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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

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On 10/05/15 13:07, Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:49:16 -0600, GreyCloud wrote:
>
>> On 10/05/15 12:12, Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>>> On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:57:32 -0400, nom de plume wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2015-10-05, nospam<nospam@nospam.invalid>   wrote:
>>>>> In article<B4Sdna9kHb2rNo_LnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@supernews.com>, nom de
>>>>> plume<nomdeplume@stickybit.guru>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sure you've heard the expression that there is a kid on every
>>>>>> block that can probably fix your computer. Look at all the gamers
>>>>>> out there that build their own PCs for high performance gaming.
>>>>>
>>>>> gaming systems is not apple's target demographic nor is it a lot of
>>>>> companies.
>>>>>
>>>>> it's a very specialized niche and apple is more than happy to not
>>>>> bother with it.
>>>>
>>>> So on topic of target audiences, who is the target for Linux? What
>>>> does the Linux user want?
>>>>
>>>>>> Plenty of young people are doing amazing things in the computer
>>>>>> sciences these days. It's a growing enterprise.
>>>>>
>>>>> very few are building their own computers and that number is dropping
>>>>> as mobile becomes vastly more popular.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, not that I don't trust you or anything... Could you back that one
>>>> up, please?
>>>>
>>> No. :)
>>> If you look at sales figures from the various companies and their
>>> financials you'll see that it is laptops/hybrids and mobile that are
>>> garnering the bulk of sales these days.  A quick stop at the big box
>>> store will show some indication.  Usually about 20+ laptops/hybrids on
>>> display and maybe 2 towers but more often just one.
>>>
>>>>> you don't see anyone building their own laptops, tablets or phones.
>>>>
>>>> :) Actually, I did see a few of those. And they were big, and
>>>> interesting. But I take your point. Desktops on the other hand, I
>>>> disagree. And servers, oh I see those being built by joe-somebody all
>>>> the time.
>>>
>>> Why in the world would they want to do that?  I mean we used to do
>>> that,
>>> but Compaq's servers were just superb.  I know they are HP's now, but
>>> have they changed that much?
>>
>> Unfortunately, yes.  HP has acquired the Fiorina syndrome of trying to
>> make the parts as cheap as possible.  Spending more for better hardware
>> from HP usually solves the problem, especially in the server arena.
>>
>> Right now, HP has split off the PC and server divisions where HP keeps
>> the servers as it is more profitable for them.  Who they sold the PC
>> division to, I don't know.  This was discussed over in the c.o.v
>> newsgroup.
>>
> I went to school on the Proliants so we could be a service center for
> them.  I remember that they didn't even talk about the small ones we were
> selling at all.  Can't remember which model was the lowest they
> discussed, but it was one ass-kicking server.
>
>
>
>
The high ends were also very disaster and fault tolerant servers.  A bit 
pricey, but you get what you pay for.  There used to be a YouTube video 
of one of their servers getting blown apart while it was doing a 
database commit.  No data was lost.


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