Comment Re:If anyone can buy them, ... (Score 1) 112
One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.
One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.
I'm planning on replacing one of my cars with one.
I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.
Stupid admins can easily mis-manage cloud resources just as easily as they can mis-manage on-prem. It's just that when someone manages to mine bitcoin on your cloud services, you get a big bill at the end of the month as well as having performance problems.
The key to saving a ton of money with on-prem equipment is getting techs that know better than to let MS manage it.
Ukraine is not free, and never has been. Even before the conflict it was the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, with a military second in size in Europe only to Russia (hence the poverty). The situation has only gotten dramatically worse since then, except of course for the political and economic elites in Kiev.
Israel has been claiming to be free and a democracy for 3/4 of a century, while enforcing living conditions on a very large portion of the people who live there even worse than the most miserable slaves in history. Now they've progressed to outright blatant genocide. Using our tax dollars to give them weapons to continue the genocide makes us all parties to their acts. The elites in Brainwashington convinced Americans to reelect an international war criminal in 2004, now only 20 years later they intend for us to do it again.
Taiwan is a tempest in a teapot. Neither China nor Taiwan want to change the status quo, all the noise from Taipei is just to get another influx of free US$. Bankers in Singapore are drooling at the graft that's about to be deposited in their coffers.
Except it doesn't actually save a buck. It's actually like those outfits that rent you furniture and appliances. It looks cheap to start but in the end it costs you several times as much as ownership.
Cloud computing only makes sense for overflow capacity and perhaps disaster recovery.
Being in tech after 35 means knowing that the latest silver bullet is just warmed over slop from 10 years ago and will work no better now than it did the last time it was abandoned but will probably cost twice as much. It also means remembering and being able to adapt a technique from 10 or 15 years ago that worked really well and didn't cost much.
Many younger programmers find embedded work on micro-controllers to be hard because there's no room for "application frameworks" or kitchen sink libraries. It's actually reminiscent of programming in C for small 8-bit home computers like the C64. But only older programmers ever had that experience.
"who the fuck is the UN to tell ANY sovereign power what to do, much less occupy any country?"
Good point. They should not have founded the nation of Israel in the partition of Palestine in the first place.
So you're saying the British shouldn't have given that territory up, after all we fought to take it from the Ottoman empire (mostly using Arabian or commonwealth soldiers).
But now that they have, there is a moral obligation to address the problem of Israel perpetrating a holocaust against Palestine.
You are happy with a status quo which involves the torture and murder of Muslims, so you don't want anything done. Just admit that so we can move on without you.
If you're happy parroting terrorist propaganda. That means you support the rape and murder of pretty much everyone who HAMAS holds as an enemy and I hate to break it to you, that means your (and my) western arses as well.
If you're done with HAMAS' talking points, the UN isn't a world government, so it can't tell individual states what to do. This goes the same for Tuvalu as it does for China and the US. They get to make recommendations but beyond that, the UN needs to do what it's meant to... Be a platform for negotiation. One thing a lot of people never get about something like the UN is that it isn't a mono cultural beast with a single overriding will. It's a huge bureaucracy and has a lot of different departments with different purposes, goals, ideas and conflicts. People think of it as a thousand hands guided by a single head where it's really the other way around, a thousand heads trying to guide a hand.
Everybody seems to think we want to have virtual meetings with these things when half of the folks don't even bother putting an avatar photo into their Teams profile, let alone turn the camera on or desire better camera interfaces.
The greatest benefit of remote meetings is not having to look at one another. The only people that want to ruin that are people that live to have meetings, and don't really see them as a function of the job.
I thought the greatest benefit of remote meetings was the ability to put yourself on mute and then get on with some actual work/play on your phone/zone out whilst Gerard from presales drones on about something that has zero relevance.
I expect Nissan USA has quite different conditions than Nissan Europe.
Different software, even different cars.
Nissan is also, not that popular in Europe. Especially since they got rid of their decent cars like the Lancer EVO and just started selling hideous SUVs like the Juke. Europe makes it's own hideous cars (see: Fiat Multipla). Pretty sure the Juke isn't even sold in the US.
The issue is with the strategy. Its to remain at the high end and charge a premium. Its worked very well so far, but the problem is that the size of that segment tends to reduce in most markets over time as the low end suppliers catch up on features at far lower prices. In effect your price premium gives them a safe area where they can raise their game.
This happened to Apple in the PC market, its happened in the tablet market, it happened in the music player market. They have been able to draw the process out in the phone market by trading on linking different products together, the ecosystem strategy. But it delays rather than stops the process.
The first indicator is slowing sales growth. To be followed by real falls in sales. At that point you either tackle the problem head on, become competitive at lower prices, which is where the market is now. You retreat to the niche and forget growth. Or you find a new market, like for instance VR headsets. But that seems not to be going all that well.
To everything there is a season, and this is a season to sell the shares.
The fact is, in most places in the world Apple has become passe. Being popular is a fickle mistress. It seems to have happened first in Asian countries as Apples support of non-English language is second rate at best, even supporting En_UK properly is a bit beyond them and it gets worse the further away from English you get.
However it's at the point where no-one cares what phone you have so you may as well get a phone on criteria other than brand and primarily that comes down to price, specifically what the monthly payment is to your telco. Secondary to that are people who want specific features and the high end Android market here is very, very competitive.
Zooms to annoying looking kid "whats an Apple"... welcome to the post Apple world.
It's texas. They moved from California to Texas so that they could get away from the regulations that required them to treat employees well when they fired them in Mass.
If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge. Texas has notoriously high taxes and they've probably started to shake down Oracle. The governor is spending literally billions of dollars showboating on the southern border and that money has to come from somewhere since it's not coming from the federal government... Seriously look it up they've spent something like 6 billion dollars mobilizing the national guard. You could take every single migrant for the next 20 years and pay him $50,000 a year to sit on their thumbs and you'd come out ahead
And this is how the "low tax state" bears fruit. It's a race to the bottom and there will always be a lower tax state willing to ignore the abuse of it's people in exchange for "winning" business by effectively giving them taxpayer money. The whole thing isn't sustainable.
What you want is a place where good workers want to live with an environment conducive to business (I.E. as few barriers as possible to maintain a competitive, fair and non abusive market).
When I try something new, days whizz past even faster.
Yep, doing the same thing, day in, day out, over and over and over again seems to make the days drag on and on.
What was that thing about the definition of insanity?
IANAL. However, I suspect that conflating right-to-work and non-compete is naïve. Union law is from an entirely different legal foundation, and even age, than IP based non-compete contracts. A trivial attempt to find legal views on this corroborates my suspicion:
Non-Competes: Myths, Misconceptions & Lies
1) Non-competes are unenforceable in “right-to-work” states like Texas. FALSE
Right-to-work laws govern whether employment may be conditioned on an employee’s union membership, or lack thereof. Although a “right-to-work” may sound like it implies that all employees have a guaranteed privilege to freely seek work and be employed, this phrase is actually unrelated to non-competition laws (which allow reasonable limitations on an employee’s traditionally unrestrained mobility in our free market). Completely distinct from the enforceability of non-competes, right-to-work laws protect employees from being denied employment because they are members in a union (or because they choose not to be members or make payments to a union). Thus, the notion of employees having a “right-to-work” is strictly limited to protecting an employee’s right to participate, or choose not to participate, in a labor union or organization by prohibiting such choice from affecting the employee’s “right” to employment. Because the notion of right-to-work is completely unrelated to non-compete limitations, non-competes are still enforceable in right-to-work states like Texas.
So, unless you are a lawyer, take a breath and accept that perhaps you aren't qualified for this guesswork.
See California, largest state in the union, setting the precedent. Colorado followed. Blue states.
And again, these were legislative acts.
Somehow that seems like a vast overestimation
Absolutely not. Every single employer I've had anything to do with since the early 2000's has required some kind of non-compete, including very small shops. I suspect it's the same for every "knowledge" worker.
I predict this will die a violent death in US courts. Every AG in every red state will be in one or more big zoom meetings by the end of the week preparing to kill this with fire. Don't expect this to be real for years, if ever. They're lining up the judges and injunctions right now. This is fucking with signed contracts and that isn't something that happens in the US without a public law voted on by a legislature, war powers or similar caliber maneuver.
Many of the great names in computing, both hardware and software, were started by motivated refugees from larger outfits, striking out on their own to pursue some market their employer failed to see. If there is an underestimate in any of this it's the positive impact it would have on opportunities for individuals. Just don't bank on it happening: if you make any actual decisions that put you at odds with some document you signed, understand that 10 years from now some corporate lawyer won't hesitate to wreck your world if this is all just an election year legal fiction.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
