I don't think that would make much difference.

At least in the US, young people are wealthier than they ever have been. Housing prices are relatively higher, but not that much, not if you buy the size of house that people bought 50 years ago. If you also reduce eating out and other expenses to the levels that were normal a couple of generations ago, make kids share rooms like they did then, etc., it's perfectly feasibly to have a family on a typical income -- depending on where you live, even a single income.

What's changed isn't the economics, it's people's willingness to make the compromises needed. But the compromises are not just economic; they aren't even primarily economic. Raising children is a lot of work, takes a lot of time, and a lot of patience, and limits your freedom. I think many people today are unwilling to make those compromises, too.

Nutanix's hyper-converged solution is based on Supermicro gear, though they are more recently able to support things like Dell Powerflex as well.

It really depends on the scale you need. Proxmox is really nice, but it doesn't currently scale out very well. In a smaller business, it's perfectly fine though. For a larger enterprise, Nutanix is good and there's always Openstack, which is still growing and is powering some very large commercial and government implementations.

I would agree that ceph isn't for the faint of heart at scale, though there are companies that will provide operational support if you want it.

It didn't take a genius to see what was going to happen. That's 100% in line with Broadcom's past behavior with acquisitions (look at the CA purchase). They'll keep gouging the customers who either can't or won't exit the platform for as long as they can. Changing hypervisor platforms isn't rocket science, but it can take quite a bit of time for a large enterprise to get over the static friction and make the move. The instant the buyout was announced, we started planning our exit. We did a single renewal to buy us sufficient time and then we were out. I would have preferred to spend those cycles and dollars on other things, but Broadcom just isn't a viable partner. Perhaps they're better in the silicon business....but I'll never find out as I won't do business with them again.

Even if you pay the exorbitant prices, Broadcom's support is awful compared to legacy VMWare support. As others have already opined, there are a number of viable alternatives (Nutanix being one of them) including some open source (with professional support) solutions. Good riddance.

Those cards would be worth far more than the data at the moment.

I don't give a shit about movement to the right or left, not right now. I just want basic competence and support for the rule of law, because those are the things we've totally lost under the current GOP. A bit of compassion would be good, too. What I wouldn't give to have Dubya back.

Maybe they do streaming backups, and he just duped the stream.

The women he walked in on, who WERE UNDERAGE TEENS AT THE TIME, remember him doing it.

iOS has that marketshare now because countries other than the USA (in the Asian zone and Eurozone) caught Apple doing monopolistic things and acted to stop it early.

Wait. You say Microsoft is doing the same thing they've done a dozen times before, again? I'm shocked, I say. Shocked.

........ well, not that shocked.

The Ayatollahs actually have a lot more support in the general population than just two months ago. Do you think even the most anti-government person would want to be seen supporting a criminal country committing war crimes and threatening to destroy their civilisations.

It seems you are confusing Palestinians in Gaza with Hamas. Hamas gets support from Israel so the Palestinians have no chance. Am I claiming that Hamas plays both sides? Of course they do.

Oh, they destroy a girlâ(TM)s school and get a lot of press? Not even bad press, but just press? The guys responsible should be sent to Nuremberg, and then the same rules applied as 80 years ago. Which means hanging unless you commit suicide.

If you know how to drive a fast car.

Itâ(TM)s a war crime to use âoehuman shieldsâ to protect military installations. However, destroying civilian installations _is_ a war crime which Trump is guilty of, and using human shields to prevent war crimes isnt.