He made products people did not want too. Everyone thought NeXT computer was great, but few people bought more than one because it was more of an oddity than a real workhorse to get things done. It had to use NeXT's printer instead of anyone else's (cheaper than the competitors but you couldn't share it), it used an existing bus standard then changed the form factor to nullify any interoperability. RISC chips were gaining popularity but NeXT stuck with 68030 which was used in low end workstation competitors.
The software was good, it should have stuck with that instead of having an also-ran computer. But that was the think about Jobs, he wanted to have it all packaged together as a single unit as a consumer style device, one size fits all, no customization or expandability. For a computer at that price range it seemed a bit misplaced; too high end for a personal computer even though that's what it seemed to be marketed as, and a bit too low end for a serious workstation.
Not really. That's the myth. Others invented. He did like to micromanage. He wanted to treat everything his companies ever built as toasters - one size for everyone, no customization allowed, no upgrades allowed. It was really later in his career when he got his reputation for personally overseeing stuff, mostly the looks of things, when he should have stepped back. The Apple product line is chock full of tiny incremental improvements, every year some stupid interface has changed size and shape. As a leader he screwed up a lot, he was too impulsive, he was difficult to get along with, he helped foster a stressful working environment. So he gets credit for thinking that his company should also create yet another MP3 player, by borrowing some good parts and software from other companies and combining them into an Apple branded product, and credit for creating his iTunes store to monetize the hell out of it. But don't mistake a reality distortion field for leadership.
I think there really are people who believe it. They may not necessarily think that Jobs did everything, but they're deluded enough to think that he invented the smart phone and everyone else was just there to help sell it. Maybe not normal people think that, but the media keeps repeating that myth. It's true that he was totally a micromanager and butt-insky.
They went to Windows Phone after Elop took over, which means they were essentially under the control of Microsoft at that point. This was not the decision of any real Nokia workers or original management. Moving to Windows Phone was the first major torpedo out of Redmond to destroy Nokia.
They did not decide to switch to Windows Phone, Microsoft decided that. Nokia was working on smartphones at the time, had some just coming out of beta when those projects were cancelled. They weren't Android, or iOS, or Symbian, or even Windows.
What hurt Nokia even more than smartphones were the "dumb" phones, the bottom was being cut out of their market by low quality phones that were cheaper. Sure in the first world hipster view, only smartphones matter but there was and still is a huge market for basic phones.
For smart phones, Android and iOS aren't very good as they could be for business phones, they're much better as personal or social media phones. Though I'm not sure if Maemo or Meego would have covered that niche.
There have been rude images in tech conferences which got plenty of press. Maybe not your definition of 'porn', but pictures of scantily clad women or drawings of penises goes beyond the level lf profesionallism one would like to see. There are people so messed up that they do actually watch porn at work.
Wow, they let people out of the cave before they finish evolving. Pornographic images are demeaning and insulting; keep them to yourself and in private please. If a woman does not like to see a "sexy" image does not mean the woman does not find herself sexy; instead that is you projecting your one dimensional view on women that they are always comparing themselves to each other. Thinking that the goal of women is to seduce bottom feeders as a tech conference is just amazingly stupid; I understand that the rush of testosterone you got in puberty has yet to wear off the point where you can view females as human beings which is why thinking twice before speaking is a helpful tool.
Seriously, do you think this way about the females in your life? Such as your mother or grandmother?
The biggest problem at the tech conferences is the infantile behavior that most well adjusted people leave behind in junior high school. Drawing pictures of penises during a presentation or showing sexy pictures? That's seriously maladjusted and amazingly unprofessional.
You seriously think seuxal dialogue between coworkers is appropriate? What are you, in a startup or something? There's no serious corporate environment that would condone that.
I've never been harrassed and told that I should not do computers, or been told that I should just get married and stay at home. Though the biggest example of that happening to women that I remember was before the internet, from a sexist professor who thought women shouldn't be in graduate school. Today when I see really egregious examples of over the top harrassment, it's inevitably against women. I just do not see men being harrassed on a personal level. Being called an idiot or faggot is nothing, that's not the same as being told you are worthless as a human being or being sent death threats. Just look at slashdot, there's nothing like the hint of feminism to bring out the haters in full force here.
Ada failed for military systems because it was too easy to get exceptions. And as for embedded systems, modern Ada is a good fit there.
In 1982, Ada was very competitive to C as C at the time was still in flux, was not popular at all outside of Unix, was not standardized, and lacked many features that Ada had, such as strong typing. The C of 1977 was almost a toy, it didn't even have separate name spaces between structs at the time (check out the 1977 Lion's Commentary of Unix for examples).
Right, in 1977 until the first Ada compilers in 1982, there was not yet the attitude that there should be a monoculture with only one language. Designing a new language was relatively common, and it promoted a lot of new ideas which was a good thing.
Hmm, when I worked some weeks in Finland it was not hot inside during the summer and was comfortable and cool. So "Europe" is too broad a generalization.
I wear a jacket in summer at work, because it's too damn cold in the office. I've got an AC vent draft coming straight into my cube, even though it's really hot outside. In the winter of course, it's still cold so no one thinks that unusual. I even remember being cold at work during the summer back in early 2000's when the state had rolling blackouts because of a power shortage; company sends out memos to conserve power and it still had the AC on full blast. I got a "ticket" at work for having a space heater (borrowed from another coworker who left the company).
Not new either. My father was a school teacher and he'd complain regularly about how cold they kept the classrooms.
On the other hand, if you've got a building full of heat producing machines (not just PCs) and the AC goes out then those labs can become stifling hot.
Yes more expensive per bulb, but not more expensive when it comes to replacing bulbs. Much cheaper than CFLs in my view, for incandescent you just have to wait longer to amortize the cost. I used to always have a few incandescent boxes because they were always burning out (it varies, I have one fixture that I haven't ever replaced a bulb in, and others where I replace them often).
15.5% comes from federal funding in 2010, so that's a minor part of their budget. It would hurt to go without it, especially small stations, but it could weather that storm. If people are upset about government waste of taxpayer money, then this is amazingly low on the list of things to worry about and only gets used as a proxy for elitist values (and it fails badly for that purpose too).
I had a job with a group managing shared minicomputers. One program I was writing was to log someone off after being inactive for some time, to free up a port for other users. So my loop to check every 5 minutes involved incrementing the time to wake up by 5 minutes on each iteration. Ie, it woke up at a specific time. So it would theoretically wake up at 12:00, 12:05, 12:10, etc.
The problem was that this operating system for some reason blocked when sending the alert message to someone's terminal. There was possibly some non-blocking way to do this with some extra effort, but it didn't seem like any additional effort was needed. However some user type Control-S on his terminal and then went off to lunch, probably typed it by accident. So a warning message went to his terminal, but blocked because of the Control-S. So the program was stuck until he came back from lunch and typed Control-Q. At which point this unblocked my program which then printed out one after the other on everyone's terminal in two buildings: "your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 15 minutes", "your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 10 minutes", "your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 5 minutes", "logging off due to inactivity." This was shortly followed by a line of people coming into the office to complain, including my boss.
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Right, you need to have a lawyer too.
Well, that's what a CEO is. A spin master and chief cheerleader.
What really, he donated more, accounting for inflation, then Carnegie and Rockefeller?
He made products people did not want too. Everyone thought NeXT computer was great, but few people bought more than one because it was more of an oddity than a real workhorse to get things done. It had to use NeXT's printer instead of anyone else's (cheaper than the competitors but you couldn't share it), it used an existing bus standard then changed the form factor to nullify any interoperability. RISC chips were gaining popularity but NeXT stuck with 68030 which was used in low end workstation competitors.
The software was good, it should have stuck with that instead of having an also-ran computer. But that was the think about Jobs, he wanted to have it all packaged together as a single unit as a consumer style device, one size fits all, no customization or expandability. For a computer at that price range it seemed a bit misplaced; too high end for a personal computer even though that's what it seemed to be marketed as, and a bit too low end for a serious workstation.
Not really. That's the myth. Others invented. He did like to micromanage. He wanted to treat everything his companies ever built as toasters - one size for everyone, no customization allowed, no upgrades allowed. It was really later in his career when he got his reputation for personally overseeing stuff, mostly the looks of things, when he should have stepped back. The Apple product line is chock full of tiny incremental improvements, every year some stupid interface has changed size and shape. As a leader he screwed up a lot, he was too impulsive, he was difficult to get along with, he helped foster a stressful working environment. So he gets credit for thinking that his company should also create yet another MP3 player, by borrowing some good parts and software from other companies and combining them into an Apple branded product, and credit for creating his iTunes store to monetize the hell out of it. But don't mistake a reality distortion field for leadership.
He's a CEO. He has 24 hours of free time during the day when he's not doing vital work for his company.
I think there really are people who believe it. They may not necessarily think that Jobs did everything, but they're deluded enough to think that he invented the smart phone and everyone else was just there to help sell it. Maybe not normal people think that, but the media keeps repeating that myth. It's true that he was totally a micromanager and butt-insky.
They have the summer off.
They went to Windows Phone after Elop took over, which means they were essentially under the control of Microsoft at that point. This was not the decision of any real Nokia workers or original management. Moving to Windows Phone was the first major torpedo out of Redmond to destroy Nokia.
They did not decide to switch to Windows Phone, Microsoft decided that. Nokia was working on smartphones at the time, had some just coming out of beta when those projects were cancelled. They weren't Android, or iOS, or Symbian, or even Windows.
What hurt Nokia even more than smartphones were the "dumb" phones, the bottom was being cut out of their market by low quality phones that were cheaper. Sure in the first world hipster view, only smartphones matter but there was and still is a huge market for basic phones.
For smart phones, Android and iOS aren't very good as they could be for business phones, they're much better as personal or social media phones. Though I'm not sure if Maemo or Meego would have covered that niche.
There have been rude images in tech conferences which got plenty of press. Maybe not your definition of 'porn', but pictures of scantily clad women or drawings of penises goes beyond the level lf profesionallism one would like to see. There are people so messed up that they do actually watch porn at work.
Wow, they let people out of the cave before they finish evolving. Pornographic images are demeaning and insulting; keep them to yourself and in private please. If a woman does not like to see a "sexy" image does not mean the woman does not find herself sexy; instead that is you projecting your one dimensional view on women that they are always comparing themselves to each other. Thinking that the goal of women is to seduce bottom feeders as a tech conference is just amazingly stupid; I understand that the rush of testosterone you got in puberty has yet to wear off the point where you can view females as human beings which is why thinking twice before speaking is a helpful tool.
Seriously, do you think this way about the females in your life? Such as your mother or grandmother?
The biggest problem at the tech conferences is the infantile behavior that most well adjusted people leave behind in junior high school. Drawing pictures of penises during a presentation or showing sexy pictures? That's seriously maladjusted and amazingly unprofessional.
The workplace is not your dating pool.
Or be a professional and don't try to find out how thick someone's skin is by insulting or harrassing them.
You seriously think seuxal dialogue between coworkers is appropriate? What are you, in a startup or something? There's no serious corporate environment that would condone that.
I've never been harrassed and told that I should not do computers, or been told that I should just get married and stay at home. Though the biggest example of that happening to women that I remember was before the internet, from a sexist professor who thought women shouldn't be in graduate school. Today when I see really egregious examples of over the top harrassment, it's inevitably against women. I just do not see men being harrassed on a personal level. Being called an idiot or faggot is nothing, that's not the same as being told you are worthless as a human being or being sent death threats. Just look at slashdot, there's nothing like the hint of feminism to bring out the haters in full force here.
Ada failed for military systems because it was too easy to get exceptions. And as for embedded systems, modern Ada is a good fit there.
In 1982, Ada was very competitive to C as C at the time was still in flux, was not popular at all outside of Unix, was not standardized, and lacked many features that Ada had, such as strong typing. The C of 1977 was almost a toy, it didn't even have separate name spaces between structs at the time (check out the 1977 Lion's Commentary of Unix for examples).
Right, in 1977 until the first Ada compilers in 1982, there was not yet the attitude that there should be a monoculture with only one language. Designing a new language was relatively common, and it promoted a lot of new ideas which was a good thing.
Hmm, when I worked some weeks in Finland it was not hot inside during the summer and was comfortable and cool. So "Europe" is too broad a generalization.
I wear a jacket in summer at work, because it's too damn cold in the office. I've got an AC vent draft coming straight into my cube, even though it's really hot outside. In the winter of course, it's still cold so no one thinks that unusual. I even remember being cold at work during the summer back in early 2000's when the state had rolling blackouts because of a power shortage; company sends out memos to conserve power and it still had the AC on full blast. I got a "ticket" at work for having a space heater (borrowed from another coworker who left the company).
Not new either. My father was a school teacher and he'd complain regularly about how cold they kept the classrooms.
On the other hand, if you've got a building full of heat producing machines (not just PCs) and the AC goes out then those labs can become stifling hot.
Yes more expensive per bulb, but not more expensive when it comes to replacing bulbs. Much cheaper than CFLs in my view, for incandescent you just have to wait longer to amortize the cost. I used to always have a few incandescent boxes because they were always burning out (it varies, I have one fixture that I haven't ever replaced a bulb in, and others where I replace them often).
It works for me too. But I still use C, so maybe I'm a nobody.
15.5% comes from federal funding in 2010, so that's a minor part of their budget. It would hurt to go without it, especially small stations, but it could weather that storm. If people are upset about government waste of taxpayer money, then this is amazingly low on the list of things to worry about and only gets used as a proxy for elitist values (and it fails badly for that purpose too).
Naw, I don't use Facebook even though I have a couple friends there. If we need to coordinate something we use email.
I had a job with a group managing shared minicomputers. One program I was writing was to log someone off after being inactive for some time, to free up a port for other users. So my loop to check every 5 minutes involved incrementing the time to wake up by 5 minutes on each iteration. Ie, it woke up at a specific time. So it would theoretically wake up at 12:00, 12:05, 12:10, etc.
The problem was that this operating system for some reason blocked when sending the alert message to someone's terminal. There was possibly some non-blocking way to do this with some extra effort, but it didn't seem like any additional effort was needed. However some user type Control-S on his terminal and then went off to lunch, probably typed it by accident. So a warning message went to his terminal, but blocked because of the Control-S. So the program was stuck until he came back from lunch and typed Control-Q. At which point this unblocked my program which then printed out one after the other on everyone's terminal in two buildings:
"your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 15 minutes",
"your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 10 minutes",
"your terminal has been idle and you will be logged off in 5 minutes",
"logging off due to inactivity."
This was shortly followed by a line of people coming into the office to complain, including my boss.