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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oracle has recently been outdone by the new WMWare. Apparently our renewal amount increased by something like 6,000%.
Ouch. I used to use them (I assume you mean VMWare) when I worked there. Moved to Hyper-V once I was forced to update Workstation (which meant money). Starting to move to VirtualBox now that signing code requires a USB fob and HV doesn't play nicely.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oracle has recently been outdone by the new WMWare. Apparently our renewal amount increased by something like 6,000%.
Ouch. I used to use them (I assume you mean VMWare) when I worked there. Moved to Hyper-V once I was forced to update Workstation (which meant money). Starting to move to VirtualBox now that signing code requires a USB fob and HV doesn't play nicely.
Oops. Yeah, VMWare. I'm not really involved, but the story went something like...the customer kind of cheaped out and we bought a package a bit less than we really needed / should have had, and now that's come due (in that I think they don't offer whatever it was we bought before) in addition to crazy price hikes.
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@boomzilla I do remember reading (a few months ago?) about drastic price hikes for them.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yeah, interruptions suck and it's easy for people to ping you via instant messaging.
Easy to ignore too.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And you can ignore them for a while. You just need the balls to do it.
I guess this depends who you're ignoring. If like me the people on Teams are either internal or contractors we pay, they're probably easier to ignore than if I was a contractor ignoring a paying customer.
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@dcon what I read was that their plan basically revolved around forcing everyone into subscription, ignoring the needs of every customer besides their ~100 biggest enterprise ones, and in return milking the ever-living fuck out of them.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dcon what I read was that their plan basically revolved around forcing everyone into subscription, ignoring the needs of every customer besides their ~100 biggest enterprise ones, and in return milking the ever-living fuck out of them.
Being an enterprise software purchaser is getting paid to be a masochist. NTTAWWT.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
they're not walking over to your cube.
That'd be a long walk. According to Google, my nearest coworker (that I know of) is at least an 11-day walk in each direction. Remote working has its advantages.
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@HardwareGeek no shit Sherlock.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
WMWare
Does SAP have a newer warehouse management module? Why? We aren't even ready moving our customers from WM to eWM!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And you can ignore them for a while. You just need the balls to do it.
I guess this depends who you're ignoring. If like me the people on Teams are either internal or contractors we pay, they're probably easier to ignore than if I was a contractor ignoring a paying customer.
I need to know why I’m writing an alarm clock in my service to send a message to your service to make a rest call to my service! Why are you ignoring me!
I have unsettled issues.
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Look! There are some companies out in the wilderness outcompeting and me regarding oldest stuff:
My SQL Server is 2008. Not sure if with or without R2...
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I should be allowed to shoot people who talk about the spirit of the law.
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@DogsB What do you have against spirit, legal or otherwise?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB What do you have against spirit, legal or otherwise?
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High taxes for feeding a growing bureaucracy are bad. News from an ancient era.
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Your files are right where you left them.
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This is a few days old, but I haven't seen it reported here, yet.
TL;DR: Adobe pushes consumers to their subscription model. () However, they make it difficult for consumers to find a couple of important facts about the subscription program. The minimum subscription term is one year. There is a substantial termination fee, 50% of the remaining payments. While these may be legal, hiding them from customers isn't.
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No.
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@DogsB There's also the minor detail that the employees haven't been paid for 6 months.
: Unpaid game dev. I have experience with that. Naked female coworkers? How soon can I start?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB There's also the minor detail that the employees haven't been paid for 6 months.
: Unpaid game dev. I have experience with that. Naked female coworkers? How soon can I start?
Something something a post in the garage funny thread something...
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This has to be an ai fever dream.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKGpWc7tSZI&t=625s
The weebs are going to save us?
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Dynamic eclectricity prices are great!
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Apparently, they were planning a mass execution of local politicians to set off a second viking age.,
I mean, Europe could do with some viking to clear out all the bullshit, but I doubt murdering a few nobodies would set off a cascade effect in the nordics to bring the old ways back.
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@Carnage Reading TFA, I see these were criminal charges against members of the sect rather than viking battle charges. Disappointing.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
set off a second viking age
Oh really? Have you seen the people on Viking Cruises? What would you expect from them? Hitting people with their walking sticks, and filling their walkers with loot?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
set off a second viking age
Oh really? Have you seen the people on Viking Cruises? What would you expect from them? Hitting people with their walking sticks, and filling their walkers with loot?
You should try the special event cruises. Like the metal ones, or the biker ones.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Reading TFA, I see these were criminal charges against members of the sect rather than viking battle charges. Disappointing.
Yeah, holmgång would be the true way to deal with it.
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: We have consulted our lawyers and we're going to sue the alphabet.
: surely you mean Youtube?
: No. The alphabet.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
: We have consulted our lawyers and we're going to sue the alphabet.
: surely you mean Youtube?
: No. The alphabet.Are they using Azbuka and Katakana too?
Anyway, I think they will stop by Kanji, that could get really expensive.
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This is actually a problem with current employees too. At a couple jobs I worked it wasn't uncommon for tech staff to peruse prod data and talk about it in meetings. Never occurred to them that their employer signed contracts that said they wouldn't do that and there are severe legal and financial penalties for their gossip.
There is a blown-up at Twitch with this at the moment where a former employee broke an NDA and revealed something he learned on the job. If he's clever, he has to go into hiding and change his identity. He might be about to have lawyers drop tunsten corgis on him.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This is actually a problem with current employees too. At a couple jobs I worked it wasn't uncommon for tech staff to peruse prod data and talk about it in meetings. Never occurred to them that their employer signed contracts that said they wouldn't do that and there are severe legal and financial penalties for their gossip.
There is a blown-up at Twitch with this at the moment where a former employee broke an NDA and revealed something he learned on the job. If he's clever, he has to go into hiding and change his identity. He might be about to have lawyers drop tunsten corgis on him.
I've been known to tell people that I do not want prod access if it can be avoided in any way. Not only for reasons.
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@Zecc fuck the corgis, bring the meteor!
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@Zecc Shoeldn't that be "as large as a handegg pitch" or something?
Closer than the moon is not particularly close.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Closer than the moon is not particularly close.
It is <3 milli-astronomical units.
Filed under:
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Zecc said in In other news today...:
So I have to go to this fucking meeting on Monday after all. Goddammit.
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Today on "Betteridge's law meets There are
nostupid questions":Yes, put the shit into space. That's going to require less energy. This is so fucking stupid it's hard to comprehend.
The interwebs say that the cosmological constant is the worst prediction in science, being off at a factor of 10^120.
I'm sure if you compare the calculations these people made of how efficient/expensive/etc. this is supposed to be to reality, you'd find it must be a close second.
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@topspin It wouldn't be "cloud computing" anymore, at least
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@topspin Yes, both powering and cooling things in space is very easy and the amount of power not being used on earth will definitely outweigh the amount of waste heat produced sending the things into space </sarcasm>
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@topspin Yes, both powering and cooling things in space is very easy and the amount of power not being used on earth will definitely outweigh the amount of waste heat produced sending the things into space </sarcasm>
At this point, it's so stupid I'm wondering if they actually don't know that cooling in space is, in fact, not that easy.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
they actually don't know
Yes. For any just about anything you might want to put after the word know.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Yes, put the shit into space. That's going to require less energy.
Just a few days after Microsoft ended their
submarineunderwater data centers. Though their reports say that hardware lasted better there, it seems not really profitable.
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@BernieTheBernie sinking shit is still easier than shooting it into space.
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@topspin Oh take care! Depending on gas content, may float!
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See also I, ChatGPT