Posts by PermissionToSpeakPlease

Re: Better than real

There's no value at all in a live performance that just replicates a studio recording. A good live performance should give you a whole different level of energy, and new insights into the music being performed.

Re: Tilting at windmills

@Elongated Muskrat

Agree with you on the first 90%. However as a Dutchman residing in the UK for the last 25 years, I'm very sorry to have to tell you that even a "grown-up system of PR" doesn't stop politicians chasing populists policies - so our last elections from a couple of weeks ago... (and also having a national grid with significant difficulties in places)

Re: Takedown

Also Freedom Downtime is available on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4fCK23Srk

Re: I'm not sure why you've got so many down votes

"E7 still makes some sense given the load profile of our grid (and that's all Octopus Go is really)"

Go is indeed similar to the old E7/10 style tarrifs, but Intelligent Octopus is a bit more clever than that. It actively tries to seek out the "best" slots in which to charge, and isn't just limited to the standard off-peak hours. That's where smart meters have really enabled a whole new style of tarrif to exist.

Re: Auto Scaling

There is a choice - autoscaling can be switched off

Re: Sorry, what?

Also "Willie Hardie, Big Reg's vice president of database product management,"

Author probably meant to say Big *Red*

ex-USSR countries

You might want to brush up on your historic European geography

Re: I don't get it £840k a year for something you could do over LTE

I might not understand this fully, but I suspect that in your solution everthing that you track has to have that connectivity, so paying your £20 + (12 x £5) = £80/year for each thing you want to track.

Whereas their system allows you them pay pennies for the trackers, but maintaining a relatively low amount of base stations to pick them up.

There are going to be a lot more things to track than stations to build the network, so they're betting on these economics working out.

Its not even 9, and you've already won the Internet for today.

The rest can stop playing and try again tomorrow

With ISPs you roughly get what you pay for though.

If you want a service with SLAs and pentalties, you can probably get it, but you'll be paying more than what you're paying for your Virgin connection.

As another VM customer, I would rather keep it as-is. If you force them (and others) into financial penalties for outages, then all prices would go up. I'd rather go with my existing and cheap backup plan (tethering over 4g phone connection)

Per core makes much more sense than per instance.

It's about paying for for the software to get through a certain workload in a certain time.

In your model of per-instance pricing, if I only had machines with limited amounts of cores and needed say 4 instances to get through that workload in a certain time, I would be paying 4 times as much than if I had bigger machine with more cores to throw at it. To run the same workload in the same time, with roughly equal amounts of hardware (except some motherboards etc).

You pay more if you use more cores because the software you license gets to do more.

Re: equifax stock price still ~$90

"Since sep8 it has only dropped around $50. I would have expected much worse"

They haven't lost any customer data. They've only lost some data that they were selling anyway, nothing for their customers to be overly worried about. There's just a one-off cost involved to be seen to be doing something now, but other than that there shouldn't be too much impact on long-term proffitablity from this. (sadly).

Re: FFS. Vodafone, it's a stupid policy.

where did they say that the employee isn't allowed to have a break?

Comparing your cornershop with a multinational makes sense how?