So they are just going to abandon the print publishing market that kept them alive through the 90's and the early 00's? Hint: they use Adobe products, and there's no way that any enterprise is going to allow software to be installed by the user from an external source, if they aren't complete morons.
I doubt you'll even see the Adobe Creative Suite in Apple's "App store for Macs", since by the time 10.7 ships Adobe CS6 will be getting ready to go (if not already out) and likely about 10GB in size if the trend line continues.
This says nothing of the compliance software necessary at most large businesses that are custom configured installers - endpoint clients that have the server lists pre-configured, data-at-rest encryption products, etc.
Because you need a place to STORE the apps in your app store? Gonna "leverage the enormous unused [disk capacity] of the client systems" too? I'm sure no one around here would scream bloody murder about either of those schemes.
"OMGAWD Apple is using my CPU without my permisson!!" - Random Slashbot
I would imagine that they would think of this, and every other environmental concern before dropping $1,000,000,000 into it. But hey, stupider things have happened with much larger sums of money, usually at the hands of governmental authorities.
Distributed data centers are a very good thing for the following reasons:
1. California doesn't have as much available power generation as the site in North Carolina 2. Disaster Recovery operations can proceed at the new site for California data centers, and vice versa 3. If they are to launch some type of streaming service, having a datacenter less than 1000 miles from 60% of the US population is probably a good idea
You also have to remember that Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are good buddies, so it's doubtful that this is a move that is anywhere near the dust-up over Flash.
Maybe it's because the design conventions of Mac OS X is to self-contain all your dependancies, so that you don't end up with the exact opposite problem: DLL hell.
You realize the iPod Touch came *after* the iPhone right? iPod Touch was announced in September of '07, while the iPhone was announced in January of '07.
It was done because of proliferation concerns, under the guise of National Security. And while the President / Executive may not have the ability to outright ban private construction of something, he *can* issue executive orders that deny the licensing of such things, or deny the government-backed loans necessary to construct it.
It's a back-door way of banning something, but it's effective.
Or, if you have an application that isn't written for a system from the 1990's, it will spawn multiple threads and use all the cores to do that one task much faster. You know, things like video compression which is nothing but massive amounts of math - nobodydoesthat on a consumerlevel at all.
You mean like everyone is (rightfully or not) blaming Bush still? I heard a Senator blame the BP oil spill on Bush a while back, and I made a red mark on my forehead...
I have the same situation in the house that I just moved into, from half way across the country. I dropped like 10 calls this weekend, so I'm planning on calling them up (from somewhere else) and bitching at them with the aim of getting one of these for free / rebated cost.
I'm sure it won't work, but I might as well try...
The good news is that it's very obvious if someone is breeding Pu-239 (the Plutonium used in weapons) because they can only leave the fuel in for a limited time, and then have to have a big ass plant for doing chemical separation of the stuff you want, from the stuff you don't. We're not talking some underground cave with a centrifuge cascade in it, we're talking massive facilities like Hanford or Y-12.
Leave the rods in too long, you get Pu-240 and Pu-241 which spontaneously fissions and makes the material you have unsuitable for a weapon. There is no process to perform isotope separation on Plutonium. If you have too much -240 or -241, then you're fucked for weapons making. Being as this facility is being overseen by the Russians, and the Russians know how to effectively make bombs, it will be very apparent should the Iranians all of a sudden take the reactor sub-critical and unload the fuel months-to-years before they need to in order to get the Pu-239 from the rods.
My XFX Radeon 5870 in a 2009 Mac Pro disagrees with you.
Granted, you have to flash the firmware to have full EFI support, but that's a trivial procedure for anyone that has any real interest in the fastest gaming card they can get.
Hey! The WiFi is clearly DANGEROUS. It should be banned so that spectrum can instead be dominated by terrible 2.4 Ghz cordless phones and RF leakage from microwave ovens!
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So they are just going to abandon the print publishing market that kept them alive through the 90's and the early 00's? Hint: they use Adobe products, and there's no way that any enterprise is going to allow software to be installed by the user from an external source, if they aren't complete morons.
I doubt you'll even see the Adobe Creative Suite in Apple's "App store for Macs", since by the time 10.7 ships Adobe CS6 will be getting ready to go (if not already out) and likely about 10GB in size if the trend line continues.
This says nothing of the compliance software necessary at most large businesses that are custom configured installers - endpoint clients that have the server lists pre-configured, data-at-rest encryption products, etc.
Because you need a place to STORE the apps in your app store? Gonna "leverage the enormous unused [disk capacity] of the client systems" too? I'm sure no one around here would scream bloody murder about either of those schemes.
"OMGAWD Apple is using my CPU without my permisson!!" - Random Slashbot
I would imagine that they would think of this, and every other environmental concern before dropping $1,000,000,000 into it. But hey, stupider things have happened with much larger sums of money, usually at the hands of governmental authorities.
Distributed data centers are a very good thing for the following reasons:
1. California doesn't have as much available power generation as the site in North Carolina
2. Disaster Recovery operations can proceed at the new site for California data centers, and vice versa
3. If they are to launch some type of streaming service, having a datacenter less than 1000 miles from 60% of the US population is probably a good idea
Supercomputers reside in data centers, but a small percentage of data centers house supercomputers.
Don't worry, your vain attempt to sound superior to all things Apple didn't shine through AT ALL.
You also have to remember that Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are good buddies, so it's doubtful that this is a move that is anywhere near the dust-up over Flash.
Yes, that stuff matters sometimes.
Maybe it's because the design conventions of Mac OS X is to self-contain all your dependancies, so that you don't end up with the exact opposite problem: DLL hell.
There are already MCX settings to disable music sharing and the iTunes store, so I'm sure this is a no-brainer.
which transmits the data via it's NIC card.
You realize the iPod Touch came *after* the iPhone right? iPod Touch was announced in September of '07, while the iPhone was announced in January of '07.
It was done because of proliferation concerns, under the guise of National Security. And while the President / Executive may not have the ability to outright ban private construction of something, he *can* issue executive orders that deny the licensing of such things, or deny the government-backed loans necessary to construct it.
It's a back-door way of banning something, but it's effective.
Games Blizzard had released before or around Bungie's purchase:
Lost Vikings (1992)
Warcraft (1994)
Warcraft II (1995)
Diablo (1996)
StarCraft (1998)
Diablo II (2000)
the Diablo II expansion and Warcraft III weren't that far behind. Thanks for playing.
Or, if you have an application that isn't written for a system from the 1990's, it will spawn multiple threads and use all the cores to do that one task much faster. You know, things like video compression which is nothing but massive amounts of math - nobody does that on a consumer level at all.
You mean like everyone is (rightfully or not) blaming Bush still? I heard a Senator blame the BP oil spill on Bush a while back, and I made a red mark on my forehead...
I have the same situation in the house that I just moved into, from half way across the country. I dropped like 10 calls this weekend, so I'm planning on calling them up (from somewhere else) and bitching at them with the aim of getting one of these for free / rebated cost.
I'm sure it won't work, but I might as well try...
So you're basing your entire chain of evidence on 4chan tards?
You might have some shit in your argument that isn't going to hold up well...
> sed 's/Republicans/Politicians/g' > slashdot_post.sh
There, now it's accurate.
The good news is that it's very obvious if someone is breeding Pu-239 (the Plutonium used in weapons) because they can only leave the fuel in for a limited time, and then have to have a big ass plant for doing chemical separation of the stuff you want, from the stuff you don't. We're not talking some underground cave with a centrifuge cascade in it, we're talking massive facilities like Hanford or Y-12.
Leave the rods in too long, you get Pu-240 and Pu-241 which spontaneously fissions and makes the material you have unsuitable for a weapon. There is no process to perform isotope separation on Plutonium. If you have too much -240 or -241, then you're fucked for weapons making. Being as this facility is being overseen by the Russians, and the Russians know how to effectively make bombs, it will be very apparent should the Iranians all of a sudden take the reactor sub-critical and unload the fuel months-to-years before they need to in order to get the Pu-239 from the rods.
The same was true of IBM RS/6000 workstations. OpenFirmware, front to back.
My XFX Radeon 5870 in a 2009 Mac Pro disagrees with you.
Granted, you have to flash the firmware to have full EFI support, but that's a trivial procedure for anyone that has any real interest in the fastest gaming card they can get.
Yeah, god forbid they use the device to help law enforcement catch the guy who stole it.
OMG APPLE HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY HELP CATCH THIEVES!
Because in your world, people only walk, bike, skateboard, or kayak to the liquor store?
Hey! The WiFi is clearly DANGEROUS. It should be banned so that spectrum can instead be dominated by terrible 2.4 Ghz cordless phones and RF leakage from microwave ovens!
Yeah, because everyone that has had multiple partners in the past gets STDs.
You sound like a public service announcement from the Eisenhower administration.
What, you don't have your own nuclear reactor on-site?
Philistine!