How much for roll your own on amazon
Surely it's much cheaper to rent your own VM on amazon and set it up yourself?
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You generally dont get excellent results without tolerating an element of risk. Big corporates tend to frown on risk, and micromange the delivery risk in such a way that it stifles creativity, and even ability to deliver due to spending all your time shackled by risk avoidance frameworks.
Its no wonder that IT in any big corporate is a total shambles. Im in a pessimistic mood this week and firmly convinced that IT development in big corporates has almost reached an untenable state.
Look at MS - an organisation that should be capable of turning out the best software in the world, and but regularly turns out shite.
Im firmly convinced that the only workable future of development in big corporate is in isolated skunkworks projects.
I thought that the likelyhood of a planet X out there had been well and truly ruled out by gravitational analyses? ie no noticable impacts on the orbits of the other planets to a ridiculously low margin of error?
If so what did the rentaquote guy mean by Large planets?? Biden/Sedna sized or bigger?
I would be interested to see what the definition of an American company is under the Patriot act.
Its entirely possible that a Foreign Entity could have a very convoluted legal relationship (probably for tax purposes) with the US parent. I wonder if there is a level at which the local company can tell the US parent to get stuffed - whether just for forms sake - or in reality. Especially when you see the US companies licensing their IP to subsidiarys as a sneaky way of avoiding tax.
Like it or not - he mined data and published it. How easy it was or not is immaterial.
However pure his motives (and I suspect there was an element of frustration and "for the lols" involved) - he broke the law.
I do think his punishment is well out of proportion to the crime - I presume the law he was charged under didnt allow a more leinient sentence.
whilst I lean towrads agreeing with that assessment of Lynch, if it is true it means by extension that all HP's board are crooks too. Since they are legally required as part of both their internal role, and external roles as Officers of a Corporate to do due diligence on aquisitions.
In fact you have a matrix of 3 possible outcomes .
1. Crooked accounting + Crooked due diligence.
2. Legal but dubious accounting + crooked due diligence in the over-valuation of autonomy.
3. Perfectly legal accouting + crooked mismanagement of a multi-bn dollar asset.
In only one scenario is Mike Lynch a crook. In all 3 HP's board are "crooks".
Question for the commentards - can anyone come up with a scenario where HP's board arent either crooked or grossly negligent? The only one I can think of is if 2 sets of auditors (Autonomies and HP's) were both grossly negligent.
Since when has the comparatively small dataset produced by a CRM app had anything to do with big data?
all they need is some bog standard financial reporting and analytics - something that could have been bought in or developed out of the box years ago.
Anyone whi talks about CRM and bigdata in the same breath should be dragged outside and shot for not knowing what they are taking about.
So reading betweeen the lines of this article - the NSA have had the capability for years to take down every significant botnet ever created, which no doubt have caused $100m's of financial damages to consumers and businesses, but instead they've used it for many purposes that probably have little or no value to the average joe.
"In this day and age, where even swiping a credit card takes too long, and NFC payment has emerged, any "currency" that requires multi-second, let alone multi-minute, transactions is doomed for day to day usage."
I would challenge that.
You are forgetting that its only for the past year or so that same day clearing has been happening for consumers. Apart from a simple available funds check there are very few requirements for consumers to be updated on their balance instantly - for the last 20 years banks have been doing 3 day clearing and having their merry way with your funds in the meantime. No doubt in the future many Crypto Currency exchanges will do the same if they can get away with it.
"According to a recent Kaspersky Lab survey, 34 per cent of people using a PC admitted to taking no special measures to protect their online activity when using a Wi-Fi hotspot."
The key point is - THEY SHOULDNT HAVE TO. To the occasional elitist commentard posting on here - ask yourself - should your granny care whether her phone connection is on public or private wifi when she's checking facebook or email for the young 'uns?
The technology used should be secure by default, be that improved SSL or something else.
BTW was I the only one who though the Europol statement straight from the department of the blindingly obvious. Ok - which methods of public wifi access are at risk? Vanila uncrypted connections, SSL connentions, VPN's - what - give us consumers some useful info that we can take some action with.
Indeed - fining a charity imo is even worse than fining a govt organisation.
Couldnt it have been suspended for 3 years subject to a review of IT and data protection training.
Surely 50k spent on training would have been far more useful than 200k going to some quangocrat.
Me too - could never stretch to the "proper" Psions. Had a Revo and loved it. Also had the IR modem and remember "surfing" the net with it.
As a clamshell case design I dont believe the Psion's have ever been bettered, shame they are patented up the wazoo.
Agree that the organiser was superb.
The key phrase here is "significant amount of time" History is littered with instances of intermediaries taking consumer cash and not passing it onto suppliers, be it held for 1 second or many days.
Unless they are taking their cut in a seperate transaction direct from the Banks/credit card companies (which I bet they aren't), the process is a 2 stage one - cash in, cash out, and therefore the possibility of the above exists.
Kickstarter has done about $1000m worth of funding (ok only 800m sucessfuly but the maths is easier with 1000m). Taking a WAG lets assume onward account payment errors run at 0.01% - thats a grand total (over time) of $100k of someone elses cash wallowing around in their accounts. Multiply that by the number of ways a transaction can go wrong and Im betting its a non trivial amount - even on a daily/monthly basis.
Not so sure of that - if bitcoin mining generates income, regardless of the way that income is paid I wouldnt bet against it being taxable. There are plenty of famous cases of people being paid "in kind" (e.g. sheep, apples) and being taxed.
Bitcoins are no less real than many financial products. I cant think of a government that would limit itself by producing a list of assets that are taxable. Better to make a broad statement, and define a small exclusion list if needed.
In addition I bet you can get taxed everytime you crystalise a gain by converting it back into a recognised currency.
who thinks the sign up requirements are a bit intrusive? I could of course fill in false details but that wouldnt sit well on a site I respect.
Why should my wish to join you in the pub require my business details? I appreciate you may just be re-using the Whitepaper sign up mechanism but it smacks a little of Facebookery.
Newsflash commentard - replace "strings of numbers" with "pieces of paper" and you describe any modern currency. Therefore your argument has no real meaning.
In the sense that people were willing to exchange their own currency for bitcoins then it is a currency. More so given that its possible to directly pay for goods and services using bitcoins.
Oh dear god. Oh noes its a conspiracy heaven forbid it can't be the innocence / idiocy that comes with exploring new frontiers.
Reading for you G E. the history of the gold rush, banking during the Great Depression etc etc.
And finally - Occams Razor.
A rather rose tinted view there and Im an apple fan. What Apple did was stop network operators dictating to consumers and take charge of the ditacting themselves - with such gems as no copy/paste and you must create an email from your photo album to attach a photo - but not the other way around. And lest we forget - its still bloody difficult to attach something non-media related to an iphone email.
Apple may have taken Touch OS'es in a phone form factor to new heights of polish and usability but lets not pretend they are a consumer champion - they aint.
Is it entirely fair to put Snowden and Assange in the same bucket anymore?
Snowden took his own risks and is dealing with the comsequences of them. Assange seems to have taken far less risks and can't even deal with the consequences of his own personal life let alone take any responsibility for what his organisation has done.
it takes balls to go against everything your homeland has taught you and to knowingly accept you will never go home. What's ballsy and manly bout avoiding a sex charge, and flushing bail money that people gave you down the toilet.
Snowden (and Manning) heroes.
Assange gutless coward. (Nuke him)
I thought this as well. My best guess this is purely a result of MS's stupid internal competition policy. Given product lead times I suspect these were in progress just before the Nokia sale, and they had some barely relevant Veep in MS who wouldnt discount WinPhone enough to make low end lumia's price effective.