It is 15 million dollars, split between two hyper-giant organizations on a gamble that it will improve their effectiveness. For organizations that spend billions on computers per year, combined with a desire to remain at the forefront of research and development, that seems like a safe purchase under the "hedging your bets" category.
Many of the common Point-of-Sale hardware does not have Linux drivers.
Things like the multiple Barcode Scanners, Thermal Printers, Cash Drawers, Magcard Readers, etc. are typically only provided with Windows drivers.
Like it or not, an organization like Target *NEEDS* warranty support for when something fails, and saying "we use linux" doesn't really fly.
SoftwareUpdate isn't a part of the Mac App Store (different servers, backed, syncing, check mechanism,...), despite being on a tab presented in the Mac App Store, aside updates that do come from there. And you do understand that there is a difference between "please download this, create an account, type in a couple passwords, have a credit card on your account,..." And just press "update", right?
It is unfortunate that Apple didn't think that one through a little further.
If they are adopting the model of "the OS Upgrade IS a security update", then throw it in their normal update mechanism rather than having people seek it out.
Since they didn't, they must realize that there is a chance that their Upgrade could break things for people, so let them upgrade in their own time, and as such should back port the occasional update to the computers that they sold 3 months or so ago.
Component upgrades are definitely the exception in my experience. In a network of 3500 workstations that are currently under support, I am aware of 5 that have received an aftermarket component upgrade excluding RAM, all of which was done simply due to a need for their department to increase their monitor count from 2 to 4. Everyone else gets precisely what they have until there is a business case for them to get a replacement, after which their workstation will usually get a RAM upgrade, wiped and given to someone else.
Cases that natively accept a SSI EEB motherboard are also not the $75 variety either. Cheapest that I can find is a SilverStone RAVEN RV03B-W at $150. Although, yes you sure can custom one by tapping, but then you are just shifting the costs onto tools and time rather than a prefabbed component.
I've just specced out a Dell, and the Dell is $1016 more expensive. Add to that, the Mac Pro only consumes 450w versus the Dell's 1500w, which in turn will save $1040/year in power.
While the others will probably come down in price in a few weeks to months, at this moment Apple does have the edge on price.
Now, when you compare to build-it-yourself, you are absolutely correct that Apple is more expensive, but so is everyone else too.
Considering that they explicitly say: "... remotely assigned to a network. This information can be subsequently modified over-the-air, as many times as necessary.", odds are that this will be a repeat of the procedures followed on CDMA networks where it is entirely the Carrier to take care of a change, and who can choose not to should they not sell/support the device you wish to use.
There is a single patent on the connector, filed September 26, 2005 and issued December 25, 2007.
In 2001 UL created and released to market - as a standard enforced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission - a magnetic reversible plug for use on electric fryers that would disconnect if pulled.
Apple's offering is technically different in the sense that the cord can also "attach itself" to an electronic device, and where it will not provide power should it not be acted upon by another magnetic field.
uefi is not "restrictive". In fact, it provides quite a bit of additional functionality that never existed in BIOS. The only thing that has come from it that has been "restrictive" is a permissive feature called SecureBoot, also known as allowing for code signing to take place. Valve does not have code signing turned on in SteamOS, so that doesn't even impact you at all.
Or are you saying restrictive in the sense that it only shipped by default on x86-64 computers for the past 4 years?
While there is a whole universe out there waiting to be colonized, it would take tens of thousands of years at current technological levels to simply reach another other world beyond our solar system, let alone being able to return with the resources that we find should said resources even exist. As a reminder, we haven't sent a person beyond a Low Earth Orbit in decades.
To follow the analogy, "filling the streets with stuff" is illegal due to it's classification as littering and that effort needs to be undertaken to remove said litter.
Once a DDoS attack is completed (assuming that the sole action taken was DDoS and not defacement or intrusion), there is nothing to "clean up". When you stop, everyone picks up their "stuff" and walks away.
To follow the analogy, how is this different from setting up a picket line out front of someone's front door to protest some of the things that said company is doing that you find morally objectionable?
Should the physical analog of this very same situation also be subject to a 5.5 million dollar fine?
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Of if they weren't actually observing, they were probably thinking about observing.
It is 15 million dollars, split between two hyper-giant organizations on a gamble that it will improve their effectiveness. For organizations that spend billions on computers per year, combined with a desire to remain at the forefront of research and development, that seems like a safe purchase under the "hedging your bets" category.
This is obviously a case of the observer influencing the outcome of the test.
Of course... The performance doesn't line up with the claims, so the testing methodology is flawed.
Maybe you could take a moment to enlighten us so that we can put to bed the debate as to whether your product actually is a quantum computer.
In the words of Charleston Heston: "Guns don't kill people; apes with guns kill people."
Many of the common Point-of-Sale hardware does not have Linux drivers.
Things like the multiple Barcode Scanners, Thermal Printers, Cash Drawers, Magcard Readers, etc. are typically only provided with Windows drivers.
Like it or not, an organization like Target *NEEDS* warranty support for when something fails, and saying "we use linux" doesn't really fly.
Artists are up in arms because record companies make more money off of their work, and yet they end up making less!
"Not everything that can be counted counts."
That is exactly the problem... We have so many children that are lousy at math, and yet people throw up their hands and ask "what can I do?"
If we didn't think there was a multiverse, we would be living in that universe instead.
SoftwareUpdate isn't a part of the Mac App Store (different servers, backed, syncing, check mechanism, ...), despite being on a tab presented in the Mac App Store, aside updates that do come from there. And you do understand that there is a difference between "please download this, create an account, type in a couple passwords, have a credit card on your account, ..." And just press "update", right?
It is unfortunate that Apple didn't think that one through a little further.
If they are adopting the model of "the OS Upgrade IS a security update", then throw it in their normal update mechanism rather than having people seek it out.
Since they didn't, they must realize that there is a chance that their Upgrade could break things for people, so let them upgrade in their own time, and as such should back port the occasional update to the computers that they sold 3 months or so ago.
There are plenty of people out there (myself included) who wish they could get Comcast. Satellite sucks...
In all likelihood, he probably had the choice of four Satellite internet providers, and possibly even some Cellular ones too.
That's not to say that if he caught DNS Injection that he would likely be happy with the service.
Component upgrades are definitely the exception in my experience. In a network of 3500 workstations that are currently under support, I am aware of 5 that have received an aftermarket component upgrade excluding RAM, all of which was done simply due to a need for their department to increase their monitor count from 2 to 4. Everyone else gets precisely what they have until there is a business case for them to get a replacement, after which their workstation will usually get a RAM upgrade, wiped and given to someone else.
You can go dual AMD Opteron 6378s + motherboard and ram for the cost of the E5-2697v2 alone.
I'd be willing to venture a guess that 32x 2.4GHz cores are in the ballpark of 12x 2.7GHz cores.
Cases that natively accept a SSI EEB motherboard are also not the $75 variety either. Cheapest that I can find is a SilverStone RAVEN RV03B-W at $150. Although, yes you sure can custom one by tapping, but then you are just shifting the costs onto tools and time rather than a prefabbed component.
You are incorrect.
32GB is $400.
64GB is $1200.
I've just specced out a Dell, and the Dell is $1016 more expensive. Add to that, the Mac Pro only consumes 450w versus the Dell's 1500w, which in turn will save $1040/year in power. While the others will probably come down in price in a few weeks to months, at this moment Apple does have the edge on price. Now, when you compare to build-it-yourself, you are absolutely correct that Apple is more expensive, but so is everyone else too.
Considering that they explicitly say: " ... remotely assigned to a network. This information can be subsequently modified over-the-air, as many times as necessary.", odds are that this will be a repeat of the procedures followed on CDMA networks where it is entirely the Carrier to take care of a change, and who can choose not to should they not sell/support the device you wish to use.
There is a single patent on the connector, filed September 26, 2005 and issued December 25, 2007.
In 2001 UL created and released to market - as a standard enforced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission - a magnetic reversible plug for use on electric fryers that would disconnect if pulled.
Apple's offering is technically different in the sense that the cord can also "attach itself" to an electronic device, and where it will not provide power should it not be acted upon by another magnetic field.
uefi is not "restrictive". In fact, it provides quite a bit of additional functionality that never existed in BIOS. The only thing that has come from it that has been "restrictive" is a permissive feature called SecureBoot, also known as allowing for code signing to take place. Valve does not have code signing turned on in SteamOS, so that doesn't even impact you at all.
Or are you saying restrictive in the sense that it only shipped by default on x86-64 computers for the past 4 years?
Airplay and Miracast already do this. So if you are an anti-Apple zealot, you still have a perfectly good option.
While there is a whole universe out there waiting to be colonized, it would take tens of thousands of years at current technological levels to simply reach another other world beyond our solar system, let alone being able to return with the resources that we find should said resources even exist. As a reminder, we haven't sent a person beyond a Low Earth Orbit in decades.
To follow the analogy, "filling the streets with stuff" is illegal due to it's classification as littering and that effort needs to be undertaken to remove said litter.
Once a DDoS attack is completed (assuming that the sole action taken was DDoS and not defacement or intrusion), there is nothing to "clean up". When you stop, everyone picks up their "stuff" and walks away.
To follow the analogy, how is this different from setting up a picket line out front of someone's front door to protest some of the things that said company is doing that you find morally objectionable?
Should the physical analog of this very same situation also be subject to a 5.5 million dollar fine?