It's also worthwhile to remember that while Jobs is certainly the credit-taker, there's no evidence that Apple's best achievements were Steve's personal accomplishments.
Of course for Nintendo, it's not all about the hardware. What about all the Nintendo brand games like Pokemon? Don't expect them to be available on Apple hardware anytime soon. Nintendo's profits on one Pokemon title is probably greater than Apple's cut from 1000 app store games.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but if B represents figures from the unemployment office it's impossible to go from C to B. You can't just sit around for months before applying for unemployment and you can't get back in once you've stooped looking or once they've decided you've had enough (and those extensions don't apply to everyone).
""Lightning" happens when millions of people can do something for free that only thousands of paying customers used to be able to do."
It's not as if I have to pay an ISP for browsing at home or a cellular provider to browse on my phone, or have to put up with ads. Yep, it's all free thanks to open standards.
I have no idea if your point is well taken but remember that this story is part of Slashdot's HTML5 promotion effort and thus the best way to do it is irrelevant.
when so many frameworks are available that if the original developer of a site gets hit by a bus, they'll be no person in the world qualified to maintain it.
See what I mean? You don't really believe that, you just want to slam Obama. You're bummed that he won the election, I get that. Don't worry, at most he will have two terms and then it's white guys as president all the way down.
Well, I make a distinction between what Republicans say and what they believe. I seriously doubt that Republicans are going to cry over a tobacco tax if the other taxes are reduced.
Sounds like he got a bit carried away when he said "not any of your taxes". Nevertheless, if he keeps his pledge with respect to income tax, payroll tax, and capital gains taxes, most people will consider his pledge to be fulfilled.
Funny, I didn't realize that we gained jobs the last time Bush cut taxes. I must have been dreaming! I must have had a job after all! Limbaugh was right! But wait. If Limbaugh knew I had a job, he must know where my money is. Rush were's my money????!!!!
"Somewhere along the line, a CS degree became a way of ensuring yourself a job in much the same way a degree in accounting did, and CS began to get people who didn't really give a shit. "I'll pay the money, go to the classes, get the degree, and get a job. Then I'll be safe and happy until I die."
That was never entirely true and it certainly isn't true now. Besides today programming languages aren't that big a factor in hiring. You need to have experience in the 10 frameworks, libraries, or technologies that a company has selected out of the hundreds available. You could try learning about those items, but it won't help - because the other companies have selected a different subset.
I'm glad I started my career before integration and "glue" code replaced real programming.
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recall our ambassador to Texas.
Why, did you do something with your iPad that was unauthorized by Apple?
It's also worthwhile to remember that while Jobs is certainly the credit-taker, there's no evidence that Apple's best achievements were Steve's personal accomplishments.
Of course for Nintendo, it's not all about the hardware. What about all the Nintendo brand games like Pokemon? Don't expect them to be available on Apple hardware anytime soon. Nintendo's profits on one Pokemon title is probably greater than Apple's cut from 1000 app store games.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but if B represents figures from the unemployment office it's impossible to go from C to B. You can't just sit around for months before applying for unemployment and you can't get back in once you've stooped looking or once they've decided you've had enough (and those extensions don't apply to everyone).
Are you referring to Hulu or the HTML5 spec writers.
""Lightning" happens when millions of people can do something for free that only thousands of paying customers used to be able to do."
It's not as if I have to pay an ISP for browsing at home or a cellular provider to browse on my phone, or have to put up with ads. Yep, it's all free thanks to open standards.
I have no idea if your point is well taken but remember that this story is part of Slashdot's HTML5 promotion effort and thus the best way to do it is irrelevant.
"MS is still trying to find how to make internet MS-only."
I guess what you mean is that MS is trying to make the Internet IE-only.
If you want to be the last guy standing after layoffs you should tell your employer that he has a clue even if he mandates IE6.
when so many frameworks are available that if the original developer of a site gets hit by a bus, they'll be no person in the world qualified to maintain it.
We won't be calling anything "Curated Computing", but remember we can't all be famous phrase coiners.
Yes, the ancients were right. Everything in the sky revolves around us.
See what I mean? You don't really believe that, you just want to slam Obama. You're bummed that he won the election, I get that. Don't worry, at most he will have two terms and then it's white guys as president all the way down.
Well, I make a distinction between what Republicans say and what they believe. I seriously doubt that Republicans are going to cry over a tobacco tax if the other taxes are reduced.
Sounds like he got a bit carried away when he said "not any of your taxes". Nevertheless, if he keeps his pledge with respect to income tax, payroll tax, and capital gains taxes, most people will consider his pledge to be fulfilled.
I don't believe that you thought he was referring to anything other than income taxes.
But I'm not bothered because I avoid cancer dangers like smoking or exposing my body unnecessarily to UV light so I don't need any medical devices.
Funny, I didn't realize that we gained jobs the last time Bush cut taxes. I must have been dreaming! I must have had a job after all! Limbaugh was right! But wait. If Limbaugh knew I had a job, he must know where my money is. Rush were's my money????!!!!
We've been to the back yard. If we don't have the technology to go to Mars we aren't going to find it on the moon (unless a monolith shows up there).
Nah, the humans would be dead at the first bounce off Mars.
We're just a little growth on the surface of a tiny spec. The universe won't miss us.
Right. We should either continue to dick around in earth orbit or do a cover of Armstrong's trip to the moon.
"Somewhere along the line, a CS degree became a way of ensuring yourself a job in much the same way a degree in accounting did, and CS began to get people who didn't really give a shit. "I'll pay the money, go to the classes, get the degree, and get a job. Then I'll be safe and happy until I die."
That was never entirely true and it certainly isn't true now. Besides today programming languages aren't that big a factor in hiring. You need to have experience in the 10 frameworks, libraries, or technologies that a company has selected out of the hundreds available. You could try learning about those items, but it won't help - because the other companies have selected a different subset.
I'm glad I started my career before integration and "glue" code replaced real programming.
That assumes that there are developers in IT.
Tweaking Linux configuration options is a lot different than bending wires around. Wires break after repeated attempts, config files don't.