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A350XWB, the Plane Airbus Did Not Want To Build, Makes Maiden Flight
McGruber writes "The BBC reports that the Airbus A350XWB (extra wide body) has made its first flight. Like the Boeing 787, the A350 offers airlines the chance to combine long-range services with improved fuel efficiency. The A350's fuselage is made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic, while many other parts of the aircraft use titanium and advanced alloys to save weight. It also has state-of-the-art aerodynamics, and engine manufacturer Rolls Royce has produced a new custom-designed power unit. Airbus claims that all of this means the A350 will use 25% less fuel than the current generation of equivalent aircraft. It also points out that noise and emissions will be well below current limits."
That's nothing! The whole damn software industry works like this.
Because it's made up of spineless attention whores with zero leadership potential.
And the only leaders are certified madmen, who are still loved just because they stand out and their shit, which is still a failure of epic proportions, is still better than the rest. Mostly because the rest is imitating those madmen. Badly.
Windows always copied the old MacOS, OS X was designed for morons. iOS was designed for the new generation of morons created by this, which made the original morons look like total computer geniuses. Gnome is just a OS X clone. KDE is a Windows clone. Compiz was brilliant, but obviously also crazy and chaotic. Then KDE spiced it up by copying Compiz and OS X a bit. MS followed suit and cloned Compiz and KDE features too with Vista / 7. And now the Apple madmen have infiltrated MS too; ergo Win8.
As for office suites: They are so similar, that even if you can even distinguish them, it's because they went utterly insane and copied an old great feature (like the Lotus WordPro InfoBox) in the worst possible way. Otherwise, they all are 1:1 StarWriter and 1-2-3 clones. With an extra shovel of shitty misunderstanding of the original ideas.
Browsers mas you even sadder. Firefox now looks EXACTLY like Chrome, the by far most dumbed-down and option-limited browser of all. Opera threw away its engine, and went Webkit too. And IE, apart from always having been a horrible bloody nightmare (hence the code name Trident) based on a bad interpretation of the Mosaic code base.
And all games are prequels, sequels, and *fifth* fuckin' installments of the *same damn game over and over again* (e.g. "generic shooter"), with the same damn engine and the same damn shaders that make everything look the same! (Mostly like shiny/wet plastic.)
In software, EVERYTHING is a damn response. And the only design source who's not a committee is because he's too crazy to be accepted into a committee.
Welcome to the world of shit!