I'm about to unleash a harsh opinion. I worked for Apple from 1995 until 2001.
It's over honestly. I own no current Apple equipment, and I'm not interested in any. (more below)
Steve Jobs was the savior of the company to be sure- but he also pulled Apple out of the computer market in a big way. During my time you could by a Mac that would run circles around anything you could obtain on a PC. Heck going back to NuBus there was astounding graphics capability on Macs. When the company rolled out the G3/G4/G5 processors- they were stepping all over Intel based machines in big ways. And you could get aftermarket GPUs which were the equals of their PC counterparts.
Then came the start of what I consider to be the "dumbing down" of these computers. One of the first things I noticed was that Apple was making machines that were a generation behind in memory architecture. Then they moved off of RISC and starting using Intel chips. Then the logic boards were reportedly "Asus compatible".
What has happened since the glory days? Well- they stopped focusing on computing. It appears to be an afterthought. It's iPods... iPhones.... iWatches. The Mac is essentially a PC architecture with an alternative operating system. Anyone who knows that buys a PC, unless they think that Mac OS has something really compelling.
It is sad that this is happening. Apple had a compelling reason to be in the marketplace, and many firsts ion new and killer technology. Now I'm looking at artsy fartsy foo foo machines with no guts. I don't mind foo foo design- I might even like it. But I've got 8 x86 cores, watercooled,16gb of RAM, and a GTX 980 sitting next to me which cost me $1400.00 to build. And you could buy the machine assembled for not much more.
Rift isn't going to support VR on the Mac. And I certainly do not blame them. The platform is not not being maintained well or growing. From my perspective Apple is sucking the marrow out of the Macintosh until the bone is dry.
If in fact VR is the "next killer app" on the desktop- Apple appears to have not prepared for it at all.
So once in a while I pull out my old G3/604 machines. Load up Rhapsody Dev release from 1998- and enjoy the wave of nostalgia. Then I go back to my PC and do some work, with multiple virtual machines, running multiple OS's, with a movie playing on my third monitor....
This is of course my opinion. Apple isn't in the computer market anymore....
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There is a while bunch of privacy law that hangs on this.
As a "superstar" IT professional, I was outsourced in 2010. And watched from the outside when the company went through three contractors who were supposedly cheaper and superior. I was the IT director. Yes.. the call did come three months later: "we'd like to hire you back at less money and here sign this contract". But I had already made other plans.
I simply read the writing on the wall and called it a day. Considering my first IT job was in 1984 at the age of 19- it was a good run.
IT is simply not a career path that people with ability should be pursuing, assuming you are American born. The HB1 threat is far too high given the cost savings over domestic workers. Contract "service companies" take over entire IT operations: quality or ability be damned. You will always be priced out of a job- no matter how good you are.
Time to wave the flag. I'm going back to school for an EE and hope to design radar and radio systems. This is a field that interests me greatly.
Too bad they rolled up the carpet in the IT sectors- I'd have given it another 25 years.
Ironic isn't it that Trump wants to kill the very instrument that would be most effective in de-radicalizing people?
Free speech and free flow of information does more good than harm. Seems counter intuitive to lock violent radicals out of the very information that could change their minds, educate the ignorant, and carry a non violent message.
Sure terrorists use the Internet to recruit. But how many people did not join up because of information on the Internet?
Are we really so scared that we will turn proto-fascist?
In January 2001, the major computer company I was working for in Chicago offered me $140k a year to move out to the "bay area". I also had another offer on the table around the same amount in Santa Cruz. Both had nice relocation packages.
At the same time I had a cousin working for Agilent. So I knew he was in a one bedroom apartment in Sunnyvale at $1600.00 a month. And that the house he owned, lived in by soon to be ex wife, was over a $1,000,000 mortgage.
I balked... and didn't take either position. Two years later I high-tailed it out of Chicago and moved to Michigan.
Best decision I ever made. Of course I had family, friends, and business associates told me I was crazy.
However, today I live on a hill, in a forest, about 200 yards from Lake Michigan.
Young IT people: Shiny... is shiny. But that's never enough.
Why, when we are trying to encourage children to take up all things computing, is Programmers Day such a big flop?
Um, because the set of "${X} days/months" is a meaningless, stupid concept, curated by people without any meaningful claim to authority or unusual credibility?
This article's premise is about as sensical as asking why everyone named "Frank" isn't celebrating the fact that I live in North America.
I can see the writing on the wall, from the perspective of having my first IT job in 1983... It's over.
No one should really seek to enter a non development position in IT. Because it is being snuffed out by "big computing cloud services" and the "appliancezation" of IT infrastructure. There will always be some high end jobs around. But the numbers (and the pay) are shrinking- fast.
So pack it up kiddies. Almost 30 years of booming industry will be evaporating in 5 to 7 years.
Imagine a phone company with 6 digit numbers which wants to give users world-accessible phone-numbers. What did the phone companies do? Easy: Just add prefixes to the numbers and everybody is happy. The old numbers stay valid, you can still connect within the old network(s), nobody has to remember new numbers.
But what if phone-numbers would have been expanded the "IPv6-way"?
Then you would have your old number and would receive a completely different new number, which would also be in an incompatible format (maybe letters instead of digits). Then you would have to update all your phone numbers everywhere, to "switch over". of course such a scheme would fail instantly and that's why IPv6 continues to fail.
The IPv6 adherents just don't get it. If the IPv6-designers were smart enough to just extend the IPv4-address space we would all be running IPv6 already, because it would require no reconfiguration of routers, no reconfiguration of DNS names, no reconfiguration of anything.
But these morons thought that a billion people will just change all their addresses just because they tell them. Well, it doesn't work that way.
I'm really surprised a person who's been around as long as you have holds to this view.
IP6 was in many ways designed to solve problems in IP4- not just address space issues. Thus a break. Because you had to break IP4 to fix it. At this point IP4 is a patched frankenstein protocol with lots of holes, bad implementations, and quasi adherence to RFCs.
Extending IP4 address space would not solve the problems. A new model is needed.
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I'm about to unleash a harsh opinion. I worked for Apple from 1995 until 2001.
It's over honestly. I own no current Apple equipment, and I'm not interested in any. (more below)
Steve Jobs was the savior of the company to be sure- but he also pulled Apple out of the computer market in a big way. During my time you could by a Mac that would run circles around anything you could obtain on a PC. Heck going back to NuBus there was astounding graphics capability on Macs. When the company rolled out the G3/G4/G5 processors- they were stepping all over Intel based machines in big ways. And you could get aftermarket GPUs which were the equals of their PC counterparts.
Then came the start of what I consider to be the "dumbing down" of these computers. One of the first things I noticed was that Apple was making machines that were a generation behind in memory architecture. Then they moved off of RISC and starting using Intel chips. Then the logic boards were reportedly "Asus compatible".
What has happened since the glory days? Well- they stopped focusing on computing. It appears to be an afterthought. It's iPods... iPhones.... iWatches. The Mac is essentially a PC architecture with an alternative operating system. Anyone who knows that buys a PC, unless they think that Mac OS has something really compelling.
It is sad that this is happening. Apple had a compelling reason to be in the marketplace, and many firsts ion new and killer technology. Now I'm looking at artsy fartsy foo foo machines with no guts. I don't mind foo foo design- I might even like it. But I've got 8 x86 cores, watercooled,16gb of RAM, and a GTX 980 sitting next to me which cost me $1400.00 to build. And you could buy the machine assembled for not much more.
Rift isn't going to support VR on the Mac. And I certainly do not blame them. The platform is not not being maintained well or growing. From my perspective Apple is sucking the marrow out of the Macintosh until the bone is dry.
If in fact VR is the "next killer app" on the desktop- Apple appears to have not prepared for it at all.
So once in a while I pull out my old G3/604 machines. Load up Rhapsody Dev release from 1998- and enjoy the wave of nostalgia. Then I go back to my PC and do some work, with multiple virtual machines, running multiple OS's, with a movie playing on my third monitor....
This is of course my opinion. Apple isn't in the computer market anymore....
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There is a while bunch of privacy law that hangs on this.
Oh no... I live in the 98% of the state that's not Detroit, Flint, or Pontiac.
You know... with people.
For rational people? Or the other kind?
Here in Michigan- it's been a fine spring so far!
I'd like to know who handles their IT?
Contractor? Imports? If they cannot turn their computers on.... are they pulling the drive to access the data on clean airgapped computers?
I'd bet they have a marginal IT staff and a bunch of managers. Would be typical.
This is why I retired at 45.
As a "superstar" IT professional, I was outsourced in 2010. And watched from the outside when the company went through three contractors who were supposedly cheaper and superior. I was the IT director. Yes.. the call did come three months later: "we'd like to hire you back at less money and here sign this contract". But I had already made other plans.
I simply read the writing on the wall and called it a day. Considering my first IT job was in 1984 at the age of 19- it was a good run.
IT is simply not a career path that people with ability should be pursuing, assuming you are American born. The HB1 threat is far too high given the cost savings over domestic workers. Contract "service companies" take over entire IT operations: quality or ability be damned. You will always be priced out of a job- no matter how good you are.
Time to wave the flag. I'm going back to school for an EE and hope to design radar and radio systems. This is a field that interests me greatly.
Too bad they rolled up the carpet in the IT sectors- I'd have given it another 25 years.
Trap their souls on electronic tape and send them to watch bad pop psych movies and bad science fiction.
Call it the wall of fire... or Incident 1.
Then make it a religion.
I'm a little more optimistic.. AMD is due, And they have new process.
This summer is going to be an exciting time in processors.
They must have "Scienced the shit" out of it.
Fuck it, we're going to 12 antennas.
It only goes to 11.
The biggest Irony of all:
Microsoft is the worst example of TCP/IP expertise. Going to Gates, would be like questioning Steve Jobs about the NT kernel.
And yet you have those rights, which you are apparently willing to die for, because of idealists.
The irony club has beaten you like a baby seal.
Because you cannot beat Trump and maintain our standing in the world (what's left of it) by folding on basic rights, in the face of maniacs.
Ironic isn't it that Trump wants to kill the very instrument that would be most effective in de-radicalizing people?
Free speech and free flow of information does more good than harm. Seems counter intuitive to lock violent radicals out of the very information that could change their minds, educate the ignorant, and carry a non violent message.
Sure terrorists use the Internet to recruit. But how many people did not join up because of information on the Internet?
Are we really so scared that we will turn proto-fascist?
You made the right choices.
In January 2001, the major computer company I was working for in Chicago offered me $140k a year to move out to the "bay area". I also had another offer on the table around the same amount in Santa Cruz. Both had nice relocation packages.
At the same time I had a cousin working for Agilent. So I knew he was in a one bedroom apartment in Sunnyvale at $1600.00 a month. And that the house he owned, lived in by soon to be ex wife, was over a $1,000,000 mortgage.
I balked... and didn't take either position. Two years later I high-tailed it out of Chicago and moved to Michigan.
Best decision I ever made. Of course I had family, friends, and business associates told me I was crazy.
However, today I live on a hill, in a forest, about 200 yards from Lake Michigan.
Young IT people: Shiny... is shiny. But that's never enough.
Additionally, if I'm engineering a radio system, I want to know every solder joint in the system.
If I'm selling a system- it goes to the customer with off the shelf components.
Look at all the super low member numbers in this thread....
We are showing our age boys!
I'm actually running out of 70/30 BTW.
Um, because the set of "${X} days/months" is a meaningless, stupid concept, curated by people without any meaningful claim to authority or unusual credibility?
This article's premise is about as sensical as asking why everyone named "Frank" isn't celebrating the fact that I live in North America.
Come to think of it... why not do that?
I like several people named Frank. Who's in?
I can see the writing on the wall, from the perspective of having my first IT job in 1983... It's over.
No one should really seek to enter a non development position in IT. Because it is being snuffed out by "big computing cloud services" and the "appliancezation" of IT infrastructure. There will always be some high end jobs around. But the numbers (and the pay) are shrinking- fast.
So pack it up kiddies. Almost 30 years of booming industry will be evaporating in 5 to 7 years.
It is truly time to find something else to do.
Agreed. Most of my serious stuff is Linux.
I just made the comment because these young guppies haven't seen the carnage we've seen. We've been around.
Suggestion....
Everyone please wait on this for any seriously important machines. If something goes wrong here- it's going to go very wrong.
And as a reference: "very wrong" does not infer "goodness".
Someone needs to mod this up....
Lower router overhead? Multicast? IPSec integration? Smaller routing tables?
Again... you have no idea what you are talking about.
It's obvious you haven't worked professionally in IT- at least not at a network engineering level.
Conversation terminated :)
IPv6 is broken because it is incompatible.
To illustrate, let's look at phone numbers.
Imagine a phone company with 6 digit numbers which wants to give users world-accessible phone-numbers. What did the phone companies do? Easy: Just add prefixes to the numbers and everybody is happy. The old numbers stay valid, you can still connect within the old network(s), nobody has to remember new numbers.
But what if phone-numbers would have been expanded the "IPv6-way"?
Then you would have your old number and would receive a completely different new number, which would also be in an incompatible format (maybe letters instead of digits). Then you would have to update all your phone numbers everywhere, to "switch over".
of course such a scheme would fail instantly and that's why IPv6 continues to fail.
The IPv6 adherents just don't get it. If the IPv6-designers were smart enough to just extend the IPv4-address space we would all be running IPv6 already, because it would require no reconfiguration of routers, no reconfiguration of DNS names, no reconfiguration of anything.
But these morons thought that a billion people will just change all their addresses just because they tell them. Well, it doesn't work that way.
I'm really surprised a person who's been around as long as you have holds to this view.
IP6 was in many ways designed to solve problems in IP4- not just address space issues. Thus a break. Because you had to break IP4 to fix it. At this point IP4 is a patched frankenstein protocol with lots of holes, bad implementations, and quasi adherence to RFCs.
Extending IP4 address space would not solve the problems. A new model is needed.