Anyone that watches Apple knows this, and it isn't that big of a deal. Next year they will be penalized by IT in the same vein.
It really doesn't say much though, unless you assume revenue was flat for the quarter. Christmas being on (iirc) a Thursday actually has a bigger impact as the "holiday season" is longer. Considering the discount Apple is at in the market compared to MS, GOOG, FB, CRM, it was a "record" quarter. Most of those companies also end their fiscal year on the last Saturday of the year.
Just set up a VPN already. Unattended devices should have zero unfiltered WAN access.
What is really needed is advanced network security for dummies-- things like an LCD display on your router to hand out tokens for computers to access the WAN, and 802.1x to segment each machine into a different VLAN unless the traffic is valid.
The retail threshold for batteries to be logical used to be at $350/kWh in stationary applications; mobile applications used to be primarily concerned by weight. If we can get battery costs (of multiple technologies) at a retail price point under $200/kWh then a lot of very interesting applications start to open up.
I do hope sufficient effort does go into diverse materials and technologies though, rather than just a focus on cost.
We can adapt with energy, moreso than economic inputs. When the fossil fuels become harder to get to, dust makes PV ineffective and causes erosion of wind, and water is in different places, energy gets harder, as does the food supply. While extinction is unlikely, it is quite reasonable to picture a world with massive environmentally caused human die-off... this century.
Isn't Azure basically an attempt to address the non-Windows hosted/cloud alternatives... how does Google buying Windows licenses pose a threat to Microsoft? Wouldn't it be a bigger threat/opportunity to assist companies move away from the Microsoft environment?
It just reeks of "it ain't done till [google] don't run."
ZFS is not backup just like RAID is not backup. I have used ZFS and BTRFS and do love what it can *add* to a backup system, but it still isn't a substitute for multiple offline revisions off site, and no, taking drives out of a zpool and archiving them isn't the same.
The threats today are different than what we used tape for way back when. We often get by with the same mindset, but it isn't perfect.
All I can say is I sure as hell preferred SnapBack to Veeam. While I originally crafted a solution that provided the same net result, SnapBack was so painless. Throw in btrfs snapshots and you have a fast, robust, reliable system that you can run from a NAS unit doing pull backups.
I get the benefits of Veeam, but it is an awful tool for hourly backups and deleted file recovery.
Ok, but what about the next level? I worked with a bank 10-15 years ago that dropped their data center due to old ups batteries, restarted the mainframes when the generator kicked on, and now had to make a difficult decision on switching to their DR site, or continue to run on generators until the batteries could be replaced in a couple weeks.
It was a difficult decision because while the regularly tested going to DR, there was no way to roll back to primary. (This was true for nearly all banks at the time.) Using the DR site actively cost enough to make their CFO really squirm (more than the fact that he didn't authorize battery replacement in the first place).
Point being, the best laid plans of mice and men...
But for it to be effective you really need to do a mv/trash/$date/, which still makes a restore/recovery a complete pain in the ass... but hopefully avoids one delete from overwriting another.
When you have a system that uses multiple levels of backup, making sure that all of them are always working takes serious commitment, and the trash concept doesn't change that. Doing good backups is hard, especially for large data sets and tight budgets. We had a fantastic system for our Linux server, but had to migrate to Windows and over a year or two our sensitive data grew from 3TB to 5TB, and the backup system couldn't accommodate our archive process for old data (it doesn't reduce the total backup size). So, you add another marginally tested layer of backups, just in case...
You are thinking from a fixed perspective; the California Energy Commission has pretty good projection data for the next 10 years, which will make the cliff problem worse. California is moving to net-zero for new residential in 2020, and commercial a couple cycles later.
In general, grid-scale batteries are an odd solution, but Mira Loma substation is transmission-constrained, or at least was several years ago. It has an on-site peaker plant to address some of the constraints, but there are issues with that as a solution. (Not privy to the issues.)
Sorry, but you are wrong. California's peak demand is now about an hour before sunset to an hour after, and the renewable generation falls off a cliff making it difficult for base-load plants to ramp up quickly.
Battery storage is needed when you want more than ~10-20% of your generation to be from solar. Demand-side management can handle some of the issues, but won't let solar grow (easily) past 25%.
That said, I am surprised the Li-Ion pencils out, even with subsidies. The charging characteristics must be a big part of the formula for it working-- being able to quickly absorb power would give it an advantage over sodium and the flow batteries, I think the nickel iron batteries have the same challenges.
Not all H1B's are in IT, although that industry has grossly abused them. This will make it harder for other industries to provide visa sponsorship for exceptional (early career/younger) candidates.
It isn't a win/win. Protectionism and isolationism backfires.
Sometimes people just don't like you and don't want to work with you. I don't mean to be mean... but there are many reasons why people/companies choose to (or not to) hire someone, and doing crap like that just makes companies gun-shy on hiring anybody.
Generally you are required to establish a local legal entity when operating in another country.
As for the change, I almost agree with it, but the goal of easy visas should be to attract the best of the best from abroad, no matter what point in their career they are in.
And on a political taint... Bannon and National Security Council/Joint Chiefs? WTF?!
Don't some of the key systems have centralized reporting-- what time the maid used their key, etc. I thought some allowed the locks to get updated master keys OTA as well.
Yeah... being locked in the room doesn't pass the smell test. The mechanical lever should always allow free egress if the thing is listed by UL or their ilk. If the hotel installed something that was not listed, they should face legal consequences.
Personally, when I am interviewing people, it is helpful to better understand how previous employers valued the candidate. It isn't a baseline for what we will offer, but we want to be comfortable with a few things: were you overpaid at your current employer, and are we going to need to explain why we only offer a lateral move; or, were you underpaid, and we need to dig into the potential gap in expectations.
Lying gets you blackballed. Dodging is ok, until you are asked by the person who will be making the offer.
You can also run into backup drive space issues with locky if you run incrementals and keep historical backups on a space-available basis only. If you have less than ~300% space on your backup system this can become an issue pretty easily. When you are set up for incrementals, often a full backup will take several cycles and require even more space.
Doesn't excuse not having offline backups, but in the post-tape world that gets harder and harder.
The Mac platform at its peak was what, 12 million units per year at an ASP around $1200 and gross margins of around 35%, or about $5B in gross margins per year, compared to the iPhone with ~200 million units, $645 ASP, and 50% margins at $65B gross margins.
I am all for not killing the goose that lays the golden egg... just not sure that Tim Cook's Apple sees the Mac as the goose, which might go down in Apple's history as a mistake.
While I have no desire to get an Echo, I understand it. I have Philips Hue, Insteon, Sonos, and an AppleTV+Smart TV. Integrating all of it is a pain. Some manufacturers even make decisions to make the problem worse (Philips!!), and everyone else thinks they have figured out the best way to make it great and "capitalize" on the opportunity. I have a few shell scripts that make life easy for me.
But, my wife can't stand typing a 98-character curl line in order to shut off the alarm clock. To each their own.
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Anyone that watches Apple knows this, and it isn't that big of a deal. Next year they will be penalized by IT in the same vein.
It really doesn't say much though, unless you assume revenue was flat for the quarter. Christmas being on (iirc) a Thursday actually has a bigger impact as the "holiday season" is longer. Considering the discount Apple is at in the market compared to MS, GOOG, FB, CRM, it was a "record" quarter. Most of those companies also end their fiscal year on the last Saturday of the year.
Just set up a VPN already. Unattended devices should have zero unfiltered WAN access.
What is really needed is advanced network security for dummies-- things like an LCD display on your router to hand out tokens for computers to access the WAN, and 802.1x to segment each machine into a different VLAN unless the traffic is valid.
The retail threshold for batteries to be logical used to be at $350/kWh in stationary applications; mobile applications used to be primarily concerned by weight. If we can get battery costs (of multiple technologies) at a retail price point under $200/kWh then a lot of very interesting applications start to open up.
I do hope sufficient effort does go into diverse materials and technologies though, rather than just a focus on cost.
We can adapt with energy, moreso than economic inputs. When the fossil fuels become harder to get to, dust makes PV ineffective and causes erosion of wind, and water is in different places, energy gets harder, as does the food supply. While extinction is unlikely, it is quite reasonable to picture a world with massive environmentally caused human die-off... this century.
May we live in interesting times...
Export to Word and pay a monkey to review formatting.
Isn't Azure basically an attempt to address the non-Windows hosted/cloud alternatives... how does Google buying Windows licenses pose a threat to Microsoft? Wouldn't it be a bigger threat/opportunity to assist companies move away from the Microsoft environment?
It just reeks of "it ain't done till [google] don't run."
I cannot imagine the pain of trying to write a 400-page document with MS Word. No wonder you have an inferiority complex!
ZFS is not backup just like RAID is not backup. I have used ZFS and BTRFS and do love what it can *add* to a backup system, but it still isn't a substitute for multiple offline revisions off site, and no, taking drives out of a zpool and archiving them isn't the same.
The threats today are different than what we used tape for way back when. We often get by with the same mindset, but it isn't perfect.
All I can say is I sure as hell preferred SnapBack to Veeam. While I originally crafted a solution that provided the same net result, SnapBack was so painless. Throw in btrfs snapshots and you have a fast, robust, reliable system that you can run from a NAS unit doing pull backups.
I get the benefits of Veeam, but it is an awful tool for hourly backups and deleted file recovery.
Ok, but what about the next level? I worked with a bank 10-15 years ago that dropped their data center due to old ups batteries, restarted the mainframes when the generator kicked on, and now had to make a difficult decision on switching to their DR site, or continue to run on generators until the batteries could be replaced in a couple weeks.
It was a difficult decision because while the regularly tested going to DR, there was no way to roll back to primary. (This was true for nearly all banks at the time.) Using the DR site actively cost enough to make their CFO really squirm (more than the fact that he didn't authorize battery replacement in the first place).
Point being, the best laid plans of mice and men...
But for it to be effective you really need to do a mv /trash/$date/, which still makes a restore/recovery a complete pain in the ass... but hopefully avoids one delete from overwriting another.
When you have a system that uses multiple levels of backup, making sure that all of them are always working takes serious commitment, and the trash concept doesn't change that. Doing good backups is hard, especially for large data sets and tight budgets. We had a fantastic system for our Linux server, but had to migrate to Windows and over a year or two our sensitive data grew from 3TB to 5TB, and the backup system couldn't accommodate our archive process for old data (it doesn't reduce the total backup size). So, you add another marginally tested layer of backups, just in case...
You are thinking from a fixed perspective; the California Energy Commission has pretty good projection data for the next 10 years, which will make the cliff problem worse. California is moving to net-zero for new residential in 2020, and commercial a couple cycles later.
In general, grid-scale batteries are an odd solution, but Mira Loma substation is transmission-constrained, or at least was several years ago. It has an on-site peaker plant to address some of the constraints, but there are issues with that as a solution. (Not privy to the issues.)
Ubiquiti has the EdgeRouter-X ($50), and there is always pfsense/netgate sg-100 ($150). Plenty of reliable, well supported hardware out there.
Sorry, but you are wrong. California's peak demand is now about an hour before sunset to an hour after, and the renewable generation falls off a cliff making it difficult for base-load plants to ramp up quickly.
Battery storage is needed when you want more than ~10-20% of your generation to be from solar. Demand-side management can handle some of the issues, but won't let solar grow (easily) past 25%.
That said, I am surprised the Li-Ion pencils out, even with subsidies. The charging characteristics must be a big part of the formula for it working-- being able to quickly absorb power would give it an advantage over sodium and the flow batteries, I think the nickel iron batteries have the same challenges.
Not all H1B's are in IT, although that industry has grossly abused them. This will make it harder for other industries to provide visa sponsorship for exceptional (early career/younger) candidates.
It isn't a win/win. Protectionism and isolationism backfires.
Sometimes people just don't like you and don't want to work with you. I don't mean to be mean... but there are many reasons why people/companies choose to (or not to) hire someone, and doing crap like that just makes companies gun-shy on hiring anybody.
Generally you are required to establish a local legal entity when operating in another country.
As for the change, I almost agree with it, but the goal of easy visas should be to attract the best of the best from abroad, no matter what point in their career they are in.
And on a political taint... Bannon and National Security Council/Joint Chiefs? WTF?!
Don't some of the key systems have centralized reporting-- what time the maid used their key, etc. I thought some allowed the locks to get updated master keys OTA as well.
Yeah... being locked in the room doesn't pass the smell test. The mechanical lever should always allow free egress if the thing is listed by UL or their ilk. If the hotel installed something that was not listed, they should face legal consequences.
Personally, when I am interviewing people, it is helpful to better understand how previous employers valued the candidate. It isn't a baseline for what we will offer, but we want to be comfortable with a few things: were you overpaid at your current employer, and are we going to need to explain why we only offer a lateral move; or, were you underpaid, and we need to dig into the potential gap in expectations.
Lying gets you blackballed. Dodging is ok, until you are asked by the person who will be making the offer.
You can also run into backup drive space issues with locky if you run incrementals and keep historical backups on a space-available basis only. If you have less than ~300% space on your backup system this can become an issue pretty easily. When you are set up for incrementals, often a full backup will take several cycles and require even more space.
Doesn't excuse not having offline backups, but in the post-tape world that gets harder and harder.
Put of the json gets too hard for her in Lynx. ;)
The Mac platform at its peak was what, 12 million units per year at an ASP around $1200 and gross margins of around 35%, or about $5B in gross margins per year, compared to the iPhone with ~200 million units, $645 ASP, and 50% margins at $65B gross margins.
I am all for not killing the goose that lays the golden egg... just not sure that Tim Cook's Apple sees the Mac as the goose, which might go down in Apple's history as a mistake.
Mr. Ludd, is that you?
While I have no desire to get an Echo, I understand it. I have Philips Hue, Insteon, Sonos, and an AppleTV+Smart TV. Integrating all of it is a pain. Some manufacturers even make decisions to make the problem worse (Philips!!), and everyone else thinks they have figured out the best way to make it great and "capitalize" on the opportunity. I have a few shell scripts that make life easy for me.
But, my wife can't stand typing a 98-character curl line in order to shut off the alarm clock. To each their own.
The market is changing though, and with the phone and tablet, Apple capitalizes on that change.
Don't agree with the strategy, but it makes business sense.