This is small potatoes. That government spent $15 BILLIONS on a patient records system for the national health services before giving up. That's 7x more than the wonderful healthcare.gov website (which at least is "working").
never underestimate the will of a company hell-bent on buying another.. especially when combined with the will of a company hell-bent on being bought
Next in line is Tibco. Just like EMC, they have stopped any kind of innovation a long time ago and just positioned themselves to be bought, but unlike EMC nobody gives a shit about Tibco. When even Oracle doesn't want your middleware you suck big time.
The general vibe I've gotten from other peers is to stay away from Dell Storage with a 10ft pole, but EMC hardware was pretty good for traditional storage.
If I was you it's those peers I'd stay away with a 10ft pole, and this for two reasons:
1) Dell has sold Dell-branded EMC hardware since forever
2) Any of the few acquisitions made by Dell in the storage space over the last 10 years is absolute science-fiction compared to "bleeding edge" EMC
EMC is a terrible company and they have dragged VMWare down. Hopefully Dell can salvage it.
Of course we all know it's better to do a 10h online javascript course at Codecademy than getting a "substandard" CS degree full of false promises at CMU or MIT. Google is snatching up Codecademy grads even before they finish their 8th or 9th hour and offers them 6-figure salaries and free snacks. Fuck college!
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
The story is not much about the IT infrastructure, as it is about the number of inconvenienced people and flight delays. Barely a word on the technical side of what went wrong and how it's being solved (which would for most of this tech and IT minded crowd be quite interesting), and what's said about that part is mostly marketing speak. How does this make the story slashdot-worthy? Just because it involved computers?
Well, you've got a point there. I went to read the article but there wasn't a bit of technical information. I was hoping for some details, maybe an opportunity to bitch about Indian subcontractors like with that whole RBS fiasco a while back, but nothing. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
Your translation is wrong. The problem is not the 911 software. The problem is the delay in getting the caller id from the PSTN, and this is not something they can accelerate from the 911 data center.
Imagine that your boss tells you that he wants to receive emails within one second of any client or potential customer sending them. The problem is not his Thunderbird or Outlook settings, the problem is that email has to cross multiple boundaries, from one ISP to another, from one SMTP server to another, and nobody has control over the entire process.
In the case of 911, how can they fix it? Operators get thousands of hang up calls for which they don't get the caller id immediately when the form pops up on their screen. Instead of spending 20 seconds tidying up the call information they dismiss it with the "ass caller" flag. The call is logged but no details are entered in the database, and while technically they probably are able to reconcile calls using the switch logs or some other mean, it's just a huge pain in the ass that nobody has the budget to deal with. Typical big data problem.
Read the document instead of relying on a poor, click-baiting summary. There's an actual problem with ass callers.
Although the source data (i.e., whether a call is coming from a landline, cellphone or business) can be passed from the telephone system to the CAD system, technical issues can require human intervention to capture this data in CAD. For example, in 2014, DEM discovered that telephone routers could take 2-8 seconds to transmit ANI/ALI information (which includes source data) to dispatcher phones. However, if ANI/ALI information is not present at the time the dispatcher begins typing in the CAD Incident Entry window, source data is not captured, and dispatchers would need to manually port source data into the CAD Incident Entry window. Given this, source data (particularly for wireless calls, labeled as “W911”) was lacking in the CAD dataset which impacted the ability to identify the number CAD incidents created from wireless calls. Correspondingly, the number of CAD incidents resulting from wireless calls is significantly underrepresented, given that ~60% of DEM’s call volume comes from wireless phones.
If you are that preoccupied by evil cookies, use Linux Tails like Edward Snowden recommends.
But really, you overestimate your value for those who allegedly "rape and con" you with cookies. They care about trends and patterns, not about you as a person, so browsing the web in a virtual space that you "shred" afterwards is more of a hobby than a necessity. Modern browsers are well-equipped to provide a decent level of privacy, there's no need to go thinfoil hat over this.
When this thing started, the governor was democrat, the senators were democrat, the secretary of state was democrat, the attorney general was democrat, and the president was democrat.
Dubai has squandered whatever funds they had a long time ago. It's just like Greece, except its neighbors have no problem injecting billions on an hourly basis to keep the thing from collapsing.
It's okay to be a nutjob, but as anyone can see by reading his manifesto the Unabomber has raised the bar for this kind of talk. Gone are the days of vague threats of violence and social justice. You need content, not just posturing. Where's your content?
But there's a hot wheels racetrack and what appears to be parts of a lacross stick encased in his dining room table! And a tardis thing taking half the room available in his kitchen! How cool is that!
The problem with artificial sweeteners is not how they break down. The problem is that they do such a good job of faking sugar that the body is fooled and doses insulin accordingly. Which leads to long-term inflammation, insulin resistance, and all kinds of other issues. And it's made worse by the fact that the glycemic imbalance causes cravings, which lead people to consume more sugar (or fake sugar).
I'm not saying people should drink a 12-pack of Mountain Dew when they wake up in the morning, but drinking diet soda isn't much better in the long run.
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This is small potatoes. That government spent $15 BILLIONS on a patient records system for the national health services before giving up. That's 7x more than the wonderful healthcare.gov website (which at least is "working").
Consensual sex implies that both partners are conscious.
What about the Greeks?
never underestimate the will of a company hell-bent on buying another.. especially when combined with the will of a company hell-bent on being bought
Next in line is Tibco. Just like EMC, they have stopped any kind of innovation a long time ago and just positioned themselves to be bought, but unlike EMC nobody gives a shit about Tibco. When even Oracle doesn't want your middleware you suck big time.
The general vibe I've gotten from other peers is to stay away from Dell Storage with a 10ft pole, but EMC hardware was pretty good for traditional storage.
If I was you it's those peers I'd stay away with a 10ft pole, and this for two reasons:
1) Dell has sold Dell-branded EMC hardware since forever
2) Any of the few acquisitions made by Dell in the storage space over the last 10 years is absolute science-fiction compared to "bleeding edge" EMC
EMC is a terrible company and they have dragged VMWare down. Hopefully Dell can salvage it.
Acquisitions that account for more than a small fraction of the acquiring company's overall value are risky and don't have a good track record.
Sure... like Oracle, Cisco, SAP, Google, AMD.
And outside IT: AT&T, Verizon, Chrysler, Exxon, Comcat, Shell, Pfizer...
Terrible track record.
Of course we all know it's better to do a 10h online javascript course at Codecademy than getting a "substandard" CS degree full of false promises at CMU or MIT. Google is snatching up Codecademy grads even before they finish their 8th or 9th hour and offers them 6-figure salaries and free snacks. Fuck college!
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
The story is not much about the IT infrastructure, as it is about the number of inconvenienced people and flight delays. Barely a word on the technical side of what went wrong and how it's being solved (which would for most of this tech and IT minded crowd be quite interesting), and what's said about that part is mostly marketing speak. How does this make the story slashdot-worthy? Just because it involved computers?
Well, you've got a point there. I went to read the article but there wasn't a bit of technical information. I was hoping for some details, maybe an opportunity to bitch about Indian subcontractors like with that whole RBS fiasco a while back, but nothing. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
Maybe they use AWS EC2 and all the capacity got sucked in by Netflix, who just released Supernatural Season 10...
They should send choppers with spies and shit to get Scorpion from his low-key digs so he can fix that control tower. It worked in Season 1.
Your translation is wrong. The problem is not the 911 software. The problem is the delay in getting the caller id from the PSTN, and this is not something they can accelerate from the 911 data center.
Imagine that your boss tells you that he wants to receive emails within one second of any client or potential customer sending them. The problem is not his Thunderbird or Outlook settings, the problem is that email has to cross multiple boundaries, from one ISP to another, from one SMTP server to another, and nobody has control over the entire process.
In the case of 911, how can they fix it? Operators get thousands of hang up calls for which they don't get the caller id immediately when the form pops up on their screen. Instead of spending 20 seconds tidying up the call information they dismiss it with the "ass caller" flag. The call is logged but no details are entered in the database, and while technically they probably are able to reconcile calls using the switch logs or some other mean, it's just a huge pain in the ass that nobody has the budget to deal with. Typical big data problem.
Read the document instead of relying on a poor, click-baiting summary. There's an actual problem with ass callers.
Although the source data (i.e., whether a call is coming from a landline, cellphone or business) can be passed from the telephone system to the CAD system, technical issues can require human intervention to capture this data in CAD. For example, in 2014, DEM discovered that telephone routers could take 2-8 seconds to transmit ANI/ALI information (which includes source data) to dispatcher phones. However, if ANI/ALI information is not present at the time the dispatcher begins typing in the CAD Incident Entry window, source data is not captured, and dispatchers would need to manually port source data into the CAD Incident Entry window. Given this, source data (particularly for wireless calls, labeled as “W911”) was lacking in the CAD dataset which impacted the ability to identify the number CAD incidents created from wireless calls. Correspondingly, the number of CAD incidents resulting from wireless calls is significantly underrepresented, given that ~60% of DEM’s call volume comes from wireless phones.
You could, maybe, stop wearing those ridiculously uncomfortable skinny jeans and actually leave "room" for your phone, in a FRONT pocket?
Impractical. How are you supposed to play "pocket pool" if you start putting stuff in your front pockets?
I don't understand why people prefer their back pockets to put things into
They try to look like 18 years old chicks, that's why
What about a belt clip? It worked for Batman.
If you are that preoccupied by evil cookies, use Linux Tails like Edward Snowden recommends.
But really, you overestimate your value for those who allegedly "rape and con" you with cookies. They care about trends and patterns, not about you as a person, so browsing the web in a virtual space that you "shred" afterwards is more of a hobby than a necessity. Modern browsers are well-equipped to provide a decent level of privacy, there's no need to go thinfoil hat over this.
When this thing started, the governor was democrat, the senators were democrat, the secretary of state was democrat, the attorney general was democrat, and the president was democrat.
So yeah, let's blame the republicans.
Dubai has squandered whatever funds they had a long time ago. It's just like Greece, except its neighbors have no problem injecting billions on an hourly basis to keep the thing from collapsing.
Why build it in New Mexico?
There's a local expertise with spaceflight that goes back to 1947.
Everyone in charge of what? And what money?
It's okay to be a nutjob, but as anyone can see by reading his manifesto the Unabomber has raised the bar for this kind of talk. Gone are the days of vague threats of violence and social justice. You need content, not just posturing. Where's your content?
But there's a hot wheels racetrack and what appears to be parts of a lacross stick encased in his dining room table! And a tardis thing taking half the room available in his kitchen! How cool is that!
The problem with artificial sweeteners is not how they break down. The problem is that they do such a good job of faking sugar that the body is fooled and doses insulin accordingly. Which leads to long-term inflammation, insulin resistance, and all kinds of other issues. And it's made worse by the fact that the glycemic imbalance causes cravings, which lead people to consume more sugar (or fake sugar).
I'm not saying people should drink a 12-pack of Mountain Dew when they wake up in the morning, but drinking diet soda isn't much better in the long run.
What is Julian Assange doing at that Pokemon party?
It's the flaw that allows Democrats to fool Republicans
Except Bush. He can't get fooled again.