Posts by Trevor_Pott

Re: Poly?

A) What does polygamy have to do with Muslims? And why would it only disenfranchise Muslims?

B) Do you mean polygamy or polyamory?

C) Do you have a problem with polyandry or just polygyny?

D) What about individuals in open relationships? Or Swingers? Should they be persecuted? Or is it all good so long as they don't cohabit/attempt to get "married"?

E) From whence do you derive your definition of what marriage "should" be?

F) Why is that definition not simply "one or more people choosing to spend as much of the rest of their lives together as possible in the hopes that sharing eachother's lives makes them collectively more happy than they would have otherwise been?"

G) Why should the definition of marriage be anything else?

I could go on, but I think there's more than enough room in those questions for you to be a remorselessly raging bigoted peckerhead in your responses.

Re: @ Trevor_Pott

@JahBless: I do have hearing that allows me to hear just slightly outside the range for "normal" people. I can pick up things the average person can't, especially as my hearing doesn't seem to have degraded much with time. But I loathe audiophiles.

The whole "you just can't hear the X, so you don't understand" is highly unlikely, given the tests that were done on my hearing. The difference is one of not caring. Also: I maintain my ability to Hear Things Real Good by not putting 400 watts of WTF on each ear, cranking the fucker to 11 and blowing my own clothes off.

If missing the 1111th note in the extra long trill due to a gamma ray impact in your cable is going to completely destroy your ability to appreciate audio, go to a psychiatrist right fucking now.

There is zero sympathy to be had from me for these "people". They are overcompensating for some missing part of their humanity by attempting to spend their way to the pinnacle of theoretical penis swinging contest that has no practical application. Buying the next gold plated cable will not salve the psychological damage that made them desire that cable in the first place, and it will not advance their position within the ranks of the social groups that ostracized them and helped trigger the most recent round of wasting their paycheques.

Audiophiles need psychiatric help. They are not well. Not only are they not well, they are not well in such a way that vehemently denying their illness is a core part of their illness and they lash out (many times violently) against those who attempt to intervene. They're like mean drunks, except they get drunk off of hearing (or not hearing) things that are completely in their own mind. It's the worst parts of schizophrenia made manifest in gold plated fuckery and manifested in people who are just barely functional enough to make it through a work day before coming home and going hallucinating a whole bunch.

What really twists my tit about them is that part of their illness manifests itself in a burning need to make everyone else around them miserable by attempting to ceaselessly convince those people the hallucinations are real. It's not enough that they go home and very loudly go mad, oh no! They must drag each and every one of us down to hell with them!

Re: Carbonates are how the Earth deals with excess CO2

"Where do you plan to put it all?""

Under a mountain of ice?

"Want to know what CIOs have in common? They generally don't know anything about technology. If you doubt me, take a look at vSphere 6. It's an excellent example that VMware doesn't even have a sound understanding of what needs to be done in a data center. "

You're an idiot. On two fronts. The first: vSphere 6 is actually damned fine software. Yes, being forced to use a flash UI sucks ass. No, it's not the end of the world, and yes the software itself is spiffy and awesome.

But the more important proof of your toolhood is that you do not grok the delta between CIO and CTO. The CIO is someone who implements technologies. Or rather, he leads teams of people who implement the technologies he chooses.

Now the CTO, on the other hand, is the guy who designs the technologies sold by a company. If there's someone upon whom you should be casting aspersions for your irrational dislike of vSphere 6, it's not the CxO with the "I" in the middle, but rather the fellow swapping the "x" for a "T".

Re: Scooge McCorps

The point of free software is that others are free to use it.

Re: VDI for small company

All part of the service!

Re: Ted Cruz

He's a fuck of a lot more crazy than being a climate change denier, although that's pretty fucking crazy. He's pretty anti science up and down the whole of the spectrum, and touts god as the cause and reason for most things. He has demanded evolution not be taught and so on and so forth. He is fucking batshit looney tunes insane with added sky fairy. Lock 'im up, and then melt the key down for use in deep core drilling.

Re: cornz 1

Facebook is more valuable than Portugal, isn't it? So I fully expect American megacorporations to have the resources of a nation state and be able to defend themselves. When you're as big as Anthem, you don't get excuses.

Re: Open Source Business Models

A billion dollar "price tag" (corporate valuation) is far different from a billion dollar run rate, which is what Red Hat surpassed.

Re: And so

Who pirates music anymore? The music producer caved, and we can find anything we want for dirt cheap and DRM free all over the internet from legit sources?

Pirating is for TV, textbooks and sometimes movies. You know, those mediums where the copyright holders have refused to provide what's requested in a form that isn't a massive burden to their legitimate users and where the copyright holders insist on not only charging exorbitant amounts, but want you to keep rebuying over and over and over?

Give the people what they want in a format they want to consume, at a price they can afford and holy fucking shit it turns out that you can compete successfully against "free".

Re: I hate to say I told you so...

The difference is that here the lawsuit is already well into the late planning stages, the funding exists to see it through all the way to the Supreme Court, and the judges tend to be highly sympathetic to the people, not the spooks. In the fullness of time, CES (formerly CESC) will pay for their indiscretions. Canada isn't the USA. Here, at least, the wheels of justice still turn. They turn slowly, but they still do turn.

"But why would you use a personal wifi hotspot anyway? To run that you would need 3G or 4G in the first place so why carry two devices. Why not use a device with 3G/4G in the first place?"

Because I'm Canadian and I go to the USA for conferences. which means picking up a bruner SIM and stuffing it into a hotspot device so that I - and my team - have data wherever we go. That leaves us able to use voice for roaming (which costs virtually nothing) and avoid paying $mortgage for data roaming.

Do you have any idea what data roaming is when you take a Canadian SIM into the USA? Even the faintest clue? Now tell me you're going to run a team of technology journalists posting near-live multimedia from conferences off roaming data charges.

Egads, man!

Re: Odd

Why should an intelligence agency retain data on people that have not been determined to be a threat? We are supposed to be innocent unless proven guilty.

Re: UK

I'd pay $250 a month for gigabit internet. No questions. Currently I am paying $100 a month for 25 down/5 up. $250 a month for gigabit wouldn't even be a question. Hell yes. Google's $70 a month or the UK's $100 a month? Sign me up eleventy years ago!

Re: Not all there

Yeah, that could happen. For 0.5 seconds before a secret service agent threw a net on the bugger. And then the people who already want to kill US politicians might want to kill them that little bit more. Um...oh well?

Re: Tesla

Actually, I've studied the life and times of Tesla rather extensively. He has quite a few concrete achievements. Many of which Edison flat out stole. Just because other people like something (or someone) doesn't mean you have to hate it. Mind you, if you haven't learned that by now, you probably never will.

Re: Experts?

"I would argue that anyone who does not have at least one degree that required differential equations and linear algebra is not educated."

Fairy snuff. But I can implement virtually every component necessary to create the modern internet, design the networks at macro and micro levels and even write code that makes it all go, if required. And I ain't got me no degree.

Challenge your mathematician grad to do that. Fuck, I challenge most Comp Sci graduates to create a boot floppy and update a BIOS, especially if they have to attach the floppy first!

White collar folks shouldn't be making all the decisions, eh? Some of us blue collar types have visibility they don't.

Re: <sigh>

Americans. *sigh* Privacy is such an inconvenience, eh?

If the cloud provider has a US attack surface great than "none", it's not a cloud provider that anyone should consider using. Oh, what's that? Microsoft is trying very hard to kill it's own channel, even as it asks them to pay over $1700 just to get in the doors of their own conference? Yep! You don't own the customer relationship anymore, MSPs! You're just sales people with really shitty commission rates peddling Microsoft's cloud software and shouldering all the risk while receiving no benefits, no loyalty and no long term prospects of survival!

Amazing!

Cloud first, Mobile fist. Customers, Partners, Developers, Staff and - most especially - privacy last.

Dear IBM research team

Damn fine work. Carry on.

Re: Do you have to choose?

Agreed! This is just more of the same Gartner "the cloud will conquer all" bollocks. DaaS is just one more tool in the toolbox. It will emphatically not kill of VDI.

--Submitted using my crappy Canadian DSL that doesn't do video from an American DaaS provider worth a damn, even when that provider is using the amazing nVidia GRID cards for acceleration.

--Submitted from the VDI instance in my home lab that *is* using GRID cards and provides an experience that wrecks DaaS, and that DaaS won't be able to touch for the next 15 years.

Re: Hmmm... can we re-think the goodness of Google fibre?

Funny, digital tools marketed as "privacy enhancing" sell well here. And I am constantly having people ask me how to set up _blank_ "so that other people can't access it".

People WANT privacy. They just don't want COMPLICATED privacy. What they REALLY want is Gmail and Skype, but completely private. Alas...

Re: a mere 20 years...

"Have you run other brands on the same condition and seen them shut down or fail otherwise?"

Yes, as a matter of fact I have. That's my job, eh? To do that sort of testing. And -a s a rule - Supermicro holds up better. There are exceptions (some models from Dell seem particularly overdesigned) but overall Supermicro seems to handle the thermals better.

Look, testing systems (in many cases to destruction) is my job. In fact, it has largely become the only part of systems administration I still consistently do. The rest of it has become automated or I have simply walked away from as I have lost interest.

But companies, be they customers looking to find the right server to put in extreme situations or vendors looking to have their gear tested pay me to test hardware, software and services. It means I get to play with a pretty wide variety of stuff.

At the end of the day, Supermicro make damn good gear. It's better today than it was a year ago, and I see no reason to believe it won't continue on that trend. They've set themselves apart from others by focusing less on how to "monetise" their existing customer base with needless add-ons or licensing sub-components of their firmware and keep on with the "build good kit and sell it cheap".

Here's hoping that seeing them move to $2B/year and beyond causes the other vendors to sit up, take notice and start getting competitive again.

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Note the "€" in your post. That is different from the United States of privacy invasion. You'll note that such things in the US are rare, and getting rarer. And it's worse in Canada!

Re: But it's Google... @Tevor_Pott

ChromeOS, yes. Android...no. But ChromeOS *IS* just Google's web services wrapped in a bundle. So it makes perfect sense you'd have to log in. Android doesn't require me to have a Google account attached unless I want to use Google services...but I can gleefully use non-Google services. Cyanogenmod, Kindle Fire, etc...lots of Android stuff that doesn't require Google.

And both of those are different again from a full-bore Windows OS, which is designed not for mobile, not for cloud services, but for workstation services. To be an enterprise OS. For fixed or semi-mobile (notebook) systems.

Sorry mate, but Microsoft is more insidious. If only because they are "as bad as Google", but put billions of dollars into smearing Google and telling the world "love us because we're not creepy like them." Except they are. Especially if you happen to be a French journalist using Hotmail...