Apple explicitly supports Windows on any Apple desktop hardware, so you are wrong.
Dell is diversified for the corporate enterprise market as an IT solution provider - Apple is not.
Well that was sure a load of bullshit, but in any case Apple does have enterprise support in multiple ways, including remote management, and internally facing applications - so you are wrong.
Dell sell cheaper hardware that's functional and modular - Apple does not
All Apple hardware is functional. Can you upgrade video cards in Dell laptops? No? HMM, guess they are not ALL modular as you claim then. And Apple will soon have a newer Mac Pro that is fully modular...
So you are basically on the edge of being wrong there, we'll just call it wrong because of your past errors.
It's like saying Harley Davidson will open up an office next to Toyota and poach the best employees.
I think you meant that to sound silly but what would be odd about a company working on very compact internal combustion engines wanting to hire someone who had worked on very compact internal combustion engines?
Here's my advice to you - if you don't understand computers OR car analogies well, you are better off not posting on Slashdot until you understand at least one well (probably best to start with car analogies, this being Slashdot and all).
At least in the US, yes, the 4 digit PIN smeared all over your device is a lot safer.
What a hilarious gaffe you made repeating the very statement that proves you wrong!
You see, that 4 digit PIN has been declared to be protected
That protects you legally from having to reveal your passcode...
However if you think back to that sentence you copied, they know from the smears on the screen the digits of your passcode. Making it very likely they could simply guess it.
With an iPhone, if you see them holding a phone up to your face, you can simply refuse to unlock it by shutting your eyes. And if you are going through an area where you think they might try at all, you can always tell the iPhone to go into passcode only mode.
The rest of the time you get the convenience of FaceID, along with the extra security of not having to type your passcode out repeatedly in front of who knows how many cameras....
no, change the gas tax to a tax on how many wheels the vehicles has.
The problem with that though, is it's not proportionate to how much you drive, the way gas tax is...
Unless you mean charge an additional tax per tire sold? That could be interesting, and also encourages people to get longer wearing tires where people that wanted to splurge a little on higher quality tires would pay a bit more in road tax.
How come Apple goes after the OSX86 community who wants to run Apple's OSX, but not on Apple hardware?
Apple puts in light roadblocks, but nothing serious to anyone that wants to make a Hackintosh. How do they "go after" such people?
For instance, if Apple really wanted to go after Hackitosh users, wouldn't they disallow Mac App Store use (it would be trivial for them to detect - they do not even try)? Yet the Mac App Store works fine on a Hackintosh.
So the deal is that apparently the arrest of the executive was actually a Deep State action meant to *hurt* Trump as he negotiated with China, it was done without his knowledge and he was pissed.
What you are seeing now is recovery action by Trump to at least make use of the situation others have put him in.
This is pretty interesting, but what is going to be really interesting is to see how governments end up replacing gas taxes as electric cars become more popular...
They are going to have to do something, in the end I am thinking it will probably have to be an extra yearly fee on electric vehicles. Which will make hybrids rather unpopular, as you get taxed twice...
For me it was about 10 - 1 Democrats texting me about voting, vs Republicans. They came from all sorts of different numbers, no way to stop... hellish.
When I travelled with a 17" laptop, I loved the larger screen size - it's especially good fo consulting if you are visiting client sites a lot and bringing your own laptop to work on - even with an external monitor available.
Who doesn't like a larger screen? With the extra weight slimmed off it's even more valuable.
The only real issue (which I mentioned earlier) is that a lot of laptop compartments in bags and backpacks will not fit a 17" laptop. Maybe with it being slimmer some would work though.
Supposedly "pro" laptops without physical function keys and tiny arrow keys in one of the worst possible layout I've seen?
The Touch Bar is vastly more useful than physical function keys and the moment an external keyboard comes out with one I would buy it for my desktop. I've asked Apple for one in feedback surveys...
The arrow keys did not bother me.
As for the MacBook Air, why does it NEED more than a dual core processor? There is a lot of value in a system that updates all of the other components while keeping the processor modest, because not everyone needs an enormous 85 core processor sucking energy and emitting heat.
I don't think it will ever happen. Tim Cook seems to hate Macs and only uses an iPad.
Someone that hated Macs wouldn't have produced the iMac Pro, the new Mac mini, and soon the updated Mac Pro...
They did have a bit of a pause on decent hardware updates, but that drought has ended.
Even if they did bring back the 17" MacBook Pro, it's going to have that awful, fragile, no-keys-travel keyboard with crap butterfly switches that fail either from dust, heat or manufacturing defects.
I like the new keyboard personally, except for the possible issues with dust. They have somewhat mitigated that in newer models...
I think in the end you are right about them not releasing one anytime soon, sadly not enough interest from most consumers. Important life lesson though: never give up hope!
I carried a 17" MacBook around for a while, which was great. Something to be aware of though if you are thinking about getting one, is a lot of laptop compartments in bags are assuming a 15" laptop at largest, so the 17" may not fit...
Still hoping Apple brings back a 17" model at some point.
Even after you adjust those, for plain old TV sets it's not assured the colors will be in balance, as I said... and no way to apply an ICC correction profile generally. Turning down saturation is no guarantee either.
Bizarre indeed reading responses from people who don't understand color management and think turning down the brightness and contrast is in any way "calibration".
A professional monitor is usually adjusted to a value you'd consider being too dark, because the adjustment is trying to take it to a level you would see from a physical print on paper instead of a glowing monitor...
TV's are also often shipped to really saturate colors heavily, possibly you can tone that down but not in a consistent way sometimes, so again if you did a print (or even looked at it on another monitor) the colors could be quite different.
Personally I do use a "real" brightness when preparing to print, but if I'm adjusting an image to be used online I use what I consider to be a kind of average brightness most people would have a monitor up - much brighter than a calibrated luminance level. It is useful though to have a monitor where the colors are not way too vibrant, then after you adjust an image (or video) at least it's a good baseline instead of being potentially really far off... adjusting an image on a monitor with really heavy saturation could mean some viewers with more tame monitors would see an image where the color was really muted.
Basically I wouldn't worry about it much unless you are doing a lot of serious video or photo editing, most consumer monitors that are mostly targeting PC's will work well enough.
The fact is, that if you have a monopoly, why give it to a business?
You make the best of limited choices, if it's either Comcast or local city service, take the city.
Best would be for both to compete to be your ISP, maybe Comcast would be willing to do that over the fiber the city installs...
I'm a libertarian yourself so I share your concern with monopoly. But it does seem like maybe running fiber, and some associated electronics, is a thing best done once in the same way you get city electric and water services - then with the last mile installed to all homes, they could have a choice of ISP's.
Frankly at this point I've been worn down so much by shifting networks I kinda stopped caring a little how it gets done... just want to get back to the fiber connection I had like 15 years ago that the shifting sands of time snuffed out.
No, I am not saying anything about who is right, simply saying that most people consider IT work to be development work done for large companies.
I have worked in a variety of companies, large and small. While it is true 30 years ago I was doing C and C++ for general development work in companies.
But in the last ten years the work large companies are doing is way more in Java and C# than C++ - or especially C, which is used in hardware development but not nearly so much any more for general operations programming... You would be insane these days to do much backend work in lower level languages.
Perhaps you have had different experiences, I relate what I have seen personally and also what I know from a large array of friends across the country who work in IT for large companies, none of them are doing C/C++...
I'll let you have the last response, because you simply seem to want to disagree without any proof - not even anecdotal! I guess you just like to argue, but I don't have the time to explain any further that which is plain if you just look around.
What hardware would such a town have? They are not going to be able to develop anything custom.
Maybe at worst they would have a specific set of routers you would have to choose from, but it would all be commercial routers that would be nicer than what Comcast gives you.
Have you never heard of embedded systems? C, C++, C# and so many other languages too numerous to list?
I've done some embedded systems work myself, and know C and C++ well (well I used to know C++ well but I think enough time as passed I may be cured).
However that has nothing at all to do with IT programming.
Even if it did, the number of embedded systems and OS programmers is way less than web developers so probably including that would not change percentages...
Game development is a whole other world.
All web development doesn't even account for anywhere close to half the work in IT.
But again, we are talking about IT work, which includes not just web dev but backend work. As I said, a lot of that has moved to Javascript these days when it's not Java.
I did mention C#, that's more specific to companies that are all MS stack though, and may make up the remaining 50% (not sure about that though).
You shouldn't be - Comcast being a monopoly in virtually every market it is in, is basically itself like an arm of the federal government delivering internet - with all of the quality issues you so rightfully fear.
That's why preferring the city utilities is an easy choice to prefer, because when you are given the choice between two governments, always choose the smaller option.
I've seen some small municipalities have excellent community fiber. Longmont, Colorado is one such where residents seem to love it...
I have Comcast gigabit myself, and while it is OK (often preforming more at half-gigabit levels, but whatever) I would JUMP at the chance to switch to a community fiber solution if offered.
If you believe Java, and the completely unrelated JavaScript languages comprise half the IT work "out there" then you are woefully ignorant.
I don't do Java anymore myself, but I used to do Java for many years as an enterprise developer - if you lumped Java and Javascript together (which I agree are unrelated except by name) I think that would be around half of all IT work you'd find in most companies today - especially so with Javascript which has really gained a pretty widespread use for server development...
If you wanted to work in IT I'm honestly not sure what would be a better choice at this point, maybe Python....Net is always big of course but that's a little too tied to a specific platform (in terms of how it's used in real companies) for my tastes.
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less
That's true up to a baseline. But for example. I expressly chose not to live in California although I could have easily had more than a 50% boost in salary... I make enough that I am fine not making as much as I could.
I could see someone just out of school taking a position with a small startup that was working on something really cool, and making even 75% less than they might going to Facebook for example. And that would probably be a good choice (in general I would say working for a smaller company is going to be a better choice for anyone with ambition and a desire to have a good career)
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Apple sells designer hardware that's WAY over priced.
No, just generally built with better components and engineering.
Yes they sometimes charge more to upgrade some aspects like RAM, but for the hardware you are getting what you pay for.
Dell sells servers - Apple does not.
Apple sells the Mac mini, so you are wrong.
Dell sells Windows PCs - Apple does not.
Apple explicitly supports Windows on any Apple desktop hardware, so you are wrong.
Dell is diversified for the corporate enterprise market as an IT solution provider - Apple is not.
Well that was sure a load of bullshit, but in any case Apple does have enterprise support in multiple ways, including remote management, and internally facing applications - so you are wrong.
Dell sell cheaper hardware that's functional and modular - Apple does not
All Apple hardware is functional. Can you upgrade video cards in Dell laptops? No? HMM, guess they are not ALL modular as you claim then. And Apple will soon have a newer Mac Pro that is fully modular...
So you are basically on the edge of being wrong there, we'll just call it wrong because of your past errors.
It's like saying Harley Davidson will open up an office next to Toyota and poach the best employees.
I think you meant that to sound silly but what would be odd about a company working on very compact internal combustion engines wanting to hire someone who had worked on very compact internal combustion engines?
Here's my advice to you - if you don't understand computers OR car analogies well, you are better off not posting on Slashdot until you understand at least one well (probably best to start with car analogies, this being Slashdot and all).
I also think this is an edge case scenario- Your phone is taken by someone who has the data, resources, and the will to make a 3D model of your head
Not shown: How many of the same phones are also opened by a printout of the face.
Doesn't take many resources to take a picture of someone's face and print it out...
That's because a lot of the Android phones that use facial recognition are doing so from a single camera with no depth map, the way the iPhone works.
At least in the US, yes, the 4 digit PIN smeared all over your device is a lot safer.
What a hilarious gaffe you made repeating the very statement that proves you wrong!
You see, that 4 digit PIN has been declared to be protected
That protects you legally from having to reveal your passcode...
However if you think back to that sentence you copied, they know from the smears on the screen the digits of your passcode. Making it very likely they could simply guess it.
With an iPhone, if you see them holding a phone up to your face, you can simply refuse to unlock it by shutting your eyes. And if you are going through an area where you think they might try at all, you can always tell the iPhone to go into passcode only mode.
The rest of the time you get the convenience of FaceID, along with the extra security of not having to type your passcode out repeatedly in front of who knows how many cameras....
Didn't think about that one, did ya?
How can you say it's a Deep State Action when John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, acknowledged that he knew about that arrest
Perhaps you missed the part where I *SAID* Trump was turning it to his advantage?
You plainly do not play with-dimensional chess!
Ships are not air-gapped, they are water-gapped!
And everyone knows that salt water conducts.
no, change the gas tax to a tax on how many wheels the vehicles has.
The problem with that though, is it's not proportionate to how much you drive, the way gas tax is...
Unless you mean charge an additional tax per tire sold? That could be interesting, and also encourages people to get longer wearing tires where people that wanted to splurge a little on higher quality tires would pay a bit more in road tax.
How come Apple goes after the OSX86 community who wants to run Apple's OSX, but not on Apple hardware?
Apple puts in light roadblocks, but nothing serious to anyone that wants to make a Hackintosh. How do they "go after" such people?
For instance, if Apple really wanted to go after Hackitosh users, wouldn't they disallow Mac App Store use (it would be trivial for them to detect - they do not even try)? Yet the Mac App Store works fine on a Hackintosh.
So the deal is that apparently the arrest of the executive was actually a Deep State action meant to *hurt* Trump as he negotiated with China, it was done without his knowledge and he was pissed.
What you are seeing now is recovery action by Trump to at least make use of the situation others have put him in.
This is pretty interesting, but what is going to be really interesting is to see how governments end up replacing gas taxes as electric cars become more popular...
They are going to have to do something, in the end I am thinking it will probably have to be an extra yearly fee on electric vehicles. Which will make hybrids rather unpopular, as you get taxed twice...
For me it was about 10 - 1 Democrats texting me about voting, vs Republicans. They came from all sorts of different numbers, no way to stop... hellish.
When I travelled with a 17" laptop, I loved the larger screen size - it's especially good fo consulting if you are visiting client sites a lot and bringing your own laptop to work on - even with an external monitor available.
Who doesn't like a larger screen? With the extra weight slimmed off it's even more valuable.
The only real issue (which I mentioned earlier) is that a lot of laptop compartments in bags and backpacks will not fit a 17" laptop. Maybe with it being slimmer some would work though.
Supposedly "pro" laptops without physical function keys and tiny arrow keys in one of the worst possible layout I've seen?
The Touch Bar is vastly more useful than physical function keys and the moment an external keyboard comes out with one I would buy it for my desktop. I've asked Apple for one in feedback surveys...
The arrow keys did not bother me.
As for the MacBook Air, why does it NEED more than a dual core processor? There is a lot of value in a system that updates all of the other components while keeping the processor modest, because not everyone needs an enormous 85 core processor sucking energy and emitting heat.
I don't think it will ever happen. Tim Cook seems to hate Macs and only uses an iPad.
Someone that hated Macs wouldn't have produced the iMac Pro, the new Mac mini, and soon the updated Mac Pro...
They did have a bit of a pause on decent hardware updates, but that drought has ended.
Even if they did bring back the 17" MacBook Pro, it's going to have that awful, fragile, no-keys-travel keyboard with crap butterfly switches that fail either from dust, heat or manufacturing defects.
I like the new keyboard personally, except for the possible issues with dust. They have somewhat mitigated that in newer models...
I think in the end you are right about them not releasing one anytime soon, sadly not enough interest from most consumers. Important life lesson though: never give up hope!
I carried a 17" MacBook around for a while, which was great. Something to be aware of though if you are thinking about getting one, is a lot of laptop compartments in bags are assuming a 15" laptop at largest, so the 17" may not fit...
Still hoping Apple brings back a 17" model at some point.
Even after you adjust those, for plain old TV sets it's not assured the colors will be in balance, as I said... and no way to apply an ICC correction profile generally. Turning down saturation is no guarantee either.
Bizarre indeed reading responses from people who don't understand color management and think turning down the brightness and contrast is in any way "calibration".
Would you care to elaborate?
A professional monitor is usually adjusted to a value you'd consider being too dark, because the adjustment is trying to take it to a level you would see from a physical print on paper instead of a glowing monitor...
TV's are also often shipped to really saturate colors heavily, possibly you can tone that down but not in a consistent way sometimes, so again if you did a print (or even looked at it on another monitor) the colors could be quite different.
Personally I do use a "real" brightness when preparing to print, but if I'm adjusting an image to be used online I use what I consider to be a kind of average brightness most people would have a monitor up - much brighter than a calibrated luminance level. It is useful though to have a monitor where the colors are not way too vibrant, then after you adjust an image (or video) at least it's a good baseline instead of being potentially really far off... adjusting an image on a monitor with really heavy saturation could mean some viewers with more tame monitors would see an image where the color was really muted.
Basically I wouldn't worry about it much unless you are doing a lot of serious video or photo editing, most consumer monitors that are mostly targeting PC's will work well enough.
Republicans favor the Net Neutrality we have today.
Democrats want to impose some 30+ regulations over the internet you enjoy and use today, many parts of which have nothing to do with NN.
So by all means, if you hate a free internet do support the actions the Democrats are trying to take.
The fact is, that if you have a monopoly, why give it to a business?
You make the best of limited choices, if it's either Comcast or local city service, take the city.
Best would be for both to compete to be your ISP, maybe Comcast would be willing to do that over the fiber the city installs...
I'm a libertarian yourself so I share your concern with monopoly. But it does seem like maybe running fiber, and some associated electronics, is a thing best done once in the same way you get city electric and water services - then with the last mile installed to all homes, they could have a choice of ISP's.
Frankly at this point I've been worn down so much by shifting networks I kinda stopped caring a little how it gets done... just want to get back to the fiber connection I had like 15 years ago that the shifting sands of time snuffed out.
No, I am not saying anything about who is right, simply saying that most people consider IT work to be development work done for large companies.
I have worked in a variety of companies, large and small. While it is true 30 years ago I was doing C and C++ for general development work in companies.
But in the last ten years the work large companies are doing is way more in Java and C# than C++ - or especially C, which is used in hardware development but not nearly so much any more for general operations programming... You would be insane these days to do much backend work in lower level languages.
Perhaps you have had different experiences, I relate what I have seen personally and also what I know from a large array of friends across the country who work in IT for large companies, none of them are doing C/C++...
I'll let you have the last response, because you simply seem to want to disagree without any proof - not even anecdotal! I guess you just like to argue, but I don't have the time to explain any further that which is plain if you just look around.
What hardware would such a town have? They are not going to be able to develop anything custom.
Maybe at worst they would have a specific set of routers you would have to choose from, but it would all be commercial routers that would be nicer than what Comcast gives you.
Thanks, I probably will take a look (even the longer one sounds interesting!!). Too much short form content these days with no depth.
Have you never heard of embedded systems? C, C++, C# and so many other languages too numerous to list?
I've done some embedded systems work myself, and know C and C++ well (well I used to know C++ well but I think enough time as passed I may be cured).
However that has nothing at all to do with IT programming.
Even if it did, the number of embedded systems and OS programmers is way less than web developers so probably including that would not change percentages...
Game development is a whole other world.
All web development doesn't even account for anywhere close to half the work in IT.
But again, we are talking about IT work, which includes not just web dev but backend work. As I said, a lot of that has moved to Javascript these days when it's not Java.
I did mention C#, that's more specific to companies that are all MS stack though, and may make up the remaining 50% (not sure about that though).
I'm seriously conflicted here.
You shouldn't be - Comcast being a monopoly in virtually every market it is in, is basically itself like an arm of the federal government delivering internet - with all of the quality issues you so rightfully fear.
That's why preferring the city utilities is an easy choice to prefer, because when you are given the choice between two governments, always choose the smaller option.
I've seen some small municipalities have excellent community fiber. Longmont, Colorado is one such where residents seem to love it...
I have Comcast gigabit myself, and while it is OK (often preforming more at half-gigabit levels, but whatever) I would JUMP at the chance to switch to a community fiber solution if offered.
If you believe Java, and the completely unrelated JavaScript languages comprise half the IT work "out there" then you are woefully ignorant.
I don't do Java anymore myself, but I used to do Java for many years as an enterprise developer - if you lumped Java and Javascript together (which I agree are unrelated except by name) I think that would be around half of all IT work you'd find in most companies today - especially so with Javascript which has really gained a pretty widespread use for server development...
If you wanted to work in IT I'm honestly not sure what would be a better choice at this point, maybe Python... .Net is always big of course but that's a little too tied to a specific platform (in terms of how it's used in real companies) for my tastes.
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less
That's true up to a baseline. But for example. I expressly chose not to live in California although I could have easily had more than a 50% boost in salary... I make enough that I am fine not making as much as I could.
I could see someone just out of school taking a position with a small startup that was working on something really cool, and making even 75% less than they might going to Facebook for example. And that would probably be a good choice (in general I would say working for a smaller company is going to be a better choice for anyone with ambition and a desire to have a good career)