To add, I rarely use the actual phone part of my iPhone and my Android set has a data-only plan for VoIP. It's more accurate to say I have a portable computer which has a seldom used telephone app.
I store all my stuff as MD5 hashes. Why keep a 4.5 GB MKV file when it can be hashed down to 16 bytes? That's just stupid. Haven't watched anything yet, waiting for the holidays.
Corporations can't feel remorse or make decisions. The person who decided to go after Eckhart should be the one to say "sorry". Hiding behind the corporate logo makes the apology empty.
From the
time I was seven years old, I was captivated by blandness. When asked what
kind of ice cream I wanted, the answer was always "Vanilla, please."
My favourite toy was an old sock that belonged to my grandfather.
It was the most dull, lifeless white sock you had ever seen. I called it
"Blandy". When I turned 13 my parents let me paint my room any colour I
wanted. I picked a decidedly neutral beige paint. I didn't want any
excitement in my room, just a calming dullness. My whole room was like
that: beige walls, beige lampshades, beige bedding. The only contrast was
when I would place Blandy on my pillow. My room was the ultimate in dull.
Sitting in it was almost like floating in a sensory deprivation tank.
Except you could see that glorious beige everywhere.
What are
your memories of your first computer? I bought my first computer
when I was fifteen. It was a Radio Shack TRS-80. The silver-grey painted
chassis caused too much excitement in my otherwise dull bedroom so I spray
painted it beige. The cassette tape's door was a shiny bit of transparent
plastic, far too eye catching. I used some 120 grit sandpaper to take off
the glossiness. You couldn't read the tape labels through it after that,
but I didn't care. It was a small price to pay in my quest for supreme
dullness.
What modern technology do you wish you had growing up
and why? I've learned that technology on its own isn't what
really matters. What's important is how dull it is. How you can get
someone to spend their hard earned money on something then look at it and
wonder "Why did I buy that?" To me, making items that has people doing just
that, even before they receive their order confirmation, is the greatest
thing ever.
Companies that go for excitement and innovation are
certain to die. They have no future. Why, if it were up to me, I'd sell
whatever company it was and give the money back to the shareholders.
Printed on dull, beige cheques.
Very rarely parts of some houses will just fall on their own after the initial shake. Presumably we're to read into that that the developers had poor toilet training and had sexual fantasies about their mothers and cat.
Jobs spent years embedding his way of doing things into Apple's way of doing things. I think the majority of people at the VP level and up have to be true believers to get where they are. Compare that to most other companies where it's "Just a Job", the resultant work speaks for itself. I don't doubt that any of the SVPs at Apple would do a good job at running any company in their respective fields.
Tangent: I wrote Apple in 1981 for a job and including some 6502 assembly code I had written among other stuff. Actually received a reply to the effect of "We can't hire 15 year olds, but we love what you can do. Try again when you're 18." I never did try again, but have this nagging What-If in my head.
Here in.ca we have rules about government sites needing to be bilingual with a common look-and-feel to them.
We had a site that was only of interest to geeks throughout our department. I did some digging and it turns out that things like source code aren't covered by the rules. So I started posting pages that looked like
// information.c
/* info blah blah blah blah blah more blah blah blah etc etc blah blah blah more crap blah blah
Slashdot Mirror
No idea, I'm in Canada and there are several options for data-only at the various carriers.
Bingo.
To add, I rarely use the actual phone part of my iPhone and my Android set has a data-only plan for VoIP. It's more accurate to say I have a portable computer which has a seldom used telephone app.
Apple is the largest UNIX vendor in the world right now...
The guy was just running the iHotplate app to warm up his coffee.
Nothing here to see, move along.
What if your purpose is to kill yourself?
Suicide bombers are told as much.
I store all my stuff as MD5 hashes. Why keep a 4.5 GB MKV file when it can be hashed down to 16 bytes? That's just stupid. Haven't watched anything yet, waiting for the holidays.
Corporations can't feel remorse or make decisions.
The person who decided to go after Eckhart should be the one to say "sorry". Hiding behind the corporate logo makes the apology empty.
MICHAEL DELL
CEO and founder of Dell
From the time I was seven years old, I was captivated by blandness. When asked what kind of ice cream I wanted, the answer was always "Vanilla, please."
My favourite toy was an old sock that belonged to my grandfather. It was the most dull, lifeless white sock you had ever seen. I called it "Blandy". When I turned 13 my parents let me paint my room any colour I wanted. I picked a decidedly neutral beige paint. I didn't want any excitement in my room, just a calming dullness. My whole room was like that: beige walls, beige lampshades, beige bedding. The only contrast was when I would place Blandy on my pillow. My room was the ultimate in dull. Sitting in it was almost like floating in a sensory deprivation tank. Except you could see that glorious beige everywhere.
What are your memories of your first computer?
I bought my first computer when I was fifteen. It was a Radio Shack TRS-80. The silver-grey painted chassis caused too much excitement in my otherwise dull bedroom so I spray painted it beige. The cassette tape's door was a shiny bit of transparent plastic, far too eye catching. I used some 120 grit sandpaper to take off the glossiness. You couldn't read the tape labels through it after that, but I didn't care. It was a small price to pay in my quest for supreme dullness.
What modern technology do you wish you had growing up and why?
I've learned that technology on its own isn't what really matters. What's important is how dull it is. How you can get someone to spend their hard earned money on something then look at it and wonder "Why did I buy that?" To me, making items that has people doing just that, even before they receive their order confirmation, is the greatest thing ever.
Companies that go for excitement and innovation are certain to die. They have no future. Why, if it were up to me, I'd sell whatever company it was and give the money back to the shareholders. Printed on dull, beige cheques.
Fiorina made millions per year, Jobs made $1 per year. Ergo any company wanting to make billions should pay their CEOs $1 year!
Very rarely parts of some houses will just fall on their own after the initial shake.
Presumably we're to read into that that the developers had poor toilet training and had sexual fantasies about their mothers and cat.
I'm confused as well. Does this mean Amateur Hour is back on?
Sell it to RIM!
You don't like that classic rock band The Whom?
I would think the iPhone and iOS 5 are somewhat more complex than Google's email app.
Not to mention 5.0.1 beta is already out to developers which resolves the issues.
That's why I specified "developers' program cost"; it seems to be the nit the GP wanted to pick.
You forgot the cost of setting up an actual online shop. SSL certificates aren't free, nor are online card processors which take a percentage.
But hey, at least he'd be saving $99 and sticking it to The Man...
If you sell your app for 99 cents, you only need sell ~144 copies in the year to break even on the $99 developers' program cost.
That's small peanuts. Even moderately cheap webhosting would cost you that much for a year.
Great points all.
Jobs spent years embedding his way of doing things into Apple's way of doing things. I think the majority of people at the VP level and up have to be true believers to get where they are. Compare that to most other companies where it's "Just a Job", the resultant work speaks for itself. I don't doubt that any of the SVPs at Apple would do a good job at running any company in their respective fields.
Tangent: I wrote Apple in 1981 for a job and including some 6502 assembly code I had written among other stuff. Actually received a reply to the effect of "We can't hire 15 year olds, but we love what you can do. Try again when you're 18." I never did try again, but have this nagging What-If in my head.
Seconded!
I'd rather it have 2 network ports.
VLANs, baby!
Ah... that explains the lock-jaw and hemorrhoids.
That's the same reason I was forced out of pr0n. They couldn't believe the stamina this 45 year old had. Kept breaking the women.
Here in
We had a site that was only of interest to geeks throughout our department. I did some digging and it turns out that things like source code aren't covered by the rules. So I started posting pages that looked like
Was asked about it by people from Ottawa, explained it, never had a problem.
I always forgot as well, it was easier just to make it my homepage.