Yup. And there was a market for "horseless carriages" before Henry Ford standardized them and started mass-producing them. And Maxwell had a pretty good handle on electromagnetic propagation before Marconi got involved. If you can't accept the notion that Jobs had a revolutionary, not (just) evolutionary, effect on mp3 players and cell phones, then you simply haven't been paying attention. I'm hardly one to be worshiping at the "Steve Jobs is our god, lead us where thou wilt" altar, I, at least, am willing to give credit where it's due. I'm not necessarily a fan of his, but I have to admit, "Steve, he's a visionary; Woz, he's an engineer".
Lol wut? Gates (loudly and publicly) cut that big fat check to prop up his "See? We haves teh competition!" anti-trust pretensions. Anybody who's ever been within a 3-wood's distance from the industry knows/knew that Microsoft Office for Mac was a sop to keep the anti-monopolists at bay. Mac in the office???? In the graphic arts department, sure, but in the rest of the enterprise? Puh. Leeeeze, don't make me laugh. What Steve did (innovate) was so far out of Bill's wheelhouse (cutthroat business practices), they may as well have been in different dimensions.
Either way Via Con Dios Steve, you truly deserve to be in that tiny room of visionaries that can say "I changed the way things are done".
He is not handing Apple over to a sugar water salesman brought on board to provide adult supervision
LOL. Too right. And that's what their (retarded) board thought they needed, circa (IIRC) 1985ish. I remember reading the preface to a Playboy interview of him from that era, where the author was warned, "Be prepared, you're about to be hyped by the best". And he was/is. Karl fucking Rove wakes up in the middle of the night sobbing, wishing he could spin a story the way Steve Jobs can.
He assembles teams of really exceptional people to implement his ideas
He assembles teams of really exceptional people to brutalize into doing exactly what he wants; luckily, he's usually 98% correct. FTFY
Fact is, Steve must be dying (and KNOWS it) or he wouldn't be letting go of the reins, because he's THAT much of a control freak. Apple without him is going to become Ford without Henry, IBM without a Watson. NOT, not, not, a Microsoft without a Gates; Bill has never been a visionary, just a sharky cutthroat businessman. Steve, much as people can hate on him, is the real deal, he can look into the future, like an Edwin Land, (if you don't know who he is, shame on you, turn in your geek card) and CREATE a market around a new idea of his of a product/market that never existed before he dreamed it up. Sure, the haters will claim the Lisa was really the Xerox Star, but can they hand-wave away the iPod, the iPhone? No, I didn't think so. Much as the whole industry wants to hate on him, Steve has done more than Woz, Gates, Bushnell and Kay together to make the world we live in happen.
Deliberately (and theatrically) obtuse is in his job description. That's what his original complaint against my (humorously intended) ".357 magnum negative feedback" was, and what his arguments against you continue to be. You're just "wrasslin with a tarbaby". He'll continue to parse nits and play word games with you all day. He's done more to prove my "lawyers are parasitic lying scum" thesis than I could. My advice to you is to let him have the last whiny lying weasel word and move on with your day.
The cloud and app store marking is hilarious. Inherently inferior mobile/touch inspired interfaces are not going to topple the desktop, because many people have real work to do.
Have you SEEN the Windows 8 demos? It's all swipes and pinches, it looks more like a tablet OS than a desktop. It's almost as if the touch screen is replacing the mouse the way the mouse deprecated the keyboard.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." is a meme dating back to (at least) Shakespeare. Type "kill all " into Google and "kill all the lawyers" is the FIRST result. Perhaps society at large has felt for hundreds of years (and continues to feel) that your profession is a blight, a pox, a cancer on society. There's a REASON that most politicians tend to be lawyers: because they're snakes by nature.
No. For example, Robert Heinlein first described the waterbed in Stranger in a Strange Land and therefore, patents were denied to other people because his description was already there in the public domain. Of course, he couldn't have later patented it either, for the very same reason.
That's a great story. Beats mine about how HP field service showed up (unexpected) a day or two before New Years Eve 1999 wanting to provisionally change (depending on stepping number) some chip on the motherboard (that involved pulling the CPU heatsink to look at it) of my (production!) N-class servers. Can't remember if they were Merced or Monticello, but they were the absolute shit at the time. They basically said that if I didn't let them, they weren't sure they'd be able to support me if anything Y2K-bad happened. So I had to call half a dozen manufacturing plants in the middle of the afternoon to tell them why their manufacturing system was going off line for a couple of hours. Good times.
Exactly. As I mentioned elsewhere, Carly and the Itanic were almost equal partners in destroying the culture at HP. Itanic killed PA-RISC and Alpha (along with MIPS, SPARC and PowerPC) and the engineering talent scattered to the winds. HP was no longer a cutting edge company, engineering-wise, and they've never recovered.
All I can think of is "bundled crapware" and "400 MB printer drivers".
Heh. I just bought the wife a new HP laptop, and I've been two days getting rid of all the shovelware. Running Windows 7, it was using 1.4 Gig of RAM at idle immediately after a reboot. The number of bullshit services running was just mind-boggling.
This whole article is bullshit. Is everyone forgetting the varying instruction sets of the 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium 2-4, Xeon, x86-64 etc., etc. Plus all the millions of Northbridge and Southbridge chipsets from Intel, Via, etc., plus all the different busses through the ages, plus 92 different kinds of temperature monitoring, USB, ATAPI, ACPI...
And we're badmouthing ARM for being a constantly moving target? And that manufacturers are throwing shit at the wall? Huh???
This is exactly how we ended up with the Patriot Act on this side of the Atlantic. All those pesky citizens rights getting in the way of Catching Terraists. The greatest threat facing Western civilization today is our own governments "protecting" us from perceived threats.
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OK... That's an interesting notion. I'm gonna have to think about that, and why/when I'd want to do it in the first place.
And exactly what earth-shattering new features were you expecting in an X Window Server? 3D? Smell?
Yup. And there was a market for "horseless carriages" before Henry Ford standardized them and started mass-producing them. And Maxwell had a pretty good handle on electromagnetic propagation before Marconi got involved. If you can't accept the notion that Jobs had a revolutionary, not (just) evolutionary, effect on mp3 players and cell phones, then you simply haven't been paying attention. I'm hardly one to be worshiping at the "Steve Jobs is our god, lead us where thou wilt" altar, I, at least, am willing to give credit where it's due. I'm not necessarily a fan of his, but I have to admit, "Steve, he's a visionary; Woz, he's an engineer".
Well, OK, "Rogers" on that one!!
LOL. Too right. And that's what their (retarded) board thought they needed, circa (IIRC) 1985ish. I remember reading the preface to a Playboy interview of him from that era, where the author was warned, "Be prepared, you're about to be hyped by the best". And he was/is. Karl fucking Rove wakes up in the middle of the night sobbing, wishing he could spin a story the way Steve Jobs can.
He assembles teams of really exceptional people to brutalize into doing exactly what he wants; luckily, he's usually 98% correct.
FTFY
Fact is, Steve must be dying (and KNOWS it) or he wouldn't be letting go of the reins, because he's THAT much of a control freak. Apple without him is going to become Ford without Henry, IBM without a Watson. NOT, not, not, a Microsoft without a Gates; Bill has never been a visionary, just a sharky cutthroat businessman. Steve, much as people can hate on him, is the real deal, he can look into the future, like an Edwin Land, (if you don't know who he is, shame on you, turn in your geek card) and CREATE a market around a new idea of his of a product/market that never existed before he dreamed it up. Sure, the haters will claim the Lisa was really the Xerox Star, but can they hand-wave away the iPod, the iPhone? No, I didn't think so. Much as the whole industry wants to hate on him, Steve has done more than Woz, Gates, Bushnell and Kay together to make the world we live in happen.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
And I used to wonder why science doesn't get any respect. With people like that speaking for it, it's a wonder there isn't a bounty on scientists.
The real problem was that they used java.io instead of java.nio.
Deliberately (and theatrically) obtuse is in his job description. That's what his original complaint against my (humorously intended) ".357 magnum negative feedback" was, and what his arguments against you continue to be. You're just "wrasslin with a tarbaby". He'll continue to parse nits and play word games with you all day. He's done more to prove my "lawyers are parasitic lying scum" thesis than I could. My advice to you is to let him have the last whiny lying weasel word and move on with your day.
Have you SEEN the Windows 8 demos? It's all swipes and pinches, it looks more like a tablet OS than a desktop. It's almost as if the touch screen is replacing the mouse the way the mouse deprecated the keyboard.
Yeah. netboot from microsoft.com - what could possibly go wrong?
Or perhaps I was, you know, joking, to make a point?
Well yeah, he's a lawyer. Lying is what he does for a living.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." is a meme dating back to (at least) Shakespeare. Type "kill all " into Google and "kill all the lawyers" is the FIRST result. Perhaps society at large has felt for hundreds of years (and continues to feel) that your profession is a blight, a pox, a cancer on society. There's a REASON that most politicians tend to be lawyers: because they're snakes by nature.
Unnecessarily literal minded, overly argumentative and verbose, completely missing the point, yup, you're a lawyer.
I think some .357 Magnum negative feedback is what's called for when lawyers are involved.
Science uses something far, far more powerful than evolution, it uses Intelligent Design!
Learning English.
No. For example, Robert Heinlein first described the waterbed in Stranger in a Strange Land and therefore, patents were denied to other people because his description was already there in the public domain. Of course, he couldn't have later patented it either, for the very same reason.
That's a great story. Beats mine about how HP field service showed up (unexpected) a day or two before New Years Eve 1999 wanting to provisionally change (depending on stepping number) some chip on the motherboard (that involved pulling the CPU heatsink to look at it) of my (production!) N-class servers. Can't remember if they were Merced or Monticello, but they were the absolute shit at the time. They basically said that if I didn't let them, they weren't sure they'd be able to support me if anything Y2K-bad happened. So I had to call half a dozen manufacturing plants in the middle of the afternoon to tell them why their manufacturing system was going off line for a couple of hours. Good times.
Exactly. As I mentioned elsewhere, Carly and the Itanic were almost equal partners in destroying the culture at HP. Itanic killed PA-RISC and Alpha (along with MIPS, SPARC and PowerPC) and the engineering talent scattered to the winds. HP was no longer a cutting edge company, engineering-wise, and they've never recovered.
Heh. I just bought the wife a new HP laptop, and I've been two days getting rid of all the shovelware. Running Windows 7, it was using 1.4 Gig of RAM at idle immediately after a reboot. The number of bullshit services running was just mind-boggling.
Yep. Although, Lew Platt gave her a good running start. But she (and Itanic) really finished it off.
Anybody here remember Apollo Computer? HP9000/400? Nah, me either.
This whole article is bullshit. Is everyone forgetting the varying instruction sets of the 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium 2-4, Xeon, x86-64 etc., etc. Plus all the millions of Northbridge and Southbridge chipsets from Intel, Via, etc., plus all the different busses through the ages, plus 92 different kinds of temperature monitoring, USB, ATAPI, ACPI...
And we're badmouthing ARM for being a constantly moving target? And that manufacturers are throwing shit at the wall? Huh???
This is exactly how we ended up with the Patriot Act on this side of the Atlantic. All those pesky citizens rights getting in the way of Catching Terraists. The greatest threat facing Western civilization today is our own governments "protecting" us from perceived threats.