Wow, I would really like this in the basement where they keep me. I have no windows and am so far underground, there is no cell signal from any provider yet, my car (parked in the parking lot) has a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.
This is not surprising at all. What is surprising is that they gave advanced notice. Google doesn't lay down any timelines or plans for any of their schtuff. They invent it, put it out there and at some point, turn it off. How can you expect them to keep things running when they seldom even write documentation for the stuff they have out there? If they do write documentation it is released way after the release of new features and often right before a new release nullifies that documentation.
Google's view is it's ours so we will or won't support it at our whim.
Are you presenting at Gartner IT Symposium next week? What is the session name? I need to know where to bring the rotten tomatoes. Come to think about it, it doesn't matter, every session will be this horrible.
So rather than argue with them, I give their server the XXGB of RAM knowing that I can over subscribe the RAM.
It's because of people like you we had to stop supporting installs on VMWare altogether. Oversubscribing the RAM will result in excessive paging where no paging is expected (I was able to trace this), causing dismal performance. Our product uses all RAM to build a giant disk cache if it has no better use of it.
Sounds like your product is a very poor candidate for virtualization. Not all applications are good virtualization candidates. But, virtualization is great for oversubscribing without causing any problems with well behaved applications that only use what they need instead of what is available to them. My VM environment is highly over subscribed on RAM (probably about 2X what I physically have) yet I have yet to have a single incident where paging at the hypervisor level was a problem. Not once has the physical host ran out of of RAM.
If you don't like it quit whining and use something else.
They're not a fucking charity.
Read the last line of my post. The are opening the door for competitors to come in and take their business. I was suggesting that they would lose my business if they continue down that path. I guess I should be more clear so the trolls can't come in and try to change the meaning of what I meant. VMware is shooting themselves in the foot with this licensing money grab. I thought they would have learned better from their parent company (EMC) that is bleeding customers right now.
I hate to say it but EMC has finally influenced VMware.
Of course the new licensing model doesn't limit CPU. That is because there are VERY FEW VMware deployment that max CPU. RAM is usually the cap. But trying license based on physical RAM would be too easy for them. Let's license on what everyone uses most. Virtual (non existant) RAM. I know in my environment everyone that wants a server says they need XX GB of RAM and they use about 1/4 of the RAM they request. So rather than argue with them, I give their server the XXGB of RAM knowing that I can over subscribe the RAM. This is the greatness of VMware. Effeciency.
So now they are going to license us on the one thing that we don't really use. We aren't licenced on what we own or what we use but what we "MIGHT" use. Ridiculous scheme trying to squeeze every dollar out of their market share. This is what EMC does. To get any real funtionality out of their products you have to license more and more features that are already right there in the product. And we see how well that has worked for them. They are bleeding customers. VMware really doesn't have any competitors right now. If they keep this model, they will.
These guys http:http://www.conformis.com/index.asp/ make knee replacements based off of MRI or CT scans. They exactly match your knee rather than the surgeon choosing from small, medium, or large parts out of a bin.
. ..I wonder how the economy would handle a sudden loss of 1/4 population or a 1/3
No worries, we will let the politicians and lawyers figure it out. There won't be any of them taken in the rapture and they have always taken care of us in the past. . . .
From the Blog Post: "The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer"
Translation: During this difficult time, we have discovered that we have no security on our network and no one to blame for this. We will now have someone to blame and publicly humiliate when (not if) this happens again.
Today we were informed by our email service provider that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access of their system. Our email service provider deploys emails on our behalf to customers who have opted into email-based communications from us.
We were advised by our email service provider that the information that was obtained was limited to first name and/or email addresses only. Your service and any other personally identifiable information were not at risk and remain secure.
Please note, it is possible you may receive spam email messages as a result. We want to urge you to be cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown third parties.
We regret this has taken place and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We take your privacy very seriously, and we will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.
If you have unsubscribed in the past, there is no need to unsubscribe again. Your preferences will remain in place.
Well, Epsilon is a bit busy right now dealing with the compromise so Epsilon is probably waiting for Citi's check to clear before sending out the notice for Citi that Epsilon was hacked.
Figure out how to get around being called a spammer Get lot of businesses to pay you for this knowledge Get hacked. Profit
I'm more concerned that this is even being touted as something important. You are giving away information every time you search. You are not securing your privacy by searching encrypted, you are just giving Google an edge.
Seriously, how many people do you think are doing man in the middle attacks to find what you are searching for on Google? This is nothing important or major that you are searching encrypted vs. unencrypted.
So we can search using SSL through Google now. So what does this mean? Does it mean that Google will no longer know everything about you? NO. It means that you are helping Google be the only one to know everything about you. You are making your data more valuable to Google as ONLY Google will have your search terms. This in no way means that Google wont' be compiling data on you. That is their job, that is how they make money.
I think this is a great idea! Let's all help Google become more profitable.
You people trying to use common sense and thinking about the details are ridiculous. Lawmakers are too busy taking money our of our pockets to worry about these details and that money will be used to enforce this law which will require more of your money. See, all clear now.
I don't believe it - someone with mod points has never watched Futurama.
I thought that was a requirement before anyone could get a Slashdot ID?
You must be new here. Slashdot has been around before that show that you think is a requirement for an ID. I know I had my ID slashdot ID before that. How about you?
We already support a good number of their citizens through welfare and free medical care. I guess the United States isn't being a good world citizen because we aren't supporting our neighbors enough.
Or should the money roll south. Canada, you need to give the United States money so we can pass it on to Mexico.
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I can't believe he thinks that Congress has a side to tell. Their job is to listen to the people and not come up with their own version of the truth.
The problem is that Congress' side involves money from the RIAA.
Wow, I would really like this in the basement where they keep me. I have no windows and am so far underground, there is no cell signal from any provider yet, my car (parked in the parking lot) has a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.
This is not surprising at all. What is surprising is that they gave advanced notice. Google doesn't lay down any timelines or plans for any of their schtuff. They invent it, put it out there and at some point, turn it off. How can you expect them to keep things running when they seldom even write documentation for the stuff they have out there? If they do write documentation it is released way after the release of new features and often right before a new release nullifies that documentation.
Google's view is it's ours so we will or won't support it at our whim.
Are you presenting at Gartner IT Symposium next week? What is the session name? I need to know where to bring the rotten tomatoes. Come to think about it, it doesn't matter, every session will be this horrible.
It's because of people like you we had to stop supporting installs on VMWare altogether. Oversubscribing the RAM will result in excessive paging where no paging is expected (I was able to trace this), causing dismal performance. Our product uses all RAM to build a giant disk cache if it has no better use of it.
Sounds like your product is a very poor candidate for virtualization. Not all applications are good virtualization candidates. But, virtualization is great for oversubscribing without causing any problems with well behaved applications that only use what they need instead of what is available to them. My VM environment is highly over subscribed on RAM (probably about 2X what I physically have) yet I have yet to have a single incident where paging at the hypervisor level was a problem. Not once has the physical host ran out of of RAM.
If you don't like it quit whining and use something else.
They're not a fucking charity.
Read the last line of my post. The are opening the door for competitors to come in and take their business. I was suggesting that they would lose my business if they continue down that path. I guess I should be more clear so the trolls can't come in and try to change the meaning of what I meant. VMware is shooting themselves in the foot with this licensing money grab. I thought they would have learned better from their parent company (EMC) that is bleeding customers right now.
I hate to say it but EMC has finally influenced VMware.
Of course the new licensing model doesn't limit CPU. That is because there are VERY FEW VMware deployment that max CPU. RAM is usually the cap. But trying license based on physical RAM would be too easy for them. Let's license on what everyone uses most. Virtual (non existant) RAM. I know in my environment everyone that wants a server says they need XX GB of RAM and they use about 1/4 of the RAM they request. So rather than argue with them, I give their server the XXGB of RAM knowing that I can over subscribe the RAM. This is the greatness of VMware. Effeciency.
So now they are going to license us on the one thing that we don't really use. We aren't licenced on what we own or what we use but what we "MIGHT" use. Ridiculous scheme trying to squeeze every dollar out of their market share. This is what EMC does. To get any real funtionality out of their products you have to license more and more features that are already right there in the product. And we see how well that has worked for them. They are bleeding customers. VMware really doesn't have any competitors right now. If they keep this model, they will.
These guys http:http://www.conformis.com/index.asp/ make knee replacements based off of MRI or CT scans. They exactly match your knee rather than the surgeon choosing from small, medium, or large parts out of a bin.
Amazing stuff.
. . .I wonder how the economy would handle a sudden loss of 1/4 population or a 1/3
No worries, we will let the politicians and lawyers figure it out. There won't be any of them taken in the rapture and they have always taken care of us in the past. . . .
When the rapture comes, you will either be in Heaven or there will be plenty of job openings to choose from.
So, you are in heaven or the economy is improving. Either way, you are better off.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress!
Life does seem to imitate art.
You need to login to the Playstation Network to post. Besides Sony employees, tell me who can login to the Playstation Network.
Note: First sentence may not be totally accurate.
From the Blog Post: "The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer"
Translation: During this difficult time, we have discovered that we have no security on our network and no one to blame for this. We will now have someone to blame and publicly humiliate when (not if) this happens again.
That article will become invalid once the PS3 Network Hack is completely revealed.
Text of Email Message from Tivo:
Dear TiVo Customer,
Today we were informed by our email service provider that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access of their system. Our email service provider deploys emails on our behalf to customers who have opted into email-based communications from us.
We were advised by our email service provider that the information that was obtained was limited to first name and/or email addresses only. Your service and any other personally identifiable information were not at risk and remain secure.
Please note, it is possible you may receive spam email messages as a result. We want to urge you to be cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown third parties.
We regret this has taken place and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We take your privacy very seriously, and we will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.
If you have unsubscribed in the past, there is no need to unsubscribe again. Your preferences will remain in place.
Sincerely,
The TiVo Team
I checked Epsilon's website. There are no IT Security jobs posted. Wonder how long it will be before that changes.
Well, Epsilon is a bit busy right now dealing with the compromise so Epsilon is probably waiting for Citi's check to clear before sending out the notice for Citi that Epsilon was hacked.
Figure out how to get around being called a spammer
Get lot of businesses to pay you for this knowledge
Get hacked.
Profit
We need a new logo on /. for Apple. No more with the company logo. We need Steve Borg or something similar.
Absolutely! Let's make it a fair playing field!
I'm more concerned that this is even being touted as something important. You are giving away information every time you search. You are not securing your privacy by searching encrypted, you are just giving Google an edge.
Seriously, how many people do you think are doing man in the middle attacks to find what you are searching for on Google? This is nothing important or major that you are searching encrypted vs. unencrypted.
So we can search using SSL through Google now. So what does this mean? Does it mean that Google will no longer know everything about you? NO. It means that you are helping Google be the only one to know everything about you. You are making your data more valuable to Google as ONLY Google will have your search terms. This in no way means that Google wont' be compiling data on you. That is their job, that is how they make money.
I think this is a great idea! Let's all help Google become more profitable.
You people trying to use common sense and thinking about the details are ridiculous. Lawmakers are too busy taking money our of our pockets to worry about these details and that money will be used to enforce this law which will require more of your money. See, all clear now.
Some of us were ruthless. I liked Katz at first and then he became only tolerable.
I only apologized because he is a real sore point with some.
Sorry for the Katz reminder. I know he is a sore point with some.
I have never even seen a Futurama episode. I hate Star Wars (all except the original movie) too.
I don't believe it - someone with mod points has never watched Futurama.
I thought that was a requirement before anyone could get a Slashdot ID?
You must be new here. Slashdot has been around before that show that you think is a requirement for an ID. I know I had my ID slashdot ID before that. How about you?
Do you even know who Jon Katz is?
We already support a good number of their citizens through welfare and free medical care. I guess the United States isn't being a good world citizen because we aren't supporting our neighbors enough.
Or should the money roll south. Canada, you need to give the United States money so we can pass it on to Mexico.