"... the removal of support for 386 processors..."
Wow, that's a lot of CPUs to deprecate in one release. Does anyone have a list of the three hundred and eight-six processors that are no longer supported?;-)
This. The same way that we get pissed off when an idea person wants someone to "just" program for them, techies need to learn that marketing -- good marketing -- is actually hard and requires some skill. Sales and marketing are not just bullshit and pretty pictures and booze and blow and hookers and sheeple.
If marketing were easy, and if Apple's success were due only to marketing (as is so often claimed), then their success would be easy to replicate, right? The fact is, neither of those statements is true.
Good marketing is not something you can just add to a product after the fact. Like good design, it has to be thought of throughout. I highly recommend you spend an hour watching this. In that talk, he was specifically addressing programmers.
They were a new, easy-to-use blogging platform that came out around the same time as Tumblr -- another new, easy-to-use blogging platform. You know how it often happens that two similar things come out around the same time and one takes off and one doesn't? That.
One of their key features was that you could post from email, which a) made blogging accessible to a lot of people because "hey, posting is as easy as emailing!", and b) it worked (and worked well) from early smartphones before Apps took over the world. And you didn't have to make an account with them at first -- your email was your account.
They had some good ideas, but that's just how these things go. For whatever reason, one company hits what others miss.
Besides, they were bought by Twitter last year, so it's not like the owners are hungry, crying, and alone as they shut down their service. Most people figured they'd close up shop a lot sooner once they got bought.
As with many other things, the key differencee is that Apple did them well. (Scroll down to the last graph in the story for the best picture.) Believe me -- Google is hoping to copy Apple, not Gateway. Or Sony. Or Microsoft. If this is even happening at all.
It all started last summer when my cousin sent me a link to this article by Jeff Atwood concerning his discovery of the gray-market of inexpensive 27-inch IPS LCDs on eBay... I decided to get one of the same, cheap displays as Atwood had. Same as Atwood, I ordered the FSM-270YG. You can still find them on eBay...
Just recently, Monoprice began selling their version of the FSM-270YG. It's called the CrystalPro. The CrystalPro looks exactly like the FSM-270YG monitor I have in front of me right now, except their's has a Monoproce logo slapped on the front... Not only does Monoprice check each monitor they sell to make sure it works, they also offer a one-year warranty which means they'll replace the display if there are more than 5 dead pixels.
I recommend reading the whole piece -- he's got more info about features, connectors, etc.
... but I'd sure appreciate the course materials, schedule, policies, etc. being available online so I can check in from home and know what's going on.
My bank's requirements are awesome: 1) numbers and letters ONLY 2) NOT case-sensitive
Yup -- exactly 36 unique characters. This is so you can enter it on a phone. Yes, really. I'm surprised they don't exclude 'Q' and 'Z' in case a customer has a really old phone.
The "worst influence"? The opposite is more like it -- they are the vendor everyone copies.
How many GUI computers were available before the Mac? How many non-GUI computers are being made today?
Who made the years-old smartphone market explode?
Who made the decades-old tablet market explode?
And "worst bully"? They may not be the nicest kid on the block right now, but historically, many other computer companies would give them a run for that title: IBM, Microsoft, Sony, SCO...
DP: "Everybody knows what a tablet is, right? It's a black touch-screen slab, like an iPad or an Android tablet. It doesn't run real Windows or Mac software -- it runs much simpler apps. It's not a real computer."
JG: "That's the same shortsighted opinion that command-line DOS advocates had of the Mac in the '80s. Anyone who thinks OS X and Windows PCs are "real" computers and that the iPad (and Android tablets) are anything less just isn't getting it."
My dad was one of those people. Back then (mid/late 80s) "computer" meant "I can write programs on it." Every computer today looks like the Macintosh did back then: windows, icons, WYSIWYG documents, etc. "Computer" came to mean "something you can use to create documents on and play games."
Remember, once upon a time, what we call "personal computers" themselves weren't considered "real" computers at all by those who were using "computers" (i.e, big iron in schools and businesses) at the time.
Q: Who's the #1 mainframe vendor today?
A: Who cares?
So just as "computer" once meant one thing and now refers to what we call PCs, the definition of "PC" will change over time too. It's a continuum, not black and white. Does a "PC" become not a PC when you take its keyboard off? Does a "tablet" become a "PC" when you add a keyboard? Is an iPad you can hold in one hand less personal, or less of a computer, than an old Kaypro luggable?
I think I'll write a children's book: The Velveteen iPad (or How Tablets Become Real).
... I'd dedicate one measly megabyte of iOS to random icons and product ID strings just to fuck with people. Seriously, it'd be fun. For every one feature accurately hinted at there would be ten bogus ones.
> why someone would buy an iPhone in the first place with the > intent on jailbreaking it is a mystery to me - surely thats an > admission that the phone doesnt check all your boxes
I can't believe you got a +5 for that. You're not very imaginative, are you? Here's a possibility: maybe NO phone "checks all your boxes" but the iPhone comes closest? Maybe you like a competing phone a lot, but a jailbroken iPhone is even better?!? Maybe you like iPhones just fine, and jailbreaking them makes them even more fantastic?
Have you ever in your life bought something and then changed it to make it suit you more? OH MY GOD!
Anyone who says "no compromises" design is displaying a fundamental lack of understanding of what design is. Design IS compromise. EVERY design is trying to solve a problem -- but there's never just one problem. So you have a tablet OS and a traditional OS in the same package? Great. You also have more complexity than either alone and more disk space used. And more heat and worse battery life than a tablet, and lower performance than a dedicated laptop.
It's a red flag: if you hear a designer say "no compromise!" then walk away, because you're dealing with someone who doesn't know shit about what they're supposed to be doing. Or possibly someone who does know better but is in a position where they must say what the CEO wants them to say, which is just as bad. The point is that someone, somewhere, is not being honest at all.
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"... the removal of support for 386 processors..."
Wow, that's a lot of CPUs to deprecate in one release. Does anyone have a list of the three hundred and eight-six processors that are no longer supported? ;-)
This. The same way that we get pissed off when an idea person wants someone to "just" program for them, techies need to learn that marketing -- good marketing -- is actually hard and requires some skill. Sales and marketing are not just bullshit and pretty pictures and booze and blow and hookers and sheeple.
If marketing were easy, and if Apple's success were due only to marketing (as is so often claimed), then their success would be easy to replicate, right? The fact is, neither of those statements is true.
Good marketing is not something you can just add to a product after the fact. Like good design, it has to be thought of throughout. I highly recommend you spend an hour watching this. In that talk, he was specifically addressing programmers.
> ... this shutdown is not a good example of what can go wrong.
In fact, this is basically a good example of how to do a shutdown right -- as opposed to, say, what Geocities did.
They were a new, easy-to-use blogging platform that came out around the same time as Tumblr -- another new, easy-to-use blogging platform. You know how it often happens that two similar things come out around the same time and one takes off and one doesn't? That.
One of their key features was that you could post from email, which a) made blogging accessible to a lot of people because "hey, posting is as easy as emailing!", and b) it worked (and worked well) from early smartphones before Apps took over the world. And you didn't have to make an account with them at first -- your email was your account.
They had some good ideas, but that's just how these things go. For whatever reason, one company hits what others miss.
Besides, they were bought by Twitter last year, so it's not like the owners are hungry, crying, and alone as they shut down their service. Most people figured they'd close up shop a lot sooner once they got bought.
As with many other things, the key differencee is that Apple did them well. (Scroll down to the last graph in the story for the best picture.) Believe me -- Google is hoping to copy Apple, not Gateway. Or Sony. Or Microsoft. If this is even happening at all.
AFAIK it's to generate awesome videos like this.
"WebKit As Broken As Older IE Versions?"
Yes! Because any two things that are not perfect are equally bad. :-|
http://shawnblanc.net/2013/02/27-inch-ips-lcd-displays/
It all started last summer when my cousin sent me a link to this article by Jeff Atwood concerning his discovery of the gray-market of inexpensive 27-inch IPS LCDs on eBay... I decided to get one of the same, cheap displays as Atwood had. Same as Atwood, I ordered the FSM-270YG. You can still find them on eBay...
Just recently, Monoprice began selling their version of the FSM-270YG. It's called the CrystalPro. The CrystalPro looks exactly like the FSM-270YG monitor I have in front of me right now, except their's has a Monoproce logo slapped on the front... Not only does Monoprice check each monitor they sell to make sure it works, they also offer a one-year warranty which means they'll replace the display if there are more than 5 dead pixels.
I recommend reading the whole piece -- he's got more info about features, connectors, etc.
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO?
Or, as Bruce Schneier so briefly and eloquently put it, "Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
Nice! Anyone can restore a car, but it takes a real man to cut one up. :-)
> Posting syllabi is nice and all, but students use that as a way to
> just read the book before the exam rather than attend class.
And that's different from handing out a syllabus on the first day of class because... ?
My friend used to drink Dewdrivers: Mt. Dew & vodka. Best of both worlds!
... but I'd sure appreciate the course materials, schedule, policies, etc. being available online so I can check in from home and know what's going on.
``I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)..''
- Linus Torvalds, 1991
Any system would work with an honest, caring, non-corrupt government.
Which is why none of them ever work.
My bank's requirements are awesome:
1) numbers and letters ONLY
2) NOT case-sensitive
Yup -- exactly 36 unique characters. This is so you can enter it on a phone. Yes, really. I'm surprised they don't exclude 'Q' and 'Z' in case a customer has a really old phone.
The "worst influence"? The opposite is more like it -- they are the vendor everyone copies.
How many GUI computers were available before the Mac? How many non-GUI computers are being made today?
Who made the years-old smartphone market explode?
Who made the decades-old tablet market explode?
And "worst bully"? They may not be the nicest kid on the block right now, but historically, many other computer companies would give them a run for that title: IBM, Microsoft, Sony, SCO...
I think John Gruber's take on David Pogue's Surface review nails it:
DP: "Everybody knows what a tablet is, right? It's a black touch-screen slab, like an iPad or an Android tablet. It doesn't run real Windows or Mac software -- it runs much simpler apps. It's not a real computer."
JG: "That's the same shortsighted opinion that command-line DOS advocates had of the Mac in the '80s. Anyone who thinks OS X and Windows PCs are "real" computers and that the iPad (and Android tablets) are anything less just isn't getting it."
My dad was one of those people. Back then (mid/late 80s) "computer" meant "I can write programs on it." Every computer today looks like the Macintosh did back then: windows, icons, WYSIWYG documents, etc. "Computer" came to mean "something you can use to create documents on and play games."
Remember, once upon a time, what we call "personal computers" themselves weren't considered "real" computers at all by those who were using "computers" (i.e, big iron in schools and businesses) at the time.
Q: Who's the #1 mainframe vendor today?
A: Who cares?
So just as "computer" once meant one thing and now refers to what we call PCs, the definition of "PC" will change over time too. It's a continuum, not black and white. Does a "PC" become not a PC when you take its keyboard off? Does a "tablet" become a "PC" when you add a keyboard? Is an iPad you can hold in one hand less personal, or less of a computer, than an old Kaypro luggable?
I think I'll write a children's book: The Velveteen iPad (or How Tablets Become Real).
It's pronounced "Urango". The 'D' is silent.
... I'd dedicate one measly megabyte of iOS to random icons and product ID strings just to fuck with people. Seriously, it'd be fun. For every one feature accurately hinted at there would be ten bogus ones.
> why someone would buy an iPhone in the first place with the
> intent on jailbreaking it is a mystery to me - surely thats an
> admission that the phone doesnt check all your boxes
I can't believe you got a +5 for that. You're not very imaginative, are you? Here's a possibility: maybe NO phone "checks all your boxes" but the iPhone comes closest? Maybe you like a competing phone a lot, but a jailbroken iPhone is even better?!? Maybe you like iPhones just fine, and jailbreaking them makes them even more fantastic?
Have you ever in your life bought something and then changed it to make it suit you more? OH MY GOD!
Anyone who says "no compromises" design is displaying a fundamental lack of understanding of what design is. Design IS compromise. EVERY design is trying to solve a problem -- but there's never just one problem. So you have a tablet OS and a traditional OS in the same package? Great. You also have more complexity than either alone and more disk space used. And more heat and worse battery life than a tablet, and lower performance than a dedicated laptop.
It's a red flag: if you hear a designer say "no compromise!" then walk away, because you're dealing with someone who doesn't know shit about what they're supposed to be doing. Or possibly someone who does know better but is in a position where they must say what the CEO wants them to say, which is just as bad. The point is that someone, somewhere, is not being honest at all.
Agreed. Just check out this screenshot:
C:\>_
... not enough power to run Angry Birds then?