I've done telephony integration work for the better part of a decade, so I spend a LOT of time in different call centers. Avaya is losing a ton of desk-share to Cisco, mostly because the Oracle-esque hijack-you-with-licensing scheme is finally starting to cost places more than it's worth. Adding new features costs as much as just ripping the crap out and putting something else in. It was funny the first time I saw them write an RFP to a specific price point, and then lose the business anyway because they had just pissed off to many people.
First time in a while that I've seen a UID argument that low=old and outdated.
So, since we've clearly moved past ad hominem...
1. Every Goddamn Day. 'Real' photographers like 'real' cameras, even when on the move. The best camera may be the one you have on you at the time, but there's a reason people who do this for a living are still toting around dedicated, decent cameras. Hell, even the in-the-field types will apologize for shitty phone uploads. And no, not every computer needs to accommodate the workflow - but if Apple has decided that Photogs belong in the pile with the other professionals they've abandoned in the last half decade, they only group remaining to justify their shitty hardware is 'brand-obsessed hipsters.'
2. WiFi for heavy photography is shit to use. It's shit to set up, it's slow when you move any kind of RAW data, and god forbid you are working in a radio-noisy space. Look, I get it, your wifey likes to use her crappy point and shoot and pretend she's a real artist. Ask the people who are moving Gigs of data every few minutes how well it holds up. It's a toy feature - you don't even need to be a artist to know that. Ask a Engineer how well WiFi storage holds up under any kind of load.
3. Yes, the garbage-class P&S have tiny sensors. They are comparable to decent smartphones. They really don't have merits outside of learning basic photography, as you can get substantially better image quality with a marginal increase in price. What relevance does that have for this discussion?
4. I love it when Apple apologists talk about getting rid of neigh-obsolete-in-the-consumer-space technology (Optical drives, old video interfaces) as a justification for taking out shit people use every. single. day. Yeah, killing the floppy and getting rid of a 100-year old standard analog audio interface are totally the same thing.
5. The issue isn't which is more 'popular' - it's which is more *used.* Millions of MicroSD cards will sit in those phones and never be touched or thought of - they might as well be soldered into the board. While I suspect that most camera cards will actually be used as removable media, and will require an interface to get the data out of them.
Again, I don't think that Apple actually needs to support powerusers. It's way more profitable to sell incrimental, locked-in hardware to gullible idiots who garner fleeting moments of happiness by being 'superior' to people that don't use a shitty fruit computer. Apple legitimately swayed me for a few years, and I respected them as a technology company, but damn near every decision they've made recently is laser targeted at profit over quality. They just don't offer a compelling product anymore to many of the people I know personally that have defended them for decades.
- That's a lot of... totally useful devices. Yeah, sure. Totally... You're the WiFi version of the guy I used to know with like 15k worth of X10 gear wired all over his house. Of course, he spent enough time fiddling with his crap that his wife regularly cheated on him, but to each his own... Electrical monitor? Dishwasher?!?!
- But seriously, you bring up a quasi valid point. There is a pretty severe deficiency between people who are going nuts over smart-home crap and the stock 'prosumer' grade all-in-one networking gear you can get. I'm not sure if there is a device limit using custom firmware on the Nighthawk, as I don't have more than 30 connections at a time to mine, but I've heard your complaint from other people using the factory stuff, and it's not going to be acceptable for long to say you have to use something custom.
- I don't think that sticking WiFi on every lightbulb is going to be a reliable option for very long, regardless. It's a really kludgey fix for now, but there are half a dozen other options that make sense for 'smart' devices that don't actually need a god-damned IP address and that are going to generate less noise and eat less power. Honestly, if I was younger, I would be amused fucking with people's 'smart' lightbulbs and appliances just to irritate people like you - but you either use something open, fat, and lazy like WiFi/IP, or you have a proprietary PLC-SCADA, and I'm honestly not sure which is the better solution.
Many moons ago, OS X was extremely attractive to people who needed a computer to do work, but who didn't want to take the time to learn Windows and deal with bugs. The G4/G5 era was great for Creatives, and that naturally meant that the people who made all the dongles and the software treated OSX as their primary platforn. I supported IT at a music studio and an architecture firm, and the apple logo was EVERYWHERE. The problem wasn't that XP or 7 was 'bad', it was that the tools that people used were developed for Mac. We had desks that had 2 computers at them - a Mac for whatever the job function was, and a Dell laptop for everything else (Outlook being the primary culprit.) The problem is that Macs have been overwhelmingly shitty computers for years now, but because of the inbreeding, it takes major product shifts to drive brand-loyal users away; so here we are - lowest-common denominator consumer machines with a price premium for the brand, and professionals ripped away because they physically cannot do work anymore.
'Part of the problem' - why is it that you RMS apostles refuse to acknowledge that somewhere in the middle of the perfect computing utopia you think should exist there are large, multi-national corporations who's primary focus is profit, not OSS Doctrine? I hate to tell you that Santa Claus isn't real, but companies like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and even RedHat exist to produce a thing that other people want to buy. And Insert_Business_Here doesn't typically give a shit whether the company behind a product is "Evil" or "Good" in the eyes of a bunch of Nerds. You all like to pretend like you are somehow Righteous because it makes you feel special, but it's no different than the argument in the ME about who's fairy tale is less bullshit. Hooray, OSS keeps the industry more honest than it would otherwise be. But pretending like the prophet Linus will one day triumph over the evil Gates and Co is childish, and the rest of us have fucking work to do so we can pay our rent and spend time with our families. Jeebus.
'Trust' - who gives a fuck? My job pays me to know this environment at a high technical level, to deliver solutions based on it, and to recommend realistic alternatives when new projects are scoped (of which there are, in my world, none.) That they are even superficially moving towards more 'friendly' interaction with their userbase is a great sign, and most of the enterprise folks genuinely feel it's a lot better than just that. The overwhelming majority of us move in circles where 'just use Linux' makes about as much practical sense as 'just learn to breathe underwater.' The Anti-M$ crap is petty, decades-old sour grapes that comes from the underlying hipsterism of computing, and has about as much relevance as the people who rave about how Betamax was better.
+1. The R7k is BRILLIANT running a custom DD-WRT build, and I am using largely the same running config that I've been using for the last half decade across 3 different devices. And my brother has the previous device, and while he probably couldn't handle a bricked device like I could, he is more than capable of following updates for the build I found for him.
"no value for geeks" - Odd, we use them now as quick and simple interfaces for various Dashboards, because it makes more sense to hand out half a dozen than to have a big stupid screen on the wall. iPads were great, but you can flip from static display to full domain-auth'd windows machine in seconds.
Obligatory 'I-wish-I-had-Mod-Points' reply for taking the piss out of a terrible, quasi-technical justification for shitty carrier practices. Fix your damn network, spend on future growth, and stop banking your business model on the Govt. suddenly making your protected business even more protected...
Only in that the default audio playback application bundled with the OS could not legally handle MP3's, forcing you to use a 3rd party application, which was the default behavior for most Windows users through at least XP. I'd imagine it had about as much relevance as being unable to burn a CD back in the day without software like Roxio (or whatever the OSS comparable app was, I was still in grade school.) The big drawback to Linux for decades was simply that it didn't ship with the computer you bought from Dell (or Best Buy, or Circuit City, or whatever...) and that it required a non-trivial effort to get to the level of functionality that most people expected from a PC post- Windows 95. Of course, there is the continuous struggle of an OS that is designed from the ground up to avoid as many licensing and royalty restrictions as possible, since for much of the PC's history, code was written for profit and not just to be sweet. Furthermore, am I really replying to a 4-digit UID with this crap? I thought all of you graybeards actually knew how this crap worked...
THIS is classic, Old-Skool/. - I was surprised to see your 7-digit UID, because this is, like, back in the 5-digit-days-good. Reading the summary, I thought it smelled like they were trying to use a hammer to drive a screw, and I'm not even a low-level protocol geek. Your response genuinely made my afternoon, and you deserve the points they don't give out enough anymore. +1.
Wish I had points to mod you up. Instead others have them to upvote idiotic, isolationist pablum. Japan is probably the best example of why "Protectionism" is a bad thing - when you culturally isolate yourselves from the rest of the world, more people want to leave than want to move in. Your population shrinks and ages, and even if you are successful, you risk damaging social growth for decades.
It was frightening to see what my Boss' boss was earning in a position I had a few years ago. The contract stipulated that the person filling my role be a US Citizen for security reasons (but not clearance-level) so I was the only US Citizen on a team of ~30 people. My supervisor did little more than apologize for screw-ups and approve timecards, and his 'boss' was more like a glorified PM. Mind you, I made 20-30% more than either of them, and was literally triple the rate of my 'coworkers.' The reality is that I could have done the entire contract's work with 3 reasonable US-FTE's, and they wouldn't have had to rotate the positions every 9 months. It was insane.
Eh, your example kind of sucks. If you think that Buffet is buying stocks spur of the moment, you don't understand how billion-dollar funds get moved. TV and Movies like to make it seem like you can just drop 50mil on a hunch, but there is typically LOADS of analysis done on even flyer trades. That analysis generates a paper trail. And if you have already decided to buy based on that analysis, than the insider info is just gravy. Hell, you can even use that insider info to NOT make a trade, because the Fed only really cares about you unfairly making money (or limiting losses,) they don't care if you choose not to do something that would result in a loss. It's part of what makes insider trading insidiously difficult to prosecute; you typically need a pattern to establish behavior, and you have legitimate 'analysts' saying all sorts of things in most trade houses.
You identified the problem, you just misinterpreted the solution. If ISPs are worried that they won't be able to service customers on existing xcon's if the customers suddenly have orders-of-magnitude bandwidth increases, maybe the ISPs should have done something with the hundreds of millions of dollars they've received over the last 2 decades to continuously upgrade their infrastructure. It's buggy-whips all over again, except because the buggy-whip guys have almost monopolistic control over the market, they get to stall the automobile as long as they can afford to. And don't start bitching about cost and time and size - I work for a Fortune 100, and we have a 7 year tech roadmap that includes multiple core networking architecture upgrades for tech that is basically theoretical at this point. We are installing switches right now that we expect to replace in 24 months, because we can't afford to tell our customers that we don't have the ability to service their wants. ISPs and Telcos got as fat and lazy as the mobile carriers did, and they are all going to have a rude wake up if the legislative wind shifts again like it did against OG ATT.
I feel like you completely missed the point of this platform (embedded devices do not need shittons of CPU... ) but what, exactly, are you doing that requires 12 cores at 6GHz because your raw CPU is the bottleneck in a Desktop platform or architecture??? 'Slow desktops forever' my ass... 16G RAM, SSDs, and bus-level access are commodity product specs now. If you have Desktop software that is slow because of a CPU bottleneck, you either have shitty code, or your software should never have been designed for a desktop use case. Da fuq?
I really wish you weren't voted so highly. The ORIGINAL market for wrist watches were nobility for the novelty value, followed closely afterwards by trench soldiers, because a watch-and-chain were both inconvenient and finicky. Pilots and racing drivers came along significantly later, as both often had accurate chronographs on the dash, and if you've ever tried to read a traditional watch while driving aggressively, you'd realize you have to reposition your hand anyways. The reason why many watches carry that heritage is Pilots and Race car drivers are both sexy, trench soldiers are not. Hell, Doctor's watches and Diving watches are arguably even more popular still, and Diving watches didn't come along for a few decades after that.
But why is Billy the only coach who seems to be having extensive, media-prevalent tirades about this crap? 32 teams in the league, and Belli-ache is the one who is the most vocal about issues.
I was a little surprised when I walked into the show and they had a check at the door set up to accommodate this. Honestly, the only practical downside was that they should have a option to check the stupid thing at the door so I didn't have to lug the bag around with me.
I am curious if the sapphire layer/coating for the lens is done by Apple, or by someone else. Because there is the distinct chance that Apple is using a vendor's tech that they bankrupted to deliver a product that people don't understand and are complaining about.
And, FWIW, I've used 30 and 40 (Gawd, the 70's were a long time ago...) year old headphones with a straight phone jack and a mini adapter in stuff that's less than a year old. Any compatability issues likely come from arbitrary specs for added features like media/phone controls, and I don't think I've ever failed to hear audio from a jack I could plug into - unless it was one of the really weird cases where people were using jacks for power or pedals or stuff like that.
You lose ALL credibility in your first paragraph. Trying to say that post-boomer people - '70's kid', whatever the hell that means - 'generally didn't care where he lived' is a statistical crock. My Grandparents and parents (good, old-fashioned Blue-Collar Boomers and early X-Ers) LOVE to talk about what Zip code/side of town their houses were on back in the 'day.' Ask them about parts of town that were more ethnically diverse (even if they were in the same economic levels) and they will stare at you like you've grown another head. I have extended relations that worked their ASSES off to not have to buy a house in the shithole town they grew up in, because they knew the place was going nowhere, and those towns are still shitholes 40 years later. The biggest difference today is that it's much easier to realize how much of a shithole you live in.
Honestly, one of the biggest issues Milennials are facing socially and economically are assumptions about what we want/how we participate in society and out neighborhoods/cities. You can throw as many idiotic Portlandia-hipster stereotypes as you want at us, but the reality is that if we didn't frequent that awesome taco place they built in the refurbished warehouse-cum-food court, your stupid city would cease to exist because old real estate would die and be replaced by suburbia-tract housing. You know, that shit you all pulled in the 80's and 90's to try to support your stupid unsustainable fake-growth economy. How'd that Mall-Sprawl work out for you?
But here's the worst part. Do you know who has mostly fucked up things for the last 30 years? I'll give you a hint - Millennials aren't even old enough to have held the positions that made the stupid, greedy short-sighted fuckups between the SnL debacle, the OG Internet bubble, and '08. Boomers largely had enough cash to ride it out, and stable employment with benefits that made it livable. GenX had some savings, and thank god for their parents, who could help out their kids in their late 20's and 30's. Now you have a new generation who are in debt for degrees our parents and grandparents said we needed to be successful, whose parents don't have cash to support them through the fuckups they caused, and an entire economic system that is designed to pay as little as possible for the labor pool as a whole, and you wonder why we're a little upset?
I hear what you are saying, but it's important to remember that in business, the 'best' platform isn't always the one with the most technical merit - it's the one that the most people use. Sure, if everyone was willing to work a little bit and totally refactor/redesign stuff, the handicaps they are building around could be avoided entirely. But the cost/benefit (especially over the short term) just isn't there.
Intel seems to have seen the writing on the wall finally; you aren't going to be able to charge a premium for marginal performance gains in any kind of volume for very much longer, and it's going to be very difficult to justify building a new mask for a few thousand gamers and HPC users. And of course, that 'entirely new market' you are talking about for ARM includes Mobile, which is probably the biggest thing for chip dev since people started buying desktops.
Look, the 54g series was great in it's day, and the community that grew around it has resulted in some pretty amazing software. But at this point, unless you have a very specific use case, it's hard to see why nerds are still using the old hardware for anything other than nostalgia/ludditism. There have been half a dozen major upgrades in terms of reliability and core hardware, with reliable firmware to boot.I had to update a warehouse last year that had a closet full of a dozen of these NiB, and while I can't argue with the OP, we couldn't give them away.
I maintained a 54g/Cisco677 combo for myself and any of my family members who wanted support for a LONG time, and knew how to make very low level core config changes to both, and I eventually gave up when I realized that I could get better radios, more ram, and better CPU in newer (non-linksys) gear. It's like keeping core 10/100 switching infrastructure around - it may have been top of the line when you bought it a decade ago, but even the cheap stuff running gig-e is going to blow it away in practical use now.
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I've done telephony integration work for the better part of a decade, so I spend a LOT of time in different call centers. Avaya is losing a ton of desk-share to Cisco, mostly because the Oracle-esque hijack-you-with-licensing scheme is finally starting to cost places more than it's worth. Adding new features costs as much as just ripping the crap out and putting something else in. It was funny the first time I saw them write an RFP to a specific price point, and then lose the business anyway because they had just pissed off to many people.
First time in a while that I've seen a UID argument that low=old and outdated.
So, since we've clearly moved past ad hominem...
1. Every Goddamn Day. 'Real' photographers like 'real' cameras, even when on the move. The best camera may be the one you have on you at the time, but there's a reason people who do this for a living are still toting around dedicated, decent cameras. Hell, even the in-the-field types will apologize for shitty phone uploads. And no, not every computer needs to accommodate the workflow - but if Apple has decided that Photogs belong in the pile with the other professionals they've abandoned in the last half decade, they only group remaining to justify their shitty hardware is 'brand-obsessed hipsters.'
2. WiFi for heavy photography is shit to use. It's shit to set up, it's slow when you move any kind of RAW data, and god forbid you are working in a radio-noisy space. Look, I get it, your wifey likes to use her crappy point and shoot and pretend she's a real artist. Ask the people who are moving Gigs of data every few minutes how well it holds up. It's a toy feature - you don't even need to be a artist to know that. Ask a Engineer how well WiFi storage holds up under any kind of load.
3. Yes, the garbage-class P&S have tiny sensors. They are comparable to decent smartphones. They really don't have merits outside of learning basic photography, as you can get substantially better image quality with a marginal increase in price. What relevance does that have for this discussion?
4. I love it when Apple apologists talk about getting rid of neigh-obsolete-in-the-consumer-space technology (Optical drives, old video interfaces) as a justification for taking out shit people use every. single. day. Yeah, killing the floppy and getting rid of a 100-year old standard analog audio interface are totally the same thing.
5. The issue isn't which is more 'popular' - it's which is more *used.* Millions of MicroSD cards will sit in those phones and never be touched or thought of - they might as well be soldered into the board. While I suspect that most camera cards will actually be used as removable media, and will require an interface to get the data out of them.
Again, I don't think that Apple actually needs to support powerusers. It's way more profitable to sell incrimental, locked-in hardware to gullible idiots who garner fleeting moments of happiness by being 'superior' to people that don't use a shitty fruit computer. Apple legitimately swayed me for a few years, and I respected them as a technology company, but damn near every decision they've made recently is laser targeted at profit over quality. They just don't offer a compelling product anymore to many of the people I know personally that have defended them for decades.
- That's a lot of ... totally useful devices. Yeah, sure. Totally... You're the WiFi version of the guy I used to know with like 15k worth of X10 gear wired all over his house. Of course, he spent enough time fiddling with his crap that his wife regularly cheated on him, but to each his own... Electrical monitor? Dishwasher?!?!
- But seriously, you bring up a quasi valid point. There is a pretty severe deficiency between people who are going nuts over smart-home crap and the stock 'prosumer' grade all-in-one networking gear you can get. I'm not sure if there is a device limit using custom firmware on the Nighthawk, as I don't have more than 30 connections at a time to mine, but I've heard your complaint from other people using the factory stuff, and it's not going to be acceptable for long to say you have to use something custom.
- I don't think that sticking WiFi on every lightbulb is going to be a reliable option for very long, regardless. It's a really kludgey fix for now, but there are half a dozen other options that make sense for 'smart' devices that don't actually need a god-damned IP address and that are going to generate less noise and eat less power. Honestly, if I was younger, I would be amused fucking with people's 'smart' lightbulbs and appliances just to irritate people like you - but you either use something open, fat, and lazy like WiFi/IP, or you have a proprietary PLC-SCADA, and I'm honestly not sure which is the better solution.
Many moons ago, OS X was extremely attractive to people who needed a computer to do work, but who didn't want to take the time to learn Windows and deal with bugs. The G4/G5 era was great for Creatives, and that naturally meant that the people who made all the dongles and the software treated OSX as their primary platforn. I supported IT at a music studio and an architecture firm, and the apple logo was EVERYWHERE. The problem wasn't that XP or 7 was 'bad', it was that the tools that people used were developed for Mac. We had desks that had 2 computers at them - a Mac for whatever the job function was, and a Dell laptop for everything else (Outlook being the primary culprit.) The problem is that Macs have been overwhelmingly shitty computers for years now, but because of the inbreeding, it takes major product shifts to drive brand-loyal users away; so here we are - lowest-common denominator consumer machines with a price premium for the brand, and professionals ripped away because they physically cannot do work anymore.
'Part of the problem' - why is it that you RMS apostles refuse to acknowledge that somewhere in the middle of the perfect computing utopia you think should exist there are large, multi-national corporations who's primary focus is profit, not OSS Doctrine? I hate to tell you that Santa Claus isn't real, but companies like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and even RedHat exist to produce a thing that other people want to buy. And Insert_Business_Here doesn't typically give a shit whether the company behind a product is "Evil" or "Good" in the eyes of a bunch of Nerds. You all like to pretend like you are somehow Righteous because it makes you feel special, but it's no different than the argument in the ME about who's fairy tale is less bullshit. Hooray, OSS keeps the industry more honest than it would otherwise be. But pretending like the prophet Linus will one day triumph over the evil Gates and Co is childish, and the rest of us have fucking work to do so we can pay our rent and spend time with our families. Jeebus.
'Trust' - who gives a fuck? My job pays me to know this environment at a high technical level, to deliver solutions based on it, and to recommend realistic alternatives when new projects are scoped (of which there are, in my world, none.) That they are even superficially moving towards more 'friendly' interaction with their userbase is a great sign, and most of the enterprise folks genuinely feel it's a lot better than just that. The overwhelming majority of us move in circles where 'just use Linux' makes about as much practical sense as 'just learn to breathe underwater.' The Anti-M$ crap is petty, decades-old sour grapes that comes from the underlying hipsterism of computing, and has about as much relevance as the people who rave about how Betamax was better.
+1. The R7k is BRILLIANT running a custom DD-WRT build, and I am using largely the same running config that I've been using for the last half decade across 3 different devices. And my brother has the previous device, and while he probably couldn't handle a bricked device like I could, he is more than capable of following updates for the build I found for him.
"no value for geeks" - Odd, we use them now as quick and simple interfaces for various Dashboards, because it makes more sense to hand out half a dozen than to have a big stupid screen on the wall. iPads were great, but you can flip from static display to full domain-auth'd windows machine in seconds.
Obligatory 'I-wish-I-had-Mod-Points' reply for taking the piss out of a terrible, quasi-technical justification for shitty carrier practices. Fix your damn network, spend on future growth, and stop banking your business model on the Govt. suddenly making your protected business even more protected...
Only in that the default audio playback application bundled with the OS could not legally handle MP3's, forcing you to use a 3rd party application, which was the default behavior for most Windows users through at least XP. I'd imagine it had about as much relevance as being unable to burn a CD back in the day without software like Roxio (or whatever the OSS comparable app was, I was still in grade school.) The big drawback to Linux for decades was simply that it didn't ship with the computer you bought from Dell (or Best Buy, or Circuit City, or whatever...) and that it required a non-trivial effort to get to the level of functionality that most people expected from a PC post- Windows 95. Of course, there is the continuous struggle of an OS that is designed from the ground up to avoid as many licensing and royalty restrictions as possible, since for much of the PC's history, code was written for profit and not just to be sweet. Furthermore, am I really replying to a 4-digit UID with this crap? I thought all of you graybeards actually knew how this crap worked...
It's genuinely weird being out-slashdotted by someone with a UID that has more digits than you. Gives me hope for the future.
THIS is classic, Old-Skool /. - I was surprised to see your 7-digit UID, because this is, like, back in the 5-digit-days-good. Reading the summary, I thought it smelled like they were trying to use a hammer to drive a screw, and I'm not even a low-level protocol geek. Your response genuinely made my afternoon, and you deserve the points they don't give out enough anymore. +1.
Wish I had points to mod you up. Instead others have them to upvote idiotic, isolationist pablum. Japan is probably the best example of why "Protectionism" is a bad thing - when you culturally isolate yourselves from the rest of the world, more people want to leave than want to move in. Your population shrinks and ages, and even if you are successful, you risk damaging social growth for decades.
It was frightening to see what my Boss' boss was earning in a position I had a few years ago. The contract stipulated that the person filling my role be a US Citizen for security reasons (but not clearance-level) so I was the only US Citizen on a team of ~30 people. My supervisor did little more than apologize for screw-ups and approve timecards, and his 'boss' was more like a glorified PM. Mind you, I made 20-30% more than either of them, and was literally triple the rate of my 'coworkers.' The reality is that I could have done the entire contract's work with 3 reasonable US-FTE's, and they wouldn't have had to rotate the positions every 9 months. It was insane.
Eh, your example kind of sucks. If you think that Buffet is buying stocks spur of the moment, you don't understand how billion-dollar funds get moved. TV and Movies like to make it seem like you can just drop 50mil on a hunch, but there is typically LOADS of analysis done on even flyer trades. That analysis generates a paper trail. And if you have already decided to buy based on that analysis, than the insider info is just gravy. Hell, you can even use that insider info to NOT make a trade, because the Fed only really cares about you unfairly making money (or limiting losses,) they don't care if you choose not to do something that would result in a loss. It's part of what makes insider trading insidiously difficult to prosecute; you typically need a pattern to establish behavior, and you have legitimate 'analysts' saying all sorts of things in most trade houses.
You identified the problem, you just misinterpreted the solution. If ISPs are worried that they won't be able to service customers on existing xcon's if the customers suddenly have orders-of-magnitude bandwidth increases, maybe the ISPs should have done something with the hundreds of millions of dollars they've received over the last 2 decades to continuously upgrade their infrastructure. It's buggy-whips all over again, except because the buggy-whip guys have almost monopolistic control over the market, they get to stall the automobile as long as they can afford to. And don't start bitching about cost and time and size - I work for a Fortune 100, and we have a 7 year tech roadmap that includes multiple core networking architecture upgrades for tech that is basically theoretical at this point. We are installing switches right now that we expect to replace in 24 months, because we can't afford to tell our customers that we don't have the ability to service their wants. ISPs and Telcos got as fat and lazy as the mobile carriers did, and they are all going to have a rude wake up if the legislative wind shifts again like it did against OG ATT.
I feel like you completely missed the point of this platform (embedded devices do not need shittons of CPU... ) but what, exactly, are you doing that requires 12 cores at 6GHz because your raw CPU is the bottleneck in a Desktop platform or architecture??? 'Slow desktops forever' my ass... 16G RAM, SSDs, and bus-level access are commodity product specs now. If you have Desktop software that is slow because of a CPU bottleneck, you either have shitty code, or your software should never have been designed for a desktop use case. Da fuq?
I really wish you weren't voted so highly. The ORIGINAL market for wrist watches were nobility for the novelty value, followed closely afterwards by trench soldiers, because a watch-and-chain were both inconvenient and finicky. Pilots and racing drivers came along significantly later, as both often had accurate chronographs on the dash, and if you've ever tried to read a traditional watch while driving aggressively, you'd realize you have to reposition your hand anyways. The reason why many watches carry that heritage is Pilots and Race car drivers are both sexy, trench soldiers are not. Hell, Doctor's watches and Diving watches are arguably even more popular still, and Diving watches didn't come along for a few decades after that.
But why is Billy the only coach who seems to be having extensive, media-prevalent tirades about this crap? 32 teams in the league, and Belli-ache is the one who is the most vocal about issues.
I was a little surprised when I walked into the show and they had a check at the door set up to accommodate this. Honestly, the only practical downside was that they should have a option to check the stupid thing at the door so I didn't have to lug the bag around with me.
I am curious if the sapphire layer/coating for the lens is done by Apple, or by someone else. Because there is the distinct chance that Apple is using a vendor's tech that they bankrupted to deliver a product that people don't understand and are complaining about.
And, FWIW, I've used 30 and 40 (Gawd, the 70's were a long time ago...) year old headphones with a straight phone jack and a mini adapter in stuff that's less than a year old. Any compatability issues likely come from arbitrary specs for added features like media/phone controls, and I don't think I've ever failed to hear audio from a jack I could plug into - unless it was one of the really weird cases where people were using jacks for power or pedals or stuff like that.
You lose ALL credibility in your first paragraph. Trying to say that post-boomer people - '70's kid', whatever the hell that means - 'generally didn't care where he lived' is a statistical crock. My Grandparents and parents (good, old-fashioned Blue-Collar Boomers and early X-Ers) LOVE to talk about what Zip code/side of town their houses were on back in the 'day.' Ask them about parts of town that were more ethnically diverse (even if they were in the same economic levels) and they will stare at you like you've grown another head. I have extended relations that worked their ASSES off to not have to buy a house in the shithole town they grew up in, because they knew the place was going nowhere, and those towns are still shitholes 40 years later. The biggest difference today is that it's much easier to realize how much of a shithole you live in.
Honestly, one of the biggest issues Milennials are facing socially and economically are assumptions about what we want/how we participate in society and out neighborhoods/cities. You can throw as many idiotic Portlandia-hipster stereotypes as you want at us, but the reality is that if we didn't frequent that awesome taco place they built in the refurbished warehouse-cum-food court, your stupid city would cease to exist because old real estate would die and be replaced by suburbia-tract housing. You know, that shit you all pulled in the 80's and 90's to try to support your stupid unsustainable fake-growth economy. How'd that Mall-Sprawl work out for you?
But here's the worst part. Do you know who has mostly fucked up things for the last 30 years? I'll give you a hint - Millennials aren't even old enough to have held the positions that made the stupid, greedy short-sighted fuckups between the SnL debacle, the OG Internet bubble, and '08. Boomers largely had enough cash to ride it out, and stable employment with benefits that made it livable. GenX had some savings, and thank god for their parents, who could help out their kids in their late 20's and 30's. Now you have a new generation who are in debt for degrees our parents and grandparents said we needed to be successful, whose parents don't have cash to support them through the fuckups they caused, and an entire economic system that is designed to pay as little as possible for the labor pool as a whole, and you wonder why we're a little upset?
Intel seems to have seen the writing on the wall finally; you aren't going to be able to charge a premium for marginal performance gains in any kind of volume for very much longer, and it's going to be very difficult to justify building a new mask for a few thousand gamers and HPC users. And of course, that 'entirely new market' you are talking about for ARM includes Mobile, which is probably the biggest thing for chip dev since people started buying desktops.
I maintained a 54g/Cisco677 combo for myself and any of my family members who wanted support for a LONG time, and knew how to make very low level core config changes to both, and I eventually gave up when I realized that I could get better radios, more ram, and better CPU in newer (non-linksys) gear. It's like keeping core 10/100 switching infrastructure around - it may have been top of the line when you bought it a decade ago, but even the cheap stuff running gig-e is going to blow it away in practical use now.