You say that as if it was lucky. In reality the Mac had impressive for it's day typography, which was a result of Jobs pre-Apple interest in typography, and his desire to bring it to computers. The machine was essentially made for dtp, before desktop publishing was even a phrase.
Apple survived over the lean period because of Jobs vision, not as an accident.
That's not a problem, but saying that younger people are dumb for not sharing the author's nostalgia is.
No one said they were dumb, nor that they should be nostalgic. Just that it's a surprising gap in the knowledge of degree level computer engineers/scientists.
The term is Global Warming. A combination of "global" and "warming". Which obviously means warming on a global scale. That's what the '"global" means. Globally so to speak.
Correct so far. You understand the meaning of two common words.
And no cooling either, just warming. Otherwise it'd be be called "global warming and cooling". Or local warming.
And there you are wrong. Because you made the mistake of thinking that the entire topic is contained in two words. It may have been for idiots like you that the term "climate change" was created.
Different input devices have different pros and cons. The trackball is absolutely at it's best for playing Missile Command. It's good for operating menus and clicking buttons on screen. For drag and drop it's worse than a mouse. And for drawing-like tasks it's lots worse than a mouse (and a mouse is bad enough). For those things that it's good at, trackballs help reduce RSI.
The problem with your argument is that you assume that global warming simply means everywhere gets proportionally hotter, all year round. It doesn't.
Some places will get colder, and everywhere will experience more extreme weather events. I don't know about Norway in particular, but a likely outcome for the UK is that it will get colder, due to the breakdown of the gulf stream, which currently brings it's temperate weather from the Caribbean.
The simple fact that anyone who produces evidence to the contrary
Except this isn't evidence to the contrary. This report still says that there is Anthropogenic Global Warming. It just found that it's at the lower end of the IPCC projections, not that it doesn't exist.
I remember watching the UK science program "Horizon" back in the 1980s. It was an episode exploring the then new and exciting field of computer animation. Examples from all around the world. By far the best was "Luxo Jr" from Pixar.
Later there were several attempts at making the first feature length animated movie. Pixar was the first to succeed. And it was an excellent movie too. Toy Story.
You wouldn't want to carry it around with you. It's CD player sized, with rubber feet for putting on a table. And that easy open battery compartment will give you 5 hour battery life as opposed to the 10 hours from the iPod of the time. Even though the iPod was less than half the size.
Nomad Jukebox 3. That's huge. Bizarrely designed to look like a CD player,and of similar size. Comes with rubber feet for putting on a table, because it's too large to carry around with you.
The iPod started out the size of a pack of cigarettes, and only got smaller.
Battery life? The Nomad came with a couple of rechargable AA batteries. About 5 hours life. The first iPod was 10 hours.
Quality? The nomad was cheap plastic crap. The iPod was always a quality construction.
Sound quality, OK, that's somewhere where the Nomad was good. But the rest of your claims are shit.
Also, considering that Apple stole the designs from Xerox,
Sigh, you still don't know the truth do you? Let me give you a hint. Edison himself didn't find the one that worked well it was actually... well, I leave that guess to you, but you've mentioned him in your post!
Well it certainly wasn't Tesla. So I can't imagine who you think it is.
All that does is show your biases as to what work is worthy. Woz put a couple of computers together. Jobs put a couple of companies together. The Apple I and Apple II were great. Apple Computer Inc and NeXT were great.
Just to be sure you aren't deifying Woz. What is more impressive engineering work - the Apple I - made from off the shelf chips, connected in much the way they were intended to be connected. Or the people that created those chips? The Apple I or the 6502 Microprocessor?
In that conversation of course you are trying to push your own biases. Not based on actual knowledge - you weren't there. But on what you prefer to believe having listened to other people telling stories. Of course that's going to be frustrating.
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You say that as if it was lucky. In reality the Mac had impressive for it's day typography, which was a result of Jobs pre-Apple interest in typography, and his desire to bring it to computers. The machine was essentially made for dtp, before desktop publishing was even a phrase.
Apple survived over the lean period because of Jobs vision, not as an accident.
But I guess the real qualification for it being influential software was that it was an inspiration for the world wide web.
That's not a problem, but saying that younger people are dumb for not sharing the author's nostalgia is.
No one said they were dumb, nor that they should be nostalgic. Just that it's a surprising gap in the knowledge of degree level computer engineers/scientists.
The term is Global Warming. A combination of "global" and "warming". Which obviously means warming on a global scale. That's what the '"global" means. Globally so to speak.
Correct so far. You understand the meaning of two common words.
And no cooling either, just warming. Otherwise it'd be be called "global warming and cooling". Or local warming.
And there you are wrong. Because you made the mistake of thinking that the entire topic is contained in two words. It may have been for idiots like you that the term "climate change" was created.
Different input devices have different pros and cons. The trackball is absolutely at it's best for playing Missile Command. It's good for operating menus and clicking buttons on screen. For drag and drop it's worse than a mouse. And for drawing-like tasks it's lots worse than a mouse (and a mouse is bad enough).
For those things that it's good at, trackballs help reduce RSI.
iOS based devices sales are certainly not "down". iPad sales are up 48%.
iPhone sales are up 29%.
http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm
(I will of course be modded troll or flamebait for pointing out the facts, as usual.)
Microsoft doesn't make its own phones because there are good WP models available from other manufacturers.
Microsoft DID try to make it's own phones. Microsoft Kin. They had to discontinue them after only 48 days on the market, because they didn't sell.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743
The problem with your argument is that you assume that global warming simply means everywhere gets proportionally hotter, all year round. It doesn't.
Some places will get colder, and everywhere will experience more extreme weather events. I don't know about Norway in particular, but a likely outcome for the UK is that it will get colder, due to the breakdown of the gulf stream, which currently brings it's temperate weather from the Caribbean.
You mean "It's towards the bottom of the IPPCs predicted range". It's not contrary to it at all.
A "mean" does of course imply that some are above and some are below.
I'm glad to see that you now accept there is Anthropogenic Global Warming. Now you're only quibbling about it's size.
The simple fact that anyone who produces evidence to the contrary
Except this isn't evidence to the contrary. This report still says that there is Anthropogenic Global Warming. It just found that it's at the lower end of the IPCC projections, not that it doesn't exist.
I know the meaning of my post. You don't. Dumbass.
I remember watching the UK science program "Horizon" back in the 1980s. It was an episode exploring the then new and exciting field of computer animation. Examples from all around the world. By far the best was "Luxo Jr" from Pixar.
Later there were several attempts at making the first feature length animated movie. Pixar was the first to succeed. And it was an excellent movie too. Toy Story.
What's your problem?
You wouldn't want to carry it around with you. It's CD player sized, with rubber feet for putting on a table. And that easy open battery compartment will give you 5 hour battery life as opposed to the 10 hours from the iPod of the time. Even though the iPod was less than half the size.
Nomad Jukebox 3. That's huge. Bizarrely designed to look like a CD player,and of similar size. Comes with rubber feet for putting on a table, because it's too large to carry around with you.
The iPod started out the size of a pack of cigarettes, and only got smaller.
Battery life? The Nomad came with a couple of rechargable AA batteries. About 5 hours life. The first iPod was 10 hours.
Quality? The nomad was cheap plastic crap. The iPod was always a quality construction.
Sound quality, OK, that's somewhere where the Nomad was good. But the rest of your claims are shit.
Also, considering that Apple stole the designs from Xerox,
To license is not to steal.
That's pretty much the argument that's been used by Jobs haters for the innovations in the iPhone.
He was an employee. You want credit for your work, you have to work for yourself.
Sigh, you still don't know the truth do you? ... well, I leave that guess to you, but you've mentioned him in your post!
Let me give you a hint. Edison himself didn't find the one that worked well it was actually
Well it certainly wasn't Tesla. So I can't imagine who you think it is.
This is more than just details. It's actually presenting Steve Jobs as a different person than he was. A hero figure instead of a businessman.
No, it's presenting SJ as a different person than your opinion of him. Your opinion is not definitive.
It would be wrong for a documentary. It's not for a movie, not even if it's a biopic.
The Raspberry Pi is a non-profit organization.
The guys of Rasperry Pi would be Woz in this comparison. Engineers who designed a computer.
The guys at RS Components, Farnell etc that actually mass produce the Rasperry Pi would be Steve Jobs. Businessmen.
Now, how does Woz come out of this looking good? And how do RS and Farnell come out without being labelled evil?
All that does is show your biases as to what work is worthy. Woz put a couple of computers together. Jobs put a couple of companies together. The Apple I and Apple II were great. Apple Computer Inc and NeXT were great.
Just to be sure you aren't deifying Woz. What is more impressive engineering work - the Apple I - made from off the shelf chips, connected in much the way they were intended to be connected. Or the people that created those chips? The Apple I or the 6502 Microprocessor?
In that conversation of course you are trying to push your own biases. Not based on actual knowledge - you weren't there. But on what you prefer to believe having listened to other people telling stories. Of course that's going to be frustrating.
This is Slashdot, not Forbes.com or daytrader forum. We like the tech guys.
Sure. That's exactly what this is about. Not the merits of the two men, but what career roles people identify with.