This is true, but I heard a rare bit on insight from a cable news pundit today, in essence: Steve Jobs is very particular attention to details. He dwells on things like color and whether headphones should have a small clasp to help keep them neat. Steve Jobs is the kind of person who knows when to veto cost savings in favor of design. Tim Cook is a numbers guy. He's surely a capable business leader, but will he have that extra talent an the guts that Steve Jobs had...
My understanding is that Cook's background is as an operations guy. So its not numbers in the purely accounting sense. His operations background may come into play more in the sense of lets not repeat the confusing product line of the 90s. On the other hand an operations guy might have said the white iPhone 4 was too much trouble and canceled it. However in the last few years he has been running things off and on and has been getting mentored by Jobs for even longer than that.
Besides, Jobs may still be around as the "chief visionary". Being CEO of one of the worlds largest corporation is very time consuming and very stressful before one decides to also get involved in product design and similar "distractions". Hopefully he is just trying to get more rest and have less stress, ditching the traditional CEO duties should help greatly there. Lets hope he can still hang out with the designers/developers and focus on that sort of stuff, stuff he probably enjoys doing.
R.I.P. Apple, not Jobs. (I really hope for the best for this guy.)
Most people are familiar with Jobs' skill with respect to product design and marketing. However he possess a less publicized skill that is at least as important than the preceding, probably more important. He assembles teams of really exceptional people to implement his ideas. Once upon a time that would have been the Mac design team. Today that would be Apple's executive leadership. He is handing things off to an extremely capable senior management team.
He is not handing Apple over to a sugar water salesman brought on board to provide adult supervision, he is handing Apple over to his hand pick proteges.
The nerds also lost the war, there were nerds on both sides. Nerds were responsible for mass genocide, nerds were responsible for unmanned drones and ballistic missiles landing in civilian neighborhoods, nerds/hackers created manned missiles and manned torpedoes, etc.
But will there be enough nerds left for our side to win
The losing side may have had the smarter nerds. The bad nerds invented the unmanned drone, ballistic missile, jet aircraft, assault rifle, night vision scope, etc. The good nerds had the advantage of laboratories that were not under attack and whose supplies were not disrupted. The bad nerds had their supplies of heavy water for atomic research interrupted by mere grunts on the ground, the good nerds were not slowed down by such activities. The bad nerds were also sheltered and protected by their enemies at the end of the war, and some went on to be the foundation of the US space program.
There was no woosh. The absurdness of loving jar jar's performance was obvious. The GP's attempt at humor aside, he still referred to "star wars" with an implicit assumption that this refers to episode 1. This inherently deserves challenge in any context.
"Over the course of one meeting, they hashed out how a new film would look, how it could avoid seeming too similar to the many movies that have since paid homage to the original, and how different the new film should be from the original itself. They eventually decided it should stand as separately as possible."
Won't a thinner connector make it much easier to snap off ?
It will fall off, not snap off. Its like the MagSafe power connector. It will hang on the outside of the case due to the magnets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
Well when these stories originally broke there were some employees at these stores that were surprised to learn they were not really working for Apple.
Even the most ardent enthusiasts gathered at the annual Space Elevator Conference on Friday don't expect it to be built anytime soon
Considering that the engineers who will design and build the elevator first need the scientists to figure out the physics and chemistry of the materials required that is a pretty good perspective.
If you had used Yggdrasil plug and play Linux in the early to mid 90s then the installer would have configured video, sound, etc for you. It was no more difficult to install than WIndows. There was no typing in your monitor timing numbers nonsense like other distributions from the 90s.
Because it's not a DX chip (full 32-bit). It won't work "out of the box"...
The SX is 100% compatible with the DX from a software perspective. IIRC modern Linux distributions do not work out of the box because they are compiled to use PentiumPro (sort of a 686 - three generations ahead of the 386) instructions.
Couldn't a pilot who's convinced to pull off a terrorist attack just, well -- do it? They are at the controls and all...
A pilot *may have* already done it. Opinions vary depending on what investigative agency you ask.
"As the crash occurred in international waters, the responsibility for investigating the accident fell to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority per International Civil Aviation Organization Annex 13. As the ECAA lacked the resources of the much larger American National Transportation Safety Board, the Egyptian government asked the NTSB to handle the investigation. Two weeks after the crash, the NTSB proposed handing the investigation over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as the evidence they had gathered suggested a criminal act had taken place and that the crash was intentional rather than accidental. This proposal was unacceptable to the Egyptian authorities, and as such the NTSB continued to lead the investigation. As the evidence of a deliberate crash mounted, the Egyptian government reversed their earlier decision, and the ECAA launched their own investigation. The two investigations came to very different conclusions: the NTSB found the crash was caused by deliberate action of the Relief First Officer; the ECAA found the crash was caused by mechanical failure of the airplane's elevator control system." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
Google's driverless car was just in the news for crashing into a Prius
A human was driving the vehicle.
Last I heard google has not commented on the accident. IIRC the car always has a driver but it is not clear that the driver was actively at the controls. Much as aircraft always have a pilot even when taking off, cruising or landing on autopilot.
Going the unofficial production run route doesn't work so well unless components to be assembled are domestically manufactured or are easy to acquire commodities. I believe Apple manufactures some key components outside of China. Also note that occasionally there are stories about Apple buying the entire production run of some new screen, RAM chip, etc.
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This is true, but I heard a rare bit on insight from a cable news pundit today, in essence: Steve Jobs is very particular attention to details. He dwells on things like color and whether headphones should have a small clasp to help keep them neat. Steve Jobs is the kind of person who knows when to veto cost savings in favor of design. Tim Cook is a numbers guy. He's surely a capable business leader, but will he have that extra talent an the guts that Steve Jobs had...
My understanding is that Cook's background is as an operations guy. So its not numbers in the purely accounting sense. His operations background may come into play more in the sense of lets not repeat the confusing product line of the 90s. On the other hand an operations guy might have said the white iPhone 4 was too much trouble and canceled it. However in the last few years he has been running things off and on and has been getting mentored by Jobs for even longer than that.
Besides, Jobs may still be around as the "chief visionary". Being CEO of one of the worlds largest corporation is very time consuming and very stressful before one decides to also get involved in product design and similar "distractions". Hopefully he is just trying to get more rest and have less stress, ditching the traditional CEO duties should help greatly there. Lets hope he can still hang out with the designers/developers and focus on that sort of stuff, stuff he probably enjoys doing.
R.I.P. Apple, not Jobs. (I really hope for the best for this guy.)
Most people are familiar with Jobs' skill with respect to product design and marketing. However he possess a less publicized skill that is at least as important than the preceding, probably more important. He assembles teams of really exceptional people to implement his ideas. Once upon a time that would have been the Mac design team. Today that would be Apple's executive leadership. He is handing things off to an extremely capable senior management team.
He is not handing Apple over to a sugar water salesman brought on board to provide adult supervision, he is handing Apple over to his hand pick proteges.
That is really sad, I was eager to get a ProBook. Business grade hardware from HP was almost always really good, I'm sad to see it go.
Maybe they will spin it off and call it Compaq, and little will change other than the name plate. OK, I admit it, that was a little optimistic.
Apple provides, free of charge, the installation tools and drivers to support Windows. They just don't provide Windows itself, that is left to you.
Intel already makes PCs, or at least they used to. However these were not consumer PCs. They were hardened and designed for industrial environments.
The nerd won the second world war
The nerds also lost the war, there were nerds on both sides. Nerds were responsible for mass genocide, nerds were responsible for unmanned drones and ballistic missiles landing in civilian neighborhoods, nerds/hackers created manned missiles and manned torpedoes, etc.
But will there be enough nerds left for our side to win
The losing side may have had the smarter nerds. The bad nerds invented the unmanned drone, ballistic missile, jet aircraft, assault rifle, night vision scope, etc. The good nerds had the advantage of laboratories that were not under attack and whose supplies were not disrupted. The bad nerds had their supplies of heavy water for atomic research interrupted by mere grunts on the ground, the good nerds were not slowed down by such activities. The bad nerds were also sheltered and protected by their enemies at the end of the war, and some went on to be the foundation of the US space program.
That could be complete B.S. of course, but it looks better to me.
There is correct and there is something the audience will understand. Regrettably, sometimes the two are not the same.
There was no woosh. The absurdness of loving jar jar's performance was obvious. The GP's attempt at humor aside, he still referred to "star wars" with an implicit assumption that this refers to episode 1. This inherently deserves challenge in any context.
man that was a good movie. with the little guy talking about 'meesa no jibber jabber', so great - a classic film
Has the day really arrived that when someone says "Star Wars" people think of episode 1 first?
Following the various links I found:
"Over the course of one meeting, they hashed out how a new film would look, how it could avoid seeming too similar to the many movies that have since paid homage to the original, and how different the new film should be from the original itself. They eventually decided it should stand as separately as possible."
I would advocate pummeling the director to within an inch of their life. For Ridley Scott I would ask politely to reconsider before pummeling.
What if Ridley Scott hands it off to James Cameron? Sequels do not always go horribly wrong. :-)
Hint: imdb Alien and Aliens
Won't a thinner connector make it much easier to snap off ?
It will fall off, not snap off. Its like the MagSafe power connector. It will hang on the outside of the case due to the magnets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
If google looses, they'd just be paying themselves. Only the lawyers will be winners in this case.... wonder if thats happened before.
IIRC when a defendant buys the plaintiff the case is normally dismissed.
Jeez, we already know how to do hydrogen fuel cells. Come on nature, give us some info we can USE for once.
Perhaps nature is irritated that we have not done much with hot fusion yet. ;-)
"You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need"
The Rolling Stones
Well when these stories originally broke there were some employees at these stores that were surprised to learn they were not really working for Apple.
Regular, fake, shmake... they fell off the same production line most likely.
Are they sold at a discount since they will not include a manufacturers warranty, or does the fake store offer an equivalent warranty?
Even the most ardent enthusiasts gathered at the annual Space Elevator Conference on Friday don't expect it to be built anytime soon
Considering that the engineers who will design and build the elevator first need the scientists to figure out the physics and chemistry of the materials required that is a pretty good perspective.
If you had used Yggdrasil plug and play Linux in the early to mid 90s then the installer would have configured video, sound, etc for you. It was no more difficult to install than WIndows. There was no typing in your monitor timing numbers nonsense like other distributions from the 90s.
Why a hack?
Because it's not a DX chip (full 32-bit). It won't work "out of the box" ...
The SX is 100% compatible with the DX from a software perspective. IIRC modern Linux distributions do not work out of the box because they are compiled to use PentiumPro (sort of a 686 - three generations ahead of the 386) instructions.
Couldn't a pilot who's convinced to pull off a terrorist attack just, well -- do it? They are at the controls and all...
A pilot *may have* already done it. Opinions vary depending on what investigative agency you ask.
"As the crash occurred in international waters, the responsibility for investigating the accident fell to the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority per International Civil Aviation Organization Annex 13. As the ECAA lacked the resources of the much larger American National Transportation Safety Board, the Egyptian government asked the NTSB to handle the investigation. Two weeks after the crash, the NTSB proposed handing the investigation over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as the evidence they had gathered suggested a criminal act had taken place and that the crash was intentional rather than accidental. This proposal was unacceptable to the Egyptian authorities, and as such the NTSB continued to lead the investigation. As the evidence of a deliberate crash mounted, the Egyptian government reversed their earlier decision, and the ECAA launched their own investigation. The two investigations came to very different conclusions: the NTSB found the crash was caused by deliberate action of the Relief First Officer; the ECAA found the crash was caused by mechanical failure of the airplane's elevator control system."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
It was in the first article on any news site
Thanks. FWIW I did google it and the first three sites I looked at did not contain any google comment.
Google's driverless car was just in the news for crashing into a Prius
A human was driving the vehicle.
Last I heard google has not commented on the accident. IIRC the car always has a driver but it is not clear that the driver was actively at the controls. Much as aircraft always have a pilot even when taking off, cruising or landing on autopilot.
Going the unofficial production run route doesn't work so well unless components to be assembled are domestically manufactured or are easy to acquire commodities. I believe Apple manufactures some key components outside of China. Also note that occasionally there are stories about Apple buying the entire production run of some new screen, RAM chip, etc.
And carpy spell checkers as well.
The genuine ones aren't any better.
At the very least you would think they would throw Android on it.
Fake iPads do that. The packaging looks like Apple's. The device looks like Apple's. Start it up, wait ... that's a droid logo.