My current desktop has 2 Xeons in it and room for 256GB of RAM. Mobile is always playing catch up. So while this may have an 'i7' and compete fine with older desktops in engineering we've just taken that to mean we get that much faster desktops.
Either you're an extreme edge case, or you're wasting a lot of hardware. Congratulations.
Quarterly Revenue: June 30, 2005 10.16B June 30, 2011 17.37B June 30, 2017 23.32B
The idea that Microsoft is dependent on Windows revenue at this point is laughably out of date. They gave the last version away!
Of course they still rely on the lock-in that comes from Windows huge software library.. but Microsoft is less dependent on the OS than at any time in its history since it got into the OS market. Unless you count Azure as an OS.. all the eggs are going in that basket now. Office 365 is hugely important as well.
Microsoft has several billion dollar a year products now. Get with the times, people.
Microsoft replacing a bunch of their duplicate services with one service to rule them all... I just wish they would decide on one and stick with it for a while.
The constant renaming and shifting strategies from NetMeeting to Groove to Yammer to Lync to Skype to Teams is getting kind of annoying.
That and their general problems with naming products.. geesh..
At the moment, maintaining a robot costs as much as employing a human. It requires other humans to repair it when things break, even with built-in diagnostic software that detects faults before they cause other problems.
That is absolutely false.
If that was the case, the beancounters wouldn't be using the robots in the first place.
By the way, how does one break in the the "futurist" job market? It sounds like a great job predicting things that may or may not happen. Like the weatherman.
Rather than obsessing about buying the right security products, Levy argued, organisations should instead focus on managing risk: understanding the data they hold, the value it has, and how much damage it could do if it was lost, for instance.
But what do you suppose the chances are that the leaders of these organizations magically start thinking that way?
Also he forgot one important part. Planning for what to do when the inevitable happens.
Imagine Warren Buffett if he were born on an island where hunting skill was valuable. He'd be poor. The best hunter would be the wealthy one. Don't ignore the place you live.
Warren Buffett makes this point often when talking about his good fortune.
He acknowledges how lucky he was to be born into the circumstances he was and also at the time he was..
You'll be super rich and successful too, honest. Just listen to all the successful people who believe this...
Sure, hard work is part of it, but as this article points out it is only part of it. Coming from the correct womb and happening to be in the right place at the right time seems to have a lot more to do with it.
There are plenty of people who work their asses off and get no where.
My favourite extensions are the ad blockers owned by advertising companies.
I mean at this point, you literally can't trust anything to not be spying on you. Not even just your computer, but your phone, your home automation, your thermastat, your car.. the list just goes on and on.
It's ridiculous that things have gotten to this state.
Yet another argument showing why it is better to favour software with visible source code.
No, it isn't.
You'd think the serious vulnerabilities that have come up in recent years in open source projects would put the final nail in the coffin for the many eyes theory.
It doesn't work because no one is actually looking and very few people have the expertise to understand what they are looking at in the first place.
The only advantage of open source is that if you are one of these rare unicorns with the technical ability, you can fix it yourself. Or continue/fork projects yourself.
Most of the time IT is in a gatekeeper position because they're held responsible for systems that malfunction due to overconsumption of their limited resources, yet at the same time requests for more resources go unheeded.
I've literally been in the meeting where I've been chided for poor performance due to oversubscription and also told no, we can't spend more money on it, either. What are you supposed to do besides ration resources when demand exceeds supply?
This.. exactly this.. remember kids, if you like technology and want to be involved with it as a career, stick in the areas where you "make" something. (Developer, hardware, something)
IT operations is a horrible, horrible, place to end up. In 99% of companies you're stuck in the exact situation described above, shit on from both sides, and you're managed by bean counters who haven't got a clue.
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After all it is not like they are judged by any other metric besides spending money or anything like that.
Also go to India or get some college kid to run it for cheap. That is what any MBA will tell you and it is not like it is hard or anything to do.
This is painful because it is true.
It will change when IT is an actual profession and regulations demand it.
My current desktop has 2 Xeons in it and room for 256GB of RAM. Mobile is always playing catch up. So while this may have an 'i7' and compete fine with older desktops in engineering we've just taken that to mean we get that much faster desktops.
Either you're an extreme edge case, or you're wasting a lot of hardware. Congratulations.
"mistakenly" hoovers up data... yeah.. ok
No need to mete out the bad news. We know it was everyone.
We don't need more versions with tiered pricing.. we need less versions and less confusion.
Every day like their has been for a few days now... IT will finally be forced to turn into a profession.
One pesky fact about this fading business...
Quarterly Revenue:
June 30, 2005 10.16B
June 30, 2011 17.37B
June 30, 2017 23.32B
The idea that Microsoft is dependent on Windows revenue at this point is laughably out of date. They gave the last version away!
Of course they still rely on the lock-in that comes from Windows huge software library.. but Microsoft is less dependent on the OS than at any time in its history since it got into the OS market. Unless you count Azure as an OS.. all the eggs are going in that basket now. Office 365 is hugely important as well.
Microsoft has several billion dollar a year products now. Get with the times, people.
They will still gladly tell you that whatever you are doing is good. For $400/hour.
That's basically their (big accounting consultancies) role, provide cover, tell you what you want to hear.
Yup. auditors are a textbook case of a conflict of interest.
Microsoft replacing a bunch of their duplicate services with one service to rule them all... I just wish they would decide on one and stick with it for a while.
The constant renaming and shifting strategies from NetMeeting to Groove to Yammer to Lync to Skype to Teams is getting kind of annoying.
That and their general problems with naming products.. geesh..
At the moment, maintaining a robot costs as much as employing a human. It requires other humans to repair it when things break, even with built-in diagnostic software that detects faults before they cause other problems.
That is absolutely false.
If that was the case, the beancounters wouldn't be using the robots in the first place.
It really *is* different?
(I think it is)
By the way, how does one break in the the "futurist" job market? It sounds like a great job predicting things that may or may not happen. Like the weatherman.
I take it that you have seen this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Rather than obsessing about buying the right security products, Levy argued, organisations should instead focus on managing risk: understanding the data they hold, the value it has, and how much damage it could do if it was lost, for instance.
But what do you suppose the chances are that the leaders of these organizations magically start thinking that way?
Also he forgot one important part. Planning for what to do when the inevitable happens.
Imagine Warren Buffett if he were born on an island where hunting skill was valuable. He'd be poor. The best hunter would be the wealthy one. Don't ignore the place you live.
Warren Buffett makes this point often when talking about his good fortune.
He acknowledges how lucky he was to be born into the circumstances he was and also at the time he was..
You'll be super rich and successful too, honest. Just listen to all the successful people who believe this...
Sure, hard work is part of it, but as this article points out it is only part of it. Coming from the correct womb and happening to be in the right place at the right time seems to have a lot more to do with it.
There are plenty of people who work their asses off and get no where.
Good post, at least based on what I remember, you've got it all correct.
Bachelor's degrees in computer science are absolutely supposed to lead to jobs as coders. But not as "code monkeys".
Not in real computer science programs. Strangely enough, computer science programs are supposed to teach you computer science.
1) Patents
2) A notch in the belt for the executives responsible for the decision
The degree of pro-corporate spin in Jaffe's remarks is appalling.
Agreed! That was some serious corporate-speak.
Why a foundation like the W3C even has a "CEO" itself boggles my mind.
My favourite extensions are the ad blockers owned by advertising companies.
I mean at this point, you literally can't trust anything to not be spying on you. Not even just your computer, but your phone, your home automation, your thermastat, your car.. the list just goes on and on.
It's ridiculous that things have gotten to this state.
Yet another argument showing why it is better to favour software with visible source code.
No, it isn't.
You'd think the serious vulnerabilities that have come up in recent years in open source projects would put the final nail in the coffin for the many eyes theory.
It doesn't work because no one is actually looking and very few people have the expertise to understand what they are looking at in the first place.
The only advantage of open source is that if you are one of these rare unicorns with the technical ability, you can fix it yourself. Or continue/fork projects yourself.
We can't even drive on the ground with lines and markers everywhere.
I can't even imagine how terrible letting people fly their cars would be.
Did they have an audit or did they just pay $$ for a PCI compliance sticker?
Virtually every audit I've been a part of in over 20+ years in IT has been a sham. I've worked in hospitals, movie studios, etc. They're all bullshit.
I agree with this.. it is all about checking off boxes with very little understanding of the big picture or implications.
I mean, I think audits are better than no oversight at all but not by much.
Most of the time IT is in a gatekeeper position because they're held responsible for systems that malfunction due to overconsumption of their limited resources, yet at the same time requests for more resources go unheeded.
I've literally been in the meeting where I've been chided for poor performance due to oversubscription and also told no, we can't spend more money on it, either. What are you supposed to do besides ration resources when demand exceeds supply?
This.. exactly this.. remember kids, if you like technology and want to be involved with it as a career, stick in the areas where you "make" something. (Developer, hardware, something)
IT operations is a horrible, horrible, place to end up. In 99% of companies you're stuck in the exact situation described above, shit on from both sides, and you're managed by bean counters who haven't got a clue.