Gil Amelio got his reputation by accidentally making National Semiconductor stay alive. Apple hired him based on that, where he indirectly did save Apple by tripping on something and buying NeXT.
Remember the best Gil Amelio quote (recounted by way of Steve Jobs): "Apple is a sinking ship, and it's my job to get it pointed in the right direction."
And we're also aware that their "strong growth" is a statistic of year-over-year sales. If you start with next-to-nothing, and then grow by 300%, you are at 300% of next-to-nothing, otherwise known as next-to-next-to-nothing.
My dad is running a spreadsheet in Office on his 2011 iMac that he originally wrote in VisiCalc on the Apple II+ in 1980. There are ways, or at least used to be. I believe his path was the following:
VisiCalc 13-sector diskette -> ProDOS file system hard disk -> Macintosh Performa 525 with ProDOS system extensions -> ClarisWorks 4 (could read VisiCalc documents -> Excel 5 -> Office v.X on Mac OS X 10.3 -> Office:Mac 2011 on Mac OS X 10.7.x
Sure, there's a missing link in there, but we were moving that stuff around when those things were current products over the last 20 years.
The only way to do this is to either put an icon for every application you ever want to run on the desktop, or install a 3rd party hack that adds back functionality that should have been there to begin with, and has been there for 18 years.
Unfamiliarity with the subject matter also ruins arguments.
If it's so minor, then why aren't they done with it yet, and releasing it to developers?
You can repeat the refrain of "Oh, it's a minor update. Nothing to worry about here!" all you want, but nobody is buying it because of past experience.
2 months is a shitload of time in software development.
I just really wish that the US (and mostly the CIA) would learn from the foreign policy mistakes of the last 50 years. Every time we get involved in one of these middle-eastern sectarian wars, it just gets worse for the US.
Iran in the 1950s Israel / Lebanon / Syria / Egypt in the 1960s Iran in the 1970s Iraq / Iran, Afghanistan, and Lebanon in the 1980s Iraq / Kuwait in the 1990s Iraq / Afghanistan in the 2000s Afghanistan in the 2010s...
We should just GTFO and let them kill each other like they obviously want to. They don't need our help in that regard.
Because the Government is the only organization besides the New York Times that seems to care about the New York Times. Oh, and Twitter isn't exactly hard to hit - they do it to themselves enough.
Then this attack had exactly the wrong effect. Shutting off Twitter and the New York Times is going to put me in a better mood, and make me want the conflict to escalate into them attacking Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.
Have yourself a good time, Syrian Electronic Army! Take out the Internet's trash and do the rest of us a big favor.
That's not the case - it's actually worse. Syria killed hundreds of thousands with guns before escalating to using their chemical weapons. I'll amend your post for accuracy:
Egypt: kills hundreds with guns. US: whatever Syria: kills a couple hundred thousand with guns. US: whatever Syria: kills hundreds with chemical weapons. US: oh noes!
The 20+ million imprisoned (and subsequently dead) Russians from Stalin's purges would disagree. As would the estimated 40 - 70 million Chinese starved by Mao.
In 2013, MachineShedFred spoke about the US Military having plans to attack any country on the globe, because that's what any half-assed or better military organization does if they want to be prepared for probable (and possible) scenarios that might transpire.
Do you seriously think that something like this mess in Syria happens, and they call together the think tank to figure out how to go in for an all-night planning session with a big table map and little models of cannons? No, they pull down a binder from a shelf with the country's name on it, which gets updated on a regular basis by the tens of thousands of people inside an incredibly large building in Arlington, Virginia that is named after a nice clean geometric shape.
General Dynamics - they make the cruise missiles that are about to be launched at Syria.
Raytheon - they make the sensor arrays that will be used for targeting the cruise missiles, and the defensive CIWS weapons on the naval vessels shooting them.
Lockheed Martin - they make the cargo aircraft that will be used to transport the munitions from manufacturers here in North America to the air and naval bases on Cypress and Bahrain that will be used to depot the munitions.
Yeah, because Russia and China have never EVER violated the human rights of their own citizenry, and certainly not maxing out the scale of such atrocities. And definitely not while members of the fucking UN Security Council.
The whole organization is corrupt, and a complete farce.
I didn't care about the new design in the least, until I clicked on a featured article.
Then the middle section turned white with black text, that had absolutely no formatting. It looked like a 17-page wall of text, with the black vertical sidebars framing it in. HORRIBLE.
I immediately closed the tab, and went back to espn.com.
No, but it's not out of the question to build a small one for $250, which has much more functionality. 7x as much functionality to reflect 7x the price? That's on the builder / buyer to determine before undertaking the project.
And for Microsoft's core customer base, 3rd party shell extensions are non-starters.
Can you say with certainty that a non-supported shell add-on is going to work properly on 60,000+ machines with an unbelievable amount of application combinations? Neither can I, or anyone else. Thus, business stays with Win7 until it isn't a issue anymore.
I was just thinking when I read the headline "Wait, that game still exists and servers weren't left to rot years ago?"
I remember playing it like a decade ago, and thinking that it was a slightly "edgier" version of Counterstrike, except that anyone with Half Life could already play Counterstrike.
Maybe it's gained something in the last decade, but if it's still based on Q3, I doubt it has gained much.
With Apple products, since their logistics chain is so tight, 14.6M products shipped equals 14.6M products sold, near as it matters. And Apple doesn't sell hardware at a loss - they maintain a healthy margin on everything.
I'm not sure if you were agreeing with me, or arguing.
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Gil Amelio got his reputation by accidentally making National Semiconductor stay alive. Apple hired him based on that, where he indirectly did save Apple by tripping on something and buying NeXT.
Remember the best Gil Amelio quote (recounted by way of Steve Jobs): "Apple is a sinking ship, and it's my job to get it pointed in the right direction."
And we're also aware that their "strong growth" is a statistic of year-over-year sales. If you start with next-to-nothing, and then grow by 300%, you are at 300% of next-to-nothing, otherwise known as next-to-next-to-nothing.
My dad is running a spreadsheet in Office on his 2011 iMac that he originally wrote in VisiCalc on the Apple II+ in 1980. There are ways, or at least used to be. I believe his path was the following:
VisiCalc 13-sector diskette -> ProDOS file system hard disk -> Macintosh Performa 525 with ProDOS system extensions -> ClarisWorks 4 (could read VisiCalc documents -> Excel 5 -> Office v.X on Mac OS X 10.3 -> Office:Mac 2011 on Mac OS X 10.7.x
Sure, there's a missing link in there, but we were moving that stuff around when those things were current products over the last 20 years.
If its in code freeze, then why won't they release it to developers?
Yeah, but why would they buy a company in decline? Apple buys companies that make emerging technologies.
The only way to do this is to either put an icon for every application you ever want to run on the desktop, or install a 3rd party hack that adds back functionality that should have been there to begin with, and has been there for 18 years.
Unfamiliarity with the subject matter also ruins arguments.
If it's so minor, then why aren't they done with it yet, and releasing it to developers?
You can repeat the refrain of "Oh, it's a minor update. Nothing to worry about here!" all you want, but nobody is buying it because of past experience.
2 months is a shitload of time in software development.
I just really wish that the US (and mostly the CIA) would learn from the foreign policy mistakes of the last 50 years. Every time we get involved in one of these middle-eastern sectarian wars, it just gets worse for the US.
Iran in the 1950s
Israel / Lebanon / Syria / Egypt in the 1960s
Iran in the 1970s
Iraq / Iran, Afghanistan, and Lebanon in the 1980s
Iraq / Kuwait in the 1990s
Iraq / Afghanistan in the 2000s
Afghanistan in the 2010s...
We should just GTFO and let them kill each other like they obviously want to. They don't need our help in that regard.
Because the Government is the only organization besides the New York Times that seems to care about the New York Times. Oh, and Twitter isn't exactly hard to hit - they do it to themselves enough.
Then this attack had exactly the wrong effect. Shutting off Twitter and the New York Times is going to put me in a better mood, and make me want the conflict to escalate into them attacking Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.
Have yourself a good time, Syrian Electronic Army! Take out the Internet's trash and do the rest of us a big favor.
That's not the case - it's actually worse. Syria killed hundreds of thousands with guns before escalating to using their chemical weapons. I'll amend your post for accuracy:
Egypt: kills hundreds with guns. US: whatever
Syria: kills a couple hundred thousand with guns. US: whatever
Syria: kills hundreds with chemical weapons. US: oh noes!
The 20+ million imprisoned (and subsequently dead) Russians from Stalin's purges would disagree. As would the estimated 40 - 70 million Chinese starved by Mao.
Well, he escalated the hell out of it by carpet bombing Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam; which then led to the Paris Accords. At least, in theory.
Either way, Nixon definitely escalated the bombings, and expanded them; before ending the whole thing.
In 2013, MachineShedFred spoke about the US Military having plans to attack any country on the globe, because that's what any half-assed or better military organization does if they want to be prepared for probable (and possible) scenarios that might transpire.
Do you seriously think that something like this mess in Syria happens, and they call together the think tank to figure out how to go in for an all-night planning session with a big table map and little models of cannons? No, they pull down a binder from a shelf with the country's name on it, which gets updated on a regular basis by the tens of thousands of people inside an incredibly large building in Arlington, Virginia that is named after a nice clean geometric shape.
General Dynamics - they make the cruise missiles that are about to be launched at Syria.
Raytheon - they make the sensor arrays that will be used for targeting the cruise missiles, and the defensive CIWS weapons on the naval vessels shooting them.
Lockheed Martin - they make the cargo aircraft that will be used to transport the munitions from manufacturers here in North America to the air and naval bases on Cypress and Bahrain that will be used to depot the munitions.
Yeah, because Russia and China have never EVER violated the human rights of their own citizenry, and certainly not maxing out the scale of such atrocities. And definitely not while members of the fucking UN Security Council.
The whole organization is corrupt, and a complete farce.
On the other hand, if you have a really good developer they will tell you that "pretty good" is the enemy of "excellent."
But, if they happen to be a really good developer they will not break shit that works properly, and look to improve what doesn't.
I didn't care about the new design in the least, until I clicked on a featured article.
Then the middle section turned white with black text, that had absolutely no formatting. It looked like a 17-page wall of text, with the black vertical sidebars framing it in. HORRIBLE.
I immediately closed the tab, and went back to espn.com.
And what happened to those other companies? They were either sued into oblivion, or had subscription models that nobody wanted.
We can "imagine if" all you want, but it didn't. And that's the rest of the story.
No, but it's not out of the question to build a small one for $250, which has much more functionality. 7x as much functionality to reflect 7x the price? That's on the builder / buyer to determine before undertaking the project.
And for Microsoft's core customer base, 3rd party shell extensions are non-starters.
Can you say with certainty that a non-supported shell add-on is going to work properly on 60,000+ machines with an unbelievable amount of application combinations? Neither can I, or anyone else. Thus, business stays with Win7 until it isn't a issue anymore.
You realize WebKit is an Apple open source project, which Google is no longer directly using, right?
I'd like to know more, except it appears their website is slashdotted. Guess not.
I was just thinking when I read the headline "Wait, that game still exists and servers weren't left to rot years ago?"
I remember playing it like a decade ago, and thinking that it was a slightly "edgier" version of Counterstrike, except that anyone with Half Life could already play Counterstrike.
Maybe it's gained something in the last decade, but if it's still based on Q3, I doubt it has gained much.
With Apple products, since their logistics chain is so tight, 14.6M products shipped equals 14.6M products sold, near as it matters. And Apple doesn't sell hardware at a loss - they maintain a healthy margin on everything.
I'm not sure if you were agreeing with me, or arguing.