Yes, there are questions about how this happened, how an admin was seemingly under a bit of pressure that that happened, the question about non-existent backups and whether they have people with enough Postgres skills, but I was impressed about the way they admitted it. They didn't butt cover, they admitted upfront and point-blank "Yer, we've deleted the production Postgres data directory, our backups don't work, we're seeing what we can salvage elsewhere."
Yes, if you have copies of your production data in staging as a last resort when all else is not good, they can be used as backups. I would imagine they wouldn't want that stomach dropping feeling again..................
If this was a genuine success then they would not be trumpeting 'revenue'. Microsoft did exactly this with Windows Phone, along with the usual 'supply problems' and 'we can't make enough' crap, and the reality that everyone knew anyway gradually dawned.
There is one use-case for these things and that's fitness. That's it. There's absolutely bugger-all here that tells us the Apple Watch, or any other 'smart' watch that anyone else makes, is the runaway success they are claiming. However, Apple has become a self-fulfilling prophecy from a financial point-of-view. It simply has to continue to be a rampant success because so many have ploughed money into it.
The whole thing is sustained on a bubble of nothing. At least Jobs had something to back up the hyperbole and worked out why people would use the product he was trumpeting.
I've seen more Rolexes than Apple Watches. Microsoft also did this with Windows Phone when they talked about 'revenue' rather than any hard sales figures. The reality everyone else knew finally dawned.
Many former Linux desktop users who were driven away by systemd have ended up using FreeBSD. Many who ran Linux servers have started using OpenBSD instead. Those who ran Linux on older or less-powerful hardware have discovered the joys of NetBSD.
The number of sys admins specifically using older distributions or looking at BSD variants where they can is astonishing. There are a ton of bugs to troubleshoot in systemd that can only be solved seemingly by rebooting, and that's not any guarantee. Admins simply don't have the time to debug systemd alongside all the other problems they have.
I never understood why Jobs recommended Cook. Cook was a process guy who came from Compaq for crying out loud. Maybe he simply didn't care at that point?
Job always railed against sales, marketing and accounting people running things, especially in his lost then found interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As for crew, SpaceX has contrarily argued that even if the risk of an explosion is lower hours after fueling vs. during fueling, it still exists, and the last place you want astronauts during an explosion is in the tower on their way into the spacecraft. The safest place for the crew to be, apart from "nowhere near the rocket at all", is "inside the capsule". Crew in the tower during a sudden explosion would have basically no chance of survival.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, SpaceX is always right and everyone else has been doing it wrong for decades. We get it.
I'm sorry to say that if Zen is somewhere in the ballpark of Intel's chips then no one is going to be buying Intel for quite some time, or Intel will have to drastically lower its prices, especially on the server-side. The margins they have had since Core came out are going to evaporate one way or another.
If the price/performance of this family pans out as promised, it will get foothold in the server market and HPC market. Both will find ways to secure against this -or own their own metal-. Plus there are plenty of uses that run bare metal.
It's difficult to know what to make of this, but as soon as I started reading it it was like they were stirring for something. The Intel Managament Engine on the other hand, no one has the faintest idea what that thing is doing;-).
If Zen is somewhere in the ballpark of what Intel have, and more importantly gives them an architecture they can build on over the next few years which they just haven't had, then they are going to sell a lot of these. The chips and boards will inevitably be a lot cheaper than Intel's.
Nope. HR looks after employee wellbeing, and the number one priority there is getting paid.
HR typically handles employee benefits and is involved in the hiring and firing process as that affects who is receiving the benefits.
What qualifies HR to hire and fire anyone? You need qualified people who understand the nature of a company's business to do that. That's why so many companies are in such dire trouble.
All the Weather Channel is actually telling us is that the temperature data they all so heavily rely on is not all that accurate and how easily they can be manipulated to suite an agenda. However, we knew this when they started bunging tree ring and 'measured' data together to suite 'their' agenda. The only thing the Weather Channel cares about, like all these organisations, is their grant money. They also pull out the usual 'science by consensus' as an argument again.
Is there some major climate change happening? Possibly. Is there any evidence for it? Nope. Is the public any the wiser? Nope.
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He spouted a huge amount of statistical crap, as all statisticians do, especially around population growth, and won't be missed.
Just because you don't see a use for it doesn't mean others don't.
Like what?
Yes, there are questions about how this happened, how an admin was seemingly under a bit of pressure that that happened, the question about non-existent backups and whether they have people with enough Postgres skills, but I was impressed about the way they admitted it. They didn't butt cover, they admitted upfront and point-blank "Yer, we've deleted the production Postgres data directory, our backups don't work, we're seeing what we can salvage elsewhere."
Yes, if you have copies of your production data in staging as a last resort when all else is not good, they can be used as backups. I would imagine they wouldn't want that stomach dropping feeling again..................
Why would anyone just hand that data over to state surveillance?
I have no idea, but the pennies on privacy, security and the exorbitant cost are going to drop heavily.
Is there one or a few "killer apps" that are driving people ot them or is it a big mix?
Fitness. That's it.
If this was a genuine success then they would not be trumpeting 'revenue'. Microsoft did exactly this with Windows Phone, along with the usual 'supply problems' and 'we can't make enough' crap, and the reality that everyone knew anyway gradually dawned.
There is one use-case for these things and that's fitness. That's it. There's absolutely bugger-all here that tells us the Apple Watch, or any other 'smart' watch that anyone else makes, is the runaway success they are claiming. However, Apple has become a self-fulfilling prophecy from a financial point-of-view. It simply has to continue to be a rampant success because so many have ploughed money into it.
The whole thing is sustained on a bubble of nothing. At least Jobs had something to back up the hyperbole and worked out why people would use the product he was trumpeting.
I've seen more Rolexes than Apple Watches. Microsoft also did this with Windows Phone when they talked about 'revenue' rather than any hard sales figures. The reality everyone else knew finally dawned.
I'm afraid Solaris died as soon as Linux came in, ran on x86 and ate its lunch. Sun could never come up with a response.
... was sysvinit really that better?
It worked.
Systemd has helped raise awareness of the *BSDs.
Many former Linux desktop users who were driven away by systemd have ended up using FreeBSD. Many who ran Linux servers have started using OpenBSD instead. Those who ran Linux on older or less-powerful hardware have discovered the joys of NetBSD.
The number of sys admins specifically using older distributions or looking at BSD variants where they can is astonishing. There are a ton of bugs to troubleshoot in systemd that can only be solved seemingly by rebooting, and that's not any guarantee. Admins simply don't have the time to debug systemd alongside all the other problems they have.
Fuck off. California is batshit crazy.
The decline always takes time. The problem is, once it has taken hold and most have noticed it is already too late.
I never understood why Jobs recommended Cook. Cook was a process guy who came from Compaq for crying out loud. Maybe he simply didn't care at that point?
Job always railed against sales, marketing and accounting people running things, especially in his lost then found interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As for crew, SpaceX has contrarily argued that even if the risk of an explosion is lower hours after fueling vs. during fueling, it still exists, and the last place you want astronauts during an explosion is in the tower on their way into the spacecraft. The safest place for the crew to be, apart from "nowhere near the rocket at all", is "inside the capsule". Crew in the tower during a sudden explosion would have basically no chance of survival.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, SpaceX is always right and everyone else has been doing it wrong for decades. We get it.
Alas, those all launched and didn't blow up on the pad, which is where the worry is with the nature of SpaceX's accident.
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In that time, Microsoft have made good on their promise not to sue regarding patents and Mono.
The fact that you're saying this *is*, in fact, the problem.
* The .NET Framework has been the main Microsoft programming environment since some years ago
When Microsoft rewrites Office in .Net, give us all a call.
Always on updates................ How do people get the update fixing the update when you've broken their fucking network you dumbasses?
I'm sorry to say that if Zen is somewhere in the ballpark of Intel's chips then no one is going to be buying Intel for quite some time, or Intel will have to drastically lower its prices, especially on the server-side. The margins they have had since Core came out are going to evaporate one way or another.
If the price/performance of this family pans out as promised, it will get foothold in the server market and HPC market. Both will find ways to secure against this -or own their own metal-. Plus there are plenty of uses that run bare metal.
It's difficult to know what to make of this, but as soon as I started reading it it was like they were stirring for something. The Intel Managament Engine on the other hand, no one has the faintest idea what that thing is doing ;-).
If Zen is somewhere in the ballpark of what Intel have, and more importantly gives them an architecture they can build on over the next few years which they just haven't had, then they are going to sell a lot of these. The chips and boards will inevitably be a lot cheaper than Intel's.
Has anyone looked at Intel's Management System yet......? ;-)
I thought that was accounting?
Nope. HR looks after employee wellbeing, and the number one priority there is getting paid.
HR typically handles employee benefits and is involved in the hiring and firing process as that affects who is receiving the benefits.
What qualifies HR to hire and fire anyone? You need qualified people who understand the nature of a company's business to do that. That's why so many companies are in such dire trouble.
All the Weather Channel is actually telling us is that the temperature data they all so heavily rely on is not all that accurate and how easily they can be manipulated to suite an agenda. However, we knew this when they started bunging tree ring and 'measured' data together to suite 'their' agenda. The only thing the Weather Channel cares about, like all these organisations, is their grant money. They also pull out the usual 'science by consensus' as an argument again.
Is there some major climate change happening? Possibly. Is there any evidence for it? Nope. Is the public any the wiser? Nope.
We're going to be waiting a long, long time.........