yes...that is EXACTLY my point. Jobs' decision to "Intel" the Mac was the moment that "it" (whatever "it" was to the individual) ended for them, IMHO. Surely that decision was made for financial reasons, and for most Mac-ies, financial concerns were never an issue.
So go ahead, call it flamebait but time will show that my POV is correct.
I believe the forces of entropy have finally whittled away at Jobs' "aesthetic of the Mac" cult mindset, and the glory days of look-at-me-my-Mac-is-cool are over. Yes, I know ye Mac faithful will fight, then mourn the lost "glory days" of fanaticism, but the party is over and the only ones left are the dudes who couldn't get a chick drunk enough to leave with...
OS X almost assuredly will, at some future date, become YAOS (yet another operation system), down-loadable for a song at alt.binaries.warez...
...you've been able to use Outlook to get Hotmail for years now. Why is this news? Is MS so starved for attention that they have to press release something that has already been available?
...this corresponds with my personal observation that many a difficult programming task has been solved by my brain not as I thought about it but later on, during my shower in the morning. In fact, so many "tough" programming tasks have been solved while I've been not consciously thinking about them that I nowadays don't hardly try to force a solution anymore...I just sort of wait and almost inevitably something comes to me later...
I remember riding my bike to the local Radio Shack when I about 13 and sitting in the display window loading programs from the cassette drive and learning BASIC. My dad had an *original* IBM PC with 64k ram, TWO 5.25 floppies(!) and that screaming 4.77MHz processor, and of course the 300bps modem to connect to Compuserve...
MY first real machine was a Atari ST, and what a great machine that was...so far ahead of its time, a full-color GUI interface in 1985. I can still remember the buggy BASIC that came with it almost caused my to fail a CE course because the chip simulator I wrote with it kept giving some random result! My prof was a ST fan at that time, and it took an hour in his office for me to prove to him that my code was indeed correct and that there was a bug in the interpreter...
Does anyone else wonder why the timing of this is coinciding the with.NET initiatives and other "subscription-based" solutions?? Once non-techs get "convinced" that "wow, isn't it great to have MS Office running on a server somewhere", the ISPs will effectively control the distribution method of this type of software, and will be able to "extort" (for lack of a better term) end-users with preferential packet-priorities and the such.
These multinationals are constantly looking for ways to suck more dollars from us, and in most cases our "best-government-money-can-buy" leaders just follow along.
Movie success is without a doubt a non-linear/chaotic system. Very small perturbations can cause large end effects, like did the lead actor get busted with dope or is the actress the new "it girl" etc etc...
What formula would have predicted the success of "Blair Witch Project", or the original "Nightmare on Elm"?? Nope, just another example of "spreadsheetitus"...
I simply REFUSE to buy any NOKIA products because of that stupid cell phone ad where the dork sings "...just a good ole boy..." from (i think) Dukes Of Hazzard...god that ad p*sses me off.
Paris, 15:09. My Nabaztag's ears are moving. Virginie has just got to her office in New York. It's a secret code between us. When she moves her Rabbit's ears, the ears on mine move at the very same time.
I don't know...sounds kinda kinky to me. Could this be the breakthrough that Dildonics is waiting for?
...and is telling me "The rumor of my death has been greatly exaggerated"...if this was going to happen, would not it happen back when the original NES came out?
well because of the wierdness of quantum mechanics. The moment the photon was observed, it would change it's state and since the two friends knew what it was "supposed" to be they could tell someone else had "looked" at it...
well with the ridiculous price of Starbuck lattes, an unsolicited coupon sounds pretty good to me...hopefully it will be 1/2 off!
Really, tho, Google has been a good steward of online restraint. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should applaud whatever efforts they are making into mobile space.
NASA had stated that it wanted to bring the Hubble down in 2006 to make room in its budget for the Webb
Don't these scientist realize that in a government bureaucracy, the only way to get additional funding is to make sure the current system is 1)totally broke or 2)not in place?
If NASA keeps the Hubble operational, then it will be a *much* harder sell on Capitol Hill then if no telescope exists! Even those this seems very non-intuitive, this is the way much of government works. These NASA guys aren't that dumb...they just know how the system works
Is there any reason that this database couldn't have been sanitized / modified so it didn't contain actual user data?
Well, no, because certain specific errors that magangement *knew* existed were being used as QC on my code. They wanted to make sure that my changes "at least" worked against these existing entries in the dataset.
We all should agree, at some level, *some* people will always have access to ALL of our sensitive data...that's just life in the 21st Century.
Slashdot Mirror
...uhhh I can't help but wonder what your msft/Apple rant could possible have to do with McNealy and Sun?
Well then they would just put a chip inside the cone...turtles all the way down, baby!!
yes...that is EXACTLY my point. Jobs' decision to "Intel" the Mac was the moment that "it" (whatever "it" was to the individual) ended for them, IMHO. Surely that decision was made for financial reasons, and for most Mac-ies, financial concerns were never an issue.
So go ahead, call it flamebait but time will show that my POV is correct.
I believe the forces of entropy have finally whittled away at Jobs' "aesthetic of the Mac" cult mindset, and the glory days of look-at-me-my-Mac-is-cool are over. Yes, I know ye Mac faithful will fight, then mourn the lost "glory days" of fanaticism, but the party is over and the only ones left are the dudes who couldn't get a chick drunk enough to leave with...
OS X almost assuredly will, at some future date, become YAOS (yet another operation system), down-loadable for a song at alt.binaries.warez...
...you've been able to use Outlook to get Hotmail for years now. Why is this news? Is MS so starved for attention that they have to press release something that has already been available?
Tighten up, Bill!
...this corresponds with my personal observation that many a difficult programming task has been solved by my brain not as I thought about it but later on, during my shower in the morning. In fact, so many "tough" programming tasks have been solved while I've been not consciously thinking about them that I nowadays don't hardly try to force a solution anymore...I just sort of wait and almost inevitably something comes to me later...
I remember riding my bike to the local Radio Shack when I about 13 and sitting in the display window loading programs from the cassette drive and learning BASIC. My dad had an *original* IBM PC with 64k ram, TWO 5.25 floppies(!) and that screaming 4.77MHz processor, and of course the 300bps modem to connect to Compuserve...
MY first real machine was a Atari ST, and what a great machine that was...so far ahead of its time, a full-color GUI interface in 1985. I can still remember the buggy BASIC that came with it almost caused my to fail a CE course because the chip simulator I wrote with it kept giving some random result! My prof was a ST fan at that time, and it took an hour in his office for me to prove to him that my code was indeed correct and that there was a bug in the interpreter...
Or does the image on the right of this look like a new boss monster for Half/Live III???
Does anyone else wonder why the timing of this is coinciding the with .NET initiatives and other "subscription-based" solutions?? Once non-techs get "convinced" that "wow, isn't it great to have MS Office running on a server somewhere", the ISPs will effectively control the distribution method of this type of software, and will be able to "extort" (for lack of a better term) end-users with preferential packet-priorities and the such.
These multinationals are constantly looking for ways to suck more dollars from us, and in most cases our "best-government-money-can-buy" leaders just follow along.
Movie success is without a doubt a non-linear/chaotic system. Very small perturbations can cause large end effects, like did the lead actor get busted with dope or is the actress the new "it girl" etc etc...
What formula would have predicted the success of "Blair Witch Project", or the original "Nightmare on Elm"?? Nope, just another example of "spreadsheetitus"...
I simply REFUSE to buy any NOKIA products because of that stupid cell phone ad where the dork sings "...just a good ole boy..." from (i think) Dukes Of Hazzard...god that ad p*sses me off.
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...how many comments contain the letters JSB??
/* RIP jsb */
I can still remember my 1000 level C course where an example of "poor commentting" was presented where the only comment was
Genetically-modified viral marketing...tastes great with chicken!
Well, darn, I thought UNION was the best way to share memory...guess it's time to upgrade my skill set
Paris, 15:09. My Nabaztag's ears are moving. Virginie has just got to her office in New York. It's a secret code between us. When she moves her Rabbit's ears, the ears on mine move at the very same time.
I don't know...sounds kinda kinky to me. Could this be the breakthrough that Dildonics is waiting for?
Due to the scope of this mission, there is no doubt that we might need too imagine several beowulf clusters...
...and is telling me "The rumor of my death has been greatly exaggerated"...if this was going to happen, would not it happen back when the original NES came out?
well because of the wierdness of quantum mechanics. The moment the photon was observed, it would change it's state and since the two friends knew what it was "supposed" to be they could tell someone else had "looked" at it...
Yes I know odd but (I think in this case) true..
well with the ridiculous price of Starbuck lattes, an unsolicited coupon sounds pretty good to me...hopefully it will be 1/2 off!
Really, tho, Google has been a good steward of online restraint. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should applaud whatever efforts they are making into mobile space.
NASA had stated that it wanted to bring the Hubble down in 2006 to make room in its budget for the Webb
Don't these scientist realize that in a government bureaucracy, the only way to get additional funding is to make sure the current system is 1)totally broke or 2)not in place?
If NASA keeps the Hubble operational, then it will be a *much* harder sell on Capitol Hill then if no telescope exists! Even those this seems very non-intuitive, this is the way much of government works. These NASA guys aren't that dumb...they just know how the system works
How often have we heard such promises as smart "agents" that would soon scour the 'net, doing our personal shopping and information gathering?
Or, how about the long-ago promises of Minsky et al on the "future" of AI, only to find that now they consider the problem too difficult?
This sounds like a little more of the same, some people working on some software that won't be realized for the obligatory "10 years".
I will not be holding my breath.
"SCO claims apple pie un-american"
First, these guys alienate the Linux crowd.
Next, Open Sourcers get kicked in the nuts.
Geez, why can't they sue Microsoft like everyone else, get paid and retire somewhere?
All voting software and results should be subject to scrutany by the OSS community. All fraud is shallow when subjected to so many eyeballs.
Is there any reason that this database couldn't have been sanitized / modified so it didn't contain actual user data?
Well, no, because certain specific errors that magangement *knew* existed were being used as QC on my code. They wanted to make sure that my changes "at least" worked against these existing entries in the dataset.
We all should agree, at some level, *some* people will always have access to ALL of our sensitive data...that's just life in the 21st Century.