Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Their ability to sell servers by the truckload to corporations is even more impressive... until a decent blade solution arrives that isn't so rectum-stretching expensive (*cough*CiscoUCS*cough*), I suspect that Dell will be around for a *very* long time...
This is simply Congress saying they aren't important enough or don't want to be bothered with doing their job. Such a law is only good when quick action is needed to be taken. We are well beyond that point.
Actually, the original rationale was to give the president full legal authority to retaliate in the case of a nuclear attack on the US (at the time it was a real enough possibility). It made sense at the time, since requiring Congress to quickly convene at least a quorum and declare war, then have everyone scramble for the fallout shelter... all within 30 minutes? Yeah, no, that would be stupid.
Not saying that the power hasn't been abused (every single president since Johnson has done so), but it had a real reason for existing in the first place.
One of the requirements of PCI compliance with the credit card companies is that you don't use default passwords in any equipment tied to the card transaction.
True, but...
1) Does PCI compliance/certification even go near individual retailers/businesses, or does it stop cold at the merchant card processor that the retailer/PoS dials into with each transaction? I'm not quite seeing a small Mom-n-Pop store undergoing a PCI audit anytime soon...
2) For folks who do their own in-house processing, how many auditors do you know of that painstakingly test each and every PoS machine in every store (e.g. Wal-Mart, whenever they recertify)? Hell - they barely sample servers, which you tell them the hostnames for...
It is a self-correcting problem - only the time-to-correction variable is in question.
A company that burns itself hot with drugs will find mistakes creeping into its products, workers that burn out and crash in spectacular ways, or simply see a mass exodus from its ranks and a big, fat black-mark with recruiters. It also eventually destroys productivity.
I used to work for a company whose culture could best be described as a boiler-room. No drugs were involved, yet in the space of two years, one of the sysadmins had a literal heart attack, and the lead developer and network engineer both suffered strokes - the network guy recovered fairly quickly and quit, while the developer is still, even today, trying to re-learn that whole talking thing. One of the IT managers suffered so much stress, that he eventually wound up in prison for abusing one of his kids.
Again - no performance-enhancing drugs were involved. It took the global parent company (In Germany) to step in and fix the mess, because it was destroying the company financially (due to turnover, downtime due to sloppy work caused by over-committal, etc) It took the act of publicly firing the company's CEO, a few other board members and the IT Director, and basically hitting the big corporate culture reset button. I was long gone by then (as were many others), but many of my former colleagues who remained behind tell me that things improved vastly, and the company actually has improved by quite a bit since then.
They were likely the only third-party dealer to actually ask.
OWC (Other World Computing)/MacSales is a company specializes on selling Apple-tuned products. It makes perfect sense for them to have tight integration with Apple hardware.
By contrast, pretty much all other HDD manufacturers and resellers make/sell parts for "PCs" - that is, they make stuff that is fairly generic, and if those parts happen to fit a Mac, then okay, but otherwise they really don't concern themselves with that bit.
Ugh, I think you need to actually work on cars before saying anything like that.
Only the Nissan GTR has an engine mated and tuned directly to the transmission. Other high end (150+k) cars would have this even remotely possible. Cars are mass produced. The transmission your car can be replaced with any of the like car transmissions without being disabled.
Seriously - even if they did pull something stupid like GP insists, parts have to be replaced somehow, and therein lies the loophole. After all, how else do you think you can currently buy computer readers/chip-programmers/performance-enhancing chips/etc in aftermarket right now?
Oh, and these guys will happily sell you shiny new SSD's with native OSX TRIM support.
(...besides, even without TRIM support there's no real difference for the average user in longevity or performance on an SSD. I've gone without it the whole time I've had mine; by the time the SSD wears out, I'll just go out and buy one twice the size - probably for the same price I paid for the 512GB Crucial SSD that I have shoved into my MBP right now.)
Actually, it doesn't. You just have to know how. All it takes is the skill to pull it off, and the cojones to laugh at the EULA/Warranty warnings.
Some of us have been modifying Apples in ways they definitely weren't built for, and have been doing so for a very long time... (In this instance, the Cube was definitely not built to take on a Radeon 8500, or the horde of other modifications I made to it.)
Seriously - bumping a HDD or RAM on a shiny new MacBook Pro is nothing that a decent soldering iron and top-grade solder can't help you accomplish. Much easier than, say, swapping out a car engine.
Excuse me but that sounds entirely implausible. Cooking food with a radar unit? I'll believe it when someone uses one to, say, melt a chocolate bar. Until then keep your loony theories to yourself!
Oh, it's quite possible... an APG-66 radar kit (usually parked inside the radome of an F-16 jet fighter) can cook a hot dog placed 2' in front of the pitot tube in very short order once you flip it into active mode. That's why they usually point the jet's nose out somewhere big and empty when they test it, and then make damned sure no one walks within 150' of the jet's front during testing.
(hint: both the typical radar unit and microwave oven share one core component in common - a magnetron.)
True - though most states usually sort that out at the unemployment office as either being fired "for cause", or just being fired. The latter means you can collect a check, while (in most states) the former means that you cannot.
1) Last I checked, MS SQL Server does not run on OSX or Linux, and.NET does not run anywhere near Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, etc... so why are you saying "database" up there?
2) GP forgot to mention pricing on MS Office in the pricing squeeze (sure, you can get Office 365... subscription models are effing delicious to MS, especially when compared to set-pricing for licenses that may or may not renew within the next 3 years).
So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..
How about completely opening.Net, moving their build system to GitHub, and moving the compiler to LLVM? Those seem to have some real substance to me. Then there's them embracing Docker for Windows Server 10 and open sourcing that work. This is not your fathers Microsoft.
...and how much of that is usable on any non-Microsoft platform? A percentage would be fine as an answer.
They're not doing it out of a sense of freedom or charity, so forgive me if I don't swoon with joy...
Microsoft has been accelerating its "open" source offerings. Certifications be damned, licenses and formats such as SharedSource and Open XML are not open. The vast majority of anything else they've done in that vein has almost all been focused on sucking in devs to the.NET world (which itself is anything but open.)
It *was* the best thing on TV... when Carl Sagan did it. In the time and place that the original series ran, it was a refreshing and needed mixture of education, propaganda, and philosophy. Yes, propaganda, and that's not a bad thing, considering that most folks at the time had no awareness of the impacts mankind was wreaking on their environment, or the dangers that the then-escalating Cold War posed to humanity.
Nowadays, people are on forced-empathy overload of a sort... everywhere they turn for entertainment, they're bombarded with preaching. Eventually, it turns one off to the idea, then makes one hostile to it - especially when it's being pushed from every orifice of the media, you know?
...and would very likely work references to "climate change" into the monolog a whole lot less.
Either way, they should've brought Dr. Michio Kaku into it. He may be a physicist, but he's a hell of a lot more able to inspire wonder, and brings a certain level of awesome into the conversation.
IMHO, Tyson-DeGrasse only seems able to rabble-rouse nowadays.:/
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Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Their ability to sell servers by the truckload to corporations is even more impressive... until a decent blade solution arrives that isn't so rectum-stretching expensive (*cough*CiscoUCS*cough*), I suspect that Dell will be around for a *very* long time...
(same with HP, come to think of it.)
Agreed with sibling... Charter is among the least evil telcom corporations out there.
Now CenturyStink and Comcrap...
To clarify... much worse for the president's political party and their chances in upcoming (next year's) elections.
Otherwise I doubt that they give a damn.
This is simply Congress saying they aren't important enough or don't want to be bothered with doing their job. Such a law is only good when quick action is needed to be taken. We are well beyond that point.
Actually, the original rationale was to give the president full legal authority to retaliate in the case of a nuclear attack on the US (at the time it was a real enough possibility). It made sense at the time, since requiring Congress to quickly convene at least a quorum and declare war, then have everyone scramble for the fallout shelter... all within 30 minutes? Yeah, no, that would be stupid.
Not saying that the power hasn't been abused (every single president since Johnson has done so), but it had a real reason for existing in the first place.
One of the requirements of PCI compliance with the credit card companies is that you don't use default passwords in any equipment tied to the card transaction.
True, but...
1) Does PCI compliance/certification even go near individual retailers/businesses, or does it stop cold at the merchant card processor that the retailer/PoS dials into with each transaction? I'm not quite seeing a small Mom-n-Pop store undergoing a PCI audit anytime soon...
2) For folks who do their own in-house processing, how many auditors do you know of that painstakingly test each and every PoS machine in every store (e.g. Wal-Mart, whenever they recertify)? Hell - they barely sample servers, which you tell them the hostnames for...
It is a self-correcting problem - only the time-to-correction variable is in question.
A company that burns itself hot with drugs will find mistakes creeping into its products, workers that burn out and crash in spectacular ways, or simply see a mass exodus from its ranks and a big, fat black-mark with recruiters. It also eventually destroys productivity.
I used to work for a company whose culture could best be described as a boiler-room. No drugs were involved, yet in the space of two years, one of the sysadmins had a literal heart attack, and the lead developer and network engineer both suffered strokes - the network guy recovered fairly quickly and quit, while the developer is still, even today, trying to re-learn that whole talking thing. One of the IT managers suffered so much stress, that he eventually wound up in prison for abusing one of his kids.
Again - no performance-enhancing drugs were involved. It took the global parent company (In Germany) to step in and fix the mess, because it was destroying the company financially (due to turnover, downtime due to sloppy work caused by over-committal, etc) It took the act of publicly firing the company's CEO, a few other board members and the IT Director, and basically hitting the big corporate culture reset button. I was long gone by then (as were many others), but many of my former colleagues who remained behind tell me that things improved vastly, and the company actually has improved by quite a bit since then.
and then the worker comp attorneys come out of wood work and sue when some in a job uses drugs like this and things go bad and they end up in rehab
...or worse, someone has a psychotic reaction to over-using a stimulant and decides that he really needs to go postal...
They were likely the only third-party dealer to actually ask.
OWC (Other World Computing)/MacSales is a company specializes on selling Apple-tuned products. It makes perfect sense for them to have tight integration with Apple hardware.
By contrast, pretty much all other HDD manufacturers and resellers make/sell parts for "PCs" - that is, they make stuff that is fairly generic, and if those parts happen to fit a Mac, then okay, but otherwise they really don't concern themselves with that bit.
took all of five seconds...
If Apple has such a huge problem with it, then why did they give OWC a signed kext?
Question I have is, how much of that load time is CPU and how much of it is reading from disk?
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Ugh, I think you need to actually work on cars before saying anything like that.
Only the Nissan GTR has an engine mated and tuned directly to the transmission. Other high end (150+k) cars would have this even remotely possible. Cars are mass produced. The transmission your car can be replaced with any of the like car transmissions without being disabled.
Seriously - even if they did pull something stupid like GP insists, parts have to be replaced somehow, and therein lies the loophole. After all, how else do you think you can currently buy computer readers/chip-programmers/performance-enhancing chips/etc in aftermarket right now?
You'll have to try harder than that for an example, because that's already been defeated very handily.
Oh, and these guys will happily sell you shiny new SSD's with native OSX TRIM support.
(...besides, even without TRIM support there's no real difference for the average user in longevity or performance on an SSD. I've gone without it the whole time I've had mine; by the time the SSD wears out, I'll just go out and buy one twice the size - probably for the same price I paid for the 512GB Crucial SSD that I have shoved into my MBP right now.)
But the technology does.
Actually, it doesn't. You just have to know how. All it takes is the skill to pull it off, and the cojones to laugh at the EULA/Warranty warnings.
Some of us have been modifying Apples in ways they definitely weren't built for, and have been doing so for a very long time... (In this instance, the Cube was definitely not built to take on a Radeon 8500, or the horde of other modifications I made to it.)
Seriously - bumping a HDD or RAM on a shiny new MacBook Pro is nothing that a decent soldering iron and top-grade solder can't help you accomplish. Much easier than, say, swapping out a car engine.
Depends on whether or not the reported loss will push him under a tax bracket, open up some loopholes, entitle him to credits...
There's a reason that the US Tax Code is a couple dozen thousands of pages long, you know...
d'oh! I knew I heard a 'whoosh' somewhere...
Excuse me but that sounds entirely implausible. Cooking food with a radar unit? I'll believe it when someone uses one to, say, melt a chocolate bar. Until then keep your loony theories to yourself!
Oh, it's quite possible... an APG-66 radar kit (usually parked inside the radome of an F-16 jet fighter) can cook a hot dog placed 2' in front of the pitot tube in very short order once you flip it into active mode. That's why they usually point the jet's nose out somewhere big and empty when they test it, and then make damned sure no one walks within 150' of the jet's front during testing.
(hint: both the typical radar unit and microwave oven share one core component in common - a magnetron.)
True - though most states usually sort that out at the unemployment office as either being fired "for cause", or just being fired. The latter means you can collect a check, while (in most states) the former means that you cannot.
You think it's just an American phenomenon... how naive of you.
So, a fully open source .NET is not open?
...not when it's bound good and hard to a closed-source operating system and closed-source tools, it ain't.
1) Last I checked, MS SQL Server does not run on OSX or Linux, and .NET does not run anywhere near Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, etc... so why are you saying "database" up there?
2) GP forgot to mention pricing on MS Office in the pricing squeeze (sure, you can get Office 365... subscription models are effing delicious to MS, especially when compared to set-pricing for licenses that may or may not renew within the next 3 years).
So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..
How about completely opening .Net, moving their build system to GitHub, and moving the compiler to LLVM? Those seem to have some real substance to me. Then there's them embracing Docker for Windows Server 10 and open sourcing that work. This is not your fathers Microsoft.
They're not doing it out of a sense of freedom or charity, so forgive me if I don't swoon with joy...
Small correction...
Microsoft has been accelerating its "open" source offerings. Certifications be damned, licenses and formats such as SharedSource and Open XML are not open. The vast majority of anything else they've done in that vein has almost all been focused on sucking in devs to the .NET world (which itself is anything but open.)
That sounds like "Cosmos" is cancelled then.
Too bad, as it was the best thing on TV.
It *was* the best thing on TV... when Carl Sagan did it. In the time and place that the original series ran, it was a refreshing and needed mixture of education, propaganda, and philosophy. Yes, propaganda, and that's not a bad thing, considering that most folks at the time had no awareness of the impacts mankind was wreaking on their environment, or the dangers that the then-escalating Cold War posed to humanity.
Nowadays, people are on forced-empathy overload of a sort... everywhere they turn for entertainment, they're bombarded with preaching. Eventually, it turns one off to the idea, then makes one hostile to it - especially when it's being pushed from every orifice of the media, you know?
...and would very likely work references to "climate change" into the monolog a whole lot less.
Either way, they should've brought Dr. Michio Kaku into it. He may be a physicist, but he's a hell of a lot more able to inspire wonder, and brings a certain level of awesome into the conversation.
IMHO, Tyson-DeGrasse only seems able to rabble-rouse nowadays. :/