But this is about Jobs not Apple. Apple's next gen OS quest whilst Jobs wasn't there is irrelevant. Jobs selected Unix as the underpinning for NeXTStep. But had Unix not been around something else would be.
If you want to play the what-if game, Apple would probably have used BeOS. Which was better in many ways than Unix. And to an end user system based on Unix and one based on BeOS needn't look any different. Only the BeOS one would be smoother.
I admire Jobs because he made design, quality and user experience the overriding factors in creating products. And he had the confidence to know that approach would win out in the end. And the taste to be able to personally ensure the company kept on track.
The people who hate jobs are invariably people who don't appreciate design, and think it's just decoration.
The Knuth story is obviously apocryphal. The selection of Knuth for the story and the use of the word "all" is exactly what you would do if writing a gag. The fact that Knuth has denied it has laid it to rest for anyone who's rationality isn't blinded by hatred.
Absolutely. If Woz wasn't at the Homebrew Computer Club, Jobs would have recruited someone else, with similar results. There were plenty of other engineers who were capable of single-handedly putting together a microprocessor based computer board at the time.
Well that was a stupid thing to say. The C-language and Unix were just one language and one OS amongst many. If they hadn't been around Apple (and NeXT) would have used something else.
The Greek people didn't take out the loans. And the failed austerity programme was forced upon them by the ECB and the IMF.
Now the only sticking point to a deal is that the Greek Government want the rich to pay the debt and ECB and the IMF want the poor to pay. This has now reached a point where the ECB and IMF are attempting regime change by economic bullying, just as the World Ban and the IMF have done in Africa for decades.
If the banks can be bailed out because they are "too big to fail" so can Greece. And if it was a right wing government, it would be.
I quite fancy the idea of programming a game for the BBC micro. I've learned so much since those days, it'd be fun to see what could be done with such a limited machine.
However, I'd want a modern text editor and git. I wouldn't want to go back to using cassette tapes or even 80KB or whatever they were disks.
I guess that probably means using an emulator, at least for the development part. With the odd check that it does work on a real machine.
This is the UK, where they'll find more engineers with experience fixing BBC Micros than C64s.
They'll certainly get some education support people that maintained BBC Micros for Local Education Authorities. And they may well even get some ex-Acorn engineers - some of them will be retired now, and would be happy to help a museum out preserving something they love.
BTW, one of the neat things about the BBC Micro is that they shipped with a complete circuit diagram for the main board in the back of the manual.
Bit of both with the BBC micro. The main board is double sided with vias. But the PSU board is single sided. And we appear do appear to be talking about the PSU.
Still, the other poster made a worthwhile cautionary note for the general case. All be it in an unnecessarily obnoxious way.
What you don't appreciate is that there is always a cost to adding UI. If the phone has windowing then there has to be some means of activating it. And that's extra UI. And if that extra UI has to work with the iPhone, then that has implications for how it's implemented on the iPad.
The windowing system on the iPad is really sweet. It uses the dimensions of the screen really well. Why potentially fuck it up for no gain by implementing windowing on iPhone?
What people miss about the essence of good design is it's as much about what you leave out as what you add.
When you can't tell the difference between literal rul-of-thumb finger pattern on a capacitative screen and strain gauges, it just makes you look stupid.
Yeah, right, those right button clicks on a mouse are so pointless aren't they. There can't possibly be two different purposes for tapping a point can there.
Are you talking about graphics tablets - separate from the screen? Can you point to an actual product you are referring to? I already came back with an affirmative on your WACOM query, if you're being more selective even than that, then be explicit and actually state what you're talking about.
It's pretty obvious how the iOS stylus works, but if you point to what it is you are thinking of it'll be easier to explain by comparison.
That was the most irrational message I've read in a while.
A new hardware feature leaves users of older devices "out in the cold"? How is that different for iPhones than any other smartphone?
And "after a few months"? Android manufacturers release new phones every month. iPhone has a new model once a year. How can you possibly have not worked out that your stupid criticism applies to Android not iPhone?
And windowing? iOS has windowing on the iPad, where it makes sense. Windowing on a phone makes no sense whatsoever. It's too small.
People that believe in Apple's reality distortion field are the kind of people that fall for perpetual motion machines.
If Apple didn't actually deliver devices that people love, they wouldn't be able to continue to be the most popular brand of smartphones whilst charging a significant premium.
The so called RDF Is a simply a trustworthy brand. A brand is a promise of quality, and even though they aren't perfect, they do deliver better quality than any other manufacturer. They deliver on their promise. They beat all other companies in customer satisfaction surveys year in year out.
It's also a damn stupid name, since my first web search found numerous page on Chevrolet wheel bolt patterns before it actually found anything about the car.
Of course that will change by the time it's a production car, thanks to how pagerank works.
You need to grow up. A car is to transport you from A to B. If you do a lot of driving then things like power, interior comfort and equipment become important. But exterior looks? You can't even see it when you're driving. You only see it for the few seconds when you're walking towards it to get in.
If you're buying for the looks, you're buying it to show off, because you have an inferiority complex. And a small dick.
If you mean the Commodore PET, then the Apple II beat that by a few months, and indeed Apple does pretty much dominate the market now.
Maybe you mean the VIC-20, but then that's picking an arbitrary definition of "inexpensive". The Atari 400 for example was cheap and earlier, though not quite as cheap as the VIC-20.
Anyhow, that's a bit by the by as Atari isn't in business any more either. Other than Apple very few computer manufacturers from that era do still exist.
If the analogy was a predictor (and they never are) the future would be very bright for Tesla. They are the Apple equivalent - first to market with a worthy product, albeit an expensive one.
Talking of which, the EV market will become really interesting when Apple release their car in a few years time.
Android has pressure sensitive styluses. Which have also been available for iOS for years. This is Force Touch, which as it's name implies is about measuring the force of finger touches. Android doesn't have it.
it seems to be a social right to not pay for the metro if you look like a poor person.
Pretty much. And it's a good system. Why stop people who are too poor to pay from travelling? If someone is desperate enough to leap the barrier, let them.
And Chatalet is just an outdoor square, with roads leading off in all directions. You can't police it like a real enclosed bus station. I've been there many times at all times of night and never felt threatened. Females would be. But so would they be in any major city centre late at night.
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But this is about Jobs not Apple. Apple's next gen OS quest whilst Jobs wasn't there is irrelevant. Jobs selected Unix as the underpinning for NeXTStep. But had Unix not been around something else would be.
If you want to play the what-if game, Apple would probably have used BeOS. Which was better in many ways than Unix. And to an end user system based on Unix and one based on BeOS needn't look any different. Only the BeOS one would be smoother.
I admire Jobs because he made design, quality and user experience the overriding factors in creating products. And he had the confidence to know that approach would win out in the end. And the taste to be able to personally ensure the company kept on track.
The people who hate jobs are invariably people who don't appreciate design, and think it's just decoration.
The Knuth story is obviously apocryphal. The selection of Knuth for the story and the use of the word "all" is exactly what you would do if writing a gag. The fact that Knuth has denied it has laid it to rest for anyone who's rationality isn't blinded by hatred.
Absolutely. If Woz wasn't at the Homebrew Computer Club, Jobs would have recruited someone else, with similar results. There were plenty of other engineers who were capable of single-handedly putting together a microprocessor based computer board at the time.
Well that was a stupid thing to say. The C-language and Unix were just one language and one OS amongst many. If they hadn't been around Apple (and NeXT) would have used something else.
The Greek people didn't take out the loans. And the failed austerity programme was forced upon them by the ECB and the IMF.
Now the only sticking point to a deal is that the Greek Government want the rich to pay the debt and ECB and the IMF want the poor to pay. This has now reached a point where the ECB and IMF are attempting regime change by economic bullying, just as the World Ban and the IMF have done in Africa for decades.
If the banks can be bailed out because they are "too big to fail" so can Greece. And if it was a right wing government, it would be.
This is neoliberal warfare.
Linux? There's not much call for it. Not round here, sir.
I quite fancy the idea of programming a game for the BBC micro. I've learned so much since those days, it'd be fun to see what could be done with such a limited machine.
However, I'd want a modern text editor and git. I wouldn't want to go back to using cassette tapes or even 80KB or whatever they were disks.
I guess that probably means using an emulator, at least for the development part. With the odd check that it does work on a real machine.
There's probably a web site about this...
This is the UK, where they'll find more engineers with experience fixing BBC Micros than C64s.
They'll certainly get some education support people that maintained BBC Micros for Local Education Authorities. And they may well even get some ex-Acorn engineers - some of them will be retired now, and would be happy to help a museum out preserving something they love.
BTW, one of the neat things about the BBC Micro is that they shipped with a complete circuit diagram for the main board in the back of the manual.
Bit of both with the BBC micro. The main board is double sided with vias. But the PSU board is single sided. And we appear do appear to be talking about the PSU.
Still, the other poster made a worthwhile cautionary note for the general case. All be it in an unnecessarily obnoxious way.
Some info on replacing the caps here:
http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/pag...
So you're saying it's OK to abuse the rights of workers because: business!
What a simple minded sheep you are.
What you don't appreciate is that there is always a cost to adding UI. If the phone has windowing then there has to be some means of activating it. And that's extra UI. And if that extra UI has to work with the iPhone, then that has implications for how it's implemented on the iPad.
The windowing system on the iPad is really sweet. It uses the dimensions of the screen really well. Why potentially fuck it up for no gain by implementing windowing on iPhone?
What people miss about the essence of good design is it's as much about what you leave out as what you add.
When you can't tell the difference between literal rul-of-thumb finger pattern on a capacitative screen and strain gauges, it just makes you look stupid.
It says nothing about Apple.
Yeah, right, those right button clicks on a mouse are so pointless aren't they. There can't possibly be two different purposes for tapping a point can there.
Are you talking about graphics tablets - separate from the screen? Can you point to an actual product you are referring to? I already came back with an affirmative on your WACOM query, if you're being more selective even than that, then be explicit and actually state what you're talking about.
It's pretty obvious how the iOS stylus works, but if you point to what it is you are thinking of it'll be easier to explain by comparison.
That was the most irrational message I've read in a while.
A new hardware feature leaves users of older devices "out in the cold"? How is that different for iPhones than any other smartphone?
And "after a few months"? Android manufacturers release new phones every month. iPhone has a new model once a year. How can you possibly have not worked out that your stupid criticism applies to Android not iPhone?
And windowing? iOS has windowing on the iPad, where it makes sense. Windowing on a phone makes no sense whatsoever. It's too small.
WACOM you say? Yes they do them for iOS.
http://uk.pcmag.com/tablets/13...
And there are several other companies that also do pressure sensitive styluses for iOS.
People that believe in Apple's reality distortion field are the kind of people that fall for perpetual motion machines.
If Apple didn't actually deliver devices that people love, they wouldn't be able to continue to be the most popular brand of smartphones whilst charging a significant premium.
The so called RDF Is a simply a trustworthy brand. A brand is a promise of quality, and even though they aren't perfect, they do deliver better quality than any other manufacturer. They deliver on their promise. They beat all other companies in customer satisfaction surveys year in year out.
It's also a damn stupid name, since my first web search found numerous page on Chevrolet wheel bolt patterns before it actually found anything about the car.
Of course that will change by the time it's a production car, thanks to how pagerank works.
You need to grow up. A car is to transport you from A to B. If you do a lot of driving then things like power, interior comfort and equipment become important. But exterior looks? You can't even see it when you're driving. You only see it for the few seconds when you're walking towards it to get in.
If you're buying for the looks, you're buying it to show off, because you have an inferiority complex. And a small dick.
If you mean the Commodore PET, then the Apple II beat that by a few months, and indeed Apple does pretty much dominate the market now.
Maybe you mean the VIC-20, but then that's picking an arbitrary definition of "inexpensive". The Atari 400 for example was cheap and earlier, though not quite as cheap as the VIC-20.
Anyhow, that's a bit by the by as Atari isn't in business any more either. Other than Apple very few computer manufacturers from that era do still exist.
If the analogy was a predictor (and they never are) the future would be very bright for Tesla. They are the Apple equivalent - first to market with a worthy product, albeit an expensive one.
Talking of which, the EV market will become really interesting when Apple release their car in a few years time.
Android has pressure sensitive styluses. Which have also been available for iOS for years. This is Force Touch, which as it's name implies is about measuring the force of finger touches. Android doesn't have it.
Oh shut the fuck up you tiresome prick.
it seems to be a social right to not pay for the metro if you look like a poor person.
Pretty much. And it's a good system. Why stop people who are too poor to pay from travelling? If someone is desperate enough to leap the barrier, let them.
And Chatalet is just an outdoor square, with roads leading off in all directions. You can't police it like a real enclosed bus station. I've been there many times at all times of night and never felt threatened. Females would be. But so would they be in any major city centre late at night.