printed valves were mentioned in an article I read 40 years ago in some US electronics magazine.
Certainly not as small, but similar concept and ran on relatively low voltages. Went no-where as I never saw another reference until now. Might be just the electronics for Jupiter Moons probes where everything glows in Jupiters radiation belts.
better understood ? Not according to spaceweather.com. The very delayed cycle 24 and the rapid and unexpected slowing of the solar subsurface "conveyor belts" are completely unexplained. Of the 16 or so AFAIRC theories, none are working or match current data. Nice to know there are still challenges.
bureaucrats ?? You means PMs ? many PMs, no techs and nothing happens, very slowly. Seems Meg is reading from same playbook as IBM. See Cringely for gory details.
Or was that Ray Lane ?? No matter, this outsourcing business is making in-sourcing look very desirable. One of these decades.
I still draft documents in vi before formatting in some WYSIWYG word mangler. Using a text editor that has no "smarts" to bugger up my line of thought allows more thought to be applied to the document. Not for most people so desist from the flame icon, fellow commentards.
I note a few articles around the web making the observation that word 2 and excel 3 did most common jobs well, in windows 3.1 and 4 Mb RAM. That was nearly 20 years ago. Progress has slowed, hasn't it ?
noise ??? at 50000 B52s are nearly silent to ground based listeners. at 80,000 SR71 is silent at Mach 3 to ground dwellers. At 109,000 at any mach these things would be effectively silent unless they were the size of a battleship.
ask the japanese civilians abducted for NK spy program training if NK attacks other countries. NK ship carrying addictive drugs off Oz also. Social attacks are attacks, just not with guns.
SK also has a slight problem with attacks from their neighbour. The yanks have problems as a culture, but aside from their multinationals, mad bankers and deluded talk/radio show hosts, have been remarkably restrained as a world power.
RH support ? Nice idea if it existed as a working unit like the old HP, IBM or Sun help desks. In my small experience it wasted a week not answering my question. Neither did google ;-) At least detailed Debian/Ubuntu answers are there in the docs or google.
As for cloud, still have my doubts. Private clouds maybe, but what does the corporation get that a VMWare farm or virtualbox does not give you already ? Lastly, having seen the new desktops from Gnome and Ubuntu there will never be a year of the linux desktop, unless M$ succeed in making their OS even more user hostile.
even better, WTF is the point of CBDs in this age where most communications are electronic, not physical ? Abolish those expensive tax breaks for the rich and move office spaces to edge of cities and maintain medium site densities. No need for lots of cars, flying or not.
Given the stresses on critical parts of flying vehicles of any kind are far higher than ground vehicles one wonders if hordes of flying cars will ever be safer than trains or cars. Lose a wheel and you usually just stop. Losing a wing or rotor has less benign consequences.
Adding a ballistic recovery chute opens a whole new can of disaster worms. A large chute blasting in front of traffic is not a fun way to fly. This is why meat bomber drops are called well before the jumpers leave their perfectly good aircraft so saner aviators can be out of the area.
except that by then the oil, coal and gas will be long gone. Hopefully the religious freaks will have sustained themselves into extinction so the civilised remainder will have built decent nuclear energy plants not run by share holding PHBs. May be other energy sources that by some technological miracle will be affordable.
cant help but be skeptical about graph. SpaceWeather site has figures showing last few years have had months with some days of clear sun, yet graph has no green spots in 20Century. Am I reading it right ?
I assume you, AC, are a troll/MS lackey. nobody in my large corporate environment can contain their rage when office 2010 or even worse, office 2007 is foisted on them. Office 97 was excellent and 2003 worked well. The change of interface is so big Open Office variations are welcome.
The MS office suite has blown the best MS argument for staying with them out of he water as there is no consistency with previous versions.
so the WTO which is so ready to trash local industries to support multinationals does not have this as mandatory behaviour for the US and european companies ? Oh wait, who owns the pollies ? Companies and NGOs who want unlimited funding for their profit and fear funding.
Never seen such a process for 20 years. PHBs and sales weasels define problem, solution and implementation so nothing works much or well and the poor users get more crap to deal with.
And its all ITs fault. Sackings, finger wagging, more process and bonuses for the weasels.
don't you love explaining detailed technical stuff to clerks whose eyes glaze at the word volume group or zone, but want lots of step by step instructions? The love of power is the root of all IT evil.
Paris because it is about the same level of intellect in change control all too often. Where is she anyway ?
Buy a server and already get hardware support for warranty period as well as purchased support period. OS support is different. Ubuntu and HP suit each other. Won't go into details due to bitter experience.
yep, that phone works at 20m on Barrier Reef or when I need a time check in a cramped sailplane cockpit another piece of electronic crap lying around is all I need NOT.
The citizen mechanical self winder I have has lasted decades, still going well, minor glass scratches only. Withstood Wet seasons and south Oz drizzle on a motorcycle at high speed, not to mention the old fire pump incident. I like my large chunk of metal because it is functional and robust, something not found much these days.
Have to agree with the ex-pros about depth ratings on watches. As a rec diver,I am not going beyond 30 meters and only ever been to about 40 m once. Pros need better, but how many deep deep sea divers are there ? Still, a ponce wearing an overly flashy watch beats twerps in blinged up ute with liquorish tyres and a loud exhaust. Not as noisy and easier to shut up.
Are you too young to remember the newspapers in 1970s screaming that by mid 1980s we would be out of petroleum, metals,food, water and land ? So middle roman empire. First time this prediction was made was circa 240 AD. In 1980spredictions were by end of century temperatures would have polar caps melting and flooding cities and by 2020 there would be 2 meters of sea rise ?
In 1990s lots of expert apocalyptic pronouncements about how we would be dangerously hot by 2010 and massive hunger and population migration was coming real soon now.
In 2009 in Oz, a government expert on climate change stated that Oz would never see big rain events again. Get used to drought. Six months later, big floods, followed by 2 years of more floods. Last week another government quango stating Oz will have droughts again.
This in a country where an unofficial anthem has the line " droughts and flooding rains".
So far the track record of climate change prediction has been zero on specifics and unproven on generalisations. Yes the temperature trend may be upwards. Has been since last Ice Age, with blips caused by Maunder minimums, massive volcanic eruptions and a couple of small comet impacts. Humans might be adding to warming in an unknown degree. But until there is a model that can be falsified and tested, it seems reasonable to deal with things that can be measured, like running out of easily extracted fuels causing energy costs to rise.
More efficiency in industrial processes and use of resources would have most peoples support, so long as it is done on a commercial basis instead of funding floggers of ineffective expensive panaceas like windmills.
does this support Manual Olivers nova hypothesis ?
Flying a kite here. He suggests the sun is the remnant of a rapidly rotating supernova explosion, hence the inner planets are denser as they are condensed from the inner layers.
Who has power to spend money in current largeish organisations ? (say > 5000 staff)
HR ? not really
IT: nope
Senior PHBs ? often
Finance sharks ? rarely
Which area is mostly permissions withholder ?
HR: yes
IT: over-ridden at drop of a vendors lunch or this weeks feature article; no
PHBs: definitely
Finance : Yes !
Where do most PHBs come from? (using 3 big IT firms as examples)
sales weasels.
So the big corporations have management consisting of those with big influence and generally lowest knowledge of the organisation,,who dont manage people, more used to manipulating them, usually with a weak grasp of return on investments, and a raging ego.
Conclusion: whatever is going on, the CIO title was always a scapegoat. Any control they have is white-anted by finance, who dont carry responsibility for destroying productive areas, overridden by sales weasels at all levels and made futiile by the bastard offspring of finance, control freaks ffrom change control, quality and related wastes of oxygen.
Summary: The CIO never really existed as specifiied, and will probably vanish as a concept.
I suggest this is a cultural rather than a business inspired development, as the ruins of western thought seem to think that the only activities humans do can be scripted in a spreadsheet or data model
oh yes it is ! everyone has the right to be completely unoffended by everything, especially if it means they can inflict their own mental or moral poverty on everyone else. No-one should be ever frightened or scared. So said one of Oz chief meddlers/public funded pest do-gooders a year or so ago. Best demonstration of the need for natural de-selection heard ? Queue RH quote...
Bring out the fluffy bunnies discussion, except rabbits are a major ecological pest in Oz. What about animal rights; drat, cant even sign off without offending someone.
Re: One in Five IT Pros Thinks Their Job Will Be Gone Within One Year - Cloud to the rescue?
more like gone to India or some 3rd world hell hole, like USA as its economy implodes after a few more bonkers bankers bonuses. There is the usual round of slash, slice, dice and downsize followed by the" bugger, we need more staff" process that has a 3 year cycle.
As for cloudiness, ha ! a few techies may evaporate, but the security and network jobs will proliferate, as will the customer managers, incident managers, qualty auditors and other non-technical groupies.
With the rise of a managerial class whose main function is to stop things happening, is the delivery of good IT service becoming impossible ?
In short, has process oriented institutions like ITIL become ends, rather than means?
Has the need to avoid blame caused management to use processes as a means to increase power and an excuse for poor IT staff performance ?
Comments, creative flames and funny illustrations please ?
Not suggesting Matt is cruising for a bruising are we ? Definitely a reaction, none of it supportive.
I wonder what is creating the appeal about handing your IT stuff to semi-anonymous providers out there. Is it another manifestation of fear of responsibility so pervasive in the ruins of the West ?
Matt should have a look at the big enterprise outsourcerers. These "institutions" are indeed infested with process oriented "staff". It takes weeks to do what the old internal IT staff did in days or minutes. Yep, clouds are so much easier, right up until the outsourced network company has a switch upgrade fail, DNS stuffup or a simple backhoe incident down the road. Lastly, the privacy rules are easy to manage when the servers are in the basement room, behind 3 or more security controlled doors. In a cloud, who has access to the hardware and where is it ? If one works for a cloud provider, servers have access control protection, except the PHBs never allow for the cost of physical guards or escorts, so fixing hardware becomes difficult. Multiple redundancy helps the cloud provider to a point, but eventually even a raid z6 with multiple hot spares needs a server engineers love.
We who are results oriented are fleeing IT, precisely because it is so hard to do a good job thanks to the process droids, babbleware and the latest fads. Clouds are the old bureau by another name.
computers are only as good as the input data, and usually worse. Similar pitot failures on Airbusses avoided disaster because the pilots were taught to identify when the input to the computers was wrong and fly the plane by attitude. eg, if airframe undamaged, power == cruise and angle of attack == +4 degrees (guessing) then airspeed _must_ be OK, even if indicated airspeed is 550 knots and rate of climb is shown as 5000 feet/min. The pilots were flying in bad weather so this would have required them to follow the artificial horizon which should be a gyro based device feeding the glass cockpit. At night in cloud windows are useless.
Even in recreational flying a similar over-dependance on computers is becoming evident at the simple level of navigation. GPS makes it so easy, until the battery goes flat. Oldtimers just revert to compass and map, but the younger pilots.... {s}
aeronautical types, especially professionals have to do competence tests annually or more often if in big jets.
Might be "interesting" to do this with car drivers. Given that killing someone with a vehicle has usually been treated as a minor offense, one could also make killing with a vehicle the same legal offense as a casual thrill killing. Might re-associate crime and punishment..
OTOH, given the rise of the surveilance state, how about every car has a days driving record pulled from its car management system at random times, say twice a year and sent to a driving forensics lab? Indicators of bad behaviour or poor skills would trigger a covert driving assessment. Much like what is happening now with the self righeous installing cams in their cars so they can log other drivers. Yes, that twit wandering over the road as they move the camera to film someone 10kmh over the limit passing said twat driving 20 kmh under the limit.
yes, deep water close in and islands visible to the north of Dili, East Timor. Good diving there too. Go up to the big statue of Jesus and look north. (not kidding) Also, used to be easy to catch small tuna close to land at times ** as in in 10 miles or less around north Oz. ** before northern hemisphere fishing fleets depleted stocks to near vanishing point. Still a few only 20NM off Oz east coast. Sea levels were lower at times back then, so the island gaps would have been much smaller. Large canoes could have made trips from island to island south following over the horizon lightning displays from land 50 NM or more away.
Earlier comments are right about a cultural chronological snobbery about our ancestors. BTW, most sharks have teeth which can hang around a long time. Teeth are bone, even in sharks.
Gunk. Don't see how you get to life from that mix. carbon stains in sulphate deposits are more likely. You make the common assumption life is self assembling. The peroxides and acid would be very effective at shortening long molecules.
the liquid below may be somewhat unpleasant to organics, let a lone life. Hydrogen peroxide from the surface ice radiation reactions and the possibility of geothermal vents making a sulphuric acid bath. One for the chemistry students. What would the resulting chemical broth be like ?
odd opinion, since sell off of gov assests prices rocketed. Nothing like duplicating physical infrastructure for 3 companies to increase costs. Factor in the multiple layers of clerks in suits who need bonuses to stop technical staff doing anything. Bingo, the current mess if one does not live in some inner suburbs. NBN is an attempt (a bad one, agreed) to re-invent what should have happened to Telstra.
he is right. Seen a few CV/job apps and winced. Using the F7 key and grammar checker is not hard in Word. It is hard to find competant IT staff with so many sales weasel minds out there
My first BMW nearly got me killed so often until I replaced the corrosion prone original pipes with 650 BSA pipes. Suddenly far fewer near misses and a nice note to boot.
Could not sneak out of then girlfriends driveway after that though.
Electric bikes, a poor greenies Prius and equally as stupid for conserving resources.
If it cant go 350Km, it is useless for Real World.
only for close stars. Go outside the local area and the angles are too small to measure. And all of the above assumes red shift only map to distance and is constant in effect. Both reasonable assumptions, but not easily testable.
You need lots and lots of clerks making up rulez, with more PHBs making up procedures based on misreading libraries of good practice so nothing ever happens without great effort and extreme persistence. Sometimes it might by the right thing.
Never ask your IT staff anything. Keep them untrained and stymied by processes at all costs. (literally) Create lots of little empires and ensure the tech staff are siloed into them so they can't get an overall view of the business requirements to make informed assessments.
Bonuses all round the executive suite for keeping costs down. The outcome is that whatever bad happens is never managements fault, so all good. Easy to sack some wannabee BOFH. If it is a real stuff up,even better, not PHBs fault. Look at the rules put in place so sack the IT staffer. And no, I do not refer to this mornings little incident. Humans do make mistakes. One has to live with it.
not as hot as Manilya Bridge, WA, where fueling the car one January was made hard by the petrol boiling in the underground tank... The Alice is tolerable at 45C with 5% humidity.
Darwin humidity does take a bit to get used to. Getting off plane from south was always fun when the door opened. Like being hit by a wall of steam.Enjoy the trip anyway.
Flames because that's what the center sun can feel like. :-)
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printed valves were mentioned in an article I read 40 years ago in some US electronics magazine.
Certainly not as small, but similar concept and ran on relatively low voltages. Went no-where as I never saw another reference until now. Might be just the electronics for Jupiter Moons probes where everything glows in Jupiters radiation belts.
Re: Absolute nonsense
better understood ? Not according to spaceweather.com. The very delayed cycle 24 and the rapid and unexpected slowing of the solar subsurface "conveyor belts" are completely unexplained. Of the 16 or so AFAIRC theories, none are working or match current data. Nice to know there are still challenges.
Re: Here we go again! Downward Spiral
one must remember that the modern CEO is medieval margarine and the corporation is toast. Mines the one with the Rogets in the pocket
Re: EDS = Extinct Dinosaur Services
bureaucrats ?? You means PMs ? many PMs, no techs and nothing happens, very slowly. Seems Meg is reading from same playbook as IBM. See Cringely for gory details.
Or was that Ray Lane ?? No matter, this outsourcing business is making in-sourcing look very desirable. One of these decades.
if we are being historical hysterical then
ah! the golden days of fun flame wars.
I still draft documents in vi before formatting in some WYSIWYG word mangler. Using a text editor that has no "smarts" to bugger up my line of thought allows more thought to be applied to the document. Not for most people so desist from the flame icon, fellow commentards.
I note a few articles around the web making the observation that word 2 and excel 3 did most common jobs well, in windows 3.1 and 4 Mb RAM. That was nearly 20 years ago. Progress has slowed, hasn't it ?
Re: Pizza deliveries - New York to London
noise ??? at 50000 B52s are nearly silent to ground based listeners. at 80,000 SR71 is silent at Mach 3 to ground dwellers. At 109,000 at any mach these things would be effectively silent unless they were the size of a battleship.
Re: Makes you think though... NOPE
ask the japanese civilians abducted for NK spy program training if NK attacks other countries. NK ship carrying addictive drugs off Oz also. Social attacks are attacks, just not with guns.
SK also has a slight problem with attacks from their neighbour. The yanks have problems as a culture, but aside from their multinationals, mad bankers and deluded talk/radio show hosts, have been remarkably restrained as a world power.
well to disagree a little
RH support ? Nice idea if it existed as a working unit like the old HP, IBM or Sun help desks. In my small experience it wasted a week not answering my question. Neither did google ;-) At least detailed Debian/Ubuntu answers are there in the docs or google.
As for cloud, still have my doubts. Private clouds maybe, but what does the corporation get that a VMWare farm or virtualbox does not give you already ? Lastly, having seen the new desktops from Gnome and Ubuntu there will never be a year of the linux desktop, unless M$ succeed in making their OS even more user hostile.
Re: Parking on a skyscraper
even better, WTF is the point of CBDs in this age where most communications are electronic, not physical ? Abolish those expensive tax breaks for the rich and move office spaces to edge of cities and maintain medium site densities. No need for lots of cars, flying or not.
Given the stresses on critical parts of flying vehicles of any kind are far higher than ground vehicles one wonders if hordes of flying cars will ever be safer than trains or cars. Lose a wheel and you usually just stop. Losing a wing or rotor has less benign consequences.
Adding a ballistic recovery chute opens a whole new can of disaster worms. A large chute blasting in front of traffic is not a fun way to fly. This is why meat bomber drops are called well before the jumpers leave their perfectly good aircraft so saner aviators can be out of the area.
almost right
except that by then the oil, coal and gas will be long gone. Hopefully the religious freaks will have sustained themselves into extinction so the civilised remainder will have built decent nuclear energy plants not run by share holding PHBs. May be other energy sources that by some technological miracle will be affordable.
Re: Absolute nonsense Zurich graph
cant help but be skeptical about graph. SpaceWeather site has figures showing last few years have had months with some days of clear sun, yet graph has no green spots in 20Century. Am I reading it right ?
from what planet R U ?
I assume you, AC, are a troll/MS lackey. nobody in my large corporate environment can contain their rage when office 2010 or even worse, office 2007 is foisted on them. Office 97 was excellent and 2003 worked well. The change of interface is so big Open Office variations are welcome.
The MS office suite has blown the best MS argument for staying with them out of he water as there is no consistency with previous versions.
dont tell OZ
idiots here will do the same to please media remnants who think sport is something you watch.
we can always rob 3rd world countries of their hard earned expensive degree level people.
WTO WTF now
so the WTO which is so ready to trash local industries to support multinationals does not have this as mandatory behaviour for the US and european companies ? Oh wait, who owns the pollies ? Companies and NGOs who want unlimited funding for their profit and fear funding.
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Re: spot on!
Never seen such a process for 20 years. PHBs and sales weasels define problem, solution and implementation so nothing works much or well and the poor users get more crap to deal with.
And its all ITs fault. Sackings, finger wagging, more process and bonuses for the weasels.
You'se guys must be in-house.
Re: All of them
don't you love explaining detailed technical stuff to clerks whose eyes glaze at the word volume group or zone, but want lots of step by step instructions? The love of power is the root of all IT evil.
Paris because it is about the same level of intellect in change control all too often. Where is she anyway ?
warranty ?
Buy a server and already get hardware support for warranty period as well as purchased support period. OS support is different. Ubuntu and HP suit each other. Won't go into details due to bitter experience.
Re: Flash watches are just a load of old cock
yep, that phone works at 20m on Barrier Reef or when I need a time check in a cramped sailplane cockpit another piece of electronic crap lying around is all I need NOT.
The citizen mechanical self winder I have has lasted decades, still going well, minor glass scratches only. Withstood Wet seasons and south Oz drizzle on a motorcycle at high speed, not to mention the old fire pump incident. I like my large chunk of metal because it is functional and robust, something not found much these days.
Have to agree with the ex-pros about depth ratings on watches. As a rec diver,I am not going beyond 30 meters and only ever been to about 40 m once. Pros need better, but how many deep deep sea divers are there ? Still, a ponce wearing an overly flashy watch beats twerps in blinged up ute with liquorish tyres and a loud exhaust. Not as noisy and easier to shut up.
Re: Seriously
Are you too young to remember the newspapers in 1970s screaming that by mid 1980s we would be out of petroleum, metals,food, water and land ? So middle roman empire. First time this prediction was made was circa 240 AD. In 1980spredictions were by end of century temperatures would have polar caps melting and flooding cities and by 2020 there would be 2 meters of sea rise ?
In 1990s lots of expert apocalyptic pronouncements about how we would be dangerously hot by 2010 and massive hunger and population migration was coming real soon now.
In 2009 in Oz, a government expert on climate change stated that Oz would never see big rain events again. Get used to drought. Six months later, big floods, followed by 2 years of more floods. Last week another government quango stating Oz will have droughts again.
This in a country where an unofficial anthem has the line " droughts and flooding rains".
So far the track record of climate change prediction has been zero on specifics and unproven on generalisations. Yes the temperature trend may be upwards. Has been since last Ice Age, with blips caused by Maunder minimums, massive volcanic eruptions and a couple of small comet impacts. Humans might be adding to warming in an unknown degree. But until there is a model that can be falsified and tested, it seems reasonable to deal with things that can be measured, like running out of easily extracted fuels causing energy costs to rise.
More efficiency in industrial processes and use of resources would have most peoples support, so long as it is done on a commercial basis instead of funding floggers of ineffective expensive panaceas like windmills.
does this support Manual Olivers nova hypothesis ?
Flying a kite here. He suggests the sun is the remnant of a rapidly rotating supernova explosion, hence the inner planets are denser as they are condensed from the inner layers.
already done
some place called Afghanistan I believe.
Should Russians restart research on mini-valve technology again?
Only need caesium oxides then.
On the upside, the number of muppets on phone while driving light trucks through traffic might drop
you mean I can really truly have a decent rant
at last, I can do a rant on why ITIL implementations are a Bad Idea and worse practice.
When I can finish this paperwork to reboot a server that is {S}
why not? One of the local doomsayers has just bought an island which will be drowned if his prognostications of sea level rise are true.
What was the saying ? "90% of everything is crap ?"
More so if internet , pollies or SIFs involved
stress, cynicism ?
Thought they were mandatory attributes for IT staffers.
How else can one cope with PHBs who implement the opposite of what they say routinely ?
In this shop, enthusiasm is seen as inexperience, much as we wish it were otherwise.
CIOs, another kind of PHB or a eunich ?
Who has power to spend money in current largeish organisations ? (say > 5000 staff)
HR ? not really
IT: nope
Senior PHBs ? often
Finance sharks ? rarely
Which area is mostly permissions withholder ?
HR: yes
IT: over-ridden at drop of a vendors lunch or this weeks feature article; no
PHBs: definitely
Finance : Yes !
Where do most PHBs come from? (using 3 big IT firms as examples)
sales weasels.
So the big corporations have management consisting of those with big influence and generally lowest knowledge of the organisation,,who dont manage people, more used to manipulating them, usually with a weak grasp of return on investments, and a raging ego.
Conclusion: whatever is going on, the CIO title was always a scapegoat. Any control they have is white-anted by finance, who dont carry responsibility for destroying productive areas, overridden by sales weasels at all levels and made futiile by the bastard offspring of finance, control freaks ffrom change control, quality and related wastes of oxygen.
Summary: The CIO never really existed as specifiied, and will probably vanish as a concept.
I suggest this is a cultural rather than a business inspired development, as the ruins of western thought seem to think that the only activities humans do can be scripted in a spreadsheet or data model
Re: @jean-luc anger ?
where ? Father /read as calm, controlled and reasoned, unlike most anti-gun nuts. BTW, I don't own one either.
Re: Hardly a court matter
oh yes it is ! everyone has the right to be completely unoffended by everything, especially if it means they can inflict their own mental or moral poverty on everyone else. No-one should be ever frightened or scared. So said one of Oz chief meddlers/public funded pest do-gooders a year or so ago. Best demonstration of the need for natural de-selection heard ? Queue RH quote...
Bring out the fluffy bunnies discussion, except rabbits are a major ecological pest in Oz. What about animal rights; drat, cant even sign off without offending someone.
Re: One in Five IT Pros Thinks Their Job Will Be Gone Within One Year - Cloud to the rescue?
more like gone to India or some 3rd world hell hole, like USA as its economy implodes after a few more bonkers bankers bonuses. There is the usual round of slash, slice, dice and downsize followed by the" bugger, we need more staff" process that has a 3 year cycle.
As for cloudiness, ha ! a few techies may evaporate, but the security and network jobs will proliferate, as will the customer managers, incident managers, qualty auditors and other non-technical groupies.
not quite
probable the continental granite cores will remain. However, we have a fresh replacement for Antartic ice sheets. Europe already cold enuff...
BOFH and cloudiness ahhhhh
Nice to know there are some views we have in common.
So good to see you again Simon.
is IT service being destroyed by due process ?
inconceivable !
Not suggesting Matt is cruising for a bruising are we ? Definitely a reaction, none of it supportive.
I wonder what is creating the appeal about handing your IT stuff to semi-anonymous providers out there. Is it another manifestation of fear of responsibility so pervasive in the ruins of the West ?
and ITIL load for process droids is reduced how ?
Matt should have a look at the big enterprise outsourcerers. These "institutions" are indeed infested with process oriented "staff". It takes weeks to do what the old internal IT staff did in days or minutes. Yep, clouds are so much easier, right up until the outsourced network company has a switch upgrade fail, DNS stuffup or a simple backhoe incident down the road. Lastly, the privacy rules are easy to manage when the servers are in the basement room, behind 3 or more security controlled doors. In a cloud, who has access to the hardware and where is it ? If one works for a cloud provider, servers have access control protection, except the PHBs never allow for the cost of physical guards or escorts, so fixing hardware becomes difficult. Multiple redundancy helps the cloud provider to a point, but eventually even a raid z6 with multiple hot spares needs a server engineers love.
We who are results oriented are fleeing IT, precisely because it is so hard to do a good job thanks to the process droids, babbleware and the latest fads. Clouds are the old bureau by another name.
true, but irreelvant
Boeing: Pilots can and do (sometimes disasterously) over-ride the flight computers.
Airbus: Meatsacks have no final say.
not subtle difference, which AFAIK, made no difference in this situation.
Concur with two failures in one unit ? junk it comment.
you expect any different from new Roman empire ?
the Republic is long gone, now only the oligarchies remain. Just like the old USSR.
When is Nero MK4 due one wonders ?
Oh great, another security focus area
and sucking data out of the engine management system for use against you, installing loggers, malware and nannyware just gets easier.
GIGO
computers are only as good as the input data, and usually worse. Similar pitot failures on Airbusses avoided disaster because the pilots were taught to identify when the input to the computers was wrong and fly the plane by attitude. eg, if airframe undamaged, power == cruise and angle of attack == +4 degrees (guessing) then airspeed _must_ be OK, even if indicated airspeed is 550 knots and rate of climb is shown as 5000 feet/min. The pilots were flying in bad weather so this would have required them to follow the artificial horizon which should be a gyro based device feeding the glass cockpit. At night in cloud windows are useless.
Even in recreational flying a similar over-dependance on computers is becoming evident at the simple level of navigation. GPS makes it so easy, until the battery goes flat. Oldtimers just revert to compass and map, but the younger pilots.... {s}
you mean like pilots ?
aeronautical types, especially professionals have to do competence tests annually or more often if in big jets.
Might be "interesting" to do this with car drivers. Given that killing someone with a vehicle has usually been treated as a minor offense, one could also make killing with a vehicle the same legal offense as a casual thrill killing. Might re-associate crime and punishment..
OTOH, given the rise of the surveilance state, how about every car has a days driving record pulled from its car management system at random times, say twice a year and sent to a driving forensics lab? Indicators of bad behaviour or poor skills would trigger a covert driving assessment. Much like what is happening now with the self righeous installing cams in their cars so they can log other drivers. Yes, that twit wandering over the road as they move the camera to film someone 10kmh over the limit passing said twat driving 20 kmh under the limit.
deep water close in
yes, deep water close in and islands visible to the north of Dili, East Timor. Good diving there too. Go up to the big statue of Jesus and look north. (not kidding) Also, used to be easy to catch small tuna close to land at times ** as in in 10 miles or less around north Oz. ** before northern hemisphere fishing fleets depleted stocks to near vanishing point. Still a few only 20NM off Oz east coast. Sea levels were lower at times back then, so the island gaps would have been much smaller. Large canoes could have made trips from island to island south following over the horizon lightning displays from land 50 NM or more away.
Earlier comments are right about a cultural chronological snobbery about our ancestors. BTW, most sharks have teeth which can hang around a long time. Teeth are bone, even in sharks.
not quite
Gunk. Don't see how you get to life from that mix. carbon stains in sulphate deposits are more likely. You make the common assumption life is self assembling. The peroxides and acid would be very effective at shortening long molecules.
now we have had our fun, calm down
the liquid below may be somewhat unpleasant to organics, let a lone life. Hydrogen peroxide from the surface ice radiation reactions and the possibility of geothermal vents making a sulphuric acid bath. One for the chemistry students. What would the resulting chemical broth be like ?
Lots of precipitating salts I suspect.
multiple private ripoffs work ?
odd opinion, since sell off of gov assests prices rocketed. Nothing like duplicating physical infrastructure for 3 companies to increase costs. Factor in the multiple layers of clerks in suits who need bonuses to stop technical staff doing anything. Bingo, the current mess if one does not live in some inner suburbs. NBN is an attempt (a bad one, agreed) to re-invent what should have happened to Telstra.
hard but fair
he is right. Seen a few CV/job apps and winced. Using the F7 key and grammar checker is not hard in Word. It is hard to find competant IT staff with so many sales weasel minds out there
oh so true
My first BMW nearly got me killed so often until I replaced the corrosion prone original pipes with 650 BSA pipes. Suddenly far fewer near misses and a nice note to boot.
Could not sneak out of then girlfriends driveway after that though.
Electric bikes, a poor greenies Prius and equally as stupid for conserving resources.
If it cant go 350Km, it is useless for Real World.
not quite
only for close stars. Go outside the local area and the angles are too small to measure. And all of the above assumes red shift only map to distance and is constant in effect. Both reasonable assumptions, but not easily testable.
imperial units ?
AFAIK, the calculations were outsourced... Nuff sed. Imperial units would be appropriate if Darth was the project manager though
Mines the one with the Star Ship Troopers in the left pocket
well obviously...
You need lots and lots of clerks making up rulez, with more PHBs making up procedures based on misreading libraries of good practice so nothing ever happens without great effort and extreme persistence. Sometimes it might by the right thing.
Never ask your IT staff anything. Keep them untrained and stymied by processes at all costs. (literally) Create lots of little empires and ensure the tech staff are siloed into them so they can't get an overall view of the business requirements to make informed assessments.
Bonuses all round the executive suite for keeping costs down. The outcome is that whatever bad happens is never managements fault, so all good. Easy to sack some wannabee BOFH. If it is a real stuff up,even better, not PHBs fault. Look at the rules put in place so sack the IT staffer. And no, I do not refer to this mornings little incident. Humans do make mistakes. One has to live with it.
Hot, you call that hot !
not as hot as Manilya Bridge, WA, where fueling the car one January was made hard by the petrol boiling in the underground tank... The Alice is tolerable at 45C with 5% humidity.
Darwin humidity does take a bit to get used to. Getting off plane from south was always fun when the door opened. Like being hit by a wall of steam.Enjoy the trip anyway.
Flames because that's what the center sun can feel like. :-)
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