Yes, because price and quality matters. I have luxury leather goods and they worth every penny because awesome quality and the rest of goods just junk.
Does not work with Mac, you pay a lot and a chance that you will be in a trouble with it is very high. Like with last MBP. Apple must spend more money for QA and offer better hardware. I will look on their new mac mini if it will be updated this or next year, probably it will be my last device from this company.
The problem with "the middle of nowhere" is the lack of socialization available. That's why a lot of people move to cities, even though the cost is a lot more.
Sure, it's great if you can work remotely and afford a really nice place in the sticks. But lots of people here even complain about going "stir-crazy" from sitting at home too much. Even if you're married, you're going to get tired of only socializing with that one person all the time, and never having any outside friends. You'll also get tired of never having any activities to do which involve interacting with other people. In a city, you have all that available: lots of other people, groups for various interests, etc. In rural areas, all you have are the people who live there, and their values and lifestyles will be so diametrically opposed to yours that you won't be able to socialize with them at all. So if you're not into fundamentalist religion, guns, off-roading, etc., moving to the sticks will condemn you to a very lonely life. And if you're an ethnic minority, it could be downright dangerous.
I don't think it's fair to call Blackphone "Scam and snake-oil" just because it uses cloud features and has remote control.
What's fair to say is that you're implicitly trusting Silent Circle to be both competent and benign. But then running pretty much any modern computing device requires you to trust various groups of people in that regard, so this isn't that different really.
It's a bit easier for a cloud provider to look at your data surreptitiously, but you apply that very same "I swear that I won't look at your data" trust upon every software and hardware vendor from your USB keyboard to your internet router.
While that is a good point, it's easier to break open your keyboard and ensure it's not emitting RF than it is to audit a site that may be under an entirely different state.
It's more clear for me after my Mac Mini 2009 is no longer supported by Sierra without any constructive reason (you can install it with pair of crutches but no Wi-Fi). Actually Apple is selling fancy outdated hardware with pretty questionable "new features" like touchbar bullshit to excuse their ridiculous pricing model.
I understand this was prob a sort of joke, but I'd be interested in a data point on how much a free db could help save. Is $12B reasonable, would it be much lower/higher?
> I'd be interested in a data point on how much a free db could help save
Database companies price their products by how much they think they can extract from your business. That's why they're mostly priced at free or some nominal cost for the first few years, and then several million dollars per year afterwards.
free maybe. The real point being that it is one that works. A big part of the financial but also the entreprisey world in general have never left the 80s/90s. The idea of scale does not exist.
Is your car an entry-level bicycle? What kind of servers are you running that cost 30x an actual car? We run some expensive servers but none that cost anywhere near 30x the cost of my car.
I'm including the support contracts in both numbers. I work for an ISP, so our storage systems are both large and very sensitive to downtime. You don't want x0,000 customers calling about their email, HBO Go, and billing logins failing. So the support contract is a bit extreme to match. The exact price is under some kind of NDA but let's say my car was a bit over $30k.
That must be some impressive support contract. For close to a million dollars per server I hope they come with an indentured engineer who lives in your colo ready to do a hot swap at any moment.
It's just ssh. My local library did have a dial-up line for the longest time but I think they finally retired it, that's the last one I might have actually used.
I think the last one I used was in 2003. My university offered it for internet access. It was actually just dial-in shell access, but you could tunnel an internet connection using Slirp. Nice and slow.
