Damn, you're good.

Seriously, I went from "mildly annoyed that your viewpoint was different from mine", to "This cat is alright, one of the good ones" in your one comment.

And yes, I know part of it is because your comment has some ego stroking for network people, but I don't care. I'll take it. :)

I do appreciate you people. I really want to help, but when the morals just keep saying "It don't work", I'm really at a loss on how to help them understand their own app!

I work for a global company, and collaborate with people around the planet. We're not going to be in one office, therefore an office is pointless.

My results are the showcase of my work. I'm paid for results, not a display of how neat my workspace is. I'm a network engineer, so maybe you're an interior designer and it makes sense.

I work from home full-time. If it were practical to meet in an office, I'd do it 1-2 days a week max just for building relationships with coworkers. Still, a majority of my time is actually getting shit done.
As for communication, we have phones, IM chat, and online meetings. There is no shortage of ways to communicate requirements and goals. The only thing that suffers is the ability to grow relationships with people around the coffee maker, and again, that isn't going to happen when we live on opposite sides of this rock.

NOAA has that number at 7, certainly a nonzero number.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/h...

I think the point is that the parent has obviously dealt with IT people that think RAID = backup. I have as well. It is painful.

Also, saying "RAID protects against *some* data loss scenarios" isn't accurate. It protects against one, and only one, data loss scenario: drive failure.

ALL other data loss scenarios are immune to RAID.

One =! some.

What root console? If it is really END TO END, then WhatsApp can't see the data either.

I completely agree, but that would require a Bell-style breakup of ISPs between content and physical layers.

I see even less political support of this plan than there would be with more regulation.

Great example! Now tell me why I can't get cable internet from anyone except Comcast?

I've been a top performer at several companies. I before leaving each of them, I discussed my issues with a manager more than once, which were usually pay + one other issue.
In each time before I left, neither were addressed.
In each time after I left, management was either "shocked" or angry, and made attempts to keep me. I flatly refuse to accept offers after I have accepted a job elsewhere, I should be taken at my word and not forced to demonstrate that I am leaving to be taken seriously.
I have no idea why any company would waste money on this. Either they care, and they'll know when someone is leaving without software, or they don't care, and the software will be ignored as well.

So, now it isn't 100%, just something greater than 99%, eh?

I've worked in two enterprises that use core everywhere they can, so I see the value.
Since there is no credible source of how widespread any internal server OS is deployed, we can't actually talk stats. We can share personal notes, and mine is that two companies I've worked for with servers measured in the 1,000's would use this a lot.

Oh, so if it is only useful on most enterprise server installs, it must not be worth messing with, eh?

Have you considered the powershell itself is also "rare" if you looking at all windows installs?

Tell me more about this 100% chance of a graphical installer on Windows Core (non-GUI).

If they have to make it work in core, why would it fire up a graphical installer?

I'll take any bet that it is something less than 100%....

I think the "faith" of logic or science is that we posses the mental and sensory ability to understand the world around us.

We have conflicting evidence if this is the case. For example, we don't know what happened before the creation of the universe and have no means to determine this.

At the same time, my whole post is attempting to apply logic to test if logic is logical. I think I found a way to break an AI with recursion.

There are still 11 labs world-wide, and 5 of them are in the USA. http://research.microsoft.com/...

I suspect Silicon Valley is just a VERY high-cost location, and I know I wouldn't work there without 3x what I make now working in the midwest.

You can work remotely, you know...

True work from home.

My office has 1gb to the desktop. If they use the same ISP as I have at home, and I have 1gb to the home over fiber, now working from home is, from a technical point of view, exactly like working in the office.

That can be a pretty big divide.

And before some people chime in and say "but that's not what we mean", let me say that's exactly what some people mean by net neutrality.

Then then need to work on their English comprehension.

NETWORK Neutrality means I treat one network as equal to another. Therefore, I will treat packets from Akamai the same as Netflix and the same as Comcast.

What you're thinking of is PACKET or APPLICATION Neutrality, where I treat each packet the same regardless if it is voice, email, FTP, torrent, or video.

In Network Neutrality, it is perfectly acceptable to treat video has higher priority than FTP, as long as you treat video from every *network* the same way. So, internal Comcast video will get the same QoS marking as Netflix video.

Just because some people don't understand the words they're using isn't a reason to abandon a whole idea.