The reason that brakes (Ha! I'll not make the same mistake I did in my last post!) in today's elevators work remotely well is that there's a counterweight.
What's your next guess?
To pass safety certification, an elevator's gravity brakes have to work if the main hoist cable fails. IE, no connection to the counterweight.
Some people argue that it's a good way to learn slang and colloquialism, but a lot of those are the kind that would never be used outside an online context.
Oh, I don't know... What if you're a north Korean agent trying to pass for a script kiddie at a 2600 meeting?
If you're going to be pedantic, it really helps to be correct:
awfullyadverb
1 [as submodifier ] (used esp. in spoken English) very : I'm awfully sorry to bother you so late | an awfully nice man.
2 very badly or unpleasantly: we played awfully.
Note the first definition, you pompous little git.
Rob from Blizzard was there, manning the little WoW booth in the Apple Design Awards winner's area. He had WoW running on one of the new iMacs, and it looked awfully smooth to me. I didn't ask him what kind of frame rates he was actually seeing, though.
Brain-dead, for sure. Nevertheless, it's going to keep kicking and making people suffer for at least another decade.
The tipping point I'm looking for is Windows Vista, which should get Apple's market share up in the 7-10% range. Windows will continue to serve the inertia market, while new development moves to the Mac.
Apple has set itself up to be the Sony of the next 25 years
That's definitely possible, and I'm sure that if Apple got into the business of selling TVs (for example), you wouldn't be trying to figure out which of three dozen models was what you really wanted. There'd be the small one to stash in the kitchen, and the big one for the living room, and they'd all be full HD (1080p), with optical ports for the audio.
There's room for growth every time the iPod is updated. I have four of them so far, starting with a ten gig model that had the ball-bearing scroll wheel.
Germany, being told all these horror stories about how evil the Nazis actually were, and then coming upon a concentration camp and finding out that these stories were real after all.
The stories Allied soldiers were told about the nazis paled in comparison to what they saw in the camps. Allied propagandists didn't have the imagination to come up with anything like the holocaust.
But now, I wonder if AAPL should snatch up SUNW for a song.
In a word, no.
Anything Apple wants from Sun can be bought without taking on all of sun's existing obligations. Two years ago, when Sun still had a world-class sales and professional services organization, it might have been a different story. Today, Sun's circling the drain, and they're heading for the same fate as SGI.
What Sculley inherited was a company with problems.
Which magnified, and went completely out of control on his watch, while he was trying to get appointed to a cabinet post in the Carter administration.
If anything, where he blundered was in not organizing around one vision.
Which is precisely the CEO's job, and which he utterly failed to do.
Here's a real blaspheme--If anything, Steve Jobs is picking over the bones of Apple.
That's not blasphemy, it's ignorance. SJ didn't pick over the bones of Apple, he rescued it from a near-death experience.
Spotlight? Apple's V-Twin from the mid-90s.
Your comparison makes about as much sense as describing an RDMBS as equivalent to strcmp(). V-twin's code lives on in Spotlight's plain text importer, and that's about it.
V-twin is an index-building engine. Spotlight is the full integration of indexing into the filesystem. Not the same thing by a long shot, and if you simply compare the SearchKit API with the functionality of Spotlight, you might understand the difference. V-twin could only build lists of strings and their locations in files. Spotlight importers let an app developer decide what's significant to index.
Much of the cool stuff in Mac OS X had been developed at Apple (and was being dropped in Mac OS X)--QuickDraw 3D? OpenGL.
What's your next guess? OpenGL came from SGI, and Apple adopted it because it was the best choice. QD3D is a toy.
QuickDraw GX? Quartz.
Ok, that one's actually hilarious, and it happens to be one of my specialties. Quartz was Peter Graffignino's clean-sheet implementation of a replacement for Display Postscript. All that got into Quartz from GX were some of the typography ideas, and none of the code, which was hopelessly broken.
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Ever take the stairs to the 100th floor?
-jcr
I thought that NeXT applications had separate files under the .app folder for each of the different architectures.
No, the executable was a Mach-O file that contained code for each architecture, just like today.
-jcr
The reason that brakes (Ha! I'll not make the same mistake I did in my last post!) in today's elevators work remotely well is that there's a counterweight.
What's your next guess?
To pass safety certification, an elevator's gravity brakes have to work if the main hoist cable fails. IE, no connection to the counterweight.
-jcr
Dangerous failure mode
Why wouldn't it have gravity brakes like any other elevator?
-jcr
Some people argue that it's a good way to learn slang and colloquialism, but a lot of those are the kind that would never be used outside an online context.
Oh, I don't know... What if you're a north Korean agent trying to pass for a script kiddie at a 2600 meeting?
-jcr
Java's a different bug. One that affects me much less, as it happens.
-jcr
2006 and you STILL don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Jump to conclusions much?
I'm quite aware of the differences between Sun and Netscape's train wrecks.
-jcr
I really not see a reason why Blizzard cannt/wont port games like WoW and WC3 to Linux.
No money in it.
Next question?
-jcr
how much work would it be to get it running on linux?
How many copies will you buy?
When you're ready to cut a P.O. for two hundred thousand copies, I'm sure Blizzard would happy to take the order. Let us know when you do it.
-jcr
Sorry, we were talking about other things. It just didn't occur to me to ask about it.
-jcr
If you're going to be pedantic, it really helps to be correct:
: we played awfully.
awfully adverb
1 [as submodifier ] (used esp. in spoken English) very : I'm awfully sorry to bother you so late | an awfully nice man.
2 very badly or unpleasantly
Note the first definition, you pompous little git.
-jcr
Don't hold your breath.
Well, they have to ship something after all these years. The pressure's building.
-jcr
I agree. Flash and Javascript are bugs.
-jcr
I can't wait for Vista to hit the streets, because I'm an Apple shareholder. ;-)
-jcr
Rob from Blizzard was there, manning the little WoW booth in the Apple Design Awards winner's area. He had WoW running on one of the new iMacs, and it looked awfully smooth to me. I didn't ask him what kind of frame rates he was actually seeing, though.
-jcr
I Still haven't bought one, and i won't until the offer what i want from a media player.
Suit yourself. 42 million other people apparently have a different set of requirements.
-jcr
I can't quite understand why someone would own more than one iPod at a time
Well, I use the Nano when I'm walking around the neighborhood and need to watch where I'm going, and I use the video on a plane or train.
-jcr
But, IMNSHO, Windows is dead.
Brain-dead, for sure. Nevertheless, it's going to keep kicking and making people suffer for at least another decade.
The tipping point I'm looking for is Windows Vista, which should get Apple's market share up in the 7-10% range. Windows will continue to serve the inertia market, while new development moves to the Mac.
-jcr
Apple has set itself up to be the Sony of the next 25 years
That's definitely possible, and I'm sure that if Apple got into the business of selling TVs (for example), you wouldn't be trying to figure out which of three dozen models was what you really wanted. There'd be the small one to stash in the kitchen, and the big one for the living room, and they'd all be full HD (1080p), with optical ports for the audio.
-jcr
There's room for growth every time the iPod is updated. I have four of them so far, starting with a ten gig model that had the ball-bearing scroll wheel.
-jcr
Germany, being told all these horror stories about how evil the Nazis actually were, and then coming upon a concentration camp and finding out that these stories were real after all.
The stories Allied soldiers were told about the nazis paled in comparison to what they saw in the camps. Allied propagandists didn't have the imagination to come up with anything like the holocaust.
-jcr
But now, I wonder if AAPL should snatch up SUNW for a song.
In a word, no.
Anything Apple wants from Sun can be bought without taking on all of sun's existing obligations. Two years ago, when Sun still had a world-class sales and professional services organization, it might have been a different story. Today, Sun's circling the drain, and they're heading for the same fate as SGI.
-jcr
People at Apple won't say a thing about it. Those of us who've left Apple, on the other hand...
I am so glad that Apple and Sun didn't do this. Jon Schwartz has done an enormous amount of damage to Sun.
-jcr
What Sculley inherited was a company with problems.
Which magnified, and went completely out of control on his watch, while he was trying to get appointed to a cabinet post in the Carter administration.
If anything, where he blundered was in not organizing around one vision.
Which is precisely the CEO's job, and which he utterly failed to do.
Here's a real blaspheme--If anything, Steve Jobs is picking over the bones of Apple.
That's not blasphemy, it's ignorance. SJ didn't pick over the bones of Apple, he rescued it from a near-death experience.
Spotlight? Apple's V-Twin from the mid-90s.
Your comparison makes about as much sense as describing an RDMBS as equivalent to strcmp(). V-twin's code lives on in Spotlight's plain text importer, and that's about it.
V-twin is an index-building engine. Spotlight is the full integration of indexing into the filesystem. Not the same thing by a long shot, and if you simply compare the SearchKit API with the functionality of Spotlight, you might understand the difference. V-twin could only build lists of strings and their locations in files. Spotlight importers let an app developer decide what's significant to index.
Much of the cool stuff in Mac OS X had been developed at Apple (and was being dropped in Mac OS X)--QuickDraw 3D? OpenGL.
What's your next guess? OpenGL came from SGI, and Apple adopted it because it was the best choice. QD3D is a toy.
QuickDraw GX? Quartz.
Ok, that one's actually hilarious, and it happens to be one of my specialties. Quartz was Peter Graffignino's clean-sheet implementation of a replacement for Display Postscript. All that got into Quartz from GX were some of the typography ideas, and none of the code, which was hopelessly broken.
-jcr
My problem with Bill is that he's used monopolistic practices to take money from one group and give it to another.
Wow.. You nazi pukes really can stretch anything at all into your twisted view of the world, can't you?
-jcr