full Apple or corporate will not take a look at them.
iPhones are more manageable and more secure than Android phones (people who manage these devices at scale will tell you that). Also iOS has better support for Exchange / O365 than Android and longer support for updates, which means you can draw out the replacement-cycle or at least re-issue the phones to "lower-tier" employees.
So, it's simple as that: get used to the unroot-able phone. If that is what draws you to Android because you can "fix stuff that Google doesn't fix" or for whatever reason then start complaining to Google that they fix stuff instead of launching yet another messenger or pissing away money on moonshot-projects that go nowhere.
The only ARM-class CPU that might actually outperform a halfway decent Intel CPU is Apple A11 - and they ain't licensing (well, or nobody has offered enough money).
I'm one of those guys who wants to keep a phone for a very long time - simply because they are so expensive - though I guess if you only kept it for a year and sold it to fund the new one, you'd not make such a big loss.
Also, those $250 phones aren't from Apple.
AFAIK, Samsungs high-end phone-sales bombed last quarter. Few people want to own their flagship phones for the price they ask - because if you spend so much money, you can just buy an iPhone.
Keeping a phone for a long time is also more friendly to the environment than buying a new one every other year.
I have no problem that Google is tracking all this stuff. Apple is, too. What Apple does not do is take all the data and make it available so ads can be better targeted at me.
Google has no "I don't want you to resell my data" subscription - if it had, it would probably be very expensive and open up the public's eyes on just how much money they make of the average consumer.
Apple has its hardware. That hardware has a price. I pay it, and I'm done. If Google ever has a model similar to that, I can compare the prices.
Or is it just a question of how large your account is?
We're just a mid-sized MSP, but there's always a way to get someone on the phone, 24x7. The on-call number customers call is the security-service that does our physical security, they forward the call to the on-call engineer (after the customer is verified using a "password"). The intermediate step is to ensure people don't call the on-call engineer for sysadmin-tasks that could be done during business hours.
Every customer can get the on-call number, provided they cough-up the money. For most, it's not worth it because servers are quite stable these days.
The problem is of course that Google is so big and has so many customers that it's not possible to "know" every single customer anymore.
Performance-gains were modest in the last couple of years. Only very recently has Intel been offering substantial performance-gains (via core-count increase) from one generation to the next.
I think that only with the current top-of-the-line i7 non-Pro iMac has the Geekbench-score basically doubled to what I have on my 2012 i7 Mini.
It remains to be seen how Apple is going to push forward, though. Intels roadmap goes up to 28 cores for their desktop-chips, AMD has a 32-core ThreadRipper2.
The 18-core iMacPro will actually look a bit wimpy next to one of those.
I guess they need to redesign their whole lineup for the upcoming core-count explosion.
It's the same with gas-prices: Why is gas so cheap? Because the costs at the fuel-pump do not represent the true costs of actually recreating the crude (and most of the costs associated with the environmental impact).
It's business-model not unlike somebody selling pirated version of some software. He can sell it at a very low price and still make a profit - because the true costs are accumulating elsewhere.
We use an on-premise enterprise edition of Gitlab.
I would love for MSFT to acquire Github, simply because a lot of developers who live in a world of "Everything and everyone is on github, get there already!" would finally wake up and enable their tools to integrate with other repositories. The one in particular that I have in mind is Ansible Galaxy.
Anyone whose livelihood depends on youtube ads, should look for alternative streams of revenue.
That includes, IMO, taking a regular job and releasing only one video per week. In most cases, there's not more than one good video per week anyway and the rest are just trivial vlog-fillers.
It's (basically) the same question that got asked in the Nuremberg Trials: just how much responsibility does any given individual have? Where does it start, where does it end?
I think I remember a semi-recent trial about a book-keeper who worked in a concentration camp. He certainly didn't kill anybody personally. But he worked there. He calculated how much gold could be yielded from the teeth of the inmates and all the other gritty stuff. Somebody had to do it after all, right?
At the Nuremberg Trials almost everybody denied even the slightest direct responsibility - they just followed orders. (Speer was the exception, he acknowledged a cloudy "general responsibility" and was the only one (apart from Hess) who didn't end up at the gallows.)
Governments were always good at compartmentalizing the kind of jobs you did, so you only do one small part and maybe not even see the big picture (40k-ish people worked on the Manhattan project - but very few were aware of what they were really doing, at least until Trinity went off).
In Germany, in 1933-1945, the Holocaust was also very compartmentalized. All the death-camps were far away, in East-Poland etc. The people pushing Jews into livestock wagons weren't told what would happen to the people inside - and most were smart enough not to ask. At the camps, most dirty jobs like actually opening the valves for the were often by inmates. So, not a lot of Germans (apart from those "overachievers" that shot inmates for fun) had actually physically killed a jew.
So, I ask again: at what point does responsibility end?
Have a 2001 VW Lupo. Most of these were not so great, but I have it serviced at an official dealer every year (at great expense) and it has never failed.
Still cheaper than the deprecation of a new car - and I bought it new, so I know who drove it (and how);-)
The only downside is that any new car I get will be much worse than this one. This thing only has: a simple air-condition, powered steering, central locks and powered windows. It's still naturally aspirated.
Any new car will have a dozen extras that can and will break, sometimes dozens of different firmwares that might need updates (and where neither the vendor nor the dealer knows, which revision of which firmware actually works together with the rest of the car).
Just buy a domain (which I presume most of these people already have) and publish the videos there.
Those who are interested in that topic will certainly find them. Monetarization will be more difficult, but I'm sure the channels were made solely in the interest of science anyway. So nothing changed.
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When I go to my employer's homepage (that certainly does not do any redirects), it also only displays the portion of the URL without "www".
At last, somebody is doing something about the shortage of donor-organs!
They want you to buy a Chromebook and give them all your data so they can sell more ads.
Your options:
- do just that
- buy a Mac and AppleCare
Unfortunately, AppleCare runs out after three years and you've got to buy new hardware.
full Apple or corporate will not take a look at them.
iPhones are more manageable and more secure than Android phones (people who manage these devices at scale will tell you that).
Also iOS has better support for Exchange / O365 than Android and longer support for updates, which means you can draw out the replacement-cycle or at least re-issue the phones to "lower-tier" employees.
So, it's simple as that: get used to the unroot-able phone. If that is what draws you to Android because you can "fix stuff that Google doesn't fix" or for whatever reason then start complaining to Google that they fix stuff instead of launching yet another messenger or pissing away money on moonshot-projects that go nowhere.
The only ARM-class CPU that might actually outperform a halfway decent Intel CPU is Apple A11 - and they ain't licensing (well, or nobody has offered enough money).
So, it's not a completely dumb move IMO.
You could also ask if it's not ultimately the fault of the people who elect said politicians into office.
I'm one of those guys who wants to keep a phone for a very long time - simply because they are so expensive - though I guess if you only kept it for a year and sold it to fund the new one, you'd not make such a big loss.
Also, those $250 phones aren't from Apple.
AFAIK, Samsungs high-end phone-sales bombed last quarter. Few people want to own their flagship phones for the price they ask - because if you spend so much money, you can just buy an iPhone.
Keeping a phone for a long time is also more friendly to the environment than buying a new one every other year.
I have no problem that Google is tracking all this stuff. Apple is, too.
What Apple does not do is take all the data and make it available so ads can be better targeted at me.
Google has no "I don't want you to resell my data" subscription - if it had, it would probably be very expensive and open up the public's eyes on just how much money they make of the average consumer.
Apple has its hardware. That hardware has a price. I pay it, and I'm done. If Google ever has a model similar to that, I can compare the prices.
Or not license Android for sale in the EU, just sell their own phones there directly.
That does not work. The licensees would sue.
Google can't retroactively change the contracts.
Google just has to come up with a new OS, not license it to anybody and build their own hardware for it.
still need PAE.
I have a Fujitsu Lifebook from c.a. 2003 and the realization meant that there are a few systems left with true 32bit support.
OpenBSD worked surprisingly well. Though any modern app is going to be slow on such a thing. The biggest problem is the 1024MB of RAM it has.
Or is it just a question of how large your account is?
We're just a mid-sized MSP, but there's always a way to get someone on the phone, 24x7. The on-call number customers call is the security-service that does our physical security, they forward the call to the on-call engineer (after the customer is verified using a "password"). The intermediate step is to ensure people don't call the on-call engineer for sysadmin-tasks that could be done during business hours.
Every customer can get the on-call number, provided they cough-up the money. For most, it's not worth it because servers are quite stable these days.
The problem is of course that Google is so big and has so many customers that it's not possible to "know" every single customer anymore.
Performance-gains were modest in the last couple of years. Only very recently has Intel been offering substantial performance-gains (via core-count increase) from one generation to the next.
I think that only with the current top-of-the-line i7 non-Pro iMac has the Geekbench-score basically doubled to what I have on my 2012 i7 Mini.
It remains to be seen how Apple is going to push forward, though. Intels roadmap goes up to 28 cores for their desktop-chips, AMD has a 32-core ThreadRipper2.
The 18-core iMacPro will actually look a bit wimpy next to one of those.
I guess they need to redesign their whole lineup for the upcoming core-count explosion.
^^^^This!
Can't upvote you, unfortunately.
It's the same with gas-prices: Why is gas so cheap? Because the costs at the fuel-pump do not represent the true costs of actually recreating the crude (and most of the costs associated with the environmental impact).
It's business-model not unlike somebody selling pirated version of some software. He can sell it at a very low price and still make a profit - because the true costs are accumulating elsewhere.
Sustainable business-models - they both ain't.
macOS has much more stuff going than any Linux OS every will.
E.g. the whole Continuity+Handover thing, as well as the seamless BT-integration of their accessories.
It's a ridiculous, click-baity comparison to begin with.
That said, Meltdown+Spectre Patches probably tool their toll on this one. Later hardware has less performance impact, AFAIK.
We use an on-premise enterprise edition of Gitlab.
I would love for MSFT to acquire Github, simply because a lot of developers who live in a world of "Everything and everyone is on github, get there already!" would finally wake up and enable their tools to integrate with other repositories. The one in particular that I have in mind is Ansible Galaxy.
Anyone whose livelihood depends on youtube ads, should look for alternative streams of revenue.
That includes, IMO, taking a regular job and releasing only one video per week. In most cases, there's not more than one good video per week anyway and the rest are just trivial vlog-fillers.
It's (basically) the same question that got asked in the Nuremberg Trials: just how much responsibility does any given individual have? Where does it start, where does it end?
I think I remember a semi-recent trial about a book-keeper who worked in a concentration camp. He certainly didn't kill anybody personally. But he worked there. He calculated how much gold could be yielded from the teeth of the inmates and all the other gritty stuff. Somebody had to do it after all, right?
At the Nuremberg Trials almost everybody denied even the slightest direct responsibility - they just followed orders.
(Speer was the exception, he acknowledged a cloudy "general responsibility" and was the only one (apart from Hess) who didn't end up at the gallows.)
Governments were always good at compartmentalizing the kind of jobs you did, so you only do one small part and maybe not even see the big picture (40k-ish people worked on the Manhattan project - but very few were aware of what they were really doing, at least until Trinity went off).
In Germany, in 1933-1945, the Holocaust was also very compartmentalized. All the death-camps were far away, in East-Poland etc. The people pushing Jews into livestock wagons weren't told what would happen to the people inside - and most were smart enough not to ask. At the camps, most dirty jobs like actually opening the valves for the were often by inmates. So, not a lot of Germans (apart from those "overachievers" that shot inmates for fun) had actually physically killed a jew.
So, I ask again: at what point does responsibility end?
Wait till one of them points out the superiority of white males on some forum, in his spare time.
He or somebody close to him probably realized that when it comes to leaving a legacy, owning a basketball team does not cut it.
Normal people have kids, very rich people have kids and leave a legacy.
Unless they piss it all way, of course.
Have a 2001 VW Lupo. Most of these were not so great, but I have it serviced at an official dealer every year (at great expense) and it has never failed.
Still cheaper than the deprecation of a new car - and I bought it new, so I know who drove it (and how) ;-)
The only downside is that any new car I get will be much worse than this one. This thing only has: a simple air-condition, powered steering, central locks and powered windows. It's still naturally aspirated.
Any new car will have a dozen extras that can and will break, sometimes dozens of different firmwares that might need updates (and where neither the vendor nor the dealer knows, which revision of which firmware actually works together with the rest of the car).
Google wanted to make money.
I presumed, those Nootropics guys are in it for the science and the general welfare of mankind ;-)
Just buy a domain (which I presume most of these people already have) and publish the videos there.
Those who are interested in that topic will certainly find them. Monetarization will be more difficult, but I'm sure the channels were made solely in the interest of science anyway. So nothing changed.
They could make a BuzzFeed Video about it: "...worth it?"!
No.
But I've seen the RHEL documentation (and the FreeBSD documentation). Both are stellar.
Ubuntu's doesn't exist, beyond a few basics. And even those contain errors that show they have nobody maintaining it.
That's why whenever I need to know how something is done in Linux-Land, I google keyword + rhel or keyword + centos.
This distro can't disappear soon enough.