You and I have the same understanding and coincidentally I've found most nettops are cheaper than equivalent or even lower spec thin-client machines. HP could have ruled the nettop side of things with their thin clients if they'd have actually moved their product line forward. I'm all about virtual desktops these days since a lot of work for this company is done in public spaces, theft of equipment is a real concern, as a result virtual desktops are almost a perfect solution since no corporate data is ever on the end-user's machine.
It then moves security to stronger forms of authentication while maintaining usability which is the real challenge.
I have Ubuntu on my netbook and while performance may be better, battery life is not. I'm usually lucky to get 75% battery life with Ubuntu over Windows. I solved this by getting an oversized 9-cell battery which has worked out well. Battery life in Ubuntu has improved noticeably between Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04, each major release has seen improvements as 8.04 was utterly unworkable without seriously tweaking, it took me almost two weeks. Ordinarily I would have ditched it but it became a matter of principle since it's a Linux distro I know there should be a way to fix it and in the process I'd learn more about Linux internals. I used to install Gentoo for the same reasons. Sometimes you just want something that works out of the box though, Ubuntu has gotten a lot better at that, some things work better in Ubuntu out of the box and some things Fedora seems to win these days.
That's news to me since Google voice on my Android works as long as wifi is enabled. It can use a phone connection but by no means does it have to and by no means is it only available to geeks as that is the primary feature of Google voice. Are you saying that the app on iOS is that way? If so then I don't know why you would install it as you can control all of that from the web.
As someone who has found themselves in a similar position, might I suggest XenApp? There are receivers for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and Linux that will allow you to run any Windows software without the need for a local Windows install. This works well for the owner of the company I work for, as he has a full Windows 7 virtual desktop that he will connect to from his iPad, then he can print and use full screen flash and java with ease. He can even run Autocad and Photoshop. When he gets tired of holding the tablet he'll put it down, sit on his couch and connect to it from his living room computer running Ubuntu minimal install with XBMC picking up where he left off. When he's ready to get some real work done he'll get up and go to his office and connect from his iMac much to my dismay. It's all very easy for him to work with and has allowed me to take it broader with the company.
Microsoft VM licensing is retarded though so I ended up buying a volume license for Windows 7 professional which allows you to run it in a VM. Their VM licensing requires you to rent the software whereas volume licensing allows you to buy it once. Different shops I imagine would have different requirements. I've done the same with Office, it doesn't cut your licensing costs but it does cut installation costs and now a barebones machine can be configured in minutes with access to all software the user has access to available on-demand. I just realized I sound like a commercial but it's one of the newest technologies that really had the power to simplify setups.
I didn't say anything couldn't be solved with a Google search, I merely said that it would take a lot longer. I've spent an hour on Google looking for Postgresql bits for installation, configuration, and maintanence, things that are all in a central location on Metalink for Oracle.
I'm constantly irritated that patches are hidden away as I see that as a giant negative against the company. If you sold me a defective product and you've done the work of fixing the defect you should distribute it to the rest of the community to make sure that the public image of your product is as something of high quality.
Oracle installers are well known to be a pain in the ass, through Metalink I can find step by step directions on how to get it running on Ubuntu or CentOS containing all the necessary links to packages that the Oracle installer will want complete with specific versions so as to certify the installation. Of course I wouldn't do anything like that for a production environment, but certainly for development.
I had the misfortune of having to do an install without Metalink access for a while and had to Google around, you were talking days before kernel parameters and package requirements were fully met. I created an installation guide so that I wouldn't have to go through that pain again but a lot of time was wasted.
There are valid paths to get the information for other products but no other database software is as well documented as Oracle. Mailing lists and Google searches have a wealth of information in them, they are just scattered and not always to the put. Like my Asterisk problem I found it in a random forum. The answer could also have been obtained through any number of other mailing lists but why would I want to go through the trouble when I have a purpose built environment for it with Oracle?
I'm glad Postgresql has made such progress in the last few years, they are a viable alternative to most setups these days and that will eventually put pressure on Oracle to be more reasonable, and if not, I've got a perfectly good alternative.
The problem with your statement is that the reason it's news for Skype is because nobody has done it before. I have always considered Postgresql the best of the open source options out there but it has always been behind commercial options like Oracle and DB/2. Only recently has MS SQL caught up with enough features to start making them attractive but Postgresql is almost always a better choice in that tier.
It is routine for Oracle to handle large datasets. Everyone else that has done it with things like MySQL had to put a lot of time into development and experienced lots of crushing downtime in the process of scale out.
Of course at the rate Postgresql has been advancing I wouldn't be surprised if in another five years they can match Oracle for 90% of functionality. Oracle should have been more concerned with that rather than mysql which is horribly pale in comparison.
While I agree with you on principle, Oracle documentation is second to none and that's better than having to post to some mailing list and then having to send configs along with version dependencies. I would so there are lots of pros and cons of both sides of this. Google is not a great way to get documentation on something specific. Just yesterday I was searching for the cause to one-way communication between an Asterisk 1.4 and an Asterisk 1.6 box that had been upgraded from 1.4 and was using the same config. It took a very long time. Contrast that with virtually any Oracle issue which can be resolved within ten minutes on Metalink or if things really get hairy, within two hours via a support request.
Often times you do get what you pay for even if you have to pay too much to get it. I'll agree most of that should be free and in the interest of adoption of product lines that would actually probably be a smart move from a business standpoint. I look at all the people running away from Sun servers because everything is hidden away now by Oracle so its easy to see that hiding the documentation just makes people look for something more open.
Oracle is in serious trouble these days despite their spending spree, they lack focus and it shows in their product line. I think most people would agree that you only use Oracle for the database, all of their other apps are simply a joke with open source alternatives being very attractive for reporting and collaboration. ERP options still appear to be lacking but the concept as a whole seems to going away anyway. That's probably why Oracle wanted Sun, to have a complete platform for their database completely supported from head to toe the way Apple does it.
Except for those of us that actually make money based on applications that the database drives.
Are you trying to say MySQL or Postgresql are equal to Oracle in performance, reliability, or documentation? While Oracle does suck as a company their database core business is rock solid for a lot of good reasons. Of course if you venture outside the one thing Oracle does well heaven help you.
Until recently I thought I was the only one with this opinion, I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that! It's really sad to see how far they have fallen. These days it's hard to find a server manufacturer worth a damn. It basically comes down to Dell or HP, IBM is kind of a joke. IBM with their limited offerings at least has support to back it up, the other two are pathetic while HP has supply problems as of late. What do you mean I have to wait a month for 12 core servers? I've taken to just building Supermicro servers, while missing a lot of the advanced management capabilities their costs at my levels of purchasing make them way too attractive for one off projects.
Here's a for instance, they google for keywords like how to crash a hard drive. I try to educate parents that think they need to know everything their child does. All the media fear mongering has had a dramatic impact on parents. It's hard to make parents aware that these days aren't really all that different from the days they grew up, especially when the parents are only 30 years old.
Of course there are lots of reasons to watch out for your child these days as even a 4 year old can be sued as insane as THAT sounds.
So you think Timothy McVey was acting alone and it was an isolated incident?
Whare about the white American terrorists? Sorting by color only serves bolster the point that Americans are zionists out to get rid of anybody that makes them uncomfortable.
Sorry, but the country of origin doesn't matter. When you play political games and arm warlords expect reprisal from everywhere including our own backyard. If you're scanning for likely threats at the time, their likelihood is going to be determined by the last terrorist attack, are you advocating that we change our scanning in reaction to threats or should we just effectively scan everyone like Israeli airlines have to do?
Of course given the crappy inspection process we have now, there's a lot of problems with having security theater,A friend of mine got on three flights going through security three times in two months with the same knife in his bag. Only the last checkpoint caught it, he forgot it was in there. The reality is that the list of people out to get us is small and as long as bombs don't make it on the plane the likelihood of other issues is small. Could 9/11 happen again? I don't think so, now that people understand what can happen when you let someone take over the plane they are much more willing to step up and settle the situation, one guy with a knife can't overpower 90 other people unless it's maybe a flight full of non-arse kicking grandmas.
While yes, multiple drivers can achieve the desired affect as well, my Shure earphones do a great job of that, but there are speakers that are meant to only shoot sound in one direction with a narrow space for proper sound and then there are speakers that produce more sound, think simulated surround sound with stereo speakers. Traditionally the right and left front speakers will throw the sound in a wide band to everyone can hear, surround speakers are usually much more directional along with the center channel.
Of course in retrospect I do believe they probably just have multiple drivers instead as that is easier to put into small packages.
Fantastic and insightful, now the part in TFS even mentions that Facebook in particular violated it's own privacy policy so they aren't even following the TOS that you agreed to. When a site is advertised as a way to share information with just friends and then that information is available to more than your friends then you have some seriously false advertising. Sure people were naive to believe a free service could have enough integrity to do this but it's definitely not as simple as you make it out to be as people are inherently social beings and as such want to extend their network of friends beyond the people they see everyday.
It all depends on your application, in a home with the ability to directly cable then yes, cheaper alternatives certainly do exist.
For me it's beautiful, I setup a nettop and hook it to an HDMI splitter and then feed 20 of those throughout our site. Makes management quite easy but I'll admit my situation is rather unique.
Yes there is, HDMI over IP has been around a while.
There are lots of advantages, for instance, my auction site is a couple of square miles in size, getting directly cabled video to each location would be very expensive.
I find this humorous given that you have your timing way the hell off. Windows 95 even came with TCP/IP support even though it primarily supported IPX/SPX. I'm sorry, but TCP/IP was indeed the protocol to rule them all while Apple only had Appletalk.
I find further humorous that you don't even try to refute the CIFS problems, why is all the functionality there but all the performance options disabled by default? Every Linux and BSD out there has them enabled by default giving them two to three times the performance. How this drivel gets modded informative is beyond me.
Of course the best piece of all is that you think Apple is schizophrenic, despite everyone of their new products being closed you think the desktop is completely different in every way shape and form despite sharing code base? Nicely done!
I love seeing Apple astroturf, it continually surprises me that anybody can so blindly support a platform despite the obviousness of what's in front of them.
MS did publish enough of the spec for Samba in Linux to interoperate just fine, so how do you explain the deficiency in OS X? Nevermind that the features actually present in OS X, they are just disabled by default.
Also, I never said Apple TV was open, I pointed to the trend of new Apple products being closed and it's exceedingly likely that it will eventually happen to the desktop platform as ALL of their other platforms are closed. I even said it wasn't happening right now because it would be suicide for Apple. I don't think the company is stupid, I despise their approach and am disgusted at their success but nevertheless, I have to acknowledge that many people like their approach even if it is shortsighted and severely limiting. There's nothing that says Apple can't change their approach in the future, they are no stranger to radical changes afterall. The path is pretty obvious right now though.
Waiting for ack before starting another write. As a result copying to a CIFS share takes almost twice as long as the default samba settings in any major Linux distro.
Defaulting to cleartext authentication is another causing serious security concerns and again, not the default in any standard Linux distro.
Feel free to Google the issue, Apple doesn't like to close sessions and leaves thumbnails all over network drives in my case to the tune of several tens of gigs of unnecessary files.
I've taken to using NFS shares to get around the stupid limitations but security options are far more limited in the Windows implementation. It at least works more consistently across versions even though I still have to content with the thumbnails it shits all over the network.
I'm a little confused how you can possibly say there is no evidence when the iPhone is so locked down. Apple has proven that it is not above lockdown and they tout loud and clear that it is the best way to operate and you are seriously saying their is no evidence? Given the number of people worried about and the press it's gotten you would think Apple would put out a clear mission statement stating that they don't intend to lock down the platform, except that is exactly what they want to do.
It astonishes me that people can say there is no evidence for this when it is entirely consistent with Apple for as long as Steve Jobs has run the company going all the way back to Appletalk in the days of TCP/IP coming to the consumer desktop. Even today CIFS support in OS X is atrocious due to bad default options designed specifically to hinder interoperation with Microsoft. Apple has never liked to play with others and it's entirely unsurprising that they would seek to lock down their platform. The timing of it is unknown as this point but it's pretty inevitable given all the rhetoric about walled gardens coming straight from Apple.
They won't do it right away as it would be suicide. Look at AppleTV or any of Apple's new product, open they are not. Of course Apple can shift directions but right now they are on a clear path to walled gardens everywhere which will be good for some and bad for others. Fortunately there are plenty of valid alternatives.
I think you need to practice reading comprehension there dude as you clearly have no idea what I was talking about. Specifically I said RDP wasn't good enough and so you need a virtual desktop which is completely different.
Futhermore, you don't seem to understand the concept of a virtual desktop at all as you go on about running a Windows VM on a Windows machine which is stupid and pointless. I run Lenovo's at $230 a piece that come with Linux preinstalled. The Citrix receiver then connects the machine to Windows and they have access to all their local hardware including USB devices like cameras or flash sticks.
Clearly you don't understand Virtual desktops or desktop streaming where you can indeed move 50 graphics designers to virtual desktops, not terminal servers. The best part with desktop streaming in that all the software is in the VM and not on the desktop, if the machine crashes because someone spilled coffee or any number of reasons then all the designer needs to do is connect to his VM from another workstation and he's back right where he left out without losing any precision. There is almost no latency in a virtual desktop session, it's the same as if you were on the machine itself. I've got Autocad people using it this very moment and they are quite happy as just last night I used the Citrix client on the iPad to show the owner the drawings from the next event we're doing.
Before you call people clueless you might want to make sure your own camp is in order as you again show ignorance with your server virtualization statement. Some servers require lots of IO, mainly database servers and those servers have never been good candidates for virtual loads. The same goes with high performance webservers, video transcoding, HD capture, security surveillance, and a number of high IO or CPU intensive applications won't live well in a virtual environment.
And in the mean time the brand new macbook pro routinely runs upwards of 160F to the point where it needs a notebook cooler.
Sorry, but Apple is just like everyone else, they have their models that work well and they have their crap, the fact that it's no inconsistent begs the question of whether or not it was intentional or luck.
Of course the other side of the coin is the fact that you wasted your money on quad core Xeons when you should have done it right and thrown most of that money at a server and used a laptop as a front-end utilizing the server for all the rendering. That way you could add a second workstation for little cost. The Mac Pro days are numbered as there is very little reason to need them unless you're a single man shop in which case dropping 8k for a mostly decked out Pro will be difficult to swallow.
As for Cadillac and Chevrolet, no, they don't share parts, they might share designs but many things that are metal on a Caddy will be plastic on a Chevy.
Side-note, every tower machine I've ever built including the dual quad core setups were quiet by selecting a big tower and using giant fans much the same as Apple does with their Pros. It's nothing about well designed and more about just learning the lessons of the past, previous Pros were indeed quite loud as the original Core Duo Pros I have here at the shop are anything but quiet. Of course random stuff breaks on them but they are pretty dated now so I'll let it slide as even the HP boxes we have around here start to fail about 4 or 5 years with the amount of traveling we do.
As someone that is current in the process of deploying virtual desktops I beg to differ.
Client terminals had to become powerful enough to connect modern peripherals and device pass-through means that a virtual desktop has no need to compromise. I can plugin my USB camera to my thin client and it'll appear in the VM. I can watch full-screen flash inside the VM on the thin-client with no jittering playback. Hell, even Autocad and Photoshop work marvelously especially through desktop streaming. With remote desktop applications you're usually limited by the precision of your mouse, compression makes detailed work almost impossible, a virtual desktop does not have these limitations.
I don't think workstations are going anywhere anytime soon though. I do however think that Apple is screwing themselves royally by not allowing OS X to be in a virtual environment as many of my Mac users are getting sick of hardware failures leading to their downtime when their Windows and Linux coworkers can just swap machines and reconnect to their VM and be up and running in as long as it takes to plugin the new hardware. Apple has always been weak in the enterprise market. I'm finally seeing pushback much to my delight as a few of my Photoshop jockies are switching to Windows so they can enjoy all the benefits including SSL VPN driven access from offsite without compromising performance.
In short, latency is no longer a problem for 99% of cases. Server virtualization isn't so cut and dry, but desktop virtualization is definitely going to take over as it solves many common corporate problems such as data leaving the building, ensuring regular backups, maintaining a consistent work environment, storage consolidation, and many other problems are non-issues with a virtual desktop. If a particular user needs more disk space I don't need to replace a hard drive, I just allocate more storage to them. With thin-provisioning I don't even have to care if they're using it provided I don't overprovision and run out of disk space but adding another shelf to my tier 1 NetApp storage is easy and takes all of ten minutes to do.
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You and I have the same understanding and coincidentally I've found most nettops are cheaper than equivalent or even lower spec thin-client machines. HP could have ruled the nettop side of things with their thin clients if they'd have actually moved their product line forward. I'm all about virtual desktops these days since a lot of work for this company is done in public spaces, theft of equipment is a real concern, as a result virtual desktops are almost a perfect solution since no corporate data is ever on the end-user's machine.
It then moves security to stronger forms of authentication while maintaining usability which is the real challenge.
I have Ubuntu on my netbook and while performance may be better, battery life is not. I'm usually lucky to get 75% battery life with Ubuntu over Windows. I solved this by getting an oversized 9-cell battery which has worked out well. Battery life in Ubuntu has improved noticeably between Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04, each major release has seen improvements as 8.04 was utterly unworkable without seriously tweaking, it took me almost two weeks. Ordinarily I would have ditched it but it became a matter of principle since it's a Linux distro I know there should be a way to fix it and in the process I'd learn more about Linux internals. I used to install Gentoo for the same reasons. Sometimes you just want something that works out of the box though, Ubuntu has gotten a lot better at that, some things work better in Ubuntu out of the box and some things Fedora seems to win these days.
That's news to me since Google voice on my Android works as long as wifi is enabled. It can use a phone connection but by no means does it have to and by no means is it only available to geeks as that is the primary feature of Google voice. Are you saying that the app on iOS is that way? If so then I don't know why you would install it as you can control all of that from the web.
As someone who has found themselves in a similar position, might I suggest XenApp? There are receivers for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and Linux that will allow you to run any Windows software without the need for a local Windows install. This works well for the owner of the company I work for, as he has a full Windows 7 virtual desktop that he will connect to from his iPad, then he can print and use full screen flash and java with ease. He can even run Autocad and Photoshop. When he gets tired of holding the tablet he'll put it down, sit on his couch and connect to it from his living room computer running Ubuntu minimal install with XBMC picking up where he left off. When he's ready to get some real work done he'll get up and go to his office and connect from his iMac much to my dismay. It's all very easy for him to work with and has allowed me to take it broader with the company.
Microsoft VM licensing is retarded though so I ended up buying a volume license for Windows 7 professional which allows you to run it in a VM. Their VM licensing requires you to rent the software whereas volume licensing allows you to buy it once. Different shops I imagine would have different requirements. I've done the same with Office, it doesn't cut your licensing costs but it does cut installation costs and now a barebones machine can be configured in minutes with access to all software the user has access to available on-demand. I just realized I sound like a commercial but it's one of the newest technologies that really had the power to simplify setups.
I didn't say anything couldn't be solved with a Google search, I merely said that it would take a lot longer. I've spent an hour on Google looking for Postgresql bits for installation, configuration, and maintanence, things that are all in a central location on Metalink for Oracle.
I'm constantly irritated that patches are hidden away as I see that as a giant negative against the company. If you sold me a defective product and you've done the work of fixing the defect you should distribute it to the rest of the community to make sure that the public image of your product is as something of high quality.
Oracle installers are well known to be a pain in the ass, through Metalink I can find step by step directions on how to get it running on Ubuntu or CentOS containing all the necessary links to packages that the Oracle installer will want complete with specific versions so as to certify the installation. Of course I wouldn't do anything like that for a production environment, but certainly for development.
I had the misfortune of having to do an install without Metalink access for a while and had to Google around, you were talking days before kernel parameters and package requirements were fully met. I created an installation guide so that I wouldn't have to go through that pain again but a lot of time was wasted.
There are valid paths to get the information for other products but no other database software is as well documented as Oracle. Mailing lists and Google searches have a wealth of information in them, they are just scattered and not always to the put. Like my Asterisk problem I found it in a random forum. The answer could also have been obtained through any number of other mailing lists but why would I want to go through the trouble when I have a purpose built environment for it with Oracle?
I'm glad Postgresql has made such progress in the last few years, they are a viable alternative to most setups these days and that will eventually put pressure on Oracle to be more reasonable, and if not, I've got a perfectly good alternative.
The problem with your statement is that the reason it's news for Skype is because nobody has done it before. I have always considered Postgresql the best of the open source options out there but it has always been behind commercial options like Oracle and DB/2. Only recently has MS SQL caught up with enough features to start making them attractive but Postgresql is almost always a better choice in that tier.
It is routine for Oracle to handle large datasets. Everyone else that has done it with things like MySQL had to put a lot of time into development and experienced lots of crushing downtime in the process of scale out.
Of course at the rate Postgresql has been advancing I wouldn't be surprised if in another five years they can match Oracle for 90% of functionality. Oracle should have been more concerned with that rather than mysql which is horribly pale in comparison.
While I agree with you on principle, Oracle documentation is second to none and that's better than having to post to some mailing list and then having to send configs along with version dependencies. I would so there are lots of pros and cons of both sides of this. Google is not a great way to get documentation on something specific. Just yesterday I was searching for the cause to one-way communication between an Asterisk 1.4 and an Asterisk 1.6 box that had been upgraded from 1.4 and was using the same config. It took a very long time. Contrast that with virtually any Oracle issue which can be resolved within ten minutes on Metalink or if things really get hairy, within two hours via a support request.
Often times you do get what you pay for even if you have to pay too much to get it. I'll agree most of that should be free and in the interest of adoption of product lines that would actually probably be a smart move from a business standpoint. I look at all the people running away from Sun servers because everything is hidden away now by Oracle so its easy to see that hiding the documentation just makes people look for something more open.
Oracle is in serious trouble these days despite their spending spree, they lack focus and it shows in their product line. I think most people would agree that you only use Oracle for the database, all of their other apps are simply a joke with open source alternatives being very attractive for reporting and collaboration. ERP options still appear to be lacking but the concept as a whole seems to going away anyway. That's probably why Oracle wanted Sun, to have a complete platform for their database completely supported from head to toe the way Apple does it.
Except for those of us that actually make money based on applications that the database drives.
Are you trying to say MySQL or Postgresql are equal to Oracle in performance, reliability, or documentation? While Oracle does suck as a company their database core business is rock solid for a lot of good reasons. Of course if you venture outside the one thing Oracle does well heaven help you.
Until recently I thought I was the only one with this opinion, I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that! It's really sad to see how far they have fallen. These days it's hard to find a server manufacturer worth a damn. It basically comes down to Dell or HP, IBM is kind of a joke. IBM with their limited offerings at least has support to back it up, the other two are pathetic while HP has supply problems as of late. What do you mean I have to wait a month for 12 core servers? I've taken to just building Supermicro servers, while missing a lot of the advanced management capabilities their costs at my levels of purchasing make them way too attractive for one off projects.
Here's a for instance, they google for keywords like how to crash a hard drive. I try to educate parents that think they need to know everything their child does. All the media fear mongering has had a dramatic impact on parents. It's hard to make parents aware that these days aren't really all that different from the days they grew up, especially when the parents are only 30 years old.
Of course there are lots of reasons to watch out for your child these days as even a 4 year old can be sued as insane as THAT sounds.
So you think Timothy McVey was acting alone and it was an isolated incident?
Whare about the white American terrorists? Sorting by color only serves bolster the point that Americans are zionists out to get rid of anybody that makes them uncomfortable.
Sorry, but the country of origin doesn't matter. When you play political games and arm warlords expect reprisal from everywhere including our own backyard. If you're scanning for likely threats at the time, their likelihood is going to be determined by the last terrorist attack, are you advocating that we change our scanning in reaction to threats or should we just effectively scan everyone like Israeli airlines have to do?
Of course given the crappy inspection process we have now, there's a lot of problems with having security theater,A friend of mine got on three flights going through security three times in two months with the same knife in his bag. Only the last checkpoint caught it, he forgot it was in there. The reality is that the list of people out to get us is small and as long as bombs don't make it on the plane the likelihood of other issues is small. Could 9/11 happen again? I don't think so, now that people understand what can happen when you let someone take over the plane they are much more willing to step up and settle the situation, one guy with a knife can't overpower 90 other people unless it's maybe a flight full of non-arse kicking grandmas.
While yes, multiple drivers can achieve the desired affect as well, my Shure earphones do a great job of that, but there are speakers that are meant to only shoot sound in one direction with a narrow space for proper sound and then there are speakers that produce more sound, think simulated surround sound with stereo speakers. Traditionally the right and left front speakers will throw the sound in a wide band to everyone can hear, surround speakers are usually much more directional along with the center channel.
Of course in retrospect I do believe they probably just have multiple drivers instead as that is easier to put into small packages.
A multi-directional speaker can easily produce stereo sound although obviously not as good as two dedicated directional speakers.
Fantastic and insightful, now the part in TFS even mentions that Facebook in particular violated it's own privacy policy so they aren't even following the TOS that you agreed to. When a site is advertised as a way to share information with just friends and then that information is available to more than your friends then you have some seriously false advertising. Sure people were naive to believe a free service could have enough integrity to do this but it's definitely not as simple as you make it out to be as people are inherently social beings and as such want to extend their network of friends beyond the people they see everyday.
It all depends on your application, in a home with the ability to directly cable then yes, cheaper alternatives certainly do exist.
For me it's beautiful, I setup a nettop and hook it to an HDMI splitter and then feed 20 of those throughout our site. Makes management quite easy but I'll admit my situation is rather unique.
Yes there is, HDMI over IP has been around a while.
There are lots of advantages, for instance, my auction site is a couple of square miles in size, getting directly cabled video to each location would be very expensive.
Very significant, millions died on both sides.
Gorillas, ha! wow that takes me back, we used to mess with that game alongside nibbles. Those were the days!
I find this humorous given that you have your timing way the hell off. Windows 95 even came with TCP/IP support even though it primarily supported IPX/SPX. I'm sorry, but TCP/IP was indeed the protocol to rule them all while Apple only had Appletalk.
I find further humorous that you don't even try to refute the CIFS problems, why is all the functionality there but all the performance options disabled by default? Every Linux and BSD out there has them enabled by default giving them two to three times the performance. How this drivel gets modded informative is beyond me.
Of course the best piece of all is that you think Apple is schizophrenic, despite everyone of their new products being closed you think the desktop is completely different in every way shape and form despite sharing code base? Nicely done!
I love seeing Apple astroturf, it continually surprises me that anybody can so blindly support a platform despite the obviousness of what's in front of them.
MS did publish enough of the spec for Samba in Linux to interoperate just fine, so how do you explain the deficiency in OS X? Nevermind that the features actually present in OS X, they are just disabled by default.
Also, I never said Apple TV was open, I pointed to the trend of new Apple products being closed and it's exceedingly likely that it will eventually happen to the desktop platform as ALL of their other platforms are closed. I even said it wasn't happening right now because it would be suicide for Apple. I don't think the company is stupid, I despise their approach and am disgusted at their success but nevertheless, I have to acknowledge that many people like their approach even if it is shortsighted and severely limiting. There's nothing that says Apple can't change their approach in the future, they are no stranger to radical changes afterall. The path is pretty obvious right now though.
Waiting for ack before starting another write. As a result copying to a CIFS share takes almost twice as long as the default samba settings in any major Linux distro.
Defaulting to cleartext authentication is another causing serious security concerns and again, not the default in any standard Linux distro.
Feel free to Google the issue, Apple doesn't like to close sessions and leaves thumbnails all over network drives in my case to the tune of several tens of gigs of unnecessary files.
I've taken to using NFS shares to get around the stupid limitations but security options are far more limited in the Windows implementation. It at least works more consistently across versions even though I still have to content with the thumbnails it shits all over the network.
I'm a little confused how you can possibly say there is no evidence when the iPhone is so locked down. Apple has proven that it is not above lockdown and they tout loud and clear that it is the best way to operate and you are seriously saying their is no evidence? Given the number of people worried about and the press it's gotten you would think Apple would put out a clear mission statement stating that they don't intend to lock down the platform, except that is exactly what they want to do.
It astonishes me that people can say there is no evidence for this when it is entirely consistent with Apple for as long as Steve Jobs has run the company going all the way back to Appletalk in the days of TCP/IP coming to the consumer desktop. Even today CIFS support in OS X is atrocious due to bad default options designed specifically to hinder interoperation with Microsoft. Apple has never liked to play with others and it's entirely unsurprising that they would seek to lock down their platform. The timing of it is unknown as this point but it's pretty inevitable given all the rhetoric about walled gardens coming straight from Apple.
They won't do it right away as it would be suicide. Look at AppleTV or any of Apple's new product, open they are not. Of course Apple can shift directions but right now they are on a clear path to walled gardens everywhere which will be good for some and bad for others. Fortunately there are plenty of valid alternatives.
I think you need to practice reading comprehension there dude as you clearly have no idea what I was talking about. Specifically I said RDP wasn't good enough and so you need a virtual desktop which is completely different.
Futhermore, you don't seem to understand the concept of a virtual desktop at all as you go on about running a Windows VM on a Windows machine which is stupid and pointless. I run Lenovo's at $230 a piece that come with Linux preinstalled. The Citrix receiver then connects the machine to Windows and they have access to all their local hardware including USB devices like cameras or flash sticks.
Clearly you don't understand Virtual desktops or desktop streaming where you can indeed move 50 graphics designers to virtual desktops, not terminal servers. The best part with desktop streaming in that all the software is in the VM and not on the desktop, if the machine crashes because someone spilled coffee or any number of reasons then all the designer needs to do is connect to his VM from another workstation and he's back right where he left out without losing any precision. There is almost no latency in a virtual desktop session, it's the same as if you were on the machine itself. I've got Autocad people using it this very moment and they are quite happy as just last night I used the Citrix client on the iPad to show the owner the drawings from the next event we're doing.
Before you call people clueless you might want to make sure your own camp is in order as you again show ignorance with your server virtualization statement. Some servers require lots of IO, mainly database servers and those servers have never been good candidates for virtual loads. The same goes with high performance webservers, video transcoding, HD capture, security surveillance, and a number of high IO or CPU intensive applications won't live well in a virtual environment.
And in the mean time the brand new macbook pro routinely runs upwards of 160F to the point where it needs a notebook cooler.
Sorry, but Apple is just like everyone else, they have their models that work well and they have their crap, the fact that it's no inconsistent begs the question of whether or not it was intentional or luck.
Of course the other side of the coin is the fact that you wasted your money on quad core Xeons when you should have done it right and thrown most of that money at a server and used a laptop as a front-end utilizing the server for all the rendering. That way you could add a second workstation for little cost. The Mac Pro days are numbered as there is very little reason to need them unless you're a single man shop in which case dropping 8k for a mostly decked out Pro will be difficult to swallow.
As for Cadillac and Chevrolet, no, they don't share parts, they might share designs but many things that are metal on a Caddy will be plastic on a Chevy.
Side-note, every tower machine I've ever built including the dual quad core setups were quiet by selecting a big tower and using giant fans much the same as Apple does with their Pros. It's nothing about well designed and more about just learning the lessons of the past, previous Pros were indeed quite loud as the original Core Duo Pros I have here at the shop are anything but quiet. Of course random stuff breaks on them but they are pretty dated now so I'll let it slide as even the HP boxes we have around here start to fail about 4 or 5 years with the amount of traveling we do.
As someone that is current in the process of deploying virtual desktops I beg to differ.
Client terminals had to become powerful enough to connect modern peripherals and device pass-through means that a virtual desktop has no need to compromise. I can plugin my USB camera to my thin client and it'll appear in the VM. I can watch full-screen flash inside the VM on the thin-client with no jittering playback. Hell, even Autocad and Photoshop work marvelously especially through desktop streaming. With remote desktop applications you're usually limited by the precision of your mouse, compression makes detailed work almost impossible, a virtual desktop does not have these limitations.
I don't think workstations are going anywhere anytime soon though. I do however think that Apple is screwing themselves royally by not allowing OS X to be in a virtual environment as many of my Mac users are getting sick of hardware failures leading to their downtime when their Windows and Linux coworkers can just swap machines and reconnect to their VM and be up and running in as long as it takes to plugin the new hardware. Apple has always been weak in the enterprise market. I'm finally seeing pushback much to my delight as a few of my Photoshop jockies are switching to Windows so they can enjoy all the benefits including SSL VPN driven access from offsite without compromising performance.
In short, latency is no longer a problem for 99% of cases. Server virtualization isn't so cut and dry, but desktop virtualization is definitely going to take over as it solves many common corporate problems such as data leaving the building, ensuring regular backups, maintaining a consistent work environment, storage consolidation, and many other problems are non-issues with a virtual desktop. If a particular user needs more disk space I don't need to replace a hard drive, I just allocate more storage to them. With thin-provisioning I don't even have to care if they're using it provided I don't overprovision and run out of disk space but adding another shelf to my tier 1 NetApp storage is easy and takes all of ten minutes to do.