Wise up, folks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll . I'm new here and even I'm sensible enough to not feed the trolls. Seriously, guys like this are not worth your time.
Wrong. You know who designed all those products, created them? Not Steve Jobs. [...] Steve Jobs had very little to do with making Apple products good/bad.
Wrong. I'm really not a big fan of Apple but that it just as wrong as to say Bill Gates would have been hardly important for the rise of the PC. Steve Jobs may not have designed everything by himself but he's allways been the person with the vision of a product, the person who had the final decission about a product and the person to make his designers reitterate over their designs until it was the thing he wanted. He didn't care about sales as top priority (that's what Gates and Balmer cared about and that's why Microsoft has the user base it has today) - he didn't even care about technical specs. Apple may be the only "early" consumer electronics company where the designers stand above the engineers, the sales people, pretty much every one else.
Steve Jobs does have a hand in making the company successful, but that's because his true strength is in sales. That man could sell people anything in the world. He could make dirt seem like a desirable commodity.
What makes Steve Jobs a good sales person is his "reality distortion field" (google it). And it's not only working on customers - it also works on employees, contractors and so on. This "ability" may have come from his believe in their products, which may have come from the fact that he wouldn't release a product until he thinks it's perfect. Most "sales persons" can't resemble that because they know that their product is not perfect (whereas Steve honestly believes the product he sales is in fact perfect)
I believe a good portion of the Autobahn now has a speed limit. I was rather surprised in the area around Stuttgart in January this year.
Doesn't apply in general. There are plenty of Autobahns that do not impose speed limits. Also I found that most of the time when there is a speed limit on an Autobahn it actually makes sense for some reason!
Contrary to that have a look at the A9 between, say, Bayreuth and the intersection to the A72. There's no speed limit most of the times. But there are 3 lanes for each direction (plus emergency lane) and the road is in good shape.
but the "default" seemed to be 100kph rather than unlimited
The "default" (i.e. recommended speed) on an Autobahn and a Bundesstraße, which is made like an Autobahn, is 130kp/h. Also if there's anything wrong at 100kp/h and you don't react right the result is almost the same as with 200kp/h.
if you mostly have windows boxes you may want to have a look at lansweeper... it isnt open source but its freeware - even for commercial use... its very detailed and comfortable but it has its downsides: you need an iis and an mssql (express will do) and die clients have to run an agent (with admin privileges... but thats something that could be implemented as a service or within a logon script)....
have you tried to use scrum as a style for running those development projects? i had positive experiences with that. but it's very different from the "classical" project style and it is important to follow it's rule completely - not only to take the parts you want of it - the scrum leader should have some training in his role before taking that position (there are courses you can take and even certifications to get;)) and the product owner (mostly the customer - whoever it is) also has to comply with that as he has a quite different roll, too, compared to the classical project style....
see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
...write down the passwords...make graphics of the wiring with different symbols for clients, servers, including labels which tell the ip and dns name...for servers: write down their function, which services run on them and step-by-step guides on how to do maintenance work...document as visual as you can and it makes sense
...obviously the author of the article can't or just don't want to see some things that indeed HAVE been somehow revolutionary... i mean... bluetooth (oh, the people in sf are using tiny bt handfrees... scary *rolleyes*)... firewire (though not revolutionary, many people still use and like it)... the apple lisa probably had started the race for the GUI as we know (and most of us love) it...
oh and voice recognition we'll see coming up in the next decade for daily use in all kinds of devices i think...
It was in January 2006 when I made my first REAL expreiences with linux... back then i decided to try gentoo first as i thought i'd learn most by installing this distro and getting it to run... back then there was no automated installer... "the installer is YOU" they said:)
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Wise up, folks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll . I'm new here and even I'm sensible enough to not feed the trolls. Seriously, guys like this are not worth your time.
It's not as easy as you try to make it appear. It's been on ./ a few years ago, that not feeding the trolls is usually ineffective.
Wrong. You know who designed all those products, created them? Not Steve Jobs. [...] Steve Jobs had very little to do with making Apple products good/bad.
Wrong. I'm really not a big fan of Apple but that it just as wrong as to say Bill Gates would have been hardly important for the rise of the PC. Steve Jobs may not have designed everything by himself but he's allways been the person with the vision of a product, the person who had the final decission about a product and the person to make his designers reitterate over their designs until it was the thing he wanted. He didn't care about sales as top priority (that's what Gates and Balmer cared about and that's why Microsoft has the user base it has today) - he didn't even care about technical specs. Apple may be the only "early" consumer electronics company where the designers stand above the engineers, the sales people, pretty much every one else.
Steve Jobs does have a hand in making the company successful, but that's because his true strength is in sales. That man could sell people anything in the world. He could make dirt seem like a desirable commodity.
What makes Steve Jobs a good sales person is his "reality distortion field" (google it). And it's not only working on customers - it also works on employees, contractors and so on. This "ability" may have come from his believe in their products, which may have come from the fact that he wouldn't release a product until he thinks it's perfect. Most "sales persons" can't resemble that because they know that their product is not perfect (whereas Steve honestly believes the product he sales is in fact perfect)
for your reference: http://scaruffi.com/svhistory/sv/chap91.html
I believe a good portion of the Autobahn now has a speed limit. I was rather surprised in the area around Stuttgart in January this year.
Doesn't apply in general. There are plenty of Autobahns that do not impose speed limits. Also I found that most of the time when there is a speed limit on an Autobahn it actually makes sense for some reason! Contrary to that have a look at the A9 between, say, Bayreuth and the intersection to the A72. There's no speed limit most of the times. But there are 3 lanes for each direction (plus emergency lane) and the road is in good shape.
but the "default" seemed to be 100kph rather than unlimited
The "default" (i.e. recommended speed) on an Autobahn and a Bundesstraße, which is made like an Autobahn, is 130kp/h. Also if there's anything wrong at 100kp/h and you don't react right the result is almost the same as with 200kp/h.
They should have used a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
Oh and they should also implement a voice control and response system
i think such a software could very easily be implemented using inotify and aufs...
see this http://www.heise.de/security/Luecke-in-Windows-Vista-und-7-ermoeglicht-Neustart-aus-der-Ferne--/news/meldung/144986 (german) heise tested the avaliable expoit and found vista affected but not windows 7
read this: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/28/1727250/Dye-Used-In-Blue-MampMs-Can-Lessen-Spinal-Injury?from=rss
if you mostly have windows boxes you may want to have a look at lansweeper... it isnt open source but its freeware - even for commercial use... its very detailed and comfortable but it has its downsides: you need an iis and an mssql (express will do) and die clients have to run an agent (with admin privileges... but thats something that could be implemented as a service or within a logon script)....
have you tried to use scrum as a style for running those development projects? i had positive experiences with that. but it's very different from the "classical" project style and it is important to follow it's rule completely - not only to take the parts you want of it - the scrum leader should have some training in his role before taking that position (there are courses you can take and even certifications to get ;)) and the product owner (mostly the customer - whoever it is) also has to comply with that as he has a quite different roll, too, compared to the classical project style....
see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
...write down the passwords ...make graphics of the wiring with different symbols for clients, servers, including labels which tell the ip and dns name ...for servers: write down their function, which services run on them and step-by-step guides on how to do maintenance work ...document as visual as you can and it makes sense
...obviously the author of the article can't or just don't want to see some things that indeed HAVE been somehow revolutionary... i mean... bluetooth (oh, the people in sf are using tiny bt handfrees... scary *rolleyes*)... firewire (though not revolutionary, many people still use and like it)... the apple lisa probably had started the race for the GUI as we know (and most of us love) it... oh and voice recognition we'll see coming up in the next decade for daily use in all kinds of devices i think...
It was in January 2006 when I made my first REAL expreiences with linux... back then i decided to try gentoo first as i thought i'd learn most by installing this distro and getting it to run... back then there was no automated installer... "the installer is YOU" they said :)