This will give them some good experience at migrating to Win10. If they can apply that to their consulting teams there will be lots of customers wanting them to do the same. Plus, being a gold partner and not on the 'latest and greatest' release does not look good.
There is a solution to that: It is called "being (mostly) compatible with an established API".
This is why Win10 on ARM running Win32 'natively' could be disruption for certain groups. We've had some of our internal groups asking when we were going to be looking at this type of hardware to replace their PCs and mobiles. Myself I'm wondering my MS is taking so long to get product out.
The timeframe given (100 years) means that we will not have reached anything outside our solar system before this occurs. Therefore, the 'entire universe' available to humanity for this problem is entirely contained within Sols grip.
An FTL (or close to it) drive changes that limitation, though I have no information about the probability of one of those being manufactured and actually working in the timeframe given, nor of the habitability of worlds with say 50 light years of Earth.
UBI is a good idea, but it won't get implemented in the US until the alternative is the majority of the population living in poverty....
This is a fundamental shift that I don't think we're ready for yet.
A UBI using corporate taxes that are being reduced and income tax where the high net worth individuals have moved to New Zealand? Tell 'im he's dreamin'!
What I'm seeing is the constant race to the bottom for IT costs, with the accompanying ever declining quality of delivered services. Their inability to move many of their applications from obsolete standards like WinXP and old browser versions means they will continue to waste money and effort trying to keep these old apps going.
This is 100% a management issue in refusing to invest now in order to reduce maintenance costs in the long term. Changing their OS to the commodity standard may help them find cheaper resources for support, however they loose bargaining power with Microsoft once they migrate across.
Does wireless charging offer any advantage at all over wired charging, besides looking cool?
If they eliminate all other ports, then the phone strength & integrity skyrockets. No more ports that might leak, or stress points where the casing could crack. Form factor becomes more flexible too. Still a few more to remove, plus they will need to build the SIM in and have that programmable.
Sure they did. Ubuntu tried to crowdsource the Edge a few years back. Google & Microsoft storing your data in the cloud and running web based apps was part of the plan to reduce differentiation in hardware. Agreed though - Microsoft could be on a winner if they get a new Windows ARM Phone 10 running Win32 libraries natively to work properly and with their dock.
Windows 10 on ARM64, Mobile Edition. That gives native x86 emulation, so access to the majority of software written out there. Team it with their dock and replace a bunch of business class computers with it.
As seen in Venezuela, socialism is always successful at first. It may take several years. It may take a decade, or perhaps more. But this WILL happen. When you take away profits, business will do less of that activity. It cannot be solved by price controls, or by nationalizing a business or industry. Eventually enough companies will leave such that there are severe price distortions, which leads to disastrous consequences.
Venezuela used their oil exports to prop up their socialist policies, which worked fine as long as oil prices stayed high and the money was rolling in. They failed to transition to an internal recovery system so when oil prices tanked they lost the funding to keep subsidising food. Interesting learnings there.
Yeah we have this. Business wants something, IT says to write down some requirements and they'll architect it and go to market for a solution, or worst case scenario build in-house. Business complains it has no money and goes away. Later IT gets called to fix a bodged up solution and find the business have propped up a desktop as a quasi-server, wrote some strange code, and now expect IT to turn it into a managed, reliable service.
Really? This is how you're managing a few billion dolllars worth of assets? No, they couldn't find a poofteenth of a percent of their budget to do it right.
we also have people that do not understand the difference between how their home PCs are managed vs a 10k seat enterprise. No, you don't get to download and install what you want. No you don't get to buy what you want. No you can't subscribe to %any_old_random_software and expect to get it installed asap
On the other hand we have business teams writing code, getting it QA'd then packaged for delivery faster than I know about.
The difference being, once a problem has been solved (or worked around) in an automated vehicle, *all* of those same vehicles (and potentially everything from that manufacturer) should be able to download and use the fix. Try doing that with humans.
That list of problems is now a checkbox of projects. Some may never be solved, and would require human intervention no matter what. I expect the vast majority though would be resolved however. Somewhere in there is a crux point where autonomous cars will be better on average than manual drivers.
If you have a choice of X and Y, and you notice that almost everyone else, including people that that did plenty of due diligence, chose X over Y, then that is pretty solid evidence that X is a better choice. If some people that chose Y, later admitted it was a mistake and went back to X, then that is even more evidence for X.
You should talk to the PM of Australia - still forcing the build of a copper based communications network (primarily fibre to the node, then copper to the premise) when every other country / company is abandoning copper for straight through fibre for fixed line.
If, despite all that, you want to choose Y, then you should be able to explain why everyone else is wrong.
Smart politicians ensure their words contain enough ambiguity to weasel out of poor decisions. The first excuse is infallibly "blame the previous guy".
Some of us are here. It doesn't matter what's better, it matters what the execs want. If they want a shiny new Microsoft surface Book/Pro, that's what they (eventually) get. If we tried to push Linux, there would be a backlash and demand for what they are familiar with. Since we have to support it, and licence it, and all the other BS about it, Windows is the primary desktop OS.
Of course, there's the 8 figures annually of software development we do for our in-house stuff, which is still in the process of migrating to web based SaaS. Eventually we can become OS agnostic for a large % of our users, but not yet.
I received an update to my Samsung Galaxy S5 in the last week. That handset was released 3 years ago. Either your providers are not bothering to pass on updates, or the manufacturer isn't releasing updates. In your case it sounds like the manufacturer is at fault - so good work telling us which ones to avoid!
It's great that electrical cars are much cheaper to run than an ICE powered car, however without charging stations they are just a much larger paper weight.
I just checked https://myelectriccar.com.au/c... and found that the majority of charging stations near me are in car dealerships. There's one in a hotel about 15 mins away, and 4 bays in a humongous shopping centre on the way to work - I'm sure availability there will be slim to none. (Currently there is only 28 available charging stations in my entire 2M+ city)
That means installing charging stations in our apartment complex car bays. I wonder how much that will cost, and how long our body corporate will argue about the installation, and then there's the question about installing into a heritage listed building? Are we even allowed to do it?
No, we'd have to be using Uber autodrive cars to go down this path in the timeframe listed. Much more likely than being able to replace all our gasoline based infrastructure.
Fibre rollouts are occuring everywhere, so it was expected that the costs would be well within budget (which included contingency). IIRC the rollout was expanded from 90 to 93% as they were finding savings. Other rollouts have significantly reduced rollout costs, but time....time was the problem.
Politically the underserved regions needed to be amongst the front runners, plus some issues found with asbestos that the incumbent telco had to remediate, well that threw things out a fair bit. The project sought and was granted in cabinet an extra 2 years to rollout, and expected to be within 1 year at worst of that date. Achieving all goals? That's debatable. There's division about the pricing model which is still causing issues today, and will for years to come. Budget and timeframe looked like they were actually doable however.
You could have had 100/40 for that same price on fibre. With a little lower latency too. If you wanted to pay for a faster connection (250/100, 500/200, 1000/400) that would be available at the flick of a software switch and a modem reboot.
Now, you're limited to 76/20 - pretty good for the present sure, but to get anything better is going to cost more - a lot more - to get fibre closer to your premises, so they can run g.FAST for up to 1Gb.
So where are the touted savings? It's not in time, that's now pretty much the same for both projects, thanks to the delays in starting the copper based plan. It's not in cost - the cost of the changed NBN has risen to $49+B - that's a little over $4000 per connection It's not capability, as both copper and HFC based networks do not offer multiple connections at the one premise, and both need a lot of extra $$$ to upgrade to anything faster than 100Mb. It's not in the asset, as the copper based NBN could not find a private investor willing to buy into the company to help pay for the rollout - the government had to step in.
There are literally zero redeeming points for the copper based NBN to proceed.
Couple more points:
1. The reduced cost of operating a fibre link would have paid back the extra install costs to lay the fibre in around 6-7 years. Those initial fibre connections are on the brink of paying back the extra CAPEX to rollout that fibre. 2. I'm on FTTB with 100/40 speeds, so I'm on the best that the copper can provide. FTTB is a fine interim solution as the copper is protected from the elements, and usually well within design limitations for getting high speed (even gigabit) connections. All outside copper however should have been replaced.
Originally 93% with fixed line FTTP, 4% fixed wireless, 3% satellite. By installing fibre to the home future upgrades for higher bandwidth would be much cheaper, with the intention that profits would eventually push fibre even further into that wireless space.
All gone now, the copper based network soaks up an extra $bill or so a year, plus upgrades means expensive civil works to reduce the length of copper.
The problem with telstra was that the previous administration wanted to forcibly buy out telstras copper network, in order to ensure that the NBN had a monopoly. That copper network is still worth heaps of money, and the negotiations were around that cost.
The terms were changed when the government changed and decided to use existing infrastructure rather than drop new fibre and wireless everywhere. As part of the change, Telstra no longer needed to fix problems with their pits & ducts, and NBNco became owners (and rectifiers) of the copper access network (CAN) so they could use it in place of fibre. The monetary amount to Telstra was pretty much the same, though Telstra now scores a lot of those remediation contracts for pits & ducts plus the CAN remediation, on top of its original payments.
The change in direction by the change of government is what is causing so many issues.
So, W10ARM runs on ARM and runs ARM and Win32 apps from anywhere; mobile devices have a dock for large screen, kb & mouse; and ARM devices are pretty much mobile phones and tablets. Is this the converged device businesses have been looking for?
I'm in software licence management, so converging devices can simplify management effort considerably...
Is there any change to the value of your house with Tesla shingles installed vs normal shingles? Many people sell property and move on, so if adding these increase the value of the house it may be a zero-sum game.
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This will give them some good experience at migrating to Win10. If they can apply that to their consulting teams there will be lots of customers wanting them to do the same.
Plus, being a gold partner and not on the 'latest and greatest' release does not look good.
'Roos are leaping away from unknown / danger, which at night is their shadow. This is why they leap towards lights and your car.
There is a solution to that: It is called "being (mostly) compatible with an established API".
This is why Win10 on ARM running Win32 'natively' could be disruption for certain groups. We've had some of our internal groups asking when we were going to be looking at this type of hardware to replace their PCs and mobiles. Myself I'm wondering my MS is taking so long to get product out.
The timeframe given (100 years) means that we will not have reached anything outside our solar system before this occurs. Therefore, the 'entire universe' available to humanity for this problem is entirely contained within Sols grip.
An FTL (or close to it) drive changes that limitation, though I have no information about the probability of one of those being manufactured and actually working in the timeframe given, nor of the habitability of worlds with say 50 light years of Earth.
UBI is a good idea, but it won't get implemented in the US until the alternative is the majority of the population living in poverty. ...
This is a fundamental shift that I don't think we're ready for yet.
A UBI using corporate taxes that are being reduced and income tax where the high net worth individuals have moved to New Zealand?
Tell 'im he's dreamin'!
Apps are crap, webapps are where it's at!
1 day later, iOSv2 reveals with the app store: "Apps are where it's at!"
Their inability to move many of their applications from obsolete standards like WinXP and old browser versions means they will continue to waste money and effort trying to keep these old apps going.
This is 100% a management issue in refusing to invest now in order to reduce maintenance costs in the long term. Changing their OS to the commodity standard may help them find cheaper resources for support, however they loose bargaining power with Microsoft once they migrate across.
Does wireless charging offer any advantage at all over wired charging, besides looking cool?
If they eliminate all other ports, then the phone strength & integrity skyrockets. No more ports that might leak, or stress points where the casing could crack. Form factor becomes more flexible too. Still a few more to remove, plus they will need to build the SIM in and have that programmable.
You don't get fired for buying IBM!
Sure they did. Ubuntu tried to crowdsource the Edge a few years back. Google & Microsoft storing your data in the cloud and running web based apps was part of the plan to reduce differentiation in hardware.
Agreed though - Microsoft could be on a winner if they get a new Windows ARM Phone 10 running Win32 libraries natively to work properly and with their dock.
...why are Michael Bay's Transformers movies still a thing that exists?
'Cause we still like explosions, hot girls, fast cars, and nostalgia for the toys we played with as youths? We know the plot is scabbed together.
Team it with their dock and replace a bunch of business class computers with it.
A better name wouldn't hurt though...
As seen in Venezuela, socialism is always successful at first. It may take several years. It may take a decade, or perhaps more. But this WILL happen. When you take away profits, business will do less of that activity. It cannot be solved by price controls, or by nationalizing a business or industry. Eventually enough companies will leave such that there are severe price distortions, which leads to disastrous consequences.
Venezuela used their oil exports to prop up their socialist policies, which worked fine as long as oil prices stayed high and the money was rolling in. They failed to transition to an internal recovery system so when oil prices tanked they lost the funding to keep subsidising food.
Interesting learnings there.
Business complains it has no money and goes away.
Later IT gets called to fix a bodged up solution and find the business have propped up a desktop as a quasi-server, wrote some strange code, and now expect IT to turn it into a managed, reliable service.
Really? This is how you're managing a few billion dolllars worth of assets?
No, they couldn't find a poofteenth of a percent of their budget to do it right.
we also have people that do not understand the difference between how their home PCs are managed vs a 10k seat enterprise. No, you don't get to download and install what you want. No you don't get to buy what you want. No you can't subscribe to %any_old_random_software and expect to get it installed asap
On the other hand we have business teams writing code, getting it QA'd then packaged for delivery faster than I know about.
the list goes on and on...
As it does for human drivers now too.
The difference being, once a problem has been solved (or worked around) in an automated vehicle, *all* of those same vehicles (and potentially everything from that manufacturer) should be able to download and use the fix.
Try doing that with humans.
That list of problems is now a checkbox of projects. Some may never be solved, and would require human intervention no matter what. I expect the vast majority though would be resolved however.
Somewhere in there is a crux point where autonomous cars will be better on average than manual drivers.
If you have a choice of X and Y, and you notice that almost everyone else, including people that that did plenty of due diligence, chose X over Y, then that is pretty solid evidence that X is a better choice. If some people that chose Y, later admitted it was a mistake and went back to X, then that is even more evidence for X.
You should talk to the PM of Australia - still forcing the build of a copper based communications network (primarily fibre to the node, then copper to the premise) when every other country / company is abandoning copper for straight through fibre for fixed line.
If, despite all that, you want to choose Y, then you should be able to explain why everyone else is wrong.
Smart politicians ensure their words contain enough ambiguity to weasel out of poor decisions. The first excuse is infallibly "blame the previous guy".
Some of us are here. It doesn't matter what's better, it matters what the execs want. If they want a shiny new Microsoft surface Book/Pro, that's what they (eventually) get. If we tried to push Linux, there would be a backlash and demand for what they are familiar with. Since we have to support it, and licence it, and all the other BS about it, Windows is the primary desktop OS.
Of course, there's the 8 figures annually of software development we do for our in-house stuff, which is still in the process of migrating to web based SaaS. Eventually we can become OS agnostic for a large % of our users, but not yet.
I received an update to my Samsung Galaxy S5 in the last week. That handset was released 3 years ago. Either your providers are not bothering to pass on updates, or the manufacturer isn't releasing updates.
In your case it sounds like the manufacturer is at fault - so good work telling us which ones to avoid!
I just checked https://myelectriccar.com.au/c... and found that the majority of charging stations near me are in car dealerships. There's one in a hotel about 15 mins away, and 4 bays in a humongous shopping centre on the way to work - I'm sure availability there will be slim to none. (Currently there is only 28 available charging stations in my entire 2M+ city)
That means installing charging stations in our apartment complex car bays. I wonder how much that will cost, and how long our body corporate will argue about the installation, and then there's the question about installing into a heritage listed building? Are we even allowed to do it?
No, we'd have to be using Uber autodrive cars to go down this path in the timeframe listed. Much more likely than being able to replace all our gasoline based infrastructure.
Fibre rollouts are occuring everywhere, so it was expected that the costs would be well within budget (which included contingency). IIRC the rollout was expanded from 90 to 93% as they were finding savings.
Other rollouts have significantly reduced rollout costs, but time....time was the problem.
Politically the underserved regions needed to be amongst the front runners, plus some issues found with asbestos that the incumbent telco had to remediate, well that threw things out a fair bit.
The project sought and was granted in cabinet an extra 2 years to rollout, and expected to be within 1 year at worst of that date.
Achieving all goals? That's debatable. There's division about the pricing model which is still causing issues today, and will for years to come. Budget and timeframe looked like they were actually doable however.
If you wanted to pay for a faster connection (250/100, 500/200, 1000/400) that would be available at the flick of a software switch and a modem reboot.
Now, you're limited to 76/20 - pretty good for the present sure, but to get anything better is going to cost more - a lot more - to get fibre closer to your premises, so they can run g.FAST for up to 1Gb.
So where are the touted savings?
It's not in time, that's now pretty much the same for both projects, thanks to the delays in starting the copper based plan.
It's not in cost - the cost of the changed NBN has risen to $49+B - that's a little over $4000 per connection
It's not capability, as both copper and HFC based networks do not offer multiple connections at the one premise, and both need a lot of extra $$$ to upgrade to anything faster than 100Mb.
It's not in the asset, as the copper based NBN could not find a private investor willing to buy into the company to help pay for the rollout - the government had to step in.
There are literally zero redeeming points for the copper based NBN to proceed.
Couple more points:
1. The reduced cost of operating a fibre link would have paid back the extra install costs to lay the fibre in around 6-7 years. Those initial fibre connections are on the brink of paying back the extra CAPEX to rollout that fibre.
2. I'm on FTTB with 100/40 speeds, so I'm on the best that the copper can provide. FTTB is a fine interim solution as the copper is protected from the elements, and usually well within design limitations for getting high speed (even gigabit) connections. All outside copper however should have been replaced.
NBN was only meant to cover 95% of the population
Originally 93% with fixed line FTTP, 4% fixed wireless, 3% satellite.
By installing fibre to the home future upgrades for higher bandwidth would be much cheaper, with the intention that profits would eventually push fibre even further into that wireless space.
All gone now, the copper based network soaks up an extra $bill or so a year, plus upgrades means expensive civil works to reduce the length of copper.
The problem with telstra was that the previous administration wanted to forcibly buy out telstras copper network, in order to ensure that the NBN had a monopoly. That copper network is still worth heaps of money, and the negotiations were around that cost.
The terms were changed when the government changed and decided to use existing infrastructure rather than drop new fibre and wireless everywhere.
As part of the change, Telstra no longer needed to fix problems with their pits & ducts, and NBNco became owners (and rectifiers) of the copper access network (CAN) so they could use it in place of fibre. The monetary amount to Telstra was pretty much the same, though Telstra now scores a lot of those remediation contracts for pits & ducts plus the CAN remediation, on top of its original payments.
The change in direction by the change of government is what is causing so many issues.
So, W10ARM runs on ARM and runs ARM and Win32 apps from anywhere; mobile devices have a dock for large screen, kb & mouse; and ARM devices are pretty much mobile phones and tablets.
Is this the converged device businesses have been looking for?
I'm in software licence management, so converging devices can simplify management effort considerably...
Is there any change to the value of your house with Tesla shingles installed vs normal shingles? Many people sell property and move on, so if adding these increase the value of the house it may be a zero-sum game.