I stand by my statement about people who make their living in music. I know and play with many of them. There's nothing insulting about that statement. It's just a fact.
How many professional musicians do you know and play with?
Many professional musicians do work part-time at other jobs (day-jobs) to make ends meet. Many teach and do other things besides playing to make what money they can. Very few can actually make a living just performing, and it's only the very, very tiniest percentage to who get to fame and fortune.
There are a lot of scientists and engineers who are also very fine musicians. The difference is that they are capable of doing something other than music. I'm one such person. I've been playing trumpet all my life. I've just never had any illusions about doing it for a living. I make my money as a Linux sysadmin. Been in the UNIX/Linux biz since '89.
People who make their living in music do so because they really aren't cut out to do anything else. I know. I'm married to one. She owns about $100,000 in instruments and makes about $45,000/year as a professional violinist.
I don't know ANY musicians who think they are due Great Wealth. They just want to make a living and pay the rent like the rest.
What's kind of funny in this discussion is that in the San Francisco area, the general population is complaining about all the techies at companies like Twitter, Zynga, etc who have taken over much of the city. Rents are going through the roof. $2500/month gets you a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment these days. More in better neighborhoods. Folks here are talking about how the techies are all self-indulgent and act entitled. Pretty much the same way you talk about artists.
Dude... To play as well as it takes for some no-talent schmuck to want to listen to something more than once takes a lifetime of very, very hard work. The problem is that people who aren't musicians have no appreciation for the work, heart and soul required for music to be good, let alone great.
A lot of science fiction was written for an adolescent audience and was intended as a boyish fantasy. Why complain about it being what it was intended to be? The problem is that Hollywood is taking material written for teens and then everyone expects them to be much more mature and grand then they could possibly be. Star Wars was just a horse opera in space, but I have to agree, there was never any excuse for Jar Jar Binks.
There is so much more depth and content in a novel than could possibly be explored or shown in a movie. I thought this film was well done for what it was.
Frankly, I felt the same way about "John Carter". The only real complaint I have about that film is the name of it. They should have kept the original Edgar Rice Burroughs title of "Princess of Mars".
Who says America is the greatest nation in the world! Azerbaijan already has time travel! Now if only we could get that gizmo for some stock market analysis...
McDonald's is developing robot technology for making burgers, etc. Once you automate out of existence the lowest form of work, what are those people going to do?
It is the natural order that wealth will concentrate in the hands of the very, very few. All through history there has been a vastly wealthy aristocracy and a vastly greater poor and peasant class. The only time there has been a sizable middle class is the last half of the 20th century, and that is mostly in the USA.
The problem with wealth being concentrated in the hands of the few is that their wealth doesn't circulate. It is the middle and lower classes who spend most of their wealth on goods and services. The wealthy spend a very small portion of their resources on goods and services, so their money stays tied up and out of the larger economy.
The economy is consumer driven and if the consumers do not have the money to spend, then there's little economy in which to employ workers, create goods, services and greater wealth.
If you automate away all of the jobs, who is going to buy your goods?
This holds true if the company is privately held and the owner is a single individual with 51+% ownership and full control. Most corporations are governed by a board of directors and there's loads of skullduggary there. As a CEO, you'll be on the board of other corporations and the CEOs of those corporations are on your board. It's a case of the foxes guarding the henhouse. You vote large pay for the CEO of another corporation and he in turn, votes large pay for you.
Ideally Executive Management works to maximize shareholder equity, but that's only true in your MBA textbooks. Remember Enron?
$44k?! You know this is a joke because so many people at both IBM and the "Justice" Department are laughing about it. IBM probably spends more on toilet paper in a month than $44k. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "No sh*t".
Automation has been putting humans out of jobs for nearly 100 years. Machines are more reliable and predictable than humans, don't have unions or pension plans and never take vacations other than maintenance downtimes. Machines are vastly more accurate and reliable in storing and processing information. Ask any banker.
The ultimate problem with automation at the level we're approaching is that no matter how much cheaper or reliably you can make stuff, if nobody can afford it, you CAN'T make it cheap enough. The engine which drives the economy is the purchasing power of the middle class. Automate too many people out of productive work without them having another way of earning a living and what you've done is to eliminate the market you sell your goods to.
I'm not suggesting that VMware doesn't have a great product, or that the features you mention aren't a great idea. What I said was that 90% of the value in VMware's ESX product are in simple HA and vMotion. Storage vMotion is cool, but it isn't a make or break thing. You can live without it just fine. Multi-processor fault tolerance is cool, but it's EXPENSIVE, both in terms of hardware, licensing and resources used. ***VERY EXPENSIVE***. When people find out just how much it will cost, many will simply pass.
When Open Stack can do both HA and vMotion, that'll be sufficient for many, many people. I know it would be at the startup where I'm at now.
Yes, VMware has some great features, but just how much are you willing to pay for them?
I used to work at VMware as a tech support engineer. VMware's product has a lot of bells and whistles. Just like Microsoft Office, they keep adding stuff to it that few will ever use. The two most important features in the ESX product are High Availability and vMotion. It's my understanding that Open Stack supports something akin to vMotion, and possibly even vStorage Motion, where you live migrate both the VM to a different host and the VM files to a different data store. That's killer.
But I don't think Open Stack supports anything equivalent to High Availability, where a VM will automatically reboot on a different host if it's current host goes down. If they could do that, I'd highly recommend everyone sell their VMware stock.
These two features are the heart and soul of the value in VMware's ESX product. If and when Open Stack can do both of those things, you'll have 90% of what you really need in a VM environment.
Nothing "Happened". *No* operating system is 100% secure, especially when humans are involved. At the place where I work, people send around user names and passwords in e-mail. Twice I've sent out notes to the entire company admonishing them to not do that and why, but the practice continues.
Beyond simply the operating system, you've got vulnerabilities in things like.net and java.
I'm an Old School audiophile. Two channel stereo. I have a Linn LP-12 turntable I bought 25 years ago that still works just fine. When I get the urge, I dub to digital a given disk, but it's a pain in the butt because there's a lot of manual editing, labeling of the sound files, etc, to make it something you can pull into a music server. But mostly I just play the disks when I feel like hearing one.
Even though the disks are decades old, as is the turntable, when played back through a good system, they still sound very good.
Several years ago I purchased a hard copy of the Doris Kerns Goodwin book, "Team of Rivals", which is about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. An extraordinary work, but it's HUGE! I tried taking it with me during my work commute, but it was a real pain to stand on the bus and try to read. So it just sat on the shelf.
I purchased an e-copy of the book from Amazon. I have a kindle reader on my Android phone that allows me to pull it out and read a few pages whenever I have dead time and now I'm finally getting a chance to read it.
We own a 92 year old, 1100 sq ft bungalow in California and there really isn't all that much room to store books. I've also pitched out about 2/3rds of my music collection due to lack of space. I'm down to about 600 records and about 600 CDs. I've ripped all of the CDs to digital and now listen to them off of a music server. The records will take a LOT longer.
Hard copy books are cool, but after a time, stuff you collect is just stuff...
That being said, I totally agree that tech books have to be hard copy. Can't work with that off of an e-reader.
From what I read, no passwords were in plain text. The crackers that breached the forum got encrypted passwords, but chances are they've got a password cracker strong enough to break the encryption.
S**t happens. I keep my passwords in an encrypted safe on my desktop machine and when I get a chance to update my Ubuntu forums password, I will.
I've had worse stuff happen to me. I figure to save my annoyance chips for something important.
It's good the Ubuntu Forums has alerted us that this breach has occurred and that we need to change our passwords. It would be nice however if when they put up the announcement page, thus taking Ubuntu Forums off-line that they also give us a link to a page or other device to change our password.
I'd change my password if there were a way to do it.
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Q. What's the secret to becoming a millionaire jazz musician?
A. You start out with $2 million and then you start gigging.
I stand by my statement about people who make their living in music. I know and play with many of them. There's nothing insulting about that statement. It's just a fact.
How many professional musicians do you know and play with?
Many professional musicians do work part-time at other jobs (day-jobs) to make ends meet. Many teach and do other things besides playing to make what money they can. Very few can actually make a living just performing, and it's only the very, very tiniest percentage to who get to fame and fortune.
There are a lot of scientists and engineers who are also very fine musicians. The difference is that they are capable of doing something other than music. I'm one such person. I've been playing trumpet all my life. I've just never had any illusions about doing it for a living. I make my money as a Linux sysadmin. Been in the UNIX/Linux biz since '89.
People who make their living in music do so because they really aren't cut out to do anything else. I know. I'm married to one. She owns about $100,000 in instruments and makes about $45,000/year as a professional violinist.
I don't know ANY musicians who think they are due Great Wealth. They just want to make a living and pay the rent like the rest.
What's kind of funny in this discussion is that in the San Francisco area, the general population is complaining about all the techies at companies like Twitter, Zynga, etc who have taken over much of the city. Rents are going through the roof. $2500/month gets you a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment these days. More in better neighborhoods. Folks here are talking about how the techies are all self-indulgent and act entitled. Pretty much the same way you talk about artists.
Dude... To play as well as it takes for some no-talent schmuck to want to listen to something more than once takes a lifetime of very, very hard work. The problem is that people who aren't musicians have no appreciation for the work, heart and soul required for music to be good, let alone great.
Clearly you don't.
A lot of science fiction was written for an adolescent audience and was intended as a boyish fantasy. Why complain about it being what it was intended to be? The problem is that Hollywood is taking material written for teens and then everyone expects them to be much more mature and grand then they could possibly be. Star Wars was just a horse opera in space, but I have to agree, there was never any excuse for Jar Jar Binks.
There is so much more depth and content in a novel than could possibly be explored or shown in a movie. I thought this film was well done for what it was.
Frankly, I felt the same way about "John Carter". The only real complaint I have about that film is the name of it. They should have kept the original Edgar Rice Burroughs title of "Princess of Mars".
Who says America is the greatest nation in the world! Azerbaijan already has time travel! Now if only we could get that gizmo for some stock market analysis...
McDonald's is developing robot technology for making burgers, etc. Once you automate out of existence the lowest form of work, what are those people going to do? It is the natural order that wealth will concentrate in the hands of the very, very few. All through history there has been a vastly wealthy aristocracy and a vastly greater poor and peasant class. The only time there has been a sizable middle class is the last half of the 20th century, and that is mostly in the USA.
The problem with wealth being concentrated in the hands of the few is that their wealth doesn't circulate. It is the middle and lower classes who spend most of their wealth on goods and services. The wealthy spend a very small portion of their resources on goods and services, so their money stays tied up and out of the larger economy.
The economy is consumer driven and if the consumers do not have the money to spend, then there's little economy in which to employ workers, create goods, services and greater wealth.
If you automate away all of the jobs, who is going to buy your goods?
This holds true if the company is privately held and the owner is a single individual with 51+% ownership and full control. Most corporations are governed by a board of directors and there's loads of skullduggary there. As a CEO, you'll be on the board of other corporations and the CEOs of those corporations are on your board. It's a case of the foxes guarding the henhouse. You vote large pay for the CEO of another corporation and he in turn, votes large pay for you.
Ideally Executive Management works to maximize shareholder equity, but that's only true in your MBA textbooks. Remember Enron?
$44k?! You know this is a joke because so many people at both IBM and the "Justice" Department are laughing about it. IBM probably spends more on toilet paper in a month than $44k. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "No sh*t".
The ultimate problem with automation at the level we're approaching is that no matter how much cheaper or reliably you can make stuff, if nobody can afford it, you CAN'T make it cheap enough. The engine which drives the economy is the purchasing power of the middle class. Automate too many people out of productive work without them having another way of earning a living and what you've done is to eliminate the market you sell your goods to.
Where's the kaboom?
This looks like an opportunity to me.
I'm not suggesting that VMware doesn't have a great product, or that the features you mention aren't a great idea. What I said was that 90% of the value in VMware's ESX product are in simple HA and vMotion. Storage vMotion is cool, but it isn't a make or break thing. You can live without it just fine. Multi-processor fault tolerance is cool, but it's EXPENSIVE, both in terms of hardware, licensing and resources used. ***VERY EXPENSIVE***. When people find out just how much it will cost, many will simply pass.
When Open Stack can do both HA and vMotion, that'll be sufficient for many, many people. I know it would be at the startup where I'm at now.
Yes, VMware has some great features, but just how much are you willing to pay for them?
But I don't think Open Stack supports anything equivalent to High Availability, where a VM will automatically reboot on a different host if it's current host goes down. If they could do that, I'd highly recommend everyone sell their VMware stock.
These two features are the heart and soul of the value in VMware's ESX product. If and when Open Stack can do both of those things, you'll have 90% of what you really need in a VM environment.
I use xrandr with Windowmaker. Works fine for me. I rotate one of my monitors so I can view long listings and docs. Love the screen real estate!
Nothing "Happened". *No* operating system is 100% secure, especially when humans are involved. At the place where I work, people send around user names and passwords in e-mail. Twice I've sent out notes to the entire company admonishing them to not do that and why, but the practice continues.
.net and java.
Beyond simply the operating system, you've got vulnerabilities in things like
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-040
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-3091/Microsoft-Asp.net.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
If you really believe that Windows is just as secure as Linux, then go ahead believing that. You're going to anyway.
I'm an Old School audiophile. Two channel stereo. I have a Linn LP-12 turntable I bought 25 years ago that still works just fine. When I get the urge, I dub to digital a given disk, but it's a pain in the butt because there's a lot of manual editing, labeling of the sound files, etc, to make it something you can pull into a music server. But mostly I just play the disks when I feel like hearing one.
Even though the disks are decades old, as is the turntable, when played back through a good system, they still sound very good.
Several years ago I purchased a hard copy of the Doris Kerns Goodwin book, "Team of Rivals", which is about Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. An extraordinary work, but it's HUGE! I tried taking it with me during my work commute, but it was a real pain to stand on the bus and try to read. So it just sat on the shelf.
I purchased an e-copy of the book from Amazon. I have a kindle reader on my Android phone that allows me to pull it out and read a few pages whenever I have dead time and now I'm finally getting a chance to read it.
We own a 92 year old, 1100 sq ft bungalow in California and there really isn't all that much room to store books. I've also pitched out about 2/3rds of my music collection due to lack of space. I'm down to about 600 records and about 600 CDs. I've ripped all of the CDs to digital and now listen to them off of a music server. The records will take a LOT longer.
Hard copy books are cool, but after a time, stuff you collect is just stuff...
That being said, I totally agree that tech books have to be hard copy. Can't work with that off of an e-reader.
From what I read, no passwords were in plain text. The crackers that breached the forum got encrypted passwords, but chances are they've got a password cracker strong enough to break the encryption.
S**t happens. I keep my passwords in an encrypted safe on my desktop machine and when I get a chance to update my Ubuntu forums password, I will.
I've had worse stuff happen to me. I figure to save my annoyance chips for something important.
I'm still trying to figure out if I'm a chicken or an egg...
Shuttleworth? Me? I've been called a lot of things in my life, but that's not one of them.
I wouldn't mind being him. His bank account is a *LOT* better than mine.
Feeling a little self-righteous tonight are we?
It's good the Ubuntu Forums has alerted us that this breach has occurred and that we need to change our passwords. It would be nice however if when they put up the announcement page, thus taking Ubuntu Forums off-line that they also give us a link to a page or other device to change our password.
I'd change my password if there were a way to do it.
What? Haven't you ever been to Bakersfield?
itsa.smallworld.afterall...