I can see using an old Mac to put Linux on, just to give the old system some life again. But a new system? You are really burning money. Macs never had too many options so you will get a computer with hardware that you will not use or isn’t supported by Linux (or Windows) But you can get many decent pc equivalent for less, not because of the myth that macs are over priced, but because you can choose a system with the stuff you care about and not the stuff you don’t.
Technically yes. However 8 bits in a byte has become standard in nearly all teaching of technology. This was the Wild West In terms of computing the fact they worked was more important then coming up with good terminology for it.
In most modern countries even climate denier countries like the US. They actually have technology that cleans up much of the air quality issues with pollution. Those smoke stacks over industrial cities, are venting mostly steam, and Carbon Dioxide, and sometime chemicals that have been deemed rightly or wrongly harmless to life, or at such a low level that it isn't a big issue. Personal Air Filters doesn't seem like a good product, because there is actually more affordable ways to clean up the air quality, it just some effort.
Now all that said. Getting Leadership anywhere in the world, is a hard find. As today's media heavy environment means the people who are most qualified to make such a decision are so far back in the hierarchy, because their specialty in such fields makes their communication to the general public sound elitists. If you are specialist in an area then you should be allowed to be elitist in that area. Facts are not a democracy nor do they always fit into public opinion, but really should be listened to and taken seriously.
The problem with these streaming services is that they all have their own content that in terms of entertainment, if you want to watch all that you want to watch, then you need to buy them all. Granted I am talking in terms of entertainment, we should have self control to determine if it worth a monthly fee for only for entertainment. However, with the death of the Video Rentals, we need to find the streaming service to find the movie or shows that we cannot get on cable, being that Cable TV has degraded so much, you cannot even find what you want to watch on that.
That is why I wouldn't get CBS All access to watch Start Trek Discovery, even before it proved that it sucked, I couldn't justify paying for an other streaming service for one show that I would at best have a moderate interest in watching.
Now competition should mean that these places are competing for more content, however, it seems they all seem to focus on having specialized content, that the others don't have. So they are not competing against each other, but just trying to pick up the specialist field.
Computer Science is an Area of Discipline that was an offshoot of Mathematics. So Computer Science was made as a discipline, which is lighter on Mathematics, then a full Math Major, however more focus on Computational and algorithm design. A Computer Science is a Math Light Degree, but it isn't a light degree, just different topics. So Data Science, is an off shoot of computer science, as it allows more for data analysis and less on algorithms. So me as a Computer Scientist, I do a lot of data analysis, but it is a learned form experience skill more them a taught skill. Just as the generation before me, who had Math Degrees, became Computer Scientists not because it was taught in school at such degree, but because of work experience got them good at such job.
Then who is the true Innovators who really invented something? We keep on saying that we are not innovating, and that companies have lost their way. But technology has been progressing, we have been getting new things. They are not normally WOW THIS WILL Change my life. But more well this is slightly more convent, and this continues gradually. 20 years ago we had internet video, but it was normally in a 320x200 size, that if buffered would take 5 minutes to download, before it started. If you happened to happen to have such video on a CD you might be able to play it in 640x480 full screen, but it would be very choppy. Watching Ripped TV Shows on PC was poor quality.
Apple is good at taking a technology and making it for the consumer, they do not invent the technology but they implement it in a way that can be useful. Because of Apple I now have a Phone that has a resolution matching if not exceeding modern laptops, Geek Bench scores matching mid/upper tear laptops. video camera(s), GPS, Multi-touch display, counts its steps, knows its location and position..... 20 years ago this was unheard of, the thickness of such phone is thinner then some of the plastic cases.
Oracle bought Sun Micro-systems. They own the IP and probably don't care to put resources into it.
At the time when Sun was still themselves, the biggest problem was Sun was leaving the workstation market, and focusing mostly on servers, this means people were not going to pay a lot of money for a 3d card for a Sun Workstation, while 3d Gaming cards for PC's which were nearly as good if not better were much cheaper.
Then we had the rise of Apple OS X during this time frame, which caused the market to rethink UIs and focus more on a much more simpler UI without as much eye candy and more on having a point for each element on the screen. The 3D window display doesn't offer much of a real advantage.
I think the biggest issue is most Linux Apps are GTK based, while KDE is QT based.
So the GTK apps all look a bit off when you use KDE. So in order to get most of your Linux Apps to work you would need to install 90% of Gnome anyways. While they are a lot less popular KDE apps. Which is kinda sad konqueror was really the IE Killer browser, as it was one of the first WebKit browsers, that Safari and Chrome uses.
I think the next issue is KDE seemed for most of its history to Copy the Windows UI in style, While Gnome more or less made their own UI better suited for Linux. Much like how OS X is its own UI.
For a _small class size_ real time learning is actually very effective where the students and professors interact with each other.where students can give feed back if a particular idea they are not getting or not, and the professor can explain things differently vs the same same way over again.
However for many learning centers, class sizes are too large for that level of interaction, and there are too many students who really don't care enough about that particular topic to give feed back either way. Unless it is going to be on the test.
My thoughts as well. The novelty effect will only last a short time. And it isn't like he can see and interact with the students like they are there too. Most colleges have smart boards and projectors. What can you do with all this to enhance learning, that you couldn't do over skype onto a projection in front of the class?
We seem fixated on the idea that everything new must be bad for us. So we have studies after studies showing that Cell phones usage isn't directly affecting our health. So they turned the study up to 11 to an unrealistic version of cell phone usage, and they see a slight change. Then we can all go yelling CELL PHONES ARE BAD FOR YOU! While you get more harmful affects from daily lives. Sunlight bad for you, lack of Sunlight bad for you. It almost seems like we as Animals have been surviving for billions of years and the ones who had traits that prevented the elements from killing them, survived.
But that is the point. If your old device isn't getting security updates, your really should upgrade to a device that will get them.
But I also think security threw obsolescent is in play as well. You are not going to try to make attacks that will hit VMS Vaxes, Solaris systems, or the odd Commodore 64 with a Wi-Fi plugin.
Can they be hacked? Yes, but they are no longer a target.
What is old is new again. You can get all black metal. You can be early 2000's with a fancy window You can be late 1990's with white You can be early 1990's with beige.
I think the black case with wood highlight gives it modern classy look to it. Something missing in desktops for a long time.
Well these are Linux based machines, not Windows based machines. I am not threading hairs. The hardware is chosen for performance and Linux compatibility, with firmware and setting to make them very Linux friendly. Installing windows on these sometimes takes some extra effort, because some of the devices are too new for the current version of windows to auto-detect so you need to hunt for drivers to get it to work.
Now most parts are Windows Compatible, less so are Linux compatible. If you are going to build a Linux system, there is extra Research on what will work. Because you may not always be able to slap in a $20.00 card and have it work.
If you overload a desktop with the high end stuff then you are going to pay more for a laptop. The Low End desktop is beefier then the higher specs for the laptop.
Did you compare their prices with similarly specked pre-builts systems? If you get the parts yourself you will probably be cheaper. But if you want someone to build it for you have a warentee and support, then you will pay more for it.
The size of the Galaxy is so big, that all action is relatively slow, in terms of observable differences. Our lifespan we only get to observe the earth rotate around the sun about a hundred times.
Still on that horse. Are you also annoyed that systems no longer have floppy disks drives? Perhaps the parallel port, I personally kinda missed that one. Granted I don't have any devices that need it, but it was nice.
There was a massive quality increase in batteries about 10 years ago. You are probably still spending less to have a certified vendor replace your battery over the lifetime of your device then having user replaceable of the old types.
"Made in the USA" especially if this stands for higher quality, and for business reasons on wanting to have control of the product compared trying to do everything on the cheap. Isn't a bad thing.
Trumpism is normally a Gut Response to a complex problem with a stupidly simplistic answer, without much long term planning behind it, and not comprehending long term consequences.
System76 is buying parts from China and other parts of the world, and it is still part of a global supply chain. However the design, and assembly is now down in the US. Compared to the Dell and other systems where it is made in an other country then shipped over here. Now some of the assembly such as case work can be done at System76. They are not setup to be a chip fab though.
It is a PC Setup, so you can install Windows. However being a Linux based system, finding windows drivers sometimes requires some extra hunting. Or you can have a Wine or virtual system setup.
My laptop is an an Oryx Pro and I like it... However your argument of matching systems isn't really a good one. There are so many other factors that you need to account for that affect the price, some features you strongly care about others that you really don't.
For me I was concerned about the following (in this order): 1. Updated CPU 2. 32 gigs of Ram 3. Good Video Card 4. NVMe Storage 5. Strong Linux Compatibility 6. 15" or larger display 7. Modern Looking and relatively thin.
I in essence wanted a mobile workstation. (Heck I would had been happy if I could find a monitor, keyboard, trackback) with a wire that can hook up to a desktop.
You may want a smaller lighter laptop, you may need better battery life, a better keyboard, OLED display.... These things would take the Orix Pro out of the comparison and perhaps the XenBook Pro, or a Dell. For cheaper.
My Wife doesn't like my Oryx Pro (Too big, too loud, especially when I give it a workout), but she loves her Lenovo Yoga. Which costs over thousand dollars less. but is small, light, and does what she wants to do.
System 76 Makes a good competitive product. But it may not be for everyone
Outsourcing to a single sign in has some good sets of advantages. 1. Your company isn't holding onto login names and passwords. If you have a security breach, the total damage done is much less. If the SS vendor gets hacked then they take all the brunt of the responsibility. 2. Users Password management sucks. You can talk about good password policy until you are blue in the face, but chances are you will not get anywhere, just because proper password management isn't natural to humans. So having one site handle them makes it easier and if they change their password, they won't go back trying to figure out what they did a year ago if they don't use your site every day. 3. More robust authentication. You forgot your password, you can get a text, an email a phone call.... Some of this requires more expensive infrastructure that you really cannot scale to afford. 4. Focus on your site, not your logins. Why have a team of developers constantly just working on your login page making sure it is secure and up to date, when they could be working on the features you are trying to sell. 5. Automate registration information. One click and you can register a bunch of stuff, vs having it type it in over and over again.
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I can see using an old Mac to put Linux on, just to give the old system some life again. But a new system? You are really burning money. Macs never had too many options so you will get a computer with hardware that you will not use or isn’t supported by Linux (or Windows)
But you can get many decent pc equivalent for less, not because of the myth that macs are over priced, but because you can choose a system with the stuff you care about and not the stuff you don’t.
Technically yes. However 8 bits in a byte has become standard in nearly all teaching of technology.
This was the Wild West In terms of computing the fact they worked was more important then coming up with good terminology for it.
In most modern countries even climate denier countries like the US. They actually have technology that cleans up much of the air quality issues with pollution. Those smoke stacks over industrial cities, are venting mostly steam, and Carbon Dioxide, and sometime chemicals that have been deemed rightly or wrongly harmless to life, or at such a low level that it isn't a big issue. Personal Air Filters doesn't seem like a good product, because there is actually more affordable ways to clean up the air quality, it just some effort.
Now all that said. Getting Leadership anywhere in the world, is a hard find. As today's media heavy environment means the people who are most qualified to make such a decision are so far back in the hierarchy, because their specialty in such fields makes their communication to the general public sound elitists.
If you are specialist in an area then you should be allowed to be elitist in that area. Facts are not a democracy nor do they always fit into public opinion, but really should be listened to and taken seriously.
The problem with these streaming services is that they all have their own content that in terms of entertainment, if you want to watch all that you want to watch, then you need to buy them all. Granted I am talking in terms of entertainment, we should have self control to determine if it worth a monthly fee for only for entertainment. However, with the death of the Video Rentals, we need to find the streaming service to find the movie or shows that we cannot get on cable, being that Cable TV has degraded so much, you cannot even find what you want to watch on that.
That is why I wouldn't get CBS All access to watch Start Trek Discovery, even before it proved that it sucked, I couldn't justify paying for an other streaming service for one show that I would at best have a moderate interest in watching.
Now competition should mean that these places are competing for more content, however, it seems they all seem to focus on having specialized content, that the others don't have. So they are not competing against each other, but just trying to pick up the specialist field.
Exactly this isn’t a law, it is just a trend that lasted far longer the. Most people expected.
Computer Science is an Area of Discipline that was an offshoot of Mathematics. So Computer Science was made as a discipline, which is lighter on Mathematics, then a full Math Major, however more focus on Computational and algorithm design. A Computer Science is a Math Light Degree, but it isn't a light degree, just different topics. So Data Science, is an off shoot of computer science, as it allows more for data analysis and less on algorithms.
So me as a Computer Scientist, I do a lot of data analysis, but it is a learned form experience skill more them a taught skill. Just as the generation before me, who had Math Degrees, became Computer Scientists not because it was taught in school at such degree, but because of work experience got them good at such job.
Then who is the true Innovators who really invented something?
We keep on saying that we are not innovating, and that companies have lost their way.
But technology has been progressing, we have been getting new things. They are not normally WOW THIS WILL Change my life. But more well this is slightly more convent, and this continues gradually. 20 years ago we had internet video, but it was normally in a 320x200 size, that if buffered would take 5 minutes to download, before it started. If you happened to happen to have such video on a CD you might be able to play it in 640x480 full screen, but it would be very choppy. Watching Ripped TV Shows on PC was poor quality.
Apple is good at taking a technology and making it for the consumer, they do not invent the technology but they implement it in a way that can be useful. Because of Apple I now have a Phone that has a resolution matching if not exceeding modern laptops, Geek Bench scores matching mid/upper tear laptops. video camera(s), GPS, Multi-touch display, counts its steps, knows its location and position..... 20 years ago this was unheard of, the thickness of such phone is thinner then some of the plastic cases.
Oracle bought Sun Micro-systems.
They own the IP and probably don't care to put resources into it.
At the time when Sun was still themselves, the biggest problem was Sun was leaving the workstation market, and focusing mostly on servers, this means people were not going to pay a lot of money for a 3d card for a Sun Workstation, while 3d Gaming cards for PC's which were nearly as good if not better were much cheaper.
Then we had the rise of Apple OS X during this time frame, which caused the market to rethink UIs and focus more on a much more simpler UI without as much eye candy and more on having a point for each element on the screen. The 3D window display doesn't offer much of a real advantage.
I think the biggest issue is most Linux Apps are GTK based, while KDE is QT based.
So the GTK apps all look a bit off when you use KDE. So in order to get most of your Linux Apps to work you would need to install 90% of Gnome anyways. While they are a lot less popular KDE apps. Which is kinda sad konqueror was really the IE Killer browser, as it was one of the first WebKit browsers, that Safari and Chrome uses.
I think the next issue is KDE seemed for most of its history to Copy the Windows UI in style, While Gnome more or less made their own UI better suited for Linux. Much like how OS X is its own UI.
True,
However MythBusters normally will bust a myth, or call it plausible under extreme conditions.
For a _small class size_ real time learning is actually very effective where the students and professors interact with each other.where students can give feed back if a particular idea they are not getting or not, and the professor can explain things differently vs the same same way over again.
However for many learning centers, class sizes are too large for that level of interaction, and there are too many students who really don't care enough about that particular topic to give feed back either way. Unless it is going to be on the test.
My thoughts as well. The novelty effect will only last a short time. And it isn't like he can see and interact with the students like they are there too.
Most colleges have smart boards and projectors. What can you do with all this to enhance learning, that you couldn't do over skype onto a projection in front of the class?
We seem fixated on the idea that everything new must be bad for us.
So we have studies after studies showing that Cell phones usage isn't directly affecting our health. So they turned the study up to 11 to an unrealistic version of cell phone usage, and they see a slight change. Then we can all go yelling CELL PHONES ARE BAD FOR YOU!
While you get more harmful affects from daily lives. Sunlight bad for you, lack of Sunlight bad for you. It almost seems like we as Animals have been surviving for billions of years and the ones who had traits that prevented the elements from killing them, survived.
But that is the point. If your old device isn't getting security updates, your really should upgrade to a device that will get them.
But I also think security threw obsolescent is in play as well. You are not going to try to make attacks that will hit VMS Vaxes, Solaris systems, or the odd Commodore 64 with a Wi-Fi plugin.
Can they be hacked? Yes, but they are no longer a target.
What is old is new again.
You can get all black metal.
You can be early 2000's with a fancy window
You can be late 1990's with white
You can be early 1990's with beige.
I think the black case with wood highlight gives it modern classy look to it. Something missing in desktops for a long time.
Well these are Linux based machines, not Windows based machines. I am not threading hairs. The hardware is chosen for performance and Linux compatibility, with firmware and setting to make them very Linux friendly. Installing windows on these sometimes takes some extra effort, because some of the devices are too new for the current version of windows to auto-detect so you need to hunt for drivers to get it to work.
Now most parts are Windows Compatible, less so are Linux compatible. If you are going to build a Linux system, there is extra Research on what will work. Because you may not always be able to slap in a $20.00 card and have it work.
If you overload a desktop with the high end stuff then you are going to pay more for a laptop. The Low End desktop is beefier then the higher specs for the laptop.
Did you compare their prices with similarly specked pre-builts systems?
If you get the parts yourself you will probably be cheaper. But if you want someone to build it for you have a warentee and support, then you will pay more for it.
The size of the Galaxy is so big, that all action is relatively slow, in terms of observable differences.
Our lifespan we only get to observe the earth rotate around the sun about a hundred times.
Still on that horse.
Are you also annoyed that systems no longer have floppy disks drives?
Perhaps the parallel port, I personally kinda missed that one. Granted I don't have any devices that need it, but it was nice.
There was a massive quality increase in batteries about 10 years ago. You are probably still spending less to have a certified vendor replace your battery over the lifetime of your device then having user replaceable of the old types.
When companies say "best practices" I hear "This is how we did it, we don't want you to argue with us."
"Made in the USA" especially if this stands for higher quality, and for business reasons on wanting to have control of the product compared trying to do everything on the cheap. Isn't a bad thing.
Trumpism is normally a Gut Response to a complex problem with a stupidly simplistic answer, without much long term planning behind it, and not comprehending long term consequences.
System76 is buying parts from China and other parts of the world, and it is still part of a global supply chain. However the design, and assembly is now down in the US. Compared to the Dell and other systems where it is made in an other country then shipped over here. Now some of the assembly such as case work can be done at System76. They are not setup to be a chip fab though.
It is a PC Setup, so you can install Windows. However being a Linux based system, finding windows drivers sometimes requires some extra hunting.
Or you can have a Wine or virtual system setup.
This has plenty of power for gaming.
My laptop is an an Oryx Pro and I like it...
However your argument of matching systems isn't really a good one.
There are so many other factors that you need to account for that affect the price, some features you strongly care about others that you really don't.
For me I was concerned about the following (in this order):
1. Updated CPU
2. 32 gigs of Ram
3. Good Video Card
4. NVMe Storage
5. Strong Linux Compatibility
6. 15" or larger display
7. Modern Looking and relatively thin.
I in essence wanted a mobile workstation. (Heck I would had been happy if I could find a monitor, keyboard, trackback) with a wire that can hook up to a desktop.
You may want a smaller lighter laptop, you may need better battery life, a better keyboard, OLED display.... These things would take the Orix Pro out of the comparison and perhaps the XenBook Pro, or a Dell. For cheaper.
My Wife doesn't like my Oryx Pro (Too big, too loud, especially when I give it a workout), but she loves her Lenovo Yoga. Which costs over thousand dollars less. but is small, light, and does what she wants to do.
System 76 Makes a good competitive product. But it may not be for everyone
Outsourcing to a single sign in has some good sets of advantages.
1. Your company isn't holding onto login names and passwords. If you have a security breach, the total damage done is much less. If the SS vendor gets hacked then they take all the brunt of the responsibility.
2. Users Password management sucks. You can talk about good password policy until you are blue in the face, but chances are you will not get anywhere, just because proper password management isn't natural to humans. So having one site handle them makes it easier and if they change their password, they won't go back trying to figure out what they did a year ago if they don't use your site every day.
3. More robust authentication. You forgot your password, you can get a text, an email a phone call.... Some of this requires more expensive infrastructure that you really cannot scale to afford.
4. Focus on your site, not your logins. Why have a team of developers constantly just working on your login page making sure it is secure and up to date, when they could be working on the features you are trying to sell.
5. Automate registration information. One click and you can register a bunch of stuff, vs having it type it in over and over again.