Perhaps I misread this but this seems to be referring to the modulation technology that the light traveling over the fiber uses. So Google fiber and Verizon FIOS could license the technology from Nokia and increase the speeds... am I wrong?
In my opinion, caring about the customer involves listening to them and deferring to their choices, not making choices for them.
If they need software that only runs on Windows, or they are most comfortable with Windows then the choice is clear. You lecturing them on their "bad" choices or making choices for them based on some ideal is not going to go over well.
We are a multibillion $ company and the YouTube property makes us a ton of cash.
That said... well, we would LIKE to pay people to help make our site better.... but, well, our executives won't let us... something about buying an island... anyway, thanks!
I have had serious overheating issues with Dell laptops. Of course, that was during a time when a lot of laptops had overheating issues.
Dell did also have some laptops that would burst into flames. But who hasn't?
Dell had a bad name in the reseller world for a long time because they snubbed the channel partners and sold direct to the end user. This meant that smaller shops would not sell Dell products because they couldn't. This also hurt Dell in the enterprise market since most companies buy their stuff through these reseller channels (Ingram, TechData, etc) which is why, I imagine, they eventually caved.
Microsoft's Signature series of Windows has always been an attempt to be a "reference" edition of Windows. The Windows experience as they meant for it to be.
They are exerting their influence to create a hardware standard that they feel complies with their Signature Edition of Windows.
I would say that this effectively makes it an appliance. Those are my words. I am calling it an appliance in the same way that a Chromebook or a Mac is an appliance. As in, the OS developer heavily influenced the hardware design and feature set in order to make their software run in the way they want it to.
The fact that you can run other OS's on these devices is incidental.
And, by the way, while Boot Camp does allow you to run other operating systems on a Mac, even this is heavily controlled by Apple. I have heard people say that you are better off running Windows in a VM on a Mac due to the inefficiencies introduced by Boot Camp. Also, Apple does not officially support Linux on Boot Camp (according to Wikipedia). The fact that Linux will run with BC is entirely a community driven effort.
The last time I tried to dual boot a Mac was back in 2006 or so and it was a PITA. I know that Boot Camp has changed things now.
From the Wikipedia page:
"Boot Camp does not help users install Linux, and does not provide drivers for it. Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd"
I'm not familiar with Pixel...but with an Apple, you just boot up from a USB with Ubuntu or whatever distro you want and it installs.
There are no lockdowns or pitfalls you have to work "around"...the Apple machines are not locked down in the fashion that this article about windows on the lenovo speaks to....
Just because the workarounds are transparent to you doesn't mean they aren't happening. Apple is not selling you a device for the purpose of you loading Linux on it. The fact that you can doesn't mean they made it easy for the open source community to reverse engineer and come up with work arounds to make it possible to install Linux.
And I am sure it is only a matter of time before there are work arounds for Windows Signature devices as well. At some point, it will probably be transparent to you when you pop in your Ubuntu install media on one of these devices.
Boot Camp does not help users install Linux, and does not provide drivers for it. Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd.
So, there is a non-supported work around for installing Linux.... that is beside the point.
The point is that OS manufacturers closely stipulate their hardware requirements in most cases.
Microsoft is make a particular version of Windows for a Windows appliance. It is meant to be an appliance. If you can find a way to run Linux on it, great, but that isn't their intent.
Not saying it isn't possible. But those are devices that the OS maker did not intend to be able to run Linux or any other OS but their own. The fact that workarounds have been found is beside the point.
As the first post says, it's probably only a matter of time before a hack/workaround is found.
I would argue that an iPhone is a general purpose computer.
Also, take a look at Google's Pixel device or Apple's Mac. Both of those are locked down in similar ways, possibly even more severely.
If Microsoft want's to make a version of Windows that requires their own hardware specifications AND is able to get manufacturers to make and sell it, then that's perfectly fine in my opinion.
You don't have to buy a Signature Edition Windows device though.
Do you say this about your iPhone or your smart TV or your blueray player or your automobile?
If so, there are options for all of these things if you do the research and you want to run your own stuff. There are also plenty of locked down models in the same market that do not let you modify firmware or certain settings.
This is one particular Windows appliance device. There are still plenty of general computing platforms you can run whatever you want on.
Along with secure boot and other locked down UEFI/BIOS settings, there are probably other requirements MS is stipulating for their "Signature" version of Windows.
Windows has had a long history of getting blamed for things that are inherently problems with diverse hardware.
This is Microsoft's attempt to make a Windows appliance, not unlike Google's Pixel series or Apple's Macs/iDevices.
If you want a more general purpose computer which can run Linux, you certainly still have that option.
I agree. They have a hell of an uphill climb... though they do have enterprise customers.
But does Oracle have any customer loyalty? I don't think I have ever heard anyone recommend Oracle anything (not talking about Sun's ex-products).... only grudgingly accept it as the only viable option due to vendor lock in.
I used to cross query with Google, but it turned out that Bing was at least as good, and a lot of times better. Plus, I like the gadgets Bing has... like a Base64 encoder/decoder and other geeky stuff.
I also like the changing wallpaper. It's just pretty.
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I suppose all of these stupid hacks make us all more security conscious. That's good.... right?
I'm surprised it didn't happen with Tesla's autopilot
Maybe because of the relatively low number of Tesla owners.
That can happen when you don't blink often enough.
Easiest.....sysadmin.....job....ever
Admin for only 28 domains and yet still managed to botch the firewall ACL(s?)
zerg rush kakakakaka
Perhaps I misread this but this seems to be referring to the modulation technology that the light traveling over the fiber uses. So Google fiber and Verizon FIOS could license the technology from Nokia and increase the speeds... am I wrong?
In my opinion, caring about the customer involves listening to them and deferring to their choices, not making choices for them.
If they need software that only runs on Windows, or they are most comfortable with Windows then the choice is clear. You lecturing them on their "bad" choices or making choices for them based on some ideal is not going to go over well.
We are a multibillion $ company and the YouTube property makes us a ton of cash.
That said... well, we would LIKE to pay people to help make our site better.... but, well, our executives won't let us... something about buying an island... anyway, thanks!
I have had serious overheating issues with Dell laptops. Of course, that was during a time when a lot of laptops had overheating issues.
Dell did also have some laptops that would burst into flames. But who hasn't?
Dell had a bad name in the reseller world for a long time because they snubbed the channel partners and sold direct to the end user. This meant that smaller shops would not sell Dell products because they couldn't. This also hurt Dell in the enterprise market since most companies buy their stuff through these reseller channels (Ingram, TechData, etc) which is why, I imagine, they eventually caved.
AFAIK the superfish and other crapware debacles were centered around home Lenovo laptops. Their enterprise product lines never had this stuff on them.
All big manufacturers have many branches and all of them produce some level of junk.
I have had good and bad experiences with all of the manufacturers you mentioned.
Microsoft's Signature series of Windows has always been an attempt to be a "reference" edition of Windows. The Windows experience as they meant for it to be.
They are exerting their influence to create a hardware standard that they feel complies with their Signature Edition of Windows.
I would say that this effectively makes it an appliance. Those are my words. I am calling it an appliance in the same way that a Chromebook or a Mac is an appliance. As in, the OS developer heavily influenced the hardware design and feature set in order to make their software run in the way they want it to.
The fact that you can run other OS's on these devices is incidental.
And, by the way, while Boot Camp does allow you to run other operating systems on a Mac, even this is heavily controlled by Apple. I have heard people say that you are better off running Windows in a VM on a Mac due to the inefficiencies introduced by Boot Camp. Also, Apple does not officially support Linux on Boot Camp (according to Wikipedia). The fact that Linux will run with BC is entirely a community driven effort.
The last time I tried to dual boot a Mac was back in 2006 or so and it was a PITA. I know that Boot Camp has changed things now.
From the Wikipedia page:
"Boot Camp does not help users install Linux, and does not provide drivers for it. Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd"
I'm not familiar with Pixel...but with an Apple, you just boot up from a USB with Ubuntu or whatever distro you want and it installs.
There are no lockdowns or pitfalls you have to work "around"...the Apple machines are not locked down in the fashion that this article about windows on the lenovo speaks to....
Just because the workarounds are transparent to you doesn't mean they aren't happening. Apple is not selling you a device for the purpose of you loading Linux on it. The fact that you can doesn't mean they made it easy for the open source community to reverse engineer and come up with work arounds to make it possible to install Linux.
And I am sure it is only a matter of time before there are work arounds for Windows Signature devices as well. At some point, it will probably be transparent to you when you pop in your Ubuntu install media on one of these devices.
You are talking about Boot Camp I assume.
Boot Camp does not help users install Linux, and does not provide drivers for it. Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd.
So, there is a non-supported work around for installing Linux.... that is beside the point.
The point is that OS manufacturers closely stipulate their hardware requirements in most cases.
Microsoft is make a particular version of Windows for a Windows appliance. It is meant to be an appliance. If you can find a way to run Linux on it, great, but that isn't their intent.
Not saying it isn't possible. But those are devices that the OS maker did not intend to be able to run Linux or any other OS but their own. The fact that workarounds have been found is beside the point.
As the first post says, it's probably only a matter of time before a hack/workaround is found.
I would argue that an iPhone is a general purpose computer.
Also, take a look at Google's Pixel device or Apple's Mac. Both of those are locked down in similar ways, possibly even more severely.
If Microsoft want's to make a version of Windows that requires their own hardware specifications AND is able to get manufacturers to make and sell it, then that's perfectly fine in my opinion.
You don't have to buy a Signature Edition Windows device though.
Do you say this about your iPhone or your smart TV or your blueray player or your automobile?
If so, there are options for all of these things if you do the research and you want to run your own stuff. There are also plenty of locked down models in the same market that do not let you modify firmware or certain settings.
This is one particular Windows appliance device. There are still plenty of general computing platforms you can run whatever you want on.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Along with secure boot and other locked down UEFI/BIOS settings, there are probably other requirements MS is stipulating for their "Signature" version of Windows.
Windows has had a long history of getting blamed for things that are inherently problems with diverse hardware.
This is Microsoft's attempt to make a Windows appliance, not unlike Google's Pixel series or Apple's Macs/iDevices.
If you want a more general purpose computer which can run Linux, you certainly still have that option.
I agree. They have a hell of an uphill climb... though they do have enterprise customers.
But does Oracle have any customer loyalty? I don't think I have ever heard anyone recommend Oracle anything (not talking about Sun's ex-products).... only grudgingly accept it as the only viable option due to vendor lock in.
Who in their right mind would agree to more Oracle lock-in than they absolutely have to?
Oracle is definitely one of those companies who would not hesitate to hold you over a barrel once you are all cozy in their infrastructure.
Oh, look, you are running our DB software... on 1000 cores....
How much is that in football fields?
Like checking barometric pressure? Is that the new thing?
It's almost as useful as a headphone jack...
I have been using Bing for over a year now.
I used to cross query with Google, but it turned out that Bing was at least as good, and a lot of times better. Plus, I like the gadgets Bing has... like a Base64 encoder/decoder and other geeky stuff.
I also like the changing wallpaper. It's just pretty.
Let us know when you find something out...