I refer to the snow giants who are plotting revenge for our melting their habitat, with icy stares in their crusted lairs, in... dun dun dun, Antartica.
Cute penguins with happy feet slipping and sliding on purulent piles of poop aren't the real worry here...
Hmm. Since most (80+%) of the population on Canada list within 100 miles of the US border we're pretty much doing to march back down to Washington and set it on fire again. (Look it up Yanks. You do NOT wanna screw with us.)
I like Americans, but every now and again they need to get a swift kick in the ass to remind them to get their heads out of there.
Yes there are laws which invalidate contracts signed under duress, threat or intimidation. He might as well not have signed it for what its actually worth: used toilet paper.
If everyone paid, or worse, if we got the average designer, we'd probably get bulky devices that look like something out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
I wonder what Johnny Ives would design?
I bet it would be something that looks remarkably like the latest Apple earphones, with some external reception membranes, a built-in battery and 20-20kHz amplifiers and a pair of sound production membranes. (It would also be remote tailorable/controllable via your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.)
Imagine your company logo emblazoned across the surface of an asteroid.
Not only will your company have done something great for all mankind, but mankind will be reminded of it in perpetuity.
First we paint the whole thing white and then get computer controlled pain ball guns to splatter, like an inkjet printer, your company's logo all over the asteroid.
Think of watching a Papa John's ad every time you look up in the sky and having to say a little prayer that you can actually enjoy a large nutritious Papa John's pizza instead of having been reduced to a smokin' crater.:-)
Most of it is very human and always of dubious taste.
EG: After Columbia shuttle fateful meeting with a O-Ring weakness, what the FIRST THING I saw on the web? What does NASA stand for? "Need Another Seven Astronauts."
This is another futile attempt to regulate people reactions. (Ask the Taliban how their campaign to stop girls from getting an education's going...)
Micro Soft began its rise based on their strong-arming OEMs into using their OS in the 80s and they could get away with such coercive tactics because the accountants of the world demanded multiple sources for the acquisition of the hardware (to the accountants of the world hardware and software came out of different accounts,) and that is why PCs got purchased. The illegality of the software's origin was "somebody else's problem."
Apple was a single source for uniquely designed hardware so it was NOT getting past a corporate accountant. Even IBM was forced to abandon touting their superior OS/2 as a selling point. Anything else at that time that anyone else was offering was going to be multi-source and therefore receive a pass from an accountant, after some justification for the expenditure at a board meeting or two.
The accountants NEVER cared about the OS or the software, hardware wasall that they were writing the purchase orders for. Its now 2012 and they STILL DONT CARE. (Bean-counters don't understand the synergy, they only understand the difference. Ask them and you'll see I'm right. [They teach entire seminars in medical schools about this blind-spot.])
All they know is that it better be perpetually cheaper to own and NOT get in the way of their firms' buying of hardware.
Now that tablets are sub $1K products, and accountants are NOT being consulted for such petty-cash expenditures, Apple's iPad is getting adopted (despite Apple's best efforts to remain a consumer electronics products company.)
HTML5 is roughly equivalent to Java as far as a multi-platform programming language and development platform.
Java has been dying the death of a thousand cuts since its inception. Its latest suffering through mismanagement at/in the hands of Oracle doesn't hide the fact that the JIT interpiler isn't worth sh*t. (The only successful approach I've ever encountered to using a virtual machine was employed by the Digitalk VM which cached successive VM invocations so that you ran at native 'raw iron" machine speeds after encountering the performance hit the first and only time an pseudo-instruction was executed in a method.)
The lethal performance problems that WordPerfect encountered trying to implement their suite of office products in Java still apply.
HTML5 is doomed to suffer the same fate regardless of how many spare CPU cycles we throw at it because its fundamentally not parsimonious enough with response time.
Until Linux boxes become as dumbed down as Macs, techies who love to play with all the wiz-bang settings through CLIs will never allow that to happen.
Windows boxes are safe, MCIEs will never be able to get Linux boxes working. (They'll keep on sucking at the poisoned tits, lurching from one badly bitten, scabrous and gangrenous nipple to another.:-)
Imagine you're a corporate boss with all of your hundreds or thousands of employees in their cubicles all being, ahem, productive.
Why the [expletive deleted] would you want to buy them new tablet PCs?
You were pissed off when Microsoft EOL'd Windows NT 4.x and made you test everything again for XP.
You have paid big bucks to set up all of the ergonomic crap for the drones, so they can just sit in front of their CRTs until the accountants twist your arm into upgrading to flat panels.
This crap won't fly in 90% of Microsoft's markets.
MS DOS was built on the bones of QDOS which was acquired for that very purpose by Microsoft.
This was Microsoft's first foray into a non-intel/z80 architecture DOS and it thought it was faster and easier to acquire an existing DOS than to develop their own for the IBM PC. Time was a big factor as IBM had clout in the enterprise hardware market then.
Its sold in huge numbers because it was elegant (In some respects it was MORE elegant than the MacBook because it used another ubiquitous component, the TV, for its display.)
Commodore's only fault was that they didn't know it, and couldn't follow it up, (otherwise you'd be up to your butt with nautically named products, instead of Lion this and Panther that...)
I agree. Its not a broad patent. (That honor would go to the makers of a wedge shaped Smalltalk/V based laptop computer that was around in the 1990's. It was an utter commercial failure.:-)
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Imagine selling electronics and supplies for miniature surface to air missiles that can be produced by 3D printers.
Paranoia + inventiveness = profit.
What about the threat from below .
I refer to the snow giants who are plotting revenge for our melting their habitat, with icy stares in their crusted lairs, in ... dun dun dun, Antartica .
Cute penguins with happy feet slipping and sliding on purulent piles of poop aren't the real worry here...
Hmm. Since most (80+%) of the population on Canada list within 100 miles of the US border we're pretty much doing to march back down to Washington and set it on fire again. (Look it up Yanks. You do NOT wanna screw with us.)
I like Americans, but every now and again they need to get a swift kick in the ass to remind them to get their heads out of there.
It was described in a negative manner. Why?
'Cause we doan like them Chiners much?
Its because we can't believe that anybody else is pulling the same kinds of asinine stunts we used to pull all the time...
I'd love to have a video of THAT flyby.
10+ kilometers/second (36000k/h) with those kinds of tolerances must look like being on a bullet aimed at a bull's eye right up until the end.
Yes there are laws which invalidate contracts signed under duress, threat or intimidation. He might as well not have signed it for what its actually worth: used toilet paper.
If everyone paid, or worse, if we got the average designer, we'd probably get bulky devices that look like something out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
I wonder what Johnny Ives would design?
I bet it would be something that looks remarkably like the latest Apple earphones, with some external reception membranes, a built-in battery and 20-20kHz amplifiers and a pair of sound production membranes. (It would also be remote tailorable/controllable via your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.)
Price $129.00 a pair.
Imagine your company logo emblazoned across the surface of an asteroid.
Not only will your company have done something great for all mankind, but mankind will be reminded of it in perpetuity.
First we paint the whole thing white and then get computer controlled pain ball guns to splatter, like an inkjet printer, your company's logo all over the asteroid.
Think of watching a Papa John's ad every time you look up in the sky and having to say a little prayer that you can actually enjoy a large nutritious Papa John's pizza instead of having been reduced to a smokin' crater . :-)
Seriously...
The dweeb's trying to legislate humor.
Most of it is very human and always of dubious taste.
EG: After Columbia shuttle fateful meeting with a O-Ring weakness, what the FIRST THING I saw on the web? What does NASA stand for? "Need Another Seven Astronauts."
This is another futile attempt to regulate people reactions. (Ask the Taliban how their campaign to stop girls from getting an education's going...)
Micro Soft began its rise based on their strong-arming OEMs into using their OS in the 80s and they could get away with such coercive tactics because the accountants of the world demanded multiple sources for the acquisition of the hardware (to the accountants of the world hardware and software came out of different accounts,) and that is why PCs got purchased. The illegality of the software's origin was "somebody else's problem."
Apple was a single source for uniquely designed hardware so it was NOT getting past a corporate accountant. Even IBM was forced to abandon touting their superior OS/2 as a selling point. Anything else at that time that anyone else was offering was going to be multi-source and therefore receive a pass from an accountant, after some justification for the expenditure at a board meeting or two.
The accountants NEVER cared about the OS or the software, hardware wasall that they were writing the purchase orders for. Its now 2012 and they STILL DONT CARE. (Bean-counters don't understand the synergy, they only understand the difference. Ask them and you'll see I'm right. [They teach entire seminars in medical schools about this blind-spot.])
All they know is that it better be perpetually cheaper to own and NOT get in the way of their firms' buying of hardware.
Now that tablets are sub $1K products, and accountants are NOT being consulted for such petty-cash expenditures, Apple's iPad is getting adopted (despite Apple's best efforts to remain a consumer electronics products company.)
News Flash...
299,792,458 metres per second is the fastest that car, or anything else, can ever go.
And 0K is the coolest you'll never be.
Give it up guys...
a recipe for miserable workers and substandard code
Since when has that ever mattered to upper management?
HTML5 is roughly equivalent to Java as far as a multi-platform programming language and development platform.
Java has been dying the death of a thousand cuts since its inception. Its latest suffering through mismanagement at/in the hands of Oracle doesn't hide the fact that the JIT interpiler isn't worth sh*t. (The only successful approach I've ever encountered to using a virtual machine was employed by the Digitalk VM which cached successive VM invocations so that you ran at native 'raw iron" machine speeds after encountering the performance hit the first and only time an pseudo-instruction was executed in a method.)
The lethal performance problems that WordPerfect encountered trying to implement their suite of office products in Java still apply.
HTML5 is doomed to suffer the same fate regardless of how many spare CPU cycles we throw at it because its fundamentally not parsimonious enough with response time.
Until Linux boxes become as dumbed down as Macs, techies who love to play with all the wiz-bang settings through CLIs will never allow that to happen.
Windows boxes are safe, MCIEs will never be able to get Linux boxes working. (They'll keep on sucking at the poisoned tits, lurching from one badly bitten, scabrous and gangrenous nipple to another. :-)
Seriously, keep toys of of the workplace.
If executives want some toys, well their offices aren't places for work anyway. Let them buy Apples.
Big If ...
Imagine you're a corporate boss with all of your hundreds or thousands of employees in their cubicles all being, ahem, productive.
Why the [expletive deleted] would you want to buy them new tablet PCs?
You were pissed off when Microsoft EOL'd Windows NT 4.x and made you test everything again for XP.
You have paid big bucks to set up all of the ergonomic crap for the drones, so they can just sit in front of their CRTs until the accountants twist your arm into upgrading to flat panels.
This crap won't fly in 90% of Microsoft's markets.
MS DOS was built on the bones of QDOS which was acquired for that very purpose by Microsoft.
This was Microsoft's first foray into a non-intel/z80 architecture DOS and it thought it was faster and easier to acquire an existing DOS than to develop their own for the IBM PC. Time was a big factor as IBM had clout in the enterprise hardware market then.
This was never in question.
Who was the ignorant idiot who filed the lawsuit?
This is exactly the WRONG way to use social media.
Its NOT to broadcast to a select few what decision [insert name here] reached.
Social media is to solicit from the "Wisdom of the Commons" who a running mate should be.
This is so stupid that its doesn't deserve further comment.
I'm replying to this message using the voice recognition feature, it's amazing.
That is really changing how I'm using this MacBook Pro now on.
GUIs alone or so 1984.
I am sure that Microsoft would never stoop that low. :-)
The actually delivered, uh, the Kin, the Zune, their software is legendary for fitting inside 640k. (Nobody needs more than that...)
in its day.
Its sold in huge numbers because it was elegant (In some respects it was MORE elegant than the MacBook because it used another ubiquitous component, the TV, for its display.)
Commodore's only fault was that they didn't know it, and couldn't follow it up, (otherwise you'd be up to your butt with nautically named products, instead of Lion this and Panther that...)
to just the essential components.
Elegance comes from the Latin E (meaning out) and LEGARE (meaning to choose).
Elegant design has all unnecessary crap out-chosen from it.
Jonathan Ives and the rest of the people at Apple, just happen to be brilliant at it.
Just showing you that it doesn't contain any user serviceable parts. (It must have been effective. :-)
I leave the aesthetic judgements to others.
Apple is just a well designed piece of hardware, intentionally so.
I own IOS, Linux, OS X and Windows devices. They all have their uses and their limitations.
with user serviceable paint either.
The tinkerers don't like it for the same reason that they don't like modern cars with electronic fuel injection systems.
You can't pop open the hood and get at the system's guts.
If it was easy to do, we'd all have cheap, reliable, fast flying cars already.
The component layout, the integrity and holistic design approach make this an assembled piece of industrial art.
As for Apple's achievement... I'll let the lick-worthy-ness of all of their pieces of functional industrial design speak for Apple's real genius.
I agree. Its not a broad patent. (That honor would go to the makers of a wedge shaped Smalltalk/V based laptop computer that was around in the 1990's. It was an utter commercial failure. :-)