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I know I sound old by saying this, but oh well...
You know, back in my day we had cell phones we actually had to take out of our pockets, and we liked it fine that way!
Jeremy Falcon
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We're going to need a pic to prove this.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: We're going to need a pic to prove this.
That Pete's a Dick? I think that's self-evident.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Oooh - tough crowd today!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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His jealousy is so transparent 
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But I'm waiting for the iWatch before I decide if I too want to look like a pretentious idiot. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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You don't need the iWatch for that
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True, but I'd sleep better at night if I could use the iWatch as an excuse. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I'll put one in the article.
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"what she meant when she said I looked like a Dick" - ROTFL - since we being blokes can never read a females mind, we'll never really know
Thanks for the laugh of the day so far POH
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I was surprised that they offered me one, too - Had to turn it down because I lack of time and a phone to pair it with. I started an article on this topic, because it somehow bit me. I got a fair bit of prep work done, however there is no code yet. Take a look[^], if you want to.
[Especially the Tizen Wearable SDK can be a PITA if you rely on the Installation Manager]
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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 Too funny
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Anyone have any experience on this? I'm about to order a dedicated cloud server for a new project, but I haven't used any virtualization on the web. It makes me a bit worried.
I know modern CPUs support virtualization shortcuts these days, and companies like ScaleMatrix offer SSD servers and that can make a huge difference. And, I'm starting to think the idea of being able to add a truck load of processing units and memory at will would easily offset the virtualization overhead at some point.
From a maintenance standpoint it's freaking awesome. I want this app to handle at least a few hundred concurrent users. N servers pretending to be one so I don't have to load balance or distribute a web app across a farm. Just still concerned.
Any hardcore web types have any pointers before I pull the trigger on what to look for or if I'm barking up the wrong tree?
Jeremy Falcon
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"Cloud" only helps if you do not have a predictable demand. It is much cheaper to purchase a dedicated machine or machines for a fixed demand than to pay for the equivalent cloud services. Maybe you could consider renting rackspace somewhere?
Now if you have flexible load and dynamic peaks then Cloud is great. You can spool up 100 servers at $0.15/hr or whatever you rate is and then spin them down when you don't need them.
Cloud is not a panacea but a good solution to specific problems. Now, if I were Netflix I would move away from AWS immediately and do a few things slightly different but then I do things differently.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Now if you have flexible load and dynamic peaks then Cloud is great. You can spool up 100 servers at $0.15/hr or whatever you rate is and then spin them down when you don't need them.
It's for an organization so we know the amount of users we add so we won't suffer from unknown peaks.
My concern isn't really price either, it's more performance, which I'm totally anal about over the web. The existing users we do have, have had it rough in that regards too. So far nobody has been able to give me a direct "overhead cost" in percentage compared to a real machine with the same specs. Just been hearing a bunch of sales fluff.
Jeremy Falcon
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Let me tell you a little about myself. I own a mid-sized company I inherited from my parents. Its a great place to work and makes a fortune for me, my current wife, my 7 kids, my 3 ex's and my dead-beat siblings. It became extra profitable a few years ago when I hired a freshly minted MBA to run things - he really shook up the HR department. Leaves me plenty of time to pimp out the new Bentley! Employees look a little haggard these days but honestly... who cares? 
Anyways... about the birthday. I hope nobody throws me a party. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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If they do - sack everyone who attended. It's the only way...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Excellent idea! I'll have them all sign a guest book to find out who attends because I'll be on Bimini with the mistresses. Ta ta!
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Shouldn't that be, I'll be on the mistresses in Bimini
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So, it's the boss's ntieth birthday soon. His PR has decided we should organise a surprise party.
We're still kidding ourselves we're a "family run company" - that moment passed about a year before I joined, and I've been here a couple of years. Interestingly we're a "family company" when it comes to expectations of flexibility about our responsibilities as employees, but not a "family company" when it comes to employer flexibility, and we're accruing HR policies at a rate of knots. The upper echelons can't figure out why few so people have agreed to attend because in their heads this is still a family business, so they are trying to three-line whip it.
Two days ago an e-mail went out about a collection. Unlike other collections, it's been made pretty obvious that everyone is expected we'd donate. An e-mail was sent yesterday that the collection envelope would be arriving in our office, presumably anointed with holy chrism so we had no excuse not to have cash on us. Worse, staff members who are well known to be struggling have had to pitch in, though the amount was noticeably lower than a normal member of staff collection - I assume people aren't keen to donate to a man whose car wheels cost more than any single car in the car-park.
Today another e-mail. We're all to report to the car-park, wearing insert company name here branded clothes, so we can have a collective photo taken - so it turns out we are performing monkeys too.
Not the boss's fault any of this, and he's certainly earned his money - but the expectation is galling.
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Sue-de-Nime wrote: Two days ago an e-mail went out about a collection. Unlike other collections, it's been made pretty obvious that everyone is expected we'd donate. An e-mail was sent yesterday that the collection envelope would be arriving in our office
Take enough money to have a good lunch and pass it on.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I used to hate those collections: normally one of the lower echelon staff (invariably female) was deputed to take the envelope round and shame you into donating, even if you hated the guy.
They didn't like me much: One marketing droid (who had his head so firmly up his own colon he could inspect his own appendix) lost £5 to me, and a Sales Manager got all the buttons off my best shirt, cut off while the lady waited. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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leadership fail. Just wow, taking up a collection?
They should issue a new HR policy.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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We used to have a collection around Christmas time for a holiday present for the boss. No one, not even the boss, really liked it. The boss would in turn buy small presents for everyone in the department. Anyway, we got rid of it all and instead collect money for a charity. Then we plan some get-together with the whole department where we do some kind of charity work, like making blankets for the children's hospital, or buying and wrapping gifts for the YMCA holiday gift program. That way if an employee can't really afford to donate money, they still have the opportunity to donate some time to help out a charity.
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