The unfortunate thing is that these large companies have far too much political bullshit and just simply don't get rid of the right people. Rather than cost cutting by cheaping out on benefits and doing mass layoffs dictated by accountants, if they had actual data about how their worst workers a) are a waste of money, and b) kill morale among the ranks, then perhaps they wouldn't be in the position to have to axe 10000 people regardless of individual performance.
If nothing else, an anonymous "review" of a person's manager annually would help tremendously... well, if someone had the courage to fire individuals instead of mass-printing pink slips.
As someone who quit his job at HP today, I'm not sure if I'm suffering from prefrontal lobe issues and missed the sarcasm, or if you don't know how it is to work for HP these days...
Well, it makes sense that if they didn't see enough financial benefit to broadcasting it, but there's a strong enough fan base, to sell it to them directly. Capitalism working well. Bravo!
The AOL purchase of Time Warner was just a way for AOL to try to use its share price to turn into something lasting. They knew at the time that their business was heading towards obsolescence. This was rather inevitable.
Blades rarely make sense.
Most blades available are not interconnected in any meaningful way, so you're really looking at independent systems, just of a small form factor.
Why use blades? Well, they're space efficient. Great, unless you're actually using a lot of them, and don't have too much space. Because if you don't have too much space, you probably don't have too much cooling. If you don't have too much cooling, then you've totally killed your argument for blades based upon space.
A rack full of HP BL40p blades puts out something on the order of 53k BTU. That's one rack. If you're hosting your stuff in a colo, then if the data center doesn't give a shit that you're pumping out that much heat from one rack, then they're not concerned about their other customers and the "commitment" they made to them. No data centers I know of are built to cool that much heat density... and if someone has the money to build space that can be cooled to that extent, then they can just make the damn room bigger and spread out the heat.
Blades rarely make any sense.
I'd think that getting a booth in a trade show in London would give you European and some American exposure...
And have you spoken to representatives from Sun or Microsoft? I'm sure that both have opportunities to help you match up your products with people looking for solutions on their own platform with people looking for that type of solution.
Well, no... almost all of the ones they know about got caught. How many incidents were simply covered up? How many of the really good ones made it look like a typical software-gone-bad-and-erased-the-data?
We all know that crime statistics are highly skewed by the reporting process...
I can't help but to think that any time any part of any level of government takes away the notion that another part of government can overstep its bounds... it's got to be a good thing.
I wish that someone would take the Feds to task on their belief that they somehow have jurisdiction if someone grows pot in his closet.
The Federal government goes so far beyond its Constitutional mandate it makes me sick. It's as though the executive and legislature have had someone rip the 10th Amendment out of their pocket-sezed Constitution pamphlets.
How often do the people writing the checks have a full understanding of anything? I'm not talking about the scientists wanting to use sensor nets, I'm talking about the money.
I wonder how much things like the movie The Day After Tomorrow and such influenced people to get these things out and deployed, both for the reason that they're good for genuine science and also because someone agreed to pay for them after seeing that movie.
If it were "that far out in the middle of nowhere", there wouldn't be NIMBYs around to bitch. This is about rural areas.
I don't even understand what the fuck point you're making. No, we're not all going to die if there isn't cell phone service. You might, in fact, be sick of having people call you when you don't want to be disturbed. There is certainly, though, merit to having the ability to have cell service just about anywhere. If you can't see it, you're blinded by your prejudice against it.
If you don't want to be called, turn off your phone.
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Well, if it has a power save mode, is it a Sleeper Cell?
The unfortunate thing is that these large companies have far too much political bullshit and just simply don't get rid of the right people . Rather than cost cutting by cheaping out on benefits and doing mass layoffs dictated by accountants, if they had actual data about how their worst workers a) are a waste of money, and b) kill morale among the ranks, then perhaps they wouldn't be in the position to have to axe 10000 people regardless of individual performance.
If nothing else, an anonymous "review" of a person's manager annually would help tremendously... well, if someone had the courage to fire individuals instead of mass-printing pink slips.
As someone who quit his job at HP today, I'm not sure if I'm suffering from prefrontal lobe issues and missed the sarcasm, or if you don't know how it is to work for HP these days...
Well, it makes sense that if they didn't see enough financial benefit to broadcasting it, but there's a strong enough fan base, to sell it to them directly. Capitalism working well. Bravo!
The AOL purchase of Time Warner was just a way for AOL to try to use its share price to turn into something lasting. They knew at the time that their business was heading towards obsolescence. This was rather inevitable.
Yeah.
HP, instead of calling its big boxes Superdomes, should have used Thunderdrome!
Blades rarely make sense. Most blades available are not interconnected in any meaningful way, so you're really looking at independent systems, just of a small form factor. Why use blades? Well, they're space efficient. Great, unless you're actually using a lot of them, and don't have too much space. Because if you don't have too much space, you probably don't have too much cooling. If you don't have too much cooling, then you've totally killed your argument for blades based upon space. A rack full of HP BL40p blades puts out something on the order of 53k BTU. That's one rack. If you're hosting your stuff in a colo, then if the data center doesn't give a shit that you're pumping out that much heat from one rack, then they're not concerned about their other customers and the "commitment" they made to them. No data centers I know of are built to cool that much heat density... and if someone has the money to build space that can be cooled to that extent, then they can just make the damn room bigger and spread out the heat. Blades rarely make any sense.
I'd think that getting a booth in a trade show in London would give you European and some American exposure...
And have you spoken to representatives from Sun or Microsoft? I'm sure that both have opportunities to help you match up your products with people looking for solutions on their own platform with people looking for that type of solution.
Al Capone gives Return of the Syph a 0-star rating.
They hide the boot messages so you don't get all confused. It's like MS Bob for Linux. Don't want you all confused.
Now the good news: almost all of them got caught.
Well, no... almost all of the ones they know about got caught. How many incidents were simply covered up? How many of the really good ones made it look like a typical software-gone-bad-and-erased-the-data?
We all know that crime statistics are highly skewed by the reporting process...
I can't help but to think that any time any part of any level of government takes away the notion that another part of government can overstep its bounds... it's got to be a good thing.
I wish that someone would take the Feds to task on their belief that they somehow have jurisdiction if someone grows pot in his closet.
The Federal government goes so far beyond its Constitutional mandate it makes me sick. It's as though the executive and legislature have had someone rip the 10th Amendment out of their pocket-sezed Constitution pamphlets.
I'm as cynical as the next guy, but how the fuck can someone challenge the publishing of information as violating the Freedom of Information Act?
Well, can you run GPLed Java software on the Sun JVM?
Let's get real, folks. Critical thinking isn't that difficult.
Will that be his final "leap home"?
Well, we knew it wasn't because they all had dates. The improbability of that would require a Hitchhiker's Guide event, and not a Star Trek one.
You also have to consider, even if they're not blocking them, that the average firefox user might visit the websites which use websidestory less.
How often do the people writing the checks have a full understanding of anything? I'm not talking about the scientists wanting to use sensor nets, I'm talking about the money.
I wonder how much things like the movie The Day After Tomorrow and such influenced people to get these things out and deployed, both for the reason that they're good for genuine science and also because someone agreed to pay for them after seeing that movie.
How the hell is this about my rights online?
It's not really painful. grub doesn't take slashdot too seriously.
You say two-may-tow, I say tah-mah-tow. You say contaminate, I say terraform. Let's call the whole thing off...
If it were "that far out in the middle of nowhere", there wouldn't be NIMBYs around to bitch. This is about rural areas. I don't even understand what the fuck point you're making. No, we're not all going to die if there isn't cell phone service. You might, in fact, be sick of having people call you when you don't want to be disturbed. There is certainly, though, merit to having the ability to have cell service just about anywhere. If you can't see it, you're blinded by your prejudice against it. If you don't want to be called, turn off your phone.
The service as a whole is not sold to my fears, but there are times when the service is more vital than on-tap electricity.
When you're in Backwater, Mississippi and your car flips and you're in a ditch... I hope you have cell phone service.