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Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs
digitaldc writes "Here's a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs. It's long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. It's also one of the frankest CEO interviews you'll ever read. Sculley talks openly about Jobs and Apple, admits it was a mistake to hire him to run the company and that he knows little about computers. It's rare for anyone, never mind a big-time CEO, to make such frank assessment of their career in public."
Bloomberg recently posted a 48 minute video of Apple's history here. A lot of Sculley's interview comments made it into this video as well.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
You never, ever have to go to the command line.
I never quite got why so many people are allergic to command lines. The greatest revolution in the web was reintroducing the command line in the form of the search bar. You can see search based interfaces on everything today including Windows 7 and iOS. Linux systems today are also auto-configuring to such a large extent I seldom have to configure anything at all. I still remember when I had to manually generate the X11 configuration. Today X11 automatically detects everything on startup, from your keyboard, to your graphics card, to your monitor. It also manages to do this with a much wider spectrum of hardware then the small sample MacOS X needs to deal with.
I remember working on a kernel extension for OS X on a previous job 5 or 6 years ago. We were having some trouble, so we started digging through the XNU source code. We found an email address of an engineer at apple in some of the comments and emailed him. After a few emails it was determined there was a bug (we were doing something rather strange, so this wouldn't normally affect developers), he offered a work around and opened a bug report for the issue. This wouldn't have happened had I been developing for windows.
Why does every single discussion about Apple on Slashdot has to be so polarized?
Why don't you make any effort to understand why nerds could like Apple products?
I'm a nerd, and I like my Mac Mini because:
* it doesn't consume much power
* Lightroom/Photoshop work flawlessly
* Portal/Counter Strike work
* I have access to a yakuake-like terminal, and I can administrate my Linux servers with ssh+zsh+vim without having to install any third party app on my client. Last time I tried, cygwin & putty terminals on Windows were close to unusable in comparison.
* I know how to build a computer from scratch, install any Linux flavor on it with virtual machines in order to be able to do all the above. Been there, done that, but sometimes I want to get things done instead of experimenting with yet another setup.
* If I want to feel good, I go write some bug reports for Ubuntu or answer newbie questions on forums.
See? I suppose those points could be valuable for nerds, and I didn't mention any "ooooohh, shiny!" factor.