Everyone knows that the problem record companies face is an out-dated distribution system that fights, rather than takes advantage of the internet. They're charging $15 for a $.20 CD to pay for marketing and legal fees. Apple has distribution systems in place already for Quicktime, iTunes and even Software updates. They've been successfully selling stuff online for years.
And it fits in with the digital hub. It gives them content to sell in addition to playback and storage systems. It gives them leverage to make sure their hardware doesn't get caught out by DRM crap. And Jobs' other interests are in Pixar and the Gap. He's obviously in the world to influence and interact with Culture, more than he's interested in cashing in on some circuit design. Jobs' interest, and therefore Apple's, is in making things for people - to change the way people do things to make them easier and better (so that Apple and Jobs can make $$ on it, sure).
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a dumb rumor, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it happen either. Apple has been a Culture company a long time. They've been moving toward content for a long time.
The OS X Install CD has Disk Tools on it. You just have to select it from one of the menus when the installer starts up.
It's amazing how few Mac replies there are here. And how excited so many people are about their tools.
I carry Disk Warrior and TechTool with me. I've got OS install CDs at home and at work. Most of my problems though, stem from users doing weird things. Why can't I install IE6.exe on my Mac? The last problem I solved was a user who was "crashing" unexplainably. Turned out she was kicking her power cord out of the wall...
Jobs were lost when the stage coach lines went under. Telegraph operators lost their jobs. Washing machines put companies out of business. Where is the ice delivery service that Grandma had?
The good old days.
Can't change the tax system because all of the accountants and IRS employees that would be out of work. Can't trim middle management from any company or government because of all that unemployment. Can't cure the common cold because doctors couldn't pay their bills. What crap. I can't believe you're willing to suffer through all this mess for the sake of someone's job - even your own.
What happened to the magical future where computers and robotics would save us so much time and effort that we could all spend our time at the beach or becoming painters? It's because no one can see past the current economy - past losing jobs. The whole point is that these jobs become unnecessary. We've just got to figure out how to automate and support everything without relying on a 40(+) hour work week to support ourselves.
Seems to me that Plain Text is a pretty good document type. Seems that XML is a way of structuring some of that data. Seems that something else has to be layered over that - specifically, the tags that you create.
So when you read the file, you parse the text, then the XML, then your tags to get your data into a usable state. XML is is just a way of formatting text. That's where the "meta" comes in. It's not a document type, it's just a standard for creating document types.
The only way XML makes data long lived, is by leaving it in plain text so that it remains open. Your web app will be replaced in a couple of years. Another app can be written that will read your files, because humans can read your files, not because of some Eternal Data Tag that XML applies. Proprietary files could be handled the same way, except that the format isn't open.
Now, just because you used XML doesn't mean that your format (ie: your tags, your way of breaking up and marking different elements of data) will be eternal. You can break up a big old text file and mark it up, and your bosses will decide months later that they're looking for some piece of information that you didn't tag. Like they want to pick out all first names from within your "customer comments" tag. You re-write your format. You manually re-write your files.
It might be more useful for Mr. Erikkson to develop a few of these final file formats using XML to present as standards. A suggested set of XML tags for addresses, for example. Do you tag the street name (Main, Elm) differently from the street type (Street, Drive ) or is that all in a single "Address1" tag? Your XML will never work with my program if the higher level formatting isn't agreed upon. And XML doesn't do that.
Just to be curious, I saved the code from the journal page to look at it. I removed all the duplicate spaces, blank lines and tabs and it shrunk around 900 bytes (28,313 => 27,403 total).
I would imagine that a much longer page (like this one) would reap a larger benefit from a little bit of template clean up. Do you think this would help? do you think it makes sense? I mean, it seems like you could be saving a few k on every page load.
Or does reality not work like that? Wouldn't be the first time today I was way off on some math.
It will work for the people it targets. It will work because they want it to - they've got to volunteer for it more or less.
It will work the weight-watchers, alcoholics anonymous and group thereapy work. It will provide a little encouragement and the threat of shame.
It won't work if you wouldn't be ashamed or if you don't want to stop looking at porn, but then you won't be signing up, will you? Just as you didn't sign up for weight-watchers - which would never make Me loose weight, cause I'm proud to eat what I want and I'm underweight.
Seems like many people just don't want to face the fact that there is violence and nudity in the world. They ignore it in while we go to war, they ignore it on the streets and they try to simply not deal with it anywhere they encounter it.
It would be much better if people faced the fact that most of the world is not like the Mall. If kids were educated about what goes on and the consequences of these things instead of insulated and kept ignorant, maybe they wouldn't have such devastating consequences. Maybe advertising that plays to our ignorance wouldn't work as well. Maybe people would realize that "Bombing Evil" is overly-simplistic and have some understanding that it could have more consequences than a football game.
For the last year or so, some of our users have been getting email from virus protection software stating that their message to whoever contained a virus. Normal, except that our users had never sent email to that address (confirmed by the mail logs) and usually didn't recognize the recipient or their address.
We assume that whatever script was sending out the virus was using its gathered list of addresses as both "To" and "From" headers. Kind of smart, kind of stupid, plenty evil.
Hopefully in this one they can at least get the shadows of live actors consistent with the shadows painted into the sets. It was so distracting to see 2 people with their shadows on their left standing in front of "beautiful desert scenery" with shadows on the right sides of the mountains.
Well, if it's fair to check you, it's fair to check them, right? After all it's a "relationship," and if there's full disclosure and no trust right up front, then that should be both ways.
Ask for permission to see the corporate tax returns for the past five years, their credit report, their Dunn & Bradstreet report, their BBB report, testimonials from clients and creditors. You probably also need to have access to credit reports for your immediate supervisor, as well as all executives and shareholders. Just in case there's anyone shady there who might hurt the company - and your job.
After all, you're "trusting" these people with your livelihood.
I remember hearing on NPR that part of this guy's advice was to ignore the common notion that you should earn a lot of money and THEN do what you want. Seems a little hypocritical for so many of his examples of success to be people who did exactly that...
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If you're able to make anything in 100 years, you'll be doing fine no matter what you call it.
This completely makes sense.
Everyone knows that the problem record companies face is an out-dated distribution system that fights, rather than takes advantage of the internet. They're charging $15 for a $.20 CD to pay for marketing and legal fees. Apple has distribution systems in place already for Quicktime, iTunes and even Software updates. They've been successfully selling stuff online for years.
And it fits in with the digital hub. It gives them content to sell in addition to playback and storage systems. It gives them leverage to make sure their hardware doesn't get caught out by DRM crap. And Jobs' other interests are in Pixar and the Gap. He's obviously in the world to influence and interact with Culture, more than he's interested in cashing in on some circuit design. Jobs' interest, and therefore Apple's, is in making things for people - to change the way people do things to make them easier and better (so that Apple and Jobs can make $$ on it, sure).
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a dumb rumor, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it happen either. Apple has been a Culture company a long time. They've been moving toward content for a long time.
The OS X Install CD has Disk Tools on it. You just have to select it from one of the menus when the installer starts up. It's amazing how few Mac replies there are here. And how excited so many people are about their tools. I carry Disk Warrior and TechTool with me. I've got OS install CDs at home and at work. Most of my problems though, stem from users doing weird things. Why can't I install IE6.exe on my Mac? The last problem I solved was a user who was "crashing" unexplainably. Turned out she was kicking her power cord out of the wall...
Jobs were lost when the stage coach lines went under. Telegraph operators lost their jobs. Washing machines put companies out of business. Where is the ice delivery service that Grandma had?
The good old days.
Can't change the tax system because all of the accountants and IRS employees that would be out of work. Can't trim middle management from any company or government because of all that unemployment. Can't cure the common cold because doctors couldn't pay their bills. What crap. I can't believe you're willing to suffer through all this mess for the sake of someone's job - even your own.
What happened to the magical future where computers and robotics would save us so much time and effort that we could all spend our time at the beach or becoming painters? It's because no one can see past the current economy - past losing jobs. The whole point is that these jobs become unnecessary. We've just got to figure out how to automate and support everything without relying on a 40(+) hour work week to support ourselves.
It's your fault my car can't fly.
Seems to me that Plain Text is a pretty good document type. Seems that XML is a way of structuring some of that data. Seems that something else has to be layered over that - specifically, the tags that you create.
So when you read the file, you parse the text, then the XML, then your tags to get your data into a usable state. XML is is just a way of formatting text. That's where the "meta" comes in. It's not a document type, it's just a standard for creating document types.
The only way XML makes data long lived, is by leaving it in plain text so that it remains open. Your web app will be replaced in a couple of years. Another app can be written that will read your files, because humans can read your files, not because of some Eternal Data Tag that XML applies. Proprietary files could be handled the same way, except that the format isn't open.
Now, just because you used XML doesn't mean that your format (ie: your tags, your way of breaking up and marking different elements of data) will be eternal. You can break up a big old text file and mark it up, and your bosses will decide months later that they're looking for some piece of information that you didn't tag. Like they want to pick out all first names from within your "customer comments" tag. You re-write your format. You manually re-write your files.
It might be more useful for Mr. Erikkson to develop a few of these final file formats using XML to present as standards. A suggested set of XML tags for addresses, for example. Do you tag the street name (Main, Elm) differently from the street type (Street, Drive ) or is that all in a single "Address1" tag? Your XML will never work with my program if the higher level formatting isn't agreed upon. And XML doesn't do that.
Just to be curious, I saved the code from the journal page to look at it. I removed all the duplicate spaces, blank lines and tabs and it shrunk around 900 bytes (28,313 => 27,403 total).
I would imagine that a much longer page (like this one) would reap a larger benefit from a little bit of template clean up. Do you think this would help? do you think it makes sense? I mean, it seems like you could be saving a few k on every page load.
Or does reality not work like that? Wouldn't be the first time today I was way off on some math.
It will work for the people it targets. It will work because they want it to - they've got to volunteer for it more or less.
It will work the weight-watchers, alcoholics anonymous and group thereapy work. It will provide a little encouragement and the threat of shame.
It won't work if you wouldn't be ashamed or if you don't want to stop looking at porn, but then you won't be signing up, will you? Just as you didn't sign up for weight-watchers - which would never make Me loose weight, cause I'm proud to eat what I want and I'm underweight.
Seems like many people just don't want to face the fact that there is violence and nudity in the world. They ignore it in while we go to war, they ignore it on the streets and they try to simply not deal with it anywhere they encounter it. It would be much better if people faced the fact that most of the world is not like the Mall. If kids were educated about what goes on and the consequences of these things instead of insulated and kept ignorant, maybe they wouldn't have such devastating consequences. Maybe advertising that plays to our ignorance wouldn't work as well. Maybe people would realize that "Bombing Evil" is overly-simplistic and have some understanding that it could have more consequences than a football game.
For the last year or so, some of our users have been getting email from virus protection software stating that their message to whoever contained a virus. Normal, except that our users had never sent email to that address (confirmed by the mail logs) and usually didn't recognize the recipient or their address.
We assume that whatever script was sending out the virus was using its gathered list of addresses as both "To" and "From" headers. Kind of smart, kind of stupid, plenty evil.
Hopefully in this one they can at least get the shadows of live actors consistent with the shadows painted into the sets. It was so distracting to see 2 people with their shadows on their left standing in front of "beautiful desert scenery" with shadows on the right sides of the mountains.
Personally, I would love to be able to ssh into my refrigerator and poke around without having to get up and go all the way to the kitchen...
And imagine how cool you'll be with sendmail running on your air conditioner.
Ask for permission to see the corporate tax returns for the past five years, their credit report, their Dunn & Bradstreet report, their BBB report, testimonials from clients and creditors. You probably also need to have access to credit reports for your immediate supervisor, as well as all executives and shareholders. Just in case there's anyone shady there who might hurt the company - and your job.
After all, you're "trusting" these people with your livelihood.
I remember hearing on NPR that part of this guy's advice was to ignore the common notion that you should earn a lot of money and THEN do what you want. Seems a little hypocritical for so many of his examples of success to be people who did exactly that...