@Dashrender said:

I'm curious, what percentage is sold in first world countries versus the rest of the world.

Yes, very good question. The percentages that I have seen are judged on "units shipped" not the amount of money spent on them. As Lenovo completely dominates the Chinese market, I am assuming that a major percentage of those units are sold there. I am also guessing that at least a fair percentage of their sales are very low cost devices. I know that they make Chromebooks and some entry level stuff even for the US market. They might be selling a fraction of the PCs by cost, even if leading in per unit volume.

I can only add that most of my systems the last decade have been ASUS boards, they are rock solid.

Hey, that's from SmartFile, we know those guys!

@nadnerB said:

And there is the cat photo... he's walking along the fence...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Data-Exposed/SQL-Server-on-Linux-Sneak-Peak

@Dashrender said:

MS is finally making Enterprise look like a more worthwhile upgrade, but damn.. still just more money to spend.

That's the Windows world. Commitment to paying for all the little features. Great stuff, but the cost to "do things the Windows way" gets really expensive. And doing anything else leave you without the benefits of the ecosystem that money is being invested into.

@RojoLoco said:

@dafyre sure, but MS has been touting windows 10 as the fix for all that is not necessarily broken... and they've been a little pushy about it.

Which means something is definitely broken... and we just haven't figured out what it is yet. Oh, wait, I know! It's ads on the lock screens!

Edit: I haven't actually seen them on my laptop.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

Debit is significantly cheaper to the merchant. If you want to do your part to lower prices, use debit always.

I completely know where this is coming from - but do you think enough people are doing this to make the vendor lower their prices? and even if enough people were doing it, would the vendor lower prices or instead just keep the extra profit?

Around here about 2 years after gas prices started to sky rocket, delivery companies added hefty fuel surcharges. Now that fuel has gone down have they dropped them, or even reduced them? uh nope.

Evil Corp Inc. around here actually did

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ferries-eliminates-fuel-surcharge-as-oil-prices-fall-1.2873739

@JaredBusch said:

WiFi calling is a big deal. The you obviously have no need to have service in areas outside of tower range.

FTFY 😉

I do need service in areas outside of tower range but that's well away from the range of WiFi. I will admit though that I've been fortunate enough to never need WiFi calling as everywhere I've worked and lived has had great mobile reception.

@nadnerB thanks man!

Greaaaaaaaat.

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

Right, but then they don't update it? How can you have enough resources to create an application and then not enough to update it with the platform it's built on?

Why waste money updating something if your customers don't leave you anyway? That's not good business.

I hate your logic sometimes 😉

@scottalanmiller said:

And would a campus agreement cover them after they leave school?

Don't know, I don't work there.
I'm not defending either party. I do think one party has shot themselves in the foot while the other has shot their mouth off.

@scottalanmiller said:

Doesn't Ubiquiti have something for this? There was some vendor that I looked at in the last year that had nice options and now I cannot remember who it was.

If I'm looking at $200 entry fee for just a networked temperature sensor, well, a Raspberri Pi with a $3 temp sensor and $.10 resistor looks real good.

Knowing how Ubiquiti does things, they probably drop the DIY route off the cost curve. Yep, looked at B+H Looks like you can get a temp sensor on the network for ~$96, which you'd be at or over that price just for components of a DIY kit.

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller The only time I think I would consider using it would be if I had a remote office that had a metered connection (satellite) or very low bandwidth available.

Even then I would only do it exclusively in a company that sends a lot more email internally rather than externally and that would probably be a big company and that would likely mean that we just need to fix the Internet situation.

I was still talking about WSUS.

It's amazing how many of these bloatware security issues have come up in the past two weeks since we had the comment made of "is removing bloatware worth it" in that one thread. 🙂

@Dashrender This is only moderate density DDR3, no where near 128GB. Every color is another layer of copper. Check out his grid size for scale! 4 thousandths of an inch!

Now consider that each trace from the chip to the pin needs to be the same length or you start to induce latency errors. That should blow your mind sufficiently 🙂

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@Dashrender said:

WOW $10/m for 20 GB? talk about expensive!

They labeled it clearly as an expensive waste of money, maybe you didn't notice the "Adobe" written on it.

Dell acknowledge the issue:

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/dell-owns-up-to-edellroot-fake-cert-security-gaffe-412229?eid=1&edate=20151125&utm_source=20151125_AM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

To get rid of the self-signed root certificate, Dell customers have the option of waiting for a software patch to be rolled out over the coming days, or downloading and running the fix themselves.

Link to fix: https://dellupdater.dell.com/Downloads/APP009/eDellRootCertFix.exe

@nadnerB said:

@scottalanmiller said:

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

I'd still pass.

Yeah, it is less than an ideal design, especially when they could easily have made R6 and R10 options.