Been running solar (3 KWh) for ten years. It is wonderful. I'm adding an additional 6 KWh next month. Of course, I'm in California, so I get sun 350 days per year.
I live outside of Los Angeles. In my case, there's a rail station about five miles from my house. There is also a train station a block from my office. I *could* ride a bike there and then take a train. I honestly would like to. However, the total commute by car is about 40 minutes (17 miles) door-to-door. The MINIMUM commute by rail would be three hours door to door.
I'm mentioning them because of the overall cloud vendor solution. I'm expecting both Microsoft and Amazon to have multiple redundant centers. We have AWS projects, Azure projects, and use hosted Office 365 for Exchange.
My company has 77,000 O365 licenses and use it for our email hosting as well as storing documents on OneDrive for Business. I kept seeing warnings about the web page for o365 not working.
I would expect that a cloud vendor such as Microsoft or AWS would have multiple redundancies in place so that any one data center going down would not affect usage.
I just am still not a cloud fan. It works great but when it doesn't - there's nothing we can do.
The XP machines were supported until April 8, 2014. After that we had two years extended support. I got rid of 900 of them in 2016. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=Microsoft%20Windows%20XP%20Service%20Pack%202
Wow, that's pathetic. I just retired the last of my XP machines from 2005/6 a few years ago, and my Win 7 machines are humming along nicely.
If they want to be taken seriously, they need a longer support cycle. Up until now, I thought they had a great ecosystem. My son uses Chromebooks at his school, and everything there is cloud based.
My TRS-80 model I was in my room. I spent hours learning to program on it and playing games before the Apple II came out. That had a modem and I was able to connect to BBSs and Compuserve. Then I went downhill.
The head of WP development some years back mentioned how the phone business was then mature, that nothing else was happening. Hence the reason MS didn't want to invest too much - even after Ballmer bought Nokia. Basically, they said we're all using a glass slab with radios, cameras, and a touch screen. There has to be a radical shift to make things interesting again.
The question is, what will that shift be? Wearables? Implantables? A cool triangle shaped thingy on your red shirt?
I'm sure someone smarter than I is thinking of it, but we haven't noticed "it" yet.
I read these articles, and the ones in the '90s as well. I'm not convinced yet this isn't a cyclical thing. Keep in mind the Permian extinction from 250 million years ago. No people were involved.
However, there was a great article yesterday I read in New York Times, which was updated from a 2017 version. It was discussing how the "wet bulb" temperature will cause humans and other mammals to die off faster than ever before, especially in the tropics.
The question I always come back to is - what do we do? Do we suddenly turn off every greenhouse gas emitting vehicle and machine? Do we plow over our roads and cities with grassland to absorb CO2 and make more O2? Do we kill off 3b to 4b people to make room for those left?
Like others have reported, this survey is pretty much useless. An IT manager making $150/year in silicon valley is on the poor side, while one in - say, Lincoln Nebraska - would be very well off.
Same goes for the other numbers. Yes, they are relative, but do not take into account regional differences.
I do know soccer. in fact, when the local soccer organization called me to be a coach for my then-six-year-old son, I asked if they carried the ball over the goal line or passed it. They said I was qualified.
Several coaching and referee clinics later, I learned a ton and coached as well as refereed for several years.
I keep arguing with my (English) father in law that one of the big problems with soccer is the lack of scoring. Getting rid of offside would improve that.
Soccer (football) is a decent sport. However, it would be MUCH improved if the lame offside rule were removed. This way an attacker can be waiting down towards the goal, receive a kick and score. Also, there wouldn't be these stupid calls where the person was offside by six inches and they take a free kick.
Still - planning on going to France for the Women's World Cup next year. At least they don't fall to the ground as much as the men.
Not just that - but they've made them worse. I loved my SII, my Note II, and my S5. Since then, the S6 was horrid, the Note 7 was good but explosive, and the S9 is awful.
I switched to Iphone - not as good but less annoying.
Totally agree. I have 21 staff under me. I've not done a redesign in ten years, simply because if I do, I'll be forced into an open office situation. It is already noisy enough with analysts talking in their 8x10' cubicles iwth 6' walls.
Waze was on Android Auto? I've been trying that with my wife's SGS7 and my son's LGV20. Neither show up.
FWIW, Apple does copy many of the good points about Android. However - and this is why I switched from Android to Iphone - they don't require a bazillion confirmations and stuff just works. I've not once gotten a , "Unfortunately, the process com.android.<insert app here> has stopped working" type message on my Iphones. I also don't have to reboot them every few days because of memory leaks.
I do miss being able to root the device and putting something like Cyanogenmod on the phone.
You are absolutely correct. I need to get rid of this computer, my house, and - while I'm at it - encourage 4b to 6b people to commit suicide so that we can bring earth back to population levels in the 1800s.
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Been running solar (3 KWh) for ten years. It is wonderful. I'm adding an additional 6 KWh next month. Of course, I'm in California, so I get sun 350 days per year.
I've tried to squeeze my 6'4" (191cm) frame into a Smart Car. It wasn't fun.
I live outside of Los Angeles. In my case, there's a rail station about five miles from my house. There is also a train station a block from my office. I *could* ride a bike there and then take a train. I honestly would like to. However, the total commute by car is about 40 minutes (17 miles) door-to-door. The MINIMUM commute by rail would be three hours door to door.
Thanks, I'll take my car.
I'm mentioning them because of the overall cloud vendor solution. I'm expecting both Microsoft and Amazon to have multiple redundant centers. We have AWS projects, Azure projects, and use hosted Office 365 for Exchange.
The company has gone all-in with cloud.
My company has 77,000 O365 licenses and use it for our email hosting as well as storing documents on OneDrive for Business. I kept seeing warnings about the web page for o365 not working.
I would expect that a cloud vendor such as Microsoft or AWS would have multiple redundancies in place so that any one data center going down would not affect usage.
I just am still not a cloud fan. It works great but when it doesn't - there's nothing we can do.
The XP machines were supported until April 8, 2014. After that we had two years extended support. I got rid of 900 of them in 2016. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=Microsoft%20Windows%20XP%20Service%20Pack%202
Wow, that's pathetic. I just retired the last of my XP machines from 2005/6 a few years ago, and my Win 7 machines are humming along nicely.
If they want to be taken seriously, they need a longer support cycle. Up until now, I thought they had a great ecosystem. My son uses Chromebooks at his school, and everything there is cloud based.
But, five years??
Next it will be instructing us lowly humans to build new data centers so we can keep ourselves cool.
I remember it only running on my Apple IIe. Honestly surprised a kid was (a) using a Macintosh PC and (b) knew enough to tunnel into Apple's servers.
My TRS-80 model I was in my room. I spent hours learning to program on it and playing games before the Apple II came out. That had a modem and I was able to connect to BBSs and Compuserve. Then I went downhill.
The head of WP development some years back mentioned how the phone business was then mature, that nothing else was happening. Hence the reason MS didn't want to invest too much - even after Ballmer bought Nokia. Basically, they said we're all using a glass slab with radios, cameras, and a touch screen. There has to be a radical shift to make things interesting again.
The question is, what will that shift be? Wearables? Implantables? A cool triangle shaped thingy on your red shirt?
I'm sure someone smarter than I is thinking of it, but we haven't noticed "it" yet.
I read these articles, and the ones in the '90s as well. I'm not convinced yet this isn't a cyclical thing. Keep in mind the Permian extinction from 250 million years ago. No people were involved.
However, there was a great article yesterday I read in New York Times, which was updated from a 2017 version. It was discussing how the "wet bulb" temperature will cause humans and other mammals to die off faster than ever before, especially in the tropics.
The question I always come back to is - what do we do? Do we suddenly turn off every greenhouse gas emitting vehicle and machine? Do we plow over our roads and cities with grassland to absorb CO2 and make more O2? Do we kill off 3b to 4b people to make room for those left?
Not an easy answer.
Humble apologies.
1. https://medium.com/@drewfrench/grass-fed-beef-the-most-vegan-item-in-the-supermarket-8c46b45a0d47
2. https://www.regenerative.com/magazine/six-problems-monoculture-farming
3. http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/monoculture-crops-environment/
I could go on.
Meat is healthy. Processed vegetables are not only unhealthy but destructive to the environment.
This is just so sad.
Like others have reported, this survey is pretty much useless. An IT manager making $150/year in silicon valley is on the poor side, while one in - say, Lincoln Nebraska - would be very well off.
Same goes for the other numbers. Yes, they are relative, but do not take into account regional differences.
I'm just thinking that Otto was able to land the plane in Airplane! so why not fly more now?
I do know soccer. in fact, when the local soccer organization called me to be a coach for my then-six-year-old son, I asked if they carried the ball over the goal line or passed it. They said I was qualified.
Several coaching and referee clinics later, I learned a ton and coached as well as refereed for several years.
Still don't like offside.
concur - i prefer hockey for just that reason.
I keep arguing with my (English) father in law that one of the big problems with soccer is the lack of scoring. Getting rid of offside would improve that.
Soccer (football) is a decent sport. However, it would be MUCH improved if the lame offside rule were removed. This way an attacker can be waiting down towards the goal, receive a kick and score. Also, there wouldn't be these stupid calls where the person was offside by six inches and they take a free kick.
Still - planning on going to France for the Women's World Cup next year. At least they don't fall to the ground as much as the men.
Not just that - but they've made them worse. I loved my SII, my Note II, and my S5. Since then, the S6 was horrid, the Note 7 was good but explosive, and the S9 is awful.
I switched to Iphone - not as good but less annoying.
Totally agree. I have 21 staff under me. I've not done a redesign in ten years, simply because if I do, I'll be forced into an open office situation. It is already noisy enough with analysts talking in their 8x10' cubicles iwth 6' walls.
No one wants an open office.
I am so glad my hard drive doesn't have a member.
I prefer using 5.25" floppies anyway.
Waze was on Android Auto? I've been trying that with my wife's SGS7 and my son's LGV20. Neither show up.
FWIW, Apple does copy many of the good points about Android. However - and this is why I switched from Android to Iphone - they don't require a bazillion confirmations and stuff just works. I've not once gotten a , "Unfortunately, the process com.android.<insert app here> has stopped working" type message on my Iphones. I also don't have to reboot them every few days because of memory leaks.
I do miss being able to root the device and putting something like Cyanogenmod on the phone.
You are absolutely correct. I need to get rid of this computer, my house, and - while I'm at it - encourage 4b to 6b people to commit suicide so that we can bring earth back to population levels in the 1800s.