Good news since the performance of it in a VM was so-so before. Kinda surprised they are charging for it. I don't see a EULA or anything for it is the Pricing per install or just a one time fee to download then you can use as much as you want?

@nadnerB said:

Plus, there's no need for long term support as 99% of users stop using it as soon as something new comes along 😉

Cloud@Cost..

.NET is great as a platform and C# is great as a language. F# is really sweet too. Microsoft has great language tools, in general. Since MS started off pretty much as a language company before anything else this is a bit of their wheelhouse.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 has an idea there Scott...

For now you could have paid the fine, and then sought out your own non compliant insurance for probably less, unless there was a state law preventing even that option.

Scotts "fine" would be much more.

$695 for each adult and $347.50 for each child, but no more than $2,085 per family
Or 2.5% of your family yearly taxable income (which ever is more is what they use)

Well the 2.5% for Scott for sure then!

@IRJ said:

The Sony Hack was good in general for IT awareness in most industries. Sure, you could say everyone should have already known, but we know non - IT never fully understand the risks. Seeing an attack like this is a good way for them to realize SOME of the risks.

Sadly it wasn't close enough to home to effect change around me.

@dafyre said:

I will have to concede that point to you, because as you said, it is working for Microsoft... Guess they are adhering to the if it ain't broke don't break it policy

FTFY.

Playing with licensing could mean going out of business almost overnight. That's very dangerous stuff to try to tweak. A major change means major risk. And honestly, after decades of messing with it and thinking about it, their model is actually really clean, simple and mostly obvious for a large software vendor with a large array of interrelated products that are used in nearly every combination possible that isn't open source.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

You aren't allowed to be scheduled at a place of work for less than four hours....

In NY you can, you just have to negotiate it. Both parties have to agree that the compensation is enough to justify the commute. It is designed to protect employers from forcing an employee to quit by making it impossibly expensive to work after they have started working.

Ok, yes, that's true. My retail job can't schedule me normally for less than four hours, but if I ask if I can work for two hours some night, they are allowed to let me.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Amazon for some reason said they were never vulnerable to this attack.

Likely they removed that code as it was unnecessary.

@scottalanmiller said:

So you have to remember that most firms have a big pool of people who leave in less than a year because they figure out that they can't do the role or don't like the company or just don't fit well or whatever - then the people who fit tend to stay a few years at least. That high turnover for people who don't fit make the attrition rate seem alarming more than it really is.

So you're saying the difference is that my friends are mostly good at their jobs and your friends are mostly useless? That makes sense 😉

2010 was the Open Storage talk at the Alamo Drafthouse.

Having the services isn't worth money. They need customers for that to be worth something.

Well yeah, if people leave default creds. Argh.

Everybody gets a work-life balance except for the poor IT guy," said Sergio Galindo, general manager at GFI Software

Yes, but finding someone who can correctly read/write technical Chinese (good to have both simplified and traditional, the latter for those suckers off the mainland 😉 ) and also speak technical English with the same proficiency is not that easy. In fact we used to have a programmer who spoke Cantonese, he grew up in Hong Kong, and yet he was fairly bad at translating our software. Further, keep in mind because of transliteration systems like pinyin, younger people are becoming handicapped to the needlessly complex Chinese writing system (even so-called simplified).

This may be why companies tend not to do Chinese right away, and what ends up happening is a local Chinese company ends up cloning it (Facebook, Google, etc) and so the original which is more popular in the west, ends up losing out. So, we try to put as much as we can in something other than English, Spanish, French, and Japanese, which seem to essentially rule the multilanguage software universe. As in we start with Eastern European languages, because the same thing which happens in China, also happens in places like Russia.

Also internationally you have to price things with the non-western country in mind. For example we may charge $5 per user in the US, but in Turkey we end up charging only about $1.10 per user (if billing address is in Turkey, not just because they use Turkish). Our system of calculation is just based on the differences of income.