Well according to IBM who are installing 1000 new Macs a week, the total cost of ownership is lower.
Given their huge sample size and actually tracking this information (as opposed to anecdote of one persons opinion) I guess they know.
Me, I don't care what you use, it makes zero difference to my life. I use the tools that work for me (and that includes integration into the workplace needs), I use a Mac, and I have now found replacement software so I no longer need to run Parallels/windows on my machine but we have lot of them around me and we have linux boxes too.
Right tools for the right job. As they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.
My needs are mine, not yours. So where appropriate the other users will get a Mac/Windows/Linux box as appropriate.
Control software is only a small portion . Traffic flow management/prediction software is a part, ie if you stick lights vs a roundabout what happened to traffic flow, and its not just cars, Truck behave differently, as do cyclists and pedestrians. Likewise event centres impact traffic parking and traffic flows. They also have geotechnical software to see if the foundations will stand up to the usage patterns for both roads, bridges, buildings.
Then there is structural engineering, water engineering, waste management (liquid and solid), storm water. And this is just on the design and implementation side, we have not even got into the control software yet.
Parks and reserves need to keep track of what chemicals they use, planned maintenance scheduling , event scheduling , rare species management, asset management, health and safety (eg health check up for those working with chemical sprays), management of staff certifications for vehicle usage , etc etc etc The there are all the biohazard databases they need, no, you can not rely on google, if the internet dies the hazard does not go away.
Historic building management, Art management , asset management
There are hundreds of different departments and even more sub departments in every part of a council that does not "just use a word processor and a spreadsheet', hell I have a friend who is an accounts auditor and he does not use a word processor or a spreadsheet.
Just tracking local land taxes, property values, etc etc etc is a huge job.
And it makes a HUGE difference if you have 1000 people or 1 million people living in you town/city
your knowledge of what is required to run a city is so superficial as to be useless.
You work in a VERY small portion I would guess.
You ever wandered into the engineering department, see what software they use for designing infrastructure, doing structural tests, maintaining water quality, maintaining street lights, traffic management, disaster planning, etc etc etc etc etc etc. Then there is all the software they use to communicate with their suppliers and contractors.
Please, don't confuse your ignorance for actual knowledge.
See that is the problem with the USA. When something like this happens, the solution is to make lawyers wealthy.
New Zealand has a much simpler system, the Consumer Guarantees Act. Anyone who has bought into the system over the last 2-3 years would be entitled to their money back
Yep, Ghostery plus a big hosts file seems to fix a LOT of things.
Any pages that I get redirected to are manually added to the hosts file. I only ever get redirected to a site once.
And any site that detects I am using an ad blocker and stops me from entering is more than welcome to do so, I am FAR MORE willing to go elsewhere than whitelist your site.
After WWII the US accounted for over 50% of the worlds GDP, its now less than 20%.
Its not that the US has done anything wrong as such, its just the rest of the world has now become more independent and is no longer reliant on the USA and there are other choices available.
The USA is no longer the most important trading nation for other countries, the EU and Asia are far more important, so when the US tries to throw its weight around it is significantly less effective than it used to be. Lots of nations would prefer to loose access to the US markets than the Chinese markets.
The TPPA will go ahead, without the USA. There are now opportunities for the TPPA members to modify things like copyright, patent without US involvement because they are not part of the agreement. If at a later date the US want to rejoin it is more likely that the US will have to give up far more than the TTPA members will.
Tell me, can you route your income through a shell company in the Bahamas so you don't pay taxes ?
Look at all the bribes that go into attracting businesses to set up, they spend billions and the return for the city/state is often 10c on the dollar.
Lots of laws are written to benefit corporations at the expense of the voters , because they are the ones supplying the election funds
The fines are one thing, but there needs to be criminal liability for senior management too.
They want the big money, well the risk, responsibility and liability comes with it. Dont want the risks etc then get a Job like the rest of us.
"Restoring Internet Freedom" etc etc etc
You just know when they use world like this it means the exact opposite, sort of the like "Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea"
They "myth" of the USA greatly outshines the "reality"
Health, welfare, education, life expectancy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, democracy, corruption, law and order, capitalism, environmentalism, social mobility, etc etc etc the US does not do that well in.
The rate of social mobility in the USA is no better than most other countries.
So if you think that if you just work hard you too can become a millionaire/billionaire you are wrong, you will actually have more chance winning the lottery.
" Of the eight countries studied—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the UK and the US, the US had both the highest economic inequality and lowest economic mobility. In this and other studies, in fact, the USA has very low mobility at the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, with mobility increasing slightly as one goes up the ladder. "
Here's the solution.
Stop collecting and storing data on your customers. If you don't have it, it can NOT be hacked.
Screw your "loyalty program", it does not come free, its just added to the price (as is the admin for it). I am not interested in paying 15% more so I can get the 10th stay free.
If you demand my email address, you will get one, its mine, its legitimate, but its ignored by me except to purge it now and again. Why, because I have had my
email address sold/ given out to "select partners" too often and got spammed, so F you all.
I am not there you you to advertise to me, the fact I stayed there once is 99% good luck, you were available and the price was right, nothing more. Spamming me just p!sses me off and makes it LESS likely you will ever see me again. And I sure as hell recommend friends not to stay if you spam me.
So, do you get it. STOP the data collection.
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Pathetic, and if that is your standard of behaviour and attitudes, then I would go so far as to suggest you are doing Munich a HUGE favour.
Well according to IBM who are installing 1000 new Macs a week, the total cost of ownership is lower.
Given their huge sample size and actually tracking this information (as opposed to anecdote of one persons opinion) I guess they know.
Me, I don't care what you use, it makes zero difference to my life. I use the tools that work for me (and that includes integration into the workplace needs), I use a Mac, and I have now found replacement software so I no longer need to run Parallels/windows on my machine but we have lot of them around me and we have linux boxes too. Right tools for the right job. As they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. My needs are mine, not yours. So where appropriate the other users will get a Mac/Windows/Linux box as appropriate.
Control software is only a small portion . Traffic flow management/prediction software is a part, ie if you stick lights vs a roundabout what happened to traffic flow, and its not just cars, Truck behave differently, as do cyclists and pedestrians. Likewise event centres impact traffic parking and traffic flows. They also have geotechnical software to see if the foundations will stand up to the usage patterns for both roads, bridges, buildings.
Then there is structural engineering, water engineering, waste management (liquid and solid), storm water. And this is just on the design and implementation side, we have not even got into the control software yet.
Parks and reserves need to keep track of what chemicals they use, planned maintenance scheduling , event scheduling , rare species management, asset management, health and safety (eg health check up for those working with chemical sprays), management of staff certifications for vehicle usage , etc etc etc The there are all the biohazard databases they need, no, you can not rely on google, if the internet dies the hazard does not go away.
Historic building management, Art management , asset management
There are hundreds of different departments and even more sub departments in every part of a council that does not "just use a word processor and a spreadsheet', hell I have a friend who is an accounts auditor and he does not use a word processor or a spreadsheet.
Just tracking local land taxes, property values, etc etc etc is a huge job.
And it makes a HUGE difference if you have 1000 people or 1 million people living in you town/city
your knowledge of what is required to run a city is so superficial as to be useless.
You work in a VERY small portion I would guess.
You ever wandered into the engineering department, see what software they use for designing infrastructure, doing structural tests, maintaining water quality, maintaining street lights, traffic management, disaster planning, etc etc etc etc etc etc. Then there is all the software they use to communicate with their suppliers and contractors.
Please, don't confuse your ignorance for actual knowledge.
See that is the problem with the USA. When something like this happens, the solution is to make lawyers wealthy.
New Zealand has a much simpler system, the Consumer Guarantees Act. Anyone who has bought into the system over the last 2-3 years would be entitled to their money back
No lawyers involved
Anyone with a little bit of thought would have known this was going to happen.
These companies only make money by selling you more stuff. and the best way to do that is make the old stuff redundant
Yep, Ghostery plus a big hosts file seems to fix a LOT of things.
Any pages that I get redirected to are manually added to the hosts file. I only ever get redirected to a site once.
And any site that detects I am using an ad blocker and stops me from entering is more than welcome to do so, I am FAR MORE willing to go elsewhere than whitelist your site.
After WWII the US accounted for over 50% of the worlds GDP, its now less than 20%.
Its not that the US has done anything wrong as such, its just the rest of the world has now become more independent and is no longer reliant on the USA and there are other choices available.
The USA is no longer the most important trading nation for other countries, the EU and Asia are far more important, so when the US tries to throw its weight around it is significantly less effective than it used to be. Lots of nations would prefer to loose access to the US markets than the Chinese markets.
The TPPA will go ahead, without the USA. There are now opportunities for the TPPA members to modify things like copyright, patent without US involvement because they are not part of the agreement. If at a later date the US want to rejoin it is more likely that the US will have to give up far more than the TTPA members will.
Tell me, can you route your income through a shell company in the Bahamas so you don't pay taxes ?
Look at all the bribes that go into attracting businesses to set up, they spend billions and the return for the city/state is often 10c on the dollar.
Lots of laws are written to benefit corporations at the expense of the voters , because they are the ones supplying the election funds
You also need to remove the "money" from politics .
When you can vote for whom ever you like, but the corporations end up with all the say, is there any point in an election ?
Trump proves that with enough money even a sexual predator can be president.
However the 96% of the worlds population outside the USA may decide buying US made goods is a bad thing for the environment.
Feel free to quit all the trade agreements you have, build as many walls as you like, there rest of the world will learn to carry on without you.
Its 100% your choice to leave.... HOWEVER its 100% OUR choice to let you back in and it will be on OUR terms, not yours.
Yeah if you did that, the only people able to vote would be immigrants.
Yep, the US is more likely to adopt gun control than have a system where the wealthy actually behave honestly.
The fines are one thing, but there needs to be criminal liability for senior management too. They want the big money, well the risk, responsibility and liability comes with it. Dont want the risks etc then get a Job like the rest of us.
"Restoring Internet Freedom" etc etc etc You just know when they use world like this it means the exact opposite, sort of the like "Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea"
If he was asked to put in a backdoor "by court order", would he....
Thats the $64,000 question , and to be honest I and everyone else simply do not know. Unfortunately in this case that amounts to distrust.
BB is gone burgers
Or a New Zealand Poltician http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
Cold days may be a problem too...
So THAT was what Anthony Weiner was doing, just trying to log into his phone. I can see how the mistake was made...
Its now a Bayou, so the swamp has gone.
They "myth" of the USA greatly outshines the "reality"
Health, welfare, education, life expectancy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, democracy, corruption, law and order, capitalism, environmentalism, social mobility, etc etc etc the US does not do that well in.
The rate of social mobility in the USA is no better than most other countries.
So if you think that if you just work hard you too can become a millionaire/billionaire you are wrong, you will actually have more chance winning the lottery.
" Of the eight countries studied—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the UK and the US, the US had both the highest economic inequality and lowest economic mobility. In this and other studies, in fact, the USA has very low mobility at the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, with mobility increasing slightly as one goes up the ladder. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Then perhaps the USA could lead the way and stop meddling in the affairs of other nations.
Here's the solution.
Stop collecting and storing data on your customers. If you don't have it, it can NOT be hacked.
Screw your "loyalty program", it does not come free, its just added to the price (as is the admin for it). I am not interested in paying 15% more so I can get the 10th stay free.
If you demand my email address, you will get one, its mine, its legitimate, but its ignored by me except to purge it now and again. Why, because I have had my email address sold/ given out to "select partners" too often and got spammed, so F you all.
I am not there you you to advertise to me, the fact I stayed there once is 99% good luck, you were available and the price was right, nothing more. Spamming me just p!sses me off and makes it LESS likely you will ever see me again. And I sure as hell recommend friends not to stay if you spam me.
So, do you get it. STOP the data collection.
This is a species that kills millions of its own kind every year.
Wisdom is not a word I would be using.