1) mainframes, terminals 2) minicomputers, dumb terminals (VT52/VT100/etc.) 2.5) personal computers (PCs = laptop/desktop with "powerful" CPU and "lots" of local storage for both applications and data) 3) servers (cheaper minicomputer?), PCs (from above), later thin clients (PCs without local storage) 3.5) virtualized server (minicomputer or mainframe hosting servers), PCs, thin clients (netbooks, iPads, Android/Chome devices, WinCE/Mobile, etc.), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI, {{reducing need for local storage}} 4) cloud (mainframe) via server, PCs, web operating systems, netbook, VDI, Android/Chrome {{device usage limited without Internet connection}} 4.5) "InterCloud", replace cabling with sub-standard RF communication and return to the mainframe beginning (1)
---- Hey I just published my new $1 App on iTunes that was free on Fred Fish 20 years ago and did more. {{psych}}
Now all the Fortune 500 companies need to pay licensing fees to MS, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Apple, AutoDesk for all the software that was ever transferred during mergers and acquisitions.
The software companies just earned billions and billions of dollars on this ruling.
1) Buy a comprehensive insurance policy 2) Write a detailed implementation plan that you copied from a Google search 3) Wait the 3-6 months the plan calls out before actual "work" begins 4) Burn down the building using a homeless person as the schill 5) Submit an emergency "continuity" plan that you wanted to deploy all along 6) implement the new plan in one third the time of the original plan 7) come in under budget by 38.3% 8) hire a whole new help desk at half the budgeted payroll (52.7% savings) 9) speak at the board meeting: challenges you over came to saving the company 10) Graciously accept the position of CIO
(send all paychecks and bonuses to numbered bank account and retire to a non-extradition country):)
I've been working in MIS/IS/IT for twenty+ years and I don't ever remember any glory. Paper cuts from punch card and fan fold green bar printouts sure, glory no.
You might get a little recognition now and then, but the person stocking the frig with the free soda got more respect.
And to the person who thinks that people are more technically savvy and need less IT these days, I say, "Idiot!" Just because you can twitter and logon to Pandora does not make you an IT person. Write me a report pulling data from multiple DBs (MSSQL, MySQL, and Oracle) and then display it with charts/graphs and pivot tables. Oh and make sure all 800 nodes in the compute cluster are all working on the same data set, and that they all submit their required daily status, and swap to the new data set within the weekly 5 minute maintenance window. Crap, appointments and meetings are only being scheduled on 1/3 of the 2000+ employees' calendars. Now drop everything because Enterprise CRM is not sending notifications to the 5000+ global call centers staff! Or my personal favorite, figure out why the five thousand servers purchased by the National Telephone company of a small Central American country refuse accept any voice mail passwords from their 200,000 customers...
None of that was glorious, but did get me some good bonus checks.
While it should be the right of every user to block ads and/or other content they deem unnecessary or offensive, to have corporations or governments setting standards is just another form of censorship and Internet bias.
What is to stop ComCast, Qwest, or Verizon from starting to block or filter the content we surf?
--magus (see my other post on this thread for the flip side of this argument.)
I can barely contain the mixed feelings I have over this issue and some of the juvenile responses. Right now I more annoyed with the Linux/Open Source/EFF advocates that can't give a simple acknowledgment to a step forward of the end-users' protection and privacy IE8 may.
One thing I can say before going back to replaying Halo 2 on my now decommissioned Beowulf cluster is, "Good job Microsoft for trying to protect 75+% of the worlds Internet users".
I am personally grateful that the users of our 1000+ Linux, Solaris, BSD server farm are better protected.
Let's remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. Some where, some how, the bill must be paid. Until socialism or communism govern the Internet some level of commercial advertising will need to be tolerated in order to pay the bill in order to keep the "lights and water" running.
I'm pretty sure that nobody from Urban Outfitters went to jail or prison for selling these same toys at Christmas time a few years back.
Master C@rd:
* 70+ pirated video games = $60
* Lawry on retainER = $5,000
* Good criminal defense attorney = $600+ an hour
* Your freedom = PRICELESS! ____
By the way I rolled a 20, so my 18th level psychiatrist decapitates the OT VIII mind ripper with his vorpal tongue of righteousness!
and now, on with our show...
It is my shallow, and darkly sarcastic, opinion that this is like a debate to determine whether medicine or Scientology is better suited to help suffering people.
Last time I checked there where plenty of Linux distributions that did not cost the end user anything more than time and/or Internet access fees to download, install and configure. (Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, and Fedora just to name a few.) If that is not free enough then I don't know what else to say.
When vendors start charging end users for video, audio, network drivers (binary blobs) I'll get a little more interested and active. Until then I'm more than happy to run thousands of computes on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, and SuSE Enterprise distro packages.
This rely is a nonissue at this point in time. While I applaud their efforts to provide free software, the truth is that for a majority of Linux users, this is just more background noise from the "distro war zone".
One reason companies implement retention policies is to reduce the "e-discovery" costs. A 12-36 month retention does not mean a company is try to hide anything. It just means they don't want to pay $1,000-$10,000 per Gigabyte of data that has to be examined for inclusion and exclusion in the lawsuit. The discovery phase costs of a lawsuit can financially cripple a company event if they are innocent.
Peoples uneducated responses on this topic that "they must be guilty if they're deleting emails" are about as valid as the Bush administration's claims that only criminals and terrorists should be concerned about wire tapping.
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Swatch did this for us already back in 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
--magusnet
1) mainframes, terminals
2) minicomputers, dumb terminals (VT52/VT100/etc.)
2.5) personal computers (PCs = laptop/desktop with "powerful" CPU and "lots" of local storage for both applications and data)
3) servers (cheaper minicomputer?), PCs (from above), later thin clients (PCs without local storage)
3.5) virtualized server (minicomputer or mainframe hosting servers), PCs, thin clients (netbooks, iPads, Android/Chome devices, WinCE/Mobile, etc.), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI, {{reducing need for local storage}}
4) cloud (mainframe) via server, PCs, web operating systems, netbook, VDI, Android/Chrome {{device usage limited without Internet connection}}
4.5) "InterCloud", replace cabling with sub-standard RF communication and return to the mainframe beginning (1)
----
Hey I just published my new $1 App on iTunes that was free on Fred Fish 20 years ago and did more. {{psych}}
Movies will more likely inspire kids to jump to unsubstantiated conclusions and think that their shortcuts can save the day.
Now all the Fortune 500 companies need to pay licensing fees to MS, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Apple, AutoDesk for all the software that was ever transferred during mergers and acquisitions.
The software companies just earned billions and billions of dollars on this ruling.
#idiots
... supposedly have great salaries, but what is your soul worth? ...
Did you want to know the annual or hourly rate my soul is worth?
--Mike
1) Buy a comprehensive insurance policy
2) Write a detailed implementation plan that you copied from a Google search
3) Wait the 3-6 months the plan calls out before actual "work" begins
4) Burn down the building using a homeless person as the schill
5) Submit an emergency "continuity" plan that you wanted to deploy all along
6) implement the new plan in one third the time of the original plan
7) come in under budget by 38.3%
8) hire a whole new help desk at half the budgeted payroll (52.7% savings)
9) speak at the board meeting: challenges you over came to saving the company
10) Graciously accept the position of CIO
(send all paychecks and bonuses to numbered bank account and retire to a non-extradition country) :)
I've been working in MIS/IS/IT for twenty+ years and I don't ever remember any glory. Paper cuts from punch card and fan fold green bar printouts sure, glory no.
You might get a little recognition now and then, but the person stocking the frig with the free soda got more respect.
And to the person who thinks that people are more technically savvy and need less IT these days, I say, "Idiot!" Just because you can twitter and logon to Pandora does not make you an IT person. Write me a report pulling data from multiple DBs (MSSQL, MySQL, and Oracle) and then display it with charts/graphs and pivot tables. Oh and make sure all 800 nodes in the compute cluster are all working on the same data set, and that they all submit their required daily status, and swap to the new data set within the weekly 5 minute maintenance window. Crap, appointments and meetings are only being scheduled on 1/3 of the 2000+ employees' calendars. Now drop everything because Enterprise CRM is not sending notifications to the 5000+ global call centers staff! Or my personal favorite, figure out why the five thousand servers purchased by the National Telephone company of a small Central American country refuse accept any voice mail passwords from their 200,000 customers...
None of that was glorious, but did get me some good bonus checks.
--Magus
I'm sure he will be happy these pills didn't work when he drops the soap in the shower.
Since when has there ever been an expectation of privacy in a public place?
While it should be the right of every user to block ads and/or other content they deem unnecessary or offensive, to have corporations or governments setting standards is just another form of censorship and Internet bias.
What is to stop ComCast, Qwest, or Verizon from starting to block or filter the content we surf?
--magus
(see my other post on this thread for the flip side of this argument.)
I can barely contain the mixed feelings I have over this issue and some of the juvenile responses. Right now I more annoyed with the Linux/Open Source/EFF advocates that can't give a simple acknowledgment to a step forward of the end-users' protection and privacy IE8 may.
One thing I can say before going back to replaying Halo 2 on my now decommissioned Beowulf cluster is, "Good job Microsoft for trying to protect 75+% of the worlds Internet users".
I am personally grateful that the users of our 1000+ Linux, Solaris, BSD server farm are better protected.
Let's remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. Some where, some how, the bill must be paid. Until socialism or communism govern the Internet some level of commercial advertising will need to be tolerated in order to pay the bill in order to keep the "lights and water" running.
--magus
(not to be confused with magu$)
I'm pretty sure that nobody from Urban Outfitters went to jail or prison for selling these same toys at Christmas time a few years back.
Master C@rd:
* 70+ pirated video games = $60
* Lawry on retainER = $5,000
* Good criminal defense attorney = $600+ an hour
* Your freedom = PRICELESS!
____
--magus
By the way I rolled a 20, so my 18th level psychiatrist decapitates the OT VIII mind ripper with his vorpal tongue of righteousness!
and now, on with our show...
It is my shallow, and darkly sarcastic, opinion that this is like a debate to determine whether medicine or Scientology is better suited to help suffering people.
Last time I checked there where plenty of Linux distributions that did not cost the end user anything more than time and/or Internet access fees to download, install and configure. (Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, and Fedora just to name a few.) If that is not free enough then I don't know what else to say.
When vendors start charging end users for video, audio, network drivers (binary blobs) I'll get a little more interested and active. Until then I'm more than happy to run thousands of computes on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, and SuSE Enterprise distro packages.
This rely is a nonissue at this point in time. While I applaud their efforts to provide free software, the truth is that for a majority of Linux users, this is just more background noise from the "distro war zone".
--magus
Screaming children be locked in soundproof rooms, and not just on airplanes. :)
One reason companies implement retention policies is to reduce the "e-discovery" costs. A 12-36 month retention does not mean a company is try to hide anything. It just means they don't want to pay $1,000-$10,000 per Gigabyte of data that has to be examined for inclusion and exclusion in the lawsuit. The discovery phase costs of a lawsuit can financially cripple a company event if they are innocent. Peoples uneducated responses on this topic that "they must be guilty if they're deleting emails" are about as valid as the Bush administration's claims that only criminals and terrorists should be concerned about wire tapping.