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Copland/Gershwin vs. NeXT

Posted by pudge on from the drink-the-kool-aid dept.

Etcetera writes "David K. Every (of MacKiDo fame) has written an interesting article at iGeek about Copland vs. NeXT and the decisions that Apple made back in '95-96. Although most agree that bringing Steve Jobs back was a Good Thing, a lot of cool Apple-invented technologies got left by the wayside without a fair shot at proving themselves once NeXT came in. Was it always the right call? Functions as a cautionary tale about management vs. engineering as well."

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  1. Pay attention now, this is not offtopic by RobotWisdom · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "What a terrible way to kill a man, with a knife in his back. If I had killed him, I might have struck him over the head with a brick, but I wouldn't use a knife... knife ... knife ... knife ... Alice please pass me the bread knife."

    (Why it's on-topic-- the Copland article creates this exact Hitchcock-effect via its repeating links to 'Apple'.)

    1. Re:Pay attention now, this is not offtopic by dke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      A tad inaccurate... I don't ad the [teako170.com] crap everywhere... What I do have is keyword substition on the little CMS thing I wrote... and haven't yet tuned. Since Apple is a keyword, it is linking you to the stories about Apple (which happens to be one). I plan on expanding that, to auto-interlink a lot of definitions, stories and information. I don't find the underline horribly intrusive myself. But I do think the feature needs tuning. (It has the ability to only do the first instance in the document, and I probably need to throw that switch).

  2. Re:Inaccurate in places by andrewski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No shit. That asshole is either living in his own fantasy world, drunk, on crack, or all three. Read his section on emulators for a deep vision of his stupidity.

  3. Your sig - Because they murder for fun and Prophet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or possibly people hate Muslims by instinct - somehow they sense it's a religion founded by a pedophile (Muhammad married a 6 year old girl and consumated the marriage when she was 9).

    Read "Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs." by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner

  4. OT: choice of words by capmilk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just out of curiosity: is there any reason why every now and then, slashdot posters obviously insult people merely because they have a different opinion?

    Is that the thinking different bit of apple.slashdot?

    1. Re:OT: choice of words by dke · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      ust out of curiosity: is there any reason why every now and then, slashdot posters obviously insult people merely because they have a different opinion?
      It is called immaturity. I used to do that to in the late 70's, when I was a teen and first on-line, and raging at all the world (especially authority). Sad, because they actually damage the minor points they might have in there... Of course there are actually many reasons. BitGeek has some personal thing going because I answered some of his questions once, and then disagreed later (and demonstrated his mistakes in reasoning). Now he just just tries to add libel and slander to his list of other issues.