Your plan will scale to about 80 employees and then explode into a furball of frustration. So citibank should have 1 IT worker for every 40 employees? That is 7350 IT staffers right? Which one should run the banking software? Which one will be responsible for the ATMs? How many helpdesk staffers will you have? Or would you propose they have 500 centralized staffers and 7350 ADDITIONAL staffers spread throughout the organization. And how will those sattelite staffers develop their skills if they are isolated and report to you? Who will mentor them, YOU? What a joke.
Especially useful for upgrading software. In most cases you can upgrade 1 node at a time and have complete up-time. Software is becoming the real problem with 100% up-time for my company.
Each line item needs to justify itself with some form of ROI. A $2 million application could be a screaming bargain, while a $4k server could be a ripoff.
Its called classified information, it happens all the time. All of IBM's employees would not know that the biggest consumer of their chips was the NSA, only a few key employees, and each of them may only know small parts of whole relationship. How is it that Apple (Shipping ~1m units per quarter) is only 2% of the market for the powerpc? That means IBM is shipping 200m units per year. IBM does not sell THAT many computers. Who is buying the rest?
Linux is barely a presence on the desktop, so any damage would be miniscule, and it is strong on servers - where Apple is weak. As for drawing OSS developers away from Linux, it seems unlikely. In fact, the opposite could be true. More OSS apps can be ported to the Max which could draw MORE developers into OSS projects than before.
98% is as close to a monopoly as you can get. AMD is still around to keep Intel honest, and if AMD drops the ball, VIA or someone else will pick it up again and run with it.
Tell them that Apple promised to support both platforms for the forseeable future. That the Apple development tools will build for both platforms. As a developer why would I not build for both when it is so easy for most apps? I honestly don't think there is a reason to wait to purchase a desktop, desktops aren't going to go Intel for almost 2 years! For the few printer manufacturers that remain, they will compile to both platforms, and you will install the one you need off the disk, so what?
Hopefully Apple will follow up with these vendors to have them publish their schedule for being xCode built or multi-platform compliant in the next few days. A list of vendors that plan to support both platforms will help calm frayed nerves for customers.
Most of the code is not written in assembler anyways only a few preformance bottlenecks, and I suspect less and less of that anymore. The elegance of the API has replaced the elegance of CISC vs RISC etc. The API isn't changing.
How about commodity pricing? Is that reason enough? They aren't stupid enough to go through all this just to lock themselves into another proprietary platform just because it happens to be made by Intel.
How are they going to get the apps developed if they don't underscore the importance of using xCode to the developers. With xCode, the software is compiled for both platforms. Buy the G5, it will run for several years on the newest software. Developers will be delivering for both platforms for the forseeable future.
From what I have read, multiple architectures are part of their plan for the next several year. As long as the developer codes the application using xCode it will create binaries for both platforms. If they wantedt to add more, Apple just has to port it, and a simple recompile is all it should take.
I agree. Controlling the release of a product, can be core to it's success. Taking that away from a company can cause real damages beyond the copies actually used by others. It is a form of corporate espionage/attack.
This is the the great (mostly) unspoken factor in the majority of open source software, and often it is not enough to move it past it's commercial equivelent.
[Cancel] halts the operation (Such as closing Excel) and you can save later. [No] proceeds with the operation without saving and your document is lost, you can not save it later.
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We need to stop thinking, sharing, and expressing our desire to consume music in ways that they haven't monopolized and just purchase CDs. Don't go to concerts (more likely to benefit the artists directly) we should just buy the concert CD. We should all pay for satelite radio, buy the best-of CDs, watch MTV and shut the he11 up.
I use the menu hotkeys a lot in excel, the most common one I use is +E D (Edit/Delete). In Excel that deletes the cell, in spreadsheet it deletes the worksheet!
Or maybe we could test on every possible combination of knowing/not knowing, tricked not fooled using all possible types of subjects, optimistic, pessimistic don't give a s**t. Yeah, yeah, and once we concluded our study with all 36 groups we would know that the study was too complex for meaningful results.
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Your plan will scale to about 80 employees and then explode into a furball of frustration. So citibank should have 1 IT worker for every 40 employees? That is 7350 IT staffers right? Which one should run the banking software? Which one will be responsible for the ATMs? How many helpdesk staffers will you have? Or would you propose they have 500 centralized staffers and 7350 ADDITIONAL staffers spread throughout the organization. And how will those sattelite staffers develop their skills if they are isolated and report to you? Who will mentor them, YOU? What a joke.
It is probably just you.
Especially useful for upgrading software. In most cases you can upgrade 1 node at a time and have complete up-time. Software is becoming the real problem with 100% up-time for my company.
Each line item needs to justify itself with some form of ROI. A $2 million application could be a screaming bargain, while a $4k server could be a ripoff.
Its called classified information, it happens all the time. All of IBM's employees would not know that the biggest consumer of their chips was the NSA, only a few key employees, and each of them may only know small parts of whole relationship. How is it that Apple (Shipping ~1m units per quarter) is only 2% of the market for the powerpc? That means IBM is shipping 200m units per year. IBM does not sell THAT many computers. Who is buying the rest?
Isn't that what rosetta is for? Why all the fuss about "classic". It should work with rosetta too shouldn't it?
Linux is barely a presence on the desktop, so any damage would be miniscule, and it is strong on servers - where Apple is weak. As for drawing OSS developers away from Linux, it seems unlikely. In fact, the opposite could be true. More OSS apps can be ported to the Max which could draw MORE developers into OSS projects than before.
The timing is interesting in that for the first time Intel may look attractive to Apple:
-They finally has a 64bit CPU that Apple can use.
-They have cheap dual-core.
-As another poster pointed out, they have DRM on the chip now.
Maybe this would have happened a while ago if only Intel had the goods.
98% is as close to a monopoly as you can get. AMD is still around to keep Intel honest, and if AMD drops the ball, VIA or someone else will pick it up again and run with it.
Tell them that Apple promised to support both platforms for the forseeable future. That the Apple development tools will build for both platforms. As a developer why would I not build for both when it is so easy for most apps? I honestly don't think there is a reason to wait to purchase a desktop, desktops aren't going to go Intel for almost 2 years! For the few printer manufacturers that remain, they will compile to both platforms, and you will install the one you need off the disk, so what?
Hopefully Apple will follow up with these vendors to have them publish their schedule for being xCode built or multi-platform compliant in the next few days. A list of vendors that plan to support both platforms will help calm frayed nerves for customers.
Most of the code is not written in assembler anyways only a few preformance bottlenecks, and I suspect less and less of that anymore. The elegance of the API has replaced the elegance of CISC vs RISC etc. The API isn't changing.
How about commodity pricing? Is that reason enough? They aren't stupid enough to go through all this just to lock themselves into another proprietary platform just because it happens to be made by Intel.
How are they going to get the apps developed if they don't underscore the importance of using xCode to the developers. With xCode, the software is compiled for both platforms. Buy the G5, it will run for several years on the newest software. Developers will be delivering for both platforms for the forseeable future.
From what I have read, multiple architectures are part of their plan for the next several year. As long as the developer codes the application using xCode it will create binaries for both platforms. If they wantedt to add more, Apple just has to port it, and a simple recompile is all it should take.
Hear, Hear! All these moderator directives are getting annoying. If we don't attempt to stop it all we will see eventually is meta-comments.
Exactly, and the software is not released yet either, could they be waiting till the release date to make their changes public?
I have been reading Dvorak for 10 years now and you are correct. He is tech-entertainment, not serious tech-commentary.
I agree. Controlling the release of a product, can be core to it's success. Taking that away from a company can cause real damages beyond the copies actually used by others. It is a form of corporate espionage/attack.
>It's only cool because it's free.
This is the the great (mostly) unspoken factor in the majority of open source software, and often it is not enough to move it past it's commercial equivelent.
[Cancel] halts the operation (Such as closing Excel) and you can save later. [No] proceeds with the operation without saving and your document is lost, you can not save it later.
We need to stop thinking, sharing, and expressing our desire to consume music in ways that they haven't monopolized and just purchase CDs. Don't go to concerts (more likely to benefit the artists directly) we should just buy the concert CD. We should all pay for satelite radio, buy the best-of CDs, watch MTV and shut the he11 up.
I use the menu hotkeys a lot in excel, the most common one I use is +E D (Edit/Delete). In Excel that deletes the cell, in spreadsheet it deletes the worksheet!
Or maybe we could test on every possible combination of knowing/not knowing, tricked not fooled using all possible types of subjects, optimistic, pessimistic don't give a s**t. Yeah, yeah, and once we concluded our study with all 36 groups we would know that the study was too complex for meaningful results.
One thing I really like on negative reviews is a recommendation of an alternative.