Took long enough. When I was working at Intel, they were developing a dedicated set-top SOC (Canmore I recall?). The salespeople were all excited and drooling on the meeting table about "a dollar and a dollar"; money from the chip, and money from a cut of ad revenue. The core software came from Yahoo and it was some of the worst code I've ever seen. Ugly inside, undocumented, very broken, and even more ugly outside.
Please, enough about bitching about the butterfly keyboard, $1000 phones, and the RDF. Tell us again about how Jobs ripped off Xerox PARC. That's always a hoot.
Seems reasonable. Their ARMs must cost them very little esp. compared to what they pay Intel. Less worry about heat would give better potential performance. Xcode will make porting a matter of setting a build option or two, if that. Apple's GPU future also looks promising. It's time we finally say goodbye to everything that is 1981's PC.
So everything Apple does, did, or will do is doomed to failure, but we loves us some x86 architecture from 1979 and can't imagine an alternative. The future has spoken.
It's all Swift now. Obj-C is viewed as legacy there. They don't say it officially, but it's pretty evident. After writing in Swift for half a year, I think it's a good move. It started out as a mutt, but they've been very open on refining it. The APIs are already pretty close but for some naming conventions. My porting from Obj-C to Swift wasn't too painful. Xcode helps that quite a bit. The port code is smaller, faster and more (ugh that word) elegant. I wouldn't want to go back to Obj-C and it's -way- more fun than (ugh that word) C++.
Merging the platforms doesn't have to be dumbing down the Mac either. Maybe it'll be a whole new hybrid OS. Considering how little it costs Apple for their home-grown SOCs, perhaps they'll just add one along side the Intel parts for a few years.
A long time ago, a founder of a very large software company (still in business BTW but not with him) told me he was against copy protection (and banned the use of it in the company) because you owe everything to your customers that pay and should disregard people that don't pay you anything.
I thought that was an enlightened approach, and still do. That company is now neck deep in the software-as-a-rental model and the long paying customers feel screwed.
You want a tow? I can get you a tow, believe me. There are ways Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a tow by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
When I was at Intel, they were chasing what ever was getting press. Wii? Let's do video gaming with motion controllers. Until we can't and wander off in another direction. Set-top boxes, we can dominate! The sales guys were obsessed with "a dollar and a dollar"; getting a cut from both ad revenue -and- silicon. Car Infotainment? Yeah, we can do that! Except the OEM demo hardware they sent out was crashing inexplicably for months. The best part with the hardware was that, of all things, the radio section didn't work. Again, the sales people loved getting sent over to Germany on long all expenses paid visits. Digital Signage! That's hot! The main goal was to dump old core-duo chips on the market by saying they were made specifically for signage. Intel has its own jet fleet that runs from OR, to CA, to AZ, several times a day. They signage guys set up a meeting with the guys up in OR for talk about signage and 3 of them flew to AZ. Although I warned my boss, an embarrassing meeting took place where the OR guys started talking about digital signing certs, not signage. That is Intel. They made -so- much money off of chips that they struggled to burn it up. There's the Intel Orange County Chopper that sat behind glass in Chandler AZ for years. Too big to be ridden, with electronics that were hollow props. Nice paint job tho...
My favorite is making will.i.am "Director of Creative Innovation". Made him an "employee" with a badge and everything. It was insulting to everyone that actually did work there. I've heard nothing about him after the one press conference where he said he used computers once.
The chip guys were top-notch. I shared a lab with the guy bringing up BIOS for the first Atom chip prototype. The first real thing to run as a standard test, was DOOM.
Ahh yes. The Window Pane. Back in the day, I took a whole without planning my day. Was forced to drive my car. I found myself driving in bouncy Max Fleischer cartoon world. I think that I went someplace to sit it out. I don't remember that part.
But if they were not dosing to the tipping point of deep synesthesia, time dilution, and the loss of self, what's the point? Nobody babysitting a room of people tripping is going to spontaneously start seeing trails and color auras. They might grin and giggle a little bit, but that's it.
It's not just marketing. There's a few things lacking, as with everything, but there's passion and great thought behind Apple's software ecosystem. Although I resisted, I've started writing in Swift, talking to SceneKit and other APIs as needed, in Xcode. It's the most fun and best effort-to-reward ratio I've had in 30+ years of developing.
What hype? Apple puts a 4 inch simple teaser inside one of it's applications, and today presents a classy front page on it's web site. The collection gets a stylish presentation in iTunes, but not much more than any other high profile act. How much collective hype do we get from all of those fly by night 2-cent hip hop acts? Should they have just hidden the downloads away someplace or would your world be a better place if they didn't offer them at all?
You should be grateful that this gave you all a chance to buff your egos by claiming your superiority over Steve Jobs for all the world to see.
I've got most of those tracks in my collection, but this still made me smile, especially the free concert video that Apple is streaming. It reminded me of a more innocent and kinder time.
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Took long enough. When I was working at Intel, they were developing a dedicated set-top SOC (Canmore I recall?). The salespeople were all excited and drooling on the meeting table about "a dollar and a dollar"; money from the chip, and money from a cut of ad revenue. The core software came from Yahoo and it was some of the worst code I've ever seen. Ugly inside, undocumented, very broken, and even more ugly outside.
Like all things Intel, much money was burned, flaky dev kits were sent out, and the project killed and the work thrown away.
https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2008/20080820comp_a.htm/
Everything from Microsoft ends in heartbreak.
Because it's Hollywood magic, when it sends the zoomed and enhanced data, it displays at 120 cps and each character will make a little chirp sound.
Please, enough about bitching about the butterfly keyboard, $1000 phones, and the RDF.
Tell us again about how Jobs ripped off Xerox PARC. That's always a hoot.
Seems reasonable.
Their ARMs must cost them very little esp. compared to what they pay Intel.
Less worry about heat would give better potential performance.
Xcode will make porting a matter of setting a build option or two, if that.
Apple's GPU future also looks promising.
It's time we finally say goodbye to everything that is 1981's PC.
So everything Apple does, did, or will do is doomed to failure,
but we loves us some x86 architecture from 1979 and can't imagine an alternative.
The future has spoken.
It's all Swift now. Obj-C is viewed as legacy there. They don't say it officially, but it's pretty evident. After writing in Swift for half a year, I think it's a good move. It started out as a mutt, but they've been very open on refining it. The APIs are already pretty close but for some naming conventions. My porting from Obj-C to Swift wasn't too painful. Xcode helps that quite a bit. The port code is smaller, faster and more (ugh that word) elegant. I wouldn't want to go back to Obj-C and it's -way- more fun than (ugh that word) C++.
Merging the platforms doesn't have to be dumbing down the Mac either. Maybe it'll be a whole new hybrid OS. Considering how little it costs Apple for their home-grown SOCs, perhaps they'll just add one along side the Intel parts for a few years.
It's OK. In 100 years, Windows will still be chock full 'o bugs.
Yeah, just patch the thing and ship it.
No need to run full regression tests and make sure the fix didn't break anything else.
A long time ago, a founder of a very large software company (still in business BTW but not with him) told me
he was against copy protection (and banned the use of it in the company) because you owe everything to your
customers that pay and should disregard people that don't pay you anything.
I thought that was an enlightened approach, and still do.
That company is now neck deep in the software-as-a-rental model and the long paying customers feel screwed.
I think they auto find another cad package...
You want a tow? I can get you a tow, believe me. There are ways Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.
Hell, I can get you a tow by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
Please rate:
1) not reliable
2) somewhat more reliable
3) reliable
4) Toyota
...it just smells funny.
When I was at Intel, they were chasing what ever was getting press.
Wii? Let's do video gaming with motion controllers. Until we can't and wander off in another direction.
Set-top boxes, we can dominate! The sales guys were obsessed with "a dollar and a dollar"; getting a cut from both ad revenue -and- silicon.
Car Infotainment? Yeah, we can do that! Except the OEM demo hardware they sent out was crashing inexplicably for months.
The best part with the hardware was that, of all things, the radio section didn't work.
Again, the sales people loved getting sent over to Germany on long all expenses paid visits.
Digital Signage! That's hot! The main goal was to dump old core-duo chips on the market by saying they were made specifically for signage.
Intel has its own jet fleet that runs from OR, to CA, to AZ, several times a day.
They signage guys set up a meeting with the guys up in OR for talk about signage and 3 of them flew to AZ.
Although I warned my boss, an embarrassing meeting took place where the OR guys started talking about digital signing certs, not signage.
That is Intel.
They made -so- much money off of chips that they struggled to burn it up.
There's the Intel Orange County Chopper that sat behind glass in Chandler AZ for years.
Too big to be ridden, with electronics that were hollow props. Nice paint job tho...
My favorite is making will.i.am "Director of Creative Innovation". Made him an "employee" with a badge and everything.
It was insulting to everyone that actually did work there. I've heard nothing about him after the one press conference where he said he used computers once.
The chip guys were top-notch. I shared a lab with the guy bringing up BIOS for the first Atom chip prototype.
The first real thing to run as a standard test, was DOOM.
Ahh yes. The Window Pane. Back in the day, I took a whole without planning my day.
Was forced to drive my car. I found myself driving in bouncy Max Fleischer cartoon world.
I think that I went someplace to sit it out. I don't remember that part.
Good, except when it isn't. Then it's terrible.
But if they were not dosing to the tipping point of deep synesthesia, time dilution, and the loss of self, what's the point?
Nobody babysitting a room of people tripping is going to spontaneously start seeing trails and color auras.
They might grin and giggle a little bit, but that's it.
More accurately, they were Karma's bitch.
How could someone take an LSD placebo and be fooled into thinking it did something?
It's not just marketing. There's a few things lacking, as with everything, but there's passion and great thought behind Apple's software ecosystem.
Although I resisted, I've started writing in Swift, talking to SceneKit and other APIs as needed, in Xcode.
It's the most fun and best effort-to-reward ratio I've had in 30+ years of developing.
What hype? Apple puts a 4 inch simple teaser inside one of it's applications, and today presents a classy front page on it's web site. The collection gets a stylish presentation in iTunes, but not much more than any other high profile act. How much collective hype do we get from all of those fly by night 2-cent hip hop acts? Should they have just hidden the downloads away someplace or would your world be a better place if they didn't offer them at all?
You should be grateful that this gave you all a chance to buff your egos by claiming your superiority over Steve Jobs for all the world to see.
I've got most of those tracks in my collection, but this still made me smile, especially the free concert video that Apple is streaming. It reminded me of a more innocent and kinder time.
Joss Whedon.
10/10/10 is my birthday, I was born in 1955, so I'm 55 today.
It's sort of cool except that it's also true for David Lee Roth today.
Only if you're morbidly obtuse.
It's not speed cabling, it's wireball.
Speed cabling (hooking the wires up) would be round two of the geek triathlon.
Round three: ???