I suspect your requirements are very modest indeed.
Don't confuse needless complexity with complexity. I'd wager you'd be hard pressed to find a doc LibreOffice can't open that Office 2003/2007/2010 created. Also, "legal considerations" is a filmsy argument (unless you're insinuating EU vs US privacy laws with regards to data). Many a law firm rely on Google Apps for services, as well as all sizes of government.
I migrated 80 people from Exchange to Google Apps, Office to LibreOffice, etc. It can be done, you just need support from management.
Outlook? Web-based Google Apps mail. Calendar? Same thing. Office? LibreOffice. The only internal servers we have left are 2 AD servers and a fileserver; I plan on moving that to Box.net/Dropbox/Gdrive at some point.
Very true. Most of our staff of 80 people get by with Chrome and LibreOffice. This excludes developers (Visual Studio) and Production folk (Adobe Creative Suite). The developers are all using Visual Studio through Win2k8 Remote Desktop services on their Macbooks, and we're working towards having them develop completely in browser-based IDEs. We eventually plan on having only Windows on the server side (SQL server, CruiseControl CI autobuild environment).
Yeah, you're going to be able to phase Microsoft out of your business unless a) you're depending on them for your server-side applications or b) you're tied to them because of some 3rd party/VAR application. The future is web-based apps and mobile, and frankly we're pretty much there.
Some people have natural gas to their home, some don't. Everyone has electrical service.
Also, unless your car can handle LNG (and simply compresses the NG in a tank), you're going to have a pretty limited range. So you'll need to find an NG fill station. Electricity is ubiquitous.
How close are you to the nearest CNG fueling facility? Now how close are you to a 120V outlet?
We're talking energy distribution here, not fuel. You can move gigawatts of power across the country in seconds/minutes. Natural gas? Uranium? Biofuels? Not so much.
Electrical propulsion is the future; people ought to stop kicking and screaming against it, since its already here.
So the only option is to virtualize off-site? You still get huge cost savings from doing virtualization in-house, its just not as profitable (with recurring revenue) to a third-party service provider.
Also, I want to stab people who use the marketing term "the cloud". It's not dark magic. Its virtualized, resilient resources.
I've had Cogent as a primary provider at 3 physically distinct POPs for over 6 years. We're pushing 40Gbps through them aggregate (10Gbps at each POP except one, which we're running at 20Gbps). The only times I've had problems with them are when Level3 or someone else depeers with them; we simply fail over to Hurricane Electric for a bit until everything rights itself.
You can't get something for dirt cheap and then bitch about the quality. Thats fucktard behavior right there.
I've noticed the ads on Pandora are much more relevant to me as well. I was shopping for a used Lexus the other day for a commuter car, and Pandora offered up info on the new Lexus GS that I hadn't thought about (and which prompted me to look at the new vehicle).
I'm more than happy to be exposed to targeted ads if they're properly targeted; just don't waste my time with adult friend finder shit.
I have a 2.0 Roadster; I will check tonight if the battery management system can have its power provided via an external source, with a relay system to switch between the two.
And Chrome has built in sycning of *everything*. An natively supports Greasemonkey scripts without an extension. And auto-updates in a cleaner fashion than Firefox. And is blazing fast at rendering.
Have you worked for the government? I worked for the Department of Energy through Fermilab for exactly 1 year, working on the data-taking side of the CMS detector for the LHC.
I cannot even begin to describe the waste I witnessed over the course of a year (and hence, why I left after only 1 year).
Government does few things efficiently; SpaceX has come further than almost all other private spaceflight companies. To write another check to NASA for any spaceflight program is to waste additional money with "cost plus" contractors. Spend the money with a private company to continue to drive the cost down (how long did we have the Shuttle? 30+ years? And how often did the costs go *down*? Oh right, NEVER).
Waste your own god damn money on government handling space flight. Taxpayers deserve better than another failed/pork-ladden government project.
I sent my entire book collection into 1dollarscan.com. They charge me $6/book, slice the binding, scan the entire book, have a human verify, and then send me the PDFs. The physical books are meaningless; its the data within (all stored in Google Docs).
Are you saying Silicon Valley couldn't use its technical resources to drive down the values of these organizations before buying their carcasses to remove them from concern? No one pays retail.
I was just in line at the TSA checkpoint in Miami (MIA) coming home from a work trip yesterday. After throwing my stuff on the conveyor belt for the carryon X-ray machine, I told the TSA agent managing the line I wanted a pat down if they were going to send me through the body scanner. He just waved me through the metal detector instead. Security my ass.
My understanding was that they still did only hashing if they had the file already, and would pick random bytes of the file to hash to ensure it *really* was the file they have in their backend storage. I'll have to test tonight with a download.
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I suspect your requirements are very modest indeed.
Don't confuse needless complexity with complexity. I'd wager you'd be hard pressed to find a doc LibreOffice can't open that Office 2003/2007/2010 created.
Also, "legal considerations" is a filmsy argument (unless you're insinuating EU vs US privacy laws with regards to data). Many a law firm rely on Google Apps for services, as well as all sizes of government.
Sooooo OnLive will be moving to LibreOffice shortly?
I migrated 80 people from Exchange to Google Apps, Office to LibreOffice, etc. It can be done, you just need support from management.
Outlook? Web-based Google Apps mail. Calendar? Same thing. Office? LibreOffice. The only internal servers we have left are 2 AD servers and a fileserver; I plan on moving that to Box.net/Dropbox/Gdrive at some point.
Very true. Most of our staff of 80 people get by with Chrome and LibreOffice. This excludes developers (Visual Studio) and Production folk (Adobe Creative Suite). The developers are all using Visual Studio through Win2k8 Remote Desktop services on their Macbooks, and we're working towards having them develop completely in browser-based IDEs. We eventually plan on having only Windows on the server side (SQL server, CruiseControl CI autobuild environment).
Yeah, you're going to be able to phase Microsoft out of your business unless a) you're depending on them for your server-side applications or b) you're tied to them because of some 3rd party/VAR application. The future is web-based apps and mobile, and frankly we're pretty much there.
Wow; parental controls for NFC spending. How revolutionary.
$20K / $5/gallon = 4,000 gallons of gas
$20K / $6/gallon = 3,333 gallons of gas
$20K / $7/gallon = 2,857 gallons of gas
This also assumes you haven't lost your job and still have any cash to purchase fuel.
Electric vehicles are not just alternative fuel vehicles. They are a hedge against oil price volatility.
If you have to write [Citation needed.] because somebody didn't write a bibliography for their post then you fail at using the internet.
It is not someone else's job to check your facts. Its YOUR JOB to cite your statements.
Otherwise, I an do this: Kagetsuki is an asshat who uses general statements with no citations to make a statement on public forums.
See what I did there?
Some people have natural gas to their home, some don't. Everyone has electrical service.
Also, unless your car can handle LNG (and simply compresses the NG in a tank), you're going to have a pretty limited range. So you'll need to find an NG fill station. Electricity is ubiquitous.
There are toxic chemicals that can not easily be removed from aquifers providing drinking water when fracking problems occur.
How close are you to the nearest CNG fueling facility? Now how close are you to a 120V outlet?
We're talking energy distribution here, not fuel. You can move gigawatts of power across the country in seconds/minutes. Natural gas? Uranium? Biofuels? Not so much.
Electrical propulsion is the future; people ought to stop kicking and screaming against it, since its already here.
So the only option is to virtualize off-site? You still get huge cost savings from doing virtualization in-house, its just not as profitable (with recurring revenue) to a third-party service provider.
Also, I want to stab people who use the marketing term "the cloud". It's not dark magic. Its virtualized, resilient resources.
I've had Cogent as a primary provider at 3 physically distinct POPs for over 6 years. We're pushing 40Gbps through them aggregate (10Gbps at each POP except one, which we're running at 20Gbps). The only times I've had problems with them are when Level3 or someone else depeers with them; we simply fail over to Hurricane Electric for a bit until everything rights itself.
You can't get something for dirt cheap and then bitch about the quality. Thats fucktard behavior right there.
I'm getting Cogent bandwidth at around $0.80/Mb, but we're running upwards of 10Gb/s through them (Chicago POP). YMMV.
I've noticed the ads on Pandora are much more relevant to me as well. I was shopping for a used Lexus the other day for a commuter car, and Pandora offered up info on the new Lexus GS that I hadn't thought about (and which prompted me to look at the new vehicle).
I'm more than happy to be exposed to targeted ads if they're properly targeted; just don't waste my time with adult friend finder shit.
I have a 2.0 Roadster; I will check tonight if the battery management system can have its power provided via an external source, with a relay system to switch between the two.
Warranties: They're made to be voided.
And Chrome has built in sycning of *everything*. An natively supports Greasemonkey scripts without an extension. And auto-updates in a cleaner fashion than Firefox. And is blazing fast at rendering.
Have you worked for the government? I worked for the Department of Energy through Fermilab for exactly 1 year, working on the data-taking side of the CMS detector for the LHC.
I cannot even begin to describe the waste I witnessed over the course of a year (and hence, why I left after only 1 year).
Government does few things efficiently; SpaceX has come further than almost all other private spaceflight companies. To write another check to NASA for any spaceflight program is to waste additional money with "cost plus" contractors. Spend the money with a private company to continue to drive the cost down (how long did we have the Shuttle? 30+ years? And how often did the costs go *down*? Oh right, NEVER).
Waste your own god damn money on government handling space flight. Taxpayers deserve better than another failed/pork-ladden government project.
Granted, it is an expensive backup, but the commercial launch companies are proving themselves as we speak.
Bullshit. SpaceX has already proven itself, as the only private company to orbit a vehicle. Falcon Heavy? Ahead of schedule. SLS? Still a dream.
Why are we giving the government more money to waste? Privatize what you can, aggressive fund R&D and not pork.
The theory is the science; applying it is the engineering.
I sent my entire book collection into 1dollarscan.com. They charge me $6/book, slice the binding, scan the entire book, have a human verify, and then send me the PDFs. The physical books are meaningless; its the data within (all stored in Google Docs).
Fermilab in Batavia, IL is almost a pure Linux shop. If in the area, I'd check there.
You can do this with Tasker now (on Android), but of course, it should be an easy option in Settings for your typical user.
Are you saying Silicon Valley couldn't use its technical resources to drive down the values of these organizations before buying their carcasses to remove them from concern? No one pays retail.
I was just in line at the TSA checkpoint in Miami (MIA) coming home from a work trip yesterday. After throwing my stuff on the conveyor belt for the carryon X-ray machine, I told the TSA agent managing the line I wanted a pat down if they were going to send me through the body scanner. He just waved me through the metal detector instead. Security my ass.
My understanding was that they still did only hashing if they had the file already, and would pick random bytes of the file to hash to ensure it *really* was the file they have in their backend storage. I'll have to test tonight with a download.