And then Apple drops the iPhone SE with flagship specs at $400 for 16GB or $500 with 64GB, blows away everything at the same price levels in Android land (the closest is probably the Moto X Pure, though the 6" screen isn't for everyone and the SE will win every benchmark as the A9 is significantly better than the 808).
The A9 in the 6S is better than the 820 in almost every respect so I'm not sure if you're comparing flagship to flagship you're going to see Android coming out on top (especially since the current wave all seem to suffer from thermal throttling fairly quickly, something the Apple phones don't have). For $750 you get a 6S with 64GB, for roughly the same money you get a Galaxy S7 Edge with 32GB.
and it never stops running for some arcane reason after a pkg update. No, just wireless, or CIFS, or some other subsystem breaks or performance goes to shit. I was amazed at how many issues the 15 OSX users at my last company managed to encounter (I was the datacenter manager but I got pulled in as senior troubleshooter since we were only a 40 person IT shop). I'm now at a global 5,000 person firm and we have hundreds of OSX users and they definitely create more than their share of tickets, not sure if that's a result of the OS or the userbase but frankly it doesn't matter to me as it still results in more work for me per supported user. I think OSX is an OK OS and have taken on a Macbook Air as my work laptop, partly because it's light and partly to make myself more familiar with OSX so I can better support my users, but people who think OSX is some magical panacea are delusional, it's still a complex OS written by human programmers so it's still going to have its share of bugs.
I wouldn't say nobody in the enterprise space is moving, we're just slower than consumers. My employer is a 5,000+ person international law firm and we're a few months into a two plus year project to move to Windows 10, although in our case it is the dual expiry of Windows 7 and Office 2007 that is motivating us to move so companies on a more modern version of Office might not yet be facing the need to move (still if it's going to take you 2-3 years to move you don't have that long to start).
Bingo, RHEL 5+ matches the 10 year support lifecycle for Windows with the same ongoing support past that mark at $Millions per year. That hasn't always been true but as their customer base has grown into the same enterprise markets that Windows has existed in for some time they have had to match the same customer needs/wants/demands. The two support lifecycles even look largely the same with 5-6 years of feature changes followed by 4-5 years of security only patching. Again this matches the general desires of the customer base, they don't want a new OS to grow stale too quickly but in the last few years of the lifecycle they don't want disruptive changes as they are usually focused on preparing the rollout of the new platform, the crossover phase, and the eventual decommissioning of the old systems. Fewer disruptive changes during that period eases the support burden during that period freeing up resources to work on these other projects. I'm currently living that lifecycle as we work on a multi-year project to transition off of Office 2007/Windows 7 and onto Office 2016/Windows 10 (and will be doing the same with the servers once Windows 2016 finally ships this fall). Being able to just quickly test Windows security patches and being relatively confident that they will not break anything frees up admin, QA, and patching resources to focus on new platform.
Solar panel. I've got a 15W one, worked fine during the last blackout to keep my cellphone charged up and the tower either had electricity or a backup generator since I was able to browse the web the whole time (and locally stored PDF's don't even require the tower to be up).
Do you not use setting roaming or are you using Windows Phone 10? The reason I ask is that I can't imagine making Edge my default browser as I wouldn't be able to keep my phone and desktop and laptop and tablet, etc in sync.
As far as better memory management, that's not been my experience. Open up about 20-30 tabs in Firefox with an Ad blocker installed, note the memory usage. Now bookmark the open tabs and export the bookmarks. Open the same 20-30 tabs in Chrome (again with an ad blocker), add up the memory usage of all of the Chrome processes. In every case where I tested the Firefox total was significantly less. Back when Chrome was the new hotness (right after they allowed extensions to actually block HTML content instead of just hide it) Chrome was in fact better at memory management, but for the last year or two Firefox has been significantly better for me. The same is true on Android, I get way fewer closed tabs using Firefox than I do using Chrome because of the lighter memory footprint.
So run Kodi under Android and run a Linux chroot jail for your CLI stuff (I did this on my Galaxy S5 for a while, running an ad blocking proxy server among other things).
Apple's "genius" was to bring disposability to expensive products. Imagine someone telling you in 1999 that people would be buying a new £700 phone every two years or less. It would have sounded ridiculous.
If you had told me in 1999 that I could have a handheld computer capable of playing games comparable to current gen consoles and it would only cost me $1000 I'd have jumped for joy! Heck, in 2000 I was lusting after the OQO which didn't ship until 2004 and the one you actually wanted (the model 02) didn't ship until 2006 at a cost of $2k and you weren't going to be playing any games written past 1999 or so on it. Pocket sized computers with GPU's, high resolution screens, a decent amount of storage and ram, etc is amazing to me, the fact that they can be purchased for less than a weeks labor doubly so.
Heck a 10,000 BTU AC unit in a small travel trailer only needs 700W once running so a 2kW setup would net you almost 3:1 runtime:collection (or about 2:1 once all inefficiencies are accounted for). The big problem is that 2kW of panels takes a lot more room than you have on a travel trailer (at least the ones that only need one 10k A/C!)
You don't need a developer license to run on your own phone, and haven't since last September. Xcode 7 added support for self signed certs to run a compiled app on your own hardware.
That totally depends on the application. For backpacking I care about W/g, for delivering to the middle of nowhere I care about W/g and W/L (each gallon of fuel delivered to a forward base in Afghanistan cost $400). For my roof I care about $/W and W/m^2. It all depends on use case as to what parameter you need to optimize for.
Exactly, make your rain fly out of it, now when you setup your tent your also generating electricity. Or put it as the outer layer on your jacket, now you're generating electricity wherever you go.
Windows IS now a moving target, CBB has a 6-9 month release cadence so if you're not getting on each build as it's available you're likely to miss something. You don't necessarily CHANGE anything based on a beta release but you can put in a tracking bug to check whether a particular feature is still broken when the release build is available. You only have 4 months after a CBB release to apply it or you have to do an in-place upgrade to the next LTSB to get current again, 4 months is a very tight window for most enterprises hence why many are getting testing in early with the insider builds.
According to this article 2.7% of the land area is urban, that means ~1% of the total earths surface is urban land. If strikes are completely random then there should be a 1% chance that any given hit is in an urban area. Now I don't believe hits are completely random since the solar system is planer so areas nearer the equator probably have a higher percentage chance, but that may be balanced by more cities being near the equator (there are almost no large cities between 60 degrees north and 90 degrees and in the southern hemisphere it's even more striking with no large cities between 45 degrees south and 90 degrees)
Uh, that's basically what the judge said to do in the latest order that Apple is appealing. They don't want to be forced to create the custom image because they know once they've done it once they'll have to do it thousands of times in the US alone (there are a lot of seized iphones in evidence lockers). Not only that but once they're in the business of revealing their customers secrets to governments many customers will rightfully be distrustful that the ability stops at lawful court orders from their own government and suddenly you'll have China issuing secret court orders for custom firmware for the phone of "suspected spies" aka western businessmen.
That article and most of the other stuff about telemetry has nothing to do with an LTSB install with anti-telemetry policies enabled. In the Windows world what you can do with the GUI on Home or Pro and what you can do on Enterprise with Group Policy are often very different things. Though in the case of Windows 10 there's a further divergence between Enterprise on the Current Branch for Business (CBB) and the Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB).
I haven't seen any research indicating that an LTSB install with appropriate policies in place leaks data. If you have any links I'd be very interested. As far as updates breaking policy, that's the whole bloody point of LTSB, you only get security updates without any of the feature updates that cause those kinds of issues. Until the second LTSB release comes out in ~18 months we won't know if there's any additional policies that will be needed (though it's likely based on what's happened in the CBB).
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And then Apple drops the iPhone SE with flagship specs at $400 for 16GB or $500 with 64GB, blows away everything at the same price levels in Android land (the closest is probably the Moto X Pure, though the 6" screen isn't for everyone and the SE will win every benchmark as the A9 is significantly better than the 808).
The A9 in the 6S is better than the 820 in almost every respect so I'm not sure if you're comparing flagship to flagship you're going to see Android coming out on top (especially since the current wave all seem to suffer from thermal throttling fairly quickly, something the Apple phones don't have). For $750 you get a 6S with 64GB, for roughly the same money you get a Galaxy S7 Edge with 32GB.
inferior hardware
Uh, there are a LOT of things to bag on Apple about but the performance of their mobile SOC's isn't one of them.
and it never stops running for some arcane reason after a pkg update.
No, just wireless, or CIFS, or some other subsystem breaks or performance goes to shit. I was amazed at how many issues the 15 OSX users at my last company managed to encounter (I was the datacenter manager but I got pulled in as senior troubleshooter since we were only a 40 person IT shop). I'm now at a global 5,000 person firm and we have hundreds of OSX users and they definitely create more than their share of tickets, not sure if that's a result of the OS or the userbase but frankly it doesn't matter to me as it still results in more work for me per supported user. I think OSX is an OK OS and have taken on a Macbook Air as my work laptop, partly because it's light and partly to make myself more familiar with OSX so I can better support my users, but people who think OSX is some magical panacea are delusional, it's still a complex OS written by human programmers so it's still going to have its share of bugs.
You're almost a year late on the 2003 transition..
I wouldn't say nobody in the enterprise space is moving, we're just slower than consumers. My employer is a 5,000+ person international law firm and we're a few months into a two plus year project to move to Windows 10, although in our case it is the dual expiry of Windows 7 and Office 2007 that is motivating us to move so companies on a more modern version of Office might not yet be facing the need to move (still if it's going to take you 2-3 years to move you don't have that long to start).
Bingo, RHEL 5+ matches the 10 year support lifecycle for Windows with the same ongoing support past that mark at $Millions per year. That hasn't always been true but as their customer base has grown into the same enterprise markets that Windows has existed in for some time they have had to match the same customer needs/wants/demands. The two support lifecycles even look largely the same with 5-6 years of feature changes followed by 4-5 years of security only patching. Again this matches the general desires of the customer base, they don't want a new OS to grow stale too quickly but in the last few years of the lifecycle they don't want disruptive changes as they are usually focused on preparing the rollout of the new platform, the crossover phase, and the eventual decommissioning of the old systems. Fewer disruptive changes during that period eases the support burden during that period freeing up resources to work on these other projects. I'm currently living that lifecycle as we work on a multi-year project to transition off of Office 2007/Windows 7 and onto Office 2016/Windows 10 (and will be doing the same with the servers once Windows 2016 finally ships this fall). Being able to just quickly test Windows security patches and being relatively confident that they will not break anything frees up admin, QA, and patching resources to focus on new platform.
Solar panel. I've got a 15W one, worked fine during the last blackout to keep my cellphone charged up and the tower either had electricity or a backup generator since I was able to browse the web the whole time (and locally stored PDF's don't even require the tower to be up).
Larry's pretty well known for having the largest yacht in the world at one time, and to a lesser extent for his sponsorship of a boat racing team.
Do you not use setting roaming or are you using Windows Phone 10? The reason I ask is that I can't imagine making Edge my default browser as I wouldn't be able to keep my phone and desktop and laptop and tablet, etc in sync.
As far as better memory management, that's not been my experience. Open up about 20-30 tabs in Firefox with an Ad blocker installed, note the memory usage. Now bookmark the open tabs and export the bookmarks. Open the same 20-30 tabs in Chrome (again with an ad blocker), add up the memory usage of all of the Chrome processes. In every case where I tested the Firefox total was significantly less. Back when Chrome was the new hotness (right after they allowed extensions to actually block HTML content instead of just hide it) Chrome was in fact better at memory management, but for the last year or two Firefox has been significantly better for me. The same is true on Android, I get way fewer closed tabs using Firefox than I do using Chrome because of the lighter memory footprint.
Pretty good.
So run Kodi under Android and run a Linux chroot jail for your CLI stuff (I did this on my Galaxy S5 for a while, running an ad blocking proxy server among other things).
Apple's "genius" was to bring disposability to expensive products. Imagine someone telling you in 1999 that people would be buying a new £700 phone every two years or less. It would have sounded ridiculous.
If you had told me in 1999 that I could have a handheld computer capable of playing games comparable to current gen consoles and it would only cost me $1000 I'd have jumped for joy! Heck, in 2000 I was lusting after the OQO which didn't ship until 2004 and the one you actually wanted (the model 02) didn't ship until 2006 at a cost of $2k and you weren't going to be playing any games written past 1999 or so on it. Pocket sized computers with GPU's, high resolution screens, a decent amount of storage and ram, etc is amazing to me, the fact that they can be purchased for less than a weeks labor doubly so.
Heck a 10,000 BTU AC unit in a small travel trailer only needs 700W once running so a 2kW setup would net you almost 3:1 runtime:collection (or about 2:1 once all inefficiencies are accounted for). The big problem is that 2kW of panels takes a lot more room than you have on a travel trailer (at least the ones that only need one 10k A/C!)
You don't need a developer license to run on your own phone, and haven't since last September. Xcode 7 added support for self signed certs to run a compiled app on your own hardware.
That totally depends on the application. For backpacking I care about W/g, for delivering to the middle of nowhere I care about W/g and W/L (each gallon of fuel delivered to a forward base in Afghanistan cost $400). For my roof I care about $/W and W/m^2. It all depends on use case as to what parameter you need to optimize for.
Exactly, make your rain fly out of it, now when you setup your tent your also generating electricity. Or put it as the outer layer on your jacket, now you're generating electricity wherever you go.
Windows IS now a moving target, CBB has a 6-9 month release cadence so if you're not getting on each build as it's available you're likely to miss something. You don't necessarily CHANGE anything based on a beta release but you can put in a tracking bug to check whether a particular feature is still broken when the release build is available. You only have 4 months after a CBB release to apply it or you have to do an in-place upgrade to the next LTSB to get current again, 4 months is a very tight window for most enterprises hence why many are getting testing in early with the insider builds.
According to this article 2.7% of the land area is urban, that means ~1% of the total earths surface is urban land. If strikes are completely random then there should be a 1% chance that any given hit is in an urban area. Now I don't believe hits are completely random since the solar system is planer so areas nearer the equator probably have a higher percentage chance, but that may be balanced by more cities being near the equator (there are almost no large cities between 60 degrees north and 90 degrees and in the southern hemisphere it's even more striking with no large cities between 45 degrees south and 90 degrees)
Because firmware updates have to be cryptographically signed with Apples signing key.
Uh, that's basically what the judge said to do in the latest order that Apple is appealing. They don't want to be forced to create the custom image because they know once they've done it once they'll have to do it thousands of times in the US alone (there are a lot of seized iphones in evidence lockers). Not only that but once they're in the business of revealing their customers secrets to governments many customers will rightfully be distrustful that the ability stops at lawful court orders from their own government and suddenly you'll have China issuing secret court orders for custom firmware for the phone of "suspected spies" aka western businessmen.
How is a game cracker going to create a cryptographically signed update package with Apple's signing key?
That article and most of the other stuff about telemetry has nothing to do with an LTSB install with anti-telemetry policies enabled. In the Windows world what you can do with the GUI on Home or Pro and what you can do on Enterprise with Group Policy are often very different things. Though in the case of Windows 10 there's a further divergence between Enterprise on the Current Branch for Business (CBB) and the Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB).
I haven't seen any research indicating that an LTSB install with appropriate policies in place leaks data. If you have any links I'd be very interested. As far as updates breaking policy, that's the whole bloody point of LTSB, you only get security updates without any of the feature updates that cause those kinds of issues. Until the second LTSB release comes out in ~18 months we won't know if there's any additional policies that will be needed (though it's likely based on what's happened in the CBB).
It's called the LTS branch.