Hillsboro, Oregon? Chandler, Arizona? Folsom and Santa Clara, California? Those are the "Major" locations listed by Intel. Yeah, Intel doesn't list any overseas locations, so I'm just going to guess that the argument they outsource everything and have major global headquarters elsewhere and we need to be afraid we are losing our mojo is just a bunch of b.s.
Worse yet for the made-up-stats guy above is that the three companies you just mentioned are not only mostly within the US, they are mostly entirely within three US States (California, Oregon and Washington). Throw some Austin, TX companies in there and this conversation just gets easier.
Care to cite some specifics? Most of those companies have most of their employees in the United States, and most of those employees are US citizens. My citation is that I work for one of them and have worked for two others. Apple, and Microsoft (two I haven't worked for, but have lived in the same town as their HQs) have more employees in their corporate HQ than the rest of their worldwide sites...combined.
I listed Intel. Most of their employees are on the west coast of the US...Bay area and Portland, OR come to mind.
Apple is 95% in the Bay Area and Austin TX, with some folks in Ireland. Microsoft is almost entirely in the Seattle area.
Google is predominantly in the Bay Area. IBM is mostly everywhere, but even then, mostly within the US.
This is such a tired and stupid argument. Even if the "tech" people aren't in the US (even though they are), what good is tech without good business and management? Why do all you techie code monkeys need managers? Exactly.
Get our tech mojo back? Errmm, what? Last I checked, tech giants like Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Google, and Facebook --to name a few-- are all American companies staffed mostly with American citizens.
I don't have administrative experience in a corporate environment, but as a user confronted with frequent outages and lost data, I can recognize that Windows Server is not stable. It may be robust (as a user I don't really care, I just want it to work), but I'm willing to bet the millions of paid certified system admins has more to do with Windows Server prevalence than any technical merit.
I used to work for one of the suppliers (the one most "at fault" according to the article, with the shitty code and shitty UI we provided).
Here are some things to consider:
The company's business model was to procure IDIQ contracts...they succeeded for several years by purposefully providing broken bits and pieces, in order to assure that more fixes would be purchased later. It finally caught up to them because you can only pile so much crap on existing crap before the whole thing breaks.
Palantir is great software, but people in the Army don't like it. They think it's pretty with no functionality. They are wrong. It's awesome. There are two problems with Palantir, in that you have to store your data on THEIR servers, and the owner of the company is not a US Citizen. They have some inroads, like the links suggest, but they'll never be able to get the most sensitive contracts because of the US Persons requirement.
DCGS-A sucks because it is closed-source garbage that runs only on Microsoft components, and relies heavily on SQL-server. Plus all the people I used to work with are overpaid self-taught jackasses who got the job because they could code in visual basic and they had a clearance.
In all, I'm glad to see the Army and military in general understand and accept that they are suckers and slaves to politicians and "the free market" mentality of PACs and lobbyists. Too bad this garbage (and even bigger garbage FCS/BCTM that finally got axed last month) wasted so much money in the meantime.
Screw the free market. Time to put all this money into government R&D and churn out some decent software for the investment. The NSA alone has enough talented programmers to make this happen.
Well $29 for what I consider to be one of the best versions of OS X yet (and I've only had the dev previews) is a good deal. And I've never spent a dime on XP (other than the cost of the computer it came on).
And yes, I'll keep "handing money" over to Apple as long as they keep making the quality products they do.
Yeah, because $29 is so much money...especially for something that I actually want. I've had an Apple ID from day one, and as far as I can tell, I've never had my info sold to spammers/junk mailers, and I've never been contacted/pestered by Apple for anything relating to my Apple ID. And last I checked, while all the other major companies are being hacked and our privacy is being abused, I don't think it has happened to Apple.
So good luck with the tinfoil. May it spare many a brain cell for you in the future.
Uh...doesn't there need to be a Mac OS X installation somewhere if you want to install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion?
Have you ever booted a blank Mac hard drive from a CD (mid 90s), SCSI target disk mode (mid 90s), DVD (late 90s), thumb drive (late 90s), firewire traget disk mode (late 90s)? I have. Do any of these methods no longer work? It seems Apple figured out how to do system installs the not-microsoft-way 20 years ago.
I think your reinstall path would be boot from the 10.6 disk, update to 10.6.6 (to get the Mac app store), then reinstall Lion (you'll be able to redownload Lion as many times as you like).
I keep hearing this complaint, but given most of us have spent several Saturdays a year for 15 years now futzing with Windows installs, this most likely one time nuisance is nothing, relatively.
I agree it's a bit silly, but if it keeps me from having to tell my grandmother over the phone to "double click on the hard drive icon...
You're right, it's very silly indeed when all you have to do is simply put shortcut links to her apps on her desktop.
Um, that's kind of what Launchpad is, except for that whole annoying help your granny create aliases to her desktop because, a) she doesn't know what an alias is, b) she doesn't know what a desktop is, c) she doesn't know where the original apps are to make alias from, d) she doesn't know how to right click and pick "create alias" and instead deletes/duplicates/drops the alias in another directory without paying attention...
Even worse, Granny calls you up because you are the Mac guy in the family, to come over and setup her shiny iMac. Within a day she has lost (delted/moved) all the nice aliases you set up for her, to include the persistent icons in the dock and you are back over at granny's house, smelling like cat pee, no time.
It's 3.7GB. Sucks not to have at least DSL in the second decade of the 21st century I guess. Even then, I'm pretty sure the majority of western civilization is within driving distance of public wi-fi.
So not true. I lived in Germany and England, and there are very clear demarcated geek/non-geek lines. Europe, in general, is just less anti-intellectual than us in America. You still have geeks, they just aren't as noticeable to non-geeks as they are to US non-geeks.
The real problem with the Windows key is it doesn't make it easy to figure out the keystrokes, because if you press it without pressing another key, it opens the stupid start menu. This causes new users to think that's the only thing that key is used for.
And there's nothing in the file menus to tell you the win + key shortcuts.
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Apple's cloud product isn't even out yet, so good luck with your predictions.
No, Dell did it too.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-963901.html
Ok, I found the overseas section. Still, Hillsboro Oregon is their largest site.
Hillsboro, Oregon? Chandler, Arizona? Folsom and Santa Clara, California? Those are the "Major" locations listed by Intel. Yeah, Intel doesn't list any overseas locations, so I'm just going to guess that the argument they outsource everything and have major global headquarters elsewhere and we need to be afraid we are losing our mojo is just a bunch of b.s.
Worse yet for the made-up-stats guy above is that the three companies you just mentioned are not only mostly within the US, they are mostly entirely within three US States (California, Oregon and Washington). Throw some Austin, TX companies in there and this conversation just gets easier.
Care to cite some specifics? Most of those companies have most of their employees in the United States, and most of those employees are US citizens. My citation is that I work for one of them and have worked for two others. Apple, and Microsoft (two I haven't worked for, but have lived in the same town as their HQs) have more employees in their corporate HQ than the rest of their worldwide sites...combined.
I listed Intel. Most of their employees are on the west coast of the US...Bay area and Portland, OR come to mind.
Apple is 95% in the Bay Area and Austin TX, with some folks in Ireland. Microsoft is almost entirely in the Seattle area.
Google is predominantly in the Bay Area. IBM is mostly everywhere, but even then, mostly within the US.
This is such a tired and stupid argument. Even if the "tech" people aren't in the US (even though they are), what good is tech without good business and management? Why do all you techie code monkeys need managers? Exactly.
Riiiiight. If anything, with the dumbing down of Server, the Pro line will be dead before the consumer lines.
Get our tech mojo back? Errmm, what? Last I checked, tech giants like Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Google, and Facebook --to name a few-- are all American companies staffed mostly with American citizens.
I don't have administrative experience in a corporate environment, but as a user confronted with frequent outages and lost data, I can recognize that Windows Server is not stable. It may be robust (as a user I don't really care, I just want it to work), but I'm willing to bet the millions of paid certified system admins has more to do with Windows Server prevalence than any technical merit.
I don't know what "pablum" means, but I think you just owned that guy.
I used to work for one of the suppliers (the one most "at fault" according to the article, with the shitty code and shitty UI we provided).
Here are some things to consider:
The company's business model was to procure IDIQ contracts...they succeeded for several years by purposefully providing broken bits and pieces, in order to assure that more fixes would be purchased later. It finally caught up to them because you can only pile so much crap on existing crap before the whole thing breaks.
Palantir is great software, but people in the Army don't like it. They think it's pretty with no functionality. They are wrong. It's awesome. There are two problems with Palantir, in that you have to store your data on THEIR servers, and the owner of the company is not a US Citizen. They have some inroads, like the links suggest, but they'll never be able to get the most sensitive contracts because of the US Persons requirement.
DCGS-A sucks because it is closed-source garbage that runs only on Microsoft components, and relies heavily on SQL-server. Plus all the people I used to work with are overpaid self-taught jackasses who got the job because they could code in visual basic and they had a clearance.
In all, I'm glad to see the Army and military in general understand and accept that they are suckers and slaves to politicians and "the free market" mentality of PACs and lobbyists. Too bad this garbage (and even bigger garbage FCS/BCTM that finally got axed last month) wasted so much money in the meantime.
Screw the free market. Time to put all this money into government R&D and churn out some decent software for the investment. The NSA alone has enough talented programmers to make this happen.
Well $29 for what I consider to be one of the best versions of OS X yet (and I've only had the dev previews) is a good deal. And I've never spent a dime on XP (other than the cost of the computer it came on).
And yes, I'll keep "handing money" over to Apple as long as they keep making the quality products they do.
No Macs ship with a USB stick other than the Macbook Airs. And new Macs that ship with Lion probably? won't ship with DVDs either.
At 4G they should have it on bit torrent!
Or a giant cloud computing facility in North Caronlina...oh wait...
Yeah, because $29 is so much money...especially for something that I actually want. I've had an Apple ID from day one, and as far as I can tell, I've never had my info sold to spammers/junk mailers, and I've never been contacted/pestered by Apple for anything relating to my Apple ID. And last I checked, while all the other major companies are being hacked and our privacy is being abused, I don't think it has happened to Apple.
So good luck with the tinfoil. May it spare many a brain cell for you in the future.
Have they "denied", or have they not affirmed. Those are two different things entirely.
Uh...doesn't there need to be a Mac OS X installation somewhere if you want to install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion?
Have you ever booted a blank Mac hard drive from a CD (mid 90s), SCSI target disk mode (mid 90s), DVD (late 90s), thumb drive (late 90s), firewire traget disk mode (late 90s)? I have. Do any of these methods no longer work? It seems Apple figured out how to do system installs the not-microsoft-way 20 years ago.
I think your reinstall path would be boot from the 10.6 disk, update to 10.6.6 (to get the Mac app store), then reinstall Lion (you'll be able to redownload Lion as many times as you like).
I keep hearing this complaint, but given most of us have spent several Saturdays a year for 15 years now futzing with Windows installs, this most likely one time nuisance is nothing, relatively.
That would be nice, but it's not true (you are thinking of the Macbook Air, I presume).
I agree it's a bit silly, but if it keeps me from having to tell my grandmother over the phone to "double click on the hard drive icon...
You're right, it's very silly indeed when all you have to do is simply put shortcut links to her apps on her desktop.
Um, that's kind of what Launchpad is, except for that whole annoying help your granny create aliases to her desktop because, a) she doesn't know what an alias is, b) she doesn't know what a desktop is, c) she doesn't know where the original apps are to make alias from, d) she doesn't know how to right click and pick "create alias" and instead deletes/duplicates/drops the alias in another directory without paying attention...
Even worse, Granny calls you up because you are the Mac guy in the family, to come over and setup her shiny iMac. Within a day she has lost (delted/moved) all the nice aliases you set up for her, to include the persistent icons in the dock and you are back over at granny's house, smelling like cat pee, no time.
Yeah, I hear Apple is working on an Alice Springs store to help you out.
It's 3.7GB. Sucks not to have at least DSL in the second decade of the 21st century I guess. Even then, I'm pretty sure the majority of western civilization is within driving distance of public wi-fi.
So not true. I lived in Germany and England, and there are very clear demarcated geek/non-geek lines. Europe, in general, is just less anti-intellectual than us in America. You still have geeks, they just aren't as noticeable to non-geeks as they are to US non-geeks.
The real problem with the Windows key is it doesn't make it easy to figure out the keystrokes, because if you press it without pressing another key, it opens the stupid start menu. This causes new users to think that's the only thing that key is used for.
And there's nothing in the file menus to tell you the win + key shortcuts.