The reason, wich is widely regarded as truth, that Jobs killed the newton is pure retaliation against Scully.
John Scully invented the concept and drove the outcome as the Newton shortly after he had fired Jobs in their power feud of mid 80s. Scully had killed the Lisa and Jobs took over the Mac not to be empty-handed. When Jobs was back at the helm of Apple, he was just pleased at destroying the Newton rather than building on it. To this day, Jobs keep dismissing PDAs altogether while telling everyone that phones will inherit the futur. What does he do next? A frickin' music player.
Jobs has done a lot of good stuff for Apple since his come-back. But the Newton murder wasn't one of them. Marry Newton OS and the iPod and then you start having something interesting. But ego makes this product impossible. Or highly improbable.
They're knocked on space's door but they haven't opened the door yet. It's been said that for SSO to reach orbit (sustainable orbit), they'll need a rocket that's 25 times more powerful.
There's no financial incentive to go to Mars. Not for the government, less so for corporations.
Unless you could charter enough of the red stuff back by the ton and sell half a gram for a few dozen millions, then it might turn a few corporate heads.
Actually, the film is no longer 30 years old. In the 1997 re-release, it's been modified and cleaned-up enough so that copyrights are in full effect.
You wont be able to find a 30 yeard-old print now. Impossible. And you can bet in 25 years, there will have been a few "improved" re-releases to further milk^H^H^H^H protect the SW franchises.
That's not 22 millions individual lines. It's what the compiler goes through when building the main application (at least, the last time I actually paid attention to that counter), so lots of headers being re-read. And yes, we're also using pre-comp headers.
The final application is 20meg -ish. Half of it are libraries.
I actually have 14+ computers, two kids and a wife. in no particular order.
To keep things smooth, the kids have their own, the wife hers and I've got mine. Other machines are print servers or nerdification trophies.
Full nerd setup here, in almost it's current state. Some machines don't appear in these photos either because they're offsite (loaners to computer-less friends) or stashed up in other rooms (I've got a laser printer, Mac II LC and an Apple scanner in my bedroom! I've managed that! With the wife!)
Well, I routinely compile 22 million lines of code, so a compile time of 5 minutes rather than 45 is the reason I use the G5 both at home and the office.
The G4 is used for my wife's business simply because it manages it well and it doesn't feel worth the hassle to move things over. besides, we can both work at the same time, shoulder to shoulder. Isn't that lovely?
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I have a NeXT Cube, along with it's N2000 laser printer running just fine. It's serving the printer on my network. Not only is it running just fine, it's only replaced part was a 2 gig drive to replace it's dead 400 meg one.
My 3rd Gen iMac (slot-loading DV/SE 400Mghz) not only runs all but one of the applications my kids use, it also runs software I regularly use as well. So dooes the dual 450Mghz G4 tower wich handles all photoshop QuarkXPress and accounting for my wife's businesses. That machine, too, is close to 5 years old.
My near-top dual 2ghz G5 tower is more than my current software development needs require. But I expect to hold up for a number of years as well.
Sometimes, paying a premium pays off. But you must pay a premium only if it's for premium components. Dont get ripped off paying for crapy expensive hardware.
(Oh... and my Apple//c is still connected and functional, and so is my Lisa 2... but only for amusement...)
Oh come on. It's not like it's the first Apple system that offers easy component replacement.
Just to name a few, the Mac II LC was exactly thart. Quen the IIci and IICX and the Quadra 700 series, the PowerMac 6100, the 8500, the 8600 and the 800 and 900 series, the Beige G3 and pretty much any tower thereafter (Blue & White G3, the G4 and G5 towers) etc.
Where this is new is the easy accessibility of the internal components of an all-in-one unit. Any iMac previously (and, for those who haven't realised they're basically the same design, the Performa 5x00 series) all were bitches to dig into. This is where the iMac G5 "innovates", by fixing the internal design failures of previous iMacs.
The black vulcan in Voyager. The puddle-in-bucket guy in DS9.
Spock gets credits for having set the character type but enough with it. Data saves criticism by the fact that he was humorous and more like a child wanting to discover emotions. Data is the one stick-up-the-spine that was most interesting.
The two other ones, I care so much NOT that I refuse to learn their character names.
Geez. I really enjoyed TNG when I was in my early 20s but even then I quickly grew tired of foreheads being the only feature that differentiated races.
We need a ST series that doesn't care about warp. One that pop through universe bubbles and discover REAL NEW STUFF. Not just a forehead.
And for crying out loud, we could do away with the character repeats. Every ST series has had it's
comical doctor bombshell bimbo nerdy teen over-compassionate captain stick-shoved-next-to-spine emotionless moron scores of NPG meat-grinder-ready ensign
Sick of it!
Bring back Spinner/Data. THAT was both a good actor and character wich doesn't need to be brought back through a stupid plot to appear in a show to spur up interest (Dysan sphere anyone? Nexus?)
Turn Voyager around damnit! They're explorers. Not whiners that ought to go back to mommy. They have deep space communications now. No need to go back home. Turn around damnit and see if there's more to this universe THAN FOREHEADS!!!!!!!
Everybody is going to ask about this iPod / ITMS / Real / Rhapsody thing so I assume some of my interrogations will be answered from those angles.
But what I'm really interested in knowing was the business case or decision process that took place in trying, head-on, to confront Apple.
Apple is known to have lost some of the fiercest battles in the past against MicroSoft, but it has rigorously defended every bit of turf they could defend since those major MS losses. Everybody who even remotely attempted to step on Apple turf since have paid the price with their credibility and sometimes their market altogether (enumerations aren't necessary but eMachines and countless "me-too" look-alikes such as iTunes application clones on Linux just to name two).
What made you think that bomb-shelling Apple wouldn't make you a prime Apple target AND, even worse, getting carpet-bombed by those who defend Apple with all their might to protect what little is left to defend from their computing/music platform of choice?
There already exists a flying car that's just about ready: the Muller SkyCar.
It's been beaten around the flying bush for a long while.
One aspect that's been brought forward in the Skycar trials is the one they haven't figured out yet: the noise. Imagine those few hundred (or more) flying cars thrusting downward on take-off/landing. Be it turbo fans, jets or propeller, they will generate a LOT of noise, and a heck of a lot of dust.
I need a portable storage solution, as I strongly desire to keep my personal stuff separate from my work stuff. In the past I have used some types of portable external hard drive (via USB connection), but I wasn't too pleased with the quality of the barebones models I found at Fry's
Gee. The solution to this question is so damn obvious that the only possible/reasonable/logical/sensible/cool answer, being "iPod", almost makes the question look like advertisement planting by Apple.
Dont mind me, a Mac zealot, pointing at the obvious.
And just to avoid troll ratings, you could use an internet solution. A webdav/ftp/samba share across the net.
I use both SpyMac.com's free 250 megs & Apple's paid-for Dot Mac account (100 megs) for transient storage.
(No, I don't have an iPod and unless Apple gives it an input method and a color screen, they wont see my iPod money--my phone does that for me NOW and I don't listen to music while riding my motorcycle.)
I thought the largest non-nuke ka-boom was from the NASA contractor (Thiokol?) factory on the outskirts of Las-Vegas?
They produced the Ammonium perchlorate that fuels the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle. They had tons (kalbillion tons!) worth of these barels laying in a large structure. Water vapor eventually got the best of the metal rim that locks these barrels down, leaked some content on the ground where, with humidity, set the whole thing off. The place was levels down to a plate of glass and even Vegas shook.
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You have to catch up on your Apple folklore.
The reason, wich is widely regarded as truth, that Jobs killed the newton is pure retaliation against Scully.
John Scully invented the concept and drove the outcome as the Newton shortly after he had fired Jobs in their power feud of mid 80s. Scully had killed the Lisa and Jobs took over the Mac not to be empty-handed. When Jobs was back at the helm of Apple, he was just pleased at destroying the Newton rather than building on it. To this day, Jobs keep dismissing PDAs altogether while telling everyone that phones will inherit the futur. What does he do next? A frickin' music player.
Jobs has done a lot of good stuff for Apple since his come-back. But the Newton murder wasn't one of them. Marry Newton OS and the iPod and then you start having something interesting. But ego makes this product impossible. Or highly improbable.
Don't count on it just yet.
They're knocked on space's door but they haven't opened the door yet. It's been said that for SSO to reach orbit (sustainable orbit), they'll need a rocket that's 25 times more powerful.
That's a lot of rubber to burn.
If war ever break in space, we'll definitely nail ourselves down on this planet.
Any belt of space debris would make it difficult to eventually leave orbit.
Yeah... I bet the bird collector down at the bottom is quite large.
There's no financial incentive to go to Mars. Not for the government, less so for corporations.
Unless you could charter enough of the red stuff back by the ton and sell half a gram for a few dozen millions, then it might turn a few corporate heads.
Actually, the film is no longer 30 years old. In the 1997 re-release, it's been modified and cleaned-up enough so that copyrights are in full effect.
You wont be able to find a 30 yeard-old print now. Impossible. And you can bet in 25 years, there will have been a few "improved" re-releases to further milk^H^H^H^H protect the SW franchises.
There are plenty ways and even underground web sites that offer proxy and redirection services to circumvents precisely this kind of thing.
You can even find some with Google. Those who want to know will eventually know.
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That's not 22 millions individual lines. It's what the compiler goes through when building the main application (at least, the last time I actually paid attention to that counter), so lots of headers being re-read. And yes, we're also using pre-comp headers.
The final application is 20meg -ish. Half of it are libraries.
I actually have 14+ computers, two kids and a wife. in no particular order.
To keep things smooth, the kids have their own, the wife hers and I've got mine. Other machines are print servers or nerdification trophies.
Full nerd setup here, in almost it's current state. Some machines don't appear in these photos either because they're offsite (loaners to computer-less friends) or stashed up in other rooms (I've got a laser printer, Mac II LC and an Apple scanner in my bedroom! I've managed that! With the wife!)
Well, I routinely compile 22 million lines of code, so a compile time of 5 minutes rather than 45 is the reason I use the G5 both at home and the office.
The G4 is used for my wife's business simply because it manages it well and it doesn't feel worth the hassle to move things over. besides, we can both work at the same time, shoulder to shoulder. Isn't that lovely?
I have a NeXT Cube, along with it's N2000 laser printer running just fine. It's serving the printer on my network. Not only is it running just fine, it's only replaced part was a 2 gig drive to replace it's dead 400 meg one.
//c is still connected and functional, and so is my Lisa 2... but only for amusement...)
My 3rd Gen iMac (slot-loading DV/SE 400Mghz) not only runs all but one of the applications my kids use, it also runs software I regularly use as well. So dooes the dual 450Mghz G4 tower wich handles all photoshop QuarkXPress and accounting for my wife's businesses. That machine, too, is close to 5 years old.
My near-top dual 2ghz G5 tower is more than my current software development needs require. But I expect to hold up for a number of years as well.
Sometimes, paying a premium pays off. But you must pay a premium only if it's for premium components. Dont get ripped off paying for crapy expensive hardware.
(Oh... and my Apple
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Oh come on. It's not like it's the first Apple system that offers easy component replacement.
Just to name a few, the Mac II LC was exactly thart. Quen the IIci and IICX and the Quadra 700 series, the PowerMac 6100, the 8500, the 8600 and the 800 and 900 series, the Beige G3 and pretty much any tower thereafter (Blue & White G3, the G4 and G5 towers) etc.
Where this is new is the easy accessibility of the internal components of an all-in-one unit. Any iMac previously (and, for those who haven't realised they're basically the same design, the Performa 5x00 series) all were bitches to dig into. This is where the iMac G5 "innovates", by fixing the internal design failures of previous iMacs.
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Pff! Slowing down the wind!
You go ahead and explain that to a Florida Keys resident and see if THEY care the least bit amount!
And screw that 3% farmland. I bet only half a percent would be required. Just line them up Tornado Alley!
The Now Gredo and Han shoot at the SAME time!) thing HAS GOT to be a bad joke.
Oh yeah. There's one in STE as well. But you figured that one out already.
Who?
The black vulcan in Voyager. The puddle-in-bucket guy in DS9.
Spock gets credits for having set the character type but enough with it. Data saves criticism by the fact that he was humorous and more like a child wanting to discover emotions. Data is the one stick-up-the-spine that was most interesting.
The two other ones, I care so much NOT that I refuse to learn their character names.
Geez. I really enjoyed TNG when I was in my early 20s but even then I quickly grew tired of foreheads being the only feature that differentiated races.
We need a ST series that doesn't care about warp. One that pop through universe bubbles and discover REAL NEW STUFF. Not just a forehead.
And for crying out loud, we could do away with the character repeats. Every ST series has had it's
comical doctor
bombshell bimbo
nerdy teen
over-compassionate captain
stick-shoved-next-to-spine emotionless moron
scores of NPG meat-grinder-ready ensign
Sick of it!
Bring back Spinner/Data. THAT was both a good actor and character wich doesn't need to be brought back through a stupid plot to appear in a show to spur up interest (Dysan sphere anyone? Nexus?)
Turn Voyager around damnit! They're explorers. Not whiners that ought to go back to mommy. They have deep space communications now. No need to go back home. Turn around damnit and see if there's more to this universe THAN FOREHEADS!!!!!!!
Arf.
Everybody is going to ask about this iPod / ITMS / Real / Rhapsody thing so I assume some of my interrogations will be answered from those angles.
But what I'm really interested in knowing was the business case or decision process that took place in trying, head-on, to confront Apple.
Apple is known to have lost some of the fiercest battles in the past against MicroSoft, but it has rigorously defended every bit of turf they could defend since those major MS losses. Everybody who even remotely attempted to step on Apple turf since have paid the price with their credibility and sometimes their market altogether (enumerations aren't necessary but eMachines and countless "me-too" look-alikes such as iTunes application clones on Linux just to name two).
What made you think that bomb-shelling Apple wouldn't make you a prime Apple target AND, even worse, getting carpet-bombed by those who defend Apple with all their might to protect what little is left to defend from their computing/music platform of choice?
Was is, pun intended, a sound decision?
There already exists a flying car that's just about ready: the Muller SkyCar.
It's been beaten around the flying bush for a long while.
One aspect that's been brought forward in the Skycar trials is the one they haven't figured out yet: the noise. Imagine those few hundred (or more) flying cars thrusting downward on take-off/landing. Be it turbo fans, jets or propeller, they will generate a LOT of noise, and a heck of a lot of dust.
Impractical for any kind of city travel.
I need a portable storage solution, as I strongly desire to keep my personal stuff separate from my work stuff. In the past I have used some types of portable external hard drive (via USB connection), but I wasn't too pleased with the quality of the barebones models I found at Fry's
Gee. The solution to this question is so damn obvious that the only possible/reasonable/logical/sensible/cool answer, being "iPod", almost makes the question look like advertisement planting by Apple.
Dont mind me, a Mac zealot, pointing at the obvious.
And just to avoid troll ratings, you could use an internet solution. A webdav/ftp/samba share across the net.
I use both SpyMac.com's free 250 megs & Apple's paid-for Dot Mac account (100 megs) for transient storage.
(No, I don't have an iPod and unless Apple gives it an input method and a color screen, they wont see my iPod money--my phone does that for me NOW and I don't listen to music while riding my motorcycle.)
All it took to figure out the matrix was 18 years for that Mac 512 they used to model the molecular structure of the transparent alumni.
I think that's pretty good for that ol' beige box. Imagine what a G5 could do. Hypersace travel any time soon now.
I thought the largest non-nuke ka-boom was from the NASA contractor (Thiokol?) factory on the outskirts of Las-Vegas?
They produced the Ammonium perchlorate that fuels the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle. They had tons (kalbillion tons!) worth of these barels laying in a large structure. Water vapor eventually got the best of the metal rim that locks these barrels down, leaked some content on the ground where, with humidity, set the whole thing off. The place was levels down to a plate of glass and even Vegas shook.