You make images of your standard deployment. You use volume licensing. If a machine dies, if you need a new machine, you roll out a standard image.
Upgrading the software involves reworking the entire chain from deployment to training to policies to customer facing applications. All of that takes time, and costs money.
Theres also a neat trick called "if you have 10000 workstations, you probably have standard images and standard hardware and volume licensing and none of this is an issue".
Downgrading to the old system they had before they upgraded!
Oh ok, Im glad you cleared that up. Say, can you write a proposal for how this will save oodles of money upgrading IE8 on 10000 machines to IE10, even tho it will brake the internal apps of about 15 different departments? Maybe you can also write 15 separate proposals for them to renew their contracts with the people who originally wrote the apps, and proposals for the cases where the original dev is long gone and we'll need to do a full replacement.
THeres a limit to what it can do. Thats like saying "if my RAID6 array fails when 3 drives go down, then its not providing redundancy". Sure it is, you just exceeded its capacity to do so.
er, youre saying that the iPad mini is $398 with the keyboard. WHY am i not comparing it to a $380 laptop again?
If I have to stick in the $200 range, Im gonna get a chromebook, which has about the same functionality as an iPad, and a lot more oomph. Its also cheaper, has a bigger screen, and a far superior keyboard.
iPads have their place, but dont try to claim that theyre faster / cheaper than a laptop.
Swype on Android is already faster than typing for most people, with 20-40wpm common,
"Most people" who do data processing for a living are going to comfortably sit at 60-90wpm. My right hand doesnt even have good form on a keyboard and i hit 70-80.
seriously, its your own damn fault. If you're too lazy to use over 50 different flavours of BSD or Linux
How stupid of me for wanting to use software rather than spending hours trying to get it to work on Linux, and having to repeat the process when some update breaks all the work I did.
Like, oh I dont know, an Exchange mail client, Ventrilo, any of the most popular games (except WoW which has had stellar support), my G15 keyboard, my blackberry...
I managed to get basically all of that working (except a decent Exchange client) in Ubuntu 8.04. Then some updates happened, and WoW, G15, and Ventrilo all broke. Several hours later theyre all working, except Ventrilo.
I must be crazy stupid for getting pissed off and moving back to my free student copy of Win7, but for whatever reason my frustration level dropped significantly. Of course its back up with Win8, but at least I only have ONE wonky window manager to deal with rather than the FotM WMs that are floating around the Linux desktop world.
Do that, and what you have are two cheap laptops that are slow
I really dont think you want to stack an iPad's specs up against a $400 laptop. Maybe you do, but it wont be pretty. Just so you know, $400 is "core i3" range, which will slaughter just about any ARM proc on the market.
don't work right
I suppose that heavily depends on what you're doing to the laptop or iPad. The laptop is going to have a far far easier time hooking up to printers, email systems, and various peripherals than the iPad is, though, and its a LOT easier to get remote support on.
size
If youre trying to type, generally you dont want some uber small device, unless you really like hand cramps and impaired productivity.
and the place is littered with iPads and other tablets. How odd it is that, whatever your advice might be, businesses are buying tablets and they are being seen out in the field.
Now try to come up with a business justification for it.
Theyre littered all over because businesses tend to throw a bone to their employees, and because iPads are hip enough that everyone wants one. Youre going to have a really hard time convincing me that a laptop wouldnt have been superior in every concievable metric, though, from manageability to compatibility to productivity to price.
Are you seriously implying that touchscreen is the new, better method of input?
What exactly do you do on a computer? Im gonna guess its not
Writing proposals
Writing code
Doing financial work
Doing systems administration
Or anything, really, that involves rapidly moving data from your brain onto a computer. Or does the new Lightning connector have that capability built into it?
Because newer tech is usually built on tighter tolerances, which means less reliable? Much like the whole AK47 vs M16 debate, you can have reliability, or tighter tolerances, but not both.
Until condensation kicks in, sure. You know, that stuff that builds up all over your windshield when your windows are fogging up? Now imagine that inside your hard drive. Good for it, Im sure.
Monosaccharides and disaccharides are called simple carbohydrates. They are also sugars -- they all taste sweet. They all digest quickly and enter the bloodstream quickly.
Sucrose is broken up by sucrase and then enters the bloodstream. I wasnt able to find a "rate", but generally the "rate" is "fast"-- think about how quickly you get a sugar rush from HFCS vs sucrose; Im unaware of a difference, and the "rush" is once it has hit your bloodstream.
Im not aware of any studies except for one highly-debated one (harvard I think-- and it had a lot of issues with unequal tests and poor controls) that have shown ANY difference between the two in terms of diet; and none that I am aware of have shown any mechanism whereby it might make a difference.
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You make images of your standard deployment. You use volume licensing. If a machine dies, if you need a new machine, you roll out a standard image.
Upgrading the software involves reworking the entire chain from deployment to training to policies to customer facing applications. All of that takes time, and costs money.
Theres also a neat trick called "if you have 10000 workstations, you probably have standard images and standard hardware and volume licensing and none of this is an issue".
Downgrading to the old system they had before they upgraded!
Oh ok, Im glad you cleared that up. Say, can you write a proposal for how this will save oodles of money upgrading IE8 on 10000 machines to IE10, even tho it will brake the internal apps of about 15 different departments? Maybe you can also write 15 separate proposals for them to renew their contracts with the people who originally wrote the apps, and proposals for the cases where the original dev is long gone and we'll need to do a full replacement.
Boy, Im glad you cleared all that up.
THeres a limit to what it can do. Thats like saying "if my RAID6 array fails when 3 drives go down, then its not providing redundancy". Sure it is, you just exceeded its capacity to do so.
Judging by the app store theyre not getting 30% of much of anything.
More competition from the Linux world, along with the influx of users demanding polish, would be a wonderful thing.
And lets be clear, Linux / its ecosystem need a good deal of work.
I dont think ANY OS maker provides an option to directly upgrade from $currentversion - 2 to $currentversion. You want them to span 3 versions?
I will note that the iPad's keyboard also lacks springiness and tactile feedback.
er, youre saying that the iPad mini is $398 with the keyboard. WHY am i not comparing it to a $380 laptop again?
If I have to stick in the $200 range, Im gonna get a chromebook, which has about the same functionality as an iPad, and a lot more oomph. Its also cheaper, has a bigger screen, and a far superior keyboard.
iPads have their place, but dont try to claim that theyre faster / cheaper than a laptop.
Swype on Android is already faster than typing for most people, with 20-40wpm common,
"Most people" who do data processing for a living are going to comfortably sit at 60-90wpm. My right hand doesnt even have good form on a keyboard and i hit 70-80.
Windows 8 actually has that. Click the eyeball button.
Internet refers to internetworking. If it connects to a collection of networks, its internet.
Add extra bits to the reserved fields, and have routers interpret them as tacked onto the first octet. Want to reach a new IP? Upgrade ur crap.
diamonds is not a product,
Refined diamonds, the things that people sell, are a product.
seriously, its your own damn fault. If you're too lazy to use over 50 different flavours of BSD or Linux
How stupid of me for wanting to use software rather than spending hours trying to get it to work on Linux, and having to repeat the process when some update breaks all the work I did.
Like, oh I dont know, an Exchange mail client, Ventrilo, any of the most popular games (except WoW which has had stellar support), my G15 keyboard, my blackberry...
I managed to get basically all of that working (except a decent Exchange client) in Ubuntu 8.04. Then some updates happened, and WoW, G15, and Ventrilo all broke. Several hours later theyre all working, except Ventrilo.
I must be crazy stupid for getting pissed off and moving back to my free student copy of Win7, but for whatever reason my frustration level dropped significantly. Of course its back up with Win8, but at least I only have ONE wonky window manager to deal with rather than the FotM WMs that are floating around the Linux desktop world.
Even with W
Chrome OS is the name of the OS, and its a lot less confusing when people dont call it just "chrome".
Prostitution is legal in Amsterdam. Guess where the human trafficking capital of the world is?
Unfortunately, the world is rarely as simple as "legalize this, and the problem disappears".
Do that, and what you have are two cheap laptops that are slow
I really dont think you want to stack an iPad's specs up against a $400 laptop. Maybe you do, but it wont be pretty. Just so you know, $400 is "core i3" range, which will slaughter just about any ARM proc on the market.
don't work right
I suppose that heavily depends on what you're doing to the laptop or iPad. The laptop is going to have a far far easier time hooking up to printers, email systems, and various peripherals than the iPad is, though, and its a LOT easier to get remote support on.
size
If youre trying to type, generally you dont want some uber small device, unless you really like hand cramps and impaired productivity.
and the place is littered with iPads and other tablets. How odd it is that, whatever your advice might be, businesses are buying tablets and they are being seen out in the field.
Now try to come up with a business justification for it.
Theyre littered all over because businesses tend to throw a bone to their employees, and because iPads are hip enough that everyone wants one. Youre going to have a really hard time convincing me that a laptop wouldnt have been superior in every concievable metric, though, from manageability to compatibility to productivity to price.
Because a tablet is freakishly expensive to just be used for things that a laptop already does?
Are you seriously implying that touchscreen is the new, better method of input?
What exactly do you do on a computer? Im gonna guess its not
Or anything, really, that involves rapidly moving data from your brain onto a computer. Or does the new Lightning connector have that capability built into it?
Only if A) the node responds, B) reports its hostname, C) decrements the TTL, and D) isnt using a mirror port, sure.
Of course if you WERE setting up a national spy-net, none of those would be safe assumptions.
Because newer tech is usually built on tighter tolerances, which means less reliable? Much like the whole AK47 vs M16 debate, you can have reliability, or tighter tolerances, but not both.
Until condensation kicks in, sure. You know, that stuff that builds up all over your windshield when your windows are fogging up? Now imagine that inside your hard drive. Good for it, Im sure.
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/food2.htm
Monosaccharides and disaccharides are called simple carbohydrates. They are also sugars -- they all taste sweet. They all digest quickly and enter the bloodstream quickly.
Sucrose is broken up by sucrase and then enters the bloodstream. I wasnt able to find a "rate", but generally the "rate" is "fast"-- think about how quickly you get a sugar rush from HFCS vs sucrose; Im unaware of a difference, and the "rush" is once it has hit your bloodstream.
Im not aware of any studies except for one highly-debated one (harvard I think-- and it had a lot of issues with unequal tests and poor controls) that have shown ANY difference between the two in terms of diet; and none that I am aware of have shown any mechanism whereby it might make a difference.