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And yet another day in the paradise[^]
Oh, think twice... (before activating the windows update)
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Apple’s first ARM-based Mac will be available later this year Maybe they can bring back the PowerPC brand as well?
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It's funny as IMHO Intel slowly becomes the Apple of the CPU market...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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They could have done worse than to migrate to the Power ISA.
I wonder how this will go. Having what was essentially their own CPU ISA didn't work out so well for HP. Itanium was always all about HP.
Then again, Apple's own-brand ARM CPUs are still ARM, so it's not all Mac-unique.
It's a 'bet the company'.... well, 'bet the desktop/laptop product range' move though. If successful it makes it harder to compare directly to PCs and PCs can't ever go there, no matter how good Windows-on-ARM gets. And if it goes badly, then no more Mac desktops/laptops. Which they'd hardly notice in revenue terms.
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A team at Princeton University has built a hardware platform that allows different kinds of computer cores to fit together, allowing designers to customize systems in new ways. You take one from column A and one from column B
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They are aware that Intel and AMD have already done this, right?
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... and just about anybody that makes CPUs for mobile devices...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Joe Woodbury wrote: They are aware that Intel and AMD have already done this, right?
Or just about anyone
... Or am I missing something essential here? System designers have used cores of varying ISAs since the day when the term "spooling" was invented: A separate subsystem for controlling a printer while the main CPU continued on other tasks ("Syncronous Peripheral Output On Line" = spool) - that was in the 1950s. The IBM 360 series had "channel processors" controlling interactive terminals to the point of running complete text editors without disturbing the main CPU, in the mid 1960s. The first vaxen emulated PDP-11 ISA in microcode, but later models utilized the LSI-11 in the DecWriter console terminal to execute PDP-11 code segments (unplug the console, and the CPU lost its ability to run PDP-11 code).
You could view a DMA chip (or module on a complex chip) as a simple CPU with it simple ISA. Any CUDA graphics card is a CPU with a not-so-simple ISA. Any physical disk with a cache has its own processor with its own ISA. ... And so on. Haven't we done this for generations?
This "platform" may be an attempt to create a "Strangler Jeans - One Size Fits All" kind of omnibus system where all sorts of cores with all sorts of ISAs can be interconnected over a single bus. You plug in your core into the bus that's for everyone. Isn't that a cornerstone in the PowerPC architecture?
You see the same thing in the ARM architecture, except that they have realized that you need at least two or three sizes (i.e. buses) to fit all needs.
These guys probably have some new twist that I don't understand because I am not a hardware expert. But seen from the outside, it is difficult to see the revolutionary aspect.
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A quarter of businesses plan to move all of their applications to the cloud within a year, according to a new report from O’Reilly Media. It's all fun and games until the storm starts
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And by cloud, we mean servers, so we're right.
It was either that or: a fifth of businesses will be bankrupt in a year. What's the Venn diagram?
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Only in the clouds can you achieve true social distancing. 
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One in four companies have no significant IP.
... or their managers are idiots 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: One in four companies have no significant IP.
I thought the important thing is to be significant is the DNS-Name not the IP  
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: ... or their managers are idiots
I don't know why... but I think that a 25% in this statement still is quite optimistic though
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: One in four companies have no significant IP.
You can also have on-premises cloud.
Kevin
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Unless the "cloud" is just a fancy name for a LAN, the data on the "cloud" are typically accessible from outside the company.
If it's accessible from outside the company (even with security mechanisms in place), it can leak. If you have significant IP, you don't store it where it can leak.
The OP referred to companies that are going 100% to the "cloud". I do not claim that there are no use cases where using the "cloud" makes sense; I do claim that there are no use cases where you should put sensitive IP on the "cloud".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: One in four companies have no significant IP.
... or their managers are idiots
Moving to the cloud means you either have no significant IP or you are an idiot? Care to expound on that ignorant statement?
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I thought his statement was self-explanatory. 
There is a constant pendulum between centralized and distributed. Mainframes, workstations, servers, desktops, the cloud. Every swing of the pendulum touted as a brilliant innovation. It is insufferably tedious techno-marketing codswallop.
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Greg Utas wrote: It is insufferably tedious techno-marketing codswallop.
Actually, there is real benefit in moving to the cloud. Especially for small businesses.
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Undoubtedly there are benefits for small businesses, but I don't see it as being any more innovative than third-party website hosting.
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I mean that putting your IP on the cloud is begging for it to leak. Any data that are on a server that does not belong to you and is not physically secured by you does not really belong to you.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I mean that putting your IP on the cloud is begging for it to leak.
You seem to be assuming that a server protected by teams and teams of security experts at Amazon or Microsoft is much more vulernable than the one in your closet protected by your boss's nephew who "knows computers." 
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The threat surface for Amazon et al. is greater than the threat surface for a server on a LAN.
A "cloud" server at Amazon et al. has to be accessible by the intended users. That means that it must be visible to, and potentially accessible to, others on the same network, which in this case is the entire internet. This is true even if there is a portal which regulates access to your server; if it is accessible to you, it may be accessible to others.
A local server in your office should only be accessible to, and visible to, computers on the same network, i.e. those on your company's LAN. it is therefore possible to (for example) configure your firewall to block all traffic to/from the internet from/to your server.
I am not ignoring the possibility of accessing the server via one of the workstations in the company. This is likely to be a problem no matter where the server is situated, and is out of scope for this discussion.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The threat surface for Amazon et al. is greater than the threat surface for a server on a LAN.
A "cloud" server at Amazon et al. has to be accessible by the intended users. That means that it must be visible to, and potentially accessible to, others on the same network, which in this case is the entire internet. This is true even if there is a portal which regulates access to your server; if it is accessible to you, it may be accessible to others.
True. There are pros and cons for going to cloud. If they were all pros, everyone would do it. If they were all cons, no one would do it. But each company will have to assess the pros vs cons. But to say someone is stupid for moving to the cloud is in itself a stupid statement.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: configure your firewall to block all traffic to/from the internet from/to your server.
You can still do this in the cloud.
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The Insider News - Microsoft: These hackers got from a broken password to full control of a network - in just days[^]
The Insider News - Oracle’s BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online[^]
The Insider News - Cryptojackers hijack powerful machine-learning clusters in Microsoft’s Azure[^]
And that only in two weeks.
I don't argue that their security is bad, it is for sure better than what I would be able to bring up. But being that big makes them more appetible target for "manual hacking".
If you are capable to at least stop automated attacks, I think being a small target can be a good protection too.
On the other hand (ok, maybe you yes because you are in the US but...) there is no worldwide 100% certainty that you won't get "cut off" service, like ADOBE did with that Latinamerica country some months ago. OK, access was granted relatively soon again, but anyways...
If you have your own server, they might get you offline too, but at least you still have your data. You only need to find another provider and done.
As a final note:
I don't say cloud is bad or good.
I see its advantages. But it has its disadvantages too.
If you inform yourself good enough and you take your own decission... do what you want / fit you best.
M.D.V. 
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If you are still using System.Data.SqlClient, you just have to replace the old library with the new one, as it is a true drop-in replacement. All you code will still work as before. But it will be more future-proof. Just like it always was, but different
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