This seems to be a repeated theme from folks coming out of the academic world into the working world. In school, the ideals of creativity and perfection of a project are emphasized, whereas in the working world the focus shifts to making money and getting the job done. The truth is, you're probably not going to find very many employers who want to pay you to come up with high-quality, original, and "A-quality" work instead of focusing on rolling in the customers. You should probably try and channel your creative energies into something productive while still acheiving your company's goals, like finding innovative ways to roll out those websites or deal with influxes or traffic.
Well, it depends on what you mean when you say "Does Apple matter?" If you mean "Does it matter in the course of computer history?", the answer is yes; it's place in history is undeniable. "Does it matter to it's users?" Again, the answer is yes; ask any Mac addict. As for the question "Does any of that matter?", the answer depends on how much money Apple is making as a company.;) That's life for you.
I'm in the same situation as you here: a normal desktop user doing normal desktop things. I also tried many Open Source OS's, including FreeBSD and many flavors of Linux. I used FreeBSD for a while, until finally settling down on a Linux distro. Why? Because FreeBSD is simply nowhere near user-friendly enough to beat many Linux distributions in competition for normal users. Sound requires a kernel recompilation, which is no big deal, but getting ppp up and running isn't too fun and FreeBSD printing setup is an absolute pain in the ass! Besides, Linux seems to do everything FreeBSD does and more (from my experience). The ports collection is rather convenient, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Debian package manager. Still, though, if FreeBSD is what you prefer, go for it. That's the beauty of open-source. I just can't really see the advantages it has for normal end-users. I must agree, though, with an earlier post: Debian/BSD would be ass-whuppin'. ^_^
As things get circulated like this in spells every now and then, it becomes time to recirculate an important theme: philosophical problems do not equate to mathematical inconsistencies. By standards of purely mathematical order, there aren't holes such that you might wake up tommorow to discover that 2+2 suddenly equals 5. ^_^
A parallel to this type of discussion can be given from quantum mechanics; the Schrodinger's Cat paradox. While it does present serious philosophical and logical problems, what it does not do is poke any actual holes into quantum mechanics. Anyone particularly interested in this topic should check out the work of Godel, who did some very intriguing work earlier in the 20th century.
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This seems to be a repeated theme from folks coming out of the academic world into the working world. In school, the ideals of creativity and perfection of a project are emphasized, whereas in the working world the focus shifts to making money and getting the job done. The truth is, you're probably not going to find very many employers who want to pay you to come up with high-quality, original, and "A-quality" work instead of focusing on rolling in the customers. You should probably try and channel your creative energies into something productive while still acheiving your company's goals, like finding innovative ways to roll out those websites or deal with influxes or traffic.
Well, it depends on what you mean when you say "Does Apple matter?" If you mean "Does it matter in the course of computer history?", the answer is yes; it's place in history is undeniable. "Does it matter to it's users?" Again, the answer is yes; ask any Mac addict. As for the question "Does any of that matter?", the answer depends on how much money Apple is making as a company. ;) That's life for you.
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It is suspected that jamie's on drugs. Probably some of that FreePCP that's been going around.
If aliens were to read this discussion, they would undoubtably enslave us immediatly.
I'm in the same situation as you here: a normal desktop user doing normal desktop things. I also tried many Open Source OS's, including FreeBSD and many flavors of Linux. I used FreeBSD for a while, until finally settling down on a Linux distro. Why? Because FreeBSD is simply nowhere near user-friendly enough to beat many Linux distributions in competition for normal users. Sound requires a kernel recompilation, which is no big deal, but getting ppp up and running isn't too fun and FreeBSD printing setup is an absolute pain in the ass! Besides, Linux seems to do everything FreeBSD does and more (from my experience). The ports collection is rather convenient, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Debian package manager. Still, though, if FreeBSD is what you prefer, go for it. That's the beauty of open-source. I just can't really see the advantages it has for normal end-users. I must agree, though, with an earlier post: Debian/BSD would be ass-whuppin'. ^_^
As things get circulated like this in spells every now and then, it becomes time to recirculate an important theme: philosophical problems do not equate to mathematical inconsistencies. By standards of purely mathematical order, there aren't holes such that you might wake up tommorow to discover that 2+2 suddenly equals 5. ^_^ A parallel to this type of discussion can be given from quantum mechanics; the Schrodinger's Cat paradox. While it does present serious philosophical and logical problems, what it does not do is poke any actual holes into quantum mechanics. Anyone particularly interested in this topic should check out the work of Godel, who did some very intriguing work earlier in the 20th century.
Good news for skywatchers perhaps if this idea takes off; lots of satellites to make up for those poor doomed iridiums.... First Post!