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Woz Says Big Software Doesn't Work
chrizbot writes "A friend of mine studying journalism at Google's alma mater interviewed Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer fame. He chimes in on open source, DRM, record companies and how software from big companies suck so bad (including Apple's!). The part my friend doesn't include is how he guessed a trick was performed and won a necklace from him!" From the article: "Sometimes the engineers are true artists and really care what they're doing, doing a really great job. Although, I don't know how much I can even say that because the big companies, Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the crappiest products, you know, software-wise. The ones that have the most bugs, the most items that are supposedly in there but don't work. The most things that are left out because they aren't finished. The most things that are inconsistent with the way they did their last program. I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple."
So your friend figured out that Woz can't take six separate, solid rings, and force them to interlock - that one of the rings must have a break in it. Wow. Your friend is really amazing, dude. I never would have guessed that one of the oldest tricks in the book was actually unknown to someone. Next thing you know your friend will be figuring how to walk on broken glass, lie on a bed of nails, or get CmdrTaco's girlfriend to go out on a date with CowboyNeal.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
Even the article itself by a supposed journalism student contains this grammatical abortion: "office of Steve Wozniak, who(sic) many consider the father of the personal computer." The pronoun here should of course be "whom" and not "who"