Posts by Scott 29 38 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2009
It never was an open decision. It is MS telling you how vital Exchange is to running their other product X is and how bad it’ll perform unless you adopt Exchange. Then, after you convert, their product X is still a decade behind what Google offers and has a crap UI, and you can’t convert back because you’ve exhausted all your resources to migrate onto their platform and everyone is struggling to keep it from dying every weekend.
> Implementing a complex standard is hard --> expensive.
Agree.
Also, implementing it to a required level of securedness requires reading, both the how-to's and the academic papers showing weaknesses.
Samsung was more forthcoming to the researchers than they were to me.
> So, wanting to minimize expenses and maximize earnings, you pay a standard salary to technicians and a percentage to salesmen.
Not really Richard Trumka's take on things.
“We’re demanding nothing more—and certainly nothing less—than our fair share of the immense wealth we create every day,” says Mr. Trumka.
These guys overwhelmingly weave their webs at most 2 feet off the ground. I see a lot of them while walking; have to look at your feet all the time as they weave between a wall and the sidewalk in the San Gabriel valley. There are many (dozens) now, but, after Halloween, they'll all be wiped out. The kids and parents trample them.
> Just 2 per cent of 154 execs surveyed said Oracle was their most integral vendor for cloud computing, while 12 per cent chose Amazon – meanwhile, some 27 per cent named Microsoft, emphasising that cloud isn’t a two horse rase.
I guess 110% of execs just say "Microsoft" whenever asked any question.
One of my favorite mumblesomethings from a difficult professor was about DEC and their manual for BASIC:
"From looking at it you'd think they took printouts of code and ran them on their machine, but no, it must have cost someone a fortune to buy a typewriter ball that looks like it was a printout from their machine.
Sadly, there's on average 1 mistake per page."
But, he never told us where the mistakes were. That was left as an exercise to the reader.
Thanks for writing a well-thought out and entertaining article.
About pdfs - unfortunately when you're at the head of the pack in your ${large_company} you spend a lot of time reading things available in horribly-formatted websites, or pdf. The iPad Pro 12.9" comes close to sqrt(8.5^2x11^2), so reading without scrolling is easy.
(I've tried to learn Python from the Google videos, unfortunately OBE (overcome by events)).
Please, create a robotic Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, of former Iraqi Information Minister fame.
He's at least as accurate as MSNBC, but with a more pleasing look and conviction.
Bonus: I'm sure he won't feel compelled to ask Eric Holder to quack like a duck!
Two points:
Grade level and age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Vietnam#School_grades
picture reference: http://www.business-in-asia.com/vietnam/education_system_in_vietnam.html
More to the point: Secondary education (Vietnamese: trung học phổ thông) consists of grades ten through twelve. The IGE is a prerequisite entrance examination for secondary schooling. The IGE score determines the schools at which students are able to enroll. The higher the score, the more prestigious the school.
So, unlike the U.S. where everyone is passed along until they're 18 years old, in Vietnam they thin the herd as you progress. So, if Google steps into a classroom, it's likely seeing the top of the top, and even all those won't get into public University. Private is expensive for most to attend.
Also, Calculus is taught in grades 11 and 12.
NetApp docs and support are just so much better than Orrible; gawd, I hate support.oracle.com.
They really sell a database, and it's okay by them if storage goes out of business. On the other hand, NetApp sells storage. It's not okay with them if storage goes out of business.
Want to use your appliance with <foo>? Well, here's a best practices paper of how to use it with <foo> when dealing with NetApp, while Oracle is not there at all. They don't write the old Sun Blueprints any more, and they've pulled access to the old ones.
The talent is now at OpenIndiana. Even the hardware isn't what it used to be. It's prettier but not as innovative as their competition; I've had a lot of new hardware failures both with SPARC and x64 that I wouldn't have had years ago.
You're corrected. It's a light oil. It burns with a very yellow/orange flame and gives off black smoke when burned at standard atmospheric pressure and when soaked into wood. They should have used a blow torch to ignite plain diesel+wood. I thought that part of the country used fuel oil for house heating, thus would know more about how to get 'er lit.
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