Thomas Edison once said, 'The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.'

As a software developer, I have a similar view of hardware. Its chief function is...

Lous Davidson wrote:

I've encountered DBAs who seemed ill equipped to administer a home grocery list and checkbook.

What surprises me is the number of DBAs these days who have very slender...

djackson wrote:

... if there are 10 vulnerabilities that the vendor has, and I have 15, then the total number is not 10!

Of course! But what happens if your shop...

djackson wrote:

... with uptime [compounding] means we have less uptime. Why? Because any vulnerability we have is still present - PLUS every vulnerability the vendor has.

I would argue the...

Ed Pollack wrote:

... if your product has an uptime requirement of 99.95, then Azure is immediately out-of-the-question as it promises only 99.9%.

The difference in uptime, over the course of a...

Peter E. Kierstead wrote:

Subtle push? More like an overt attempt to sell an ostensibly benefit for even more access and control over private data by not-always-visible entities ...

MySQL, PostgreSQL and...

Alex Gay wrote:

There is no way that we in the NHS could use cloud computing in general, or Azure in particular, especially for databases that contain patient data. The risks...

Too often, 'getting the job done' is management code for 'we couldn't plan our way out of a paper bag'.

Yes, emergencies can and do happen, and yes, that's when it's...

Tom, you and skeleton567 seem to take a certain degree of pleasure in abusing other people by way of name-calling and ad hominem attacks.

I'm done with you both.

Goofy, please understand that the concept of socioeconomic status has been around for decades and is a legitimate sociological term.

I think you've confused my words on that topic with those...

TomThomson wrote:

None of the X in T groups is attempting to encourage people to enter tech professions on the basis of race or gender. That would be utterly stupid....

skeleton567 wrote:

Interesting sidelight here. I'm retired and on my own time. Whose time have the rest of you been on today while getting into this discussion? Unless you are on...

skeleton567 (3/31/2014)

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"The real divide in this nation, I feel, is income disparity; poverty isn't choosy about who it afflicts."

This whole new argument based on income disparity is mind-boggling to any...

I think where we part company is instead that I believe we owe all people equal OPPORTUNITY, but not equal RESULTS.

No, not true. I agree with you on...

You see, I never had the luxury of ANY formal IT education either until AFTER I had achieved my first programming position. but my successful 42-year career, including 11 years...