The current model is just a race to the bottom for all the society.
What the elite can't understand is that poor people can't sustain a capitalist economy, and that sick people are bad for business. I'm leftist, but I'm aware that a properly managed capitalist economy with a more or less functioning democracy can be really good for workers, like in Japan in the 80's or South Korea now. But, the model of capitalism running currently in the USA is not much different than the pseudo-feudal system running in most Latin American countries, and there is a reason why people from Argentina to Mexico risk their life to get a chance to make a shoot to the American dream: being a pariah in USA was 100 times better than being a pariah in their homeland, but now USA's elite is making every effort to run the nation into the ground, and the common american instead of focusing in improving his country was smug in the satisfaction that well, things were bad and getting worst, but at least they were living better than the mexicans south of the border or any citizen from our banana republics. Now millions of americans can't presume that.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
That was a incredibly poorly thought remark. The FOSS movement is a political movement as much as a technological movement. In politics, what you say and how you say it matters. FOSS already have the drawback that is composed mostly from nerds lacking social skills, to have the most visible mouthpiece of the movement expressing himself so poorly is another unnecessary obstacle. He could have said:
"Despite his death and economical success, I still believe that the vision of Steve Jobs in computing is a menace to fundamental freedoms now an in the future. I have sympathy for his family in this moments of loss, but I can't ignore the dangerous effects of his work."
Instead, what he wrote is more akin a what a teen would post to twitter after doing a tantrum. It is simply too low for the man that wrote the GPL and "The right to read".
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You know that computers need software to be useful, right? The quality of the software is of the same relevance of the quality of hardware. LG and Samsung just to name a few have had the capability to design and build stuff like the iPhone or the iPad way before Apple launched those two products. LG did the Prada before Apple sold the iPhone, and? Is not about shinny or thinner stuff, is about compelling usefulness. That's what Jobs got right since the 70's, and put in very clear terms:
"Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it."
If it were only about technology DEC and Sun would still be around.
The guy was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, wanted to work at HP in his summer vacation as a 13 year old kid and perfectly able to really assemble a computer from scratch, the fact that he was a impressive business man don't mean that he wasn't a true nerd too, maybe not as great like Woz, but compared to Woz, almost every other nerd looks small.
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The fact that all the people that worked closely with him have fond memories of him an the uppermost respect for his leadership, as documented in Folklore.org means that despite his difficult personality he earned the admiration and respect of his team; the clear difference of smartphones and tablet computers before and after the iPhone and iPad respectively makes absolutely unnecessary to visit a parallel universe except for the willfully obtuse.
A friend's dad died from pancreatic cancer 4 months ago. The most devastating thing for the family was that the disease was long enough to be a painful agony, but not long enough to help them to get used to the idea that he would die. Another friend and coworker had a very strange kind of lynphoma, with documented cases below 200; fortunately, it was in the words of his oncologist "if I were sentenced to have cancer, but I had a chance to choose which one, I would choose this because is almost sure that I will survive". He is fine now and if he comes clean in his next test in 2012 he will be declared completely cured.
Yup, thanks to the personal computer most of us reading/. have a job.
Is not hard to imagine an alternate reality without personal computers, since Japan in early 90's had a very small market for personal computers but a very healthy market for big iron from Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC and foreign makers. PC's, DOS/V machines and Macs certainly were sold, but not at the same scale like they were sold in USA or western Europe. For this reason consoles like the Sega Saturn were used in some business. Still, Apple managed to have 30% of the limited japanese personal computer market with the Mac, I suppose that it was thanks to its graphics capabilities that made them a good fit for word processing in japanese.
Tim Berners-Lee developed the web browser and server in NeXTSTEP, now called OS X because Jobs and his team wanted a computer that was powerful and easy to program:)
We can remember that in the early days of computing, people didn't saw a need for computers outside labs, military or government. Somewhere is a quote about an IBM executive that said that they expected a worldwide computer market of around 5,000 machines in the early 1950's. The same was for TV in the early 1920's. There are many crappy things in TV and the computer field now but thanks to a lot visionaries and engineers that made that vision a reality is that we are talking now.
NeXTSTEP from were OS X is derived was developed in 1987-1988 based on the Mach microkernel and BSD code. The big deal with Linux was and is that it was released under the GPL, that forced all the improvements to the code to be made public. In the big scheme of things, perhaps Richard Stallman is more important than Linus Torvalds, but I doubt that any of them care about this. They have better things to do.
As much I admire the great ethic of late Ken Olsen of DEC, Jobs still was far, far more influential. Xerox did a lot of research at Palo Alto, but they didn't managed to transform that research in to successful products. On the end, many of the large computer companies of the 60's and 70's ended outsmarted by a bunch of 20 some years olds.
The leadership in any organization is key for its success. You can't imagine Japan without the contributions of Toyomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu or Emperor Meiji; USA without Washington, Jefferson or Franklin. If modern USA had a CEO worth of the millions that they usually get paid it was Steve Jobs.
In my country, Mexico, we have the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim Elu. His achievements? Buying at a pathetic fraction of its real price the state's telephone monopoly company, and then building with his monopoly profits another monopoly in mobile telephony. Anyone can do that. We have our (un)fair share of billionaires, that rule this fucking hellish place, but what greatness is in ruling a wasteland? Jobs changed the world, even if people use Android or Windows, or see Dreamworks movies, they got in those products a great share of the vision and passion of Steve Jobs even coming from different companies that he helmed.
All societies do stupid things, but to really screw things up on a collosal scale takes a Marxist.
You guys put Bush in office not one but two times and all the world is still paying for it. Maybe you need to qualify your statement with "to screw on a collosal scale tales a society blind by ideology."
Yup, in summary, this is what is happening in Mexico. Poverty, corruption and lack of regulation created the environment that created the AH1N1 influenza strain in the country. For the same reasons, coupled with the stupid idea that IMF and our local elites pushed for lower real investment in public works and education created the current problem that a lot ouf our youth is NEET, so, since they don't owe anything to the society, they don't feel any qualms when they do the dirty work for the drug lords.
The neat thing about "libertarians" is that they can't even grasp the fact that if not for an organized society they would be unable to structure a thought since language comes from living in society, that, if disease don't killed them in their early life.
Anyone with a bank account know that they never should share or write down in an easy to get media their NIP. You don't need to work in IT to know the importance of keeping a password secret.
Because you can't ride a single train with at least 2 iPhone users in the same wagon here in Tokyo. For what I have seen it is by far the most popular cellphone here.
The system already works in iPhones since it goes as a network SMS IIRC, but the change here I think is that it will override the silence setting that most people here in Japan will be using because the polite thing to do on board of public transportation is to put your cellphone in silent mode and turn it off when you are near the reserved seats for elderly, pregnant women and handicapped. The end result is that most people have their phones in silent mode most of the time.
Now, what I would love the networks to do is to send the damn alarm even for foreign issued phones even without a roaming plan zince it is a emergency service. My wife's iPhone received expensive useless SMS from our original operator but it don't receive calls for lack of roaming an it did't receive any warning in the two quakes that we have felt in our two weeks stay in Tokyo.
I understand the sentiment against unions here but the reality is that they are the only chance for workers to negotiate in equal footing with company owners. Corruption inside unions, like corruption in corporations and governments come from a lack of accountability. Make the union leaders to follow the same rules of the elected public officers and make sure that all elections and votes are done by free and secret ballot and you get a union that will take the same care of the company as the shareholders if not better, since the shareholders have a slice of their wealth invested in the company, but for the workers is their means of life.
I second that. He is one of the guys that make nobiliary titles appear as something good. I remember Mosaic and Netscape running in SPARC stations and SGI Indigo machines at my city university's top computer lab in late 1994-mid 1995.
This is more like the one that did the easter egg was venting out a lot of frustration than for fun. I had a friend that worked for Siemens that were treated by the local managers and the german leadership worst than shit. One of their common answers were "we don't care if you don't like it because we have 50 engineers at the door begging for your post and we will pay them less than what we pay you." If the corporate culture is the same in all off Siemens is no wonder that their products get done so bad at the end of the day.
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The current model is just a race to the bottom for all the society.
What the elite can't understand is that poor people can't sustain a capitalist economy, and that sick people are bad for business. I'm leftist, but I'm aware that a properly managed capitalist economy with a more or less functioning democracy can be really good for workers, like in Japan in the 80's or South Korea now. But, the model of capitalism running currently in the USA is not much different than the pseudo-feudal system running in most Latin American countries, and there is a reason why people from Argentina to Mexico risk their life to get a chance to make a shoot to the American dream: being a pariah in USA was 100 times better than being a pariah in their homeland, but now USA's elite is making every effort to run the nation into the ground, and the common american instead of focusing in improving his country was smug in the satisfaction that well, things were bad and getting worst, but at least they were living better than the mexicans south of the border or any citizen from our banana republics. Now millions of americans can't presume that.
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
That was a incredibly poorly thought remark. The FOSS movement is a political movement as much as a technological movement. In politics, what you say and how you say it matters. FOSS already have the drawback that is composed mostly from nerds lacking social skills, to have the most visible mouthpiece of the movement expressing himself so poorly is another unnecessary obstacle. He could have said:
"Despite his death and economical success, I still believe that the vision of Steve Jobs in computing is a menace to fundamental freedoms now an in the future. I have sympathy for his family in this moments of loss, but I can't ignore the dangerous effects of his work."
Instead, what he wrote is more akin a what a teen would post to twitter after doing a tantrum. It is simply too low for the man that wrote the GPL and "The right to read".
You know that computers need software to be useful, right? The quality of the software is of the same relevance of the quality of hardware. LG and Samsung just to name a few have had the capability to design and build stuff like the iPhone or the iPad way before Apple launched those two products. LG did the Prada before Apple sold the iPhone, and? Is not about shinny or thinner stuff, is about compelling usefulness. That's what Jobs got right since the 70's, and put in very clear terms:
"Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it."
If it were only about technology DEC and Sun would still be around.
The guy was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, wanted to work at HP in his summer vacation as a 13 year old kid and perfectly able to really assemble a computer from scratch, the fact that he was a impressive business man don't mean that he wasn't a true nerd too, maybe not as great like Woz, but compared to Woz, almost every other nerd looks small.
The fact that all the people that worked closely with him have fond memories of him an the uppermost respect for his leadership, as documented in Folklore.org means that despite his difficult personality he earned the admiration and respect of his team; the clear difference of smartphones and tablet computers before and after the iPhone and iPad respectively makes absolutely unnecessary to visit a parallel universe except for the willfully obtuse.
A friend's dad died from pancreatic cancer 4 months ago. The most devastating thing for the family was that the disease was long enough to be a painful agony, but not long enough to help them to get used to the idea that he would die. Another friend and coworker had a very strange kind of lynphoma, with documented cases below 200; fortunately, it was in the words of his oncologist "if I were sentenced to have cancer, but I had a chance to choose which one, I would choose this because is almost sure that I will survive". He is fine now and if he comes clean in his next test in 2012 he will be declared completely cured.
Honestly, my best wishes for your friend.
Nice to see that you are well. Jafac and you were the early users of /. that I followed the most.
I would say helped create our industry.
Yup, thanks to the personal computer most of us reading /. have a job.
Is not hard to imagine an alternate reality without personal computers, since Japan in early 90's had a very small market for personal computers but a very healthy market for big iron from Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC and foreign makers. PC's, DOS/V machines and Macs certainly were sold, but not at the same scale like they were sold in USA or western Europe. For this reason consoles like the Sega Saturn were used in some business. Still, Apple managed to have 30% of the limited japanese personal computer market with the Mac, I suppose that it was thanks to its graphics capabilities that made them a good fit for word processing in japanese.
Ok, I've swung to the other side about WBC. These people are not sincere.
They just want to make headlines, and publicity is the only god that they worship.
They are politicians?
Lawyers, almost equally bad.
Tim Berners-Lee developed the web browser and server in NeXTSTEP, now called OS X because Jobs and his team wanted a computer that was powerful and easy to program:)
We can remember that in the early days of computing, people didn't saw a need for computers outside labs, military or government. Somewhere is a quote about an IBM executive that said that they expected a worldwide computer market of around 5,000 machines in the early 1950's. The same was for TV in the early 1920's. There are many crappy things in TV and the computer field now but thanks to a lot visionaries and engineers that made that vision a reality is that we are talking now.
NeXTSTEP from were OS X is derived was developed in 1987-1988 based on the Mach microkernel and BSD code. The big deal with Linux was and is that it was released under the GPL, that forced all the improvements to the code to be made public. In the big scheme of things, perhaps Richard Stallman is more important than Linus Torvalds, but I doubt that any of them care about this. They have better things to do.
As much I admire the great ethic of late Ken Olsen of DEC, Jobs still was far, far more influential. Xerox did a lot of research at Palo Alto, but they didn't managed to transform that research in to successful products. On the end, many of the large computer companies of the 60's and 70's ended outsmarted by a bunch of 20 some years olds.
He was Buddhist. If he was from the Zen sect that would explain a lot about him and his vision.
The leadership in any organization is key for its success. You can't imagine Japan without the contributions of Toyomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu or Emperor Meiji; USA without Washington, Jefferson or Franklin. If modern USA had a CEO worth of the millions that they usually get paid it was Steve Jobs.
In my country, Mexico, we have the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim Elu. His achievements? Buying at a pathetic fraction of its real price the state's telephone monopoly company, and then building with his monopoly profits another monopoly in mobile telephony. Anyone can do that. We have our (un)fair share of billionaires, that rule this fucking hellish place, but what greatness is in ruling a wasteland? Jobs changed the world, even if people use Android or Windows, or see Dreamworks movies, they got in those products a great share of the vision and passion of Steve Jobs even coming from different companies that he helmed.
All societies do stupid things, but to really screw things up on a collosal scale takes a Marxist.
You guys put Bush in office not one but two times and all the world is still paying for it. Maybe you need to qualify your statement with "to screw on a collosal scale tales a society blind by ideology."
Yup, in summary, this is what is happening in Mexico. Poverty, corruption and lack of regulation created the environment that created the AH1N1 influenza strain in the country. For the same reasons, coupled with the stupid idea that IMF and our local elites pushed for lower real investment in public works and education created the current problem that a lot ouf our youth is NEET, so, since they don't owe anything to the society, they don't feel any qualms when they do the dirty work for the drug lords.
I for my part, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
The neat thing about "libertarians" is that they can't even grasp the fact that if not for an organized society they would be unable to structure a thought since language comes from living in society, that, if disease don't killed them in their early life.
Anyone with a bank account know that they never should share or write down in an easy to get media their NIP. You don't need to work in IT to know the importance of keeping a password secret.
Because you can't ride a single train with at least 2 iPhone users in the same wagon here in Tokyo. For what I have seen it is by far the most popular cellphone here.
You're only supposed to wink when you say something clever. When you say something fucking stupid, you're supposed to shut up.
Very clever I would say, thanks for my new mail sig.
The system already works in iPhones since it goes as a network SMS IIRC, but the change here I think is that it will override the silence setting that most people here in Japan will be using because the polite thing to do on board of public transportation is to put your cellphone in silent mode and turn it off when you are near the reserved seats for elderly, pregnant women and handicapped. The end result is that most people have their phones in silent mode most of the time.
Now, what I would love the networks to do is to send the damn alarm even for foreign issued phones even without a roaming plan zince it is a emergency service. My wife's iPhone received expensive useless SMS from our original operator but it don't receive calls for lack of roaming an it did't receive any warning in the two quakes that we have felt in our two weeks stay in Tokyo.
I understand the sentiment against unions here but the reality is that they are the only chance for workers to negotiate in equal footing with company owners. Corruption inside unions, like corruption in corporations and governments come from a lack of accountability. Make the union leaders to follow the same rules of the elected public officers and make sure that all elections and votes are done by free and secret ballot and you get a union that will take the same care of the company as the shareholders if not better, since the shareholders have a slice of their wealth invested in the company, but for the workers is their means of life.
I second that. He is one of the guys that make nobiliary titles appear as something good. I remember Mosaic and Netscape running in SPARC stations and SGI Indigo machines at my city university's top computer lab in late 1994-mid 1995.
Thank you Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
This is more like the one that did the easter egg was venting out a lot of frustration than for fun. I had a friend that worked for Siemens that were treated by the local managers and the german leadership worst than shit. One of their common answers were "we don't care if you don't like it because we have 50 engineers at the door begging for your post and we will pay them less than what we pay you." If the corporate culture is the same in all off Siemens is no wonder that their products get done so bad at the end of the day.