When I declined to contribute, things got pretty chilly at the table; people were in shock that I wasn't donating my private earnings towards a charity in order to make my employer look good.
I always had that problem when a parent is hustling Girl Scout cookies to inflate their daughter's sales numbers.
The most I have seen is is on the z13 which has ~140 cores - you can run a bunch of separate instances of Linux but it's nowhere NEAR the same performance as running Linux on fairly cheap dedicated "standard" servers.
According to the IBM marketing material, the 2016 Z13 can run up to 8,000 virtual servers on a single system. Slide deck doesn't break the down specs for each of those virtual servers. A Slashdotter who commented on another article said he ran 2,000+ instances of Linux on an IBM mainframe.
I wish I was an IBM worker. Not a big shot developer, just a wise cracker amidst the unknown happy servants.
I used to work for the IBM Help Desk in the mid-2000's. We had a user with a German shepherd that like to use the laptop as a chew toy. Three different laptops. Manager told user to stop working from home. Of course, she brought the German shepherd to work as the company was dog friendly. Very big dog. Scared the crap out of us whenever she came with the dog. None of us wanted to become a chew toy.
For the most part, the appropriate answer that the teacher wanted. This was just another class I was required to take as part of my general education.
Because I've been in a lot more classes with black people then you, I've generally been one of two or three white people in the room, and I've never seen anyone get anywhere near the reaction you're talking about.
This was 25 years ago. Some of the younger black students were more hellbent on arguing with the instructor, who walked with Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement. Those arguments took up a lot of class time.
And if it's a server, why do you need the nvidia display driver?
The only old AGP video cards that I had at the time were Nvidia video cards. I no longer had any of my old PCI cards from the late 1990's. When I switched to FreeNAS in 2010, I didn't have to worry about the video card driver hosing the system.
Wow, I didn't realize we had such an issue with payroll in Congress.
Nothing riles up a senator than knowing that their most powerful political job pays significantly less than the most powerful corporate job. The sacrifices that an elected official has to make.
[...] employers also have every right to seek out the best deal they can find when they purchase services from individuals.
I used to work at a contracting agency that provided help desk services to Fortune 500 companies. Our team took over the contract from the previous contracting agency that got caught filing bogus tickets to generate more revenue. We had 90 days to reduce the 900+ open ticket backlog, and got it done in 30 days. After the Great Recession hit a year later, the corporation demanded in contract negotiations that the contract agency doubled the performance for half the cost. So we had laid offs and users became unhappy. The corporation has gone through several more contracting agencies since then, demanding double the performance for half the cost and never satisfied with the results. When employers bring in H1-B workers for double the performance at half the cost, they're never satisfied with the results.
it broke graphics displays for those running the OS in VMWare VMs.
I used to run Ubuntu for a home file server on a desktop PC with a Nvidia Geforce 4200 AGP video card. Every time the Nvidia driver got updated, it hosed the system and wouldn't boot. Every two to three months this would happen. I switched to FreeNAS in 2010 and haven't looked at Ubuntu since then.
You can get that kind of reaction as the only white guy in the room, but generally to accomplish it you have to really try.
I wasn't provoking anyone. I spoke only when the community college instructor pointed to me. My presence was enough provocation for these hotheads who wanted to blame someone else for where they were at in society.
You want "consequences" (punishment) for anybody who voices an opinion that runs counter to your own.
That's the definition of a Republican.
If you, creimer, call someone racist and another group decides that your accusation is unjustified and therefore inappropriate, should there be consequences for you? What should those consequences be?
If I go up to group of black men, get in their faces and call them niggers, the consequences I expect is to be laughed at, have the police called, get my ass beaten, or all of the above.
Or do you just want to be able to say whatever YOU want, and use "consequences" as a club against others?
If you are seeing and understanding the issue from the point I stated, you will understand why QUALITY is IRRELEVANT and is NOT a concerned when one is buying a product.
When I worked for Dell on PC refresh projects, the number one request from the programmers was that they wanted a Mac instead of a Dell. Needless to say, that drove the Dell project manager up the wall. The Fortune 500 company spent a million bucks on Dells, but the programmers wanted Macs. Go figure.
For example, a person can afford only $200 right now. A PC (3-5 years lifetime product) costs $200 and a Mac (10-12 years lifetime product) costs $500.
If a person has $200, they're not going to buy a brand new Mac because doesn't Apple doesn't compete at that price point. If you do an apple to apple comparison (pun intended), most Macs are price competitive with similar hardware from other vendors. If someone wants to buy a used Mac, OWC has them for $350+.
In theory, yes Mac would be worth more for money (per your statement), but that has NOTHING to do with AFFORDABILITY.
I had $1,300 to buy a 2006 MacBook because I COULD AFFORD IT. Yes, I did paid the $200 premium for a black MacBook because it was cooler than white. When I took it into the Apple Store for repair in 2012, every employee stopped by to look at it because very few of them have ever seen a legendary black MacBook. Some even wept because they never got one at the time. Ten years later, thanks to this thread, I'm dusting it off, ordering a new battery and a tool kit to fix the fan, and installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard (the finest version of the OS ever). I just might get another ten years out of it.
It is fairly common. You're fortunate to have only seen it once.
I've been through the Red Hat GUI Thing about a half-dozen times. I can't tell you how many times I went through a checklist with a thick-accented Indian recruiter, which I always answer "yes" until he asks me again for that one question near the end that requires a "no" answer. I've actually gotten a few interviews that way.
A married woman explained that she enjoyed the sex and loved the children, but she didn't really need her husband beyond that. The husband is supporting the family and putting her through college. Yet she doesn't need him. What's wrong with this picture?
"The Republican Establishment terrorized themselves resulting in Donald Trump becoming a party nominee"
That would imply that the Republican Establishment are capable of taking responsibility for the situation that they created by embracing the Tea Party.
Last I checked, a lot of core physics has remained mostly unchanged for centuries, only refinements to extreme situations.
The fundamental forces are unchanged. Aerodynamic physics, material physics and seatbelt physics weren't available when Henry Ford designed the Model T.
When was the last time you stopped yourself from saying something you believed to be true for fear of being punished for saying it?
When was the last time you accepted responsibility for saying something that you know was inappropriate to say?
Seems like the people who want to scream, "The president is a [church bells]!" (to paraphrase Mel Brooks), are the same people who cry about political correctness because they're not to say things without consequences.
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Easy college loans inflates salaries for college presidents.
Easy Fed money inflates salaries for corporate presidents.
Reforms are long overdue for college loans and monetary policy. Reduce easy money, watch salaries deflate.
When I declined to contribute, things got pretty chilly at the table; people were in shock that I wasn't donating my private earnings towards a charity in order to make my employer look good.
I always had that problem when a parent is hustling Girl Scout cookies to inflate their daughter's sales numbers.
The most I have seen is is on the z13 which has ~140 cores - you can run a bunch of separate instances of Linux but it's nowhere NEAR the same performance as running Linux on fairly cheap dedicated "standard" servers.
According to the IBM marketing material, the 2016 Z13 can run up to 8,000 virtual servers on a single system. Slide deck doesn't break the down specs for each of those virtual servers. A Slashdotter who commented on another article said he ran 2,000+ instances of Linux on an IBM mainframe.
http://www.slideshare.net/fgonza93/new-ibm-mainframe-2016-z13
I wish I was an IBM worker. Not a big shot developer, just a wise cracker amidst the unknown happy servants.
I used to work for the IBM Help Desk in the mid-2000's. We had a user with a German shepherd that like to use the laptop as a chew toy. Three different laptops. Manager told user to stop working from home. Of course, she brought the German shepherd to work as the company was dog friendly. Very big dog. Scared the crap out of us whenever she came with the dog. None of us wanted to become a chew toy.
I am at a loss at knowing/understanding what IBM does.
IBM makes mainframes and provide services. You can never go wrong with IBM.
Why would I buy an IBM computer now as opposed to a Linux box of no pedigree.
The newer mainframes can run 2,000+ instances of Linux.
And what did you say when you spoke?
For the most part, the appropriate answer that the teacher wanted. This was just another class I was required to take as part of my general education.
Because I've been in a lot more classes with black people then you, I've generally been one of two or three white people in the room, and I've never seen anyone get anywhere near the reaction you're talking about.
This was 25 years ago. Some of the younger black students were more hellbent on arguing with the instructor, who walked with Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement. Those arguments took up a lot of class time.
And if it's a server, why do you need the nvidia display driver?
The only old AGP video cards that I had at the time were Nvidia video cards. I no longer had any of my old PCI cards from the late 1990's. When I switched to FreeNAS in 2010, I didn't have to worry about the video card driver hosing the system.
They already know there is nothing on it but funny cat videos [...]
FTFY
Wow, I didn't realize we had such an issue with payroll in Congress.
Nothing riles up a senator than knowing that their most powerful political job pays significantly less than the most powerful corporate job. The sacrifices that an elected official has to make.
[...] employers also have every right to seek out the best deal they can find when they purchase services from individuals.
I used to work at a contracting agency that provided help desk services to Fortune 500 companies. Our team took over the contract from the previous contracting agency that got caught filing bogus tickets to generate more revenue. We had 90 days to reduce the 900+ open ticket backlog, and got it done in 30 days. After the Great Recession hit a year later, the corporation demanded in contract negotiations that the contract agency doubled the performance for half the cost. So we had laid offs and users became unhappy. The corporation has gone through several more contracting agencies since then, demanding double the performance for half the cost and never satisfied with the results. When employers bring in H1-B workers for double the performance at half the cost, they're never satisfied with the results.
it broke graphics displays for those running the OS in VMWare VMs.
I used to run Ubuntu for a home file server on a desktop PC with a Nvidia Geforce 4200 AGP video card. Every time the Nvidia driver got updated, it hosed the system and wouldn't boot. Every two to three months this would happen. I switched to FreeNAS in 2010 and haven't looked at Ubuntu since then.
You can get that kind of reaction as the only white guy in the room, but generally to accomplish it you have to really try.
I wasn't provoking anyone. I spoke only when the community college instructor pointed to me. My presence was enough provocation for these hotheads who wanted to blame someone else for where they were at in society.
And who gets to define what's "inappropriate"?
Polite society.
You want "consequences" (punishment) for anybody who voices an opinion that runs counter to your own.
That's the definition of a Republican.
If you, creimer, call someone racist and another group decides that your accusation is unjustified and therefore inappropriate, should there be consequences for you? What should those consequences be?
If I go up to group of black men, get in their faces and call them niggers, the consequences I expect is to be laughed at, have the police called, get my ass beaten, or all of the above.
Or do you just want to be able to say whatever YOU want, and use "consequences" as a club against others?
That's the definition of a Tea Party Republican.
If you are seeing and understanding the issue from the point I stated, you will understand why QUALITY is IRRELEVANT and is NOT a concerned when one is buying a product.
When I worked for Dell on PC refresh projects, the number one request from the programmers was that they wanted a Mac instead of a Dell. Needless to say, that drove the Dell project manager up the wall. The Fortune 500 company spent a million bucks on Dells, but the programmers wanted Macs. Go figure.
For example, a person can afford only $200 right now. A PC (3-5 years lifetime product) costs $200 and a Mac (10-12 years lifetime product) costs $500.
If a person has $200, they're not going to buy a brand new Mac because doesn't Apple doesn't compete at that price point. If you do an apple to apple comparison (pun intended), most Macs are price competitive with similar hardware from other vendors. If someone wants to buy a used Mac, OWC has them for $350+.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Apple_Systems/Used/Macs_and_Tablets?_ga=1.141130353.2131978726.1453008213
In theory, yes Mac would be worth more for money (per your statement), but that has NOTHING to do with AFFORDABILITY.
I had $1,300 to buy a 2006 MacBook because I COULD AFFORD IT. Yes, I did paid the $200 premium for a black MacBook because it was cooler than white. When I took it into the Apple Store for repair in 2012, every employee stopped by to look at it because very few of them have ever seen a legendary black MacBook. Some even wept because they never got one at the time. Ten years later, thanks to this thread, I'm dusting it off, ordering a new battery and a tool kit to fix the fan, and installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard (the finest version of the OS ever). I just might get another ten years out of it.
It's also funny when they demand C++ and it turns out all of their code is in C.
They probably meant C/C++. ;)
It is fairly common. You're fortunate to have only seen it once.
I've been through the Red Hat GUI Thing about a half-dozen times. I can't tell you how many times I went through a checklist with a thick-accented Indian recruiter, which I always answer "yes" until he asks me again for that one question near the end that requires a "no" answer. I've actually gotten a few interviews that way.
They replied that my existence was enough.....
A married woman explained that she enjoyed the sex and loved the children, but she didn't really need her husband beyond that. The husband is supporting the family and putting her through college. Yet she doesn't need him. What's wrong with this picture?
Maybe you just had a very uncharitable preconception of your classmates' inclinations.
Not when the instructor had to physically intervene.
Has the world come to the point where someone bad mouthing them has such horrible effect on their lives that they live in fear?
I blame the helicopter parents raising a generation of wussies.
"The Republican Establishment terrorized themselves resulting in Donald Trump becoming a party nominee"
That would imply that the Republican Establishment are capable of taking responsibility for the situation that they created by embracing the Tea Party.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/how-gop-elite-set-stage-for-donald-trump
Last I checked, a lot of core physics has remained mostly unchanged for centuries, only refinements to extreme situations.
The fundamental forces are unchanged. Aerodynamic physics, material physics and seatbelt physics weren't available when Henry Ford designed the Model T.
Everybody promotes fear.
Some of us just ignore the fear to maintain productive lives.
Isnâ(TM)t a âweapon of fearâ(TM) what terrorists use?
Donald Trump is terrorizing the Republican Establishment with becoming the party nominee.
When was the last time you stopped yourself from saying something you believed to be true for fear of being punished for saying it?
When was the last time you accepted responsibility for saying something that you know was inappropriate to say?
Seems like the people who want to scream, "The president is a [church bells]!" (to paraphrase Mel Brooks), are the same people who cry about political correctness because they're not to say things without consequences.
Hey, if you want to play in a fantasy league even if you don't have to, that's fine by me.
Tell that to the men-hating feminists.