The other problem with touchscreen notebooks: let's make it as thin and light as possible, and then put a touchscreen on it, so that if you actually use the touchscreen, it levers the bottom of the notebook off the desk and bangs it back onto the desk. Unless the hinges are weak shit, in which case it just constantly pushes the screen away, and you will have to be adjusting it all the time. Oh, and it's one more thing to take your hands off the keyboard.
Many manufacturers are releasing Win7 drivers for current hardware, especially if it's a machine meant for enterprise deployment. Even some machines that are clearly designed for Windows 8 are getting Win7 support because big business isn't doing Windows 8.
Clearly he's more clever than you, because you didn't notice that it wasn't an anti-Apple post. It was a post about how the plural of anecdote isn't spelled "data".
You missed the "Anecdotes by unverifiable semi-anonymous Internet posters" part, where he basically says that the above story is false.
Or done what Lenovo is doing with their entire notebook line - go with Mini DisplayPort that converts to everything, as it's a VESA standard.
Mini-HDMI pretty much means you're going to have to carry a dongle with you everywhere. Ditto with Mini-VGA. At least there are DisplayPort displays out there that can plug directly in.
Maybe not, but there's lots of people that make DisplayPort displays, which work with the same port. The Mac recognizes if there is a Thunderbolt signal, or DisplayPort signal, and adjusts it's behavior on that port accordingly.
although the smartphone market was tiny compared to today back then
Which was a direct function of practically every smartphone of the period being a major piece of shit. Smartphones only became slightly useable when RIM started getting traction with Blackberry, and the explosive growth we see today is due to iPhone and versions of Android that don't suck.
Did Microsoft try first? Sure - you could go all the way back to Windows CE for that. Did they fail for years? Also yes.
No, but they would like to reference those documents without carrying around a massive laptop with a shit battery. That's why this is a complimentary product to the Office that these users already bought.
Because people buy a Mac Pro to brag about benchmarks? No, that's why people buy Alienware, or build their own. Benchmark braggers don't do Xeon.
This is a machine for real work, and that work involves huge amounts of data in the form of uncompressed, or lossless-compressed HD video. And if you've ever worked in ProRes422 (or similar) for any amount of time on a standard SATA3 SSD, you still end up waiting on the disk unless you've put in multiple and striped them together with RAID or some such.
There's a reason why people still buy fiber channel storage for devices that aren't servers - are they just trying to get the "high score" on 3DMark too?
Now only if anything in the article actually led to the conclusion that climate change has anything to do with the increased spread of this disease, rather than massive plantations of a monoculture of genetically near-identical plants.
But yeah, I'm sure it's climate change that's causing it.
Whether you're working at a molecular level, or using techniques first outlined by Mendel with his peas, it's still a genetically manipulated plant. You're using techniques to encourage the expression of particular genetic traits, or suppress particular traits.
I was also concerned about the lack of PCI-e expandability, but there are Thunderbolt-to-PCIe breakout boxes that exist already, and a couple people have gotten Radeon 7xxx cards working with their MacBook Air via Thunderbolt. It compromises the aesthetic to have a shload of breakout boxes connected all over the place, but it will work.
Also, in an actual pro environment, thunderbolt-to-fiber channel HBAs fix a lot of that. Keep your storage in a server room, and just run a fiber pair / ethernet cable to the desktop. Especially with Xsan now being built into the OS.
So you want to show a difference in libertarian policy, and you choose New Hampshire as your test bed? New Hampshire is already one of the most libertarian states out there, and the capitol of "retail politics" due to it's state in the primary process. The state's motto is "Live Free or Die" already (joked to be changed to "Live Free or Cheap"), you think they come about that one by accident, or because they already espouse these values?
You would be surprised. Kroger just got done installing sensors in all of their stores, which they can use to predict front-end traffic, allowing them to open registers to account for who's going to be checking out 10 minutes from now, rather than 10 minutes ago. It's been working good enough that their stated goal is to have one person being actively checked out, and one person unloading a cart behind them, and no one waiting behind that.
It seems to be working - I wait way less than I used to.
And then there's the other side of the coin - Ralph's in SoCal is building a biofuel generator at one of their distribution centers to generate on-site energy to power the refrigeration plants by using expired produce from stores. If it works the way it should, this may become the standard - turning shrink into an expense reduction.
It would help greatly if there was any standards for product data whatsoever. Only very recently has there been any efforts to standardize the metadata on products in a format that vendors and retailers can interchange, and if you think that a large grocer can just swap out all their merchandising systems overnight, the you don't know what it's like to work for a low-margin retailer. The average stat is that $100 of saved expense is equal to an additional $10k in sales. The slightest amount of shrink can be the difference between a profitable store, and a money siphon.
The design of the refrigeration unit can help with this as well. I saw a demo where they used a smoke machine to illustrate the air currents in front of a meat display where there was a thermal layer being created that recycled the cold air in the case, and very little escaped. Of course, if the guy stocking the case blocks the vent even partially, the whole concept fails, but they are at least trying...
I need to know where the closest hospital is, but I can't use the data connection while driving. Guess turn-by-turn directions aren't going to happen now!
I guess the irony here is that the same people screaming about climate change denial are the ones denying the science here?
I'm sure there are plenty of people that deny both, and plenty of people that accept both, but this whole thing has more than a whiff of hypocrisy to it.
If the users never get the installation media, and never get the license keys, and are not administrators because they no longer need to be, you don't have this problem. Also, you can audit your licenses because they've all been centrally deployed.
We've been doing that now for about 7 years, and it's much more convenient for someone to fire off an email and have the software installed an hour later, than have non-IT staff wasting their time muddling through IT work that can be automated using free-from-licensing solutions that are available for practically every platform. There's some that you can pay for and have some really nice features, but even small business can do automated software deployment now.
I work for a company where the director of corporate information security has actively told the CEO that he can't have that device, and then gave him good reasons why (safe harbor, encryption of proprietary data, accidental financial disclosure risks, etc.).
Was the CEO happy? Actually, yes - he knew that he had competent employees that were doing their jobs and looking out for the company, and not looking to be Yes Men.
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The other problem with touchscreen notebooks: let's make it as thin and light as possible, and then put a touchscreen on it, so that if you actually use the touchscreen, it levers the bottom of the notebook off the desk and bangs it back onto the desk. Unless the hinges are weak shit, in which case it just constantly pushes the screen away, and you will have to be adjusting it all the time. Oh, and it's one more thing to take your hands off the keyboard.
Many manufacturers are releasing Win7 drivers for current hardware, especially if it's a machine meant for enterprise deployment. Even some machines that are clearly designed for Windows 8 are getting Win7 support because big business isn't doing Windows 8.
Clearly he's more clever than you, because you didn't notice that it wasn't an anti-Apple post. It was a post about how the plural of anecdote isn't spelled "data".
You missed the "Anecdotes by unverifiable semi-anonymous Internet posters" part, where he basically says that the above story is false.
Or done what Lenovo is doing with their entire notebook line - go with Mini DisplayPort that converts to everything, as it's a VESA standard.
Mini-HDMI pretty much means you're going to have to carry a dongle with you everywhere. Ditto with Mini-VGA. At least there are DisplayPort displays out there that can plug directly in.
Maybe not, but there's lots of people that make DisplayPort displays, which work with the same port. The Mac recognizes if there is a Thunderbolt signal, or DisplayPort signal, and adjusts it's behavior on that port accordingly.
Yay, an optical disk with 1000x the density of DVD! That means that when it gets scratched, you'll lose 1000x the information that you would on a DVD!
Let's all sing along now: Tape sucks, Optical sucks. Rotational drives are here to stay.
although the smartphone market was tiny compared to today back then
Which was a direct function of practically every smartphone of the period being a major piece of shit. Smartphones only became slightly useable when RIM started getting traction with Blackberry, and the explosive growth we see today is due to iPhone and versions of Android that don't suck.
Did Microsoft try first? Sure - you could go all the way back to Windows CE for that. Did they fail for years? Also yes.
And all 15 of the people that bought, and kept, their Surface RT tablets are now going to be pissed at the 6 month product lifecycle.
With the deep discounts that Microsoft is giving on these things, they're getting dangerously close to "we can't even give them away."
Intel server tech will probably be delayed to give AMD a chance to catch up a little bit.
Really?
Didn't Intel just kick new Xeon and Xeon Phi parts out the door, like, yesterday?
No, but they would like to reference those documents without carrying around a massive laptop with a shit battery. That's why this is a complimentary product to the Office that these users already bought.
30 seconds here, 30 seconds there... that really adds up when you're paying several thousand dollars per hour to rent a video edit bay.
Because people buy a Mac Pro to brag about benchmarks? No, that's why people buy Alienware, or build their own. Benchmark braggers don't do Xeon.
This is a machine for real work, and that work involves huge amounts of data in the form of uncompressed, or lossless-compressed HD video. And if you've ever worked in ProRes422 (or similar) for any amount of time on a standard SATA3 SSD, you still end up waiting on the disk unless you've put in multiple and striped them together with RAID or some such.
There's a reason why people still buy fiber channel storage for devices that aren't servers - are they just trying to get the "high score" on 3DMark too?
Now only if anything in the article actually led to the conclusion that climate change has anything to do with the increased spread of this disease, rather than massive plantations of a monoculture of genetically near-identical plants.
But yeah, I'm sure it's climate change that's causing it.
Whether you're working at a molecular level, or using techniques first outlined by Mendel with his peas, it's still a genetically manipulated plant. You're using techniques to encourage the expression of particular genetic traits, or suppress particular traits.
I was also concerned about the lack of PCI-e expandability, but there are Thunderbolt-to-PCIe breakout boxes that exist already, and a couple people have gotten Radeon 7xxx cards working with their MacBook Air via Thunderbolt. It compromises the aesthetic to have a shload of breakout boxes connected all over the place, but it will work.
Also, in an actual pro environment, thunderbolt-to-fiber channel HBAs fix a lot of that. Keep your storage in a server room, and just run a fiber pair / ethernet cable to the desktop. Especially with Xsan now being built into the OS.
So you want to show a difference in libertarian policy, and you choose New Hampshire as your test bed? New Hampshire is already one of the most libertarian states out there, and the capitol of "retail politics" due to it's state in the primary process. The state's motto is "Live Free or Die" already (joked to be changed to "Live Free or Cheap"), you think they come about that one by accident, or because they already espouse these values?
Tainted data from the start.
You would be surprised. Kroger just got done installing sensors in all of their stores, which they can use to predict front-end traffic, allowing them to open registers to account for who's going to be checking out 10 minutes from now, rather than 10 minutes ago. It's been working good enough that their stated goal is to have one person being actively checked out, and one person unloading a cart behind them, and no one waiting behind that.
It seems to be working - I wait way less than I used to.
And then there's the other side of the coin - Ralph's in SoCal is building a biofuel generator at one of their distribution centers to generate on-site energy to power the refrigeration plants by using expired produce from stores. If it works the way it should, this may become the standard - turning shrink into an expense reduction.
It would help greatly if there was any standards for product data whatsoever. Only very recently has there been any efforts to standardize the metadata on products in a format that vendors and retailers can interchange, and if you think that a large grocer can just swap out all their merchandising systems overnight, the you don't know what it's like to work for a low-margin retailer. The average stat is that $100 of saved expense is equal to an additional $10k in sales. The slightest amount of shrink can be the difference between a profitable store, and a money siphon.
The design of the refrigeration unit can help with this as well. I saw a demo where they used a smoke machine to illustrate the air currents in front of a meat display where there was a thermal layer being created that recycled the cold air in the case, and very little escaped. Of course, if the guy stocking the case blocks the vent even partially, the whole concept fails, but they are at least trying...
I need to know where the closest hospital is, but I can't use the data connection while driving. Guess turn-by-turn directions aren't going to happen now!
I guess the irony here is that the same people screaming about climate change denial are the ones denying the science here?
I'm sure there are plenty of people that deny both, and plenty of people that accept both, but this whole thing has more than a whiff of hypocrisy to it.
Waste heat from nuclear can also be used to crack Hydrogen from water. Hydrogen can then be used with fuel cells for portable energy needs.
There's multiple paths for getting base-load nuclear generated energy into transportation.
The fix for that: automated software deployment.
If the users never get the installation media, and never get the license keys, and are not administrators because they no longer need to be, you don't have this problem. Also, you can audit your licenses because they've all been centrally deployed.
We've been doing that now for about 7 years, and it's much more convenient for someone to fire off an email and have the software installed an hour later, than have non-IT staff wasting their time muddling through IT work that can be automated using free-from-licensing solutions that are available for practically every platform. There's some that you can pay for and have some really nice features, but even small business can do automated software deployment now.
I work for a company where the director of corporate information security has actively told the CEO that he can't have that device, and then gave him good reasons why (safe harbor, encryption of proprietary data, accidental financial disclosure risks, etc.).
Was the CEO happy? Actually, yes - he knew that he had competent employees that were doing their jobs and looking out for the company, and not looking to be Yes Men.