> Not only that, but the new Mac Pro is probably the most original desktop computer design since.. desktop computers were invented.
Only if you ignore hobbyists.
If you acknowledge the enthusiast case modding scene, then nothing that Apple has done with the Mac Pro is at all interesting. It's notable primarily for how it is mismatched to the market segment they are trying to sell it to.
The trash can would make a great high end consumer Mac.
Forcing it on computing professionals is criminal stupidity.
This seems like the perfect use case for side loading. Avoid whatever misbegotten version EA has managed to put in the official "app store" and install some illicit clone.
It's sad when an official release has you reaching for the equivalent of "Hack Man".
It doesn't matter what kind of "controls" are in place. The next regime can just ignore those controls. How would we know really? We wouldn't until it's too late.
This thing should be dismantled and law enforcement should have to go back to begging companies for data when and if they need it.
That's the nice thing about Apple. They don't really give you any real choice. There's nothing to worry your pretty little head over because the men at Apple have already done your thinking for you.
> Because quite frankly I don't want to spend the time figuring out which CPU goes with which MoBo
Unless you want to get robbed blind by a PC vendor or Apple, you have to know these things anyways. You have to understand what you're buying or it's caveat emptor in the most brutal way.
You might as well tell a car salesman that you know nothing about cars and don't care to ever learn. It's just too bothersome.
Which pretty much describes everyone here. Unless you are a part of the 1%, your time is worthless. You don't have some magic money machine that eats time and gives you money.
You're either on salary and any work you do is a gift to your employer, or you're paid salary and likely very limited in what your employer (or anyone else will allow).
> Even for sequential reads, SSDs can be an improvement. My laptop's SSD can easily handle 200MB/s sequential reads, and you'd need more than one spinning disk to handle that.
Except that's not true across the board. You may find that a more reliable brand doesn't have sequential performance nearly that good.
For as much as SSD cost, you can easily double up on the spinning rust and still be way WAY ahead.
You can get very noticable improvement even with spinny rust just by having more than one spindle and not pushing everything including the processes from 8 cores through a single physical bottleneck.
I have had hard disks last for 7 years. I have some now that are about 5 years old. When I can say that about an SSD, I will have more trust in them. Until then, trust is really unwarranted. Without some actual experiences (yours or something else), you are really just engaging in a leap of "faith".
In the old days, SSD was nothing more than RAM with a battery backup.
So the idea that you would replace memory with SSD rather than spinny disk with SSD is not terribly surprising.
The same "working set" problem that applies to RAM also applies to SSD. Your solution actually has to be appropriate to the problem and SSD isn't necessarily a cure all.
Again. It's a University, not an Ayn Rand entity so what's the problem really?
Ultimately NO ONE should have the power to control or suppress the output of University professors. Giving power the talent rather than employers or some industry cartel is just a far less harmful option.
If anyone gets the right to be a Harlan-esque jack*ss about this stuff then it should at least be the talent.
How else do you have academic freedom unless you have ownership control of the work you produce? Without that, those that do have ownership control over your work can dictate how your work is disseminated and altered.
Academics don't need copyright. They need to be free of it.
> yet teaching Darwinism is very high on their agenda
In truth, it's a minor footnote. If it seems more significant, then that is entirely the results of Bible-Nazis that need some trumped up enemy to distract their followers with. If not for the Taliban style rantings of an extreme fringe minority of Xians, Darwinism would get little attention.
> have had to take a "white people are automatically racist
You would have to go out of your way to take such a course. You would have to seek it out. It is not a requirement. It's one of many options that reflect the "marketplace of ideas".
Such courses are entirely avoidable.
Your humanities profs might be liberals but the subject matter speaks for itself and resist bias if presented in a comprehensive manner. It's much like good journalism in this respect.
No. Apple chains you to the oars like you're a slave in a galley.
The idea of putting storage on an expansion card is old as dirt. It's just that Apple will force the issue and give you no other option. That's not leadership, that's fascism.
That's the problem. Most people haven't built a database cluster or a supercomputing cluster either. Each of these options is just as statistically insignificant to the vast majority of people as the other.
"Artistes" just hold some sort of cultural hype in certain circles but they are just as irrelevant.
They are less significant than "geeks" and power users.
I could create my own screed similar to yours and it would be equally irrelevant to 99.9% of users.
The problem with Apple is their new trashcan. They are demonstrating just as much contempt for the end user as Microsoft has. If anything, Microsoft is more likely to relent to mass user revolts because their customers are more likely to incite one.
> In all the years I've been building computers I can name only twice where I ever had the opportunity to upgrade
It's not 1996 anymore. There are any number of really cheap ways you can significantly improve the performance of an old machine. A cheap video card from the right vendor can turn a craptacular old machine into something repectable.
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> Not only that, but the new Mac Pro is probably the most original desktop computer design since.. desktop computers were invented.
Only if you ignore hobbyists.
If you acknowledge the enthusiast case modding scene, then nothing that Apple has done with the Mac Pro is at all interesting. It's notable primarily for how it is mismatched to the market segment they are trying to sell it to.
The trash can would make a great high end consumer Mac.
Forcing it on computing professionals is criminal stupidity.
This seems like the perfect use case for side loading. Avoid whatever misbegotten version EA has managed to put in the official "app store" and install some illicit clone.
It's sad when an official release has you reaching for the equivalent of "Hack Man".
You can't be a spy without access.
They are essentially trying to charge him with espionage. Except instead of working for a foreign power, he was engaging in civil disobedience.
If it's a liar with no access, then he had no ability to commit a crime.
This database should not exist period.
It doesn't matter what kind of "controls" are in place. The next regime can just ignore those controls. How would we know really? We wouldn't until it's too late.
This thing should be dismantled and law enforcement should have to go back to begging companies for data when and if they need it.
So the alternate if what exactly? Windows download sites that inject their own adware and spam into someone else software?
That's the nice thing about Apple. They don't really give you any real choice. There's nothing to worry your pretty little head over because the men at Apple have already done your thinking for you.
> Because quite frankly I don't want to spend the time figuring out which CPU goes with which MoBo
Unless you want to get robbed blind by a PC vendor or Apple, you have to know these things anyways. You have to understand what you're buying or it's caveat emptor in the most brutal way.
You might as well tell a car salesman that you know nothing about cars and don't care to ever learn. It's just too bothersome.
> You only save money if your time is worthless
Which pretty much describes everyone here. Unless you are a part of the 1%, your time is worthless. You don't have some magic money machine that eats time and gives you money.
You're either on salary and any work you do is a gift to your employer, or you're paid salary and likely very limited in what your employer (or anyone else will allow).
Get over yourself.
> Even for sequential reads, SSDs can be an improvement. My laptop's SSD can easily handle 200MB/s sequential reads, and you'd need more than one spinning disk to handle that.
Except that's not true across the board. You may find that a more reliable brand doesn't have sequential performance nearly that good.
For as much as SSD cost, you can easily double up on the spinning rust and still be way WAY ahead.
You can get very noticable improvement even with spinny rust just by having more than one spindle and not pushing everything including the processes from 8 cores through a single physical bottleneck.
I have had hard disks last for 7 years. I have some now that are about 5 years old. When I can say that about an SSD, I will have more trust in them. Until then, trust is really unwarranted. Without some actual experiences (yours or something else), you are really just engaging in a leap of "faith".
In the old days, SSD was nothing more than RAM with a battery backup.
So the idea that you would replace memory with SSD rather than spinny disk with SSD is not terribly surprising.
The same "working set" problem that applies to RAM also applies to SSD. Your solution actually has to be appropriate to the problem and SSD isn't necessarily a cure all.
SSD is new and trended and a bit overhyped.
Again. It's a University, not an Ayn Rand entity so what's the problem really?
Ultimately NO ONE should have the power to control or suppress the output of University professors. Giving power the talent rather than employers or some industry cartel is just a far less harmful option.
If anyone gets the right to be a Harlan-esque jack*ss about this stuff then it should at least be the talent.
How else do you have academic freedom unless you have ownership control of the work you produce? Without that, those that do have ownership control over your work can dictate how your work is disseminated and altered.
Academics don't need copyright. They need to be free of it.
> yet teaching Darwinism is very high on their agenda
In truth, it's a minor footnote. If it seems more significant, then that is entirely the results of Bible-Nazis that need some trumped up enemy to distract their followers with. If not for the Taliban style rantings of an extreme fringe minority of Xians, Darwinism would get little attention.
> What's different about universities.
They are not Fortune 500 corporations. Their charter is not to screw everyone they can in the name of the almighty dollar.
They are not Ayn Rand entities.
> have had to take a "white people are automatically racist
You would have to go out of your way to take such a course. You would have to seek it out. It is not a requirement. It's one of many options that reflect the "marketplace of ideas".
Such courses are entirely avoidable.
Your humanities profs might be liberals but the subject matter speaks for itself and resist bias if presented in a comprehensive manner. It's much like good journalism in this respect.
Sufficient detail negates bias.
> Apple leads the way. The others follow.
No. Apple chains you to the oars like you're a slave in a galley.
The idea of putting storage on an expansion card is old as dirt. It's just that Apple will force the issue and give you no other option. That's not leadership, that's fascism.
> You've obviously never dealt with:
That's the problem. Most people haven't built a database cluster or a supercomputing cluster either. Each of these options is just as statistically insignificant to the vast majority of people as the other.
"Artistes" just hold some sort of cultural hype in certain circles but they are just as irrelevant.
They are less significant than "geeks" and power users.
I could create my own screed similar to yours and it would be equally irrelevant to 99.9% of users.
ppppffffft.
I had to install a separate air conditioner to cool my computers. It's like I bought a 100lb CPU cooler.
The problem with Apple is their new trashcan. They are demonstrating just as much contempt for the end user as Microsoft has. If anything, Microsoft is more likely to relent to mass user revolts because their customers are more likely to incite one.
> Do you really think the average MS Word user is going to deal with markup to create documents in LaTeX?
Back in the days of Word Perfect, that's exactly what they did.
So now you are conflating a corporation that sells consumer products with the State.
Steve Jobs just wasn't your CEO, he was your KING. The only problem is you want him to be my king as well.
Talk about corporate feudalism...
> How is apple preventing you from buying an android device?
They sue Android vendors and try to ban Android devices from the market.
> It's their OS and their device, aren't hey entitled to it?
It's not their OS once they sell it to you.
It's not their device once they sell it to you.
> In all the years I've been building computers I can name only twice where I ever had the opportunity to upgrade
It's not 1996 anymore. There are any number of really cheap ways you can significantly improve the performance of an old machine. A cheap video card from the right vendor can turn a craptacular old machine into something repectable.