Sure. Except I don't want exactly the spec that Apple offer. They just can't offer me the PC I want. The closest they can get has a worse CPU, a worse graphics card, a monitor and keyboard I don't need (who the fuck buys a new monitor and keyboard every time they buy a PC), it lacks wifi, it has less storage (they can't even spec the storage I have in my desktop) and it costs £600 more.
That's £600 more today than I paid four fucking months ago. Prices have dropped since.
Sure, I could go Mac Pro in a couple of months and get a better spec than I'm currently using. But tell me why the fuck I'd waste money on a Xeon processor or on professional spec graphics cards?
It's just not comparable and you're talking total shit.
Apple's patents were bullshit to start with, and are continually being overturned at the patent office. Samsung shouldn't _have_ to work around them, and it's far from clear that Samsung even infringed in the first place - that trial was a fucking farce.
Samsung's patents may be FRAND but that doesn't mean that people should be able to use them without paying a fair or reasonable amount. Apple used them and refused to negotiate. Just what the fuck are Samsung meant to do in that circumstance? Ignore the patent?
Obama was playing petty protectionism and nothing else. Sure, Samsung may own half of Korean politics but that doesn't make Obama's corruption any less.
My point is that wanking over the hardware specs neglects the pointlessness of spending several thousand dollars on hardware you can't actually use properly.
But hey, it's a nice little desktop PC. Go ahead and buy one, I don't mind. I think it's really nice, I like what they've done. I just wouldn't ever buy one.
Crikey, you're an internet hard man and no mistake. "backwater"? "mum's basement"? I'd laugh but I'm worried for the people that live near you.
However, try eating these sour grapes: - Intel Xeon 2697 CPU power consumption at load: over 200W (Apple state max draw of 270W) - AMD FireProâ W9000 Graphics cards max power draw: 270W - AMD FirePro W8000 Graphics card max power draw: 215W
So even though the D700 is nearer the W9000 in specification, lets do some basic arithmetic: - 200 + 200 + 200 is already 33% more power than the machine can provide, that leaves none of the processors running at max and you haven't given any power to the motherboard, the thunderbolt ports, the SSD, the network card or.. well, you can work it out.
Now you fuckwit, convince me that the hardware isn't throttled.
On a computer? 4 year depreciation to residual value of $0, 5 years tops if you're lucky. That's for servers, I'd expect workstations to be 4 years tops.
Why would I use up an external port with a wifi adaptor - especially when one is already built in?
(I upgraded my PCI-E wifi card yesterday in my desktop. Connection went from 70Mbps to 1.3Gbps. Not actually tested that I get the full 1.3, but a file transfer from my NAS was rate limited by my SSD write speed..
Yeah, I'd like to spend $3k telling Adobe to use a second GPU. Oh, without actually telling them.
The only thing the Mac Pro is ahead of the curve on is form factor, and they've clearly made serious compromises to achieve that.
450W power supply? That's not a lot - it doesn't sound like you'll be getting maximum performance out of that hardware.
And this is a hardware discussion. Apple's hardware has always been competitively priced - good quality components, decent build quality, generally a good design - but only for the first 2-3 months of its life.
The next 2-3 years it's horribly overpriced, and especially if you live in the UK where Apple charge a significantly higher price than in the US.
Most large businesses don't recruit A players. They look to recruit B and C players, as they're a lot cheaper and generally good enough.
The top companies do recruit the top people, and they benefit as a result. It doesn't matter how mundane your business is, good people will do it better.
Running a business and providing a service is not a solved problem. It's a constantly evolving challenge and you need great problem solvers that know how to work effectively together.
Other than putting hardware at ISP sites to cache bits, what's the big challenge?
Knowing which hardware. Negotiating with the ISP to let you. Getting the ISP to pay for it, as it reduces their peering costs. Negotiating the peering arrangements to get the data to those servers. Designing the cache mechanism to balance data flow vs storage cost. Designing the security mechanisms to stop the ISP sys admin from copying the entire Netflicks library to his local NAS.
How many 'A' people do they need?
Going for hard minimums, I'd look for around a dozen in each major area of the business. So somewhere between 200 and 500, more if you want to break it down by product area.
Finance, HR, Marketing, Customer Service, Procurement, Collections, Sales, Corporate Comms, Product Development, Change Management, IT, Compliance, Fraud, InfoSecurity.. companies are kind of complex at that scale.
Unless there's something I don't know, their problems seem to be network shaping and flow, which are already solved
There's an awful lot you don't know. Even if the theory behind network shaping is known, you need somebody capable of applying it. Netflix as "the UPS of bits" probably encounter a bunch of edge cases that present genuinely difficult problems to solve even to the guys that developed the theory and solved all the easy problems.
I'm not impressed with their grandiose view of themselves, unless there is some secret to Netflix that I don't know about.
Well, a lot of people aren't impressed by their grandiose view of themselves. You do however seem to have a simplistic view of the technical challenges they face, and the complexities of running a large business. Shit, the article mentions explicitly someone designing a payment collection mechanism. You any good at that?
And I wonder, if they only hire 'A' people, who rips the DVDs they stream?
Without researching, I'd guess they either outsource to cheap offshore labour and/or they negotiate with the studios and get the digital content sent straight to them. The Internet, it works both ways!
Exactly. True A players add value above and beyond their specific discipline, and if they're A* players they'll use non-core skills better than most people could use their primary skills.
"Hire great people" is an expensive employment strategy and possibly overkill for a lot of routine jobs. It can however lead to a very capable, diverse, talented and motivated workforce. All of which you lose if you implement a "Fire specialists" culture shredding policy as you've indicated.
Oh no! They're only making a 10% profit margin? How awful. I feel terrible for them.
You may not give as hit, but clearly a lot of people do. Those sites are major web presences, and there'd be a couple of gaps in the marketplace were they to disappear.
Ah, c'mon. Sometimes it's good to kick away the props of maturity and unleash your inner teen.
I tend to do it by insulting people for their inept play on World of Tanks, where a throwaway audience I'll never meet have no idea who I actually am and I'm trying to kill them anyway, but other people choose other routes.,
It's called stress relief, amongst other things. You should try some.
Looks like the random bollocks you'd see on any mid-twenties marketing twat's twitter stream. Self-obsessed, self-unaware, privileged and nowhere near as intelligent as the author thinks.
Maybe a surprise given her PR training, but hardly abnormal.
Oh, it's worse than that. You don't even have to know the password to be found guilty of failing to provide it.
In fact, it's even worse than that. There doesn't have to be anything password protected for you to be found guilty of failing to provide a password that you can't possibly know, because it doesn't exist, because nothing is password protected.
It's a fucking stupid law and the government were told this before it was passed.
I don't watch several tv channels in the UK because of their obnoxious commercials.
I haven't stopped watching TV entirely, but I do primarily watch sporting events with 40-50 minutes unbroken play, films with no adverts interspersed through them and the BBC.
I concede. You may be talking simple common sense or you may be channeling a random text generator and.. I can't tell which.
A finite maximum number of quantum states in any finitely bounded region of space implies that any physical system with a finite extent can always be simulated by a nondeterministic linearly bounded automaton, an abstract model of computation that is strictly less powerful than a Turing machine.
So if there's a limited set out possible outcomes, a non-deterministic system can simulate them? I'm not sure that follows.
This is the sad part of the "justice" system, it's to bad you can't bluff him on a deal to give up everyone involved, then rebut the deal.
No, the bad part about the justice system is that they bluff him on getting the maximum penalty for all 31 charges, to be served sequentially, so that he'll admit guilt to 2-3 of them and assure the prosecutor a success.
Whether he's guilty or not doesn't come into it, the entire system appears to be geared towards assuring re-election of the attorney general.
Occasionally I send the URL to people that haven't seen it before just to shock them. They ALWAYS view it, even though I clearly indicate that it's me, it's naked, and it's a file with 'naked' in the filename.
However, someone posts my full name, address, pictures and other details and I don't like it.. I'll use the DPA against them.
This is one reason I don't exist on Facebook. It's rather lovely.
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Sure. Except I don't want exactly the spec that Apple offer. They just can't offer me the PC I want. The closest they can get has a worse CPU, a worse graphics card, a monitor and keyboard I don't need (who the fuck buys a new monitor and keyboard every time they buy a PC), it lacks wifi, it has less storage (they can't even spec the storage I have in my desktop) and it costs £600 more.
That's £600 more today than I paid four fucking months ago. Prices have dropped since.
Sure, I could go Mac Pro in a couple of months and get a better spec than I'm currently using. But tell me why the fuck I'd waste money on a Xeon processor or on professional spec graphics cards?
It's just not comparable and you're talking total shit.
Bollocks.
Apple's patents were bullshit to start with, and are continually being overturned at the patent office. Samsung shouldn't _have_ to work around them, and it's far from clear that Samsung even infringed in the first place - that trial was a fucking farce.
Samsung's patents may be FRAND but that doesn't mean that people should be able to use them without paying a fair or reasonable amount. Apple used them and refused to negotiate. Just what the fuck are Samsung meant to do in that circumstance? Ignore the patent?
Obama was playing petty protectionism and nothing else. Sure, Samsung may own half of Korean politics but that doesn't make Obama's corruption any less.
This is deemed 'intent' under recent anti-terror laws introduced in the UK- and YES, people go to jail for this.
Curious, I hadn't seen any mention of this from reputable sources.
You have a very odd way of spelling, "inspired tactical withdrawal".
Anyway, we came back. We didn't have to, y'know.
My point is that wanking over the hardware specs neglects the pointlessness of spending several thousand dollars on hardware you can't actually use properly.
But hey, it's a nice little desktop PC. Go ahead and buy one, I don't mind. I think it's really nice, I like what they've done. I just wouldn't ever buy one.
Crikey, you're an internet hard man and no mistake. "backwater"? "mum's basement"? I'd laugh but I'm worried for the people that live near you.
However, try eating these sour grapes:
- Intel Xeon 2697 CPU power consumption at load: over 200W (Apple state max draw of 270W)
- AMD FireProâ W9000 Graphics cards max power draw: 270W
- AMD FirePro W8000 Graphics card max power draw: 215W
So even though the D700 is nearer the W9000 in specification, lets do some basic arithmetic:
- 200 + 200 + 200 is already 33% more power than the machine can provide, that leaves none of the processors running at max and you haven't given any power to the motherboard, the thunderbolt ports, the SSD, the network card or.. well, you can work it out.
Now you fuckwit, convince me that the hardware isn't throttled.
There aren't terribly many apps that require 12 core Xeon with twin GPU processing power that run on workstations.
There's a reason servers are so popular.
On a computer? 4 year depreciation to residual value of $0, 5 years tops if you're lucky. That's for servers, I'd expect workstations to be 4 years tops.
Laptops even less than that.
Why would I use up an external port with a wifi adaptor - especially when one is already built in?
(I upgraded my PCI-E wifi card yesterday in my desktop. Connection went from 70Mbps to 1.3Gbps. Not actually tested that I get the full 1.3, but a file transfer from my NAS was rate limited by my SSD write speed..
Yeah, I'd like to spend $3k telling Adobe to use a second GPU. Oh, without actually telling them.
The only thing the Mac Pro is ahead of the curve on is form factor, and they've clearly made serious compromises to achieve that.
450W power supply? That's not a lot - it doesn't sound like you'll be getting maximum performance out of that hardware.
And this is a hardware discussion. Apple's hardware has always been competitively priced - good quality components, decent build quality, generally a good design - but only for the first 2-3 months of its life.
The next 2-3 years it's horribly overpriced, and especially if you live in the UK where Apple charge a significantly higher price than in the US.
Most large businesses don't recruit A players. They look to recruit B and C players, as they're a lot cheaper and generally good enough.
The top companies do recruit the top people, and they benefit as a result. It doesn't matter how mundane your business is, good people will do it better.
Running a business and providing a service is not a solved problem. It's a constantly evolving challenge and you need great problem solvers that know how to work effectively together.
Other than putting hardware at ISP sites to cache bits, what's the big challenge?
Knowing which hardware. Negotiating with the ISP to let you. Getting the ISP to pay for it, as it reduces their peering costs. Negotiating the peering arrangements to get the data to those servers. Designing the cache mechanism to balance data flow vs storage cost. Designing the security mechanisms to stop the ISP sys admin from copying the entire Netflicks library to his local NAS.
How many 'A' people do they need?
Going for hard minimums, I'd look for around a dozen in each major area of the business. So somewhere between 200 and 500, more if you want to break it down by product area.
Finance, HR, Marketing, Customer Service, Procurement, Collections, Sales, Corporate Comms, Product Development, Change Management, IT, Compliance, Fraud, InfoSecurity.. companies are kind of complex at that scale.
Unless there's something I don't know, their problems seem to be network shaping and flow, which are already solved
There's an awful lot you don't know. Even if the theory behind network shaping is known, you need somebody capable of applying it. Netflix as "the UPS of bits" probably encounter a bunch of edge cases that present genuinely difficult problems to solve even to the guys that developed the theory and solved all the easy problems.
I'm not impressed with their grandiose view of themselves, unless there is some secret to Netflix that I don't know about.
Well, a lot of people aren't impressed by their grandiose view of themselves. You do however seem to have a simplistic view of the technical challenges they face, and the complexities of running a large business. Shit, the article mentions explicitly someone designing a payment collection mechanism. You any good at that?
And I wonder, if they only hire 'A' people, who rips the DVDs they stream?
Without researching, I'd guess they either outsource to cheap offshore labour and/or they negotiate with the studios and get the digital content sent straight to them. The Internet, it works both ways!
Exactly. True A players add value above and beyond their specific discipline, and if they're A* players they'll use non-core skills better than most people could use their primary skills.
"Hire great people" is an expensive employment strategy and possibly overkill for a lot of routine jobs. It can however lead to a very capable, diverse, talented and motivated workforce. All of which you lose if you implement a "Fire specialists" culture shredding policy as you've indicated.
Oh no! They're only making a 10% profit margin? How awful. I feel terrible for them.
You may not give as hit, but clearly a lot of people do. Those sites are major web presences, and there'd be a couple of gaps in the marketplace were they to disappear.
Ah, c'mon. Sometimes it's good to kick away the props of maturity and unleash your inner teen.
I tend to do it by insulting people for their inept play on World of Tanks, where a throwaway audience I'll never meet have no idea who I actually am and I'm trying to kill them anyway, but other people choose other routes.,
It's called stress relief, amongst other things. You should try some.
Vimeo, OKCupid, and match.com?! . . . which nobody gives as hit about.
So nobody gives as hit about the top non-youtube video site and the largest dating site on the web?
Maybe you don't do online dating, but those sites are turning over $700m a year. Not many sites selling 0 physical products are managing that.
of course she did - she was a twitter user. Goes with the territory.
Looks like the random bollocks you'd see on any mid-twenties marketing twat's twitter stream. Self-obsessed, self-unaware, privileged and nowhere near as intelligent as the author thinks.
Maybe a surprise given her PR training, but hardly abnormal.
Oh, it's worse than that. You don't even have to know the password to be found guilty of failing to provide it.
In fact, it's even worse than that. There doesn't have to be anything password protected for you to be found guilty of failing to provide a password that you can't possibly know, because it doesn't exist, because nothing is password protected.
It's a fucking stupid law and the government were told this before it was passed.
Where do you live? I have this urge to disable GPS reception for a moment or two..
No, but I do play games at 2560x1440 pixels on a screen with that resolution.
Why would I constrain myself to a mere 1920x1080? Shit, I had a quad core laptop with 1920x1200 in 2005.
I don't watch several tv channels in the UK because of their obnoxious commercials.
I haven't stopped watching TV entirely, but I do primarily watch sporting events with 40-50 minutes unbroken play, films with no adverts interspersed through them and the BBC.
I concede. You may be talking simple common sense or you may be channeling a random text generator and.. I can't tell which.
A finite maximum number of quantum states in any finitely bounded region of space implies that any physical system with a finite extent can always be simulated by a nondeterministic linearly bounded automaton, an abstract model of computation that is strictly less powerful than a Turing machine.
So if there's a limited set out possible outcomes, a non-deterministic system can simulate them? I'm not sure that follows.
This is the sad part of the "justice" system, it's to bad you can't bluff him on a deal to give up everyone involved, then rebut the deal.
No, the bad part about the justice system is that they bluff him on getting the maximum penalty for all 31 charges, to be served sequentially, so that he'll admit guilt to 2-3 of them and assure the prosecutor a success.
Whether he's guilty or not doesn't come into it, the entire system appears to be geared towards assuring re-election of the attorney general.
I posted a naked picture of myself online.
Occasionally I send the URL to people that haven't seen it before just to shock them. They ALWAYS view it, even though I clearly indicate that it's me, it's naked, and it's a file with 'naked' in the filename.
However, someone posts my full name, address, pictures and other details and I don't like it.. I'll use the DPA against them.
This is one reason I don't exist on Facebook. It's rather lovely.