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I think that subject is a little misleading. As the article writes they got roughly 90000 macs yet only 3 admins supporting them. It's not that the macs themself are cheaper only that they require less support which saves them money. Still dont go and recommend macs to normal at home users if they need the performance.
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Member 11683251 wrote: 's not that the macs themself are cheaper only that they require less support which saves them money
But that's the point.
Taking the cost of something on just the sticker price is like saying "Printer X is $100 cheaper than Printer Y". And yet Printer X's cartridges are 5X the cost of Printer Y's.
The purchase price is what you pay to start playing the game. It's at the end of the life of the product that you add it all up to find the score. For a business that means support costs, deploy costs, staff retention costs - the lot.
It's incredibly important to factor in all costs when pricing an item.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It is likely that the mac users tend to be more experienced and thus need less support. Switch everyone to a mac and I suspect the savings will quickly vanish and may even end up costing more.
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Bezos says that space is the next frontier, a new internet if you will, that is desperately lacking in infrastructure to support new entrepreneurs. There are cat videos in space?
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I would think fixing all the problems human beings have created on the planet would be the next frontier. But that's just me.
Marc
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Humans cannot create, we can only assemble and/or destroy what is already there, both contributing to the larger problem of earthly gross mismanagement.
Though, yes, we human beings need to correct that problem.
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A glass half full ......... of vodka kind of person I see. 
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jeron1 wrote: A glass half full empty
FTFY
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Vodka and fresh-squeezed Orange Juice, mind you! Toss in some V-8, while yer at it.
I call it a "Spiked Sunset"...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: cat videos in space
Cats in Space - YouTube[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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OK, I'm with Bezos! Let's go.
TTFN - Kent
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You mean it'll be a place full of trolls, cat videos and spam?
Awesome. Where do I sign up? Maybe someone can ship me one of those trial CDs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Objects that recycle ambient radio signals can get online without a power source. "Invisible airwaves crackle with life"
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I can just imagine it now. Signs that say "Warning, you are entering a radio signal dead area, your pacemaker may lose power."
Or "charging stations", like suntan rooms. Or fast food restaurants with "high power RF for to charge your day!"
Marc
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Geddy up wireless cowboy!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As long as these contact lenses implement IDisposable so they can clean up after themselves...
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Quote: He says the startup is already talking with a large pharmaceutical company about adding connectivity to a commonly used disposable medical product.
Am I the only one thinking what I'm thinking? 
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Free and frequent gynecological exams, that could really improve the lives of our female friends 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Just remember, Rainbows End. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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LinkedIn today announced the Top Skills of 2016, their annual list of the skills employers need most in candidates. Does it involve filling my Inbox? Oh, that's just top skills *of* LinkedIn
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Funny how "communication, empathy, responsibility, ownership, work ethic, team building, etc..." aren't on those lists.
At least 50% (and I'm low-balling that #) of the problems I encounter in this career are not technical, they are personality/psychology problems of the people I work with and for.
Hmm, ok, make that at least 95%.
Marc
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To me, it's not the skills someone has, it's the drive and ambition they possess to obtain the skills required. It's had to recruit someone with all the skills required to do a job, and every job requires an element of learning anyway.
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Those aren't skills you necessarily hire for. You hire for technical expertise. To see if a candidate possess the skills you mention (which I agree 100% are important) is down to the interview questions, psychometric tests etc. It's also difficult to evaluate those skills, even with a battery of tests. That's why we have probationary periods where those other skills can be evaluated and assessed.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it involve filling my Inbox? Oh, that's just top skills of LinkedIn
... especially if what they're filling me inbox with is jobs from the company I quit a month ago that I range from at best marginally qualified for in an I'm Sure I Could Learn This if I Had To sort of way like Senior Network Admin or Head of Classified Computer Security to You've Got to be Elephanting Me like Senior Welding Engineer  , but not anything that looked like the job I actually left. (Although that's probably because they handed what was going to be my next task off to someone else who was facing being laid off instead of opening a new staffing req.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Planet Nine—the undiscovered planet at the edge of the Solar System that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016—appears to be responsible for the unusual tilt of the sun, according to a new study. Pluto's called in his posse
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