Actually a lot of different Japanese companies make computers that are for the most part only released in Japan. Which is actually a far cry from the situation 20 years ago where lots of different Japanese PC manufacturers exported their stuff overseas.
Most of their XServes and mac pros are actually assembled in the US. Not sure if it's due to the weight(those beasts can be quite heavy and thus really expensive to ship), export restrictions or what.
Part of it is how managers get paid. In a lot of organizations theore people you have under you the higher your salary. So it behooves the manager to make the requirements as complicated as possible in order to rationalize a large head count.
Bill Hicks was making that joke even before the inion(and I wouldn't be surprised if domeone was doing it before him). It goes something along the lines of "Why does taco bell even have a menu? Wouldn't it just be easier if they asked you 'How do you want your beams and flour arranged?""
You obviously didn't read the comment, SSDs do in fact have very few guarantees for random write speeds(due to how the SSD writes, things like wear leveling makes it even worse). If you are running real time systems this is a HUGE problem. You need to be sure that your I/O writes will finish within a certain time frame or else your system can start to fall behind. While very few consumers need real time systems there are a lot of people in industry who do.
Ssds are quite attractive for internal drives, their speed advantage means quicker booting, faster application startup etc, but eventually you hut the point of diminishing returns, for instance even external hard drives allow you to watch movies without any noticeable delay so you gain very little by putting them on ssds. So while laptops and to a certain extent desktops will see fewer internal magnetic disks, that won't mean the end if consumer level magnetic disks at all.
The mistake isn't necessarily deprecating Java, if that is the way forward then that is the way forward. The big mistake is deprecating it without ANY concrete plans on a way forward. Corporate types hate uncertainty and Apple fails to realize this it seems. I mean we don't even know if Oracle will provide a JVM for mac, and if they do what will become of the Apple-specific technologies(such as launching with the Java application stub, using Cocoa instead of X, the Apple specific Java extensions etc.)
Where I work we use a lot of Apple Java and now we have absolutely 0 idea on whether we should invest any more in Apple at all. Buying new hardware and transitioning to a new platform is expensive, but at least the other major platforms(Windows and Linux) do at least provide some certainty as to the future of those products and the platforms they will support.
Basically Steve is treating major software platform updates the same we he treats iMac hardware updates, and that just doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Actually the fact that the government takes care of health insurance and does it a lot cheaper than the so called "competitive private companies"(read price fixing monopolies) do it in the United States. Canada is just plain more competitive based on that fact alone.
Didn't Hu Jintao condemn protectionism? Or maybe he condemned non-Chinese protectionism. It's amazing how a country who refuses to open it's books to external scrutiny and gets pissed when other countries "interfere" with supposed internal affairs, such as freedom of speech have no qualms about sticking their nose into other countries affairs and is critical of how they run their countries..,,
Now that the Cookie Monster has gone all health food we cannot rely on him to help us out here.
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You can tell just by looking at their products that they obviously have management issues. They often times release products that compete with each other and yet are not compatible at all with each other(2 types of incompatible DRM, 3 different phone operating systems at the same time etc.) And even within products you can tell that there was very little cooperation between groups. The windows UI is such an incoherent mess I have trouble figuring out where anything even is. Everything looks different and to top it all off you often times have settings for the exact same component in more than one place. In XP the firewall could be configured in no less than 3(THREE!) different places and the way each configuration interacted/overrode the other ones was incomprehensible. Compare that with linux where I can just edit the iptables file and be done with it(ok, there is hosts.(allow/deny)....)
You can tell that many managers at Microsoft seem to still think it's 1998 and Microsoft is it's own biggest competitor. They will do ANYTHING they can to keep their own little empires, and the bonuses that come with them, alive.
It is easy enough to test which one results in more support calls. Have some departments use Microsoft Office and have other departments use OpenOffice and track who asks for more help.
Thats about as unscientific as you can get. You don't take into consideration the relative use of office suites between the departments, the training and skill levels of the individuals etc. Not necessarily saying your conclusion is wrong, but even if you were to carry out such a test it really wouldn't provide a whole lot of corroborating evidence.....
Probably the exact opposite. It's probably making them money in the form of reduced taxes. Assuming the percentage of NGOs in the countries covered that actually have valid windows licenses is less than Microsoft's effective tax rate they can effectively write off the "donations" as tax deductions and overall probably come out ahead.
Part of the reason it fell out of favor was the rise of mobile computing. More and more office workers were taking their work(and thus PC) with them on the road(and alas sometimes at home as well). Even with the fastest of connections you still have performance problems if you are pulling a full vm from outside the building.
And for Islam as well. Though in certain countries signing your real name as an apostate will help you lose some weight, the human head weighs about 5 kg.
Just out of curiosity does paying the tax guarantee you a spot in the cemetery? I know a couple Germans that pay the tithe simply so they will have a spot in the cemetery, otherwise the spot just gets "rented" and they cremate the body a couple years after you die.
Even within the airline there are large variations and then there are certain things that are just impossible to to serve on an airline while still having them taste good. For instance pasta, I have never eaten pasta on a plane that actually had any taste. I was on a Cathay pacific flight recently and had 2 meals(one each way). the beef was probably the best meal I have e er had on an airline but the pumpkin pasta tasted like nothing, and I'm a huge pumpkin fan.
Actually as an OS X sysadmin the thing I REALLY want is the ability to use the software update mechanism for non-Apple signed packages. Obviously this feature would have to be approached carefully(and should be off by default), but if I could put a list of public keys in a secure(root owned 700) directory and have any packages signed with the corresponding private key updatable via software update that would make life a lot easier. As it stands we have to use remote desktop to install various packages(home grown and 3rd party), which works but it's much more time consuming than it needs to be.
Well TFA doesn't have any details, but the the guy that got 22 months was a landlord. I'm assuming he wasn't exactly passing the savings along to his tenants....
For work reasons we have to use the sun JDK on our linux boxes. However since Sun/Oracle doesn't set up a yum repository for the thing every time it's updated we have to go manually download the thing, unpack it and then put it in our local repository. It's a huge pain in the ass and I'm hoping that the OpenJDK will become a drop in replacement for the official JDK so it can be put into mainstream yum repositories.
Doing something for money doesn't mean you are doing it out of greed. Debt(and often times not even your own debt) drives people to do things they would never ever have considered otherwise. Just look at Van Tuong Nguyen. The guy smuggled drugs through Singapore to help repay his BROTHERS debt even though he knew he was risking serious penalties if caught. Well he did get caught and it ended up costing him his life.
Thats why the number one cause of people getting denied/losing their security clearance in the US is debt(the second being criminal history). It's just too easy to gain leverage over that person.
If you are using Twitter to have conversations you are doing it wrong. Back in the dinosaur age if something happened to you(passed a test got herpes whatever) you would actually have to phone/write several people saying the exact same thing. You weren't always looking for a response but just wanted to share the news. Thats what twitter is for. It's not really meant for deep conversations.
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Actually a lot of different Japanese companies make computers that are for the most part only released in Japan. Which is actually a far cry from the situation 20 years ago where lots of different Japanese PC manufacturers exported their stuff overseas.
Most of their XServes and mac pros are actually assembled in the US. Not sure if it's due to the weight(those beasts can be quite heavy and thus really expensive to ship), export restrictions or what.
Part of it is how managers get paid. In a lot of organizations theore people you have under you the higher your salary. So it behooves the manager to make the requirements as complicated as possible in order to rationalize a large head count.
Bill Hicks was making that joke even before the inion(and I wouldn't be surprised if domeone was doing it before him). It goes something along the lines of "Why does taco bell even have a menu? Wouldn't it just be easier if they asked you 'How do you want your beams and flour arranged?""
Well, he probably isn't 70 yet so give him a couple of years.
You obviously didn't read the comment, SSDs do in fact have very few guarantees for random write speeds(due to how the SSD writes, things like wear leveling makes it even worse). If you are running real time systems this is a HUGE problem. You need to be sure that your I/O writes will finish within a certain time frame or else your system can start to fall behind. While very few consumers need real time systems there are a lot of people in industry who do.
Ssds are quite attractive for internal drives, their speed advantage means quicker booting, faster application startup etc, but eventually you hut the point of diminishing returns, for instance even external hard drives allow you to watch movies without any noticeable delay so you gain very little by putting them on ssds. So while laptops and to a certain extent desktops will see fewer internal magnetic disks, that won't mean the end if consumer level magnetic disks at all.
The mistake isn't necessarily deprecating Java, if that is the way forward then that is the way forward. The big mistake is deprecating it without ANY concrete plans on a way forward. Corporate types hate uncertainty and Apple fails to realize this it seems. I mean we don't even know if Oracle will provide a JVM for mac, and if they do what will become of the Apple-specific technologies(such as launching with the Java application stub, using Cocoa instead of X, the Apple specific Java extensions etc.)
Where I work we use a lot of Apple Java and now we have absolutely 0 idea on whether we should invest any more in Apple at all. Buying new hardware and transitioning to a new platform is expensive, but at least the other major platforms(Windows and Linux) do at least provide some certainty as to the future of those products and the platforms they will support.
Basically Steve is treating major software platform updates the same we he treats iMac hardware updates, and that just doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
I dunno, the ./ crowd seems to follow me wherever I go. It's almost like they represent my current location.
But then how will you know that you won the Spanish Lottery?
Actually the fact that the government takes care of health insurance and does it a lot cheaper than the so called "competitive private companies"(read price fixing monopolies) do it in the United States. Canada is just plain more competitive based on that fact alone.
Didn't Hu Jintao condemn protectionism? Or maybe he condemned non-Chinese protectionism. It's amazing how a country who refuses to open it's books to external scrutiny and gets pissed when other countries "interfere" with supposed internal affairs, such as freedom of speech have no qualms about sticking their nose into other countries affairs and is critical of how they run their countries..,,
Now that the Cookie Monster has gone all health food we cannot rely on him to help us out here.
You can tell just by looking at their products that they obviously have management issues. They often times release products that compete with each other and yet are not compatible at all with each other(2 types of incompatible DRM, 3 different phone operating systems at the same time etc.) And even within products you can tell that there was very little cooperation between groups. The windows UI is such an incoherent mess I have trouble figuring out where anything even is. Everything looks different and to top it all off you often times have settings for the exact same component in more than one place. In XP the firewall could be configured in no less than 3(THREE!) different places and the way each configuration interacted/overrode the other ones was incomprehensible. Compare that with linux where I can just edit the iptables file and be done with it(ok, there is hosts.(allow/deny)....)
You can tell that many managers at Microsoft seem to still think it's 1998 and Microsoft is it's own biggest competitor. They will do ANYTHING they can to keep their own little empires, and the bonuses that come with them, alive.
It is easy enough to test which one results in more support calls. Have some departments use Microsoft Office and have other departments use OpenOffice and track who asks for more help.
Thats about as unscientific as you can get. You don't take into consideration the relative use of office suites between the departments, the training and skill levels of the individuals etc. Not necessarily saying your conclusion is wrong, but even if you were to carry out such a test it really wouldn't provide a whole lot of corroborating evidence.....
Probably the exact opposite. It's probably making them money in the form of reduced taxes. Assuming the percentage of NGOs in the countries covered that actually have valid windows licenses is less than Microsoft's effective tax rate they can effectively write off the "donations" as tax deductions and overall probably come out ahead.
Part of the reason it fell out of favor was the rise of mobile computing. More and more office workers were taking their work(and thus PC) with them on the road(and alas sometimes at home as well). Even with the fastest of connections you still have performance problems if you are pulling a full vm from outside the building.
And for Islam as well. Though in certain countries signing your real name as an apostate will help you lose some weight, the human head weighs about 5 kg.
Just out of curiosity does paying the tax guarantee you a spot in the cemetery? I know a couple Germans that pay the tithe simply so they will have a spot in the cemetery, otherwise the spot just gets "rented" and they cremate the body a couple years after you die.
Even within the airline there are large variations and then there are certain things that are just impossible to to serve on an airline while still having them taste good. For instance pasta, I have never eaten pasta on a plane that actually had any taste. I was on a Cathay pacific flight recently and had 2 meals(one each way). the beef was probably the best meal I have e er had on an airline but the pumpkin pasta tasted like nothing, and I'm a huge pumpkin fan.
Actually as an OS X sysadmin the thing I REALLY want is the ability to use the software update mechanism for non-Apple signed packages. Obviously this feature would have to be approached carefully(and should be off by default), but if I could put a list of public keys in a secure(root owned 700) directory and have any packages signed with the corresponding private key updatable via software update that would make life a lot easier. As it stands we have to use remote desktop to install various packages(home grown and 3rd party), which works but it's much more time consuming than it needs to be.
Well TFA doesn't have any details, but the the guy that got 22 months was a landlord. I'm assuming he wasn't exactly passing the savings along to his tenants....
For work reasons we have to use the sun JDK on our linux boxes. However since Sun/Oracle doesn't set up a yum repository for the thing every time it's updated we have to go manually download the thing, unpack it and then put it in our local repository. It's a huge pain in the ass and I'm hoping that the OpenJDK will become a drop in replacement for the official JDK so it can be put into mainstream yum repositories.
Doing something for money doesn't mean you are doing it out of greed. Debt(and often times not even your own debt) drives people to do things they would never ever have considered otherwise. Just look at Van Tuong Nguyen. The guy smuggled drugs through Singapore to help repay his BROTHERS debt even though he knew he was risking serious penalties if caught. Well he did get caught and it ended up costing him his life.
Thats why the number one cause of people getting denied/losing their security clearance in the US is debt(the second being criminal history). It's just too easy to gain leverage over that person.
If you are using Twitter to have conversations you are doing it wrong. Back in the dinosaur age if something happened to you(passed a test got herpes whatever) you would actually have to phone/write several people saying the exact same thing. You weren't always looking for a response but just wanted to share the news. Thats what twitter is for. It's not really meant for deep conversations.