It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac.
Except that already exists, it's called an "ipad". What you're saying is that the Ipad Pro is positioning itself between a tablet and a laptop. It's a companion for your tablet and laptop. Great sell me 3 things.
Or you can just use a Surface. The only thing the ipad pro has going for it is a larger touch optimized app store. From a hardware perspective and from an OS perspective Windows/Surface is already to the point where there is no reason to have a "companion device" to your laptop and carry two devices (or three).
He was already "Senior Director, Developer Tools Department" at Apple. So it's not like he wasn't experienced in management. The "He's a coder not a manager" argument is false since he's spent most of the last half decade as a manager.
My money is on him being interested in AI and machine learning from a technical perspective and then once he got into it realized that working with machine learning is nothing like the clean, deterministic and pure code of a compiler.
I work with some software that is largely non-deterministic (at a human comprehensible level at least) that works with computer vision and I hate it. I love working on rendering photo realistic imagery but interpreting photos into data is very very very black box work. There is a lot of just trial and error and experimentation until (for reasons you probably will never fully understand) it just snaps in the software and runs perfectly.
I would believe he was fired and I would believe he quit due to the conspiracies revolving around AP2's maturity but I wouldn't rule out that he actually didn't enjoy the work.
Why would the car continue to operate for 37.5 minutes of the trip if the driver didn't fasten their seatbelt? If that's a requirement, why didn't the car just pull over and shut off?
It's not a fair comparison and it's not even a real comparison. Especially this quote from the article:
Appleâ(TM)s goal was not to build a phone but to build an even more personal computer; their strategy was not to add on functionality to a phone but to reduce the phone to an app
Apple's goal was not to build a phone or a more personal computer. Apple's goal was literally to protect their ipod business from being inevitably cannibalized by Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and whoever else came along.
That's not a theory, that's literally what the team leaders from the iphone project say. 'we were like oh shit, nobody will buy an ipod if their phone is just as good'.
People also forget that the iphone launched without any third party apps. In fact Steve Jobs didn't want there to be apps on the iphone. So Palm was already ahead of them with third party app support.
Palm was ultimately doomed but that's because they weren't innovating fast enough. Not because they fundamentally saw the business wrong. They had a touchscreen dialer just like the iphone. Their touchscreen dialer was just worse. They had a mobile browser just like the iphone, their mobile browser was just worse. Etc...
This is also the effective way to "take a word back". You not only take it back, you have to wear it proudly and eliminate the negative connotations. It's like when people started being proud about the geek/nerd label.
"Hey nerd, what's up!" "Happily being a nerd! You?"
You can't do that if you still police it as offensive though. "Hey Nerd!" "How dare you call me that! Only nerds can call other nerds a nerd!" That isn't taking it back, that's reinforcing the negative power of the word.
My leading theory is that it's for automatic price matching not blocking. Amazon is interested it conquering the real world as well as the virtual. If you walk into an Amazon brick and mortar store and find it cheaper on Best Buy's website it would behoove them to instantly price match the price for you to ensure you don't leave.
Hourly is bad though. What if I'm hosting a website that needs to be up 24 hours a day but only consumes 1MB/day in traffic? You shouldn't be charged the same as someone who consumes 1gigabit up/down 24/7. The 1MB/day only requires a fraction of a switch's capacity.
The numbers themselves are irrelevant even if they are corrected. My question that never gets asked in these surveys is to compare it against a baseline in say... physical therapy or some other industry with nearly 50/50 representation of genders.
"Twice as many women reported sexual advances as men." Ok... but without a baseline to an industry without massive gender disparities we don't know if that is a contributing factor or not. Hell we should look at something like veterinarians where women are the majority and compare numbers.
A lot of these articles and surveys could I imagine be pulled out of any industry and yet they don't see the same gender inequity. "Women report feeling like men's opinions were more respected in meetings, even if it was the same idea." for instance is a complaint that's often brought up (and is probably true) but is it more prevalent in the tech industry or is it just a generic obstacle to women in the workforce?
All industries should strive to be better even if they aren't the worst, but if we are trying to understand specifically one demographic outcome, we need to identify and confirm actual causes to fix those first.
Solidarity with them would to open examine why they're having to work so many extra hours and to find some way to reduce them
Solidarity demonstrates that if there was a way to get himself off of the concrete floor he would be doing that thing. Solidarity is like dog-fooding your software, it means you have a vested interest in making it work because it's not an abstract problem, it's a problem you yourself face.
It also means that if we advertise "Linux" we would need to QA a dozen different combination due to different Linux distributions and different editions of each distribution.
An analogy: if everyone in the world sat on the same chair as I am on, I'd be crushed to death. So should I not sit on it?
No it's like saying "This pie is REALLY GOOD! You should try this pie!" Now you have no pie because everybody wants a slice. As you say, it's self-defeating to evangelize something on the basis of "it's good because it's unpopular."
Bullshit. OS upgrades used to be a total crapshoot of your computer even booting. I've only had one failure in over a dozen Windows upgrades (my home machine is on Insider beta builds). What they're doing now is avoiding the heartburn and pain of upgrading and finding some random driver isn't compatible. "Hey, we see people have reported that your WiFi card has issues. Don't upgrade yet." Instead of the very real experience I had several times updating an OS only to find that I couldn't connect to the internet anymore and there was no solution ready yet.
I don't know what rose tinted world you used to live in where every update was smooth and trouble free but I don't think you're describing most people's experiences.
God do I feel like such an asshole right now for claiming that your rant on the minimum wage is ideological opinion based on economic theory not empirical study.
I would say development time falls within powers of ten:
1) Nation-State scale applications: Windows, Linux, AWS, Apache => Tens of Billions in developer time to a usable product. 2) Flagship applications: Adobe creative suite, Microsoft Office, Quicken, AutoCAD, Chrome, Xbox Live, World of Warcraft => Hundreds of millions of dollars in developer time 3) Applications: Popular PC and Console games, Regular, boxed software = Tens of millions of dollars. 4) Utilities: Enterprise specific tools, Cloudberry, most mobile games = millions 5) Crapware and Scripts = Thousands to Hundreds of thousands.
You just described RAM. What's the point of persistent RAM when modern SSDs are as fast as Optane?
If Optane was truly as fast as RAM but persistent they would be useful. Instead it's sometimes faster but often slower than an M2 SSD and offers very little to no benefit.
Great idea! Hobble their whole Surface line of PCs and every single Mac vs PC comparison in order to win a pissing contest over browser efficiency.
Microsoft would be idiots to sabotage Chrome performance when they know that Chrome would be a normal battery benchmark when people reviewed their computers.
Tesla wants to sell its self-driving car tech to other car companies. At let's say $2.5k profit per vehicle if they could up-sell 10% of new cars that would $5B/profit a year.
There are a lot of other non-obvious ways Tesla is poised to potentially make its market cap downright sensible. For instance if Tesla owners started Ubering out their self driving cars in 2-3 years and Uber took a 33% cut of every dollar Tesla-Uber revenue they would be making billions. That's already worth $50B.
Eventually solar roofs will be a no-brainer cost/benefit choice for most of the country. That's a multi-billion dollar industry.
You have to view Tesla as a tech company with growth potential outside of folded metal. If you added up the market valuation of MobilEye ($15B), Uber ($51B) and a conservative Tesla Cars ($5B) you're already well in excess of their $50B valuation.
Meanwhile GM almost went bankrupt already once within the last 10 years. What are the odds they won't go bankrupt again in the next 10? Best case scenario GM is worth $10B/year for the next 10 years (probably less profit). Worst case scenario you're wiped out in bankruptcy. Best case scenario for Tesla they are cranking out $10B in profit a year (they already have 5x increase in reservations for next year than this last years' sales so that's a good trajectory), selling another $10B in self driving car tech to Ford and Nissan and Honda and Chevy, selling $5B/year in self-driving car rides, capturing 20% of the $144B independent semi-truck driving business with a fleet of self driving electric trucks... the list goes on and on. Or they like GM also go bankrupt.
The upside to Tesla is massive. The risk of losing it all is probably higher in my opinion for GM. Their last CEO went on the record calling Tesla a scam. Anyone who thinks Tesla is just a cash -> steel and wheels business doesn't get why they are valued what they are.
Microsoft used to be microscopic compared to IBM as well...
The universe in which Evan Spiegel's product can't be patented and can be copied by larger, better funded companies in a week or two (tops).
Facebook is doing Snapchat's potential investors a favor by clearly demonstrating that there is no value in Snapchat since it can't differentiate itself and therefore can't compete.
Hey just to rub it in here is the official Microsoft statement on the bug.
Edgar explains that it needed to detect the browser being used because not every browser supports prefetching. While a technique it used worked with Safari on Mac, it hung for Chrome on Linux.
"The second technique does not hang on Safari on Mac, but it does on Chrome on Linux. We will definitely ensure that more Linux testing is done."
What do you know, it was a compatibility issue where different solutions were used on different browsers and changing your User String would result in a different code path working better.
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It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac.
Except that already exists, it's called an "ipad". What you're saying is that the Ipad Pro is positioning itself between a tablet and a laptop. It's a companion for your tablet and laptop. Great sell me 3 things.
Or you can just use a Surface. The only thing the ipad pro has going for it is a larger touch optimized app store. From a hardware perspective and from an OS perspective Windows/Surface is already to the point where there is no reason to have a "companion device" to your laptop and carry two devices (or three).
He was already "Senior Director, Developer Tools Department" at Apple. So it's not like he wasn't experienced in management. The "He's a coder not a manager" argument is false since he's spent most of the last half decade as a manager.
My money is on him being interested in AI and machine learning from a technical perspective and then once he got into it realized that working with machine learning is nothing like the clean, deterministic and pure code of a compiler.
I work with some software that is largely non-deterministic (at a human comprehensible level at least) that works with computer vision and I hate it. I love working on rendering photo realistic imagery but interpreting photos into data is very very very black box work. There is a lot of just trial and error and experimentation until (for reasons you probably will never fully understand) it just snaps in the software and runs perfectly.
I would believe he was fired and I would believe he quit due to the conspiracies revolving around AP2's maturity but I wouldn't rule out that he actually didn't enjoy the work.
Why would the car continue to operate for 37.5 minutes of the trip if the driver didn't fasten their seatbelt? If that's a requirement, why didn't the car just pull over and shut off?
Possible, but Microsoft has discontinued tons of products to much gnashing of teeth only to release the replacement a month a later.
It's not a fair comparison and it's not even a real comparison. Especially this quote from the article:
Appleâ(TM)s goal was not to build a phone but to build an even more personal computer; their strategy was not to add on functionality to a phone but to reduce the phone to an app
Apple's goal was not to build a phone or a more personal computer. Apple's goal was literally to protect their ipod business from being inevitably cannibalized by Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and whoever else came along.
That's not a theory, that's literally what the team leaders from the iphone project say. 'we were like oh shit, nobody will buy an ipod if their phone is just as good'.
People also forget that the iphone launched without any third party apps. In fact Steve Jobs didn't want there to be apps on the iphone. So Palm was already ahead of them with third party app support.
Palm was ultimately doomed but that's because they weren't innovating fast enough. Not because they fundamentally saw the business wrong. They had a touchscreen dialer just like the iphone. Their touchscreen dialer was just worse. They had a mobile browser just like the iphone, their mobile browser was just worse. Etc...
This is also the effective way to "take a word back". You not only take it back, you have to wear it proudly and eliminate the negative connotations. It's like when people started being proud about the geek/nerd label.
"Hey nerd, what's up!" "Happily being a nerd! You?"
You can't do that if you still police it as offensive though. "Hey Nerd!" "How dare you call me that! Only nerds can call other nerds a nerd!" That isn't taking it back, that's reinforcing the negative power of the word.
Isn't it also possible that they will be announcing and releasing a new product before December 31st?
My leading theory is that it's for automatic price matching not blocking. Amazon is interested it conquering the real world as well as the virtual. If you walk into an Amazon brick and mortar store and find it cheaper on Best Buy's website it would behoove them to instantly price match the price for you to ensure you don't leave.
Hourly is bad though. What if I'm hosting a website that needs to be up 24 hours a day but only consumes 1MB/day in traffic? You shouldn't be charged the same as someone who consumes 1gigabit up/down 24/7. The 1MB/day only requires a fraction of a switch's capacity.
The numbers themselves are irrelevant even if they are corrected. My question that never gets asked in these surveys is to compare it against a baseline in say... physical therapy or some other industry with nearly 50/50 representation of genders.
"Twice as many women reported sexual advances as men." Ok... but without a baseline to an industry without massive gender disparities we don't know if that is a contributing factor or not. Hell we should look at something like veterinarians where women are the majority and compare numbers.
A lot of these articles and surveys could I imagine be pulled out of any industry and yet they don't see the same gender inequity. "Women report feeling like men's opinions were more respected in meetings, even if it was the same idea." for instance is a complaint that's often brought up (and is probably true) but is it more prevalent in the tech industry or is it just a generic obstacle to women in the workforce?
All industries should strive to be better even if they aren't the worst, but if we are trying to understand specifically one demographic outcome, we need to identify and confirm actual causes to fix those first.
They have 0 apps. They have to announce it now to get it in developer hands to actually make it useful.
The iphone shipped without any third party apps. That shit doesn't fly anymore.
Also a sizable portion of the population already has a Surface Keyboard if they're upgrading. And they're compatible between models.
Same parent company but Disney Animation is a different subsidiary from Pixar Animation.
Solidarity with them would to open examine why they're having to work so many extra hours and to find some way to reduce them
Solidarity demonstrates that if there was a way to get himself off of the concrete floor he would be doing that thing. Solidarity is like dog-fooding your software, it means you have a vested interest in making it work because it's not an abstract problem, it's a problem you yourself face.
Shame it's not also on Linux
The stated dev reason was
It also means that if we advertise "Linux" we would need to QA a dozen different combination due to different Linux distributions and different editions of each distribution.
But .NET Core 2.0 " treats Linux as a single operating system, much like it does with Windows and macOS. We've tested the new .NET Core 2.0 Linux builds on many Linux distributions and it works."
So maybe there is some hope.
An analogy: if everyone in the world sat on the same chair as I am on, I'd be crushed to death. So should I not sit on it?
No it's like saying "This pie is REALLY GOOD! You should try this pie!" Now you have no pie because everybody wants a slice. As you say, it's self-defeating to evangelize something on the basis of "it's good because it's unpopular."
Bullshit. OS upgrades used to be a total crapshoot of your computer even booting. I've only had one failure in over a dozen Windows upgrades (my home machine is on Insider beta builds). What they're doing now is avoiding the heartburn and pain of upgrading and finding some random driver isn't compatible. "Hey, we see people have reported that your WiFi card has issues. Don't upgrade yet." Instead of the very real experience I had several times updating an OS only to find that I couldn't connect to the internet anymore and there was no solution ready yet.
I don't know what rose tinted world you used to live in where every update was smooth and trouble free but I don't think you're describing most people's experiences.
Funny, every study on minimum wage has seen negligible if any reduction in jobs. But you just state as "fact" the opposite.
We compare all contiguous county-pairs in the United States that straddle a state border and ïnd no adverse employment effects.
http://irle.berkeley.edu/files...
God do I feel like such an asshole right now for claiming that your rant on the minimum wage is ideological opinion based on economic theory not empirical study.
I would say development time falls within powers of ten:
1) Nation-State scale applications: Windows, Linux, AWS, Apache => Tens of Billions in developer time to a usable product.
2) Flagship applications: Adobe creative suite, Microsoft Office, Quicken, AutoCAD, Chrome, Xbox Live, World of Warcraft => Hundreds of millions of dollars in developer time
3) Applications: Popular PC and Console games, Regular, boxed software = Tens of millions of dollars.
4) Utilities: Enterprise specific tools, Cloudberry, most mobile games = millions
5) Crapware and Scripts = Thousands to Hundreds of thousands.
You just described RAM. What's the point of persistent RAM when modern SSDs are as fast as Optane?
If Optane was truly as fast as RAM but persistent they would be useful. Instead it's sometimes faster but often slower than an M2 SSD and offers very little to no benefit.
Great idea! Hobble their whole Surface line of PCs and every single Mac vs PC comparison in order to win a pissing contest over browser efficiency.
Microsoft would be idiots to sabotage Chrome performance when they know that Chrome would be a normal battery benchmark when people reviewed their computers.
Tesla wants to sell its self-driving car tech to other car companies. At let's say $2.5k profit per vehicle if they could up-sell 10% of new cars that would $5B/profit a year.
There are a lot of other non-obvious ways Tesla is poised to potentially make its market cap downright sensible. For instance if Tesla owners started Ubering out their self driving cars in 2-3 years and Uber took a 33% cut of every dollar Tesla-Uber revenue they would be making billions. That's already worth $50B.
Eventually solar roofs will be a no-brainer cost/benefit choice for most of the country. That's a multi-billion dollar industry.
You have to view Tesla as a tech company with growth potential outside of folded metal. If you added up the market valuation of MobilEye ($15B), Uber ($51B) and a conservative Tesla Cars ($5B) you're already well in excess of their $50B valuation.
Meanwhile GM almost went bankrupt already once within the last 10 years. What are the odds they won't go bankrupt again in the next 10? Best case scenario GM is worth $10B/year for the next 10 years (probably less profit). Worst case scenario you're wiped out in bankruptcy. Best case scenario for Tesla they are cranking out $10B in profit a year (they already have 5x increase in reservations for next year than this last years' sales so that's a good trajectory), selling another $10B in self driving car tech to Ford and Nissan and Honda and Chevy, selling $5B/year in self-driving car rides, capturing 20% of the $144B independent semi-truck driving business with a fleet of self driving electric trucks... the list goes on and on. Or they like GM also go bankrupt.
The upside to Tesla is massive. The risk of losing it all is probably higher in my opinion for GM. Their last CEO went on the record calling Tesla a scam. Anyone who thinks Tesla is just a cash -> steel and wheels business doesn't get why they are valued what they are.
Microsoft used to be microscopic compared to IBM as well...
The universe in which Evan Spiegel's product can't be patented and can be copied by larger, better funded companies in a week or two (tops).
Facebook is doing Snapchat's potential investors a favor by clearly demonstrating that there is no value in Snapchat since it can't differentiate itself and therefore can't compete.
Yeah somehow this "Think Tank" used their thinkers to come up this not-at-all-inaccurate conclusion that:
if ($.destination == #NASA) then ($.Category = #overhead)
elif ($.destination == #Private) then ($.Category = #CuttingMetal)
Hey just to rub it in here is the official Microsoft statement on the bug.
Edgar explains that it needed to detect the browser being used because not every browser supports prefetching. While a technique it used worked with Safari on Mac, it hung for Chrome on Linux.
"The second technique does not hang on Safari on Mac, but it does on Chrome on Linux. We will definitely ensure that more Linux testing is done."
What do you know, it was a compatibility issue where different solutions were used on different browsers and changing your User String would result in a different code path working better.