They lost all credibility with the.com rise and crash.
I am not following the experts. What I am following is lots of money is out there. People do not want it to loose value. When Stocks go down in value they put it in other places. Housing was the boom during the.com crash. Bitcoins are soooo easy to invest with less hassle during a crash. Gold too.
But overall bitcoin and gold are TERRIBLE investments as there is no ROI. But now my opinion is they are serving a purpose as the stock valuations are well out of place and nervous investors are buying bitcoin. THe bullish ones now will be buying them later on after their stocks start crashing and they need a safe haven. That in return raises the value.
So we will see. Right now I want to get money to pay off debt first over investing but I am considering a small tiny investment to see if it will grow. It is risky at 6,000 a coin for sure IN THE SHORT TERM.
Tablet OS Market - See Laptop OS Market. You shouldn't have a whole different operating system for tablets.
Apple's success on tablets comes from realizing how absolutely wrong you are.
Do people still buy Apple tablets anymore? I thought this died down in around 2012 and 2013. I do see Samsung and Surface Pro tablets popular with professionals and around the office. Samsungs runs either Android or Windows depending on which model and all the Surface line obviously runs Windows.
Sure Apple may still some some but they are losing steam and certainly not used in the enterprise.
Windows on Desktop on life support? WTF. Go look around your office and tell me this? No really go ahead. GO walk into a BestBuy and tell me how many Linux desktops you see on those shiny new laptops and desktops you see?
Server OS? Majority of servers run on Windows. I know this pisses off Linux guys here who are admins but outside of Silicon Valley most regular fortune 1000 companies MDFs have a few unix and Linux boxes and racks and racks of Windows based servers for Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.
Tablet OS? The suface is one of the best selling tablets and has been outside of slashdot for years now. In this echo chamber it failed but Surface Pros are popular in many companies. Infact it earned Microsoft billions in revenue.
Sorry Apple and Google may have a larger market cap, but Microsoft is no slouch in Enterprise computing. I am not arguing its stock price is fairly valued. I think they all are over-valued in general. Has Facebook even made revenue yet? I know it took Amazon 10 years to *actually* make money!
Microsoft love them or hate them have always made lots and lots of money where others just have a higher market cap with investors with little portfolio.
Normally I laugh at people foolish to buy at a high and sell low when it tanks, but I am thinking it will only go up for the following reasons: 1. We are at an economic height now and growth we have not seen since the mid to late 1990s. 2. Russia and other countries are launching their own bitcoins 3. Goldman Sachs and others like this because they can do business without being taxed or have the government snoop. You can easily do commerce in bitcoins and not pay taxes
So what makes 1 unique and retarded? Well, like gold bitcoin has an inverse relationship to the stock market. WIth over-inflated prices we know a crash is coming and recession will strike. That is the norm these days. When it does gold SPIKES. When Wall Street sees their stocks losing 1/2 it's value in just 3 months they need a safe haven to put their money. Gold and bitcoin are such.
Even better bitcoins may skyrocket in value in such an event in a stock market collapse making thsoe who didn't get in at $6,000 a coin sorry. I am going to save this comment so I can either laugh at myself for benig moronic if I am wrong later on or will do this as a HA told ya so!
I am seriously thinking of putting some money down but am nervous I am buying at a high.
So could the older Alpha chips running Windows NT/2000 RC 3. But they ran so much slower.
Running emulators will suck battery life right out as the instructions can't be run in a way to conserve power usage. These devices are only good to run the internet on Edge and that is about it perhaps running Netflix and Hulu. The appstore is still limited on Windows
No that is the problem IT supposed to be part of the organization. Only last decade had this changed as IT was involved with business processing and critical operations. If IT is not qualified to handle security then who is??
IT NEEDS to be advised to and part of the process or you end up with a nightmare like this. How much money do you think that airhead marketing manager makes in that video and how successful do you think that new website in that video linked above will be?
Hell the poor IT web developer can't even email the VP about the requirements without being fired. The VP could have saved alot of money by firing the 6 figure airhead and work with the web developer to get it done with a proper budget.
If you treat them like janitors you risk disaster. I for one worked for companies where they wanted 1 months worth of work in 3 weeks or else we will get an Indian etc. Guess what? Projects failed.
If IT is respected again and not freaking outsourced for pennies on the dollar and part of the organization just like HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc then you will get a CIO who is qualified to handle security.
Give it up already. It aint gonna happen. Windows NT has been ported to many platforms and they already tried in modern computing history with WindowsPhone and WindowsRT.
Unless maybe they plan some sort of weird hybrid device where the OS runs on the ARM but an ATOM (discontinued) or some x86 takes over to run classic apps I see more money lost.
Even Google played with x86 hardware with Android for x86 with the Asus Zenfone. It failed. Applications/Programs define what hardware/software to run. ARM is stuck on mobile, x86 for content creators and IBM stuff for mainframes.That is just the way it is.
Still no way to view certificates for my users. Unacceptable as developer tools are too hard to use for my older users over the phone to check if a site is a scam site or if they have been infected.
Why the hell did Google remove this feature? It's security 101
These are the 2 big stories regarding Russia today, and explains a lot of what went down, and the concentrated effort (and we do know it was a Clinton campaign effort thanks to wikileaks) to link Trump to Russia during the campaign in order to take the heat off herself.
I still play it. Have you tried it again recently. You can buy your own bachelor pad for your inn/cantina for XP and there have been many many extra chapters and updates. You can start at level 60 too with the Eternal Empire and choose to side with the republic or empire afterwards.
Just picked up an iCore 5, 12 gigs, 2 terabtes HD...$197
Great for porn, web, and most games older than about 4 years ago. It's runs SQL Server 2012, VS 2012, and some other IDEs environments just fine.
Why would I pay $1k for anything else?
For one SSD is monumentous improvement. So much so there is no way you will go back after you experience it. Second since you mentioned SQL Server and Web development it is nice to partition that off in a VM. VirtualBox and Linux KMS is free and for a little more you can upgrade your copy of Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro which comes with Hyper-V for free which is great for running Windows based Vms and of course VMWare Workstation.
Did your OEM turn off virtualization? What if you need more ram? Are they soldiered in?
You are an IT professional.
Your time and reputation is worth it if you have a decent system that can have you learn material, practice simulated VMs, and do your job better and more efficiently. So I would argue even building your own new i5 for $1200 you can pick up an NvME 960 or a cheaper Samsung Pro 1 TB SSD and 32 gigs of ram and can put SQL Server where it belongs on a VM and leave your desktop lighter and quicker.
My 4 year old i7 with raid 0 ssds for VMs and another SSD for bootup complete with an RX 470 AMD card and 32 gigs of ram was expensive but I have 3 virtual machines open right now and they all start within 2 to 3 seconds.
Go to settings-> updates -> and select update schedule -> defere updates. Select 30 to 90 days. Done!
For the system administrators now create a GPO to do the same and put it on Active Directory so no one else in your organization gets the updates until others find the bugs for you. Call it a day and go home.
Consider that the GPU may not have enough lanes to get full speed. The RAM is probably not DDR4, and it being an AIO machine means that heat will be a problem, especially with an i7 (which is likely gimped and lacks the full features of the chip).
It seems like your parents got taken advantage of by sales people.
Nope I picked it. DDR 4 ram is required by the CPU chipset. The CPU chipset sets the lanes too so ditto on both. They don't need dedicated gaming graphics.
All they need is a big screen that is quality IPS and fast SSD boot ups. Who cares if i7 is clocked slower as not everyone games or compiles gigabytes of code all day.
Windows 7 is 8 years old near EOL and quite dated. It's not energy efficient and lacks touch, extra security, and mobile apps like Hulu, Netflix and office 365 add ons like planner, Dynamics, etc.
2013 is considered very new. My Haswel today still is in the same league with Skylake of today. AMD has changed the game with their neat 8 core CPUs. But mine still works in the meantime
I am 41 and got more into it. It's fun and I like the flexibility that I can add another SSD for a raid as an example which I do use for virtual machines.
You can't just upgrade (to the grandparent here) the graphics card either. PCs today have shitty 190 watt power supplies that will blow or lack slots on the board even.
Yes you pay more. But my ram is not soldiered in. My chipset let's me overclock, I can fit a water cooler as lastest i9s and i7ks burn HOT like 90C to piss on AMD and vice versa. If my fans get noisy I can replace them. I can add more hard drives and ssds. My UEFI bios let's me run virtualization and Intel storage options for RAID.
My point is OEMS suck and have freaking taken an Apple role of gluing and crippling their products so they can sell higher skus. Yes, Asus and Dell are guilty of these things described above and will happily not tell you they under locked your CPU, soldiered your ram, and turned off virtualization until AFTER you bought it.
But if you just use Chrome and Excel then who cares that Dell is cheaper.
If you need more and code or need to learn server stuff with virtualization or game you can't beat a home brew.
Not quite. Prebuilt systems are significantly cheaper. My parents computer died last week.
They bought a rediculous over specced PC all in one with a 27 inch 2K 1440P screen, i7, SSD, 16 gigs of RAM and even a gaming card Nvidia GTX 950ti for $999. All my Dad needed was the big screen for his 70 year old eyes LOL
That would be well over $1500 if you home brewed it.
Have they forgotten Windows 7 is near EOL soon. I would surely hope they don't count on IT departments waiting until the last minute to migrate like they did during XP.
I know bank of America has already started their migration early this year and is replacing their fleet of aged hardware as they go on
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According to CNBC it's going to keep growing past $10,000 per BTC.
They lost all credibility with the .com rise and crash.
I am not following the experts. What I am following is lots of money is out there. People do not want it to loose value. When Stocks go down in value they put it in other places. Housing was the boom during the .com crash. Bitcoins are soooo easy to invest with less hassle during a crash. Gold too.
But overall bitcoin and gold are TERRIBLE investments as there is no ROI. But now my opinion is they are serving a purpose as the stock valuations are well out of place and nervous investors are buying bitcoin. THe bullish ones now will be buying them later on after their stocks start crashing and they need a safe haven. That in return raises the value.
So we will see. Right now I want to get money to pay off debt first over investing but I am considering a small tiny investment to see if it will grow. It is risky at 6,000 a coin for sure IN THE SHORT TERM.
Tablet OS Market - See Laptop OS Market. You shouldn't have a whole different operating system for tablets.
Apple's success on tablets comes from realizing how absolutely wrong you are.
Do people still buy Apple tablets anymore? I thought this died down in around 2012 and 2013. I do see Samsung and Surface Pro tablets popular with professionals and around the office. Samsungs runs either Android or Windows depending on which model and all the Surface line obviously runs Windows.
Sure Apple may still some some but they are losing steam and certainly not used in the enterprise.
Haha.
Windows on Desktop on life support? WTF. Go look around your office and tell me this? No really go ahead. GO walk into a BestBuy and tell me how many Linux desktops you see on those shiny new laptops and desktops you see?
Server OS? Majority of servers run on Windows. I know this pisses off Linux guys here who are admins but outside of Silicon Valley most regular fortune 1000 companies MDFs have a few unix and Linux boxes and racks and racks of Windows based servers for Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.
Tablet OS? The suface is one of the best selling tablets and has been outside of slashdot for years now. In this echo chamber it failed but Surface Pros are popular in many companies. Infact it earned Microsoft billions in revenue.
Sorry Apple and Google may have a larger market cap, but Microsoft is no slouch in Enterprise computing. I am not arguing its stock price is fairly valued. I think they all are over-valued in general. Has Facebook even made revenue yet? I know it took Amazon 10 years to *actually* make money!
Microsoft love them or hate them have always made lots and lots of money where others just have a higher market cap with investors with little portfolio.
Normally I laugh at people foolish to buy at a high and sell low when it tanks, but I am thinking it will only go up for the following reasons:
1. We are at an economic height now and growth we have not seen since the mid to late 1990s.
2. Russia and other countries are launching their own bitcoins
3. Goldman Sachs and others like this because they can do business without being taxed or have the government snoop. You can easily do commerce in bitcoins and not pay taxes
So what makes 1 unique and retarded? Well, like gold bitcoin has an inverse relationship to the stock market. WIth over-inflated prices we know a crash is coming and recession will strike. That is the norm these days. When it does gold SPIKES. When Wall Street sees their stocks losing 1/2 it's value in just 3 months they need a safe haven to put their money. Gold and bitcoin are such.
Even better bitcoins may skyrocket in value in such an event in a stock market collapse making thsoe who didn't get in at $6,000 a coin sorry. I am going to save this comment so I can either laugh at myself for benig moronic if I am wrong later on or will do this as a HA told ya so!
I am seriously thinking of putting some money down but am nervous I am buying at a high.
What do you all think>?
So could the older Alpha chips running Windows NT/2000 RC 3. But they ran so much slower.
Running emulators will suck battery life right out as the instructions can't be run in a way to conserve power usage. These devices are only good to run the internet on Edge and that is about it perhaps running Netflix and Hulu. The appstore is still limited on Windows
No that is the problem IT supposed to be part of the organization. Only last decade had this changed as IT was involved with business processing and critical operations. If IT is not qualified to handle security then who is??
IT NEEDS to be advised to and part of the process or you end up with a nightmare like this. How much money do you think that airhead marketing manager makes in that video and how successful do you think that new website in that video linked above will be?
Hell the poor IT web developer can't even email the VP about the requirements without being fired. The VP could have saved alot of money by firing the 6 figure airhead and work with the web developer to get it done with a proper budget.
If you treat them like janitors you risk disaster. I for one worked for companies where they wanted 1 months worth of work in 3 weeks or else we will get an Indian etc. Guess what? Projects failed.
If IT is respected again and not freaking outsourced for pennies on the dollar and part of the organization just like HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc then you will get a CIO who is qualified to handle security.
Whosh.
My point is not about MS vs non MS people in I.T. making decisions.
Rather it is moronic nightmarish scenario of non-IT folks making requirements with 0 input from IT on a shoestring budget. On the link above I loved the phrase "...if you email the Vice President on the requirements your contract will be reviewed .."
After all it is not like they are judged by any other metric besides spending money or anything like that.
Also go to India or get some college kid to run it for cheap. That is what any MBA will tell you and it is not like it is hard or anything to do.
Give it up already. It aint gonna happen. Windows NT has been ported to many platforms and they already tried in modern computing history with WindowsPhone and WindowsRT.
Unless maybe they plan some sort of weird hybrid device where the OS runs on the ARM but an ATOM (discontinued) or some x86 takes over to run classic apps I see more money lost.
Even Google played with x86 hardware with Android for x86 with the Asus Zenfone. It failed. Applications/Programs define what hardware/software to run. ARM is stuck on mobile, x86 for content creators and IBM stuff for mainframes.That is just the way it is.
Or stop using insecure outdated software. I believe later versions don't use flash anymore
Still no way to view certificates for my users. Unacceptable as developer tools are too hard to use for my older users over the phone to check if a site is a scam site or if they have been infected.
Why the hell did Google remove this feature? It's security 101
These are the 2 big stories regarding Russia today, and explains a lot of what went down, and the concentrated effort (and we do know it was a Clinton campaign effort thanks to wikileaks) to link Trump to Russia during the campaign in order to take the heat off herself.
http://thehill.com/policy/nati...
http://www.newsweek.com/james-...
It's Comey and the Obama DOJ that needs to be investigated for obstruction of justice.
No they need to investigate these guys named as DEVO for the suppressed secret information.
Please oh please as the last of 8 people who play it still sigh.
I am still geek enough to hope Disney will launch a new Star Wars series based on the old republic era after the next wave of garbage finishes
Better not!
I still play it. Have you tried it again recently. You can buy your own bachelor pad for your inn/cantina for XP and there have been many many extra chapters and updates. You can start at level 60 too with the Eternal Empire and choose to side with the republic or empire afterwards.
Just picked up an iCore 5, 12 gigs, 2 terabtes HD...$197
Great for porn, web, and most games older than about 4 years ago. It's runs SQL Server 2012, VS 2012, and some other IDEs environments just fine.
Why would I pay $1k for anything else?
For one SSD is monumentous improvement. So much so there is no way you will go back after you experience it. Second since you mentioned SQL Server and Web development it is nice to partition that off in a VM. VirtualBox and Linux KMS is free and for a little more you can upgrade your copy of Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro which comes with Hyper-V for free which is great for running Windows based Vms and of course VMWare Workstation.
Did your OEM turn off virtualization? What if you need more ram? Are they soldiered in?
You are an IT professional.
Your time and reputation is worth it if you have a decent system that can have you learn material, practice simulated VMs, and do your job better and more efficiently. So I would argue even building your own new i5 for $1200 you can pick up an NvME 960 or a cheaper Samsung Pro 1 TB SSD and 32 gigs of ram and can put SQL Server where it belongs on a VM and leave your desktop lighter and quicker.
My 4 year old i7 with raid 0 ssds for VMs and another SSD for bootup complete with an RX 470 AMD card and 32 gigs of ram was expensive but I have 3 virtual machines open right now and they all start within 2 to 3 seconds.
Go to settings-> updates -> and select update schedule -> defere updates. Select 30 to 90 days. Done!
For the system administrators now create a GPO to do the same and put it on Active Directory so no one else in your organization gets the updates until others find the bugs for you. Call it a day and go home.
Consider that the GPU may not have enough lanes to get full speed. The RAM is probably not DDR4, and it being an AIO machine means that heat will be a problem, especially with an i7 (which is likely gimped and lacks the full features of the chip).
It seems like your parents got taken advantage of by sales people.
Nope I picked it. DDR 4 ram is required by the CPU chipset. The CPU chipset sets the lanes too so ditto on both. They don't need dedicated gaming graphics.
All they need is a big screen that is quality IPS and fast SSD boot ups. Who cares if i7 is clocked slower as not everyone games or compiles gigabytes of code all day.
Even my 2014 era Haswell has all of that.
Windows 7 is 8 years old near EOL and quite dated. It's not energy efficient and lacks touch, extra security, and mobile apps like Hulu, Netflix and office 365 add ons like planner, Dynamics, etc.
FYI the new AMD CPU Ryzen are 8 core 16 threads and Intel's response coffeelake CPus are 6 core 12 threaded i7s .
Don't know what your workload works like but I thought I would mention it as AND got competitive again.
2013 is considered very new. My Haswel today still is in the same league with Skylake of today. AMD has changed the game with their neat 8 core CPUs. But mine still works in the meantime
Actually it's growing and quite popular as consumer GPUs really started killing the consoles over the past 7 years.
Asus and gigabyte sell tens of millions of GPUs and gaming motherboards each year.
Who isn't buying them is Grandma and housewives to text on Facebook.
I am 41 and got more into it. It's fun and I like the flexibility that I can add another SSD for a raid as an example which I do use for virtual machines.
You can't just upgrade (to the grandparent here) the graphics card either. PCs today have shitty 190 watt power supplies that will blow or lack slots on the board even.
Yes you pay more. But my ram is not soldiered in. My chipset let's me overclock, I can fit a water cooler as lastest i9s and i7ks burn HOT like 90C to piss on AMD and vice versa. If my fans get noisy I can replace them. I can add more hard drives and ssds. My UEFI bios let's me run virtualization and Intel storage options for RAID.
My point is OEMS suck and have freaking taken an Apple role of gluing and crippling their products so they can sell higher skus. Yes, Asus and Dell are guilty of these things described above and will happily not tell you they under locked your CPU, soldiered your ram, and turned off virtualization until AFTER you bought it.
But if you just use Chrome and Excel then who cares that Dell is cheaper.
If you need more and code or need to learn server stuff with virtualization or game you can't beat a home brew.
Not quite. Prebuilt systems are significantly cheaper. My parents computer died last week.
They bought a rediculous over specced PC all in one with a 27 inch 2K 1440P screen, i7, SSD, 16 gigs of RAM and even a gaming card Nvidia GTX 950ti for $999. All my Dad needed was the big screen for his 70 year old eyes LOL
That would be well over $1500 if you home brewed it.
Have they forgotten Windows 7 is near EOL soon. I would surely hope they don't count on IT departments waiting until the last minute to migrate like they did during XP.
I know bank of America has already started their migration early this year and is replacing their fleet of aged hardware as they go on