What are you talking about? The airline when it negotiates with Boeing or Airbus requests a specification with the seating count. Boeing and Airbus then design the optimal layout to accommodate the requirement specs.
Even if the Engineers think the spec is flawed do you think they'll convince the Airlines and risk losing the revenue?
The elderly aren't interested in being on computers and the Internet, in general.
I listened to many meetings on this crap and as a consultant pointed out that besides the Intel POS that they were using with a proprietary Linux that we couldn't modify w/o Intel's approval, they just wouldn't accept the reality that the retirement centers and elderly at home with 2/3rds of the US money don't give a rats ass about the IT World. TiVo is cool to them because they can record their shows. That's about it.
A year later and out of angel funds they sold it to Bsquare who quickly took something I can't figure out what from it and then buried it.
You are aware that some of the developers who wrote Lighthouse Design's Office Suite of products are responsible for Keynote and Pages, right?
Expect these apps and more to creep in and expand in capabilities rather rapidly.
All memorable NeXT applications were never the Kitchen Sink. They believed in Services and leveraging Cocoa from the Developer Community to grow for everyone.
Ever met a bombshell that didn't like attention?
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Women, when they are honest with themselves desire the ultimate male like men desire the ultimate female. This is all subjective to one's own tastes.
People are so afraid to be alone they will ridicule their partner if they admire physical or artistic beauty that reveals an insecurity the ridiculer holds deep inside. More often than not their partner is unaware, but more importantly, even if they are aware and you still whine that you don't "control" the sole attention of your partner you have serious issues.
People are on borrowed time with one another. Grow up. You don't like it than go find a wimp for a lover who kisses your ass. If you want to learn and experience life than find someone who really doesn't worship the ground you walk on and demands the same from you. That way you both can learn to appreciate that relationships aren't about controlling one's perceptions of beauty but being able to handle the fact you aren't David to someone else nor Michelangelo to someone else's David.
Beauty brings silence and an awe inspiring touch of peace. It brings lust. It brings respect and it reminds us how undisciplined most of us are when it comes to impulses. Don't spit on beauty. Don't be a control freak who can't accept the mold wasn't broken after they were born.
Don't be afraid to be solo. Enjoy finding who you are and then you just might enjoy beauty in everything.
My apologies. My first reply was in response to thinking you were actually writing to me. The threading on slashdot can become confusing. The parent poster to your comment is a moron.
I probably have better social skills than the parent poster, but that is how I got most of my jobs too. In recessions though, it was my contacts that got me jobs.
Dream on. It was my social skills that landed me jobs at NeXT and Apple to name two companies.
My background is a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering where upon graduating in 1993 had the lovely firsthand experience of what was a recession in my field. I returned to do a second bachelor's in computer science.
I worked full-time at the campus IT Department while taking classes vastly ill-structured compared to my M.E. courseware. The options of languages to learn were behind the industry and this is a Pac-10 University I'm citing. Like almost all accredited programs they seem to be under the umbrella of Electrical Engineering. I ended up having to take several classes that I fulfilled in Mechanical Engineering for C.S. The smug remark was always the same, "I don't believe you guys covered this area with applied math in your EE class equivalent." My retort was always, "I don't believe you guys covered anything in your Statics/Dynamics cliff notes and Thermo for idiots equivalents but we don't make you waste time and money taking the full crap if you wanted to do a Masters in M.E."
Needless to say, I was looked upon as a "typical elitist Mechanical Engineer" within the department. I was only there to apply Finite Element Analysis, study Computer Modeling and hopefully get my ass back into a career I had just spent five years educating myself to do. To eliminate the boredom of the classes I made sure in both degrees to have a minor outside the range of technology that may expand my mind. I declared a minor in Anthropology.
Anthropology is where I rekindled my love of writing and love for what makes us tick inside. This diversion made studying science much more enjoyable.
However, it doesn't improve one's odds at retaining a career of their choosing. You garner such skills through Social Engineering--a nice label for Social Networking--where one learns to manage time, alcohol and communicating with the sexes over countless hours of downtime. This set of skills matched with one's professional skills are what land you the interviews and ultimately the ability to adapt into new careers thanks to the chaos known as the Real World. It doesn't guarantee one to always be ahead of the storm--that depends on whether one is constantly cautious and through pessimism looks for such pitfalls.
In short, expect several careers, various job titles that will most assuredly have nothing to do with your formal education and more to do with your social education and more importantly realize your needs fluctuate in life--the needs that we label as attributes to personal fulfillment.
Thanks to this lovely recession I'm currently focused on writing short stories, novels and verse to land me a new career, while simultaneously refreshing myself in Mechanical Engineering (I put that on hold while working in Silicon Valley and the Northwest for a decade) as well as make a conscientious effort to further my technical skills in Linux, OS X, C/ObjC and Java.
The moment you think you have learned enough to sustain a lifestyle of your choosing will be the moment you realize you've never had such a lifestyle afforded you. The promised land of telecommuting around the globe have yet to become the norm. Without this option one is always in debt upon entering the doors at the new job chosen by you which rarely is in the same town and most often requires you to relocate, at considerable expense, on your dime.
Welcome to the Belly of the Beast, where nothing is guaranteed nor afforded to you without a price. Sacrifice, patience and an unwavering desire to be adaptable to change is the only guarantees one has of never succumbing to the blackhole of has beens, contenders, or desperate souls who have given up on all their dreams. No longer vibrant and creative over a few beers while doing their studies they now just meander along in life with the highlights being Friday at the bars, Saturday with the woman and Sunday afternoon Football as their only reprieve from a thankless life of compromise.
The greatest falsehood in the Real World is that what was afforded to you
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The word, Windows, is a common word in the English Language. Therefore, Microsoft knows it has limitations upon Trademark Law.
iTunes is not in the English Language and it is a concatentation of two words. Internet-Tunes. Your analogy is flawed and illogical.
Xerox would have been a better choice to make an analogy. Xerox lost its power of Trademark with regards to photocopying because common speech took to the term, "Xerox it" and thus it diluted the Trademark. Xerox never saw the down-side and waited decades before suing Trademark infringement. They lost.
The trademark for iTunes
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ITUNES
Goods and Services
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing audio data. FIRST USE: 20010109. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20010109
Mark Drawing Code
(1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number
76193469
Filing Date
January 9, 2001
Current Filing Basis
1A
Original Filing Basis
1A;44D
Published for Opposition
September 3, 2002
Registration Number
2653465
Registration Date
November 26, 2002
Owner
(REGISTRANT) Apple Computer, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA
95014
From what I have been told, the reason Ruby bindings, like any other non-native language to Qt has bindings is because someone took up the role of creating the bindings as a KDE project.
I was told Objective-C was there but stopped being maintained and presently isn't in the tree. Too bad. I'd rather see ObjC and ObjC++ than Ruby.
That port happened during NeXTSTEP and IBM burned NeXT. It won't happen again. Either IBM uses OS X Server as it is and ports AIX tools to OS X Server or it won't happen.
* Apple doesn't understand the needs of business computer people
There's no on-site service, no guaranteed turnaround time, no dedicated support line for businesses. IBM would take care of this.
This perceived lack of ability is by design, not by Apple having the incapability of tackling this market space. Why would I say this? I worked at NeXT and Apple Enterprise and it wasn't the lack of talent or skilled personnel but the focus of Apple, at the time, was on B2C solely. They always planned the future to tackle B2B, but only after the B2C was sustainable. Get used to it when it happens. And when it does I'll be first in line to reapply to Apple and help. The enterprise was what made it fun at NeXT.
Apple's product designs are created with no input (as far as anyone can tell) from customers.
This is a problem. Business computers have different needs than personal computers. They don't need a monitor,and need management tool integration (ARD is nice, but it needs integration with at least Tivoli, CA, and BMC).
Talk about ignorant dribble. The company that has the best HID specifications in the industry can't develop for the business markets? Get real. They haven't even begun to show what they can do. The point that Steve is stressing is to get Xsan, Xserve Raid, Xservers and OS X Server, plus who knows what else, certified from the Federal Levels on down, BEFORE, they hit the industry heavily. To do otherwise would be suicide. Steve hates to sell VAPORWARE. Promise them a little and over-deliver is his focus.
I'll stop here because the comments are pure speculation based upon Apple during the years when Apple lived off the Fruit of its brand.
It amazes me that you didn't perceive a joint venture where the Consulting Services of IBM and Apple would develop tiers, together.
If Apple does bring 2005 as the year of the Enterprise than expect quite a few new job openings, but know that the key positions will have already quietly been filled.
Any one who believes this clearly never worked in a Steve Jobs company.
Nor do they know their history. Back when NeXTSTEP was natively ported to IBM systems it outperformed AIX. That was not cool to the suits so they promptly forced it to run at the interpreter level and buried the joint venture.
Steve never forgets. And to the dickwad that claims his ego is enormous I say, "Feelin' inadequate still?"
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I dig LyX but I have switched to Kile LaTeX Editor (KDE Project) due to the skeletal support of the Memoir Class within LyX, amongst various other classes that may not be as commonly requested and therefore aren't natively supported in LyX. Both are wonderful applications.
I equate LyX and its WYSIWYM to be getting better yet too often I have to insert ERT and so I decided to just learn LaTeX directly and write in Kile. I build chapter templates quite simply with Kile. Customizing the appearance of output in Kile and its Master-Document Hierarchy is smooth. The Preamble hastles in LyX that most often are due to lack of documentation aren't evident in Kile.
Kile is a sweet front-end with many difficulties in LaTeX accounted for through wizards and other special templates.
And I've yet to worry about pdf output with Kile on Debian.
I'm looking forward to LyX 1.4 and hope it lives up to the redesign promises.
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Even if the Engineers think the spec is flawed do you think they'll convince the Airlines and risk losing the revenue?
No. You assume wrong. iWork is a separate software purchase. Keynote was never bundled with Macs so spend $79 for Keynote 2 and iWork.
"Hey did you see the ass on the blonde?"
"Which one?
"Where?"
"Over there!"
"Hell she's blond? I didn't get past her ass.
"Now where were we again?
"Oh yea. I'm having trouble with my retain release count."
*silence*
"Hello I said I'm having trouble with my..."
"Holy crap look at that brunette! Hey this is great coffee by the way.
"Do you need a private moment? Here have a cup go jerk off in the bathroom so we can get back to work, okay?"
Before I worked at NeXT, Wil Shipley did interns with NeXT while at the UofW.
I'm sure he enjoys Seattle.
Co-founder of OmniGroup in Seattle.
http://www.omnigroup.com
I had no idea Wil left his baby, OmniWeb to do a start-up. With his almost 15 years of Cocoa programming experience I'm sure they'll make it.
I listened to many meetings on this crap and as a consultant pointed out that besides the Intel POS that they were using with a proprietary Linux that we couldn't modify w/o Intel's approval, they just wouldn't accept the reality that the retirement centers and elderly at home with 2/3rds of the US money don't give a rats ass about the IT World. TiVo is cool to them because they can record their shows. That's about it.
A year later and out of angel funds they sold it to Bsquare who quickly took something I can't figure out what from it and then buried it.
http://www.lizardtech.com/
http://www.djvuzone.org/wid/
It's been around for a long time and open sourced.
You are aware that some of the developers who wrote Lighthouse Design's Office Suite of products are responsible for Keynote and Pages, right?
Expect these apps and more to creep in and expand in capabilities rather rapidly.
All memorable NeXT applications were never the Kitchen Sink. They believed in Services and leveraging Cocoa from the Developer Community to grow for everyone.
Women, when they are honest with themselves desire the ultimate male like men desire the ultimate female. This is all subjective to one's own tastes.
People are so afraid to be alone they will ridicule their partner if they admire physical or artistic beauty that reveals an insecurity the ridiculer holds deep inside. More often than not their partner is unaware, but more importantly, even if they are aware and you still whine that you don't "control" the sole attention of your partner you have serious issues.
People are on borrowed time with one another. Grow up. You don't like it than go find a wimp for a lover who kisses your ass. If you want to learn and experience life than find someone who really doesn't worship the ground you walk on and demands the same from you. That way you both can learn to appreciate that relationships aren't about controlling one's perceptions of beauty but being able to handle the fact you aren't David to someone else nor Michelangelo to someone else's David.
Beauty brings silence and an awe inspiring touch of peace. It brings lust. It brings respect and it reminds us how undisciplined most of us are when it comes to impulses. Don't spit on beauty. Don't be a control freak who can't accept the mold wasn't broken after they were born.
Don't be afraid to be solo. Enjoy finding who you are and then you just might enjoy beauty in everything.
No county can make excuses when this county with 2600 square miles will soon be fully lit of over 50,000 miles of fiber.
My apologies. My first reply was in response to thinking you were actually writing to me. The threading on slashdot can become confusing. The parent poster to your comment is a moron.
Pacific-10 makes it easier to write than listing the names of every University. Not to mention it keeps me from naming my specific alma mater.
Dream on. It was my social skills that landed me jobs at NeXT and Apple to name two companies.
My background is a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering where upon graduating in 1993 had the lovely firsthand experience of what was a recession in my field. I returned to do a second bachelor's in computer science.
I worked full-time at the campus IT Department while taking classes vastly ill-structured compared to my M.E. courseware. The options of languages to learn were behind the industry and this is a Pac-10 University I'm citing. Like almost all accredited programs they seem to be under the umbrella of Electrical Engineering. I ended up having to take several classes that I fulfilled in Mechanical Engineering for C.S. The smug remark was always the same, "I don't believe you guys covered this area with applied math in your EE class equivalent." My retort was always, "I don't believe you guys covered anything in your Statics/Dynamics cliff notes and Thermo for idiots equivalents but we don't make you waste time and money taking the full crap if you wanted to do a Masters in M.E."
Needless to say, I was looked upon as a "typical elitist Mechanical Engineer" within the department. I was only there to apply Finite Element Analysis, study Computer Modeling and hopefully get my ass back into a career I had just spent five years educating myself to do. To eliminate the boredom of the classes I made sure in both degrees to have a minor outside the range of technology that may expand my mind. I declared a minor in Anthropology.
Anthropology is where I rekindled my love of writing and love for what makes us tick inside. This diversion made studying science much more enjoyable.
However, it doesn't improve one's odds at retaining a career of their choosing. You garner such skills through Social Engineering--a nice label for Social Networking--where one learns to manage time, alcohol and communicating with the sexes over countless hours of downtime. This set of skills matched with one's professional skills are what land you the interviews and ultimately the ability to adapt into new careers thanks to the chaos known as the Real World. It doesn't guarantee one to always be ahead of the storm--that depends on whether one is constantly cautious and through pessimism looks for such pitfalls.
In short, expect several careers, various job titles that will most assuredly have nothing to do with your formal education and more to do with your social education and more importantly realize your needs fluctuate in life--the needs that we label as attributes to personal fulfillment.
Thanks to this lovely recession I'm currently focused on writing short stories, novels and verse to land me a new career, while simultaneously refreshing myself in Mechanical Engineering (I put that on hold while working in Silicon Valley and the Northwest for a decade) as well as make a conscientious effort to further my technical skills in Linux, OS X, C/ObjC and Java.
The moment you think you have learned enough to sustain a lifestyle of your choosing will be the moment you realize you've never had such a lifestyle afforded you. The promised land of telecommuting around the globe have yet to become the norm. Without this option one is always in debt upon entering the doors at the new job chosen by you which rarely is in the same town and most often requires you to relocate, at considerable expense, on your dime.
Welcome to the Belly of the Beast, where nothing is guaranteed nor afforded to you without a price. Sacrifice, patience and an unwavering desire to be adaptable to change is the only guarantees one has of never succumbing to the blackhole of has beens, contenders, or desperate souls who have given up on all their dreams. No longer vibrant and creative over a few beers while doing their studies they now just meander along in life with the highlights being Friday at the bars, Saturday with the woman and Sunday afternoon Football as their only reprieve from a thankless life of compromise.
The greatest falsehood in the Real World is that what was afforded to you
Of course some guys like that 70's hair with no bangs look. We all have our preferences. She's just not mine.
So she designed a joystick. Big deal.
Sure he did. He was just too busy eating Pi to notice.
Without him NeXTSTEP would have not been. Tim Berner's Lee would have had one hell of a time developing the first WWW Browser.
All the advancements that people are wooing about in Linux, Java and IDE Development Tools were commonplace in NeXTSTEP and its development tools.
The trademark for iTunes
Word Mark
ITUNES
Goods and Services
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing audio data. FIRST USE: 20010109. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20010109
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January 9, 2001
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September 3, 2002
Registration Number
2653465
Registration Date
November 26, 2002
Owner
(REGISTRANT) Apple Computer, Inc. CORPORATION
CALIFORNIA 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA
95014
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The word, Windows, is a common word in the English Language. Therefore, Microsoft knows it has limitations upon Trademark Law.
iTunes is not in the English Language and it is a concatentation of two words. Internet-Tunes. Your analogy is flawed and illogical.
Xerox would have been a better choice to make an analogy. Xerox lost its power of Trademark with regards to photocopying because common speech took to the term, "Xerox it" and thus it diluted the Trademark. Xerox never saw the down-side and waited decades before suing Trademark infringement. They lost.
The trademark for iTunes
Word Mark
ITUNES
Goods and Services
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organizing audio data. FIRST USE: 20010109. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20010109
Mark Drawing Code
(1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number
76193469
Filing Date
January 9, 2001
Current Filing Basis
1A
Original Filing Basis
1A;44D
Published for Opposition
September 3, 2002
Registration Number
2653465
Registration Date
November 26, 2002
Owner
(REGISTRANT) Apple Computer, Inc. CORPORATION
CALIFORNIA 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA
95014
Attorney of Record
John C. Baum
Priority Date
October 24, 2000
Type of Mark
TRADEMARK
Register
PRINCIPAL-2(F)
Live/Dead Indicator
LIVE
From what I have been told, the reason Ruby bindings, like any other non-native language to Qt has bindings is because someone took up the role of creating the bindings as a KDE project.
I was told Objective-C was there but stopped being maintained and presently isn't in the tree. Too bad. I'd rather see ObjC and ObjC++ than Ruby.
That port happened during NeXTSTEP and IBM burned NeXT. It won't happen again. Either IBM uses OS X Server as it is and ports AIX tools to OS X Server or it won't happen.
* Apple doesn't understand the needs of business computer people
There's no on-site service, no guaranteed turnaround time, no dedicated support line for businesses. IBM would take care of this.
This perceived lack of ability is by design, not by Apple having the incapability of tackling this market space. Why would I say this? I worked at NeXT and Apple Enterprise and it wasn't the lack of talent or skilled personnel but the focus of Apple, at the time, was on B2C solely. They always planned the future to tackle B2B, but only after the B2C was sustainable. Get used to it when it happens. And when it does I'll be first in line to reapply to Apple and help. The enterprise was what made it fun at NeXT.
Apple's product designs are created with no input (as far as anyone can tell) from customers. This is a problem. Business computers have different needs than personal computers. They don't need a monitor,and need management tool integration (ARD is nice, but it needs integration with at least Tivoli, CA, and BMC).Talk about ignorant dribble. The company that has the best HID specifications in the industry can't develop for the business markets? Get real. They haven't even begun to show what they can do. The point that Steve is stressing is to get Xsan, Xserve Raid, Xservers and OS X Server, plus who knows what else, certified from the Federal Levels on down, BEFORE, they hit the industry heavily. To do otherwise would be suicide. Steve hates to sell VAPORWARE. Promise them a little and over-deliver is his focus.
I'll stop here because the comments are pure speculation based upon Apple during the years when Apple lived off the Fruit of its brand.
It amazes me that you didn't perceive a joint venture where the Consulting Services of IBM and Apple would develop tiers, together.
If Apple does bring 2005 as the year of the Enterprise than expect quite a few new job openings, but know that the key positions will have already quietly been filled.
Any one who believes this clearly never worked in a Steve Jobs company.
Nor do they know their history. Back when NeXTSTEP was natively ported to IBM systems it outperformed AIX. That was not cool to the suits so they promptly forced it to run at the interpreter level and buried the joint venture.
Steve never forgets. And to the dickwad that claims his ego is enormous I say, "Feelin' inadequate still?"
I dig LyX but I have switched to Kile LaTeX Editor (KDE Project) due to the skeletal support of the Memoir Class within LyX, amongst various other classes that may not be as commonly requested and therefore aren't natively supported in LyX. Both are wonderful applications.
I equate LyX and its WYSIWYM to be getting better yet too often I have to insert ERT and so I decided to just learn LaTeX directly and write in Kile. I build chapter templates quite simply with Kile. Customizing the appearance of output in Kile and its Master-Document Hierarchy is smooth. The Preamble hastles in LyX that most often are due to lack of documentation aren't evident in Kile.
Kile is a sweet front-end with many difficulties in LaTeX accounted for through wizards and other special templates.
And I've yet to worry about pdf output with Kile on Debian.
I'm looking forward to LyX 1.4 and hope it lives up to the redesign promises.