Surface Pro will sell, because most businesses can simply write it off of their taxes, an put it immediately to use without having to first rewrite all of their corporate apps to run on IOS or Android, or Surface RT.
How is this new? Full Windows has existed in a tablet form for almost a decade. I'd expect businesses will continue doing what they've always done in response to Windows on tablets: Buy a laptop for half the price.
Your server equipment, as you've discovered, wasn't built to last a decade. I know it's tragic and it grates against your middle aged soul, but that's how it is. You want to keep it, that's fine, but don't expect it to turn on tomorrow and when it doesn't accept it.
You've already said the raid controller was starting to fail, it's massively past the point where anyone sane is going to warranty it for any price you'd accept paying so you were on your own. You tried to fix the raid controller and it finished up dead. You don't even know for sure if it was the BIOS update that killed it or whether whatever was eating it to begin with did. You also appear to have done a decades worth of firmware updates at once, again on already failing hardware, which is never a great idea.
This. Any IT person worth their salt has a schedule for cycling out hardware. Old hardware is a ticking timebomb in your rack, and if you care about your uptime/availability at all you've got a plan to cycle it out before it fails.
To your point - if a civilian cop can have a weapon, then any civilian who is of sound mind, and not a convict, should have access to the same weapons. You are ALL civilians!
Huh? How does this work. Your argument is that all civilians should be allowed to carry weapons, followed by a list of civilians that you're arguing should not be allowed to carry weapons.
If you're arguing that certain civilians should not be allowed to carry weapons, the logical leap to only law enforcement civilians being allowed to carry weapons is a small one.
Exactly. This is what the FDIC was implemented for.
The bank fails, the FDIC gives me my money, and I go to another bank. Meanwhile, the government cracks down on FDIC-insured banks so that the taxpayer isn't likely to get stuck with that bill again.
And the government decided it was cheaper to bail out the banks than pay that money.
Government waste or a stand on principal: Take your pick.
Because my iPhone 3G didn't get the last few updates.
You missed the part that because that device is over two years old, you can get a newer device for free when you renew your contract.
Of course, it sounds like you're using it as a secondary device. In which case I'm going to counter with a rant about how my spare G4 Cube can't run the latest version of Mac OS, can't run Netflix, and blah blah blah...
True. Unfortunately, UEFI was a step in the wrong direction. Yeah, the classic BIOS was older than dirt, limited, and saddled with a variety of quirks, oddities, and cruft from its years of genetic drift and backward compatibility.
However, because it sucked, there was a strong incentive not to try anything stupid with it, and to just boot the OS and GTFO. Instead of just cleaning up and rationalizing this basic firmware function, UEFI goes wildly in the opposite direction, to the point where the firmware is tantamount to a second OS; but still with all the fucked up weirdness that we know and love from BIOS features like ACPI...
To clarify, you mean Microsoft's screwed up version of UEFI. On Mac, we've been using EFI without issue. No OS limitations, no blocking of anything. BIOS and others like Open Firmware always were their own mini OSs, heck, Open Firmware had it's own command line. Don't confuse the technology (EFI) with bastardized implementations (Samsung's EFI, Microsoft's requirements.) The same sorts of things could have been done with BIOS anyway,
Another reason why? Well an ultrabook usually runs a real processor, not a mobile one (well a mobile version of a real processor). By that I mean something made by Intel or AMD, not Motorola, VIA, designed by ARM, or called A#, or Snapdragon, etc...
I know, Apple has their heads up their asses, right? Give me a choice Apple. I want them to build something like the Macbook Air. How hard could that be!?!?!
The whole point of Surface Pro is to actually develop apps on it, its a hybrid device that is a little tablet and a little laptop.
The Surface Pro is a... software development device?
Pray tell, how do I easily test a tablet sized interface on a tablet while keeping an eye on the debugger? How do I layout a tablet UI at scale with all my property and library windows open?
This is the same reason development tools on iPads haven't caught on. It's very hard to develop for a specific screen size when you're developing on that same screen size. Notice most developers have big ass monitors, or work on higher res laptop displays? This is why. You can't work on both a tablet sized UI and have room for your developer workspace/debugger up on a tablet sized display at the same time.
Microsoft's platform aside entirely (they actually make pretty good tools), the Surface Pro would make a pretty good awful development device, unless you had it hooked to an external monitor, defeating the entire purpose.
Given that Android isn't even on that list, and the highest bar is Windows 7, am I to assume you're telling me Apple is losing share to Windows 7 and Windows XP smartphones? Or is this a deflection to talk about computer marketshare which isn't the original topic.
Then Jobs died. Then ios5 wiped out the maps application off your phone. Then the iphone5 came out which didn't work with any of your existing power cables and docks. The high end market where you'd get an iphone as it just worked well now had stumbling blocks. It wasn't an obvious choice any more. Then apple's share price fell.
Microsoft should have been there to take the lead. The android ecosystem just doesn't work well -- too many disparate devices, too much choice. People like uniformity and simplicity. They weren't.
The market, honestly, doesn't seem to care. iPhone 5 sales are at an all time high, and iOS is ahead of Android again inside the US.
... open sourcing the software may be critical; not only does it expose to anyone who needs to know that its done well and ethically, but it can also serve as a platform (at all levels) for the majority of voters to fight back against the exponentiation of aforementioned gerrymandering.
What does this software have to do with gerrymandering? Sure, it gives them an idea of what type of voters are where, but so does the actually county by county public vote tallies after each election.
And of course Apple's "HTTP Live Streaming" is NOT at all suited for actual Live Streaming. The latency is terrible!
Huh? Unless the latency is somewhere beyond 60 seconds (which doesn't seem likely), it's fine. Otherwise you're fundamentally misunderstanding what Apple HTTP Live Streaming is for. It's aimed at broadcast live events one way (such as a TV channel), NOT real time video chat or conferencing.
Stuff like Facetime is NOT Apple HTTP Live Streaming, because again, according to TFM that's not what HTTP Live Streaming is for.
Sure, the same response they've always had: If you don't like our app store rules, build a web app.
People keep thinking that Apple is going to be surprised by people building web apps or taken aback. Apple's line from the beginning is that the store rules were acceptable because if you didn't like them, you could still build a web app and get around the rules.
Like they didn't know the 5S release cycle when they shipped the iPhone 5?
Who says they did?
If they weren't sure if they could do that upgrade cycle yet, or if Sharp was going to get IGZO production working (which six months ago was an unknown) why wouldn't they hold on to their part orders? If IGZO production couldn't be ramped, they probably could ship using the existing screens instead.
There are a lot of reasons that even if they were aiming for a six month upgrade cycle they would have had a backup plan. The six month upgrade cycle falling out and then not having the part orders to continue iPhone 5 production would have been the worst possible option.
Except that most ID badges aren't being used to track where I am at the office. They aren't being used to see if I'm there at work, they're being used to let me into the building, more of a virtual key. There's a HUGE difference between an electronic key and being treated like cattle.
If you don't think your entries and exists aren't being logged to track your movements, you're in for a surprise. Businesses always log this for security reasons.
Google KNOWS that in order to sell petrol, you need to sell cars. Well okay, that in order to sell inkjet ink, you need to sell printers. Google Maps could never have run well enough to replace Tom Tom on IE6, so Google pushed IE6.
I don't buy it. If Google wants to sell petrol, why are they turning away cars?
Simple. They want people to use Google brand cars. If they were as altruistic and worried about vendor lock out like you said, why are they themselves locking other platforms out of their services? And if Apple was so keen on locking them out, why is there a Google Maps app on the store right now? Heck, before that came out, the mobile Google Maps website was still working totally unblocked on my iPhone.
This sounds less like Google trying to defend themselves and more like them acting like a mid-ninties Microsoft. Absolute power corrupts, and it's certainly showing with Google.
Seriously...another post PC debate to advertise the iPad, my favourite part is the fact that its out of warranty!? If that sort of thing is a major issue. Do not go near an Apple product...
I think this post says more about you than the OP.
And we have made it just as clear that once we buy it, it's *ours*, and we can do whatever we like with it--use it to prop open the balcony door, install Linux on it, grind it up and sprinkle it on our breakfast cereal, or whatever, Microsoft be damned.
That's like buying a car and being indignant about it not being easily mod-able for flying..
YOU can buy whatever you like, but Microsoft can sell you whatever they like. If you're a consumer not doing your basic research, you deserve what you get.
It took me a while, but I got my degree while working full time.
A lot of it depends on your employer. Your employer NEEDS to know that there will be times when you need to be heads down studying. Fortunately, the syllabuses should give you advance warning, and you should be able to give your employer advance warning.
All night classes are mostly impossible to fulfill a degree, so are online only. You will need to take time off during the day, so it's best if your school is quick commuting distance from work. Your work should be ok with this. I made up my work time on weekends and at night when I didn't have assignments blocked.
Finally, be very careful about moving beyond 12 credits. Any time I did my grades suffered depending on how many extra credits I took. Working full time will slow you down, but in my case, was the best way to afford college.
Microsoft has made clear they don't want Linux on Surface. Nothing is that unique about the Surface hardware. So stop trying and concentrate on Linux on any number of more popular and more open tablets.
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Surface Pro will sell, because most businesses can simply write it off of their taxes, an put it immediately to use without having to first rewrite all of their corporate apps to run on IOS or Android, or Surface RT.
How is this new? Full Windows has existed in a tablet form for almost a decade. I'd expect businesses will continue doing what they've always done in response to Windows on tablets: Buy a laptop for half the price.
Your server equipment, as you've discovered, wasn't built to last a decade. I know it's tragic and it grates against your middle aged soul, but that's how it is. You want to keep it, that's fine, but don't expect it to turn on tomorrow and when it doesn't accept it.
You've already said the raid controller was starting to fail, it's massively past the point where anyone sane is going to warranty it for any price you'd accept paying so you were on your own. You tried to fix the raid controller and it finished up dead. You don't even know for sure if it was the BIOS update that killed it or whether whatever was eating it to begin with did. You also appear to have done a decades worth of firmware updates at once, again on already failing hardware, which is never a great idea.
This. Any IT person worth their salt has a schedule for cycling out hardware. Old hardware is a ticking timebomb in your rack, and if you care about your uptime/availability at all you've got a plan to cycle it out before it fails.
To your point - if a civilian cop can have a weapon, then any civilian who is of sound mind, and not a convict, should have access to the same weapons. You are ALL civilians!
Huh? How does this work. Your argument is that all civilians should be allowed to carry weapons, followed by a list of civilians that you're arguing should not be allowed to carry weapons.
If you're arguing that certain civilians should not be allowed to carry weapons, the logical leap to only law enforcement civilians being allowed to carry weapons is a small one.
Exactly. This is what the FDIC was implemented for.
The bank fails, the FDIC gives me my money, and I go to another bank. Meanwhile, the government cracks down on FDIC-insured banks so that the taxpayer isn't likely to get stuck with that bill again.
And the government decided it was cheaper to bail out the banks than pay that money.
Government waste or a stand on principal: Take your pick.
Really?
Because my iPhone 3G didn't get the last few updates.
You missed the part that because that device is over two years old, you can get a newer device for free when you renew your contract.
Of course, it sounds like you're using it as a secondary device. In which case I'm going to counter with a rant about how my spare G4 Cube can't run the latest version of Mac OS, can't run Netflix, and blah blah blah...
True. Unfortunately, UEFI was a step in the wrong direction. Yeah, the classic BIOS was older than dirt, limited, and saddled with a variety of quirks, oddities, and cruft from its years of genetic drift and backward compatibility.
However, because it sucked, there was a strong incentive not to try anything stupid with it, and to just boot the OS and GTFO. Instead of just cleaning up and rationalizing this basic firmware function, UEFI goes wildly in the opposite direction, to the point where the firmware is tantamount to a second OS; but still with all the fucked up weirdness that we know and love from BIOS features like ACPI...
To clarify, you mean Microsoft's screwed up version of UEFI. On Mac, we've been using EFI without issue. No OS limitations, no blocking of anything. BIOS and others like Open Firmware always were their own mini OSs, heck, Open Firmware had it's own command line. Don't confuse the technology (EFI) with bastardized implementations (Samsung's EFI, Microsoft's requirements.) The same sorts of things could have been done with BIOS anyway,
Another reason why? Well an ultrabook usually runs a real processor, not a mobile one (well a mobile version of a real processor). By that I mean something made by Intel or AMD, not Motorola, VIA, designed by ARM, or called A#, or Snapdragon, etc...
I know, Apple has their heads up their asses, right? Give me a choice Apple. I want them to build something like the Macbook Air. How hard could that be!?!?!
the Surface Pro would make a pretty good awful development device, unless you had it hooked to an external monitor, defeating the entire purpose.
That's suppose to be "god awful". Sigh.
The whole point of Surface Pro is to actually develop apps on it, its a hybrid device that is a little tablet and a little laptop.
The Surface Pro is a... software development device?
Pray tell, how do I easily test a tablet sized interface on a tablet while keeping an eye on the debugger? How do I layout a tablet UI at scale with all my property and library windows open?
This is the same reason development tools on iPads haven't caught on. It's very hard to develop for a specific screen size when you're developing on that same screen size. Notice most developers have big ass monitors, or work on higher res laptop displays? This is why. You can't work on both a tablet sized UI and have room for your developer workspace/debugger up on a tablet sized display at the same time.
Microsoft's platform aside entirely (they actually make pretty good tools), the Surface Pro would make a pretty good awful development device, unless you had it hooked to an external monitor, defeating the entire purpose.
So that's your solution? Buy a Surface Pro? He already has a tablet and used it to meet his needs by spending $0.
Last I checked, neither Windows 3.1 or Photoshop are free.
Apple is kicking who's ass, exactly?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-201112-201212
Given that Android isn't even on that list, and the highest bar is Windows 7, am I to assume you're telling me Apple is losing share to Windows 7 and Windows XP smartphones? Or is this a deflection to talk about computer marketshare which isn't the original topic.
Then Jobs died.
Then ios5 wiped out the maps application off your phone.
Then the iphone5 came out which didn't work with any of your existing power cables and docks.
The high end market where you'd get an iphone as it just worked well now had stumbling blocks. It wasn't an obvious choice any more.
Then apple's share price fell.
Microsoft should have been there to take the lead. The android ecosystem just doesn't work well -- too many disparate devices, too much choice. People like uniformity and simplicity. They weren't.
The market, honestly, doesn't seem to care. iPhone 5 sales are at an all time high, and iOS is ahead of Android again inside the US.
http://www.businessinsider.com/att-iphone-sales-2013-1
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/24/technology/att-iphone-sales/index.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-iphone-sales-for-q4-2012-2013-1
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/25/apples-hardware-q4-2012-26-9m-iphones-14m-ipads-4-9m-macs-and-5-3m-ipods/
I mean, I know it hasn't been smooth sailing for iOS recently, but let's have some perspective here. In the US, Apple is kicking ass.
... open sourcing the software may be critical; not only does it expose to anyone who needs to know that its done well and ethically, but it can also serve as a platform (at all levels) for the majority of voters to fight back against the exponentiation of aforementioned gerrymandering.
What does this software have to do with gerrymandering? Sure, it gives them an idea of what type of voters are where, but so does the actually county by county public vote tallies after each election.
And of course Apple's "HTTP Live Streaming" is NOT at all suited for actual Live Streaming. The latency is terrible!
Huh? Unless the latency is somewhere beyond 60 seconds (which doesn't seem likely), it's fine. Otherwise you're fundamentally misunderstanding what Apple HTTP Live Streaming is for. It's aimed at broadcast live events one way (such as a TV channel), NOT real time video chat or conferencing.
Stuff like Facetime is NOT Apple HTTP Live Streaming, because again, according to TFM that's not what HTTP Live Streaming is for.
"I wonder if Apple with have a response to this."
Sure, the same response they've always had: If you don't like our app store rules, build a web app.
People keep thinking that Apple is going to be surprised by people building web apps or taken aback. Apple's line from the beginning is that the store rules were acceptable because if you didn't like them, you could still build a web app and get around the rules.
I don't think that's true. It was many years ago, but I recall seeing Steve's car parked at Apple, right along side all the other employee cars.
I'm not sure, in a lot full of security cameras, you'd really want to key your CEO's car any way.
According to TFA there is now a sign on his house to that effect.
Like they didn't know the 5S release cycle when they shipped the iPhone 5?
Who says they did?
If they weren't sure if they could do that upgrade cycle yet, or if Sharp was going to get IGZO production working (which six months ago was an unknown) why wouldn't they hold on to their part orders? If IGZO production couldn't be ramped, they probably could ship using the existing screens instead.
There are a lot of reasons that even if they were aiming for a six month upgrade cycle they would have had a backup plan. The six month upgrade cycle falling out and then not having the part orders to continue iPhone 5 production would have been the worst possible option.
Except that most ID badges aren't being used to track where I am at the office. They aren't being used to see if I'm there at work, they're being used to let me into the building, more of a virtual key. There's a HUGE difference between an electronic key and being treated like cattle.
If you don't think your entries and exists aren't being logged to track your movements, you're in for a surprise. Businesses always log this for security reasons.
Google KNOWS that in order to sell petrol, you need to sell cars. Well okay, that in order to sell inkjet ink, you need to sell printers. Google Maps could never have run well enough to replace Tom Tom on IE6, so Google pushed IE6.
I don't buy it. If Google wants to sell petrol, why are they turning away cars?
Simple. They want people to use Google brand cars. If they were as altruistic and worried about vendor lock out like you said, why are they themselves locking other platforms out of their services? And if Apple was so keen on locking them out, why is there a Google Maps app on the store right now? Heck, before that came out, the mobile Google Maps website was still working totally unblocked on my iPhone.
This sounds less like Google trying to defend themselves and more like them acting like a mid-ninties Microsoft. Absolute power corrupts, and it's certainly showing with Google.
Seriously...another post PC debate to advertise the iPad, my favourite part is the fact that its out of warranty!? If that sort of thing is a major issue. Do not go near an Apple product...
I think this post says more about you than the OP.
And we have made it just as clear that once we buy it, it's *ours*, and we can do whatever we like with it--use it to prop open the balcony door, install Linux on it, grind it up and sprinkle it on our breakfast cereal, or whatever, Microsoft be damned.
That's like buying a car and being indignant about it not being easily mod-able for flying..
YOU can buy whatever you like, but Microsoft can sell you whatever they like. If you're a consumer not doing your basic research, you deserve what you get.
It took me a while, but I got my degree while working full time.
A lot of it depends on your employer. Your employer NEEDS to know that there will be times when you need to be heads down studying. Fortunately, the syllabuses should give you advance warning, and you should be able to give your employer advance warning.
All night classes are mostly impossible to fulfill a degree, so are online only. You will need to take time off during the day, so it's best if your school is quick commuting distance from work. Your work should be ok with this. I made up my work time on weekends and at night when I didn't have assignments blocked.
Finally, be very careful about moving beyond 12 credits. Any time I did my grades suffered depending on how many extra credits I took. Working full time will slow you down, but in my case, was the best way to afford college.
Microsoft has made clear they don't want Linux on Surface. Nothing is that unique about the Surface hardware. So stop trying and concentrate on Linux on any number of more popular and more open tablets.
This is the patent that won Apple their billion dollar verdict against Samsung.
That's weird, I remember the jury verdict citing six patents. Pinch to zoom was one of them but surely it was only a fraction of the full billion?
Remember when Slashdot was just news and not someone trying to insert a questionable-at-best opinion into a story?