That doesn't sound like a good explanation of autism thanks to the lack of female geeks as a whole.
When matchmaking services only catered to geeks, the ratio of men to women was a solid 10:1. I know because I ran a matching bulletin board system in the late 80s, and the imbalance of men and women was always a serious problem.(*)
I lost my job, and a friend of mine found me work in Pittsburgh, and so I moved from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh, PA. I'm afraid I still haven't recovered from the culture shock of being in Pittsburgh. I now plan to move to the Philippines instead of staying in Pittsburgh because the place is so depressing to me. I'm going to keep my cost of living very low so I can make a startup venture work, but above all because I think I'll find a better life there.
In moving to the Bay Area or Los Angeles, you can be assured that your destination isn't depressing, but it will look horribly expensive. Food's actually cheaper (and higher quality) thanks to intense competition, but housing makes up for all that and more. However, the fact that you won't have to pay much for heat helps a lot. Heat in the east is more expensive even than air conditioning in Los Angeles. Real estate taxes are high, but lower than you might think based on the value of the homes. A $150,000 house in the Pittsburgh city proper actually has higher taxes than a $428,000 house in Los Angeles.
I'd recommend checking out http://www.craigslist.org/ and http://www.realtor.com/ for your destination city to get a handle on the cost of living adjustment. Check out the housing sections for Craigslist.
Don't find your mover via Craigslist, though. The one I eventually used was unprofessional and did a poor job with my stuff. The actual worth of your stuff is likely to be very close to the cost of moving it; unfortunately, that's not true of the cost of re-buying it new. In other words, if you have a desk that you bought for $1,000 you'll be lucky to sell it for $200, but moving it will cost $300. If you're patient and can find something equivalent for $300 at your destination, then you're better off selling your stuff than moving it. If it's something that will be difficult or expensive to find at your destination, then you're better off moving it.
If you're driving your own car, ignore the advice I saw elsewhere and cram as much in it as possible. I took most of my computer equipment that way, and boy was I happy to have it before I got the rest of my stuff!
In the end, unless you have really strong ties where you are, you'll probably like the west coast more than the east. The cold-weather East, at least to my eyes, has been an exceptionally drab and depressing experience and I will be very glad to leave it.
I liked it there so much that I'm going to move there later this year. The people - particularly the women - were just wonderful to me. There is also an incredibly low cost of living, much cheaper than Mexico.
Biggest downsides are that there's a lot of bad food that might make you sick, and the air pollution is horrorific. If you can stand those things, the people are the sweetest in the world.
When I travelled through Mexico by air, the declaration asked where I was staying in Mexico.
When I went to the Philippines last month, the Philippine government asked where I was staying.
I'm not sure where or how this information is being used. I tend to be fairly improvisational in my travels, so the truth is that I really didn't know where I was staying when asked to write the declaration. So I improvised and mentioned the Manila Hotel since I was thinking of staying there for a night for the experience. As it happened, I never stayed there at all, but nothing bad happened to me because of my incorrect declaration.
I suspect the same is true of entering the United States.
But it's not a tax. It's like cable TV. If you pay for cable, you get programming. If you don't pay for cable, you get a blank screen.
As long as you have the option of not paying and getting the blank screen, they can't let you burn to CD, because that CD will last past the end of the rental period.
I'm not sure if the rental model is good for artists. How is the money distributed? Right now, I can directly pay my favorite singers by purchasing their albums through iTunes. If I pay indirectly, I have to assume people like Britney Spears, who are supposedly most popular, make most of the money using some arcane formula I have no control over. If I pay indirectly, my favorite horribly obscure artists like Vanessa Daou and Keiko Matsui get the money, and we're all happy. (Well, I'm sure they would all rather make more but I think you get the idea.) How do obscure artists get paid in a rental model, where the artists I listen to are not directly linked to revenues?
The only really fair rental model for the artists would be to have the software record all the music I listen to and then divide it between the artists at the end of the month. But that's a horrible invasion of my privacy, no?
Of course if you're renting music, you pretty much by definition can't allow it to be burned on CD.
I think that makes my case that the rental market is not what people want.
My music buying patterns with iTunes tend to be erratic - one month I'll buy $20 worth of music, another one I'll buy $0. I like keeping it that way - I don't like adding even $10 a month to my overhead. It takes the continual downloading of huge amounts of music before the rental model works for the consumer.
Size matters because I can go to Wikipedia for comprehensiveness.
What other encyclopedia has an article on my favorite shopping mall, for example? I will admit it's not the best written article in the world, but at least it's there, and it tells me some things I didn't know before.
And no, I'm not being sarcastic - I think it's great Wikipedia has so many articles on obscure topics that surely wouldn't make it in any other encyclopedia.
I thought PlaysForSure was a standard consisting of hardware and software that was essentially uniform, in DRM implementation terms at least. So on paper it shouldn't be that hard to support all those players, just like you could write software supporting the PalmOS or Windows CE without great difficulty.
I think the problem with PlaysForSure is simply that the devices are unappealing compared to the iPod, and they're not significantly cheaper. So there's no particular reason not to get an iPod unless you really love the subscription model for music. Fortunately for Apple, it looks like most people don't want to rent their music and so the iPod reigns supreme.
It might not actually be a waste of a jet if they carry enough passengers with it. The Gulfstream can hold about double the passengers of the Citation and from what I understand it's significantly more comfortable.
I expected better Ajax than that from Slashdot. When you click on it, it appears, and when you click on X it reloads the page. And when you ask for help, it loads up the FAQ as a new page, so you can't even use the widget while you're reading help. In my current system, which wasn't difficult to write, you click on the help link and the help appears instantly on the same page.
Furthermore, the presentation is sufficiently confusing that you really need the help, so that is one thing that had might as well have its own web page; the Ajax really isn't contributing much to something you're likely to change once or twice a year.
Tagging is nothing like moderating. Moderation changes the order in which most users of Slashdot view messages, and it can even prevent some messages from being viewed.
Tagging allows you to categorize things, so you can find people's posts about certain subjects. There's nothing on Slashdot like it that I can see. The closest match, I suppose, would be doing a search and finding articles related to your interests.
As far as I can tell, Web 2.0 is defined by AJAX and collaboration, and really there's no Ajax that I've noticed in Slashdot.
I actually think the old Slashdot looked a little better than the new one (what's all this white space when I post?), but I'm not complaining in any strong way.
No company is going to want to give away its crown jewels such as Mickey, even if they're 75 years old. I wouldn't myself if I were Disney. Frankly, I don't understand what the big deal is about this, because people should create their own stuff. Is society really going to benefit from a billion Mickey knockoffs when the copyright expires?
I think copyright should expire whenever something is no longer actively marketed. In other words, if Disney stopped using Mickey, I think someone should be allowed to grab him. If the Infocom games aren't being sold anywhere, nobody's harmed if I copy them. And so on.
But I don't see why a company shouldn't be allowed to keep its intellectual property forever, especially when it essentially symbolizes the company and has done so for something like a century now.
In other news, I'm disappointed Lassater didn't get a salary increase out of this. $2.5m is what he was paid at Pixar. Of course he has a lot of Disney stock at this point. I don't think he's missing any meals and he'll probably get more corporate jet flights than he'd ever want.
I am a little worried, though, that in his promotion to executive, we will miss his touch on the screen. I hope he can delegate a lot of his management duties to other trustworthy people within the Pixar organization and return to making films once he's done cleaning house.
I don't think the premise for Toy Story 3 was that bad, but I think Lassater should make it because no matter the premise, his film will be far superior to whatever Disney came up with.
About 2/3 of the frozen pizzas in that aisle are conventional oven only, and most of the rest are just plain awful when microwaved.
The microwave has its place - for lean cuisine pseudo-Chinese food, there's very little difference between conventional and microwave preparation. But for anything that has bread in it, except when it's specially designed for the microwave, the conventional oven's miles better.
For something like a lasagna, the conventional oven beats the microwave every time. Too bad about the 60 minute cooking time.
Only the top-line PowerBook had AirPort standard and the cheaper models did not until about six months ago. I had the cheaper model, which is why I remember things differently.
We had both WiFi and a modem included for about six-odd months. I think if you consider what must be a very low incremental cost to keep the modem in, it seems like it really should still be included. Some people still go to places where WiFi is not yet present, and the external USB modem would be horribly easy to lose.
On the other hand, it sure would be sweet to have the dual core processor. I could even accept a slowdown to get it, since it means that when my computer's doing heavy processing, I can still use it through the other processor. I very rarely have irritating interactive slowdowns on my G5/dual 2ghz system, but I do have them on my PowerBook G4/1.67.
For this reason, I think the benchmarks, which I'm sure are accurate, enormously understate the appeal of the dual core processor in real-world use. If I can read my email without wincing, instead of having my photo processing application take over the whole computer, I'll be very happy indeed.
Sometimes, a really good negative book review can be interesting to read, yes, and even interesting for people to comment on. So as someone who wants to enjoy their reading time on Slashdot, you have a point.
That being said, it's not particularly useful unless you were seriously considering buying the book, and the review came just as you were making up your mind. To tell the truth, the reviews on Amazon do an excellent job in solving that particular problem, so we don't really need to worry about that.
The most useful book reviews are going to point you to a book that you might otherwise interesting which appears so thanks to the review. And the book reviews on Slashdot do a pretty good job at this.
If you don't want to support Slashdot, don't click on the links. But don't think of a positive review as being less of a service to readers than a negative one; I think the reverse is true, as long as the positive review is sincere.
Fortunately, there are enough good books in the world that I don't think this is an easily corruptable process - that is, I suspect the reviewers at least glance through hundreds of awful books and never feel the desire to review them positively for the bucks, when there are plenty of books genuinely deserving a positive review with just as much revenue potential.
They would, however, have enough money to sit on a beach for the duration of their non-compete agreement.
During that time I'm sure they'd cook up some killer movie ideas. They could work, quietly, on replacing the tools, too.
At the end of the non-compete period, I doubt they would have any difficulty getting financing.
I wonder how much John Lassater made out of the deal. Does he have a nice salary increase? I thought his 2.5m under Pixar was a shade low for the contribution he made.
I was relying on statements I've read on the rumor boards saying that the absence of FireWire 800 was probably because Intel motherboards were being used.
Also, Intel said that they had a massive team of engineers working on the Apple product, and what else would they be doing but designing the motherboard and chipset?
That being said, I suspect you are right and stand corrected.
Intel makes motherboards that support certain features.
FireWire 800 is not included among those features.
Apple is buying Intel's motherboards, therefore Apple does not have FireWire 800 any more.
In other words, the commentors that say Apple has less control over their hardware than before are correct. Intel is now manufacturing Apple's motherboards and selling them to Apple. Apple provides the industrial design and MacOS X.
This is a bit sad, then, even though in the end it probably means better products at lower prices. I certainly could use a dual-core PowerM---ahem--- MacBook Pro, especially if they restore the 17" model to life.
D
Disney's buying John Lassater et al
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They don't want him to leave.
I'd be surprised if there is significant change at Pixar.
If there is, you can count in seconds how long it would take for someone to offer John Lassater an animation studio of his own. Heck, with the profits from this, Lassater can probably finance his own movie if he really wants, and he'd drag half Pixar's crew along with him.
That's why things won't change. Well, maybe they will. I'm betting everyone gets raises.
Steve Jobs is a great man, but in Pixar his primary responsibilty was negotiating great contracts. Let's hope this is another one of them.
As for Steve taking over Disney, I don't think it's impossible, but I'm hoping he keeps focus on Apple, where - as we all know - he's been doing great.
I do think Steve's likely to become an influential advisor and board member, but probably not CEO. Remember, John Lassater and friends basically ran Pixar, which is why Jobs could be CEO of two companies and preserve excellence. I don't think he could do that with Disney.
For those that don't get the joke, what he describes is exactly how MacOS X deals with the blue screen problem.
I'm sure Steve Jobs scrutinized every pixel of that in countless meetings, screamed at at least one employee who didn't quite get it right, and finally, well, he has the prettiest crash message that exists, yes, in five different languages.
As long as it's not you he's screaming at... you have to admire Steve. He really does care about these things. I'm a big Steve fan because I love the fact that he worked super-hard to create an environment with this kind of thought and atention to detail.
I was getting it a lot because I had bad memory in my G5. Don't put bad memory in your G5:-(.
Slashdot Mirror
On my Mac running the current version of Safari, I get a plain search box and a condescending "help" text right below it:
... loading.
Find anything using the new
Windows Life Search!
below that is Something that is Loading. What it is I cannot tell since it's eternally loading.
I tried searching for "Slashdot" and it's still
So hmm. It's condescending and doesn't seem to work to boot.
Doesn't look like I'll be back.
D
That doesn't sound like a good explanation of autism thanks to the lack of female geeks as a whole.
When matchmaking services only catered to geeks, the ratio of men to women was a solid 10:1. I know because I ran a matching bulletin board system in the late 80s, and the imbalance of men and women was always a serious problem.(*)
D
I lost my job, and a friend of mine found me work in Pittsburgh, and so I moved from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh, PA. I'm afraid I still haven't recovered from the culture shock of being in Pittsburgh. I now plan to move to the Philippines instead of staying in Pittsburgh because the place is so depressing to me. I'm going to keep my cost of living very low so I can make a startup venture work, but above all because I think I'll find a better life there.
In moving to the Bay Area or Los Angeles, you can be assured that your destination isn't depressing, but it will look horribly expensive. Food's actually cheaper (and higher quality) thanks to intense competition, but housing makes up for all that and more. However, the fact that you won't have to pay much for heat helps a lot. Heat in the east is more expensive even than air conditioning in Los Angeles. Real estate taxes are high, but lower than you might think based on the value of the homes. A $150,000 house in the Pittsburgh city proper actually has higher taxes than a $428,000 house in Los Angeles.
I'd recommend checking out http://www.craigslist.org/ and http://www.realtor.com/ for your destination city to get a handle on the cost of living adjustment. Check out the housing sections for Craigslist.
Don't find your mover via Craigslist, though. The one I eventually used was unprofessional and did a poor job with my stuff. The actual worth of your stuff is likely to be very close to the cost of moving it; unfortunately, that's not true of the cost of re-buying it new. In other words, if you have a desk that you bought for $1,000 you'll be lucky to sell it for $200, but moving it will cost $300. If you're patient and can find something equivalent for $300 at your destination, then you're better off selling your stuff than moving it. If it's something that will be difficult or expensive to find at your destination, then you're better off moving it.
If you're driving your own car, ignore the advice I saw elsewhere and cram as much in it as possible. I took most of my computer equipment that way, and boy was I happy to have it before I got the rest of my stuff!
In the end, unless you have really strong ties where you are, you'll probably like the west coast more than the east. The cold-weather East, at least to my eyes, has been an exceptionally drab and depressing experience and I will be very glad to leave it.
Good luck!
D
Philippines.
I liked it there so much that I'm going to move there later this year. The people - particularly the women - were just wonderful to me. There is also an incredibly low cost of living, much cheaper than Mexico.
Biggest downsides are that there's a lot of bad food that might make you sick, and the air pollution is horrorific. If you can stand those things, the people are the sweetest in the world.
D
This isn't a purely US thing.
When I travelled through Mexico by air, the declaration asked where I was staying in Mexico.
When I went to the Philippines last month, the Philippine government asked where I was staying.
I'm not sure where or how this information is being used. I tend to be fairly improvisational in my travels, so the truth is that I really didn't know where I was staying when asked to write the declaration. So I improvised and mentioned the Manila Hotel since I was thinking of staying there for a night for the experience. As it happened, I never stayed there at all, but nothing bad happened to me because of my incorrect declaration.
I suspect the same is true of entering the United States.
D
But it's not a tax. It's like cable TV. If you pay for cable, you get programming. If you don't pay for cable, you get a blank screen.
As long as you have the option of not paying and getting the blank screen, they can't let you burn to CD, because that CD will last past the end of the rental period.
I'm not sure if the rental model is good for artists. How is the money distributed? Right now, I can directly pay my favorite singers by purchasing their albums through iTunes. If I pay indirectly, I have to assume people like Britney Spears, who are supposedly most popular, make most of the money using some arcane formula I have no control over. If I pay indirectly, my favorite horribly obscure artists like Vanessa Daou and Keiko Matsui get the money, and we're all happy. (Well, I'm sure they would all rather make more but I think you get the idea.) How do obscure artists get paid in a rental model, where the artists I listen to are not directly linked to revenues?
The only really fair rental model for the artists would be to have the software record all the music I listen to and then divide it between the artists at the end of the month. But that's a horrible invasion of my privacy, no?
D
Of course if you're renting music, you pretty much by definition can't allow it to be burned on CD.
I think that makes my case that the rental market is not what people want.
My music buying patterns with iTunes tend to be erratic - one month I'll buy $20 worth of music, another one I'll buy $0. I like keeping it that way - I don't like adding even $10 a month to my overhead. It takes the continual downloading of huge amounts of music before the rental model works for the consumer.
D
Size matters because I can go to Wikipedia for comprehensiveness.
What other encyclopedia has an article on my favorite shopping mall, for example? I will admit it's not the best written article in the world, but at least it's there, and it tells me some things I didn't know before.
And no, I'm not being sarcastic - I think it's great Wikipedia has so many articles on obscure topics that surely wouldn't make it in any other encyclopedia.
D
I thought PlaysForSure was a standard consisting of hardware and software that was essentially uniform, in DRM implementation terms at least. So on paper it shouldn't be that hard to support all those players, just like you could write software supporting the PalmOS or Windows CE without great difficulty.
I think the problem with PlaysForSure is simply that the devices are unappealing compared to the iPod, and they're not significantly cheaper. So there's no particular reason not to get an iPod unless you really love the subscription model for music. Fortunately for Apple, it looks like most people don't want to rent their music and so the iPod reigns supreme.
D
That's pretty funny considering that the server worked perfectly for me through all 16 pages.
I guess the hardware section isn't quite like a full Slashdotting, though.
D
Is that really so?
We are, after all, people.
And I am interacting with you by replying to this message, no?
D
They bought it.
It's theirs.
They can do whatever they want with it.
It might not actually be a waste of a jet if they carry enough passengers with it. The Gulfstream can hold about double the passengers of the Citation and from what I understand it's significantly more comfortable.
D
I expected better Ajax than that from Slashdot. When you click on it, it appears, and when you click on X it reloads the page. And when you ask for help, it loads up the FAQ as a new page, so you can't even use the widget while you're reading help. In my current system, which wasn't difficult to write, you click on the help link and the help appears instantly on the same page.
Furthermore, the presentation is sufficiently confusing that you really need the help, so that is one thing that had might as well have its own web page; the Ajax really isn't contributing much to something you're likely to change once or twice a year.
Not the best grade for Slashdot on this one.
D
Tagging is nothing like moderating. Moderation changes the order in which most users of Slashdot view messages, and it can even prevent some messages from being viewed.
Tagging allows you to categorize things, so you can find people's posts about certain subjects. There's nothing on Slashdot like it that I can see. The closest match, I suppose, would be doing a search and finding articles related to your interests.
As far as I can tell, Web 2.0 is defined by AJAX and collaboration, and really there's no Ajax that I've noticed in Slashdot.
I actually think the old Slashdot looked a little better than the new one (what's all this white space when I post?), but I'm not complaining in any strong way.
D
That's an entirely unrelated issue.
No company is going to want to give away its crown jewels such as Mickey, even if they're 75 years old. I wouldn't myself if I were Disney. Frankly, I don't understand what the big deal is about this, because people should create their own stuff. Is society really going to benefit from a billion Mickey knockoffs when the copyright expires?
I think copyright should expire whenever something is no longer actively marketed. In other words, if Disney stopped using Mickey, I think someone should be allowed to grab him. If the Infocom games aren't being sold anywhere, nobody's harmed if I copy them. And so on.
But I don't see why a company shouldn't be allowed to keep its intellectual property forever, especially when it essentially symbolizes the company and has done so for something like a century now.
In other news, I'm disappointed Lassater didn't get a salary increase out of this. $2.5m is what he was paid at Pixar. Of course he has a lot of Disney stock at this point. I don't think he's missing any meals and he'll probably get more corporate jet flights than he'd ever want.
I am a little worried, though, that in his promotion to executive, we will miss his touch on the screen. I hope he can delegate a lot of his management duties to other trustworthy people within the Pixar organization and return to making films once he's done cleaning house.
I don't think the premise for Toy Story 3 was that bad, but I think Lassater should make it because no matter the premise, his film will be far superior to whatever Disney came up with.
D
About 2/3 of the frozen pizzas in that aisle are conventional oven only, and most of the rest are just plain awful when microwaved.
The microwave has its place - for lean cuisine pseudo-Chinese food, there's very little difference between conventional and microwave preparation. But for anything that has bread in it, except when it's specially designed for the microwave, the conventional oven's miles better.
For something like a lasagna, the conventional oven beats the microwave every time. Too bad about the 60 minute cooking time.
D
Only the top-line PowerBook had AirPort standard and the cheaper models did not until about six months ago. I had the cheaper model, which is why I remember things differently.
D
We had both WiFi and a modem included for about six-odd months. I think if you consider what must be a very low incremental cost to keep the modem in, it seems like it really should still be included. Some people still go to places where WiFi is not yet present, and the external USB modem would be horribly easy to lose.
On the other hand, it sure would be sweet to have the dual core processor. I could even accept a slowdown to get it, since it means that when my computer's doing heavy processing, I can still use it through the other processor. I very rarely have irritating interactive slowdowns on my G5/dual 2ghz system, but I do have them on my PowerBook G4/1.67.
For this reason, I think the benchmarks, which I'm sure are accurate, enormously understate the appeal of the dual core processor in real-world use. If I can read my email without wincing, instead of having my photo processing application take over the whole computer, I'll be very happy indeed.
I'm holding off for a 17" display, though.
D
Sometimes, a really good negative book review can be interesting to read, yes, and even interesting for people to comment on. So as someone who wants to enjoy their reading time on Slashdot, you have a point.
That being said, it's not particularly useful unless you were seriously considering buying the book, and the review came just as you were making up your mind. To tell the truth, the reviews on Amazon do an excellent job in solving that particular problem, so we don't really need to worry about that.
The most useful book reviews are going to point you to a book that you might otherwise interesting which appears so thanks to the review. And the book reviews on Slashdot do a pretty good job at this.
If you don't want to support Slashdot, don't click on the links. But don't think of a positive review as being less of a service to readers than a negative one; I think the reverse is true, as long as the positive review is sincere.
Fortunately, there are enough good books in the world that I don't think this is an easily corruptable process - that is, I suspect the reviewers at least glance through hundreds of awful books and never feel the desire to review them positively for the bucks, when there are plenty of books genuinely deserving a positive review with just as much revenue potential.
D
They would, however, have enough money to sit on a beach for the duration of their non-compete agreement.
During that time I'm sure they'd cook up some killer movie ideas. They could work, quietly, on replacing the tools, too.
At the end of the non-compete period, I doubt they would have any difficulty getting financing.
I wonder how much John Lassater made out of the deal. Does he have a nice salary increase? I thought his 2.5m under Pixar was a shade low for the contribution he made.
D
I was relying on statements I've read on the rumor boards saying that the absence of FireWire 800 was probably because Intel motherboards were being used.
Also, Intel said that they had a massive team of engineers working on the Apple product, and what else would they be doing but designing the motherboard and chipset?
That being said, I suspect you are right and stand corrected.
D
if you have "educational and development projects in 32 countries", doesn't that pretty much prove you're big?
D
Intel makes motherboards that support certain features.
FireWire 800 is not included among those features.
Apple is buying Intel's motherboards, therefore Apple does not have FireWire 800 any more.
In other words, the commentors that say Apple has less control over their hardware than before are correct. Intel is now manufacturing Apple's motherboards and selling them to Apple. Apple provides the industrial design and MacOS X.
This is a bit sad, then, even though in the end it probably means better products at lower prices. I certainly could use a dual-core PowerM---ahem--- MacBook Pro, especially if they restore the 17" model to life.
D
They don't want him to leave.
I'd be surprised if there is significant change at Pixar.
If there is, you can count in seconds how long it would take for someone to offer John Lassater an animation studio of his own. Heck, with the profits from this, Lassater can probably finance his own movie if he really wants, and he'd drag half Pixar's crew along with him.
That's why things won't change. Well, maybe they will. I'm betting everyone gets raises.
Steve Jobs is a great man, but in Pixar his primary responsibilty was negotiating great contracts. Let's hope this is another one of them.
As for Steve taking over Disney, I don't think it's impossible, but I'm hoping he keeps focus on Apple, where - as we all know - he's been doing great.
I do think Steve's likely to become an influential advisor and board member, but probably not CEO. Remember, John Lassater and friends basically ran Pixar, which is why Jobs could be CEO of two companies and preserve excellence. I don't think he could do that with Disney.
D
For those that don't get the joke, what he describes is exactly how MacOS X deals with the blue screen problem.
... you have to admire Steve. He really does care about these things. I'm a big Steve fan because I love the fact that he worked super-hard to create an environment with this kind of thought and atention to detail.
:-(.
I'm sure Steve Jobs scrutinized every pixel of that in countless meetings, screamed at at least one employee who didn't quite get it right, and finally, well, he has the prettiest crash message that exists, yes, in five different languages.
As long as it's not you he's screaming at
I was getting it a lot because I had bad memory in my G5. Don't put bad memory in your G5
D