The issue was that they stopped using sockets as the metric. So instead of licensing two sockets (with big lovely fat fast multicore processors in them) you suddenly had to licence by the core.
That wasn't a price doubling, that was (depending on your CPUs) an order of magnitude difference. That fucking hurts.
Hmm. Oracle themselves can't do that, and trust me, I've fucking demanded it from them.
Meanwhile even where an Oracle database is performant, secure, scalable, usable and technically optimal.. it's still too fucking expensive.
When it takes me three times as long to write a system to use a different DBMS, and I need three times as much hardware to run it, and it's still cheaper than fucking Oracle licences, you know it's not the technology that's the issue.
But you don't buy technology just because of the technology. Not at enterprises that can afford a sizeable Oracle footprint.
You misunderstand. Keeping people off AWS drives people to seek alternatives to AWS.
Oracle's preference is that the chosen alternative is Oracle's cloud, which is underpinned by Oracle's hardware. A hardware sale is revenue this year and some subsequent support revenue. A cloud based sale is revenue this year, next year, the year after...
Without wanting to discuss how many billions he may or may not have, I'd fucking love to fail that hard.
Shit, 2% of his net worth is retirement money, even at the low end of the various estimates. Damn that failure.
Still, well done - you must be posting anonymously so that we can't see which of the world's richest 100 people posts on Slashdot if you think this qualifies as 'failed'.
Racism in the US justice system may exist but it's dwarfed by the sexism.
But you haven't really demonstrated any racism in the system. Are white people incarcerated at a lower rate than all other races, in proportion to crime rates, taking into account wealth, location and education?
I did. However calling me a fucktard doesn't answer my question. Are you drunk or is this your normal level of stupidity? You seem to be very upset for no discernable reason, are you ok? Would you like me to ring for a nurse?
Well, maybe the people getting all the money spent on them. The people the law discriminates towards, rather than against. The people with better outcomes.
Me, I'm not seeing any white privilege. Why are you even asking such a stupid question.
Cut off airline flight information, SWIFT network traffic and other data sources the US begs for, and mandate that no data regarding EU citizens is transferred to the US.
Only the CIA, FBI, DEA, IRS, Google, Amazon and Facebook that will suffer, nobody important.
It only backfired for you if you were willing to rip them off charging twice the salary for a job you couldn't do. But I guess that's integrity speaking.
You're conflating recruiters with the hiring manager. Trust me, hiring managers don't get a cut, and don't get to skim anything.
Shit, headhunters tend to try and get as high a salary as possible. That's what their commission is based on, so the higher the hiring salary the more money they make.
Maybe you're talking about the contract market. Even there the hiring manager doesn't skim or get a cut. The money doesn't go anywhere near them.
A long film in 4K could easily hit a terabyte, just for one film. IMDB's ratings history tells me I've watched over two new films (so not including rewatching films I've seen before) every week since 2003.
Terabytes a month? Easily, especially if someone has kids, multiple family members, includes TV and TV series.
Just how much would a second driver even earn, if this guy is already driving at peak times just to cover his own costs.
You're also assuming there aren't excess mileage charges on the lease, quite apart from other factors.
But hey, you know where he sleeps. Pop over, give him the benefit of your insight and ideas. Hell, sounds like he'd welcome the company and a decent cup of coffee at least.
Although comically, 'straight out of university' graduates joining my company this year will be earning more than the graduates that started last year now earn.
This is causing some understandable conflict.
But even that aside, the starting salary for graduates at my company is above the UK average wage, so not even remotely close to minimum wage. Average graduate salaries are £18-20k/year, which is £200/month more than minimum wage (assuming someone on minimum wage gets paid for 40 hours/week including holidays). £200/month is worth having, especially at that tax rate, and that's the starting salary; two years in that £200/month differential will have doubled, five years in the difference buys a new car.
So your experience may not reflect national trends, even without salaries moving much in the past decade.
Given Uber have lied about the income their drivers can expect to receive I'm not sure how you're expecting him to have avoided that bad decision.
I also think that even if he made a bad decision, Uber at a minimum allowed him to make it, knew he was making it, probably encouraged him to make it, and have a fucking obligation not to fuck him over as a result of it.
People make bad decisions. If the job is shitty, if he hates it, if it doesn't earn as much as he wants, that's a bad decision and sure, he should look for other options. The job is all of those things and doesn't even pay him enough to go home and sleep in a bed at night. That's not a bad decision, that's a fucking travesty. Yes, Uber are very much accountable.
Indeed. Mocking people stupid enough to believe your lies as you exploit them is sociopathic. Employees are stakeholders too and neglecting them tends to be an excellent way to kill a business.
What pisses me off is that the cunts behind Uber will exit with a large windfall before the model collapses.
I've known people put their life savings into learning a new skill, only to find that the jobs aren't there, the world's moved on or that even after the training they just aren't able to compete in the labour market.
The effort isn't lacking, the risk taking is there, the desire to learn exists and the outcome still completely sucks.
I don't want people like that dying young and homeless. You were lucky, in your background or genetics or decisions; others aren't. Survival in this century shouldn't be down to luck for anybody.
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The issue was that they stopped using sockets as the metric. So instead of licensing two sockets (with big lovely fat fast multicore processors in them) you suddenly had to licence by the core.
That wasn't a price doubling, that was (depending on your CPUs) an order of magnitude difference. That fucking hurts.
Hmm. Oracle themselves can't do that, and trust me, I've fucking demanded it from them.
Meanwhile even where an Oracle database is performant, secure, scalable, usable and technically optimal.. it's still too fucking expensive.
When it takes me three times as long to write a system to use a different DBMS, and I need three times as much hardware to run it, and it's still cheaper than fucking Oracle licences, you know it's not the technology that's the issue.
But you don't buy technology just because of the technology. Not at enterprises that can afford a sizeable Oracle footprint.
You misunderstand. Keeping people off AWS drives people to seek alternatives to AWS.
Oracle's preference is that the chosen alternative is Oracle's cloud, which is underpinned by Oracle's hardware. A hardware sale is revenue this year and some subsequent support revenue. A cloud based sale is revenue this year, next year, the year after...
Sorry, did I say preference? I meant delusion.
Good news: Doesn't really matter how much they hate you, they hate each other more.
Shit, you're even replying to a thread about sunni vs shia violence.
Trump, a failed business man
Without wanting to discuss how many billions he may or may not have, I'd fucking love to fail that hard.
Shit, 2% of his net worth is retirement money, even at the low end of the various estimates. Damn that failure.
Still, well done - you must be posting anonymously so that we can't see which of the world's richest 100 people posts on Slashdot if you think this qualifies as 'failed'.
Racism in the US justice system may exist but it's dwarfed by the sexism.
But you haven't really demonstrated any racism in the system. Are white people incarcerated at a lower rate than all other races, in proportion to crime rates, taking into account wealth, location and education?
I did. However calling me a fucktard doesn't answer my question. Are you drunk or is this your normal level of stupidity? You seem to be very upset for no discernable reason, are you ok? Would you like me to ring for a nurse?
Well, maybe the people getting all the money spent on them.
The people the law discriminates towards, rather than against.
The people with better outcomes.
Me, I'm not seeing any white privilege. Why are you even asking such a stupid question.
Cut off airline flight information, SWIFT network traffic and other data sources the US begs for, and mandate that no data regarding EU citizens is transferred to the US.
Only the CIA, FBI, DEA, IRS, Google, Amazon and Facebook that will suffer, nobody important.
It only backfired for you if you were willing to rip them off charging twice the salary for a job you couldn't do. But I guess that's integrity speaking.
Didn't backfire for them at all.
You're conflating recruiters with the hiring manager. Trust me, hiring managers don't get a cut, and don't get to skim anything.
Shit, headhunters tend to try and get as high a salary as possible. That's what their commission is based on, so the higher the hiring salary the more money they make.
Maybe you're talking about the contract market. Even there the hiring manager doesn't skim or get a cut. The money doesn't go anywhere near them.
You're strange.
Not in the UK. My company tells them my salary, it's immediately a lie: they'll have to double it to cover the damages.
Strange. In the UK most jobs are advertised with a salary range. Saves everybody a lot of bother.
But then few people bother to apply for a job without knowing what it is.
Sounds like they're all democracies to me.
What's the issue here?
By their definition all countries would be "corrupt."
Ok. Name a country with no corruption?
They are talking about the perceived extent of corruption. What's wrong with that?
it is logically absurd to claim that because some example of ethical violations exist in a country, that therefore the country itself "is" corrupt.
If they used a binary scale then you might have a point. They don't. You don't.
A long film in 4K could easily hit a terabyte, just for one film. IMDB's ratings history tells me I've watched over two new films (so not including rewatching films I've seen before) every week since 2003.
Terabytes a month? Easily, especially if someone has kids, multiple family members, includes TV and TV series.
Yes, it generally is.
Just how much would a second driver even earn, if this guy is already driving at peak times just to cover his own costs.
You're also assuming there aren't excess mileage charges on the lease, quite apart from other factors.
But hey, you know where he sleeps. Pop over, give him the benefit of your insight and ideas. Hell, sounds like he'd welcome the company and a decent cup of coffee at least.
Although comically, 'straight out of university' graduates joining my company this year will be earning more than the graduates that started last year now earn.
This is causing some understandable conflict.
But even that aside, the starting salary for graduates at my company is above the UK average wage, so not even remotely close to minimum wage. Average graduate salaries are £18-20k/year, which is £200/month more than minimum wage (assuming someone on minimum wage gets paid for 40 hours/week including holidays). £200/month is worth having, especially at that tax rate, and that's the starting salary; two years in that £200/month differential will have doubled, five years in the difference buys a new car.
So your experience may not reflect national trends, even without salaries moving much in the past decade.
Fortunately for us all there's a balance available between those two extremes.
Given Uber have lied about the income their drivers can expect to receive I'm not sure how you're expecting him to have avoided that bad decision.
I also think that even if he made a bad decision, Uber at a minimum allowed him to make it, knew he was making it, probably encouraged him to make it, and have a fucking obligation not to fuck him over as a result of it.
People make bad decisions. If the job is shitty, if he hates it, if it doesn't earn as much as he wants, that's a bad decision and sure, he should look for other options.
The job is all of those things and doesn't even pay him enough to go home and sleep in a bed at night. That's not a bad decision, that's a fucking travesty. Yes, Uber are very much accountable.
So by voting for Brexit to reduce the flood of immigration I've very clearly done my best to reduce demand for housing.
Uber still don't pay their staff enough. Whatever the cost of living, Uber should be paying enough to cover it. They're clearly not.
That is exactly the point though. Working full time should be enough to let you live, especially something like providing personal chauffeur services.
Uber paying their workers a pitiful amount is exactly the fucking issue.
Indeed. Mocking people stupid enough to believe your lies as you exploit them is sociopathic. Employees are stakeholders too and neglecting them tends to be an excellent way to kill a business.
What pisses me off is that the cunts behind Uber will exit with a large windfall before the model collapses.
I've known people put their life savings into learning a new skill, only to find that the jobs aren't there, the world's moved on or that even after the training they just aren't able to compete in the labour market.
The effort isn't lacking, the risk taking is there, the desire to learn exists and the outcome still completely sucks.
I don't want people like that dying young and homeless. You were lucky, in your background or genetics or decisions; others aren't. Survival in this century shouldn't be down to luck for anybody.