Most everything is run by the 'accounting guys' these days - and people like they are only interested in / can only understand a product that is already marketed and making money - an innovation-killing attitude for sure. How is it possible for one with a new idea to 'prove' that it will sell - in a way that profit-uber-alles guys can understand and accept? A task well-nigh impossible.
One Gestalt selector conflict from that age involved the 'sdvr' selector. The team that design the Control Strip (originally called the Status Bar) used it for getting the version, but the PowerTalk team was already using it for something else. The funny thing is that by the time the PowerBook 500 series was released that shipped with the first version of the Control Strip that had this problem, System 7 Pro was already released a year earlier with PowerTalk. Yet it wasn't until System 7.5 that shipped with both PowerTalk and Control Strip inside that it was fixed by changing the Control Strip one to 'csvr'.
This pair of problems -- the non-technical guy who kills ideas and can't be reasoned with plus upper management that can't get involved -- seems to have become depressingly common across the whole company.
So why wouldn't upper management get involved? This is not the only problems MS had during the period, but...
Not exactly, one fundamental advantage is that it used Pascal strings mostly, avoiding the problems of C strings. I once read a old Slashdot comment on the security advantages, and it made me even more sad about the failure of the Copland project, which would have been probably much more secure than Mac OS X ended up being.
Don't forget that the primary reason for the existence of Apple Inc is to facilitate the orderly and systematic transfer of money from the bank accounts of bored yuppies to the account of Steven Jobs.
It's obviously going to be a losing battle, if we know anything about people, they'll fuck up anything until it's dead, look at HP, they used to be the 'no evil' company of engineers. I just remembered the horror stories connected to a professional firm jumping shark-ceo type, Fiorina was her name?
Well, shareholder value and agency theory actually made them worse unfortunately. I have a slashdot submission on it here:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology
Google is IMO one of the better big companies, and they don't believe in shareholder value or agency theory, which is part of why they IPOed with dual-class in the first place.
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Most everything is run by the 'accounting guys' these days - and people like they are only interested in / can only understand a product that is already marketed and making money - an innovation-killing attitude for sure. How is it possible for one with a new idea to 'prove' that it will sell - in a way that profit-uber-alles guys can understand and accept? A task well-nigh impossible.
Yep, it is another mess altogether: http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology
One Gestalt selector conflict from that age involved the 'sdvr' selector. The team that design the Control Strip (originally called the Status Bar) used it for getting the version, but the PowerTalk team was already using it for something else. The funny thing is that by the time the PowerBook 500 series was released that shipped with the first version of the Control Strip that had this problem, System 7 Pro was already released a year earlier with PowerTalk. Yet it wasn't until System 7.5 that shipped with both PowerTalk and Control Strip inside that it was fixed by changing the Control Strip one to 'csvr'.
This pair of problems -- the non-technical guy who kills ideas and can't be reasoned with plus upper management that can't get involved -- seems to have become depressingly common across the whole company.
So why wouldn't upper management get involved? This is not the only problems MS had during the period, but...
But on the other hand the lack of protected memory and multiuser security model are less secure.
And Copland would have added support for this while preserving the security advantages that classic Mac OS had, which why it is sad that it filed
Yea, I think both the court of public opinion and the evidence shown should be considered, and the current jury system don't make it possible.
Not exactly, one fundamental advantage is that it used Pascal strings mostly, avoiding the problems of C strings. I once read a old Slashdot comment on the security advantages, and it made me even more sad about the failure of the Copland project, which would have been probably much more secure than Mac OS X ended up being.
GPLv3 tried to take advantage of the coupons to extend MS's patent protection to all users. I wonder how successful that has been.
Well, did you try IE8's compatiblity mode, which was created EXACTLY because of problems like this?
Yea, ResEdit and MacsBug are obsolete things from classic Mac OS. Mac OS X uses Interface Builder and GDB instead.
Don't forget that the primary reason for the existence of Apple Inc is to facilitate the orderly and systematic transfer of money from the bank accounts of bored yuppies to the account of Steven Jobs.
Funny!
Yea, when is Apple going to support booting Vista/7 on Intel Macs using EFI-native booting?
The BIOS firmware was slipstreamed into a system update.
Nope, it was always just separate.
Proof?
FOUR FULL OPERATING SYSTEMS BEHIND
Actually two full versions of Windows behind.
Yea, I know, I have a pending submission about the problems of "shareholder value" here: http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology
Yea, I know, but I think it is too late and probably overkill to go back to that now.
I would not be surprised to find out that he came up with the 'no evil' slogan.
Nope, I think it was the creator of Gmail, now at FriendFeed.
This topic has been discussed before http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/1436257/Google-Says-Ad-Blockers-Will-Save-Online-Ads And the funny thing is that part of why Larry and Sergey chose to use text ads for Google is that they found banner and pop-up ads annoying.
VC2010 will fix this: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=371743&wa=wsignin1.0
Yep, I remember this article on Slashdot about it:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/17/1436257/Google-Says-Ad-Blockers-Will-Save-Online-Ads
Also, note that part of why Larry and Sergey chose to use text ads for Google is that they found banner and pop-up ads annoying.
Actually, you pay when you click the ads. That is how AdWords works.
Oops, it was my mistake that I made when I submitted this. Unfortunately Slashdot don't allow editing submissions after it has be submitted.
It's obviously going to be a losing battle, if we know anything about people, they'll fuck up anything until it's dead, look at HP, they used to be the 'no evil' company of engineers. I just remembered the horror stories connected to a professional firm jumping shark-ceo type, Fiorina was her name?
Yep, I know. One good step would be if we can get corporate board of directors to no longer default to such CEOs. And yes, I know about the problems of shareholder value and agency theory:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology
Yea, I said before that Google is one of the better big companies.
Well, shareholder value and agency theory actually made them worse unfortunately. I have a slashdot submission on it here: http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology Google is IMO one of the better big companies, and they don't believe in shareholder value or agency theory, which is part of why they IPOed with dual-class in the first place.