Uhh...Maybe he was on the other side from you, but it's still not good that he died. Sheesh. Engaging an intelligent person with opposing opinions in thoughful debate is a more productive than anything else.
I haven't used applix. The freeness of SOffice is nice, and its MSOffice abilities are astounding and most necessary. Particularly for the business customers.
If preserving his job means making the company successful, producing products that people buy, and getting people excited about the Macintosh again, I think he should try and cover his ass a little harder.
But but but, the managment weenies have to be in line with the engineers for all of those snazzy ideas to leave Apple R&D and get on top of people's desks.
If I was forced to allocate responsibility for Apple's coolness, I would put a good deal of it with the managment. Look at how the company slowly waned during all of the Scully years. Compare that with the short time that Steve Jobs has been back in charge. The iMac, G3, G4 are _not_ average machines. Just like the NeXT systems are not average machines. It takes someone with some guts and a lot of imagination (and self-importance) to drive through ideas like those.
Heh. I met the guy in charge of the autonomous driving project last year. He's really cool, and some of the other things that they are working on there are absolutely incredible.
That would be because microsoft.com is probably the single most useless site on the internet. It has an incredible amount of information, but they put a lot of effort into making it impossible to find.
Umm, (not positive about it but) what about AFS? And Cyrus IMAP? I recall seeing CMU comments throughout the bootp clients that I've used. I think that if you look a little bit, you'll see an awful lot of stuff used every day has come out of CMU.
Once again, Katz attempts to make something paradigm-shifting out of the relatively mundane. It seems that his basic motivation with regard to writing articles is to ensure that there are enough new buzzwords and vaguely defined "new waves" to propel thousands of cocktail parties.
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I find the number of people who think "Bill Gates wrote Windows" alarming.
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Gopher is always cool.
Does anyone have any good links into gopherspace?
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Different numbers of people read different articles.
If I am reading a thread with 24 comments, there would be fewer troll marks than there would be on a post with 300 comments.
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Uhh...Maybe he was on the other side from you, but it's still not good that he died. Sheesh. Engaging an intelligent person with opposing opinions in thoughful debate is a more productive than anything else.
Yeesh!
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I haven't used applix. The freeness of SOffice is nice, and its MSOffice abilities are astounding and most necessary. Particularly for the business customers.
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Lets hear it for StarOffice.
Go Sun!
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i386 Solaris makes intel hardware a sun platform.
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The subject says it all. -awc
If preserving his job means making the company successful, producing products that people buy, and getting people excited about the Macintosh again, I think he should try and cover his ass a little harder.
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What I would like is more slots. The thing just doesn't have enough.
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You made a lot of negative comments, but you never actually refuted anything. You never said what was wrong with the machines.
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But but but, the managment weenies have to be in line with the engineers for all of those snazzy ideas to leave Apple R&D and get on top of people's desks.
If I was forced to allocate responsibility for Apple's coolness, I would put a good deal of it with the managment. Look at how the company slowly waned during all of the Scully years. Compare that with the short time that Steve Jobs has been back in charge. The iMac, G3, G4 are _not_ average machines. Just like the NeXT systems are not average machines. It takes someone with some guts and a lot of imagination (and self-importance) to drive through ideas like those.
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"Grandmas, children, or artists"
Do you know how _huge_ that market is?
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Heh. I met the guy in charge of the autonomous driving project last year. He's really cool, and some of the other things that they are working on there are absolutely incredible.
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The clinton admin was really beginning to bug me with regard to this topic. This might be the start of a turnaround.
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That would be because microsoft.com is probably the single most useless site on the internet. It has an incredible amount of information, but they put a lot of effort into making it impossible to find.
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Umm, (not positive about it but) what about AFS? And Cyrus IMAP? I recall seeing CMU comments throughout the bootp clients that I've used. I think that if you look a little bit, you'll see an awful lot of stuff used every day has come out of CMU.
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Do any of your EE projects involve blow driers?
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CMU all the way.
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Does this mean that wired might be getting good again? I doubt it. -awc
Yay, triple kernel trees are almost over.
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Who the heck is the author? The developers seem okay, but she seems quite daffy.
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I think they wanted them to be as cheap as possible.
In the shower this morning I was wondering how successful low capacity fixed disk drives would be. How shockproof can one make a hard drive?
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Now isn't that cool.
The Rio just didn't have enough capacity.
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Once again, Katz attempts to make something paradigm-shifting out of the relatively mundane. It seems that his basic motivation with regard to writing articles is to ensure that there are enough new buzzwords and vaguely defined "new waves" to propel thousands of cocktail parties.
-awc