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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.
Did you hear that? It's a million Apple freaks whining in the distance.
Such a thing aside, BushCheney08, please listen to me, in spite of being not related this thread very much. Yesterday, I went to YOSHINOYA nearby my house. Then I found that all seats were saved, and couldn't sit. I gazed a banner which says"Reducing By 150yen". Are they fool? Is it nonsense? Hey, don't come YOSHINOYA where you usually don't come only for reducing by 150yen,goddam? Parents and their children also came? and said"Now, Dad'll order TOKUMORI?" I couldn't see anymore. I give you 150yen, so get away? YOSHINOYA originally should be more bloodthirsty. To stab or to be stabbed, such an atmosphere is desirable. Women and children must keep out it. At last, I satThen, the man who sit next to me ordered"OOMORI TUYUDAKU". So, I got angry again. Listen, TUYUDAKU is already out of date. I was disgusted because you order TUYUDAKU with a look of triumph. I want to ask him"Is that true that you want TUYUDAKU?". I want to ask a question closely. I want to ask a question closely almost one hour. I want to say"You simply want to say TUYUDAKU, and want to behave as if you are in the know. From the point of my view who is an professional of YOSHINOHYA, fashion among professionals of YOSHINOYA is NEGIDAKU. It is. NEGIDAKU is with much of leek. It is order style for professional of YOSHINOYA. But if you order with that style, you'll marked by a clerk. It is, so to speak, a sword with edges on the both side of it. I can't recommend it to beginners. After all, you, a beginner, should eat GYUSYAKETEISYOKU.
I installed Ubuntu recently, and out of about 4-5 packages I tried to use, I got exactly zero working correctly.
And I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 and everything worked just fine.
Some returned obscure error messages I have no clue how to debug (partly because they're written in programmer-ese, but mostly because they're completely undocumented in the manual or the web.
Yeah, and those BSODs and other Windows errors are soooo freakin' explanatory and comprehensible.
That's far more than I can say for the majority of open source software I've tried.
How much OSS have you tried? You can't seriously be basing your opinion of OSS on your one-time install of Ubuntu and the 4-5 packages you tried to use. I use OSS exclusively at home and almost exclusively at work. I don't have any issues.
Go ahead, call me a moron for not being able to get it to work. I know you want to.
Moron.
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"