More overpopulation of obesity and celluloid people saying, "Have another Big Mac and tub of fries! I'm genetically impervious to disease!"
It still doesn't change the fact you lost sight of your pecker/phagina years ago and no one would touch you sexually even with another person's pecker/phagina, not even with a toy.
Can we focus more on exploring the undiscovered frontiers of the Mind?
Apple will never be a subscription based Software Company.
Sorry, but the iPod/iTunes/iTMS triad should give one a quick clue to this.
Apple is developing Software that adds value to its hardware and future hardware products that make it not just an alternative to other established standards.
Schwartz has limited success with Lighthouse Design and somehow he's the cats meow with SUN? It's a good thing those of us once at NeXT and Apple weren't too impressed with the man. Since his eventual sellout to SUN, Schwartz has steadily rose to the top at SUN while SUN's presence has steadily bottomed out.
Compared to say the straight-forward CDPlayer.app for NeXTSTEP I always thought WinAmp was crap, but compared to Microsoft was 24K crap.
Interviewing a person who programs the application that competes with another application to give objective, indifferent,non-emotionally tied observations is like asking Steve Jobs to compare NeXT to Apple.
If you can't guess already, all the sleekness and class of computer styling went into NeXT, unfortunately at a time when people couldn't appreciate its grace.
Now we get a advice about UI design from someone who definitely wouldn't be in the same class as a Keith Ohlfs, but I guess if you can't reach Keith Olhfs for commentary I guess a programmer will do.
Personally, peer2peer doesn't turn my crank, nor does any audio application. I own a home stereo for that crap. If I'm on the go its called a car stereo. If it's bipedal than its a portable player.
What do all these items have in common? None of them involve overkill software that doesn't KISS.
Simplicity in form and function are two Mech. Engineering principles that are embedded within the iPod's design paradigm. If you can't see that than the odds are you wouldn't know how to distinguish one suit that is made by Gucci and another one straight off the rack from The Men's Wearhouse. You don't see the hero of Firefox or WinAmp gracing the cover of TIME Magazine, or GQ or various high profile marketing campaigns. You either have an innate ability to create style or you just cheaply copy it and nitpick it as being technologically inferior because it lacks certain "features" only a tech nerd considers important.
Ask your girlfriend, if you have one, or better yet a wife if she gives a rat's rear about Ogg Vorbis or all the extra crap littered inside WinAmp, XMMS and myriad other players.
The odds are not in your favor they will, unless of course she's a female extension of yourself that lives and breathes programming.
Personally, I don't graze for women in the same profession I am in. It just isn't good business.
On a side note as both an Mech. Engineer and a developer, what the hell is with the Visualizer module in so many players? If I'm listening to Halford or Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, RUSH or what have you I sure as hell am not Siddin' out to a Visualizer. Whatever floats your boat I suppose.
I suppose you never look at Macromedia's 10-Q filings and don't have stock in this company?
If you did you'd note that the concern about bankruptcy is not one listed.
At any rate, the close source of their tool which is becoming ubiquitous within the Web Communities gives Macromedia a business advantage. Why the hell would they open source this? This makes as much sense as Apple open sourcing Quartz/Quartz Extreme or QuickTime.
You don't base your company around a non-open-source model and then when you are strong give away your crown jewels of technology, just to satisfy the ideology of the open-source community.
Perhaps if they redesigned flash to leave a necessary portion open-sourced and then made money off of custom tools than we might see a change of business.
Your boss is trying to get you to view life from the prospective customer who doesn't give a rat's ass from a hole in the ground. But thanks to the digital press media's rampid hyperbole the term 'hole' is now becoming synonymous with virus and job security.
Johnathan Ive which has already been mentioned, is the industrial design guru that should be rightly credited with the iPod, iMac, and the toaster Cube that flopped with consumers.
Jon Rubenstein comes from NeXT and was the former Head of NeXT Hardware, developed the Apollo line of HP Workstations before joining NeXT. Upon the NeXT Hardware being shutdown Jon left and worked on the PowerPC Hardware for a subsidiary owned by Motorola.
Jon currently is and rightly so credited for the XServe and XRaid product lines with all his experience and expertise. Having Jon add to his overseeing with the iPod tells me that Apple is getting ready to produce a Professional and Consumer Electronic Lineup that ties into its Professional and Consumer Software Application base that continues to grow.
Think of digital devices that Final Cut Pro can take advantage of, to name just one obvious option. Think of video add-ons for iPod users that could attach a DVD made via DVD Studio Pro.
In the middle of the way,however, I found Linux, which also looked much more beautiful than Windows. Soon I installed the WindowMaker of Alfredo Kojima, which is a cloned and improved interface of NextStep.
Like hell it is an improved interface of NeXTStep. It's a bastardization of NeXTStep without the Power of NeXTStep--no WindowServer.app--not to mention NeXTStep is a UI Design Paradigm still unequaled today in its consistency, productivity and ease-of-use. And MECCA (Openstep 4.0 Release Candidate 1) with the TabbedView Shelf that still hasn't resurfaced in OS X (hopefully one day) was an improvement over NeXTStep/Openstep but never saw the light of day, unless of course you happened to have worked at NeXT and/or you worked after the merger at Apple and either worked or hung out in Engineering.
GNUstep is nowhere as elegant as NeXTStep and they know it, but you can't fault the developers since Steve hasn't ever nor will he ever open source any of that code.
The moment KDE adds native Objective-C support by working with GNUstep folks than just maybe then we'll actually see Linux and Apple really bring a one-two punch to the Enterprise. How come? If both platforms support Cocoa's Portable Distributed Objects you can leverage existing PC hardware running Linux while bringing in PowerPC Hardware with OS X/X Server and suddenly any "holes" that the Windows World claims become even more fantastical, if not just blatantly bitter sweet moans of frustration.
But no. We have people maddenly working on C# in hopes to make sure everyone can connect to.NET Services. I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind since you still have to pay the piper, one way or another.
First, Biological Science twenty years ago warned of the dangers of Caffeine and now are discovering those findings were either falseified or flat out, due to their lack of "science", dead wrong.
Secondly, ever hear of Green Tea part of the day and Coffee another part of the day? I don't get headaches from coffee withdrawals.
Thirdly, how many of you drink over 1 US Gallon of water per day? I do. Believe me it sure dilutes the potency of the Caffeine. Here is a hint: If you suddenly feel warm and clammy, go pound 32 ounces of H2O.
Even more BUTT-UGLY than the Experience Music Project (EMP) of Seattle.
Did someone doped up on Mescaline and wayyy too into Tim Burton Movies and with a shit load of private funds insist upon such an aesthetically putrid design?
Imagine if the Operating System you run had as unappealing design as this pathetic waste of $280 Million Dollars?
What the hell ever happened to Architects with Class?
Sorry but how this technology garnered so much deployed use still baffles me.
Outside of vBulletin and other bland bulletin board transplants I personally can't see the reason for PHP over say Apache Cocoon 2.x or WebObjects or JBoss, and the list goes on and on.
When I need Form work I'll use Cocoon's Form technologies and make sure Apache 2 isn't the one processing the form information. Connecting to database backends, it's a no brainer. So on and so forth.
But from what I can tell Slashdot could certainly utilize it, along with a complete brain transplant on its posting delays.
Sorry but how this technology garnered so much deployed use still baffles me.
Outside of vBulletin and other bland bulletin board transplants I personally can't see the reason for PHP over say Apache Cocoon 2.x or WebObjects or JBoss, and the list goes on and on.
What better way to see if such a possibilty will have a positive or negative response by the consumers than to post it before it happens.
The other side is simply a business tactic the Record Labels want to attempt to do with Apple to drive them OUT OF THE MARKET.
What better way to push Apple aside than to offer the same music at lower prices and only offer Apple prices that are not as competitive?
Sounds great, in theory, but in Reality the iPod is driving the sales of this music along with iTMS which the labels think they can duplicate.
After a few months of backlash the record labels will realize they are nothing more than a WAREHOUSE OF MUSIC who needs a mechanism that distributes its product--Apple--something they can't stand.
Do you want to be accused of being an overgeneralizing ass that has no original sarcastic points to aide in one's mod points?
NeXTSTEP for the CIA WAS NOT NeXTSTEP for the General Consumer. I know I worked there. Get over it. OS X/X Server for the Federal Government will be a CUSTOM BUILD tailored to the Government Requirements certification specs.
Does that mean the Feds get a better OS? No. It means the Feds actually want a more limiting OS that when installed is hack proof and limited to doing specific tasks only. The CIA still touts the best Network is NO NETWORK.
People seem to repeatively rehash on the notion that spending $129 per.1 incremental OS update is expensive and not worthy of your hard earned funds.
The 10.x Model is very NeXTish in their 2.x, 3.x and 4.x phase of NeXTSTEP/Openstep before we ultimately merged with Apple.
Here is the rub. The Cost for Openstep User was $799, to go from NeXTSTEP 3.2 to 3.3 and to go from NeXTSTEP 3.3 to Openstep 4.0, so on and so forth.
The Developer CDs were $4999.
Educational User was $249. (I bought this package that was both User and Developer, before I went to work at NeXT)
Flashforward and we now get User/Developer for $129.
All I'm hearing is as the price goes down the Whining Increases exponentially.
DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANY BALLS?
HOW MANY OF YOU PISS MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN, DAILY?
Answer: ALL OF US
Apple Resources:
We hear people discussing on how Apple has an Army of developers working on OS X.
Unless Steve suddenly changed years of development philosophy that Avie, John, Bertrand, Peter and others brought from NeXT to Apple such statements are PURE FANTASY.
Do most people know that only 12 Principle Architects/Core Developers worked on Openstep? Do most of you know that SQA @NeXT was a group of no more than 25 people (I know I worked in it)? Is it surprising that after the Hardware Days, NeXT kept only 300 employees yearly, world wide? See a pattern?
There are way more 3rd party developers banging away on the Beta code releases than their are in-house building the next release and there always will be.
Too many cooks spoil the soup.
With the emergence of Applications Engineering that houses all these new iLife apps and Professional apps even those teams will be lean and mean.
We all wore several hats at NeXT and at Apple when I worked there. Steve doesn't believe in bloat and when the IT Group alone, during the merger had over 500 employees with the single largest annual budget of over $40 million, not to mention over 180 in-house only applications built, can you take a guess which group got gutted first?
Within all this fat emerged a new Apple and one that will slowly get stronger, as time keeps showing.
P.S. As you can guess I'll spend the $129, and if I had an extra $1299 ($300 early bird registration) to WWDC--the best place for Business Networking within the Apple Dev Community, bar none. MacWorld is like a Rave where discussions of vinyl suited women on motorcycles (Iomega chicks) appears to be more important than Business discussions. If you are serious about being an Entrepreneur on the Mac platform, than get your ass to WWDC 2004.
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More overpopulation of obesity and celluloid people saying, "Have another Big Mac and tub of fries! I'm genetically impervious to disease!"
It still doesn't change the fact you lost sight of your pecker/phagina years ago and no one would touch you sexually even with another person's pecker/phagina, not even with a toy.
Can we focus more on exploring the undiscovered frontiers of the Mind?
Apple will never be a subscription based Software Company.
Sorry, but the iPod/iTunes/iTMS triad should give one a quick clue to this.
Apple is developing Software that adds value to its hardware and future hardware products that make it not just an alternative to other established standards.
Schwartz has limited success with Lighthouse Design and somehow he's the cats meow with SUN? It's a good thing those of us once at NeXT and Apple weren't too impressed with the man. Since his eventual sellout to SUN, Schwartz has steadily rose to the top at SUN while SUN's presence has steadily bottomed out.
Compared to say the straight-forward CDPlayer.app for NeXTSTEP I always thought WinAmp was crap, but compared to Microsoft was 24K crap.
Interviewing a person who programs the application that competes with another application to give objective, indifferent,non-emotionally tied observations is like asking Steve Jobs to compare NeXT to Apple.
If you can't guess already, all the sleekness and class of computer styling went into NeXT, unfortunately at a time when people couldn't appreciate its grace.
Now we get a advice about UI design from someone who definitely wouldn't be in the same class as a Keith Ohlfs, but I guess if you can't reach Keith Olhfs for commentary I guess a programmer will do.
Personally, peer2peer doesn't turn my crank, nor does any audio application. I own a home stereo for that crap. If I'm on the go its called a car stereo. If it's bipedal than its a portable player.
What do all these items have in common? None of them involve overkill software that doesn't KISS.
Simplicity in form and function are two Mech. Engineering principles that are embedded within the iPod's design paradigm. If you can't see that than the odds are you wouldn't know how to distinguish one suit that is made by Gucci and another one straight off the rack from The Men's Wearhouse. You don't see the hero of Firefox or WinAmp gracing the cover of TIME Magazine, or GQ or various high profile marketing campaigns. You either have an innate ability to create style or you just cheaply copy it and nitpick it as being technologically inferior because it lacks certain "features" only a tech nerd considers important.
Ask your girlfriend, if you have one, or better yet a wife if she gives a rat's rear about Ogg Vorbis or all the extra crap littered inside WinAmp, XMMS and myriad other players.
The odds are not in your favor they will, unless of course she's a female extension of yourself that lives and breathes programming.
Personally, I don't graze for women in the same profession I am in. It just isn't good business.
On a side note as both an Mech. Engineer and a developer, what the hell is with the Visualizer module in so many players? If I'm listening to Halford or Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, RUSH or what have you I sure as hell am not Siddin' out to a Visualizer. Whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Microsoft only started supporting images after NeXT extended RTF with RTFD.
Let's just say last year had more Carbon sessions than this year's WWDC.
Do you have some fetish hard-on with the idea of the US Government tracking where you listen to fitty cent or something?
Or better yet, knows when you entered adult entertainment clubs, due to the fact you stop playing your iPod?
That's, "Sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls" to you.
I suppose you never look at Macromedia's 10-Q filings and don't have stock in this company?
If you did you'd note that the concern about bankruptcy is not one listed.
At any rate, the close source of their tool which is becoming ubiquitous within the Web Communities gives Macromedia a business advantage. Why the hell would they open source this? This makes as much sense as Apple open sourcing Quartz/Quartz Extreme or QuickTime.
You don't base your company around a non-open-source model and then when you are strong give away your crown jewels of technology, just to satisfy the ideology of the open-source community.
Perhaps if they redesigned flash to leave a necessary portion open-sourced and then made money off of custom tools than we might see a change of business.
This is what I was hoping to hear. The current flash delays Konq as Firefox to a lesser degree.
Another Carbon Framework.
Let's hope after WWDC people see the trend of less Carbon and more Cocoa that Apple is committing to, now and the long-term.
Your boss is trying to get you to view life from the prospective customer who doesn't give a rat's ass from a hole in the ground. But thanks to the digital press media's rampid hyperbole the term 'hole' is now becoming synonymous with virus and job security.
Johnathan Ive which has already been mentioned, is the industrial design guru that should be rightly credited with the iPod, iMac, and the toaster Cube that flopped with consumers.
Jon Rubenstein comes from NeXT and was the former Head of NeXT Hardware, developed the Apollo line of HP Workstations before joining NeXT. Upon the NeXT Hardware being shutdown Jon left and worked on the PowerPC Hardware for a subsidiary owned by Motorola.
Jon currently is and rightly so credited for the XServe and XRaid product lines with all his experience and expertise. Having Jon add to his overseeing with the iPod tells me that Apple is getting ready to produce a Professional and Consumer Electronic Lineup that ties into its Professional and Consumer Software Application base that continues to grow.
Think of digital devices that Final Cut Pro can take advantage of, to name just one obvious option. Think of video add-ons for iPod users that could attach a DVD made via DVD Studio Pro.
Like hell it is an improved interface of NeXTStep. It's a bastardization of NeXTStep without the Power of NeXTStep--no WindowServer.app--not to mention NeXTStep is a UI Design Paradigm still unequaled today in its consistency, productivity and ease-of-use. And MECCA (Openstep 4.0 Release Candidate 1) with the TabbedView Shelf that still hasn't resurfaced in OS X (hopefully one day) was an improvement over NeXTStep/Openstep but never saw the light of day, unless of course you happened to have worked at NeXT and/or you worked after the merger at Apple and either worked or hung out in Engineering.
GNUstep is nowhere as elegant as NeXTStep and they know it, but you can't fault the developers since Steve hasn't ever nor will he ever open source any of that code.
The moment KDE adds native Objective-C support by working with GNUstep folks than just maybe then we'll actually see Linux and Apple really bring a one-two punch to the Enterprise. How come? If both platforms support Cocoa's Portable Distributed Objects you can leverage existing PC hardware running Linux while bringing in PowerPC Hardware with OS X/X Server and suddenly any "holes" that the Windows World claims become even more fantastical, if not just blatantly bitter sweet moans of frustration.
But no. We have people maddenly working on C# in hopes to make sure everyone can connect to .NET Services. I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind since you still have to pay the piper, one way or another.
First, Biological Science twenty years ago warned of the dangers of Caffeine and now are discovering those findings were either falseified or flat out, due to their lack of "science", dead wrong.
Secondly, ever hear of Green Tea part of the day and Coffee another part of the day? I don't get headaches from coffee withdrawals.
Thirdly, how many of you drink over 1 US Gallon of water per day? I do. Believe me it sure dilutes the potency of the Caffeine. Here is a hint: If you suddenly feel warm and clammy, go pound 32 ounces of H2O.
Asking the Vatican about Religion.
Mistake No. 2
Thinking a dying Pantheon would interest already Illuminated Extra Terrestrials.
Sorry Drink and Derive. So much for forgetting Slashdot doesn't have an edit functionality other than Preview.
Nah,
I prefer the "Don't Drive and Derive. Alcohol and Calculus don't Differentiate."
Ahh, somebody who knows of Spokane, WA based KeyTronicEMS.
Of course one could also purchase a KeyTronic Keyboard themselves and discover they are way better than the ones they supply to Microsoft.
www.keytronic.comThis is a sweet keyboard. It reminds me of the old NeXT Keyboards.
USB Mac targeted Keyboard (MODEL # E06103imacUSB-C)
Even more BUTT-UGLY than the Experience Music Project (EMP) of Seattle.
Did someone doped up on Mescaline and wayyy too into Tim Burton Movies and with a shit load of private funds insist upon such an aesthetically putrid design?
Imagine if the Operating System you run had as unappealing design as this pathetic waste of $280 Million Dollars?
What the hell ever happened to Architects with Class?
Don't use PHP.
Sorry but how this technology garnered so much deployed use still baffles me.
Outside of vBulletin and other bland bulletin board transplants I personally can't see the reason for PHP over say Apache Cocoon 2.x or WebObjects or JBoss, and the list goes on and on.
When I need Form work I'll use Cocoon's Form technologies and make sure Apache 2 isn't the one processing the form information. Connecting to database backends, it's a no brainer. So on and so forth.
But from what I can tell Slashdot could certainly utilize it, along with a complete brain transplant on its posting delays.
Don't use PHP.
Sorry but how this technology garnered so much deployed use still baffles me.
Outside of vBulletin and other bland bulletin board transplants I personally can't see the reason for PHP over say Apache Cocoon 2.x or WebObjects or JBoss, and the list goes on and on.
My perception sees this 'story' as follows:
A story to test the watersWhat better way to see if such a possibilty will have a positive or negative response by the consumers than to post it before it happens.
The other side is simply a business tactic the Record Labels want to attempt to do with Apple to drive them OUT OF THE MARKET.
What better way to push Apple aside than to offer the same music at lower prices and only offer Apple prices that are not as competitive?
Sounds great, in theory, but in Reality the iPod is driving the sales of this music along with iTMS which the labels think they can duplicate.
After a few months of backlash the record labels will realize they are nothing more than a WAREHOUSE OF MUSIC who needs a mechanism that distributes its product--Apple--something they can't stand.
Do you want to be accused of being an overgeneralizing ass that has no original sarcastic points to aide in one's mod points?
NeXTSTEP for the CIA WAS NOT NeXTSTEP for the General Consumer. I know I worked there. Get over it. OS X/X Server for the Federal Government will be a CUSTOM BUILD tailored to the Government Requirements certification specs.
Does that mean the Feds get a better OS? No. It means the Feds actually want a more limiting OS that when installed is hack proof and limited to doing specific tasks only. The CIA still touts the best Network is NO NETWORK.
People seem to repeatively rehash on the notion that spending $129 per .1 incremental OS update is expensive and not worthy of your hard earned funds.
The 10.x Model is very NeXTish in their 2.x, 3.x and 4.x phase of NeXTSTEP/Openstep before we ultimately merged with Apple.
Here is the rub. The Cost for Openstep User was $799, to go from NeXTSTEP 3.2 to 3.3 and to go from NeXTSTEP 3.3 to Openstep 4.0, so on and so forth.
The Developer CDs were $4999.
Educational User was $249. (I bought this package that was both User and Developer, before I went to work at NeXT)
Flashforward and we now get User/Developer for $129.
All I'm hearing is as the price goes down the Whining Increases exponentially.
DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANY BALLS?
HOW MANY OF YOU PISS MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN, DAILY?
Answer: ALL OF US
Apple Resources:We hear people discussing on how Apple has an Army of developers working on OS X.
Unless Steve suddenly changed years of development philosophy that Avie, John, Bertrand, Peter and others brought from NeXT to Apple such statements are PURE FANTASY.
Do most people know that only 12 Principle Architects/Core Developers worked on Openstep? Do most of you know that SQA @NeXT was a group of no more than 25 people (I know I worked in it)? Is it surprising that after the Hardware Days, NeXT kept only 300 employees yearly, world wide? See a pattern?
There are way more 3rd party developers banging away on the Beta code releases than their are in-house building the next release and there always will be.
Too many cooks spoil the soup.
With the emergence of Applications Engineering that houses all these new iLife apps and Professional apps even those teams will be lean and mean.
We all wore several hats at NeXT and at Apple when I worked there. Steve doesn't believe in bloat and when the IT Group alone, during the merger had over 500 employees with the single largest annual budget of over $40 million, not to mention over 180 in-house only applications built, can you take a guess which group got gutted first?
Within all this fat emerged a new Apple and one that will slowly get stronger, as time keeps showing.
P.S. As you can guess I'll spend the $129, and if I had an extra $1299 ($300 early bird registration) to WWDC--the best place for Business Networking within the Apple Dev Community, bar none. MacWorld is like a Rave where discussions of vinyl suited women on motorcycles (Iomega chicks) appears to be more important than Business discussions. If you are serious about being an Entrepreneur on the Mac platform, than get your ass to WWDC 2004.
You are looking through a myopic lense.
SFTP via the Finder using SSH will be the obvious addition and NOT FTP.