under. I'll take 50% of what they pull down and couldn't fuckup any worse than they did.
While training is usually useful (but one can also learn by RTFM'ing) local playgrounds where a developer or systems administrator can have some actual hands on experience is even more vital.
It seems to me that government is less evil than corporations right now. I'd welcome its intervention in ensuring that the internet isn't hijacked by corporate evil-doers.
Companies don't want it good, they want it cheap. Training...read a book. Test hardware and software that a sysadmin can break and fix, sorry too expensive, can't have it.
Just a week or so ago I wanted to take a resource I controlled and partition it into two separate resources on rare occasions. Clueless management wouldn't allow me to do so. Reason, in their opinion it didn't make sense to do so. Beat head against the nearest wall.
Politicians need money to win the next election. Corporations have the money to give. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the connection and obvious solution to the problem, remove the need for money.
1) Pass a constitutional amendment that states that money does not equal speech. 2) Give all the candidates equal and free access to the public airwaves. If the cable, satellite and TV companies don't like it revoke their license. Someone else will gladly take it over. 3) Let the US Government printing office provide print materials for mailing their fliers, signs,... 4) Post office provides free, or paid by the treasury (new election tax) services. 5) Forbid any candidate to spend a cent on their election.
Get rid of the payroll tax and implement a one percent surtax on all income. Earned via wages, interest, dividends, exercised stock options, carried interest and so on. We'd be able to reduce the rates on working people while making the rich pay their fair share.
Actually the next COBOL date problem will occur at 23:53:48 on Sep 17, 2042. The IBM 8-byte hardware clock will have all its bits set to one and then wrap back to Jan 1, 1900.
Don't laugh but there's still a lot of old assembler code out there that many major corporations depend upon. With very few people under the age of 40 able to modify said programs anyone with the skill set is going to be in high demand.
z/OS on a z196 processor supports up to 80 CPU's per lpar with up to 1TB memory per lpar. Hiperdispatch technology alleviates most of the MP effects of dispatching tasks in large CPU configurations . Parallel sysplex technology provides for the intelligent dispatch of units of work across up to 32 loosely coupled systems. Do the math. 80*32=2560 processors, 32 TB memory. Full fault tolerance for the hardware and the OS. Rolling IPL's of each lpar allows the rest of the sysplex to keep on doing your critical business work.
An IBM mainframe filesystem, OS VTOC, was developed during their S360 project in the mid-1960's and is still going strong 45 years later. An optional enhancement, Indexed VTOC's became available in the 1980's, but the original design is still going strong.
Even though they aren't the same chip, IBM uses the technology and most of the manufacturing processes for the Power series CPU's for its very lucrative mainframe line. The current Power 6 technology is used for IBM's z10 processors and the next generation z11's will be powered by the new Power 7 based CPU's.
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Middle ages, Huh? What about the Spanish-American and Indian wars of the late 1800's? The middle ages ended in the 1500's, well before the Europeans stole most of the new world from the original occupants.
Then by your logic the Americans should get out of the parts of the country that were won by conquests, which is most of the country including the original 13 colonies.
I'm not even going to start on the European countries, or the precious Arabs.
Get over it. Israel won it's wars fair and square. If the Arabs won a single war do you think for a minute that there wouldn't have been a holocaust that would make the Nazi's look like amateurs?
Sounds like RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) for mainframe operating systems (zOS and zVM). It's been around for 40+ years.
Bullshit. The people at the top of the pyramid could easily be replaced for a fraction of whay they're being paid, salary, perks, stock options. It's more of the same old boy network that's been very well documented by anyone who hasn't imbibed in the right wing anti-worker kool-aid as you obviously have.
I've lost track of how many failed executives and managers I've suffered under. I'll take 50% of what they pull down and couldn't fuckup any worse than they did.
While training is usually useful (but one can also learn by RTFM'ing) local playgrounds where a developer or systems administrator can have some actual hands on experience is even more vital.
Anyone who's surprised by this decision is crazier then I am.
Auditability.
I have some magic moon dust to sell also.
It seems to me that government is less evil than corporations right now. I'd welcome its intervention in ensuring that the internet isn't hijacked by corporate evil-doers.
Excellent location for Simon Jester to hang out in.
Companies don't want it good, they want it cheap. Training...read a book. Test hardware and software that a sysadmin can break and fix, sorry too expensive, can't have it.
Just a week or so ago I wanted to take a resource I controlled and partition it into two separate resources on rare occasions. Clueless management wouldn't allow me to do so. Reason, in their opinion it didn't make sense to do so. Beat head against the nearest wall.
Politicians need money to win the next election. Corporations have the money to give. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the connection and obvious solution to the problem, remove the need for money.
1) Pass a constitutional amendment that states that money does not equal speech.
2) Give all the candidates equal and free access to the public airwaves. If the cable, satellite and TV companies don't like it revoke their license. Someone else will gladly take it over.
3) Let the US Government printing office provide print materials for mailing their fliers, signs,...
4) Post office provides free, or paid by the treasury (new election tax) services.
5) Forbid any candidate to spend a cent on their election.
FINI.
Get rid of the payroll tax and implement a one percent surtax on all income. Earned via wages, interest, dividends, exercised stock options, carried interest and so on. We'd be able to reduce the rates on working people while making the rich pay their fair share.
It'll never happen though.
My manager once asked me whether a technician should be paid more than their manager. Said manager didn't like my answer.
I have a deck of punch cards from High School circa 1975 that I can restore into a usable format without too much difficulty.
Actually the next COBOL date problem will occur at 23:53:48 on Sep 17, 2042. The IBM 8-byte hardware clock will have all its bits set to one and then wrap back to Jan 1, 1900.
The latest instance of management by magazine.
Don't laugh but there's still a lot of old assembler code out there that many major corporations depend upon. With very few people under the age of 40 able to modify said programs anyone with the skill set is going to be in high demand.
Download a copy of the Principles of Operation manual from IBM's web site and take a gander at it. http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr008.pdf
z/OS on a z196 processor supports up to 80 CPU's per lpar with up to 1TB memory per lpar. Hiperdispatch technology alleviates most of the MP effects of dispatching tasks in large CPU configurations . Parallel sysplex technology provides for the intelligent dispatch of units of work across up to 32 loosely coupled systems. Do the math. 80*32=2560 processors, 32 TB memory. Full fault tolerance for the hardware and the OS. Rolling IPL's of each lpar allows the rest of the sysplex to keep on doing your critical business work.
Methinks he should have ordered the hoverboard option for his Segway.
An IBM mainframe filesystem, OS VTOC, was developed during their S360 project in the mid-1960's and is still going strong 45 years later. An optional enhancement, Indexed VTOC's became available in the 1980's, but the original design is still going strong.
Has got to be z/OS's IDC3009I message where the combination's of return and reason codes go on for 5165 lines in the message manual.
My management would first ask whether it costs anything to use. If the answer is no then their answer is yes. Support, just ask the ether.
Any religion can talk about politics on the pulpit all they want as long as they give up their tax exempt status.
Even though they aren't the same chip, IBM uses the technology and most of the manufacturing processes for the Power series CPU's for its very lucrative mainframe line. The current Power 6 technology is used for IBM's z10 processors and the next generation z11's will be powered by the new Power 7 based CPU's.
This is money well spent by IBM.