Comment DevManPwn is better. (Score 1) 226
You'd be amazed at how much more accountable(function) non-devops managers are when they know then can't pass the buck the developers(threaten outsourcing, etc.). Think Bill, Woz, Sergey & Larry etc...
I would point out that technically Apple doesn't make PC's any more either(and perhaps never did), they are Intel(PC) boxes running a bsdSkin(OSX) rather than Windows. They only thing that differentiates them from, say, Dell, is that they adopt closed standards and have vertical branding(but certainly not vertical integration)...
...and that they develop their own OS for them (yes, the lower levels are based on Mach and BSD code, but it's not as if they just take off-the-shelf Mach and BSD code and slap a thin GUI skin over it).
I do concede that OSX so more than just a skin, perhaps comparing it to Metro/ModernUI sitting on top of the NT Kernel might be a better comparison...
Ultimately I think UNIX is a solid core for any OS, and that if Microsoft hadn't dropped their flavour, we wouldn't have had to endure the growing pains of 95/XP/Vista. But that's another story.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that, Intel/IBM/Motorola(the three companies that have supplied them with chips) are essentially the only "PC" makers in the world, and are still going strong.
Neither IBM nor Motorola make processor chips used in any significant personal computers these days (unless you have your own personal IBM Power System, IBM System z, or IBM BlueGene supercomputer
Yes ok(and not really), but my point is that the chip is the computer, and that each generation of Apple(Moto/IBM/Intel) has had "Less Apple", this current, Intel, and the next, ARM, are little more than reference designs, configured to fit in the box...
Also until this new Lenovo deal goes through, IBM still make Intel workstations too...
Perhaps the line from the Apple guy should have been, "While you can't run software from any previous generation(or our next) of our PC's, well still sell you something called that.". I know I'm being cynical, but hey the original story/line was from a PR guy...
...I imagine a black hole to be so massive not even light can escape its gravitational pull. Which technically means the escape velocity is the speed of light. So anything at the event horizon should be at the speed of light.
Also consider that at the event horizon, space-time itself is travelling at the speed of light towards the black hole.
So when the medium light is travelling through is travelling at the speed of light, light can't escape; i.e. the event horizon...
Think swimming upstream when the current is faster than you can swim; the steepness of the hill has little consequence.
Having said that, I'm also not a physicist, but I also came that same conclusion...
Remember that to get gold you need to provide gold.
Not in the long term, Nanofabrication and eventually sub-atomic-fabrication, will let us literally re-build lead into gold, all ya need is the right amount of electrons, protons and neutrons to feed into the machine. My point is, there will be a point where the evolution of "3d-Printing", will destabilise the basic premise of economics, haves and have-nots...
But yes I was eluding to the fact that eventually currency will go totally virtual, if there is even a need for money by then; Atomic fabrication has the potential to eliminate poverty and free the world from the devastating effects of global industrialisation, if we let it....
Not *all* manufacturing will cease,
Someone will need to make the first one of these units...
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh