We used to say that companies with huge cash reserves were major targets for takeover operators. When a company has a large cash reserve, you can spend oodles of money in your effort to take it over. You only need to succeed for all the money you spent to be paid back in spades.
Google can't sell you a product by giving you search results with function names or error messages. Wouldn't you rather look at ads for these new shoes that are on sale right now??!!??
The people who pay the most attention to the fact that Apple has $250B laying around in cash refer to Apple as 'a gadget maker.'
They don't care about the Mac. Almost nobody who is an Apple customer cares about the Mac anymore. Their gadget division has dwarfed their computer division.
This is a nerd site. Not a shareholder or financial site.
If this wasn't a nerd site, we would probably all love Larry Ellisison and Oracle. He is fabulously rich and got that way selling software. Instead nerds consider Ellison to be a blight on the technology industry.
There isn't the same consensus regarding Apple at this time, but citing 'huge amounts of money made' isn't going to impress Slashdotters. That isn't really the measure of success in nerd culture.
I have run iOS, Windows Phone 8, and Android. I presently use some Android devices. Windows Phone as an operating device was really nice, I would rate it above Android. There just aren't any apps for it and never will be. WP8 has a nice snappy interface, even on the low-end Nokia that I used.
Why would I care when 'Extended Support' ends?? I am not the kind of person who buys the extended warranty at BestBuy or 'Apple Care' at the Apple Store.
Now, when you live in the Apple ecosystem, it probably seems natural to rely on a 'genius' to maintain your system. So your point of view is understandable.
The Dell Latitude 6420 with an i7 processor in it that I bought used for $250 is supposed to be one of the better Hackintoshes. I haven't tried it, because I like it enough with Windows 7 on it.
You can certainly buy a 4 year old i7 laptop for considerably less than a 4 year old i7 Macbook. I paid $250 for mine without even having to look very hard.
The Pentagon and DOD would be playing with fire if the decided they needed to redo everything for the 'latest greatest' every time anything new came along.
A 'grand strategy to convert everything, everywhere, to whatever you're claiming is the do-all end-all choice (PCBSD?) is obsolete by your definition two weeks from now.
I guess, though, that if everything had been hard coded using Slackware in 1995 it would all be just super in your opinion.
It was one of those things where I was like - if facilities wants to deal with this I'll wash my hands of it.
If they knew what they were doing, they didn't want you touching it anyway. Your job is to keep the office computers upgraded and the toner cartridge in the laserjet fresh.
That their HVAC controller ran on Windows 3.1 was no more relevant to IT than the fact that the ducts were made of 14ga galvanized steel. If there are metallurgists in the engineering department of the company that resides the building, they're not charged with 'upgrading' the duct metal to some new alloy either.
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We used to say that companies with huge cash reserves were major targets for takeover operators. When a company has a large cash reserve, you can spend oodles of money in your effort to take it over. You only need to succeed for all the money you spent to be paid back in spades.
MS-DOS daemons are called TSRs. I don't think the 'terminate and stay resident' system call is present in modern Windows.
At least Space Nutters are going for something tangible. Even if the tangible thing really amounts to increasing space junk in the debris field.
There is now an Open Source BASIC compiler for PIC controllers. That is a simple and very cheap 8-bit computer.
Doesn't the doorman stop you when you try to go into an office building? Or do you disguise yourself by carrying a broom?
Google can't sell you a product by giving you search results with function names or error messages. Wouldn't you rather look at ads for these new shoes that are on sale right now??!!??
The people who pay the most attention to the fact that Apple has $250B laying around in cash refer to Apple as 'a gadget maker.'
They don't care about the Mac. Almost nobody who is an Apple customer cares about the Mac anymore. Their gadget division has dwarfed their computer division.
This is a nerd site. Not a shareholder or financial site.
If this wasn't a nerd site, we would probably all love Larry Ellisison and Oracle. He is fabulously rich and got that way selling software. Instead nerds consider Ellison to be a blight on the technology industry.
There isn't the same consensus regarding Apple at this time, but citing 'huge amounts of money made' isn't going to impress Slashdotters. That isn't really the measure of success in nerd culture.
That doesn't translate 'waiting for the 10th Anniversary Phone.' That translates 'waiting to see if there is anything good coming.'
Have you ever used a Windows Phone?
I have run iOS, Windows Phone 8, and Android. I presently use some Android devices. Windows Phone as an operating device was really nice, I would rate it above Android. There just aren't any apps for it and never will be. WP8 has a nice snappy interface, even on the low-end Nokia that I used.
Ummm, you're a school teacher. How can you presume to know what is cool with generation Z?
I can easily log into the Google Play Store using any web browser on my PC. From there, I can buy apps to install on my Android phone and tablets.
I have an IBM PC Convertible that works perfectly to this day.
No read errors on either 3-1/2" 720K floppy disk drive. That flavor of diskette is really hard to find now, though.
What is this? Gym class??
Why would I care when 'Extended Support' ends?? I am not the kind of person who buys the extended warranty at BestBuy or 'Apple Care' at the Apple Store.
Now, when you live in the Apple ecosystem, it probably seems natural to rely on a 'genius' to maintain your system. So your point of view is understandable.
However, a base Corvette is still expensive as all get-out. Not at all like a generic beige tower case.
My beige tower case is now 17 years old, and has fairly great hardware in it.
The Dell Latitude 6420 with an i7 processor in it that I bought used for $250 is supposed to be one of the better Hackintoshes. I haven't tried it, because I like it enough with Windows 7 on it.
Who is holding back for the 10th Anniversary phone?
What value is there in waiting?
I mean, we need to see some real reasons cited as to why these mythical customers are 'waiting.'
As a buyer, that means I am paying a large bounty to the manufacturer if I buy an Apple Phone.
Not that many of us here are cellphone producers. Most of us are buyers.
When that has sunk in for a while, well....
Why did your mom sell her year old Macbook Pro?? It wasn't working out for her?
You can certainly buy a 4 year old i7 laptop for considerably less than a 4 year old i7 Macbook. I paid $250 for mine without even having to look very hard.
Where did you get the idea they were running software with heartbleed in the kernel?
The Pentagon and DOD would be playing with fire if the decided they needed to redo everything for the 'latest greatest' every time anything new came along.
A 'grand strategy to convert everything, everywhere, to whatever you're claiming is the do-all end-all choice (PCBSD?) is obsolete by your definition two weeks from now.
I guess, though, that if everything had been hard coded using Slackware in 1995 it would all be just super in your opinion.
There were probably electric motors in some of the equipment in that cheese processing plant from the Windows 3.1 era.
It was one of those things where I was like - if facilities wants to deal with this I'll wash my hands of it.
If they knew what they were doing, they didn't want you touching it anyway. Your job is to keep the office computers upgraded and the toner cartridge in the laserjet fresh.
That their HVAC controller ran on Windows 3.1 was no more relevant to IT than the fact that the ducts were made of 14ga galvanized steel. If there are metallurgists in the engineering department of the company that resides the building, they're not charged with 'upgrading' the duct metal to some new alloy either.