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According to the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, which obtained a draft of the EU's plans, the EU's executive arm – the European Commission – is drafting a proposal to force vendors to do this. Followed shortly by complaints that the phones are getting bigger and heavier
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The EU's regulators should be forced to make their own brains easily replaceable, because Drosophila brains could be a marked improvement.
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Greg Utas wrote: The EU's regulators should be forced to make their own brains easily replaceable
Alternatively, they should stay exactly as they are, if they're smart enough to force makers of smartphones, tablets, and wireless earphones to install easily replaceable batteries.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There are a lot of decompilers available in the .NET ecosystem and this has always been the case. Because Microsoft is all about openness and sharing
Sometimes I just have to give myself a case of the giggles
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Because Satan hates high-level languages.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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This document provides a peek into the work we have planned for Visual Studio through June 2020. "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque"
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while(true) cout << "This issue has been triaged.";
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What idiot stuck a pin in the destination balloon?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A recent report found that complexity of internal environments is one of the most significant obstacles for organizational IT security. So, let's not bother
Everything will sort itself out, right?
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• Maintaining strict firewall policies will reduce risk by 1%.
• Running anti-virus/anti-malware software on all machines will reduce risk by 1%.
• Ensuring that databases are secure will reduce risk by 3%.
• Making people follow ridiculously simple, easily understood rules on e-mail usage will reduce risk by 95%.
Too complex, my @rse!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Making people follow ridiculously simple, easily understood rules on e-mail usage will reduce risk by 95%.
...which will be immediately negated by putting all their files on the cloud.
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And let's not forget that allowing windows update to run will increase risk by 89-121%.
... Especially on Linux machines.
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I'm still pi55ed I didn't nuke lose10 from the laptop the day I got it. Attempt an update with bugger-all batteries when unplugged? You elephanting sunshines.
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I think ms has been contracted by the CIA to find as many ways as possible to turn computers into bricks.
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A new report by Capita shows that UK businesses are growing disillusioned by their move to the cloud. It might be because they are focusing too much on the wrong goals. "Born on a different cloud from the ones that have burst round town "
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More costly, ... than expected
Ha ha ha!!! That's a good one! If you didn't see that coming, I've got some really good investments for you!
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What would worry me is if it's more costly than I'd expect. I'd go in expecting to be expensive, so "more than expected" would be nasty-nasty.
TTFN - Kent
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The number one rule of sales?: There is no cost a salesman wouldn't like to increase for their customers. (I am getting jaded.)
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David O'Neil wrote: If you didn't see that coming, I've got some really good investments for you!
It's way cheaper and easier for us. We have everything on the cloud. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The article clearly and repeatedly states that the problems are all due to customers, and it's on the Internet, so it must be true.
Obviously, the customers who have suffered problems should have hired Capita to take care of their migration and implementation processes.
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Well, what did they expect in terms of cost? Thery didn't want to pay for the cost of maintaining hardware and people to maintain it, but they're willing to pay someone else to do it - who, in turn, has to pay for those things. On top of that, the company they pay for that then have to make a profit. BAM! Higher costs.
The DoD is moving to the cloud right now, and preparation has been a big time suck. They pulled people off other (more important) projects who have no business doing this crap, and stuff doesn't get done. We have THREE PEOPLE for our already short-handed group dedicated to moving to the cloud. Even worse, we have to do dev work ON THE CLOUD. This requires us to VPN into a jump box, RDP from the jump box into an intermediate box, and THEN RDP from the intermediate box into our dev environment.
There is NO BENEFIT for us to move to the cloud, in terms of infrastuicture, cost, or process. It's all bullshit.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: It's all bullshit.
For you guys. For us, the cloud is great and saves us a ton.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Size matters.
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I wonder who makes these estimations and decisions.
Probably managers who just heard a buzzword, name a price that's high enough to be believable, but low enough to fit in the budget and then management tells some IT people to "move to the cloud".
For example, moving workstations to the cloud is a bad idea.
A powerful enough cloud VM costs a couple of $100's a month.
A equally powerful laptop costs a couple of $1000's once.
The laptop is cheaper after about a year or two, but it'll probably last about five years.
Bad case for the cloud.
On the other hand, I have a small customer with no IT whatsoever.
They literally did everything on paper and then had a computer for some Excel stuff.
I made them a small web application, hosted it in Azure, with an Azure SQL database, Azure AD integration and a Key Vault for security.
Costs them about €50 a month.
Perhaps buying a server and hosting it there would've been cheaper in the long run for the hardware alone, but that's excluding initial setup, licences, updates and maintenance.
Good case for the cloud.
Things are different when you already have software and hardware.
Not everything is "cloud ready" and just replacing a server with a VM is expensive.
Re-architecting software is time consuming and expensive.
All in all, you know it's going to be expensive in a lot of cases.
Now multiply that by three because we're really bad at estimating and you'll have an indication of the actual costs.
I don't think that will ever outweigh the benefits.
Perhaps when you're thinking of a complete or partial rewrite because you have to anyway (for example, to decouple a part of an application as (micro)service), cloud makes a lot more sense.
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Cloud works great for us. We have nearly everything on the cloud. I'm not saying it will work in all instances but in many cases it is much better.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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