How about we don't have the time or resources to deal with people who want to do things like that? Unfortunately the corporate environment is a windows world where even Mac users have a hard time despite years of plugins and solutions to integrate them. At my work we allow users to use VMs for specific cases but under the caveat that IT IS NOT SUPPORTED SO DONT CALL IF IT BREAKS. Even with that people do, and it causes a support nightmare because it may be a windows issue, but its on a mac and we have teams that support one or the other with only 2 who do both. Linux support is even worse as our only decent help staff are Windows based meaning we have to pull a system admin from the Mac or Red Hat team to help them along. While I am sure there are techs who can work a Linux client, there are not enough to warrant paying 50 grand + benefits to hire them when our Linux base outside the server realm is 10.
I like Linux. Behind OS X Linux is my next favorite OS. But I am sorry its just not worth the money these days to support people who use it unless a good 25% of them use it. We opened up users to Linux, Mac or Windows last year, while we have a steady stream of Windows users moving to the Mac and growing our Mac user-base 150% within the year, we had 2 people ask for Linux. It just doesn't make economic sense.
You should really get out of the development game then. If it took you more than a hour to set up a mac for development, you are a REALLY shitty developer.
Yeah except they didnt loose because Samsung didnt copy Apple, the judge actually said they DID copy Apple but their phones that did were so awful that no one could mistake them for the iPhone... A victory for Samsung, but not one they want to brag about.
"So Samsung "copied" Apple's use of corners and low profile SMCs to create thinner devices? "
No they didnt JUST copy that. Go read the fucking trial transcripts and stop posting on Slashdot until you get a clue you dumb ass teenager.
Right so you wont recommend a good machine that works, simply because they defended their company in court on valid patents in a case that exposed that Samsung willingly violated licenses they were first warned (by both Apple AND GOOGLE) about and then willfully ignored a licensing agreement that would have prevented a lawsuit at the cost of 20-30 a phone depending on how much it violated Apples patents.
Im all for going after them on patents that shouldn't be patents, but Samsung DIDNT DO THAT or at least their lawyers didnt think to do that till it was much to late to submit evidence for them, and they got slammed hard on things that were patents that WERE UNIQUE AND VALID.
iExplore only works if you can unlock the iPad which if it is a business iPad would have a forced password on it requiring you to swipe and type in the 4+ character passcode or password depending on the policy you set.
The swiping to unlock actually un-encrypts your data.
It isnt the backup password to the device, its a password to the BACKUPS if you perform them. If you are in a environment that restricts connecting your iPad for backups which is the case in any well run Enterprise, then there are no backups.
And you and him are being a idiot if you think you cant do all of that on a iPad. For one thing the iOS encryption has been ruled as uncrackable (meaning it would take way more time and effort to crack the encryption than it would be worth not that it is impossible to crack).
http://www.neowin.net/news/ios-encryption-is-impossible-to-crack-by-nsas-standards
For another you can inspect all communications off the iPad no problem and even block what apps are allowed on it with any of the number of MDM solutions out there including the one Apple provides with OS X Server.
So no he is not being sensible and you are being a FUD loving fucktard.
Bullshit. Just released in the trial, the fact that apple tried to get licensing fees out of Samsung and were turned down despite obvious patent infringement by Samsung.
Apple tried to get its fair piece. Samsung thought they could get away with saying no.
But if you actually knew anything about the case, you would know that they in fact provided the screen. So it was well known internally it was a touchscreen phone. Likewise the phones in development "before" thing is a myth created by Samsung to hid the real meat of the issue, those phones that were developed "before" the iPhone were designed DIFFERENTLY until the iPhone. Basically they all had entirely different designs that changed once the iPhone was previewed.
"Droids/iStuff can run apps, but none of them could do exactly what a BB does, although perhaps that gap is narrowing. Too bad RIM is so far behind on the game nowadays no one will buy their devices and market share is plunging. 10% of value 1 year ago? Madness."
Never heard of a MDM server have you? Apple released MDM for iOS along with 10.7 server. We have no issues doing any of these things.
Its not that he was the first that shocked anyone, its that he pulled it off WITHOUT jailbreaking the phone using DNS redirects and user-installed certs
The first one. Basically it only affects developers who don't use Apples in-app purchase receipt checking APIs. Anyone who coded properly is not affected which is probably why he chose to show it working on shitty facebook-like games and not anything from a decent developer.
but we can attribute those periods to natural phenomenon not as influential during out current warming trend, while we can also show evidence that man made phenomenon are most likely the cause of the current trend which is rising MUCH faster than the ones you cited.
"In that case it might be that some lunkhead changed configuration files on the VM and not the image or that the machine itself isn't configured correctly as a result of an error that nobody noticed in the imagine procedure."
Both cases that depends highly on your organizational structure as well as your Dev environment.
Where I work, only the system admins would ever be able to change cofig files on the VM, and no image of the machine would ever be deployed without going through at least 2-3 month of testing before it was even rolled out. Here the rule is get it working any way possible, if it means imaging then do it, then go back and figure out WTF went wrong. Its because of this procedure that we have been able to have uptime better than most other companies in our field.
The app clearly violated Apples policy on donations, which is most likely the case the app was removed, and was clearly admitted to by the apps creator. Boy do people read way too much into things.
Simple answer to your problem with Apple products. You are the.000000001% who DOESNT use Apple products the way the rest of the world does. Because stock prices and gaining marketshare shows that the reality is quite different from your perception of it, especially when you cant make a CLU based OS with a GUI shine on it not do what you want it to do.
Its fucking UNIX for christ sake!
because usage like this stat is actually a important statistic, while market share is useless since market share does not equal usage. Its not so much hypocrisy as much as market share is a pointless statistic that is constantly misrepresented to mean something it isnt which most people in the IT field know already to disregard it.
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How about we don't have the time or resources to deal with people who want to do things like that? Unfortunately the corporate environment is a windows world where even Mac users have a hard time despite years of plugins and solutions to integrate them. At my work we allow users to use VMs for specific cases but under the caveat that IT IS NOT SUPPORTED SO DONT CALL IF IT BREAKS. Even with that people do, and it causes a support nightmare because it may be a windows issue, but its on a mac and we have teams that support one or the other with only 2 who do both. Linux support is even worse as our only decent help staff are Windows based meaning we have to pull a system admin from the Mac or Red Hat team to help them along. While I am sure there are techs who can work a Linux client, there are not enough to warrant paying 50 grand + benefits to hire them when our Linux base outside the server realm is 10. I like Linux. Behind OS X Linux is my next favorite OS. But I am sorry its just not worth the money these days to support people who use it unless a good 25% of them use it. We opened up users to Linux, Mac or Windows last year, while we have a steady stream of Windows users moving to the Mac and growing our Mac user-base 150% within the year, we had 2 people ask for Linux. It just doesn't make economic sense.
You should really get out of the development game then. If it took you more than a hour to set up a mac for development, you are a REALLY shitty developer.
Yeah except they didnt loose because Samsung didnt copy Apple, the judge actually said they DID copy Apple but their phones that did were so awful that no one could mistake them for the iPhone... A victory for Samsung, but not one they want to brag about.
"So Samsung "copied" Apple's use of corners and low profile SMCs to create thinner devices? " No they didnt JUST copy that. Go read the fucking trial transcripts and stop posting on Slashdot until you get a clue you dumb ass teenager.
Right so you wont recommend a good machine that works, simply because they defended their company in court on valid patents in a case that exposed that Samsung willingly violated licenses they were first warned (by both Apple AND GOOGLE) about and then willfully ignored a licensing agreement that would have prevented a lawsuit at the cost of 20-30 a phone depending on how much it violated Apples patents. Im all for going after them on patents that shouldn't be patents, but Samsung DIDNT DO THAT or at least their lawyers didnt think to do that till it was much to late to submit evidence for them, and they got slammed hard on things that were patents that WERE UNIQUE AND VALID.
iExplore only works if you can unlock the iPad which if it is a business iPad would have a forced password on it requiring you to swipe and type in the 4+ character passcode or password depending on the policy you set. The swiping to unlock actually un-encrypts your data.
It isnt the backup password to the device, its a password to the BACKUPS if you perform them. If you are in a environment that restricts connecting your iPad for backups which is the case in any well run Enterprise, then there are no backups.
And maybe you didnt RTFA.
iOS 3+ is full disk encrypted. http://www.neowin.net/news/ios-encryption-is-impossible-to-crack-by-nsas-standards
And you and him are being a idiot if you think you cant do all of that on a iPad. For one thing the iOS encryption has been ruled as uncrackable (meaning it would take way more time and effort to crack the encryption than it would be worth not that it is impossible to crack). http://www.neowin.net/news/ios-encryption-is-impossible-to-crack-by-nsas-standards For another you can inspect all communications off the iPad no problem and even block what apps are allowed on it with any of the number of MDM solutions out there including the one Apple provides with OS X Server. So no he is not being sensible and you are being a FUD loving fucktard.
Bullshit. Just released in the trial, the fact that apple tried to get licensing fees out of Samsung and were turned down despite obvious patent infringement by Samsung. Apple tried to get its fair piece. Samsung thought they could get away with saying no.
But if you actually knew anything about the case, you would know that they in fact provided the screen. So it was well known internally it was a touchscreen phone. Likewise the phones in development "before" thing is a myth created by Samsung to hid the real meat of the issue, those phones that were developed "before" the iPhone were designed DIFFERENTLY until the iPhone. Basically they all had entirely different designs that changed once the iPhone was previewed.
He's a republican what did you expect? Least unlike a libertarian he is forthcoming with his jackassery.
"Droids/iStuff can run apps, but none of them could do exactly what a BB does, although perhaps that gap is narrowing. Too bad RIM is so far behind on the game nowadays no one will buy their devices and market share is plunging. 10% of value 1 year ago? Madness." Never heard of a MDM server have you? Apple released MDM for iOS along with 10.7 server. We have no issues doing any of these things.
Its not that he was the first that shocked anyone, its that he pulled it off WITHOUT jailbreaking the phone using DNS redirects and user-installed certs
The first one. Basically it only affects developers who don't use Apples in-app purchase receipt checking APIs. Anyone who coded properly is not affected which is probably why he chose to show it working on shitty facebook-like games and not anything from a decent developer.
He didnt sidestep anything, he took advantage of bad developers who don't use Apples in-app receipt checking APIs.
but we can attribute those periods to natural phenomenon not as influential during out current warming trend, while we can also show evidence that man made phenomenon are most likely the cause of the current trend which is rising MUCH faster than the ones you cited.
Facebook already has a export feature. Just export and store
"In that case it might be that some lunkhead changed configuration files on the VM and not the image or that the machine itself isn't configured correctly as a result of an error that nobody noticed in the imagine procedure."
Both cases that depends highly on your organizational structure as well as your Dev environment.
Where I work, only the system admins would ever be able to change cofig files on the VM, and no image of the machine would ever be deployed without going through at least 2-3 month of testing before it was even rolled out. Here the rule is get it working any way possible, if it means imaging then do it, then go back and figure out WTF went wrong. Its because of this procedure that we have been able to have uptime better than most other companies in our field.
The app clearly violated Apples policy on donations, which is most likely the case the app was removed, and was clearly admitted to by the apps creator. Boy do people read way too much into things.
um the xserve never lacked redundant anything. and the parts kits could be had on hand for the whole server.
Simple answer to your problem with Apple products. You are the .000000001% who DOESNT use Apple products the way the rest of the world does. Because stock prices and gaining marketshare shows that the reality is quite different from your perception of it, especially when you cant make a CLU based OS with a GUI shine on it not do what you want it to do.
Its fucking UNIX for christ sake!
because usage like this stat is actually a important statistic, while market share is useless since market share does not equal usage. Its not so much hypocrisy as much as market share is a pointless statistic that is constantly misrepresented to mean something it isnt which most people in the IT field know already to disregard it.
not to mention they may be writing to fiber, like my design and tv production department does, which means you HAVE to have PCI slots.