Add to that, in german IT forums the general question always was, of WTF was HP thinking on hiring this guy. Basically from day one. This is basically a decision like hiring Fiorina again for a big tech company after here miserable performance at HP.
Actually HP should have known. Apotheker was fired after 8 months at SAP for being a complete incompetent i**** he first insulted his developers by giving them the feeling they are not needed anymore and could get the boot anyday then he tried a massive price hike insulting the customers, he did not even want to live near the main SAP headquarters because Paris was much more comfortable. After 8 months Hasso Plattner the company founder gave him the boot for slowly ruining his company. I am sure if Hewlett and Packard would still live non of the last 3 CEOs of HP even would have been in that position.
At least Apotheker would not have gotten it after his miserable til lousy track record at SAP. Germany has some good CEOs Apotheker never was one of them.
Add to that that there are enough other companies busy shipping indian guys around all over the world. Why should they start to hire HP for getting indian guys?
IBM also has a solid foundation of business software underneath. Face it as junk as ClearCase Was etc.. are, they are the doorstep into big business. HP has neither. So if you buy IBM or Oracle Software, you end up with paying IBM and Oracle Consultants as well. The situation you describe is more along the lines of having another competitor to product less consultant companies and those do not by far make as much as an IBM or oracle does on consulting.
Problem there is it took IBM about 10-15 corporate products and 15-20 years to build up its consulting business, i cannot see the same timeframe and product nieche for HP.
Btw. speaking of long term consequences, there recently was a testing of wild boar in southern germany. And the meat tested still was way over the radiation limits. The reason for that simply was that the area of southern germany was washed heavily with radioactive rain, and the soil which hosts the radioactivity simply is in layers where truffels grow. So go figure what the wild pork eat and how they got contaminated. Although the dosage if radioactive content you will get by eating such a pork wont kill you it is definitely a good years dose of what you should have gotten under normal circumstances. Tchernobyl btw. is 25 years past now.
Those 300 people were basically exposed to high radiation while the disaster happened. You dont know what will happen over time since radiation unless it is a really high dosage can take up to 10-20 years to develop serious diseases. (Unless you are a child then things might just take a handful of years) The cancer/death rate among children will be the first we will see increase in the upcoming years. Believe me I live in an area which was exposed 2000 kilometers away from Tchernobyl with radioactive rain, and our thyroid problem rate went up in the years after the disaster so did the cancer rate. I was in the rain and so far "knock on wood" have not developed any disease, but my mother had a thyroid operation about 10 years after and so did many people.
And they are a pestilence in the areas where they are unleashed on. Their main victims post ware usually are children which while playing accidentally step on them.
Not really better financial results. I guess the US spends more on health care than Europe, but we dont have any deatch sentence here by your insurance saying no to treatment. So in between there is something seriously broken with the US healthcare system. More cash less results but who gets the money which is drained?
EA wouldnt have a clue on what to do with Ultima anyway, the last thing I hear about Ultima was that they were planning a browser game ala sims. I guess nowadays if they brought out another Ultima it would be a sports game (Avatar Soccer) or a WW2 Shooter (Ultima 11 the adventures of the Avatar in Desden)
No worries about EA, as long as customers literally plunge billions into rehashed sports titles every year and plunge about the same amount into lame shooters EA wont go belly up or will see a need to change their ways. I would say it is the fault of the Madden etc... customers that EA is well - EA.
Thats mostly a problem of the so called web designers who think they can do everything with flash. HTML5 wont change that you will get the same shit experience but without extra plugin. Flash shines in other areas, video, or real data centric uis in Flex.
Heck, I have a 2009 mac mini in my sleeping room, and I am rather sensible to noise but I under normal circumstances I dont hear the thing, no matter what other posters say. If I have media on, there might be noise, but the tv takes care of not hearing the mini and if it is in normal mode waiting to do something or standby, there is not a single noise.
Trim makes only really sense in SSDs which do not have an integrated garbage collection (which is sort of a defered trim on firmware level) It is more or less obsolete in modern ssds.
Well you can reduce write cycles on the SSD, but given if you have a reasonably sized ssd of 240Gig or more it is not worth it anymore. It makes however sense in the cheap small ones which might be overwritten a lot. The enterprise SSDs are an entirely different issue, there you have millions of cycles instead of 3000-5000.
Ahem, you are comparing cheap off the shelve ssds with enterprise grade ssds, there is a mileage of difference even in the lifetime and write cycles. Besides that you probably just got a bad brand, ssds are sometimes bug ridden hence you often get firmware updates for some ssd series to fix those. But I have been on a consumer grade SSD for half a year now, and not a single problem.
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Add to that, in german IT forums the general question always was, of WTF was HP thinking on hiring this guy. Basically from day one. This is basically a decision like hiring Fiorina again for a big tech company after here miserable performance at HP.
Actually HP should have known. Apotheker was fired after 8 months at SAP for being a complete incompetent i**** he first insulted his developers by giving them the feeling they are not needed anymore and could get the boot anyday then he tried a massive price hike insulting the customers, he did not even want to live near the main SAP headquarters because Paris was much more comfortable. After 8 months Hasso Plattner the company founder gave him the boot for slowly ruining his company.
I am sure if Hewlett and Packard would still live non of the last 3 CEOs of HP even would have been in that position.
At least Apotheker would not have gotten it after his miserable til lousy track record at SAP. Germany has some good CEOs Apotheker never was one of them.
Actually HPs cash cow still is the printer business.
Actually I still buy the german Miele, reliable as ever.
Not the cheapest but you get what you pay for.
Add to that that there are enough other companies busy shipping indian guys around all over the world. Why should they start to hire HP for getting indian guys?
No need to get a reactor in your backyard, just move to japan near Fukushima.
IBM also has a solid foundation of business software underneath. Face it as junk as ClearCase Was etc.. are, they are the doorstep into big business. HP has neither. So if you buy IBM or Oracle Software, you end up with paying IBM and Oracle Consultants as well.
The situation you describe is more along the lines of having another competitor to product less consultant companies and those do not by far make as much as an IBM or oracle does on consulting.
Problem there is it took IBM about 10-15 corporate products and 15-20 years to build up its consulting business, i cannot see the same timeframe and product nieche for HP.
Btw. speaking of long term consequences, there recently was a testing of wild boar in southern germany. And the meat tested still was way over the radiation limits. The reason for that simply was that the area of southern germany was washed heavily with radioactive rain, and the soil which hosts the radioactivity simply is in layers where truffels grow. So go figure what the wild pork eat and how they got contaminated.
Although the dosage if radioactive content you will get by eating such a pork wont kill you it is definitely a good years dose of what you should have gotten under normal circumstances. Tchernobyl btw. is 25 years past now.
Those 300 people were basically exposed to high radiation while the disaster happened. You dont know what will happen over time since radiation unless it is a really high dosage can take up to 10-20 years to develop serious diseases. (Unless you are a child then things might just take a handful of years)
The cancer/death rate among children will be the first we will see increase in the upcoming years.
Believe me I live in an area which was exposed 2000 kilometers away from Tchernobyl with radioactive rain, and our thyroid problem rate went up in the years after the disaster so did the cancer rate.
I was in the rain and so far "knock on wood" have not developed any disease, but my mother had a thyroid operation about 10 years after and so did many people.
And they are a pestilence in the areas where they are unleashed on. Their main victims post ware usually are children which while playing accidentally step on them.
Not really better financial results. I guess the US spends more on health care than Europe, but we dont have any deatch sentence here by your insurance saying no to treatment. So in between there is something seriously broken with the US healthcare system. More cash less results but who gets the money which is drained?
I second the recommendation, the airport extreme is a pretty well done router, relatively problem free.
Actually I have boykotted sony for years now. They probably lost several thousand dollars of hardware purchases from my person alone.
Well done Sony.
Hehe I thought about this myself, 20.000 people filing individual small claims courtcases against sony. Lets see how they choke on that.
EA wouldnt have a clue on what to do with Ultima anyway, the last thing I hear about Ultima was that they were planning a browser game ala sims.
I guess nowadays if they brought out another Ultima it would be a sports game (Avatar Soccer) or a WW2 Shooter (Ultima 11 the adventures of the Avatar in Desden)
No worries about EA, as long as customers literally plunge billions into rehashed sports titles every year and plunge about the same amount into lame shooters EA wont go belly up or will see a need to change their ways.
I would say it is the fault of the Madden etc... customers that EA is well - EA.
No I hate them and hated them for years. Saves a lot of cash if you dont like FPS, nowadays.
Also pretty much all apple devices use li polymer batteries.
Thats mostly a problem of the so called web designers who think they can do everything with flash. HTML5 wont change that you will get the same shit experience but without extra plugin.
Flash shines in other areas, video, or real data centric uis in Flex.
Heck, I have a 2009 mac mini in my sleeping room, and I am rather sensible to noise but I under normal circumstances I dont hear the thing, no matter what other posters say. If I have media on, there might be noise, but the tv takes care of not hearing the mini and if it is in normal mode waiting to do something or standby, there is not a single noise.
Trim makes only really sense in SSDs which do not have an integrated garbage collection (which is sort of a defered trim on firmware level)
It is more or less obsolete in modern ssds.
Well you can reduce write cycles on the SSD, but given if you have a reasonably sized ssd of 240Gig or more it is not worth it anymore. It makes however sense in the cheap small ones which might be overwritten a lot.
The enterprise SSDs are an entirely different issue, there you have millions of cycles instead of 3000-5000.
Ahem, you are comparing cheap off the shelve ssds with enterprise grade ssds, there is a mileage of difference even in the lifetime and write cycles. Besides that you probably just got a bad brand, ssds are sometimes bug ridden hence you often get firmware updates for some ssd series to fix those. But I have been on a consumer grade SSD for half a year now, and not a single problem.
The power performance still is in the same area...