I was just thinking how in our planet we go to war, have incompetent governments, Steve Jobs is an asshole, Bill Gates is fucking Melinda somewhere, AMD is on sale, Intel is #1, your mom is that easy and chuck norris is that cool.
But if the sun burped we would be toast and the world would end in a blink....yeah... be happy
It took a hacker, to force facebook into being more secure yet. Maybe someone sniffed the ports earlier today and that is how they got into Zuckerboy's account or fansite or whatever...
You must be new in Slashdot. Being sarcastic is part of the culture here. You are right somewhat, I don't manage people, I manage servers... Thousands of them. People whine bitch and moan... Computers don't, most of them anyways...
Working in a hybrid (Windows/Linux and Xserves), I can tell you that in our DataCenter there are only 4 Xserves that are used to offer different services to 3 Departments in our company (training, advertising and video production). Everything else in our DataCenter either runs from blades, windows 2008 or Linux servers. I don't like it that in the next 2 years I am not going to have the expandability the Xserves gave me for our rendering farm and our final cut servers.
Still using the company I work for when you take a look at the penetration Apple has had in the enterprise sector, I think the iPad's and iPhone's have had more penetration in the enterprise field than the Xserves have ever had.
This will hurt the enterprise consumers because apple pretends us to substitute the computing power we had in a 1U space with a 6U of a Mac Pro, or the 1/2u of a mac mini. It wont work because although the Macpro can work as a substitute server its not going to fly when I tell the Datacenter Admin, that I need 6 times more space for 1 server when it used to take a 1U space. The other thing is the MacMini. No one can seriously take that the mac mini is even enterprise built. Sure you can run a small advertising studio off it, but in a company like the one I work for (Fortune 500 Retail), it would be impossible to do all our rendering farm work on several mac mini's at the most, considering an Xserve would run you at $4000 we would need at least 4 macmini servers to have the more or less performance of 1 Xserve, so its not really going to save us more money... and I might think its going to complicate things.
Lastly, I am not sure there is going to be a solution in place. I think they looked at their numbers and they saw their enterprise division is just not cutting it. If they had a solution in place they would have announced HexaCore Xserves a while ago, and while I though the light peak would SHINE in an Xserve is ironic they are cutting them off just when this technology is supposed to be on their computers in a year or two. Or maybe not, you know why? Because we don't work at apple, nor we rub elbows with Steve. We can only speculate and bullshit about what will happen or not, because of our love/hate relationship with Apple.
This being said, I don't think Apple is going to disappear into consumer market. This is just another turn for them, is it going to fuck us? Probably. But It's not going to lead this company down or the stock go to 0 just because they are not making servers any more, or they maybe not making Xserves anymore.
This is one of those things, I wouldnt jump the gun, it's still a year before they take them out, and in a year a lot can change, specially with apple.
What they really need to do is add RSA Encryption to the account, then create an app for iPhone to get the key from. they could also create a dongle that people buy from for $6.95 and that way their accounts will be encrypted, and issue is solved. This is pretty much what Blizzard did with their WoW accounts.
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It doesn't sound like a lament. It sounds like whining.
Have you even thought that in the time Apple has been pushing their iOS, they have another group of engineers working on OSX 10.x? OSX is a big application, it requires time and creativity to build a competing product that can out sell and out whip the current flagship product of their competition.
Apple has had to up their take in the mobile market since google announced they were pouring out a new phone, mobile os (android) and "tablet" os (chrome).
It's not like apple has been sitting on their laurels either, its been roughly less than a month that they seeded the last build to developers for 10.6.5 (MacRumors: Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H542 Seeded to Select Developers (September 14, 2010))
You describe your discontent with the iPhone and the iPad, but have you thought what was the most advanced phone before the iPhone came out or the expectations the world had based on a smartphone would and should be before they came out? Apple may not have the perfect platform for mobile computing out there, but they sure stirred the honeycomb when it came to what could be done. Now everyone wants to be the next iPhone. The iPad did the same thing for mobile computing, where the best there was, was a laptop with a tiny keyboard and a tiny screen. They as well in that market stirred it up so good, that even Microsoft and HP ditched their original product because they knew it was no match to what is currently out there.
Like you I own several desktops and laptops from Apple, the most recent being a unibody MBP with 8Gb of ram. If you are experiencing memory leaks or poor performance it could be there is something actually wrong with your hardware. Maybe you can build some portable mac development tools and give them to the community or make yourself a buck or two. =)
There is a quest called Oasis, you pick it up somewhere in the north east or north west of the map. When you get it you will probably get the answer of whether there is or isn't plant life in Fallout 3;)
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Some men just want to watch the world burn
and according to the mayan calendar we probably will see it burn...
will it run quake?
"In downtown Austin, Texas, in the time since the story broke I've heard what sound like numerous celebratory gunshots."
Cuz it aint official until Texas says so...
They should get a balmer borg pic
I was just thinking how in our planet we go to war, have incompetent governments, Steve Jobs is an asshole, Bill Gates is fucking Melinda somewhere, AMD is on sale, Intel is #1, your mom is that easy and chuck norris is that cool.
But if the sun burped we would be toast and the world would end in a blink. ...yeah... be happy
they mean streaming-wise as netflix's new model is going to be streaming content...
It took a hacker, to force facebook into being more secure yet. Maybe someone sniffed the ports earlier today and that is how they got into Zuckerboy's account or fansite or whatever...
You must be new in Slashdot. Being sarcastic is part of the culture here.
You are right somewhat, I don't manage people, I manage servers... Thousands of them.
People whine bitch and moan... Computers don't, most of them anyways...
Will be available soon because someone will get fired today... I can tell you that...
the ad agency that trumped microsoft on their own playground right?
but it will be a cool continent, and everyone will wear turtlenecks, shiny mercedes benz cars and everyone will have an ipad...
The media... $1 billion sells more than 20 million...
Working in a hybrid (Windows/Linux and Xserves), I can tell you that in our DataCenter there are only 4 Xserves that are used to offer different services to 3 Departments in our company (training, advertising and video production). Everything else in our DataCenter either runs from blades, windows 2008 or Linux servers. I don't like it that in the next 2 years I am not going to have the expandability the Xserves gave me for our rendering farm and our final cut servers.
Still using the company I work for when you take a look at the penetration Apple has had in the enterprise sector, I think the iPad's and iPhone's have had more penetration in the enterprise field than the Xserves have ever had.
This will hurt the enterprise consumers because apple pretends us to substitute the computing power we had in a 1U space with a 6U of a Mac Pro, or the 1/2u of a mac mini. It wont work because although the Macpro can work as a substitute server its not going to fly when I tell the Datacenter Admin, that I need 6 times more space for 1 server when it used to take a 1U space. The other thing is the MacMini. No one can seriously take that the mac mini is even enterprise built. Sure you can run a small advertising studio off it, but in a company like the one I work for (Fortune 500 Retail), it would be impossible to do all our rendering farm work on several mac mini's at the most, considering an Xserve would run you at $4000 we would need at least 4 macmini servers to have the more or less performance of 1 Xserve, so its not really going to save us more money... and I might think its going to complicate things.
Lastly, I am not sure there is going to be a solution in place. I think they looked at their numbers and they saw their enterprise division is just not cutting it. If they had a solution in place they would have announced HexaCore Xserves a while ago, and while I though the light peak would SHINE in an Xserve is ironic they are cutting them off just when this technology is supposed to be on their computers in a year or two. Or maybe not, you know why? Because we don't work at apple, nor we rub elbows with Steve. We can only speculate and bullshit about what will happen or not, because of our love/hate relationship with Apple.
This being said, I don't think Apple is going to disappear into consumer market. This is just another turn for them, is it going to fuck us? Probably. But It's not going to lead this company down or the stock go to 0 just because they are not making servers any more, or they maybe not making Xserves anymore.
This is one of those things, I wouldnt jump the gun, it's still a year before they take them out, and in a year a lot can change, specially with apple.
And he used a mac to build it. Scroll to the 5th picture....
the sig should have been longer but slashdot only allows so many characters
Nope I am not from Quebec. I am from puerto rico. The only real French I know is what I wrote on my sig and saying mi crayon est grand...
The sig us a quote from the merovingian in the matrix, where he explains that cursing in French is like wiping your ass with silk. I love it!
can it play quake?
Will the app store have the same lock down?
With no apps that can use plug ins?
No games with user maps or mods?
No sex apps?
No fat app?
$99 year fee even for free apps?
fixed price points?
will you be able to buy app and use it on all systems you own? will app dev be able to have app that you need to buy per system?
can apple pull a app at any time?
Will there be a max app size?
There is no $99/year, Steve mentioned that if downloaded on one mac, the app would work on all the macs you own without buying it again.
for the rest of your stupid questions, you should wait till someone else has the time to answer them.
What they really need to do is add RSA Encryption to the account, then create an app for iPhone to get the key from. they could also create a dongle that people buy from for $6.95 and that way their accounts will be encrypted, and issue is solved. This is pretty much what Blizzard did with their WoW accounts.
Then skynet gets launched...
It doesn't sound like a lament. It sounds like whining.
Have you even thought that in the time Apple has been pushing their iOS, they have another group of engineers working on OSX 10.x? OSX is a big application, it requires time and creativity to build a competing product that can out sell and out whip the current flagship product of their competition.
Apple has had to up their take in the mobile market since google announced they were pouring out a new phone, mobile os (android) and "tablet" os (chrome).
It's not like apple has been sitting on their laurels either, its been roughly less than a month that they seeded the last build to developers for 10.6.5 (MacRumors: Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H542 Seeded to Select Developers (September 14, 2010))
You describe your discontent with the iPhone and the iPad, but have you thought what was the most advanced phone before the iPhone came out or the expectations the world had based on a smartphone would and should be before they came out? Apple may not have the perfect platform for mobile computing out there, but they sure stirred the honeycomb when it came to what could be done. Now everyone wants to be the next iPhone. The iPad did the same thing for mobile computing, where the best there was, was a laptop with a tiny keyboard and a tiny screen. They as well in that market stirred it up so good, that even Microsoft and HP ditched their original product because they knew it was no match to what is currently out there.
Like you I own several desktops and laptops from Apple, the most recent being a unibody MBP with 8Gb of ram. If you are experiencing memory leaks or poor performance it could be there is something actually wrong with your hardware. Maybe you can build some portable mac development tools and give them to the community or make yourself a buck or two. =)
There is a quest called Oasis, you pick it up somewhere in the north east or north west of the map. When you get it you will probably get the answer of whether there is or isn't plant life in Fallout 3 ;)
Has anyone looked at the pictures for Pripyat, the abandoned city? It looks so much like any of the towns depicted in Fallout 3 or New Vegas.
Last time I checked Windows sank a battleship.
Meh. NSA has been working on that for years...