Classic. The only thing that trumps vendor bullshit is a major incident (or two), or if your company has money, a one-on-one call wih a Gartner or Forrester analyst.
I think the fundamental issue is that people tend to take people out of the disaster equation. I had to prepare a PowerPoint that looks like this to get management to understand the issue:
It was Hitachi who corrupted the data during a SAN upgrade at Microsoft (which had acquired Sidekick only a year before).
This is a frequent problem with storage vendors. We had a similar thing happen at work with a big IBM SAN (7-digit price tag); the IBM guy wiped the data by mistake and said "sorry about that". And anyone who has managed a low-end MSI whitelabel (like the DS-4000) has probably gone through something similar or worse, like losing the arrays configs. Same for Clariion. Or Netapp.
The problem with the Sidekick mess was not having backups. That was reckless even for Microsoft; although it's always tempting to see SAN replication as a form of backup, it's not the same thing.
Microsoft already had a version of Unix at the time: Xenix, first designed for minis and licensed to OEMs (not customers). But it needed a lot of customization for every new architecture, and when they made the deal with IBM to license them an o/s they didn't have time to create a new Xenix flavor that ran well on x86. (A problem similar to the one Linus Torvalds solved more than a decade later).
So they bought DOS and figured that they would make it closer to Xenix in a later version. But other events occured, and they finally abandoned Unix and sold Xenix to one of the greatest companies in the history of software: SCO.
If you have any experience in IT you know that this kind of short term compromise to close a sale or meet a deadline is typical. In this case it just happens to be a famous one, and since Microsoft has been profitable every year since then (30+ years ago) I wouldn't qualify that as a mistake.
Sorry I don't get your logic but bottom line, there's no "technology" involved in the uber/airbnb disruption, there's been similar apps from a customer and provider perspectives for years. The only innovation here is de facto deregulation - to ignore the systems in place and to transfer 100% of the risk to the customers and smaller service providers, while taking a cut in the process.
I could create an app tomorrow that lets people who want a kid get in touch with people who can't keep their kid for some reason, and let them have their own adoption deal. That's the same business model.
Sounds like a plan. Of course next time you book wirh Airbnb and the "palace with ocean view" turns out to be a shithole and the hosts asks for an extra $200 cash, I'm sure your reviews on Angie's List will help righting that wrong, since bad reviews on Airbnb are bad for business and usually fade in the digital void. You could also put up a Facebook page or post a rant on Craigslist.
There's been great success stories with deregulation and the free market, such as energy (Enron), investment banking (Lehman Brothers and others), airlines and more. All big wins for customers - except of course all those people who lost their 401(k) or their house or who had to pay obscene power bills or had to wait for hours in suffocating planes parked on the runways, but I guess those morons simply forgot to check Yelp and Angie's List.
Yes, the same thing should happen with banks, insurance companies, childcare and hospitals. Let's get the government regulations out of the way and rely on Yelp reviews and Facebook likes. FREE MARKET!
And just like her, you hide behind "the real point" because now you realize that she never "clearly stated" her position (your own words), all she did was let people draw their own conclusions based on a vague message rejecting a bill so stupid that even Trump didn't support it. That's called figure skating and politicians have done that since the dawn of time, but for some reason you're just too biased or self-deluded to notice it when it comes to that feminazi.
No, the WSJ is not the epitome of engineering information, we've seen that with the bullshit story they published about Theranos. But they're still able to quote the NHTSA, and if that's not up to your Tesla fanboi standards just fucking google it the same quote has been widely reported by other organizations.
Please provide a quote from Jill Stein herself to support that.
While you scour the internets to dig up this non-existing quote, you will see that while she tweeted against the NC bathroom bill, she never actually took position, she simply swept that under "discrimination". Even when asked directly by a sycophant reporter, she refused to answer, saying that there were more important issues and deflected the question over and over.
This is at the opposite end of the spectrum of Mitt Romney and gay marriage, where he "had" to oppose it in order to keep his base but out of decency and honesty he qualified his answer by mentioning that any kind of discrimination is bad.
Feminazis like Stein are not supportive of transgenders once the threshold of their "women safe space" is crossed. They just use them as cannon fodder in their war against bigger bigots. There's countless examples of feminist doubletalk on this. Don't be fooled by the tolerant facade, those people are hypocrites.
Things are getting exciting. The next President will be one of those:
1) a failed business person with bad hair and a name tarnished by sex scandals who doesn't like Arabs and Mexicans
2) a failed business person with bad hair and a name tarnished by sex scandals who thinks giving US citizenship to 20 millions Arabs and Mexicans is a one-shot deal that won't bring 50 millions more knocking at the door to get their share of the American Dream
3) a feminazi who thinks women bathrooms are only for "womyn-born womyns" (not those rapists in disguise called transgenders) and who never had a non-subsidized job in her entire life
And they all lie. Constantly. With no consideration for the intelligence of the people they lie to.
How could things get to that point? Both the GOP and the Democrats have made terrible strategic choice. First the GOP could have picked a decent, middle-of-the-road candidate that somehow represents the GOP values, and following a Democrat president that failed to live up to the hype of his election, it could have been an easy win. But no, they went with Trump... And how did the Democrats react? Did they pick a normal, middle-of-the-road candidate that somehow represents the liberal values? Of course not, they picked a controversial figure with a sketchy background and a history of bad decisions that makes people fall asleep when she speaks.
If this was a movie it would get a 3.5 score on imdb because nobody would believe this could happen.
Unless proven otherwise, I would tend to believe that both are in good faith but that there's some missing element that hasn't yet been discovered.
Neither a driver that "clearly remembers" switching the autopilot on or a manufacturer that claims there's no problem according to their log files are making a point worth making.
The National Transportation Safety Board also is investigating the crash to determine whether it reveals systemic issues tied to development of driverless cars
See the part about "systemic issues"? That's pretty much the opposite of focusing an investigation on a single hardware component like you imply.
So what. It's not an either/or situation. Both sides have an incentive to spin things, that's not by itself an argument for the other side.
Yes, there are dishonest people out there. But also anyone with experience in mass production will tell you that real life has a tendency to make flukes and quirks happen sooner than later. There's just too many factors in the production line and in the end user environment to account for all possible defects. Cars are not simple apps running on heroku, there's a physical and mechanical element to consider.
Ever heard of problems with early MAP sensors back when they were installed inside the cab? Difference of temperature in winter tended to cause condensation in the line, but by the time the car was on the lift at the dealership, the condensation was gone. In hindsight the problem is obvious, but back then the "conclusive tests" made by the manufacturer made them treat honest people like crooks or idiots.
I always trust log files when they are generated by a piece of software that is under investigation for being unreliable. It's up there in terms of foolproof evidence, right next to people taking the stand when they're accused of murder or some other worse-than-perjury crime.
Contrary to what most people think, government in China is far from being a large, single-minded entity. It's more like the EU; lots of small factions and local fiefdoms.
In the vast majority of cases, industrial or internet "spies" work for private concerns. Of course there's a blurry line because the government has their fingers in everyone's pie in China, either directly or via state employees who leverage their access to public resources to build their own small empire. But it's rarely a simple Big Brother thing.
Yeah it's like those extreme couponers at the grocery store. People laugh and applaud, but not only do those fuckers empty the shelves when stuff is on sale, forcing other customers to get a voucher and come back another time to get those products at that price, they also block a checkout lane for hours to get the clerk to scan hundreds of coupons.
It's easy to say that they're "within their rigths" and that the grocery store should have endless supplies and staff to honor loopholes, but that's just childish reasoning. If you make a trip to the store to buy a 2L of Coke so you can prepare Cuba Libres for your grandfather that visits only once a year, and you see the empty shelves and the 48 bottles in some douche carts (because of course they need 4 carts), it's not really the grocery store that is to blame.
Common sense doesn't work with some people. It sucks for people who were using this space in a reasonable manner but as always, fuckers ruin everything.
Just about anyone who is to be 'taken down' in western societies seems to be done by sexual impropriety. JFK, MLK both had allegations of misconduct.
That's a convenient way to brush things off.
For MLK the FBI has sex tapes (including video) recorded in his hotel room. Those tapes were not a fabrication but rather a surprise, as the FBI was instead hoping to get evidence of MLK being in cahoots with commies (of which there's no evidence).
Back then the FBI tried to leak those but the media refused to play ball (that was a long time before Gawker). So they sent a ridiculous letter to his house, with a copy of those tapes. Here's an actual quote from that letter which was allegedly read by his wife first:
The American public will know you for what you are, an evil, abnormal beast, and Satan could not do more
Years later a bunch of right-wingers tried to get those tapes released but a judge sealed them until 2027.
So take off your tinfoil hat. It's healthy to ask questions, but when you raise doubts about sexual allegations simply on the basis that the alleged perpetrator is famous and therefore some nefarious organization must be trying to frame him, you're making it more difficult for real victims to come out.
Basically the ACLU crowd took over. Is this a good thing? Depends if you're into whitepapers, policies and ideas, or if you want to protect your privacy.
You come across as a bit on the psycho stalker side yourself.
Totally uncalled for. I haven't received a single restraining order in July so far, there was just this tiny incident with the 7-11 guy and the cops said it wasn't really stalking.
I don't know, man. I googled a picture like I always do when I come across the name of someone who's supposed to be big, and that guy looks like a dentist that had a psychotic break and turned into a serial killer. Based on that I don't trust him, or rust.
The real lesson in Star Wars is not the attack surface, it's the fact that when you know about a weak spot you don't have your squadrons of fighters and bombers start at the other end of the ennemy base to make their way under heavy fire and defense and have them mowed down as they approach the target.
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Classic. The only thing that trumps vendor bullshit is a major incident (or two), or if your company has money, a one-on-one call wih a Gartner or Forrester analyst.
I think the fundamental issue is that people tend to take people out of the disaster equation. I had to prepare a PowerPoint that looks like this to get management to understand the issue:
Replication -> Fire, earthquake, contained zombie invasion
Backups -> Oops sorry about that
You'd think they teach that in CS and IT-related MBA programs but apparently not.
It was Hitachi who corrupted the data during a SAN upgrade at Microsoft (which had acquired Sidekick only a year before).
This is a frequent problem with storage vendors. We had a similar thing happen at work with a big IBM SAN (7-digit price tag); the IBM guy wiped the data by mistake and said "sorry about that". And anyone who has managed a low-end MSI whitelabel (like the DS-4000) has probably gone through something similar or worse, like losing the arrays configs. Same for Clariion. Or Netapp.
The problem with the Sidekick mess was not having backups. That was reckless even for Microsoft; although it's always tempting to see SAN replication as a form of backup, it's not the same thing.
Microsoft already had a version of Unix at the time: Xenix, first designed for minis and licensed to OEMs (not customers). But it needed a lot of customization for every new architecture, and when they made the deal with IBM to license them an o/s they didn't have time to create a new Xenix flavor that ran well on x86. (A problem similar to the one Linus Torvalds solved more than a decade later).
So they bought DOS and figured that they would make it closer to Xenix in a later version. But other events occured, and they finally abandoned Unix and sold Xenix to one of the greatest companies in the history of software: SCO.
If you have any experience in IT you know that this kind of short term compromise to close a sale or meet a deadline is typical. In this case it just happens to be a famous one, and since Microsoft has been profitable every year since then (30+ years ago) I wouldn't qualify that as a mistake.
Sorry I don't get your logic but bottom line, there's no "technology" involved in the uber/airbnb disruption, there's been similar apps from a customer and provider perspectives for years. The only innovation here is de facto deregulation - to ignore the systems in place and to transfer 100% of the risk to the customers and smaller service providers, while taking a cut in the process.
I could create an app tomorrow that lets people who want a kid get in touch with people who can't keep their kid for some reason, and let them have their own adoption deal. That's the same business model.
If this ever actually happened, you'd have included a link
Are you kidding? Just google "airbnb horror stories", even the huffington post has an article about this.
And there's a website full of those too: airbnbhell.com, it has stories from both points of view (hosts and guests).
Sounds like a plan. Of course next time you book wirh Airbnb and the "palace with ocean view" turns out to be a shithole and the hosts asks for an extra $200 cash, I'm sure your reviews on Angie's List will help righting that wrong, since bad reviews on Airbnb are bad for business and usually fade in the digital void. You could also put up a Facebook page or post a rant on Craigslist.
There's been great success stories with deregulation and the free market, such as energy (Enron), investment banking (Lehman Brothers and others), airlines and more. All big wins for customers - except of course all those people who lost their 401(k) or their house or who had to pay obscene power bills or had to wait for hours in suffocating planes parked on the runways, but I guess those morons simply forgot to check Yelp and Angie's List.
Yes, the same thing should happen with banks, insurance companies, childcare and hospitals. Let's get the government regulations out of the way and rely on Yelp reviews and Facebook likes. FREE MARKET!
the person who wrote that huge block of text and picked those fonts, colors and graphics lives in an enchanted land.
Ok so you found no actual quote, as expected.
And just like her, you hide behind "the real point" because now you realize that she never "clearly stated" her position (your own words), all she did was let people draw their own conclusions based on a vague message rejecting a bill so stupid that even Trump didn't support it. That's called figure skating and politicians have done that since the dawn of time, but for some reason you're just too biased or self-deluded to notice it when it comes to that feminazi.
No, the WSJ is not the epitome of engineering information, we've seen that with the bullshit story they published about Theranos. But they're still able to quote the NHTSA, and if that's not up to your Tesla fanboi standards just fucking google it the same quote has been widely reported by other organizations.
Please provide a quote from Jill Stein herself to support that.
While you scour the internets to dig up this non-existing quote, you will see that while she tweeted against the NC bathroom bill, she never actually took position, she simply swept that under "discrimination". Even when asked directly by a sycophant reporter, she refused to answer, saying that there were more important issues and deflected the question over and over.
This is at the opposite end of the spectrum of Mitt Romney and gay marriage, where he "had" to oppose it in order to keep his base but out of decency and honesty he qualified his answer by mentioning that any kind of discrimination is bad.
Feminazis like Stein are not supportive of transgenders once the threshold of their "women safe space" is crossed. They just use them as cannon fodder in their war against bigger bigots. There's countless examples of feminist doubletalk on this. Don't be fooled by the tolerant facade, those people are hypocrites.
Things are getting exciting. The next President will be one of those:
1) a failed business person with bad hair and a name tarnished by sex scandals who doesn't like Arabs and Mexicans
2) a failed business person with bad hair and a name tarnished by sex scandals who thinks giving US citizenship to 20 millions Arabs and Mexicans is a one-shot deal that won't bring 50 millions more knocking at the door to get their share of the American Dream
3) a feminazi who thinks women bathrooms are only for "womyn-born womyns" (not those rapists in disguise called transgenders) and who never had a non-subsidized job in her entire life
And they all lie. Constantly. With no consideration for the intelligence of the people they lie to.
How could things get to that point? Both the GOP and the Democrats have made terrible strategic choice. First the GOP could have picked a decent, middle-of-the-road candidate that somehow represents the GOP values, and following a Democrat president that failed to live up to the hype of his election, it could have been an easy win. But no, they went with Trump... And how did the Democrats react? Did they pick a normal, middle-of-the-road candidate that somehow represents the liberal values? Of course not, they picked a controversial figure with a sketchy background and a history of bad decisions that makes people fall asleep when she speaks.
If this was a movie it would get a 3.5 score on imdb because nobody would believe this could happen.
That would be the first President to pardon more people than Bill Clinton. Except this time it'd be free.
Unless proven otherwise, I would tend to believe that both are in good faith but that there's some missing element that hasn't yet been discovered.
Neither a driver that "clearly remembers" switching the autopilot on or a manufacturer that claims there's no problem according to their log files are making a point worth making.
Says you. Here's what the WSJ article says:
The National Transportation Safety Board also is investigating the crash to determine whether it reveals systemic issues tied to development of driverless cars
See the part about "systemic issues"? That's pretty much the opposite of focusing an investigation on a single hardware component like you imply.
So what. It's not an either/or situation. Both sides have an incentive to spin things, that's not by itself an argument for the other side.
Yes, there are dishonest people out there. But also anyone with experience in mass production will tell you that real life has a tendency to make flukes and quirks happen sooner than later. There's just too many factors in the production line and in the end user environment to account for all possible defects. Cars are not simple apps running on heroku, there's a physical and mechanical element to consider.
Ever heard of problems with early MAP sensors back when they were installed inside the cab? Difference of temperature in winter tended to cause condensation in the line, but by the time the car was on the lift at the dealership, the condensation was gone. In hindsight the problem is obvious, but back then the "conclusive tests" made by the manufacturer made them treat honest people like crooks or idiots.
I always trust log files when they are generated by a piece of software that is under investigation for being unreliable. It's up there in terms of foolproof evidence, right next to people taking the stand when they're accused of murder or some other worse-than-perjury crime.
Contrary to what most people think, government in China is far from being a large, single-minded entity. It's more like the EU; lots of small factions and local fiefdoms.
In the vast majority of cases, industrial or internet "spies" work for private concerns. Of course there's a blurry line because the government has their fingers in everyone's pie in China, either directly or via state employees who leverage their access to public resources to build their own small empire. But it's rarely a simple Big Brother thing.
Yeah it's like those extreme couponers at the grocery store. People laugh and applaud, but not only do those fuckers empty the shelves when stuff is on sale, forcing other customers to get a voucher and come back another time to get those products at that price, they also block a checkout lane for hours to get the clerk to scan hundreds of coupons.
It's easy to say that they're "within their rigths" and that the grocery store should have endless supplies and staff to honor loopholes, but that's just childish reasoning. If you make a trip to the store to buy a 2L of Coke so you can prepare Cuba Libres for your grandfather that visits only once a year, and you see the empty shelves and the 48 bottles in some douche carts (because of course they need 4 carts), it's not really the grocery store that is to blame.
Common sense doesn't work with some people. It sucks for people who were using this space in a reasonable manner but as always, fuckers ruin everything.
Just about anyone who is to be 'taken down' in western societies seems to be done by sexual impropriety. JFK, MLK both had allegations of misconduct.
That's a convenient way to brush things off.
For MLK the FBI has sex tapes (including video) recorded in his hotel room. Those tapes were not a fabrication but rather a surprise, as the FBI was instead hoping to get evidence of MLK being in cahoots with commies (of which there's no evidence).
Back then the FBI tried to leak those but the media refused to play ball (that was a long time before Gawker). So they sent a ridiculous letter to his house, with a copy of those tapes. Here's an actual quote from that letter which was allegedly read by his wife first:
The American public will know you for what you are, an evil, abnormal beast, and Satan could not do more
Years later a bunch of right-wingers tried to get those tapes released but a judge sealed them until 2027.
So take off your tinfoil hat. It's healthy to ask questions, but when you raise doubts about sexual allegations simply on the basis that the alleged perpetrator is famous and therefore some nefarious organization must be trying to frame him, you're making it more difficult for real victims to come out.
Basically the ACLU crowd took over. Is this a good thing? Depends if you're into whitepapers, policies and ideas, or if you want to protect your privacy.
You come across as a bit on the psycho stalker side yourself.
Totally uncalled for. I haven't received a single restraining order in July so far, there was just this tiny incident with the 7-11 guy and the cops said it wasn't really stalking.
I don't know, man. I googled a picture like I always do when I come across the name of someone who's supposed to be big, and that guy looks like a dentist that had a psychotic break and turned into a serial killer. Based on that I don't trust him, or rust.
The real lesson in Star Wars is not the attack surface, it's the fact that when you know about a weak spot you don't have your squadrons of fighters and bombers start at the other end of the ennemy base to make their way under heavy fire and defense and have them mowed down as they approach the target.
You'll understand if one day you make enough money to own something and pay taxes.