I'm a potential customer of one of these or new MBP. These seem like the only two options for a high end laptop these days. So I priced them out for a similar config.
I compared as close a config as I could between a optioned up mac and Oryx. So that means 15", because the Oryx only offers the hires display on 15". Apple only offer 16GB ram on 15" models, so that's what I set it to on Oryx Oryx only offer up to 1TB on nvme, where Apple allow 2TB. But on the Oryx you can have second drive, so I added 1 TB SSD. The graphics card options are not choices since you need the max Orix option for the high res display.
If you drop back to 1TB (which you might because Apple want $800 for the extra TB. It's Apple $3499, Oryx $2695.
Other things you might care about: I'm personally ok with either macos or Linux. You may or may not care. The mac looks ok. The Oryx looks butt ugly. The Orix lets you option it up further than Apple - 64GB Ram for instance.
In the past, claims that Apple were more expensive tended to ignore the horrible screens or limited storage on the cheaper counterparts. In this instance the Apple for a similar config is $800-$1000 more expensive.
So the Oryx is looking pretty good, except for the butt ugly case.
At real jobs with real bosses And we cant just say "fuck it and fuck your bullshit, I'm heads down working"
I do the "heads down" thing at Microsoft, have been doing it for years and have been consistently rewarded for it. Did it in my previous job too. My top performing peers and directs do it. As a matter of fact, you HAVE to defend your time because the world is full of people with shit ideas who want collaborators.
This. I can partake in as many meetings as I want. But my work is never more appreciated than when I eschew the meetings for a few days and come up with complete and useful thing, be it a hardware design, a software tool, a manual, a test spec or anything else that other people can use. Those things don't come out of meetings, they come out of focus time.
Sometimes you actually need to sit down an read / review things at your own pace an digest it.
I absolutely hate being pressed for an answer in a meeting when someone dumps a book full of data on me and expects that I will either digest it in the 30 seconds they flashed it on the screen in their poorly made powerpoint or just take their word for it.
So say that in the meeting. Don't you have a backbone?
The length of time I go without talking to a co-worker is directly proportional to my productivity.
That is a highly job dependent statement. If you're doing a braindead task more suited to automation then yes talking to someone else will lower your productivity. If you're doing an incident investigation, or solving a multi-discipline problem then without talking to someone you're doing it the least productive way.
That why I referred to myself and not anyone else with their talk-all-the-time jobs.
If I do my job right, there won't be incidents to investigate. So the incident investigators can keep going to their incident investigation meetings, while I keep on designing secure circuits in your chips.
So how exactly does this hurt me if the VM sandbox is secure? The paper seems to imply that you need other, much worse vulnerabilities to begin with to make use of this (beyond extracting information).
Breaking out of a sandbox in a non ASLR virtual memory space is a solved problem. ASLR was developed to help prevent all the malware that worked that way.
Seriously. If they wanted to know if somebody is at their workstation, just download some software from the Interwebs and install it on the computers used by employees.
You'll get a report on when employees are at their desks and, as a bonus, you can see what they're doing, where they're surfing and who they're talking to.
Can it tell when I'm writing in my notebook? I spend more time doing that than typing code or documents.
My car will lose traction if I put my foot to the floor. So I don't do that, I do other things that are less dangerous, like pushing the accelerator pedal a little bit. It's called driving.
0.5? You might want to wiki the scale of blood-alcohol content measure. I realize Germans were told they were superhuman at one point, but I thought we'd moved past that.
It's compensating for the absence of petrochemicals in the rest of the Tesla.
You are only off by an order of magnitude, congrats!
When did people stop saying "You are off by a factor of X" and start saying "off by an order of magnitude"?
What magnitude? It's hardly specific. A quick Googling reveals that it's not always 10 depending on who you ask. I don't remember encountering "order of magnitude" until I came to the States.
I wasn't really counting Mac or iOS developers. They're a small fraction of the whole. I mean people who program or design electronics and can get more done in a Unix derivative OS. I work in a building with 5000 such people. My observation is that a large proportion were very happy with the retina MBPs (I like my late 2013 model) and didn't feel screwed. Nice screen and keyboard, nice robust and simple case and you can work in a bash shell and can compile programs that also compile on Linux.
The new MBPs haven't enthused me, but I don't feel screwed because I haven't purchased one. Maybe let down, in the sense that they failed to make something as compelling in the new MBP range.
I am one of those who had been using Dash and was forced to go through a re-licensing procedure when Apple kicked it off the Apple app store.
While moderately convenient, the Apple MacOS app store is not good and the experience buying from outside is better. The number of reviews on each application is too small to be useful. It is often 0. I assume this is because they are not being shows. I've posted reviews and they never appeared. So you are left looking at the promotional blurb, wondering if the application is going to be good.
Also there are bugs with the App store's licensing code, because I often get told I don't 'own this application on this computer' (I do, I purchased it on through the app store) and have to log into with my AppleID to make it go away - on the same machine I purchased the application.
So it's buggy, leaves consumers guessing and reams developers for fees. There is plenty of scope for someone to set up a better app store that all the vendors would switch to. Steam did it for games. So why not?
I'm not a designer (not a visual or UX designer at least) but I do know what the word language means. I use a number of languages when I'm designing chips or software. I use languages when talking to people or writing. I have seen the term 'design language' in the context of computer languages for designing things. So I'm reasonably clear on what design language means.
If the one's who can't to mathematics starts adopting the wrong words for things, well that's a symptom, not a cause.
Remind me not to go to your school then. design langauge is all the look of the thing. The Wii's design langauge was all boxy with the bevelled off corner; Apple's has changed over the years but it's always had some.
It's not exactly a new term, having been around since the early 1990s at least, if not older.
The kind of words they are are looking for are "visual style" or "appearance". English has perfectly good words for that. You don't need to use words that mean something else.
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> One thing that I can't stand about these machines is that they have a num pad
Oh dear. I didn't spot that. It's now not an option.
I'm a potential customer of one of these or new MBP. These seem like the only two options for a high end laptop these days. So I priced them out for a similar config.
I compared as close a config as I could between a optioned up mac and Oryx.
So that means 15", because the Oryx only offers the hires display on 15".
Apple only offer 16GB ram on 15" models, so that's what I set it to on Oryx
Oryx only offer up to 1TB on nvme, where Apple allow 2TB. But on the Oryx you can have second drive, so I added 1 TB SSD.
The graphics card options are not choices since you need the max Orix option for the high res display.
Apple: 15.4" retina display 2880x1800. Radeon 455 4GB. 2.8GHz CPU, 16GB Memory, 2TB Storage, $4299. :$3154
Oryx 16.6" hidipi display . Nvidia GTX1070 8GB. 2.9GHz CPU. 1TB NMVe+1TB SSD.
If you drop back to 1TB (which you might because Apple want $800 for the extra TB. It's Apple $3499, Oryx $2695.
Other things you might care about:
I'm personally ok with either macos or Linux. You may or may not care.
The mac looks ok. The Oryx looks butt ugly.
The Orix lets you option it up further than Apple - 64GB Ram for instance.
In the past, claims that Apple were more expensive tended to ignore the horrible screens or limited storage on the cheaper counterparts.
In this instance the Apple for a similar config is $800-$1000 more expensive.
So the Oryx is looking pretty good, except for the butt ugly case.
Breaking out of a sandbox in a non ASLR virtual memory space is a solved problem.
Could you direct me to instructions on how I do this in my Smalltalk VM, for example?
Nope. Not without a generously funded pen testing contract.
You can find your own references on how to do it in a browser.
At real jobs with real bosses
And we cant just say "fuck it and fuck your bullshit, I'm heads down working"
I do the "heads down" thing at Microsoft, have been doing it for years and have been consistently rewarded for it. Did it in my previous job too. My top performing peers and directs do it. As a matter of fact, you HAVE to defend your time because the world is full of people with shit ideas who want collaborators.
This. I can partake in as many meetings as I want. But my work is never more appreciated than when I eschew the meetings for a few days and come up with complete and useful thing, be it a hardware design, a software tool, a manual, a test spec or anything else that other people can use. Those things don't come out of meetings, they come out of focus time.
Sometimes you actually need to sit down an read / review things at your own pace an digest it.
I absolutely hate being pressed for an answer in a meeting when someone dumps a book full of data on me and expects that I will either digest it in the 30 seconds they flashed it on the screen in their poorly made powerpoint or just take their word for it.
So say that in the meeting. Don't you have a backbone?
The length of time I go without talking to a co-worker is directly proportional to my productivity.
That is a highly job dependent statement. If you're doing a braindead task more suited to automation then yes talking to someone else will lower your productivity.
If you're doing an incident investigation, or solving a multi-discipline problem then without talking to someone you're doing it the least productive way.
That why I referred to myself and not anyone else with their talk-all-the-time jobs.
If I do my job right, there won't be incidents to investigate. So the incident investigators can keep going to their incident investigation meetings, while I keep on designing secure circuits in your chips.
So how exactly does this hurt me if the VM sandbox is secure? The paper seems to imply that you need other, much worse vulnerabilities to begin with to make use of this (beyond extracting information).
Breaking out of a sandbox in a non ASLR virtual memory space is a solved problem. ASLR was developed to help prevent all the malware that worked that way.
Seriously. If they wanted to know if somebody is at their workstation, just download some software from the Interwebs and install it on the computers used by employees.
You'll get a report on when employees are at their desks and, as a bonus, you can see what they're doing, where they're surfing and who they're talking to.
Can it tell when I'm writing in my notebook? I spend more time doing that than typing code or documents.
What base is the number being referenced written in? There's your answer.
Of course computer science idiots will like to use base 2 in areas that it doesn't make sense, but they can safely be ignored.
2, 4, 8, 16, who do we appreciatine?
>how long someone goes without speaking to another co-worker.
The length of time I go without talking to a co-worker is directly proportional to my productivity.
six *of* one half dozen of the other
But point taken.
There's a point where cars become too powerful. When Paul Walker died , it was discussed that the Porsche Carrera GT he was in (as a passenger) has three times the horsepower of the average car [and is] notoriously difficult to handle, even for professional drivers. Porsche was exonerated from blame in the crash, but when you put a car on the road that can blast to 80 at the slip of a shoe, then there's an accident waiting to happen.
My car will lose traction if I put my foot to the floor. So I don't do that, I do other things that are less dangerous, like pushing the accelerator pedal a little bit. It's called driving.
0.5? You might want to wiki the scale of blood-alcohol content measure. I realize Germans were told they were superhuman at one point, but I thought we'd moved past that.
It's compensating for the absence of petrochemicals in the rest of the Tesla.
You are only off by an order of magnitude, congrats!
When did people stop saying "You are off by a factor of X" and start saying "off by an order of magnitude"?
What magnitude? It's hardly specific. A quick Googling reveals that it's not always 10 depending on who you ask. I don't remember encountering "order of magnitude" until I came to the States.
I wasn't really counting Mac or iOS developers. They're a small fraction of the whole. I mean people who program or design electronics and can get more done in a Unix derivative OS. I work in a building with 5000 such people. My observation is that a large proportion were very happy with the retina MBPs (I like my late 2013 model) and didn't feel screwed. Nice screen and keyboard, nice robust and simple case and you can work in a bash shell and can compile programs that also compile on Linux.
The new MBPs haven't enthused me, but I don't feel screwed because I haven't purchased one. Maybe let down, in the sense that they failed to make something as compelling in the new MBP range.
> The demographics of computer buyers are changing away from power-users to casual users
Eh? There are more developers than ever.
Seriously, people are going to confuse this story with iOS 'apps', when in fact it's about full fledged computer applications on Mac OS.
I wasn't confused. It's right there on the first line : "Mac OS's App Store".
So.. In 2017 in order to sideload you need XCode or another computer or some bizarre third party app and a how-to.
Yeah. I guess that's improvement. I'll keep my Android in my pocket.
I write programs all the time and just run them. I don't use XCode. I use GCC.
Are you confusing the MacOS with iOS?
Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials
Dear Drake Baer and NY Mag Editors, If "nobody" is moving, then there cannot be an "especially".
Also, who cares? I'm 53 and have lived in the same house (which is paid for) since 1993 and the same city since 1980.
I moved country in 1999. Does that count?
I am one of those who had been using Dash and was forced to go through a re-licensing procedure when Apple kicked it off the Apple app store.
While moderately convenient, the Apple MacOS app store is not good and the experience buying from outside is better. The number of reviews on each application is too small to be useful. It is often 0. I assume this is because they are not being shows. I've posted reviews and they never appeared. So you are left looking at the promotional blurb, wondering if the application is going to be good.
Also there are bugs with the App store's licensing code, because I often get told I don't 'own this application on this computer' (I do, I purchased it on through the app store) and have to log into with my AppleID to make it go away - on the same machine I purchased the application.
So it's buggy, leaves consumers guessing and reams developers for fees. There is plenty of scope for someone to set up a better app store that all the vendors would switch to. Steam did it for games. So why not?
I'm not a designer (not a visual or UX designer at least) but I do know what the word language means. I use a number of languages when I'm designing chips or software. I use languages when talking to people or writing. I have seen the term 'design language' in the context of computer languages for designing things. So I'm reasonably clear on what design language means.
If the one's who can't to mathematics starts adopting the wrong words for things, well that's a symptom, not a cause.
Remind me not to go to your school then. design langauge is all the look of the thing. The Wii's design langauge was all boxy with the bevelled off corner; Apple's has changed over the years but it's always had some.
It's not exactly a new term, having been around since the early 1990s at least, if not older.
The kind of words they are are looking for are "visual style" or "appearance". English has perfectly good words for that. You don't need to use words that mean something else.
What do they mean by 'Design Language?'
I see no verbs, nouns, adjectives, operators, variables, constants or other things than characterize a language whether human or programming.
I find blocâ(TM)s are very demanding
>What's Apple Desktop Bus got to do with this?
That's what my brain parses ADB to every time.
It must be a function of age.