I think that may be the first time I have seen "reasonable request" and "sysadmin" in the same sentence.
The sysadmins I encounter are invariably anything but reasonable. Aloof, patronizing, condescending... all of those. Most have a very narrow specialization niche and absolutely no social skills or business experience.
I have seen them reduce naive users to tears and effectively discourage any user from making a request of any kind.
Actually, it was the US embassy in Moscow.
They found microphones suspended on dipoles in the walls. The Russians beamed in radio waves and the microphones modulated the re-radiated radio waves. No power required.
The microphones were installed while the embassy was being built for the US by the USSR.
There was an article about it in one of the tech mags about 30 years ago. Showed photos of grim US diplomats and the offending dipoles (which were simply wires cut to length).
apple may be forced to open mac os to all hardware.
There's no actual restriction on what hardware you run OSX on, apart from the EULA.
True, OSX supports a restricted subset of hardware but there doesn't appear to be any custom stuff involved. Ask the Hackintosh guys.
On a related note, just what advantage would Apple get from this? Apple make their money from the hardware. It would be like Microsoft releasing their XBOX OS for other hardware makers.
I couldn't think of anything worse! There are many good reasons why large parts of my life are forgotten. It's not easy forgetting all that stuff that I'd rather not remember.
Having it all recorded in other people's memories is the ultimate nightmare.
Apart from immediate family I don't think I'm in touch with anyone I knew 20 years ago. And that's the way I like it.
It's not easy being a fool.
The past is dead.
The future is unknowable.
As for the present... I forgot to bring one.
People from cultures more attuned to bribery (euphemistically referred to as "gift-giving" in the study)
Or, as we call it, "tipping".
Tipping (or "gift-giving") is a degrading and corrupting practice. It implies that the receiver is temporarily whoring himself to the tipper.
I used to live in AUSTRALIA, and even there we had 100mbit cable
I'd like to know where, cobber.
We're on fibre here in 3076-land and seldom see 10MBs. Usually less because of chronic under-provisioning, even when we pay for 100.
the asshole of the world
Just passing through, eh?
Apple/Android tablet makers store their OS in a small, discrete storage device, with a second, larger storage space for user apps and content.
Sorry to ruin your fantasy, but my 8Gig iPod lists its capacity as 6.4Gig available without any 3rd party apps or user files.
My 16Gig iPad similarly lists its capacity as 13.4Gig.
I'm going to assume that the missing space is iOS etc. No need to invent a mythical "small, discrete storage device".
Yes, Microsoft won't have to pay for a Windows license.
Perhaps, but every one they give away with their "loss-leader" Surface is one not bought by an OEM.
Each Surface sold by MS represents not only a financial loss but a weakening of their vital Windows ecosystem.
Buying a market (EG XBOX) away from competitors might be smart, but buying one (EG ZUNE) away from the people who buy your product isn't.
Actually...
Jobs, on his return, wanted to be rid of all the lawsuits between Apple and Microsoft.
The biggie was the presence of Apple's Quicktime code in Windows (because of a contractor's shortcut).
The end-result of the negotiations was that Apple would keep IE as the default browser, MS would continue to write Office for Mac for at least 5 years and would invest $150Mill in non-voting Apple stock (which they later sold at a profit).
People not knowing the facts simply invented reasons for the investment that suited them.
Xbox has been profitable for years now.
True
But at $200-$400 Million profit for E&D per year it's not enough to pay back the $8Billion that the XBOX has lost.
Percentage-wise, it's probably not even paying the interest.
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. Unless you mean the US was run up on a beach for the fouling to be removed from its hull.
Perhaps you meant (or the Editor meant) career?
>> Apple probably has quite a few patents for overcharging for products, too...
You say that as if there was no alternative to Apple's products. In fact, virtually the whole industry shelters under Apple's price umbrella.
Imagine the outcry if Apple started competing on price. I suspect "predatory pricing" would replace "overcharging" in your posts.
When I worked for IBM in the '80s there was a policy for suppliers:
1. We aren't the supplier's sole/major customer.
2. They aren't our sole/major supplier.
3. We changed suppliers every few years so there was no risk of dependency building up.
Also, it doesn't do anyone any good to bankrupt your suppliers. Some competitor could swoop in and buy them out. Their skilled people may leave the industry. They may merge with their competitor and reduce diversity of supply. And so on.
No sane manufacturer puts his suppliers in jeopardy by forcing them to sell at a loss.
You guys are Pros.
I have never seen a thread critical of Microsoft derailed into an Apple bash-fest quite as fast as this one.
TFA wasn't even suggesting that MS was up to no good.
William Ewing (Columbia Univ), back in the '50s, said that he had evidence of a 60-year freeze/thaw cycle for the Arctic Sea.
Evaporation from an ice-free Arctic Sea fed snow falls on Siberia, Canada and Greenland resulting in glaciers sending floes into the Arctic Sea.
As the Sea got covered up the evaporation slowed and so did the glaciers.
Rinse and repeat.
>> IOW, Microsoft doesn't want its own company money to be supporting Apple and other competitors.
But does the edict cover anyone other than Apple?
Are MS staff barred from buying (with company funds) Android phones and/or Linux PCs?
If not, it shows where Microsoft's concerns are. If so, it's still revealing.
That may have contributed but the main reason was that the PC team had only a year to bring the product to market. They preferred the 32-bit 68000 over the 16-bit 80XX but Motorola's design and dev tools were far inferior to Intel's and the engineers had much more experience working with Intel chips in IBM's Vendor Technology Logic-based products. So, in their rush to market, the team saddled us with all that Expanded/Extended Memory stuff as well as other sins.
The "walled garden" is there as a security measure, not QA.
Can you imagine the screams of outrage if Apple had knocked back Google's new toy? You'd have been lining up to throw crap at Apple and I note very little criticism of Google in this thread. Fanboys springing to Google's defense trying to make it Apple's problem?
70%? Down, fanboy, down!
When will you Android boosters realize that you are not Google's customers? Nor are the phone companies, for that matter. You are the product that Google is selling to its actual customers, the advertisers.
>> Why do I have to support your purchase?
Because that's what you are paid to do. If you can't I can pretty soon find someone who will.
It seems that many sysadmins see themselves as gatekeepers on "their" networks. The gatekeeping is usually related directly to the sysadmin's skillset and biases.
The network is there to serve the business objectives of your employer. It is not there as an ego-prop, a career-path or a toy. Your employer is shelling out a wad of cash so he can have the services he thinks he needs. He's much better placed to decide what he wants than you are. If you had any business chops you'd be in a public-facing job and not skulking in your e-cave.
Most sysadmins I have dealt with had no real idea of where the network fitted into the company plan and cared even less. Making it useful/usable for the user was the furthest thing from their minds. Making sure that they were irreplacable with minimal work was top priority.
Why would HP fund Android? Android makes more money, at this point in time, for Microsoft than WP7 does and will probably do so for quite a while. Google makes its money by showing Android users advertising.
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I think that may be the first time I have seen "reasonable request" and "sysadmin" in the same sentence.
The sysadmins I encounter are invariably anything but reasonable. Aloof, patronizing, condescending... all of those. Most have a very narrow specialization niche and absolutely no social skills or business experience.
I have seen them reduce naive users to tears and effectively discourage any user from making a request of any kind.
Actually, it was the US embassy in Moscow.
They found microphones suspended on dipoles in the walls. The Russians beamed in radio waves and the microphones modulated the re-radiated radio waves. No power required.
The microphones were installed while the embassy was being built for the US by the USSR.
There was an article about it in one of the tech mags about 30 years ago. Showed photos of grim US diplomats and the offending dipoles (which were simply wires cut to length).
apple may be forced to open mac os to all hardware.
There's no actual restriction on what hardware you run OSX on, apart from the EULA.
True, OSX supports a restricted subset of hardware but there doesn't appear to be any custom stuff involved. Ask the Hackintosh guys.
On a related note, just what advantage would Apple get from this? Apple make their money from the hardware. It would be like Microsoft releasing their XBOX OS for other hardware makers.
Well, it's just as well nobody else charges 30% for in-app sales through their curated App Store on top of the initial sale...
What? Who? Oh!
I couldn't think of anything worse! There are many good reasons why large parts of my life are forgotten. It's not easy forgetting all that stuff that I'd rather not remember.
Having it all recorded in other people's memories is the ultimate nightmare.
Apart from immediate family I don't think I'm in touch with anyone I knew 20 years ago. And that's the way I like it.
It's not easy being a fool.
The past is dead.
The future is unknowable.
As for the present... I forgot to bring one.
People from cultures more attuned to bribery (euphemistically referred to as "gift-giving" in the study)
Or, as we call it, "tipping".
Tipping (or "gift-giving") is a degrading and corrupting practice. It implies that the receiver is temporarily whoring himself to the tipper.
I used to live in AUSTRALIA, and even there we had 100mbit cable
I'd like to know where, cobber.
We're on fibre here in 3076-land and seldom see 10MBs. Usually less because of chronic under-provisioning, even when we pay for 100.
the asshole of the world
Just passing through, eh?
Apple/Android tablet makers store their OS in a small, discrete storage device, with a second, larger storage space for user apps and content.
Sorry to ruin your fantasy, but my 8Gig iPod lists its capacity as 6.4Gig available without any 3rd party apps or user files.
My 16Gig iPad similarly lists its capacity as 13.4Gig.
I'm going to assume that the missing space is iOS etc. No need to invent a mythical "small, discrete storage device".
Yes, Microsoft won't have to pay for a Windows license.
Perhaps, but every one they give away with their "loss-leader" Surface is one not bought by an OEM.
Each Surface sold by MS represents not only a financial loss but a weakening of their vital Windows ecosystem.
Buying a market (EG XBOX) away from competitors might be smart, but buying one (EG ZUNE) away from the people who buy your product isn't.
Actually...
Jobs, on his return, wanted to be rid of all the lawsuits between Apple and Microsoft.
The biggie was the presence of Apple's Quicktime code in Windows (because of a contractor's shortcut).
The end-result of the negotiations was that Apple would keep IE as the default browser, MS would continue to write Office for Mac for at least 5 years and would invest $150Mill in non-voting Apple stock (which they later sold at a profit).
People not knowing the facts simply invented reasons for the investment that suited them.
Xbox has been profitable for years now.
True
But at $200-$400 Million profit for E&D per year it's not enough to pay back the $8Billion that the XBOX has lost.
Percentage-wise, it's probably not even paying the interest.
Does it run on my Kin?
Probably not but it should run on the Courier.
Careen over the fiscal cliff?
That word doesn't mean what you think it means. Unless you mean the US was run up on a beach for the fouling to be removed from its hull. Perhaps you meant (or the Editor meant) career?
>> Apple probably has quite a few patents for overcharging for products, too...
You say that as if there was no alternative to Apple's products. In fact, virtually the whole industry shelters under Apple's price umbrella.
Imagine the outcry if Apple started competing on price. I suspect "predatory pricing" would replace "overcharging" in your posts.
I don't get all the hype with the iPad. I really don't.
This tells us more about you than it tells us about the iPad.
When I worked for IBM in the '80s there was a policy for suppliers:
1. We aren't the supplier's sole/major customer.
2. They aren't our sole/major supplier.
3. We changed suppliers every few years so there was no risk of dependency building up.
Also, it doesn't do anyone any good to bankrupt your suppliers. Some competitor could swoop in and buy them out. Their skilled people may leave the industry. They may merge with their competitor and reduce diversity of supply. And so on.
No sane manufacturer puts his suppliers in jeopardy by forcing them to sell at a loss.
You guys are Pros. I have never seen a thread critical of Microsoft derailed into an Apple bash-fest quite as fast as this one. TFA wasn't even suggesting that MS was up to no good.
William Ewing (Columbia Univ), back in the '50s, said that he had evidence of a 60-year freeze/thaw cycle for the Arctic Sea. Evaporation from an ice-free Arctic Sea fed snow falls on Siberia, Canada and Greenland resulting in glaciers sending floes into the Arctic Sea. As the Sea got covered up the evaporation slowed and so did the glaciers. Rinse and repeat.
Have you done the same with your Windows PCs?
Microsoft has the self-same conditions in the Windows EULA.
>> IOW, Microsoft doesn't want its own company money to be supporting Apple and other competitors.
But does the edict cover anyone other than Apple? Are MS staff barred from buying (with company funds) Android phones and/or Linux PCs? If not, it shows where Microsoft's concerns are. If so, it's still revealing.
That may have contributed but the main reason was that the PC team had only a year to bring the product to market. They preferred the 32-bit 68000 over the 16-bit 80XX but Motorola's design and dev tools were far inferior to Intel's and the engineers had much more experience working with Intel chips in IBM's Vendor Technology Logic-based products. So, in their rush to market, the team saddled us with all that Expanded/Extended Memory stuff as well as other sins.
The "walled garden" is there as a security measure, not QA.
Can you imagine the screams of outrage if Apple had knocked back Google's new toy? You'd have been lining up to throw crap at Apple and I note very little criticism of Google in this thread. Fanboys springing to Google's defense trying to make it Apple's problem?
70%? Down, fanboy, down!
When will you Android boosters realize that you are not Google's customers? Nor are the phone companies, for that matter. You are the product that Google is selling to its actual customers, the advertisers.
>> Why do I have to support your purchase? Because that's what you are paid to do. If you can't I can pretty soon find someone who will. It seems that many sysadmins see themselves as gatekeepers on "their" networks. The gatekeeping is usually related directly to the sysadmin's skillset and biases. The network is there to serve the business objectives of your employer. It is not there as an ego-prop, a career-path or a toy. Your employer is shelling out a wad of cash so he can have the services he thinks he needs. He's much better placed to decide what he wants than you are. If you had any business chops you'd be in a public-facing job and not skulking in your e-cave. Most sysadmins I have dealt with had no real idea of where the network fitted into the company plan and cared even less. Making it useful/usable for the user was the furthest thing from their minds. Making sure that they were irreplacable with minimal work was top priority.
Why would HP fund Android? Android makes more money, at this point in time, for Microsoft than WP7 does and will probably do so for quite a while. Google makes its money by showing Android users advertising.