"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, "I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way," Isaacson recalls.
Which means that the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field ultimately claimed the life of it's creator.
There's another gem hidden in your quote (emphasis mine). It's evident that he felt the very same way about his own body that he feels about his products. So ultimately, it was his own walled garden that killed him, not just the RDF.
Ideally, a modern desktop OS should be booted once. The rest of the time it should be slipping in and out of sleep.
I know anecdotal evidence is frowned upon here, but my laptop with 4GB of ram and a 5400rpm disk takes about the same time to wake from hibernation as to boot*. Pair that with KDE's ability to restore sessions after a shutdown**, there is almost no advantage in putting it to sleep. I do suspend frequently, but that's more of a short-term solution with battery being used and lights blinking. And I can't sleep next to a running computer, I like silence in my room.
* It's probably a buggy driver problem too. Still, one would not expect such problems with a modern computer and OS ** Seriously, I haven't seen any other desktop do that. Granted I've only ever used Windows and Gnome, but neither of them does it. Is it really so hard to remember the open applications as shutdown and open that at startup?
I like Arch because they don't mess with most of the software. The KDE or GNOME you get from Arch is really as its developers want it to be. Ubuntu and many other distros, on the other hand, have all sorts of specific modification that don't always work, and tend to break when there are changes upstream in the same area.
Also, you get important fixes and improvements very fast, sometimes even the same day they are released. With Ubuntu, you are about a year behind most of the time.
Yes, you and every other sibling post do recall correctly. I forget about that one. But, in my futile defense:
- In Portal 2, you save the very same boss you beat in Portal 1
- She's firing her own missiles, you're just redirecting them
- The turrets "don't blame you" and are not even alive.
- In any case, you can just let your kid play the test levels, which don't include any violence.
There's plenty of non-violent games. Unfortunately, kind tend to think shooting is more cool than leading some ball around, building a city or solving various logical puzzles. Also, non-violent games are usually involve more thinking, which is frowned upon in modern society, even more so among children.
Off the top of my head: Portal, SimCity, various Tycoon games, Neverball, Bejeweled, Tetris
I would like a cloud compiler helping with building for different platforms at once. Provided you could freely download the compilers yourself of course.
Why not something new instead of let's make a clone of X.
Because drivers.
Hardware manufacturers only release drivers for Windows, Mac, and usually Linux, and they are very rarely open source. Applications are not the problem, especially if it's meant as a desktop UI, as long as you provide a C compiler. But you have to clone one of the major OS's driver interfaces if you want it to work on a wide range of hardware.
As someone pointed out above, Android and iOS did not have this problem, because they were targeted on specific and controlled hardware. As a desktop OS, you can't afford that.
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The current Iraqi government wants US troops out.
So did the previous one. Why should they listen to this one?
Which, in turn, is a drop in the ocean compared to the money spent on war.
959-pound feet
Oh, only now do I see the real advantage of Imperial over Metric: Built-in "yo mama" jokes.
I'm more astounded by this:
"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, "I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way," Isaacson recalls.
Which means that the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field ultimately claimed the life of it's creator.
There's another gem hidden in your quote (emphasis mine). It's evident that he felt the very same way about his own body that he feels about his products. So ultimately, it was his own walled garden that killed him, not just the RDF.
Ideally, a modern desktop OS should be booted once. The rest of the time it should be slipping in and out of sleep.
I know anecdotal evidence is frowned upon here, but my laptop with 4GB of ram and a 5400rpm disk takes about the same time to wake from hibernation as to boot*. Pair that with KDE's ability to restore sessions after a shutdown**, there is almost no advantage in putting it to sleep. I do suspend frequently, but that's more of a short-term solution with battery being used and lights blinking. And I can't sleep next to a running computer, I like silence in my room.
* It's probably a buggy driver problem too. Still, one would not expect such problems with a modern computer and OS
** Seriously, I haven't seen any other desktop do that. Granted I've only ever used Windows and Gnome, but neither of them does it. Is it really so hard to remember the open applications as shutdown and open that at startup?
I like Arch because they don't mess with most of the software. The KDE or GNOME you get from Arch is really as its developers want it to be. Ubuntu and many other distros, on the other hand, have all sorts of specific modification that don't always work, and tend to break when there are changes upstream in the same area.
Also, you get important fixes and improvements very fast, sometimes even the same day they are released. With Ubuntu, you are about a year behind most of the time.
Why do people remember Turing rather than Church and Post
Church because of scientific progress, and Post because of telephones and email.
I think Leo solved this problem quite well in Titanic
Happy hacking - and it's your cars - you are allowed to destroy the batteries.
Until the iCar appears.
If you do, please consider changing your name first. Somehow, the Bieber principle doesn't sound quite right.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father's Internet. Prepare to die.
You'll see someday when timothy discovers ArchLinux, and there will be a story every day about a "new version" of Arch.
Somehow, I don't think having their flagship products blocked will get them much profit.
So 99% of all hits in the last ~30 years infringe on each other?
which one is Ukraine?
I never played the sims. I know it's not apparent from my nick or real name, but I'm a guy.
And in Pong, you're holding the ball hostage and refuse to let it free. With a good beating every time it tries to escape.
"Children's violence is actually the fault of the child and his parents that use games and TV as a babysitter. News at 11." FTFY.
This was not technically a fix, it was an expansion. And I couldn't agree more.
Yes, you and every other sibling post do recall correctly. I forget about that one. But, in my futile defense:
- In Portal 2, you save the very same boss you beat in Portal 1
- She's firing her own missiles, you're just redirecting them
- The turrets "don't blame you" and are not even alive.
- In any case, you can just let your kid play the test levels, which don't include any violence.
There are no games which are not violent.
There's plenty of non-violent games. Unfortunately, kind tend to think shooting is more cool than leading some ball around, building a city or solving various logical puzzles. Also, non-violent games are usually involve more thinking, which is frowned upon in modern society, even more so among children.
Off the top of my head: Portal, SimCity, various Tycoon games, Neverball, Bejeweled, Tetris
Children's violence is actually the fault of the child and his parents. News at 11.
I would like a cloud compiler helping with building for different platforms at once. Provided you could freely download the compilers yourself of course.
Something like the OpenSuse build service?
Asimov himself proved that the three laws are pointless.
Then rename them to laws 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
Actually, Microsoft has that.
Why else would dereferencing a Null pointer be an Illegal Operation?
Why not something new instead of let's make a clone of X.
Because drivers.
Hardware manufacturers only release drivers for Windows, Mac, and usually Linux, and they are very rarely open source. Applications are not the problem, especially if it's meant as a desktop UI, as long as you provide a C compiler. But you have to clone one of the major OS's driver interfaces if you want it to work on a wide range of hardware.
As someone pointed out above, Android and iOS did not have this problem, because they were targeted on specific and controlled hardware. As a desktop OS, you can't afford that.