Thank you for sharing the detail on this. It's interesting to see how an accountant views this situation.
In my world we have more work than can be completed during the day by our current employees so there is an additional opportunity cost to wasted time. It's a teakettle situation, over the years as work has expanded well beyond capacity and pressure to complete certain tasks in a shorter timeframe has increased, the teakettle boiled over and each time we have been permitted to grow the department a little. I expect the cycle to repeat... I guess it works the same way in many businesses. We realize that "the list" won't ever be completed for many reasons, and that helps keep us at least partially sane.
If you consider an employee making $x output per hour, and compare that to 97% $x because someone wanted to save a few dollars, it doesn't take long before the cost of the laptop is a rounding error.
Take a developer making only $75K per year. Let's say they work 40 hour weeks, 49 weeks per year, that's 1960 work hours at $38.27 per hour ($75000 / 1960).
Say you shave 10 minutes a day by using a Mac. That's.17 hours at $38.27 per hour, or $6.38 per day. Taking that 49 weeks and assuming 5 days per week that's 245 work days... which totals up to $1563 a year saved. That should pretty much pay for the Mac by itself, especially if you consider a 3-5 year replacement cycle ($4689-$7816).
It makes even more sense if your salary is higher. At $100K per year, that is $51.02 per hour and $8.50 per day, or $2083 per year saved by buying the Mac. Over the 3-5 year replacement cycle that's $6248-10413.
Do they? What about those of us who consider "power" orchestrating something that runs on many servers, not just my laptop?
In today's computing environment, most people are shifting heavy loads to VMs run in the rack or in the cloud... they're much more scalable and not limited to a single disk (even if it is an SSD) and a small laptop-grade memory size. My MBP is basically an RDP / TeamViewer / SSH connection to the hive. I use my iPad Pro for infrequent / casual connections, it does RDP well. Sure, Pentaho stretches it a little, but the dev work gets scheduled on that server also... so other than prototyping and development work I don't need a tank at all anymore.
So many fruits and veggies today lack the flavor they had even 10 years ago. They look good but then you bite into the tomato and taste... nothing. A very weak watery flavor. Same with watermelon, oranges, even lettuce. Onions and leeks seem about the same. I blame several things: harvesting before they are ripe then shipping all over the place; less crop rotation and more fertilizers; and the drive to cheaper and cheaper prices.
The best option for me, although inconvenient since I moved, is to find a fruit / vegetable stand and buy from there. You get locally grown stuff, maybe not the variety you want but it tastes like real food.
DOS ain't done until won't run. That was the mindset at Microsoft at the time, and they did every nasty trick imaginable to make others' products break. So really Word won because the competition's software was hindered by Microsoft. That was one of the anti-trust complaints.
Ding ding ding someone gets it. I would be shocked if Google wasn't doing something similar to get updated info. Yes we have all heard of / seen their cars, which provides a starting point, but after that's created, the devices can assimilate new data automatically in an anonymized way. Sort of a hive update concept.
So you would apply the same number of people to cover 1 square mile in New York as 1 square mile of desert in Arizona? That doesn't seem right, yet your formula of
Someone cannot do basic math: square Km to cover / number of people doing it.
would do exactly that.
If you're going to throw stones, try to get your story straight first. Basic logic and all.
We start with better education, so that others not only understand their effect on society but have a conscience and don't try to harm others. Your behavior harms others, not just for the effects you produce, but that some other person may be encouraged by your actions. Surely you want your and your friends' and family's children to live in a better world, right? We have to do what we can to lessen any negative impact, really any steps help, it doesn't have to be dramatic.
If it only affected you, fine. Unfortunately it affects society as a whole. The problem will be solved eventually, but I'm not sure what the cost will be. As they say, some people read warning labels and others are the reasons they exist. If you can't see the bigger picture, please move out of the way so you don't block someone else's view.
We can't even manage to switch to metric here in the US. When I was in elementary school, we were told not to bother with Imperial units as the metric conversion would surely happen soon. Well that didn't work out, we have to fiddle with 2 sets of tools, many times even to work on one assembly since the subcomponents are sourced from differently tooled shops.
Much respect for any large group of people who can accomplish such a huge task!
IBM also sold / sells memory for more than competitors' prices. Lots of companies sell items for more than competitors' prices. Microsoft sells Palladium-gimped PCs relabeled as gaming machines to prevent you from playing those games on a regular PC. Do you also have a problem with them, or are you simply biased against Apple?
Get checked for sleep apnea. That was why I was initially staying up... and drinking more than I should have in an effort to get sleepy enough to go to bed. It's a vicious cycle... Now I'm sleepy earlier and get up easier.
Funny how when Apple fucks up anything, their customers always start pointing fingers at Microsoft.
We examine and compare Apple to the other major consumer OS vendor, yes. How is that inappropriate in any way?
The remainder of your response... lacks thought. It seems you are angry with Apple for some reason and have taken it rather personally.
Don't let hate blind you. Their platform has issues and they make stupid decisions sometimes, but they are ballsy and some of their decisions have changed the entire computing landscape. If you're a linux or UNIX coder, they have a nice OS, and if you want to run Windows on it then it's quite capable to run it in a VM and not notice. Free OS upgrades started with Apple, and their upgrade process even leaves the trash in the can... all passwords and settings are migrated. It's a "wow" event to see that happen. Their hardware -- I'm on a 2013 MBP right now -- lasts and lasts, although you're right that dongles aren't fun. I use 2 adapters at work for my 3rd screen and for networking, and am not thrilled about having to buy more. But guess what? My colleagues using Surfaces have all replaced their machines at least twice since I got mine, and 2 of them three times. Try to RDP onto a server with one of those and the text is oh so tiny that they can't read it without an external monitor. I can't read much of it as the text and icons are too small, and the scaling is not applied evenly. So my use case is different than yours. I used to build machines for a living, and now if mine gets hosed it would be cheaper for everyone to get another off the shelf, then restore from my Time Machine backup. No other vendor has a very capable machine available on the shelf in every one of their stores, that I can go buy right now.
tl;dr: Everyone has use cases for one manufacturer's product or another that can cause them to think one of them more suits their needs. When we compare companies we are trying to show where one does a superior job, that's the most fair way I can think to be. If a post upsets you, take a walk and come back when you're fresh. We need good minds to keep progress going, and the ability to find real comparisons to help discourse and improve things is a valued skill.
Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability.
Wait, what? There are many examples in the software / hardware community of exactly this, why are you complaining about Apple?
Microsoft XBox is an entry-level PC with a Palladium chip. There is no technical reason a PC (with certain minimum specs) couldn't be used instead. But you must buy Microsoft's locked-down PC. You may not use that PC for other tasks or install other software on it. This is an example of artificially created vendor hardware lock-in
Microsoft software in the Enterprise often has interdependencies with other Microsoft software, for instance Sharepoint requires a Microsoft SQL Server backend, there is no option to use another DB, and requires certain versions of Microsoft Office to enable full functionality. This is an example of vendor software lock-in. And because upgrades must occur in parallel, it's a huge cash cow for Microsoft. It's no mistake it's planned that way.
You want to talk about loss of operability? How about all the issues with Microsoft software in the past? Are you new to this? If you need an example, how about the Sharepoint patches that were mingled in with Windows updates -- and then had to be recalled? Not the first time similar QA issues have been seen with Microsoft products. Sometimes a Microsoft patch just makes things worse.
Bottom line, hold all the companies to the same standard. If you want to split hairs, smaller companies may not have the resources to deal with things in the same way, so give them a little more slack. Microsoft's record with patches and interoperability isn't good -- remember the trials? If you really really wish to hate, at least be informed first.
First they broke a lot of extensions including ScrapBook which I've used for a very long time. So I reverted back to 56 which was a pain but doable, hoping there would be some upgrade path. Nope, the new architecture doesn't support a lot of the plugin features and I'm hearing that repeatedly from multiple places. They got rid of the status bar and I'm using an extension so I can read mouseover events easier. Now they're making it difficult to delete individual cookies? WTF, Firefox team. You know, it's been a nice run and all, but I'm spending more time keeping it working the same way than I should be. Enough is enough.
In case it helps, we've found that removing the computer from the domain, performing the Windows updates by setting it to "automatically" (and waiting for them to download & install), and then joining the domain again allows Windows updates to work from that point forward. Of course it's impossible to do en masse, and managing a non-domain computer remotely is ugly. So far this has happened only to Windows servers and some stray employee PCs. Hope this helps, maybe someone can find the real issue.
I suggest finding a theater that teenagers don't visit. In my area there are a bunch of major theaters and 2 smaller non-major-brand theaters; both play movies that have been out awhile. I go for matinees. They're a few dollars cheaper, sure, maybe $6-8, but by far the biggest plus is the lack of crowds.
A recent shock was going for "Victoria and Abdul" (which was pretty good) and finding the theater jam-packed of 60+ year olds.
It's blatantly obvious, but doesn't John Giannandrea have to make this response? His career depends on it. And just like many other self-regulating entities have shown throughout history, he shouldn't be the one in charge of such regulation.
tl;dr: Greedy companies will be greedy, and their representatives, both owners and employees, will take positions which protect their jobs, salaries, and investments.
Carrying a small amount of cash is fine, but large amounts are a needless risk. In the past police have been caught stopping people and seizing cash (or other property) without accusing them of anything; the process made it very difficult and expensive to get the cash back. I read something which indicated any amount under $10K wasn't worth fighting for as it would be eaten by attorney's fees. At one point they were even using mobile card readers to deplete balances from gift cards.
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Thank you for sharing the detail on this. It's interesting to see how an accountant views this situation.
In my world we have more work than can be completed during the day by our current employees so there is an additional opportunity cost to wasted time. It's a teakettle situation, over the years as work has expanded well beyond capacity and pressure to complete certain tasks in a shorter timeframe has increased, the teakettle boiled over and each time we have been permitted to grow the department a little. I expect the cycle to repeat... I guess it works the same way in many businesses. We realize that "the list" won't ever be completed for many reasons, and that helps keep us at least partially sane.
If you consider an employee making $x output per hour, and compare that to 97% $x because someone wanted to save a few dollars, it doesn't take long before the cost of the laptop is a rounding error.
.17 hours at $38.27 per hour, or $6.38 per day. Taking that 49 weeks and assuming 5 days per week that's 245 work days... which totals up to $1563 a year saved. That should pretty much pay for the Mac by itself, especially if you consider a 3-5 year replacement cycle ($4689-$7816).
Take a developer making only $75K per year. Let's say they work 40 hour weeks, 49 weeks per year, that's 1960 work hours at $38.27 per hour ($75000 / 1960).
Say you shave 10 minutes a day by using a Mac. That's
It makes even more sense if your salary is higher. At $100K per year, that is $51.02 per hour and $8.50 per day, or $2083 per year saved by buying the Mac. Over the 3-5 year replacement cycle that's $6248-10413.
Do they? What about those of us who consider "power" orchestrating something that runs on many servers, not just my laptop?
In today's computing environment, most people are shifting heavy loads to VMs run in the rack or in the cloud... they're much more scalable and not limited to a single disk (even if it is an SSD) and a small laptop-grade memory size. My MBP is basically an RDP / TeamViewer / SSH connection to the hive. I use my iPad Pro for infrequent / casual connections, it does RDP well. Sure, Pentaho stretches it a little, but the dev work gets scheduled on that server also... so other than prototyping and development work I don't need a tank at all anymore.
Local scheduled rsync of important folders may do what you need
So many fruits and veggies today lack the flavor they had even 10 years ago. They look good but then you bite into the tomato and taste... nothing. A very weak watery flavor. Same with watermelon, oranges, even lettuce. Onions and leeks seem about the same. I blame several things: harvesting before they are ripe then shipping all over the place; less crop rotation and more fertilizers; and the drive to cheaper and cheaper prices.
The best option for me, although inconvenient since I moved, is to find a fruit / vegetable stand and buy from there. You get locally grown stuff, maybe not the variety you want but it tastes like real food.
DOS ain't done until won't run. That was the mindset at Microsoft at the time, and they did every nasty trick imaginable to make others' products break. So really Word won because the competition's software was hindered by Microsoft. That was one of the anti-trust complaints.
Ding ding ding someone gets it. I would be shocked if Google wasn't doing something similar to get updated info. Yes we have all heard of / seen their cars, which provides a starting point, but after that's created, the devices can assimilate new data automatically in an anonymized way. Sort of a hive update concept.
Someone cannot do basic math: square Km to cover / number of people doing it.
would do exactly that.
If you're going to throw stones, try to get your story straight first. Basic logic and all.
Do you mean 2GB? https://support.apple.com/kb/S...
How about bundling one punch with a second free punch
Doesn't everyone hate Comcast? For new customers it's only a matter of time before they join the mob...
What you gonna do about it?
We start with better education, so that others not only understand their effect on society but have a conscience and don't try to harm others. Your behavior harms others, not just for the effects you produce, but that some other person may be encouraged by your actions. Surely you want your and your friends' and family's children to live in a better world, right? We have to do what we can to lessen any negative impact, really any steps help, it doesn't have to be dramatic.
If it only affected you, fine. Unfortunately it affects society as a whole. The problem will be solved eventually, but I'm not sure what the cost will be. As they say, some people read warning labels and others are the reasons they exist. If you can't see the bigger picture, please move out of the way so you don't block someone else's view.
We can't even manage to switch to metric here in the US. When I was in elementary school, we were told not to bother with Imperial units as the metric conversion would surely happen soon. Well that didn't work out, we have to fiddle with 2 sets of tools, many times even to work on one assembly since the subcomponents are sourced from differently tooled shops.
Much respect for any large group of people who can accomplish such a huge task!
IBM also sold / sells memory for more than competitors' prices. Lots of companies sell items for more than competitors' prices. Microsoft sells Palladium-gimped PCs relabeled as gaming machines to prevent you from playing those games on a regular PC. Do you also have a problem with them, or are you simply biased against Apple?
Get checked for sleep apnea. That was why I was initially staying up... and drinking more than I should have in an effort to get sleepy enough to go to bed. It's a vicious cycle... Now I'm sleepy earlier and get up easier.
Funny how when Apple fucks up anything, their customers always start pointing fingers at Microsoft.
We examine and compare Apple to the other major consumer OS vendor, yes. How is that inappropriate in any way?
The remainder of your response... lacks thought. It seems you are angry with Apple for some reason and have taken it rather personally.
Don't let hate blind you. Their platform has issues and they make stupid decisions sometimes, but they are ballsy and some of their decisions have changed the entire computing landscape. If you're a linux or UNIX coder, they have a nice OS, and if you want to run Windows on it then it's quite capable to run it in a VM and not notice. Free OS upgrades started with Apple, and their upgrade process even leaves the trash in the can... all passwords and settings are migrated. It's a "wow" event to see that happen. Their hardware -- I'm on a 2013 MBP right now -- lasts and lasts, although you're right that dongles aren't fun. I use 2 adapters at work for my 3rd screen and for networking, and am not thrilled about having to buy more. But guess what? My colleagues using Surfaces have all replaced their machines at least twice since I got mine, and 2 of them three times. Try to RDP onto a server with one of those and the text is oh so tiny that they can't read it without an external monitor. I can't read much of it as the text and icons are too small, and the scaling is not applied evenly. So my use case is different than yours. I used to build machines for a living, and now if mine gets hosed it would be cheaper for everyone to get another off the shelf, then restore from my Time Machine backup. No other vendor has a very capable machine available on the shelf in every one of their stores, that I can go buy right now.
tl;dr: Everyone has use cases for one manufacturer's product or another that can cause them to think one of them more suits their needs. When we compare companies we are trying to show where one does a superior job, that's the most fair way I can think to be. If a post upsets you, take a walk and come back when you're fresh. We need good minds to keep progress going, and the ability to find real comparisons to help discourse and improve things is a valued skill.
Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability.
Wait, what? There are many examples in the software / hardware community of exactly this, why are you complaining about Apple?
Bottom line, hold all the companies to the same standard. If you want to split hairs, smaller companies may not have the resources to deal with things in the same way, so give them a little more slack. Microsoft's record with patches and interoperability isn't good -- remember the trials? If you really really wish to hate, at least be informed first.
First they broke a lot of extensions including ScrapBook which I've used for a very long time. So I reverted back to 56 which was a pain but doable, hoping there would be some upgrade path. Nope, the new architecture doesn't support a lot of the plugin features and I'm hearing that repeatedly from multiple places. They got rid of the status bar and I'm using an extension so I can read mouseover events easier. Now they're making it difficult to delete individual cookies? WTF, Firefox team. You know, it's been a nice run and all, but I'm spending more time keeping it working the same way than I should be. Enough is enough.
AR headsets for each person would work though
Thank you for taking the time and effort to explain this.
In case it helps, we've found that removing the computer from the domain, performing the Windows updates by setting it to "automatically" (and waiting for them to download & install), and then joining the domain again allows Windows updates to work from that point forward. Of course it's impossible to do en masse, and managing a non-domain computer remotely is ugly. So far this has happened only to Windows servers and some stray employee PCs. Hope this helps, maybe someone can find the real issue.
I suggest finding a theater that teenagers don't visit. In my area there are a bunch of major theaters and 2 smaller non-major-brand theaters; both play movies that have been out awhile. I go for matinees. They're a few dollars cheaper, sure, maybe $6-8, but by far the biggest plus is the lack of crowds.
A recent shock was going for "Victoria and Abdul" (which was pretty good) and finding the theater jam-packed of 60+ year olds.
It's blatantly obvious, but doesn't John Giannandrea have to make this response? His career depends on it. And just like many other self-regulating entities have shown throughout history, he shouldn't be the one in charge of such regulation.
tl;dr: Greedy companies will be greedy, and their representatives, both owners and employees, will take positions which protect their jobs, salaries, and investments.
Carrying a small amount of cash is fine, but large amounts are a needless risk. In the past police have been caught stopping people and seizing cash (or other property) without accusing them of anything; the process made it very difficult and expensive to get the cash back. I read something which indicated any amount under $10K wasn't worth fighting for as it would be eaten by attorney's fees. At one point they were even using mobile card readers to deplete balances from gift cards.
This was such a problem in Florida that there was a law enacted last year which dealt with the issue. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States