The Iron Law of Mac Sales: graphic designers will pay whatever it takes to get the very fastest official Apple Macintosh available, no matter how stupid an idea it is in implementation detail. This has held since the IIfx was released specifically to hook this market.
Heh. My 6710 pounds (I'm going to call it that from now on) also does 1280x800. I want a 10" netbook with 1280x800, that'd be nice. Just the thing for watching BBC iPlayer television on!
And the PowerMac G5 was liquid-cooled, anyway. But putting it into a laptop successfully, without hydraulic disasters, will still be quite a notable achievement.
Efficient heat distribution is well worth it. My HP 6710b has the fan exhaust on the side - when the processor's running full-speed (e.g. when it's running Windows - this hardly ever happens when it's running Linux), the heat blowing out the side is actually hot enough to be painful.
This is generally liquid gel cooling, where the liquid has high thermal conductivity. The pump needn't be all that powerful. There are pumpless systems that use liquid CFCs, but (a) they use CFCs (chemically harmless, but nassssty to dispose of given ozone concerns) (b) the CFCs cost a fortune. The main problem will be the requirement of perfect sealing.
I'm giving away nothing by saying I'm talking about the oil industry. Basically there's two companies that write most of the software, and they're both horrible.
"We have buttiduously canvbutted the industry, buttessed what is available and buttembled the finest selection of PFI contractors for this buttignment. The filters will buttociatively clbuttify all communications and filter then, I can butture you, rebuttemble them with surpbutting exacbreastude in any quanbreasty. Consbreastuents can be rebuttured that a mulbreastude of industry compebreastors will butture quality and keep our clbuttrooms safe. EDS Capita Goatse will not embarbutt us."
The first filtering offices will be set up in Arsenal, Penistone and Scunthorpe.
Inhouse software can be that bad, but it's actually possible to find and berate the developer. With vertical market software of the variety I'm shuddering at the memory of, you've paid good money for this abuse so it's got to be the finest and best-assembled abuse available. Besides, you're suffering it, not your boss.
I move that we rename vertical market proprietary software as "sadismware".
The thing is: most people are actually honest and wouldn't abuse stuff like this for monetary gain. (Social points, I'll grant you.) This includes security researchers. Note that Kaminsky is an actual security researcher of the sort with an income, not some l33t kid who thinks calling himself a "security researcher" is cooler than what everyone else calls him, an "annoying blight."
Srsly - srsly? Video games are so much in demand the makers can get away with crippling DRM on the games. Office software makers haven't tried that stupidity since the '80s.
I'm talking about insanely shoddy crap that half the time doesn't bloody work and the other time you pay them consultancy fees to get the dongleware you're paying >$10k/seat/year for to work at all. I think the last time I saw non-vertical-market software give me "Your screen has 24 colors, please set screen to 8 colors and try again" was 1990, not 2004.
Then the article's saying "too bad for them." Proprietary boxware is on the way out. Proprietary vertical market stuff gets toward "solution" selling. (Certainly at the prices they charge. Honestly, the more it costs, the worse it appears to be in quality...)
Do IBM sell software? No, they sell you a solution. They'll sell you Linux, AIX, Solaris (IBM is Sun's second-biggest seller after Sun themselves) or Windows.
Don't sell "software", sell "a solution to the customer's problem." This sounds cliched, but it's amazing how many people and companies work around actually doing so.
As Microsoft continues to prepare for the 2009^W2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don't let the journalists near it.
"We understand that many journalists use Macs," said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. "This means they necessarily suckle at the Satanic rear passage of Steve Jobs. We cannot countenance their bias. Journalists are responsible for all those signs outside computer shops offering to replace Vista with XP. When was the last time you saw the entire technology field stop and wait for an announcement from any other company besides Apple? It's so unfair!"
Smears and slanders also come from obsessive overweight nerdy Mac-using Linux geek troublemakers who run "benchmarks" and "tests." "It's horrifying bias from the 'reality'-based community," said ZDNet marketing marketer Mary Jo Enderle. "We understand that, just because Vista was 40% slower than XP and Windows 7 is the same speed as Vista, the nattering nabobs of negativism are already writing press releases condemning it as 'not enough of an improvement.' It's so unfair!"
"Mactards are like concentration camp guards," said Guardian marketing marketer Jack Schofield, "brutalising 'I'm A PC' users and" [This comment has been removed by a Guardian moderator. Replies may also be deleted.]
"The only reason Vista failed was because Microsoft planned for it to fail," said Reisinger in an earlier ad-banner troll post. "It was a fantastically subtle double-bluff! They did the honorable thing in the face of the vile calumnies spread by Apple. It's so unfair!"
Microsoft will be debuting Windows 7 on a new 17" Asus Eee Ultra-Portable Mini-Netbook with 8GB memory and a 2GHz quad-core processor. Battery life is up to twenty minutes in preliminary tests.
Yuh, it's still technically a degree (technically a master's degree, even) from what's technically a university rather than a diploma mill per se. A very expensive diploma mill with very high customer qualification requirements;-p
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Why stop at schoolchildren? We need a video game console that toddlers will find comfort from too.
(The Atari 2600 will rise again! As a cuddly toy!)
The Iron Law of Mac Sales: graphic designers will pay whatever it takes to get the very fastest official Apple Macintosh available, no matter how stupid an idea it is in implementation detail. This has held since the IIfx was released specifically to hook this market.
Heh. My 6710 pounds (I'm going to call it that from now on) also does 1280x800. I want a 10" netbook with 1280x800, that'd be nice. Just the thing for watching BBC iPlayer television on!
Pretty close - it's about the size of a starship console ;-)
My goodness I want a netbook for work. An Acer Aspire One with a ton of memory would do nicely kthx.
Oh no, it's Google!
But srsly, Apple versus Microsoft ... it's evil versus senile.
And the PowerMac G5 was liquid-cooled, anyway. But putting it into a laptop successfully, without hydraulic disasters, will still be quite a notable achievement.
Efficient heat distribution is well worth it. My HP 6710b has the fan exhaust on the side - when the processor's running full-speed (e.g. when it's running Windows - this hardly ever happens when it's running Linux), the heat blowing out the side is actually hot enough to be painful.
This is generally liquid gel cooling, where the liquid has high thermal conductivity. The pump needn't be all that powerful. There are pumpless systems that use liquid CFCs, but (a) they use CFCs (chemically harmless, but nassssty to dispose of given ozone concerns) (b) the CFCs cost a fortune. The main problem will be the requirement of perfect sealing.
That's it, I wasn't talking about them!
I'm giving away nothing by saying I'm talking about the oil industry. Basically there's two companies that write most of the software, and they're both horrible.
And adults should use one of these.
"We have buttiduously canvbutted the industry, buttessed what is available and buttembled the finest selection of PFI contractors for this buttignment. The filters will buttociatively clbuttify all communications and filter then, I can butture you, rebuttemble them with surpbutting exacbreastude in any quanbreasty. Consbreastuents can be rebuttured that a mulbreastude of industry compebreastors will butture quality and keep our clbuttrooms safe. EDS Capita Goatse will not embarbutt us."
The first filtering offices will be set up in Arsenal, Penistone and Scunthorpe.
(Inspiration: The Daily WTF.)
Inhouse software can be that bad, but it's actually possible to find and berate the developer. With vertical market software of the variety I'm shuddering at the memory of, you've paid good money for this abuse so it's got to be the finest and best-assembled abuse available. Besides, you're suffering it, not your boss.
I move that we rename vertical market proprietary software as "sadismware".
The thing is: most people are actually honest and wouldn't abuse stuff like this for monetary gain. (Social points, I'll grant you.) This includes security researchers. Note that Kaminsky is an actual security researcher of the sort with an income, not some l33t kid who thinks calling himself a "security researcher" is cooler than what everyone else calls him, an "annoying blight."
Nothing. The vast majority of programmers write and maintain in-house software, not anything sold to anyone else in any way.
Oh well, so much for video games.
Srsly - srsly? Video games are so much in demand the makers can get away with crippling DRM on the games. Office software makers haven't tried that stupidity since the '80s.
Very few programmers at all write boxware or ever did. Almost all programmers write - or maintain - in-house software.
I'm talking about insanely shoddy crap that half the time doesn't bloody work and the other time you pay them consultancy fees to get the dongleware you're paying >$10k/seat/year for to work at all. I think the last time I saw non-vertical-market software give me "Your screen has 24 colors, please set screen to 8 colors and try again" was 1990, not 2004.
Yeah. The proprietary box industry appears to have been a historical anomaly.
Then the article's saying "too bad for them." Proprietary boxware is on the way out. Proprietary vertical market stuff gets toward "solution" selling. (Certainly at the prices they charge. Honestly, the more it costs, the worse it appears to be in quality ...)
Do IBM sell software? No, they sell you a solution. They'll sell you Linux, AIX, Solaris (IBM is Sun's second-biggest seller after Sun themselves) or Windows.
Don't sell "software", sell "a solution to the customer's problem." This sounds cliched, but it's amazing how many people and companies work around actually doing so.
It's like a car. Government funding, properly applied, will turn a Trabant into a stretch limo.
Because worse is better. If there's a shitty, shitty way to do something and it's easy to implement, it will take over.
As Microsoft continues to prepare for the 2009^W2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don't let the journalists near it.
"We understand that many journalists use Macs," said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. "This means they necessarily suckle at the Satanic rear passage of Steve Jobs. We cannot countenance their bias. Journalists are responsible for all those signs outside computer shops offering to replace Vista with XP. When was the last time you saw the entire technology field stop and wait for an announcement from any other company besides Apple? It's so unfair!"
Smears and slanders also come from obsessive overweight nerdy Mac-using Linux geek troublemakers who run "benchmarks" and "tests." "It's horrifying bias from the 'reality'-based community," said ZDNet marketing marketer Mary Jo Enderle. "We understand that, just because Vista was 40% slower than XP and Windows 7 is the same speed as Vista, the nattering nabobs of negativism are already writing press releases condemning it as 'not enough of an improvement.' It's so unfair!"
"Mactards are like concentration camp guards," said Guardian marketing marketer Jack Schofield, "brutalising 'I'm A PC' users and" [This comment has been removed by a Guardian moderator. Replies may also be deleted.]
"The only reason Vista failed was because Microsoft planned for it to fail," said Reisinger in an earlier ad-banner troll post. "It was a fantastically subtle double-bluff! They did the honorable thing in the face of the vile calumnies spread by Apple. It's so unfair!"
Microsoft will be debuting Windows 7 on a new 17" Asus Eee Ultra-Portable Mini-Netbook with 8GB memory and a 2GHz quad-core processor. Battery life is up to twenty minutes in preliminary tests.
Yuh, it's still technically a degree (technically a master's degree, even) from what's technically a university rather than a diploma mill per se. A very expensive diploma mill with very high customer qualification requirements ;-p
He has an MBA from Harvard.