I agree completely. I was in one of his classes at CMU as well. I'm not happy to see anyone get a disease, but man, if I had to make a list of people who have to leave planet earth, Randy Pausch would be in the top 100. Egomaniacal self-centered narcissist that lied to, and about, his students. He's all show, all marketing, all glitz.
This is not news. Not at all. Jobs had originally said that the iphone will only support third party apps that Apple approves of. That's still what will happen. TFA practically said it outright, look:
"We're working through a way [to support third-party development]," Jobs said. "We've got some pretty good ideas that we're working through, and I think sometime later this year we will find a way to let third parties write apps and still preserve security." And what "idea" will he pick? Later on in TFA:
NPD analyst Rubin sees iTunes as being one possible vehicle for delivering applications to the iPhone. Besides giving users a familiar interface, it will also give Apple the chance to certify applications for the device. In other words, we'll get exactly what control-freak Jobs said we'd get. The iphone will be closed. You can't put a third party app on the phone if apple doesn't put it on itunes.
Right. You think that Apple hadn't anticipated a market demand for third party apps? Apple pays a lot of attention to the upgrade path and lifespan of their products, in addition to looking at competitor capabilities-- you think they are building in the capability of third-party apps as some sort of afterthought on one of the most anticipated product launches in history? Apple isn't some garage-shop start-up, some fly-by-night operation that responds to nerds on Slashdot. Oh right, so it was all part of his master plan when Steve said third party apps are bad and the iphone won't support them. He decided to get some bad publicity from his developer base... for fun? Rather than saying "some third-party development will be allowed, more info later," which would have negated the bad vibes?
There has to be some moderation of flame-bait and trolling posts on any forum. No, there most certainly does NOT need to be moderation of flame-bait and trolling, on any forum. Perhaps maybe forums for children.
The only thing moderators should ever touch is posts that attempt to either physically damage the forum (such as flooding, hacking, etc), or spam posts. Other than that, any other moderation, while totally within the rights of the forum owner, is reason enough to leave that forum and find a better one.
There's been a lot of talk that the "WWW" may become the "GGG", the Great Global Grid, and I think it might actually happen. The network will absorb not just the information, but the computing power too...
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Chapter 1 must be 320 pages long because that's how hard it is to install jboss/tomcat. At least you will be providing documentation for it though, something the java community hasn't done in 10 years.
What Linux is inhibited by is the collectively anti-proprietary attitude of the open source community. The linux community quietly wants linux to be a walled-off open-source-only world. They have never quiet been comfortable with commercial software running on the linux platform. This is further reinforced by install systems like apt and yum, which make installing OSS software easy. But commercial software?
THAT is what's stifling linux, not user-friendliness or hardware support. I admin linux servers all day long, but I'll never run it on my desktop until I can run Adobe apps native in linux. Not through wine or whatever, NATIVE. And I can't blame Adobe for not supporting linux given the massive fragmentation and the anti-commercial attitude of the linux community.
This feeble attempt is the only hope for desktop linux, and it's too little too late:
Your palms, et al are still out there for you. Enjoy. And enjoy trying to motivate them to produce a comparable device like the iPhone. You mean a Palm that's crippled from running the couple thousand applications available for it?
The only thing keeping me from switching to Linux is Adobe apps. I needs my Flash IDE, Flex Builder 2, Illustrator, and I'm sorry but The Gimp isn't Photoshop. But oh how I wish I could switch to CentOS.
"Being a mess never implies low quality"
Ladies, gentlment, slash-doters. I point your attention at that absurd statement. And rarely do I uses this phrase, but I use it now: "nuff said".
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I agree completely. I was in one of his classes at CMU as well. I'm not happy to see anyone get a disease, but man, if I had to make a list of people who have to leave planet earth, Randy Pausch would be in the top 100. Egomaniacal self-centered narcissist that lied to, and about, his students. He's all show, all marketing, all glitz.
Fat people can choose not to be fat. Period.
MOD PARENT UP. (except it's at 5 already... oh.)
There's been a lot of talk that the "WWW" may become the "GGG", the Great Global Grid, and I think it might actually happen. The network will absorb not just the information, but the computing power too...
Chapter 1 must be 320 pages long because that's how hard it is to install jboss/tomcat. At least you will be providing documentation for it though, something the java community hasn't done in 10 years.
What Linux is inhibited by is the collectively anti-proprietary attitude of the open source community. The linux community quietly wants linux to be a walled-off open-source-only world. They have never quiet been comfortable with commercial software running on the linux platform. This is further reinforced by install systems like apt and yum, which make installing OSS software easy. But commercial software?
THAT is what's stifling linux, not user-friendliness or hardware support. I admin linux servers all day long, but I'll never run it on my desktop until I can run Adobe apps native in linux. Not through wine or whatever, NATIVE. And I can't blame Adobe for not supporting linux given the massive fragmentation and the anti-commercial attitude of the linux community.
This feeble attempt is the only hope for desktop linux, and it's too little too late:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4586903228.html
Mod. Parent. Up.
I think "arrogant bastard" the most concise summary about how I feel about Steve Jobs right now.
The only thing keeping me from switching to Linux is Adobe apps. I needs my Flash IDE, Flex Builder 2, Illustrator, and I'm sorry but The Gimp isn't Photoshop. But oh how I wish I could switch to CentOS.
"Being a mess never implies low quality" Ladies, gentlment, slash-doters. I point your attention at that absurd statement. And rarely do I uses this phrase, but I use it now: "nuff said".