headfull0wine

I knew the French & UK models would completely fall apart once borders re-opened. In the time it takes me to drive to the next Canadian province, I could cross 4-5 EU countries. Try doing contact tracing across that many different apps...

I am happy with how my government has handled the pandemic. 🇨🇦.  Both at the federal and provincial level.  Could it have ben better?  Yes.  But our political leaders align their decisions with the science.  In my province, our Provincial Health officer gets more air time that our Health Minister.  And our Health Minister gets more air time than our Premier.

I can see why this article was written though.   I don’t see any unified, level headed, medical messaging Coming out of the US.  And having watched some of your President’s news conferences, I can see where you would want big tech to take the lead.  There are many countries who have (mostly) put partisan politics aside and work towards the common good.  But what I see happening in the U.S. makes me shake my head. I really hope that what I’m seeing is partisan media slinging mud in an election year. 

Big tech can help the scientific community, but it shouldn’t supplant it. I think the medical community should work with tech on the solutions.  They're both in it for the long haul.  Then get the elected officials of today (because they come and go) to communicate it to the masses.  

joeblack said:

headfull0wine said:

Question:  if Windows has an ARM version of its OS, could an ARM based Mac Bootcamp or dual boot to ARM Windows? However bad the ARM Windows might be right now... 

I think from a technological standpoint it's possible; but feasibility from a business perspective I find it questionable. Even in it's current state running x86 Windows (natively or virtually) on Intel-based Macs is a very niche segment.

Agreed, but I think that niche segment will be quite vocal about losing that capability on ARM. “... was a big benefit of migrating to X86...”. “... going backwards...” etc. To be fair, Apple did tout it as a benefit last time.  

StrangeDays said:

Rayz2016 said:

knowitall said:

It will be the best move of Apple, ever.

It is also important to do it as fast as possible, late 2020 is already a bit late.
Maybe no one sees this coming but competition from opensource hardware and software designs will be intense.
Pine64 makes ARM hardware with Linux on it (not Android!) which is a decision as good as Apples macOS (Unix) on ARM.
The point is that a Pine phone costs $150, and no it isn’t junk at all it is pretty impressive.
On such hardware it is possible to install (for example) openbsd, one of the most secure and unhackable oses of this time,..
I’m doing that as a project on my Rock64.
Not being in a closed system has a lot of important benefits.
 

Yup, great for hackers, but people with work to do will ignore it, just like they ignored Linux on the desktop.

I am LOL’ing at the neckbeards still yammering about why open systems are better, while the rest of the world are fine with closed systems that actually work well and offer tremendous value. 

A walled garden allows you to focus on the work, and not the systems you are using to accomplish that work.  A friend of mine wanted to start a career as an animator.  At a conference he asked an industry professional if the built his own PC’s or bought off-the-shelf.  The guy asked him if he wanted to be an animator, or a tinkerer who made a couple of bucks doing some animation.  For the former he said to go to a store, drop your credit card, buy a proper pc complete with service contract and pay for all your software.  Then go home and start making money. If something goes wrong, call for service, and resume making money asap. 

Working in a big organization (20,000+) I can’t ‘use’ my personal computer for work regardless of whether it’s a Mac, a Mac running Win10 via bootcamp, or a PC.  My personal machine is only a vessel to VPN into the corporate network and work in a VM or RDP into my office PC. Nothing runs locally, nothing is stored locally.  

I think I’ll be able to continue doing that even with an ARM Mac.