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  • IBM seeing great returns on over 277,000 Macs and iOS devices issued to employees

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    eightzero said:
    I've been of the opinion that companies and governments that employ tech workers (individuals that use computers as a production device) should cease employing IT professionals. Just maintain a wifi network and printers. Then give all employees some sort of allowance to buy their own machine. When it breaks, they have to pay to fix it. If it never breaks, they keep the difference. Simple economics will solve this problem neatly. People care about their property, and will participate when they have a personal interest in the outcome.
    There is so much wrong with that. 
    netroxmac_doglollivermacseekerradarthekatroundaboutnowGeorgeBMacjasenj1magman1979

  • Apple's Cook calls $1 trillion value 'milestone,' says result of corporate values

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    crowley said:
    mr.wilsyn said:
    $1 Trillion dollars isn't quite as impressive when adjusted for inflation. In 1918, five generations in the past it equaled $60,000,000
    There weren't any companies worth even close to $60bn in 1917.  The first U.S. company to top a single $bn was US Steel, and that was in 1903.  That's equivalent to about $30bn when inflation-adjusted.

    By 1917 (presumably not that different from 1918), U.S. Steel was still the most valuable company in the USA, but it still only had a market cap of $46.4 inflation-adjusted.

    $1tn is very impressive.

    $60,000,000 = 60 million, not 60 billion. Not that it matters to me ... just that it seems you went to all that trouble to Google and all, which suggests a level of pride in accuracy to me. So, I thought I’d help out a bit. I’m also not sure if the person you quoted meant to actually type $60,000,000. Maybe they meant to type $60,000,000,000? In which case, you’d probably be right ... but again, it doesn’t matter very much to me.
    muthuk_vanalingamavon b7watto_cobra

  • FBI & other US branches join Justice Department in Cambridge Analytica investigation

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    This whole fiasco reminds me of that James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan in it. The one where a worldwide media conglomerate made a play for world domination. Damn ... what was the name of that one?
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  • A year with MacBook Pro: reviewing Apple's 2017 pro laptop models

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    I liked this article. Thanks! With that said, I especially liked how it lacked an overuse of the phrase, “with that said” or one of its many variations.

    That said, I recently read an article on another tech site, and it was about the same size as this one. However, it used either “with that said,” “ with all of that said,” or “that said” 21 times.

    With all of that said, thanks.
    tailstoojeffharrispscooter63watto_cobra

  • How to free up your Mac's internal storage by moving your iTunes Library to an external dr...

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    abolish said:
    abolish said:
    This article should have mentioned iTunes Match. That has more or less obsoleted this method. Combined with iCloud Music Library it totally frees you from the burden of managing an external drive -- plus it's stored in the cloud so you get an offsite backup of your precious music collection as well. It is Apple's primary solution for this exact problem. I get that there were some rare problems reported with it years ago but it's worth at least discussing here, in an article about "how to free up your Mac's internal storage by moving your iTunes Library..."
    iTunes Match and the similar but not identical feature in Apple Music will be discussed in a future tip. 

    This solution requires no paid service.
    Purchasing an external hard drive costs money too -- X2 if you want a backup.

    All I'm saying is this article should have mentioned iTunes Match / iCloud Music Library. While there are some small differences, the bigger picture is this is the Apple's primary solution for this local storage problem. High quality cloud storage easily accessible from all your devices. In that context this external drive method is much more niche, so it would be informative to explain the (rare) niche conditions under which you might want to explore it.
    iTunes Match only works for music files. Not much use for those that have a lot of personal video files that were not purchased from the iTunes Store. The method in the article addresses that. Your method does not.

    Scope of the article was defined at the beginning, and it stuck to that topic. Technically, there is nothing wrong with the article itself. The author “could have” adjusted the scope of it, but they didn’t, and that’s their choice.
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