I had a phone conversation with a droid at Symantec last year, regarding the NBU that my employer insists on pissing money away on.
After the one guy told me that I wasn't worth talking to since I don't have 4-figure signature authority, the other asked what platform we were using. I told them Solaris 10 x86 and he got all on my case about how I really needed to be using x64. If I'd been in the same room, I would have slapped both of them.
It's a step in the right direction, but I'm not sure if it's out of any charity towards their customer base, or if it's because the previous policy of blindly complying with all these subpoenas was an expensive PITA for them.
Hey, whatever their motivation is, this will be good news for certain people.
I'd still rather masturbate with a fistful of broken glass than voluntarily use their services, but this act is a good first step towards reversing that opinion
Me, I'd rather be employed than unemployed. Comcast isn't my favorite company by far, given my past experience with their residential service, but their "business class" service is an entirely different ballgame.
Also, the GP's "stoked" part is because he/she felt that a purchase of a shiny new model was now justified that the old one is broken. Lots of people enjoy new/improved/shiny updates to stuff, but some of us feel that throwing away something older that still works is inappropriate. I have a new MBP on order because my 2007 MBP has been unreliable ever since being dropped -- a drop that would have completely splintered the plastic Dells that my company used to stick people with. I also have an 867MHz TiBook that sits in the kitchen for my wife to use for email. Sucker's old and slow, but it still works, despite having years ago fallen top-down onto an unexpected 2" bolt sticking out of a floor.
Right, because the strategy of newer products being better/faster/better value is SO TOTALLY unique to apple, as is the situation that stuff is expensive to fix.
The replaceable-parts thing has been beat to death. Have those decrying Apple for this been living under a rock? If you want a bulky item that's held together with 2" deck screws, then by all means you should hunt up one of the old bag phones. Otherwise, get a clue and STFU.
Buy it where? Just step outside and the hot dog vendor has them? Or do I have to drive halfway accross town to the one place that has 2 left in stock... and that's this year. 2 years from now its a special order part from another state.
What bad thing would happen if you ordered it from http://www.apple.com/ like I did this morning? I strongly suspect that Earth's axis would not shift were that to transpire. Mine will be in my
b) I don't have an obsession with not plugging things into the laptop. I have an obsession with not plugging things into other things that then themselves plug into the laptop, and having to carry these other things around with me everywhere I go, when i should be able to just plug things directly into the laptop.
Do you *really* have a need to use wired ethernet *everywhere* you go? And those places number in the thousands? When I leave the house I somehow remember to put on underwear and shoes, and if I need to take my laptop, I generally remember to take that too. The dongle attached to it will be no different. I generally take the power cable/brick too, which neither curves my spine nor loses the war for the Allies.
If I didn't bring mine, or forgot it, or lost it. Then I'm pretty much fucked.
Same holds true for your laptop, no? If you didn't bring it to $office, or forgot it, or lost it, you're fucked. Chances are that this applies to your clothing too.
But I often don't take my laptop bag everywhere. Its 20lbs of cables, adapters, and tools.
And those cables, adapters, and tools are permanently attached to your "laptop bag", which I suspect is in fact more like a backpack or piece of luggage? Is there a gun to your head preventing you from having -- *gasp* -- a small/light case or sleeve that you carry your laptop around in when you don't need the kitchen sink? Like this one?
http://shop.millscanvas.com/LaptopCarryall.html
Or would that be too much like being a grownup?
Often, if I just need my laptop I just take my laptop. It even has a battery in it.
Lucky you.
Apple has launched the word's most advanced laptop today. Retina display, SSD, 7hours battery life, and so very thin. If I have to carry a 20lb laptop bag wherever I go for the laptop to connect to anything I'm likely to need, then why should I be excited that its super thin?
Unless you are compelled by some exotic religion to carry a bag made out of iridium, I highly doubt that a bag and Apple's adapter will add up to 20 lbs.
Hey, They could have shaved another 1/2mm off if they left out the keyboard too...
That is available for people whose needs it meets. It's called an iPad. People don't buy it then complain that it doesn't have a physical keyboard or a dozen 3.5" SAS disk bays.
Thinking about it further... they already redid the magsafe adapter for the new laptop...they should have integrated the ethernet connection there, and then had the ethernet jack in the power brick
Totally, because there have *never* been issues with running data millimeters away from power and transformers.
If you need a wired connection, having the psu plugged in isn't the end of the world.
I've often thought it would be handy if the power brick doubled as a usb hub as well, given the dearth of ports.
Most USB devices have downstream ports, and the need for multiple ports conflicts with your obsession with not plugging anything into the laptop.
I installed OSS on an AXi-based system running Solaris. Sound stopped working, and I never could get sound to come out of the audio card again, even after an OS reinstall.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag? Your passport should always be on your person when possible. You should have backup credit and ATM cards separate from your regular cards, along with some emergency cash. This stuff is 'Travelling 101' for god's sake.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag?
The kind with a clue. One bag is far easier to keep track of than multiple bags. One bag that never leaves your person.
In other words wear your backpack all the time.
1) Grownups mostly don't wear backpacks, modulo the fraction of photographers who prefer them to shoulder bags
2) A backpack is pretty much the *worst* idea. A pickpocket could readily unzip (or even cut) and pilfer from behind.
RMS has traveled the world for years, and I would have thought he knew better about he risks of theft.
See above under "medicine". People accused Jobs of an RDF, but RMS is the poster child for it.
Maybe that's why he was reported to repeatedly hit his head afterwards.
Maybe it was also due to his mental illness and long-term drug abuse.
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
So, what, stitched to one's skin?
On top of it, the canera on which the whole conference (and probably the robbers) was filmed got stolen too.
A *film* camera, in 2012? Even in Argentina that's surprising.
Honestly, if the USA were to declare war on all countries below texas and did a hardline sweep from top to bottom, we would fix it. Then annex each country as a new state of the union
That worked out so well for us in Cuba, after all.
You're making the assumption that students are not thieves. I doubt that the entrance requirements for this university include the question: "Are you a thief? yes/no".
It's a Spanish-speaking country, so that would add another 5 pages to the application.
Keep in mind that as recently as 3 or so years ago, us 'tier one' vendors had pretty crappy defaults and inconsistent tooling as well. However, at least in IBM world, that was all very forcibly corrected for as of the 'M2' generation (the models that released with Nehalem processors).
If only that were true. I recently demo'd an IBM M3 box, hoping that UEFI would offer salvation from legacy BIOS stupidity, but it just turned out to be more of the same crap with a different name. The box actually displayed a text-graphic during POST directing one to insert a *floppy*, and the serial console is disabled by default. To turn it on, one has to wade through a complex scripting application to generate a bootable.ISO file to be run via PXE or local media. Bloody hell. HP at least has the iLO serial console enabled by default, though there are numerous usability issues. Sun/Oracle hardware, on the other hand, Just Works, modulo the mindless stupidity of the "WebBIOS" utility for managing the LSI HBA's
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My first experience with "booth babes" was the Detroit Auto Show
That's about as far removed from a tech show as one could get. Booths at tech shows that I've attended have had more men than women staffing them, and I've yet to see a booth babe who was a model rather than a marketing employee. They never know shit, but then neither do the male marketers. I also very rarely see them wearing heels: flat pumps are nearly ubiquitous, just like in an office.
Computer and High-Tech fields lack women because the culture is viewed as being misogynistic.
Nope. How would a high school kid formulate such a blanket view of an entire field? Women are statistically underrepresented because fewer of them are interested.
In the tech industry most companies are dominated by 20 or 30-something males, and the morality of sexual harassment never crosses their minds.
Wrong. HR departments are VERY conscious of harassment and go to lengths to ensure that employees know that.
Women aren't stupid and most aren't going to waste years of their lives becoming educated and proficient in their field only to be resented, objectified, and sexually harassed. It should also be noted that countries that lack strong protection against sexual harassment feature booth babes and other types of promotional models more often.
From this we can conclude that booth babes are a result of fields dominated by young men, fields that don't actively try to protect women workers, and places where objectifying women is less of a taboo. Booth babes are just the tiny speck of cancer that has reached the surface for everyone to see.
Companies tend to pick decent-looking female employees to staff booths and have them dress up.
Companies tend to pick decent-looking male employees to staff booths and have them dress up.
It's marketing, not misogyny.
Would you take your 15 year old daughter who happens to be interested in computers and science to one of these conventions?
No, but because there's nothing of value there. Ad bombartment, marketing hype, cheap pens, recreational pharmacy, rude crowds.
If you say no, is it because she would be exposed to an industry that shamelessly objectifies women?
By, what, hiring them in its marketing department? As for being exposed to objectification, you really have no idea what such a 15 year old would see at school every day, do you?
Could you imagine your daughter wanting to work in one of these companies?
The only real-world single points of failure are last-mile edge connections to single-homed sites, eg. home users with cable/DSL links, and whatever subset of businesses rely on single upstream links. Everything else is redundant.
The whole article is worded as though written by an advertiser.
Indeed. Like most of the virtualization trendmongering that one sees, there's an unstated assumption that the strategy actually gets you something.
I've had success with virtualizing low load web servers
Apache has natively supported running multiple sites on one system for *years*, without the madness of managing a zillion virtual hosts. The only situation where I see virtualization having a point is for web hosting companies that offer a service where a customer who so desires gets root-level access to a "host" that they want to fully manage, reboot at whim, etc.
Something I rarely see is an argument for why the hassle of virtualization is considered superior to simply configuring multiple applications on the same OS instance.
I don't see the people of Brownsville living adjacent to the launchpad, where they'd get blasted with the noise and exhaust of a giant rocket all the time.
There's plenty of places in Texas, and elsewhere in the US, where the launch blasts won't have to blast any species that cares about it.
Note how Brownsville is the southernmost point in the continental US that isn't Florida, and how much more efficient it is to launch the closer one is to the equator. Also think for a moment whether having a vast expanse of water to the east would be a benefit.
Mac has done well is avoiding the exact problem the OP describes
That's a typical misconception.
Nope, it's reality. Freedom is slavery. Slavery is freedom.
Apple puts together a very pretty package and basically dictates what you will run, how you will run it, what you can do with it, and where you can do it.
You're 1 for 5 there. If you're going to bat.200, you'd better be a pitcher else you're headed back to AAA.
There are a whole new set of problems with mac, and if you are quite limited as to what you can do software-wise.
Indeeed, not a day goes buy when I don't lament my inability to natively run OS/360 binaries.
Ever try and build something from Ports only to have it *not* friggin work when you upgrade?
Neither the OP nor the person looking for a laptop are likely to ever care about any of the rather-stale ports bundles out there. 99%+ of users want to browse the web, exchange email, and run MS Word. They don't care about the fact that one of the ports systems sports an XV that lacks patches.
. Don't get me wrong, Apple has gone to great lengths to make the use experienced top-notch
That pretty much answers the question right there.
"It is problems"? Seriously?
The absence of an absolute does not negate the relative merits of the platform.
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Worse, he wrote "us gamers" instead of "we gamers".
I had a phone conversation with a droid at Symantec last year, regarding the NBU that my employer insists on pissing money away on. After the one guy told me that I wasn't worth talking to since I don't have 4-figure signature authority, the other asked what platform we were using. I told them Solaris 10 x86 and he got all on my case about how I really needed to be using x64. If I'd been in the same room, I would have slapped both of them.
It's a step in the right direction, but I'm not sure if it's out of any charity towards their customer base, or if it's because the previous policy of blindly complying with all these subpoenas was an expensive PITA for them.
Hey, whatever their motivation is, this will be good news for certain people.
I'd still rather masturbate with a fistful of broken glass than voluntarily use their services, but this act is a good first step towards reversing that opinion
Me, I'd rather be employed than unemployed. Comcast isn't my favorite company by far, given my past experience with their residential service, but their "business class" service is an entirely different ballgame.
Also, the GP's "stoked" part is because he/she felt that a purchase of a shiny new model was now justified that the old one is broken. Lots of people enjoy new/improved/shiny updates to stuff, but some of us feel that throwing away something older that still works is inappropriate. I have a new MBP on order because my 2007 MBP has been unreliable ever since being dropped -- a drop that would have completely splintered the plastic Dells that my company used to stick people with. I also have an 867MHz TiBook that sits in the kitchen for my wife to use for email. Sucker's old and slow, but it still works, despite having years ago fallen top-down onto an unexpected 2" bolt sticking out of a floor.
Right, because the strategy of newer products being better/faster/better value is SO TOTALLY unique to apple, as is the situation that stuff is expensive to fix. The replaceable-parts thing has been beat to death. Have those decrying Apple for this been living under a rock? If you want a bulky item that's held together with 2" deck screws, then by all means you should hunt up one of the old bag phones. Otherwise, get a clue and STFU.
It's $29. Buy them one and expense it.
Buy it where? Just step outside and the hot dog vendor has them? Or do I have to drive halfway accross town to the one place that has 2 left in stock... and that's this year. 2 years from now its a special order part from another state.
What bad thing would happen if you ordered it from http://www.apple.com/ like I did this morning? I strongly suspect that Earth's axis would not shift were that to transpire. Mine will be in my
b) I don't have an obsession with not plugging things into the laptop. I have an obsession with not plugging things into other things that then themselves plug into the laptop, and having to carry these other things around with me everywhere I go, when i should be able to just plug things directly into the laptop.
Do you *really* have a need to use wired ethernet *everywhere* you go? And those places number in the thousands? When I leave the house I somehow remember to put on underwear and shoes, and if I need to take my laptop, I generally remember to take that too. The dongle attached to it will be no different. I generally take the power cable/brick too, which neither curves my spine nor loses the war for the Allies.
They won't have a dongle
It's $29. Buy them one and expense it.
If I didn't bring mine, or forgot it, or lost it. Then I'm pretty much fucked.
Same holds true for your laptop, no? If you didn't bring it to $office, or forgot it, or lost it, you're fucked. Chances are that this applies to your clothing too.
But I often don't take my laptop bag everywhere. Its 20lbs of cables, adapters, and tools.
And those cables, adapters, and tools are permanently attached to your "laptop bag", which I suspect is in fact more like a backpack or piece of luggage? Is there a gun to your head preventing you from having -- *gasp* -- a small/light case or sleeve that you carry your laptop around in when you don't need the kitchen sink? Like this one? http://shop.millscanvas.com/LaptopCarryall.html Or would that be too much like being a grownup?
Often, if I just need my laptop I just take my laptop. It even has a battery in it.
Lucky you.
Apple has launched the word's most advanced laptop today. Retina display, SSD, 7hours battery life, and so very thin. If I have to carry a 20lb laptop bag wherever I go for the laptop to connect to anything I'm likely to need, then why should I be excited that its super thin?
Unless you are compelled by some exotic religion to carry a bag made out of iridium, I highly doubt that a bag and Apple's adapter will add up to 20 lbs.
Hey, They could have shaved another 1/2mm off if they left out the keyboard too...
That is available for people whose needs it meets. It's called an iPad. People don't buy it then complain that it doesn't have a physical keyboard or a dozen 3.5" SAS disk bays.
Thinking about it further... they already redid the magsafe adapter for the new laptop...they should have integrated the ethernet connection there, and then had the ethernet jack in the power brick
Totally, because there have *never* been issues with running data millimeters away from power and transformers.
If you need a wired connection, having the psu plugged in isn't the end of the world.
I've often thought it would be handy if the power brick doubled as a usb hub as well, given the dearth of ports.
Most USB devices have downstream ports, and the need for multiple ports conflicts with your obsession with not plugging anything into the laptop.
... especially since the web site usually doesn't show the first post, so I have no idea what it's referencing.
I installed OSS on an AXi-based system running Solaris. Sound stopped working, and I never could get sound to come out of the audio card again, even after an OS reinstall.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag? Your passport should always be on your person when possible. You should have backup credit and ATM cards separate from your regular cards, along with some emergency cash. This stuff is 'Travelling 101' for god's sake.
I'm sorry, but what kind of moron keeps all this stuff together in *one* bag?
The kind with a clue. One bag is far easier to keep track of than multiple bags. One bag that never leaves your person.
In other words wear your backpack all the time.
1) Grownups mostly don't wear backpacks, modulo the fraction of photographers who prefer them to shoulder bags 2) A backpack is pretty much the *worst* idea. A pickpocket could readily unzip (or even cut) and pilfer from behind.
RMS has traveled the world for years, and I would have thought he knew better about he risks of theft.
See above under "medicine". People accused Jobs of an RDF, but RMS is the poster child for it.
Maybe that's why he was reported to repeatedly hit his head afterwards.
Maybe it was also due to his mental illness and long-term drug abuse.
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
So, what, stitched to one's skin?
On top of it, the canera on which the whole conference (and probably the robbers) was filmed got stolen too.
A *film* camera, in 2012? Even in Argentina that's surprising.
Honestly, if the USA were to declare war on all countries below texas and did a hardline sweep from top to bottom, we would fix it. Then annex each country as a new state of the union
That worked out so well for us in Cuba, after all.
You're making the assumption that students are not thieves. I doubt that the entrance requirements for this university include the question: "Are you a thief? yes/no".
It's a Spanish-speaking country, so that would add another 5 pages to the application.
Medicines shouldn't be a big deal either.
Remember that what RMS calls "medicine" the rest of us call "LSD".
IPMI is a protocol / specification. Various hardware (Dell iDRAC, Sun ILOM, HP iLO, IBM IMM) *implements* it.
Keep in mind that as recently as 3 or so years ago, us 'tier one' vendors had pretty crappy defaults and inconsistent tooling as well. However, at least in IBM world, that was all very forcibly corrected for as of the 'M2' generation (the models that released with Nehalem processors).
If only that were true. I recently demo'd an IBM M3 box, hoping that UEFI would offer salvation from legacy BIOS stupidity, but it just turned out to be more of the same crap with a different name. The box actually displayed a text-graphic during POST directing one to insert a *floppy*, and the serial console is disabled by default. To turn it on, one has to wade through a complex scripting application to generate a bootable .ISO file to be run via PXE or local media. Bloody hell. HP at least has the iLO serial console enabled by default, though there are numerous usability issues. Sun/Oracle hardware, on the other hand, Just Works, modulo the mindless stupidity of the "WebBIOS" utility for managing the LSI HBA's
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My first experience with "booth babes" was the Detroit Auto Show
That's about as far removed from a tech show as one could get. Booths at tech shows that I've attended have had more men than women staffing them, and I've yet to see a booth babe who was a model rather than a marketing employee. They never know shit, but then neither do the male marketers. I also very rarely see them wearing heels: flat pumps are nearly ubiquitous, just like in an office.
Computer and High-Tech fields lack women because the culture is viewed as being misogynistic.
Nope. How would a high school kid formulate such a blanket view of an entire field? Women are statistically underrepresented because fewer of them are interested.
In the tech industry most companies are dominated by 20 or 30-something males, and the morality of sexual harassment never crosses their minds.
Wrong. HR departments are VERY conscious of harassment and go to lengths to ensure that employees know that.
Women aren't stupid and most aren't going to waste years of their lives becoming educated and proficient in their field only to be resented, objectified, and sexually harassed. It should also be noted that countries that lack strong protection against sexual harassment feature booth babes and other types of promotional models more often.
From this we can conclude that booth babes are a result of fields dominated by young men, fields that don't actively try to protect women workers, and places where objectifying women is less of a taboo. Booth babes are just the tiny speck of cancer that has reached the surface for everyone to see.
Companies tend to pick decent-looking female employees to staff booths and have them dress up. Companies tend to pick decent-looking male employees to staff booths and have them dress up. It's marketing, not misogyny.
It is about how companies view women.
What, as potential customers???
Would you take your 15 year old daughter who happens to be interested in computers and science to one of these conventions?
No, but because there's nothing of value there. Ad bombartment, marketing hype, cheap pens, recreational pharmacy, rude crowds.
If you say no, is it because she would be exposed to an industry that shamelessly objectifies women?
By, what, hiring them in its marketing department? As for being exposed to objectification, you really have no idea what such a 15 year old would see at school every day, do you?
Could you imagine your daughter wanting to work in one of these companies?
As opposed to where?
Most booth babes I've encountered were employees of the company, not hired model types.
What exactly is this "small server" there for???
... and Enumclaw
The only real-world single points of failure are last-mile edge connections to single-homed sites, eg. home users with cable/DSL links, and whatever subset of businesses rely on single upstream links. Everything else is redundant.
The whole article is worded as though written by an advertiser.
Indeed. Like most of the virtualization trendmongering that one sees, there's an unstated assumption that the strategy actually gets you something.
I've had success with virtualizing low load web servers
Apache has natively supported running multiple sites on one system for *years*, without the madness of managing a zillion virtual hosts. The only situation where I see virtualization having a point is for web hosting companies that offer a service where a customer who so desires gets root-level access to a "host" that they want to fully manage, reboot at whim, etc.
Something I rarely see is an argument for why the hassle of virtualization is considered superior to simply configuring multiple applications on the same OS instance.
I don't see the people of Brownsville living adjacent to the launchpad, where they'd get blasted with the noise and exhaust of a giant rocket all the time.
There's plenty of places in Texas, and elsewhere in the US, where the launch blasts won't have to blast any species that cares about it.
Note how Brownsville is the southernmost point in the continental US that isn't Florida, and how much more efficient it is to launch the closer one is to the equator. Also think for a moment whether having a vast expanse of water to the east would be a benefit.
I expect nothing less from a community that insists on abbreviating "distribution" to "distro".
Mac has done well is avoiding the exact problem the OP describes
That's a typical misconception.
Nope, it's reality. Freedom is slavery. Slavery is freedom.
Apple puts together a very pretty package and basically dictates what you will run, how you will run it, what you can do with it, and where you can do it.
You're 1 for 5 there. If you're going to bat .200, you'd better be a pitcher else you're headed back to AAA.
There are a whole new set of problems with mac, and if you are quite limited as to what you can do software-wise.
Indeeed, not a day goes buy when I don't lament my inability to natively run OS/360 binaries.
Ever try and build something from Ports only to have it *not* friggin work when you upgrade?
Neither the OP nor the person looking for a laptop are likely to ever care about any of the rather-stale ports bundles out there. 99%+ of users want to browse the web, exchange email, and run MS Word. They don't care about the fact that one of the ports systems sports an XV that lacks patches.
. Don't get me wrong, Apple has gone to great lengths to make the use experienced top-notch
That pretty much answers the question right there.
"It is problems"? Seriously? The absence of an absolute does not negate the relative merits of the platform.