Back in the day (60s,70s,80s) "The Cloud" was called "Timesharing" on Mainframes. "The cloud" does not eliminate infrastructure, it just moves it to another company that you pay fees to. There will always be IT pros "pulling all-nighters, swapping in hard drives or upgrading systems", but they will be working for the cloud hosting companies (and probably be offshore).
Also, chances are that companies with stable infrastructure needs that don't expand and contract all that much (which is most companies) would of saved money overall if they owned their own equipment instead of renting capacity from a cloud company. After all, the cloud company has to pay for all the same things *and* make a profit (often a very substantial profit), which will be reflected in their fees.
Maybe one day the pendulum will swing back to hardware ownership but change is a slow rolling boulder. Cloud computing has been set in motion for some time now and I'm seeing more and more job descriptions that are asking for experience with Azure, AWS, and others. The IT pros pulling all nighters are now likely to work in a data center and there are going to be far fewer staffing needs.
Undoubtably, the cloud has already started to reduce the number of server and storage engineer jobs out there. I'm already starting to see the handwriting on the wall and I'm thinking it might be time to retrain as a network administrator/engineer. With services going to the cloud, the role of the network engineer is only going to become more and more important and I'm just a server guy. Soon, I'll be handing out happy stickers at Walmart.
Since Big Pharma isn't really interested in finding a cure for anything, I'm all for open source pharma! Big Pharma isn't interested in a cure because a cure would kill profit models.
While Gigabit speeds are nice I guess a few questions came to mind:
1) Will we be forced to utilize their hardware to support these speeds or can I use my own ? ( You KNOW they will charge monthly for hardware rental )
2) Is the service symmetrical or is it something ludicrous like 1000 down / 10 up ?
3) I have absolutely zero need for Gigabit Ethernet outside the home. Can I get 100 / 100 for a decent price ? I would be thrilled with that.
4) Can I get it by itself without having to bundle some silly cable package ( that I don't want or need ) with it ?
5) Is there a minimum contract involved ? Eg: Two years
If they're actually trying to get ahead of Google on this instead of just coming up with creative ways to charge more, then maybe I'll start looking at the hardware required to route / switch it.
Shit, I'd be happy with 10 up and down and have a static IP or two.
So, America's most hated company is going to rollout some horsepower in 2-3 years? Meh, nothing to see here move along. Most folks don't need Gigabit internet speeds. Shit, you can stream HD with a fraction of that bandwidth.
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By having the majority of undesirable web content stuck in easy-to-flag Flash buckets, it was inherently simple to block that content. I could simply whitelist a handful of sites whose flash content I wanted to see (e.g. Youtube) and block it pretty much everywhere else.
Now with everything moving to HTML5, I fear the necessary blocking ruleset will gets many times more complicated and with more false positives and negatives to boot. Am I wrong?
Well, I disagree. You can still block the ad serving URL. Simply have a block list of the most common ad servers and block them.
I'm a proponent of LibreOffice and I think not considering it was a mistake. I especially like LibreOffice because it doesn't contain the ribbons interface which I absolutely detest. Ribbons are cumbersome when I can find exactly what I need in the menus. I might be one of the lone dissenters, but I am far more productive on LibreOffice and I have yet to come across a document that has any pagination issues.
The Italians didn't deploy it properly because I have never had any pagination issues when moving between.docx and.odt formats. Of course, I am using LibreOffice but the difference between Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice shouldn't be that extreme.
Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong in an air traffic control system when the computers are thrashing like crazy as they run out of RAM?
I've worked with some non-critical systems used in aviation, and they shut down and switch to the backup when they get close to running out of RAM. A few seconds' delay to swap in data about airliners that are travelling a few miles apart at a few hundred miles an hour could kill hundreds of people.
Very well put! The system should have failed over to a backup. Seconds could mean the difference between life and catastrophic death.
It's headquartered in Florida. Ain't Florida a hot bed for corrupt corporate activities? I would count Arizona as a hotbed for corrupt corporations as well.
We were ahhh...ensuring quality control by filtering out potentially disruptive signals, Yeah, that's the ticket!.
I'm sure they tried to use that argument but the FCC saw right through the veneer. Furthermore, they tried claiming it was to prevent attacks on their network but SmartCity couldn't prove that they were being attacked.
Trump now has my ear! I'm sick of the H1-B visas coming over here instead of companies hiring Americans. This might be what causes me to vote for him. Finally, someone has the balls to call this!
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Back in the day (60s,70s,80s) "The Cloud" was called "Timesharing" on Mainframes. "The cloud" does not eliminate infrastructure, it just moves it to another company that you pay fees to. There will always be IT pros "pulling all-nighters, swapping in hard drives or upgrading systems", but they will be working for the cloud hosting companies (and probably be offshore). Also, chances are that companies with stable infrastructure needs that don't expand and contract all that much (which is most companies) would of saved money overall if they owned their own equipment instead of renting capacity from a cloud company. After all, the cloud company has to pay for all the same things *and* make a profit (often a very substantial profit), which will be reflected in their fees.
Maybe one day the pendulum will swing back to hardware ownership but change is a slow rolling boulder. Cloud computing has been set in motion for some time now and I'm seeing more and more job descriptions that are asking for experience with Azure, AWS, and others. The IT pros pulling all nighters are now likely to work in a data center and there are going to be far fewer staffing needs.
Undoubtably, the cloud has already started to reduce the number of server and storage engineer jobs out there. I'm already starting to see the handwriting on the wall and I'm thinking it might be time to retrain as a network administrator/engineer. With services going to the cloud, the role of the network engineer is only going to become more and more important and I'm just a server guy. Soon, I'll be handing out happy stickers at Walmart.
Since Big Pharma isn't really interested in finding a cure for anything, I'm all for open source pharma! Big Pharma isn't interested in a cure because a cure would kill profit models.
Last time I checked, the earth has a certain amount of naturally occurring electromagnetic fields. In of itself, that would nullify any EHS argument.
I'm guessing a whole new low has been reached here. Shaking my head ....
I keep hoping for Google Fibre out my way. Man would it really hurt XFinity and FiOS.
While Gigabit speeds are nice I guess a few questions came to mind:
1) Will we be forced to utilize their hardware to support these speeds or can I use my own ? ( You KNOW they will charge monthly for hardware rental ) 2) Is the service symmetrical or is it something ludicrous like 1000 down / 10 up ? 3) I have absolutely zero need for Gigabit Ethernet outside the home. Can I get 100 / 100 for a decent price ? I would be thrilled with that. 4) Can I get it by itself without having to bundle some silly cable package ( that I don't want or need ) with it ? 5) Is there a minimum contract involved ? Eg: Two years
If they're actually trying to get ahead of Google on this instead of just coming up with creative ways to charge more, then maybe I'll start looking at the hardware required to route / switch it.
Shit, I'd be happy with 10 up and down and have a static IP or two.
So, America's most hated company is going to rollout some horsepower in 2-3 years? Meh, nothing to see here move along. Most folks don't need Gigabit internet speeds. Shit, you can stream HD with a fraction of that bandwidth.
By having the majority of undesirable web content stuck in easy-to-flag Flash buckets, it was inherently simple to block that content. I could simply whitelist a handful of sites whose flash content I wanted to see (e.g. Youtube) and block it pretty much everywhere else.
Now with everything moving to HTML5, I fear the necessary blocking ruleset will gets many times more complicated and with more false positives and negatives to boot. Am I wrong?
Well, I disagree. You can still block the ad serving URL. Simply have a block list of the most common ad servers and block them.
And Flash can die in fucking fire!!!
I certainly hope it does. I hate Flash!
Bernie Sanders would have my vote.
For open source encryption. Fuck Jen Bush! We don't need another Bush in the Whitehouse. I'd rather Trump.
If someone cut the lines keeping the barge moored to the pier. It would be funny watching all of those servers float away. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm a proponent of LibreOffice and I think not considering it was a mistake. I especially like LibreOffice because it doesn't contain the ribbons interface which I absolutely detest. Ribbons are cumbersome when I can find exactly what I need in the menus. I might be one of the lone dissenters, but I am far more productive on LibreOffice and I have yet to come across a document that has any pagination issues.
The Italians didn't deploy it properly because I have never had any pagination issues when moving between .docx and .odt formats. Of course, I am using LibreOffice but the difference between Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice shouldn't be that extreme.
Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong in an air traffic control system when the computers are thrashing like crazy as they run out of RAM?
I've worked with some non-critical systems used in aviation, and they shut down and switch to the backup when they get close to running out of RAM. A few seconds' delay to swap in data about airliners that are travelling a few miles apart at a few hundred miles an hour could kill hundreds of people.
Very well put! The system should have failed over to a backup. Seconds could mean the difference between life and catastrophic death.
This is just indicative of America's crumbling infrastructure due to extreme ineptitude at the elected leadership level.
It's headquartered in Florida. Ain't Florida a hot bed for corrupt corporate activities? I would count Arizona as a hotbed for corrupt corporations as well.
We were ahhh...ensuring quality control by filtering out potentially disruptive signals, Yeah, that's the ticket! .
I'm sure they tried to use that argument but the FCC saw right through the veneer. Furthermore, they tried claiming it was to prevent attacks on their network but SmartCity couldn't prove that they were being attacked.
I smell class action suite m'self. Sue them out of existence.
Trump now has my ear! I'm sick of the H1-B visas coming over here instead of companies hiring Americans. This might be what causes me to vote for him. Finally, someone has the balls to call this!
I just cannot get excited about 5G because there are still large gaps in 4G coverage. I'd like to see the telecoms finish what they started.
It isn't stupidity. The land near volcanos is quite fertile so an agrarian society would flourish.
A competing codec to VP8? Isn't that reinventing the wheel some?
Google employees should be in fear of losing their jobs. Corporate speak .....