If you had you would realize that no one knows what the license looks like. The author was asked to agree to something that could only be read after he had agreed to it. If "Windows" - whatever that is - does the same thing then it too is unreasonable.
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Look at the old Atari days.
More salient than you might think.
Atari's weakness was that it did not control the games publishers. There was no quality control, consumers were discouraged, and in the end the entire market suffered. When Nintendo and Sega started to reinvent the games console market the first thing they did was to strictly control who was publishing what for their systems.
Here's something that would be even more interesting: Apple could release an OS X card for PCs. The PC would run Darwin, while the card's G4 or G5 runs OS X on top. Apple would still see its hardware revenue, PC users would be able to run OS X.
Yes, but what about shitty games? You know, the ones that give you that sinking feeling when you realize that your impulse purchase was a mistake. Most of those don't get ported to the Mac.
Apple needs to reach out to the mediocre and uninspired developers. Churning out another lame wargame with soldiers who dance like puppets when they talk? On x86 there are thirty competing titles, but only two or three on the Mac! Contract-publishing a tedious racing game with no charm or originality? Mac users are waiting for you!
To put a twist on it... a pressure seal on a 747 (I believe I'll have to double check) faild and people died. When the Boeing engineer who had designed it found it it was a design fault caused by him, he comitted suicide. Not that I believe engineers should commit seppuku when things go wrong, but...
The accident you recall - which killed 520 people - was this one. It was a botched repair, not a design flaw. I guess seppuku would be somehow appropriate considering it was a JAL flight.
flammable materials and 100% oxygen atmosphere on the ground
very apposite.
Ironically it was the lack of altitude that killed the Apollo crew. When the command module was pressurized in space, it would be at about 0.2 atmospheres of pure oxygen, ie: no great fire hazard. To run the drill on the ground the command module was at over 1 atmosphere of pure oxygen, which is obviously dangerous - it caused velcro in the capsule to explode on ignition. The velcro had been deemed safe, because it wouldn't burn at 0.2 atmospheres. It's easy in hindsight to point out the chain of mistakes, but each individual decision made sense.
considerring that there hasnt been any changes in the user interface in a car since like 1930, yes, everything would be relevant.
so your car has an advance/retard lever? or a choke? even if you're in that minority in the US that has a clutch and gearstick, i doubt you have to double clutch to change gears because you don't have a synchromesh gearbox. or use different coolants for summer and winter. or regularly have to repair tires because they puncture so often.
However, others are cautious about the idea. "I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company that specialises in PC noise elimination.
Translation:
However, others would like the idea to go away. "Let me think up a reason to discourage this," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company whose business model depends on PCs being noisy.
Thats a little unfair; during the US shuttle's development several technicians were killed, mostly due to exposure to propellent. They didn't get any big attention from the media.
CFGHead: You bastards, we've been planning this for months. PFJHead: Well tought titty for you, fish face. AAAAWW! --------[A general fight breaks out between the two groups.] Brian: Brothers, brothers. We should be struggling together. PFJHead: We are! Brian: We musn't fight each other. Surely we should be united against the common enemy. All: The Judean People's front!!! Brian: No. No. The Romans! All: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Someone: Yeah. He's right. --------[Two Roman guards approach slowly.] Other1: Look out! CFGHead: Right. Where were we? PFJHead: Uh. You were going to punch me. CFGHead: Oh yeah. --------[The fight breaks out again. More Roman guards approach to find all members of both groups except Brian basically kill each other.
They walk up to the surprised Brian, and all goes black...]
Well that was the point; Quality is in the immediate experience of something; once you start intellectualizing it you've lost it. I'd say Pirsig's best explanation of Quality was by imagining a world devoid of Quality - a totalitarian existence free of beauty.
I really don't think that this line of thought should be dismissed out of hand. We are not robots; Quality is why jokes are funny, why that song sounds good, why people smoke cigarettes, why people will spend a few extra hundred dollars on a computer, millions of things.
What does packaging have got to do with anything? Does "packaging" encode your OGGs or AVIs any faster? No? Does it get you higher score on Seti? No it doesn't? Does it compile Linux kernel any faster, no it doesn't.
This really touches on the difference between apple and most wintel retailers. It's all about Quality. Quality is a basic aspect of the way we understand reality which underlies both the classicist and romanticist systems of thought. By refering to a list of easily measurable benchmarks, you are nailing your colors to the flag of classicist thinking and opposing the romanticist side of the product. Thinking that this is OK is how horrible products are created. Some people spend their whole lives laboring under this kind of thinking; you don't have to if you think about Quality. (Full disclosure: I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now).
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If you had you would realize that no one knows what the license looks like. The author was asked to agree to something that could only be read after he had agreed to it. If "Windows" - whatever that is - does the same thing then it too is unreasonable.
Look at the old Atari days.
More salient than you might think.
Atari's weakness was that it did not control the games publishers. There was no quality control, consumers were discouraged, and in the end the entire market suffered. When Nintendo and Sega started to reinvent the games console market the first thing they did was to strictly control who was publishing what for their systems.
Here's something that would be even more interesting: Apple could release an OS X card for PCs. The PC would run Darwin, while the card's G4 or G5 runs OS X on top. Apple would still see its hardware revenue, PC users would be able to run OS X.
Yes, but what about shitty games? You know, the ones that give you that sinking feeling when you realize that your impulse purchase was a mistake. Most of those don't get ported to the Mac.
Apple needs to reach out to the mediocre and uninspired developers. Churning out another lame wargame with soldiers who dance like puppets when they talk? On x86 there are thirty competing titles, but only two or three on the Mac! Contract-publishing a tedious racing game with no charm or originality? Mac users are waiting for you!
OK, here's something even more stupid:
Suppose you have nine fishermen who each catch 100 fish per day. The average catch is, of course, 100.
Then add a particularly bad fisherman, who catches 0 fish per day. The average of all ten fishermen is 90.
Nine out of ten are above average, catching 100 fish. One is below average.
For extra points, why do the best tennis players have more than the average number of legs?
To put a twist on it... a pressure seal on a 747 (I believe I'll have to double check) faild and people died. When the Boeing engineer who had designed it found it it was a design fault caused by him, he comitted suicide. Not that I believe engineers should commit seppuku when things go wrong, but...
The accident you recall - which killed 520 people - was this one. It was a botched repair, not a design flaw. I guess seppuku would be somehow appropriate considering it was a JAL flight.
If you are an (exactly) average driver, exactly half of the people drive worse than you.
Not necessarily. Suppose there were one person - my ex-wife springs to mind - who was such a bad driver that everyone else was better than average.
Columbia didn't have any EVA suits aboard because no EVA was planned, let alone a 'SAFER' backpack, which is what you're thinking of.
Even if there had been a suit, the astronauts would not have been able to go outside because the only airlock was used by the mission laboratory.
The reason Columbia never went to the ISS or Mir is that it was too heavy. Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour are lighter.
flammable materials and 100% oxygen atmosphere on the ground
very apposite.
Ironically it was the lack of altitude that killed the Apollo crew. When the command module was pressurized in space, it would be at about 0.2 atmospheres of pure oxygen, ie: no great fire hazard. To run the drill on the ground the command module was at over 1 atmosphere of pure oxygen, which is obviously dangerous - it caused velcro in the capsule to explode on ignition. The velcro had been deemed safe, because it wouldn't burn at 0.2 atmospheres. It's easy in hindsight to point out the chain of mistakes, but each individual decision made sense.
Ah yes, the Sunday Times, Hitler's Diaries, that paragon of journalism, which is, of course, owned by News Corp, which owns The Sun.
considerring that there hasnt been any changes in the user interface in a car since like 1930, yes, everything would be relevant.
so your car has an advance/retard lever? or a choke? even if you're in that minority in the US that has a clutch and gearstick, i doubt you have to double clutch to change gears because you don't have a synchromesh gearbox. or use different coolants for summer and winter. or regularly have to repair tires because they puncture so often.
It's like they've made two clones of that Iraqi information minister
and one of them's a Mac zealot and the other's a PC zealot.
However, others are cautious about the idea. "I don't like mixing water and electricity," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company that specialises in PC noise elimination.
Translation:
However, others would like the idea to go away. "Let me think up a reason to discourage this," says Paul Lee, at QuietPC in North Yorkshire, England, a company whose business model depends on PCs being noisy.
Thats a little unfair; during the US shuttle's development several technicians were killed, mostly due to exposure to propellent. They didn't get any big attention from the media.
CFGHead: You bastards, we've been planning this for months.
PFJHead: Well tought titty for you, fish face. AAAAWW!
--------[A general fight breaks out between the two groups.]
Brian: Brothers, brothers. We should be struggling together.
PFJHead: We are!
Brian: We musn't fight each other. Surely we should be united against the common enemy.
All: The Judean People's front!!!
Brian: No. No. The Romans!
All: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.
Someone: Yeah. He's right.
--------[Two Roman guards approach slowly.]
Other1: Look out!
CFGHead: Right. Where were we?
PFJHead: Uh. You were going to punch me.
CFGHead: Oh yeah.
--------[The fight breaks out again. More Roman guards approach to find all members of both groups except Brian basically kill each other.
They walk up to the surprised Brian, and all goes black...]
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Well that was the point; Quality is in the immediate experience of something; once you start intellectualizing it you've lost it. I'd say Pirsig's best explanation of Quality was by imagining a world devoid of Quality - a totalitarian existence free of beauty.
I really don't think that this line of thought should be dismissed out of hand. We are not robots; Quality is why jokes are funny, why that song sounds good, why people smoke cigarettes, why people will spend a few extra hundred dollars on a computer, millions of things.
Agreed. It is kind of ironic how many "real men build PCs from scratch" types are afraid of plugging in a replacement mouse.
What does packaging have got to do with anything? Does "packaging" encode your OGGs or AVIs any faster? No? Does it get you higher score on Seti? No it doesn't? Does it compile Linux kernel any faster, no it doesn't.
This really touches on the difference between apple and most wintel retailers. It's all about Quality. Quality is a basic aspect of the way we understand reality which underlies both the classicist and romanticist systems of thought. By refering to a list of easily measurable benchmarks, you are nailing your colors to the flag of classicist thinking and opposing the romanticist side of the product. Thinking that this is OK is how horrible products are created. Some people spend their whole lives laboring under this kind of thinking; you don't have to if you think about Quality. (Full disclosure: I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now).
What the hell is a gouse?
don't you ever go to the zou?
What! all my pretty chickens and their dam?
At one fell swoop?
(Macbeth, act IV, scene 3)
capacitance.
lawyers acting for
santa cruz operation
no longer laughing