The problem with Windows IS classic Win32. So much cruft, and crappy bugs and horrible architecture decisions(KILL THE DAMN REGISTRY ALREADY),
Neither is Metro, from the looks of it.
Microsoft must be the kind of company that when it hears that the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, that they were worried about the paint on the hull.
Pre iOS6, the fake felt on Game Center, the leather stitching in Calendar, the fake book in iBooks...
Since iOS 7, the only big problem I've had with the visual changes are the fact that the sometimes the glyphs make no sense sometimes. A box with an arrow on top is supposed to be "Share?" Granted, an arrow with a twist in the middle isn't obviously share either.
When your desk has a giant mixing board on it, or 3 4k displays...
Further more, while you can't rack mount these things yet, the space savings are even better because you can fit two or three of these things in the space of one of the old Mac Pro.
You push the tab, pull open the case and replace the broken component.
Generally components like USB and ethernet ports tend not to break, and if the chipset goes kaput you'll have more than just a broken port or two
The only problem is that the video boards aren't using any sort of real standard. Granted, not many people were making Mac compatible video cards to begin with...
Intent is the difference between murder in the first degree and manslaughter.
I think what Snowden did was extremely illegal for a goddamned reason. However, these are not normal circumstances so I think he should be pardoned after being charged.
Although that being said I wish House GOP leaders would horsewhip Rep. Darrel Issa over being less responsible with leaks than Snowden, Wikileaks, Glenn Greenwald or even a hole on the side of a boat.
The USA isn't cracking down on dissidents like Russia or Iran are.
The fact that Ted Cruz, one of the few men who can be isolated as a reason for the 2013 shutdown, is still walking about...
I think things are more complex and nuanced than just saying that Snowden is a traitor or a hero or that America is complicit in the same kinds of surveillance as way more oppressive regimes are.
2013 has really brought down my tolerance for horse shit and hyperbole.
If you're going in for a web development shop, C, C++, LISP, and ASM are just potential signs that we're wasting the applicants time, or they're wasting ours.
I mean, granted if you're looking for someone who can help handle billions upon billions of transactions per second, having someone who knows their way around with a real language is handy.
Prime Sense does all of their work(did?) in Perl and they just got snapped up by Apple. I think Instagram's a Ruby shop too.
Lots of shops are still doing amazing and interesting work in PHP and Python. And Ruby for that matter.
I think we're soon reaching a language golden age where language won't matter like it used to. Maybe some day we'll be at a place where interpreter won't matter either. But I think that kind of dream universal web development executable isn't going to happen.
The same thing that happened when Firewire became SCSI 2.0.
You plug it into compatible devices and work as well as you can.
The whole argument of TB vs USB3 ignores that each socket has it's own use case. It's not like i'm going to buy a Thunderbolt mouse or a USB3 RAID SAS enclosure. But if I want to expand and put in a bunch of extra USB sockets, I can expand using Thunderbolt.
FWIW, Firewire lasted about 12 or 13 years whereas SCSI only made it 9.
According to this, the previous mac pro idled at 167W.
This mac pro idles at only 44W. Not only that but it has a lower temperature when the CPUs and GPUs peg. This all being said, I'm not shocked that Apple went this way.
Same goes for the loss of ExpressCard slots on the MacBook Pro line. I spent the better part of three years on my current machine trying to find something to put in there(I settled this year on a super cheap memory card reader).
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Looks nice, but are these styluses, like this and the S Pen, implementing for the Android stylus API?
Too bad the thing ships with only thunderbolt and no USB sockets.
Oh wait...
Doctor shortages? Big deal.
in his defense, he's not a professional statistician or mathematician. :)
The problem with Windows IS classic Win32. So much cruft, and crappy bugs and horrible architecture decisions(KILL THE DAMN REGISTRY ALREADY),
Neither is Metro, from the looks of it.
Microsoft must be the kind of company that when it hears that the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, that they were worried about the paint on the hull.
The PC Market is dying because PC OEMs are making less and less money on PC sales and have been for nearly a decade now.
This would be fine if the PC market wasn't so driven by growth.
With no growth OR no stable profit lines, the PC industry is in serious fucking trouble.
Pre iOS6, the fake felt on Game Center, the leather stitching in Calendar, the fake book in iBooks...
Since iOS 7, the only big problem I've had with the visual changes are the fact that the sometimes the glyphs make no sense sometimes. A box with an arrow on top is supposed to be "Share?" Granted, an arrow with a twist in the middle isn't obviously share either.
I don't suspect this to be the case.
For most people who use a Mac Pro, they're not shoving drives in every bay and PCI express cards in every socket.
I think it's ridiculous apple should have to optimize for the most extreme use cases rather than the most general use case.
Skeuomorphism in pre iOS 7 was kind of ridiculous.
Good skeuomorphism: the fake mixer board in a lot of audio apps
Bad skeuomorphism: contacts in iOS and OSX
Show me the math then.
2 high end non-consumer GPUs, quad core workstation CPU, 12 gigs of ECC RAM, 256Gb PCIe SSD and a small power and thermal efficient case.
When your desk has a giant mixing board on it, or 3 4k displays...
Further more, while you can't rack mount these things yet, the space savings are even better because you can fit two or three of these things in the space of one of the old Mac Pro.
You push the tab, pull open the case and replace the broken component.
Generally components like USB and ethernet ports tend not to break, and if the chipset goes kaput you'll have more than just a broken port or two
The only problem is that the video boards aren't using any sort of real standard. Granted, not many people were making Mac compatible video cards to begin with...
You didn't read the article.
The windows equivalents were MORE expensive.
4 grand for the entry level box and 11.5k for the high end, versus 3k and 9.5k for the Apple machines.
That's the surprise.
Yes you can.
Intent is the difference between murder in the first degree and manslaughter.
I think what Snowden did was extremely illegal for a goddamned reason. However, these are not normal circumstances so I think he should be pardoned after being charged.
Although that being said I wish House GOP leaders would horsewhip Rep. Darrel Issa over being less responsible with leaks than Snowden, Wikileaks, Glenn Greenwald or even a hole on the side of a boat.
The USA isn't cracking down on dissidents like Russia or Iran are.
The fact that Ted Cruz, one of the few men who can be isolated as a reason for the 2013 shutdown, is still walking about...
I think things are more complex and nuanced than just saying that Snowden is a traitor or a hero or that America is complicit in the same kinds of surveillance as way more oppressive regimes are.
2013 has really brought down my tolerance for horse shit and hyperbole.
Why round?
The goddamn top is an exhaust fan.
If you need a Xeon based workstation I'm willing to bet most of your workflow could be sped up by having software that takes advance of open CL.
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Still. a quick list of services that use Ruby aren't anything to laugh at and you can clearly still do awesome and interesting things in Ruby.
Depends on the job.
If you're going in for a web development shop, C, C++, LISP, and ASM are just potential signs that we're wasting the applicants time, or they're wasting ours.
I mean, granted if you're looking for someone who can help handle billions upon billions of transactions per second, having someone who knows their way around with a real language is handy.
Hence the other half of that question.
"Is this work interesting?"
Prime Sense does all of their work(did?) in Perl and they just got snapped up by Apple. I think Instagram's a Ruby shop too.
Lots of shops are still doing amazing and interesting work in PHP and Python. And Ruby for that matter.
I think we're soon reaching a language golden age where language won't matter like it used to. Maybe some day we'll be at a place where interpreter won't matter either. But I think that kind of dream universal web development executable isn't going to happen.
What about thermal? and about smaller size?
I'm just not convinced a monolithic box full of cards is the way of the future.
I think Steve might have been right in the 80's when he demanded that the original Mac ship with no ports.
The same thing that happened when Firewire became SCSI 2.0.
You plug it into compatible devices and work as well as you can.
The whole argument of TB vs USB3 ignores that each socket has it's own use case. It's not like i'm going to buy a Thunderbolt mouse or a USB3 RAID SAS enclosure. But if I want to expand and put in a bunch of extra USB sockets, I can expand using Thunderbolt.
FWIW, Firewire lasted about 12 or 13 years whereas SCSI only made it 9.
You mean like how it must've sucked for anyone in 1999 when Apple dropped the SCSI port from the Power Mac G3 Blue and White?
They DO ship a Thunderbolt to Firewire dongle if you need firewire(Which chains very nicely together, btw; much nicer than SCSI ever did).
I don't think necessarily that's the right metric for figuring out whether or not a language is dead.
It's very much a fuzzy, qualitative problem.
My best metric is, "Can you still get a job using this language? and is the work interesting?"
Depends.
If most of your customers are not going to add any PCIe cards into the machine, then it does make sense.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2836?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
According to this, the previous mac pro idled at 167W.
This mac pro idles at only 44W. Not only that but it has a lower temperature when the CPUs and GPUs peg. This all being said, I'm not shocked that Apple went this way.
Same goes for the loss of ExpressCard slots on the MacBook Pro line. I spent the better part of three years on my current machine trying to find something to put in there(I settled this year on a super cheap memory card reader).