Sichuan is a country? Oh, no, it's a province. Why aren't you comparing it to Bavaria?
But to answer your question - yes, of course that makes sense due to variations of size, population, and factories per localized area. A corn grower in one part of the country with little people offsets carbon from a smog factory in a different part of the country. Per capita production is the only logical thing that does, when you are comparing countries. Which is what we are doing here.
The EU is not a country by the way. You should get a passport and check it out. You can do that at the post office.
Completely false. I have filed 3 BBB complaints - Direct TV, BofA, and something else I forgot. The companies wanted money which I did not owe them, and hours on the phone resulted in nothing. 2 resulted in corporate calling me, fixing their billing, and issuing an apology. The 3rd one was unproductive as BBB wanted too much unrelated personal info from me to investigate. Opening an FTC case resolved that though, but surprisingly did nothing for the other two.
From my personal experience: you are lying, and you have an agenda you are trying to push here. Now let's watch me get downvoted and shadow banned by the incel mods.
as a 3rd party observer to this little thread you got going, I gotta agree with him. The question posed by the article is why are next-gen telephone services not encrypted. You're willing to look at government provided solutions. On a tech site?
You may not violate commenting guidelines, which are now meaningless because we have insecure mods trying to make themselves feel better. You do say some ridiculously idiotic shit then argue about it.
Your "assertion" is stupid because the government decrypting your messages is 99% of the use case for encryption. You want to consider a solution from them? Are you Chinese or, again, stupid?
This site, in the last couple of years has changed to be run by old mods from /r/incels. Basic comments like "you don't want google to read your email, don't use their email" will are informative, wanted, and upvoted. People who know nothing about a subject or have never worked with a product responding with authoritative advice, being condescending to experts in the field, get upvoted. Pointing out things like this, or replying with disagreement to a mod gets your comments shadow deleted, and your account shadow banned, so the mod can feel power - power he lacks in his social and professional life.
If you care about what these idiot mods say and karma, have multiple accounts and upvote yourself with a script. Or do what I do - have a whole slew of accounts all pre-logged in to multiple browsers, and say what any normal person would say, then just have a script recreate them every 6 months.
and the idiots who keep posting guidelines, like the one who just replied to you? there's nothing you can do. your life is punishment enough. go cry in alone bed before it collapses from your weight.
The big tobacco companies sell plenty of vaping products. Vaping is something lots of kids will start - kids who would never start actual smoking. Why would they want vaping to be outlawed when they're making money from it?
You are approaching this from the wrong viewpoint. There are two customers for vape. You and me, who vape instead of smoking. There are also people who vape but would not instead smoke. That second one is a huge market.
I also see nothing requiring regulation or sin taxes for vaping. This is just plain wrong, and idiots started vape paranoia, flat lies in TV commercials, and misinformation campaigns. Yes, being addicted to anything is bad. Nicotine is not nearly bad enough - a burger is worse, alcohol is worse, living in a high-traffic area is worse.
People have no problem stuffing their face with ribs and cake. What we need is to take away rights from the government to forcefully be your nanny. On a side-note - it's complete BS that I can't vape mild ginseng flavor at my desk, but the Indian guy next to me can fill the whole freaking room with curry goat smell for hours after eating lunch at his desk, and the fat white guy can fill the room with the smell of shit an hour after eating a greasy burrito. I mean - really? Ginseng extract and glycerine are outlawed indoors, but tiny molecules of someone's shit are fine?
Significant digits is a calculation shortcut introduced to people freshman year in highschool. It's shorthand for error rate. 2.1374cm +-1cm is a completely different error range than "2." In fact, guess what - real equipment error rates are not integers like 1cm - it's something like "+-.96cm" . Your way literally takes results and makes them less accurate. Why in the world would they do that?
yes idiot. I have worked for several vendors and sold this stuff. I have also been on the customer side buying this stuff. You're paying 250k for an empty 42U that you call "box" - you literally are lying.
there are, literally, zero enterprises off-shoring their hard IO hitting datacenters. In fact, having been in 80 different countries for these enterprises, they usually have many datacenters all over the world.
VSAN is for hyperconverged systems only. racks with a thousand 1u nodes that all have disk, connected to a fat ethernet backplane. Things on a SAN are not hyperconverged - they are on a SAN. VSAN is for tier 2 stuff that goes on hyperconverged - like web servers and DMZ things. The fastest processing is done on solid databases like Oracle or UDB on clusters of large servers, connected to a SAN. VSAN is even positioned by sales for tier 2 from all major vendors.
You literally picked up some technical words you heard around the office, googled a few things, and now consider yourself and expert so you give authoritative opinion on here about things you have never worked with. I bet you are deskside support or a code monkey, and have never architected a solution. When someone gives you a budget of 20mil and says you can average 1min of application unavailability per year or it impacts billions in company's bottom line and your whole team gets fired, do let me know. I'm sure your suggestion would be to cluster together a bunch of old dell laptops over wifi.
yeah, I know what VSAN is. It's you who does not if you think you run VSAN on top of a SAN-connected cluster. Yes, the disk is internal to the array. A server can see a hundred arrays on the same HBAs. It doesn't care what array the storage comes from. I am positive at this point you know nothing about what a SAN is.
What "box" - the 42U Rack? I don't think so. The rack is always free. You then have DAs connected to the disk, and FAs connected to the SAN, which are on a pair of directors. You literally cannot get those w/o disk.
You don't know what a SAN is, you've never seen an itemized quote for an array. Thanks for your link. It's like sending a hooked on phonics link to an English professor. Cute. Keep it cute! People like you are the reason people like me get paid a lot.
plenty of talent, and for stability and performance all that talent spends millions of dollars on top of the line proven solutions. Applications rely on live migrations for load balancing a farm, and it happens automatically in the background around the clock to rebalance farms. Hardware maintenance is another use case. So is a bucket of water. So is change control - I want to load new HBA firmware? I'll evacuate the ESX to somewhere else first.
no one contemplates blockchain, but for someone CIO level, gartner quadrants present a quick high-level summary of where the industry is going. and $100mil+ for hardware is completely normal to run things that process billions of dollars. The US treasury department is a great example. Mastercard is another.
again, cute. $250K. very cute. Try $5mil for a box, at least, after a 50% vendor discount. VSAN has nothing to do with SAN, and no one on a SAN uses VSAN. You are again showing your lack of enterprise experience, yet you are strongly trashing what you don't understand. A server sees many arrays, over a SAN. That is called horizontal scaling. You can't do that with internal disk.
they don't build it this way because cloud is cheap and slow. I have a UCS farm with 2000VMs, connected to 3PB of usable all-flash across 2 arrays, replicated active/active to another array, second-hopped to cloud. That's one site. About 100k users across 2 domains - 1k? I said enterprise. A SAN is not scalable but internal disk is? You need to look up what a SAN is.
The reason there is a standing joke with your coworkers is because you don't work on important things that run the world. When 1 minute of downtime costs you over $1mil, your "ripped off" Oracle costs, your SAN costs, etc, are lost in the rounding errors. I can have a SAN have hundreds of arrays, across multiple datacenters, and dynamically grow and shrink my storage needs. It is the definition of scalable. I can have one VM farm vmotion to another VM farm 30 miles away transparently, which will sit on a different array attached to the SAN. What happens when the storage needs of your server outgrow the drives you can shove in there? There are servers and databases a petabyte in size, pushing a million IOPS. They're in charge of money. If there is corruption on the SAN, well it infrequently happens, just like with servers and memory. Twice in my vast experience. You can roll back all writes on the replication software, and usually keep an undo journal a few days long, and something like hourly snapshots. This also protects against cryptoviruses and other types of corruption.
This is why people like you work at small companies, fiddling with your cute little projects, while the world moves forward with you on the sidelines. I've been doing this for 20+ years, and have been at most fortune100 companies, in 80 countries. But yeah, your opinion, while being dismissive, is cute.
The CIO is the guy in charge of getting this stuff at enterprises. It's clear you don't understand the impact of design. I am guessing you are not at an architect level. There's a reason for that, and a reason other people - the ones you put down in your post, are making the big decisions. People like you would cost the company millions of dollars in loss per year.
Not a chance buddy. I've been here for a while, and this place has become reddit, with mods from /r/incels. I have two accounts. When I see someone with zero knowledge of subject matter, like OP, authoritatively and dismissively spew complete bs, I reply like I do.
People with a clear agenda spewing fake crap gets upvoted here now. Disagree with a mod - your comments are shadow removed, and possibly your account is shadow banned, with no warning, so the insecure mod can feel better.
I give actual valuable information from 20 years of experience at almost all the fortune100 firms. Snarkness? Yes. Much better and funnier than the guy I replied to.
I know you disagree. That's specifically why I include sentences like the last - to draw attention to the issue. comment karma has become useless here. Stuff is greyed out, stuff is shadow deleted - good things, filtered by idiots. I don't want my content filtered by insecure idiots.
Don't know where you are getting this from, but it's literally not how every enterprise-level company runs.
You have something like and EMC Symmetrix all flash full of optane or nvme flash drives - hundreds of them. your data is striped across all of them. they're connected to something like a cisco mds. usually you have 4 paths to each LUN, and they're usually 32Gb FC. you can certainly have as many paths as you want if you need more bandwidth. The array also has 10-20TB of cache to front-end the flash. your response time is about 100-200 microseconds.
I don't know how much ram or disk you're going to shove into your server, but good luck running a bunch of half-petabyte databases in it, and expanding it for growth.
this is literally how 90% the world runs. your little theories are cute though.
It is absolutely relevant, it is your point that is not. Random drug dealers are not the Germans, and there is no war. They arrest shady people using tor all the time, and if tor is compromised, they can use parallel construction to hide their use of tor.
I'm a little different, but same result. I buy the best thing out at the time, then use it till it dies. It's because it's a tool, and these modern tools take a while to set up, and that's a task. Had a nexus 6, rooted, custom rom with unneeded crap disabled. It died last year when I finally broke the screen. It was running fine, and the battery got me through the day w/o a top-off.
I picked the max config pixel2xl for over thousand bucks, put a custom rom on it w/o google crap, and that's going to last me till it physically dies.
My boss on the other hand, gets both the pixel and the iphone refresh every year, and fiddles with each for an hour each day for weeks. Screw that. End result though - both you and me aren't as good a customer as companies want - they want my boss.
To address your point, which I cannot relate to. If money is the limiting factor and you still think the new stuff is cool - why not just buy a $200 phone every 3 years? the top of the line stuff is overpriced, but the margins are close to zero on everything else, and specs and features, at least for android, are pretty much the same.
good thing I wasn're replying to taubility.
CoolGuySteve on the other hand was talking about why, claiming the wrong "why" is illegal for apple to guess. This is consistent with CoolGuySteve's other replies in this thread.
But to answer your question - yes, of course that makes sense due to variations of size, population, and factories per localized area. A corn grower in one part of the country with little people offsets carbon from a smog factory in a different part of the country. Per capita production is the only logical thing that does, when you are comparing countries. Which is what we are doing here.
The EU is not a country by the way. You should get a passport and check it out. You can do that at the post office.