Dude, you shouldn't have said that. You should have said "Fuck you, you incompetent prick !".
BTW, at a very young age, I worked for a company whose founder had quite a problem with self-esteem, so he was the limit of how good an engineer at the company was allowed to be. The upshot was that there were a series of people who would come in, get one product out the door, and then the boss would piss them off and they'd leave.
What I learned from that, and what I'm applying now at my own company, is a policy of hiring people who are better than I am at what they do. If they're not better than I am yet, then they're more talented than I am, and they will be better than me with a few more years of experience.
Bill Gates is a smart guy who could have written the code right in the first place,
On what do you base this assertion? I've never seen any evidence of coding skill on Gates' part, and the quality of his company's products over the years would tend to support the opposite conclusion.
You've decided that you prefer to believe the lie that DDT was ever banned
Do you know where I can buy it? If so, I'd be very happy to do so and tell you that I stand corrected. I've got an ant problem in my house that I'd like to deal with once and for all.
AFTER it's been filtered by a layer of exec assistants
Nope, it only goes through the very same spam filter that's available to all OS X users. I've gotten responses from him from Pixar, NeXT and Apple addresses, to messages that no assistant would have considered important enough to forward.
Do you really want google to know where your car keys are?
I don't have a problem with google knowing where car key number 0A:93:67:22:FE:A4:12:E4 is. If they know enough to associate that key with me, then it's an issue.
Cars were ground-only conveyances, which typically hurtled towards each other at very low speeds along pathways where opposite directions of traffic were separated by only a few meters. Absurdly high accident and fatality rates, very wasteful of time and energy because they couldn't follow direct vectors to their destination, it's astounding that people put up with them as long as they did.
It's difficult to believe there are people who just blindly accept whatever propaganda they're fed,
Yes, that's quite sad. Fortunately, I found information that led me to realize the flimsy basis of the anti-DDT propaganda I'd been handed since I was a small child.
without checking to see if there's a different view.
It's even more difficult to believe there are people like you who can casually dismiss millions of preventable deaths.
They just decided to tell Greenpeace what they were doing to shut them up.
Not exactly. They told the public what they were doing, so that we wouldn't buy Greeenpeace's FUD. Greenpeace already knew all this, they just wanted Apple to pay them to fuck off.
What utter nonsense. Sun has nothing that Apple can't get for far less than it would take to buy sun out. Openstep on Solaris was a disaster, and it was Sun that botched it.
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Dude, you shouldn't have said that. You should have said "Fuck you, you incompetent prick !".
BTW, at a very young age, I worked for a company whose founder had quite a problem with self-esteem, so he was the limit of how good an engineer at the company was allowed to be. The upshot was that there were a series of people who would come in, get one product out the door, and then the boss would piss them off and they'd leave.
What I learned from that, and what I'm applying now at my own company, is a policy of hiring people who are better than I am at what they do. If they're not better than I am yet, then they're more talented than I am, and they will be better than me with a few more years of experience.
-jcr
Bill Gates is a smart guy who could have written the code right in the first place,
On what do you base this assertion? I've never seen any evidence of coding skill on Gates' part, and the quality of his company's products over the years would tend to support the opposite conclusion.
-jcr
No, the rising productivity of labor caused by capital investment is why people aren't dying in droves from preventable diseases in the west.
-jcr
Well, after Longhorn cratered, the skins were all they had left to tout.
-jcr
You've decided that you prefer to believe the lie that DDT was ever banned
Do you know where I can buy it? If so, I'd be very happy to do so and tell you that I stand corrected. I've got an ant problem in my house that I'd like to deal with once and for all.
you're a bit slow
Coming from you, I give that no weight at all.
-jcr
Missing the point
No, just a bit tired of an overdone gag.
-jcr
No, I think 32 bits should be enough to identify a car key.
-jcr
There's at least two decades of prior art on this. Hell, I can't even remember how far back the BreakForDebugger() function goes.
-jcr
It's payback time.
Dream on, Ballmer.
-jcr
We have a name for you people: switcheurs.
Smarter Apple users and shareholders have a name for people with your attitude, which I won't repeat here.
I'm glad to see each and every new customer that buys a Mac. The more, the merrier.
-jcr
Steve personally reads all his email -
Yes he does. Ask him yourself.
AFTER it's been filtered by a layer of exec assistants
Nope, it only goes through the very same spam filter that's available to all OS X users. I've gotten responses from him from Pixar, NeXT and Apple addresses, to messages that no assistant would have considered important enough to forward.
-jcr
Do you really want google to know where your car keys are?
I don't have a problem with google knowing where car key number 0A:93:67:22:FE:A4:12:E4 is. If they know enough to associate that key with me, then it's an issue.
-jcr
Cars were ground-only conveyances, which typically hurtled towards each other at very low speeds along pathways where opposite directions of traffic were separated by only a few meters. Absurdly high accident and fatality rates, very wasteful of time and energy because they couldn't follow direct vectors to their destination, it's astounding that people put up with them as long as they did.
-jcr
Why didn't you check to see if that "information" was actually correct?
I have, and I've clearly made a different decision than you about the importance of human life versus toeing the "silent spring" line.
click the link I provided
The link you provided was not a rebuttal, it was just a glib dismissal.
-jcr
It's difficult to believe there are people who just blindly accept whatever propaganda they're fed,
Yes, that's quite sad. Fortunately, I found information that led me to realize the flimsy basis of the anti-DDT propaganda I'd been handed since I was a small child.
without checking to see if there's a different view.
It's even more difficult to believe there are people like you who can casually dismiss millions of preventable deaths.
-jcr
You HAVE NOT proven demonstrably that PETA sponsors terrorists or terrorism
What's to prove? It's on their own tax returns.
-jcr
Yeah, his direct assistant... who reads and answers sjobs@apple.com.
Steve reads his own mail. I've heard of him reaming VPs at Apple who didn't.
-jcr
Without Greenpeace the environmental issues would still be pushed to one side,
Pushed to one side? Get serious! Rachel Carson managed to get millions of people killed with junk science long before Greenpeace was in the picture.
-jcr
I've already looked it up.
Funny how you both admit it and try to spin it in the same long-winded post. PETA sponsors terrorists, QED.
-jcr
They just decided to tell Greenpeace what they were doing to shut them up.
Not exactly. They told the public what they were doing, so that we wouldn't buy Greeenpeace's FUD. Greenpeace already knew all this, they just wanted Apple to pay them to fuck off.
-jcr
Greenpeace is also nuts.
No, they're evil. It's an important distinction to make.
-jcr
PETA has given money to arsonists. Look it up.
-jcr
Do you know how many dogs PETA kills every year?
Google for Penn & Teller's show about that pack of hypocrites.
-jcr
some environmentalist won't be satisfied
This story isn't about environmentalists, it's about Greepeace.
-jcr
What utter nonsense. Sun has nothing that Apple can't get for far less than it would take to buy sun out. Openstep on Solaris was a disaster, and it was Sun that botched it.
-jcr