The problem is apple's insistence on LPDDR. They have made a design choice here. And the argument they gave was using higher capacity ram would adversely impact standby time!. They have decided to prioritize standby time over runtime performance. In other words, I can't have more RAM when I am using my computer because it would make the battery drain faster when I'm not using it. So while other laptops have 32-64gb ram available, Apple laptops can sit unplugged and unused on your desk for several days and still resume quickly when you get back from your vacation.
Every technologist on the planet, every single one of them not on Oracle payroll, hates this company, their products, and most of all their tactics. But not enough of them have the influence or the grit to move to something else. Now is the time. Oracle wants you to move to the cloud, so do it now. Just move to some other cloud. Any other cloud, any other application stack, it really doesn't matter where it is or how much it costs to make it happen. It will be worth it in the end.
The first time I was awoken at 3am to be on the lookout for a blue pickup with some random kid inside, I spent the next morning looking up how to disable those stupid alerts. If Canadia won't let people turn them off, then its time to leave Canadia.
Pretty much this. WSL is cute, but its not good. I re-test my workflow whenever WSL gets an update, but until it can at least mount a filesystem its a dead end.
I couldn't buy a PC today thats better in any significant way than a PC I bought 3 years ago, or 5 for that matter. CPUs haven't improved in any way and end user can see, Hard disks stopped getting bigger, SSD stopped getting cheaper, and GPUs are impossible to acquire thanks to the miners. So there is no replacement driver, and the market is saturated. Anybody who needs a PC already has a PC. Short of a PC mass extinction event or some actual progress on the platform, this is the end of the road. Its a mature market, and the rate of sales as it is today is pretty much what its going to be for the foreseeable future.
Every room has a tv, every tv has an apple TV, and itunes can send audio out all of them at once. An ATV2 would do the job, and they go for $45. Got a room with no TV? grab an old airport express. Its audio output can be used as an airplay target. Many home theater receivers have airplay support so they can participate in the accidentally apple centric whole house audio architecture.
They just realized that sticking around is pointless because its clearly become more about payola than rationale, and they don't have the funding to influence the W3C even if they did want to pay that game.
The government isn't actually concerned with minimum wage workers or with the job losses. The actual goal is to increase revenues from income taxes, so as long as there is a net gain from income taxes minimum wage increases will continue.
It's at best a short term remedy even if minimum wage workers still have jobs after the hike. Just because you pay workers more doesn't increase the value of their services. If they can't be replaced with automation, they become an inflationary pressure as the economy adjusts. At the same time some jobs that were higher than minimum wage suddenly become minimum wage, and devalue the progress that next rung of folks have made in their career. Those folks get to start over.
I'm in a region with aggressive wage hike legislation. It has had an observable impact. Now I place my fast food orders at an automated kiosk, my banks have fancy ATMs placed in front of what used to be teller windows just a year ago, and the stores I go to all have started converting checkout isles to self-checkout.
Automation can't be stopped. Eventually we're going to have to figure out what to do with all these extra humans. The civilization that solves that problem will win in the end.
The only people paying attention to ads these days are the advertisers. I'm ancient by millenial standards, and 5-6 seconds is how long it takes me to find the skip/kill/mute button.
CBS all access is pretty obscure. We all know it exists, but even Star Trek can't get us to climb that paywall. If it wasn't for Star Trek, nobody would even be talking about it. And all we're really talking about is how nobody is willing to pay 6+ads to watch it.
"A AA battery is fine. A AAA. A 9-volt battery is a huge power charge" ?? really? Sticking with NiMH for consistency, a 9v is 250mah, a AA is 2100mah. hmm. AA looks to be winning. Maybe they think 9v invokes more fear? What is the official color coded fear level for a 9v battery anyway? Copper? Try it in watt-hours and the AA still wins the day. Maybe they should worry less about the size of the batteries, and more about not letting people bring on the explosives.
Sony lacks the organizational cohesion to deliver on any product line or strategy that crosses business unit boundaries, and an obsession with proprietary formats that makes economies of scale impossible to achieve. The Playstation brand is succeeding in spite of Sony, not because of them.
In california once your income exceeds the subsidy thresholds you only get to keep ~40%. In round numbers, 40% goes to assorted federal taxes, 10% to state taxes, and 10% goes to sales taxes. There is also a big chunk of the population that doesn't understand that voting for bond measure that get paid for as a property tax is just a way of obfuscating that you're being asked to vote for a rent increase, so that stuff passes every single time.
Thats not the job creator, thats a market opportunity. If someone comes along and builds a business to serve that market, that might create some jobs. At one point in time, that business might have needed 30 humans to operate. Today it probably needs 12. At some point in the very foreseeable future it will only need 2-3.
The challenge of future then becomes; what to do with all the extra humans?
Sure, but thats not where the H1B abuses are happening. They're happening at outsourcing firms that charge BigCo $100k/year+, pay the H1B 60k, and profit off the indentured servitude. Thats why there are a quarter million H1B applicants. Getting one of those through lets you print money. The percentage of those going toward their intended purpose is in the low single digits. 100K may raise the bar, but it doesn't change the economics. BigCo will still pay the $145k to the outsourcing firm. 200k might just be enough to make a difference. BigCo will direct hire the H1's that matter, for whom the program was intended. Outsourcing firms will get local talent where they need it and ship the lower end stuff back to The Republic of Elbonia.
The sharp ones will end up as consultants anyway. It's not a terribly talent rich region, and there aren't a lot of corporate locations with significant IT footprint. Most of the folks with talent in South florida either go into consulting or end up in IT departments with single digit headcounts. The rest will either have to leave the business or leave the area.
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The problem is apple's insistence on LPDDR. They have made a design choice here. And the argument they gave was using higher capacity ram would adversely impact standby time!. They have decided to prioritize standby time over runtime performance. In other words, I can't have more RAM when I am using my computer because it would make the battery drain faster when I'm not using it. So while other laptops have 32-64gb ram available, Apple laptops can sit unplugged and unused on your desk for several days and still resume quickly when you get back from your vacation.
Every technologist on the planet, every single one of them not on Oracle payroll, hates this company, their products, and most of all their tactics. But not enough of them have the influence or the grit to move to something else. Now is the time. Oracle wants you to move to the cloud, so do it now. Just move to some other cloud. Any other cloud, any other application stack, it really doesn't matter where it is or how much it costs to make it happen. It will be worth it in the end.
The first time I was awoken at 3am to be on the lookout for a blue pickup with some random kid inside, I spent the next morning looking up how to disable those stupid alerts. If Canadia won't let people turn them off, then its time to leave Canadia.
Pretty much this. WSL is cute, but its not good. I re-test my workflow whenever WSL gets an update, but until it can at least mount a filesystem its a dead end.
Once I deleted all that crap off my win10 box I never looked back. Store mode...trapped in edge... ick.
oops, sorry about that.
I couldn't buy a PC today thats better in any significant way than a PC I bought 3 years ago, or 5 for that matter. CPUs haven't improved in any way and end user can see, Hard disks stopped getting bigger, SSD stopped getting cheaper, and GPUs are impossible to acquire thanks to the miners. So there is no replacement driver, and the market is saturated. Anybody who needs a PC already has a PC. Short of a PC mass extinction event or some actual progress on the platform, this is the end of the road. Its a mature market, and the rate of sales as it is today is pretty much what its going to be for the foreseeable future.
Every room has a tv, every tv has an apple TV, and itunes can send audio out all of them at once. An ATV2 would do the job, and they go for $45. Got a room with no TV? grab an old airport express. Its audio output can be used as an airplay target. Many home theater receivers have airplay support so they can participate in the accidentally apple centric whole house audio architecture.
Can it run ALL code and applets written for ALL previous java implementations? No? Then come back when its done.
They just realized that sticking around is pointless because its clearly become more about payola than rationale, and they don't have the funding to influence the W3C even if they did want to pay that game.
By comparison, so is a bottle of water in an airport, so that claim doesn't actually carry much weight anymore.
The government isn't actually concerned with minimum wage workers or with the job losses. The actual goal is to increase revenues from income taxes, so as long as there is a net gain from income taxes minimum wage increases will continue.
It's at best a short term remedy even if minimum wage workers still have jobs after the hike. Just because you pay workers more doesn't increase the value of their services. If they can't be replaced with automation, they become an inflationary pressure as the economy adjusts. At the same time some jobs that were higher than minimum wage suddenly become minimum wage, and devalue the progress that next rung of folks have made in their career. Those folks get to start over.
I'm in a region with aggressive wage hike legislation. It has had an observable impact. Now I place my fast food orders at an automated kiosk, my banks have fancy ATMs placed in front of what used to be teller windows just a year ago, and the stores I go to all have started converting checkout isles to self-checkout.
Automation can't be stopped. Eventually we're going to have to figure out what to do with all these extra humans. The civilization that solves that problem will win in the end.
The only people paying attention to ads these days are the advertisers. I'm ancient by millenial standards, and 5-6 seconds is how long it takes me to find the skip/kill/mute button.
CBS all access is pretty obscure. We all know it exists, but even Star Trek can't get us to climb that paywall. If it wasn't for Star Trek, nobody would even be talking about it. And all we're really talking about is how nobody is willing to pay 6+ads to watch it.
"A AA battery is fine. A AAA. A 9-volt battery is a huge power charge" ?? really?
Sticking with NiMH for consistency, a 9v is 250mah, a AA is 2100mah. hmm. AA looks to be winning. Maybe they think 9v invokes more fear? What is the official color coded fear level for a 9v battery anyway? Copper? Try it in watt-hours and the AA still wins the day. Maybe they should worry less about the size of the batteries, and more about not letting people bring on the explosives.
Sony lacks the organizational cohesion to deliver on any product line or strategy that crosses business unit boundaries, and an obsession with proprietary formats that makes economies of scale impossible to achieve. The Playstation brand is succeeding in spite of Sony, not because of them.
April first comes once a year but the fools are here to stay.
Sux? thats what I thought. Maybe it was supposed to be 'Store', but I'm running with Sux.
48 out of the 25000 surveyed in TFA.
In california once your income exceeds the subsidy thresholds you only get to keep ~40%. In round numbers, 40% goes to assorted federal taxes, 10% to state taxes, and 10% goes to sales taxes. There is also a big chunk of the population that doesn't understand that voting for bond measure that get paid for as a property tax is just a way of obfuscating that you're being asked to vote for a rent increase, so that stuff passes every single time.
Is that where the ads in the start menu lead? I don't click on that random crap.
Thats not the job creator, thats a market opportunity. If someone comes along and builds a business to serve that market, that might create some jobs. At one point in time, that business might have needed 30 humans to operate. Today it probably needs 12. At some point in the very foreseeable future it will only need 2-3.
The challenge of future then becomes; what to do with all the extra humans?
We can get a macbook that has a computer inside? How much is that going to cost? 5k?
Sure, but thats not where the H1B abuses are happening. They're happening at outsourcing firms that charge BigCo $100k/year+, pay the H1B 60k, and profit off the indentured servitude. Thats why there are a quarter million H1B applicants. Getting one of those through lets you print money. The percentage of those going toward their intended purpose is in the low single digits. 100K may raise the bar, but it doesn't change the economics. BigCo will still pay the $145k to the outsourcing firm. 200k might just be enough to make a difference. BigCo will direct hire the H1's that matter, for whom the program was intended. Outsourcing firms will get local talent where they need it and ship the lower end stuff back to The Republic of Elbonia.
The sharp ones will end up as consultants anyway. It's not a terribly talent rich region, and there aren't a lot of corporate locations with significant IT footprint. Most of the folks with talent in South florida either go into consulting or end up in IT departments with single digit headcounts. The rest will either have to leave the business or leave the area.