Maybe Steve just has a much more powerful impact on his own company than CEOs do in general, but I've always figured that CEOs did more with broad-picture stuff and were somewhat disconnected from the detailed operations.
It has been reported that Steve Jobs decides the order of the applications in the Dock when a new machine cold boots. Of course, someone must decide the order of these apps. The significance is that the CEO considers it important enough to have a hand in it.
I had some old earbud headphones in which the left earbud was dead, and didn't have the time/money to buy new ones. I used them for months with my CD Player, and when I finally did get new headphones, I found my right-ear isn't as good as it use to be. I got new ones about 2 months ago, but my ear still isn't at "peak efficiency
I always hold my phone to my right ear. My sense of hearing is noticeably desensitized in this ear. This has been obvious to me for a few years. I think any device that sends a signal to one ear more than another will create similar results. I don't consider in-earbuds any more damaging than any other speaker.
The most compelling evidence against a video update can be seen in the recent update of iTunes to version 5.x. It's a safe bet that Apple would save the first digit upgrade and interface revamp for a month if they had a video iPod ready to go.
I can't stand behind the death penalty in any but the most extreme cases and I have to say that I find this ludicrous. I think a more appropriate punishment for major virus writers would be forcing them to use Windows 3.x while serving time in prison. Let the punishment fit the crime. Fuck up our computing experience and we'll fuck with yours. In fact, make them use a second machine that exclusively operates via Clippy the rest of the time.
So my question is, why not just use the browser? IT ALREADY DOES THESE THINGS!
OK, I'll bite. It's because I don't want to load ten web pages one after another to get all the info I get in a few seconds from Dashboard. Wait, is it possible that a widget developer might also parse out all the crap I don't want from a website and help me customize the way I view oh, I don't know, train schedules? A well designed widget does more than provide info, it also reduces clutter.
So if it's so ugly, boring & uninspired, there should be a ton of examples as to how, say, Mac OS X is so much more beautiful, exciting and uplifting? Yet, he's only able to give us one:
Also, you cite performance issues with an MDD dual 1.25. I have the same damn machine you have and I don't have any problems with Dashboard. I'm also willing to bet I'm running more at once than someone who claims that it's "retarded."
I would expand on that to say under-promise and over-deliver. Set a time-frame that gives you breathing room in case the unexpected delays a repair. When our service department expects a job to take an hour we always quote two or three hours. The logic is that it's better to surprise and delight a customer with an early repair than to find out that a roadblock in the process made liars out of us.
From the BBC article: The studies suggest instead a more complex pattern to the extinctions.
I'm glad there is evidence that we may not have caused the extinction, but this sentence immediately made me think of Occam's Razor and our likely need to rationalize the devastating effects of humanity on all other species. Just a thought.
I'm sorry, in your shameless Google plug to score the front page I think you missed this line:
``Apple's the best,'' said Joseph Ruff, a programmer at Mountain View start-up TellMe Networks. ``The egg burritos, they make them nice and spicy. Network Appliance -- that had a pretty good salad bar, but it was smaller than Apple's.''
This submission works for Google and Apple fanboys. Great two-for-one!
This only applies in cases when dealers do not register the transaction (ie, link the serial number to the sales date) and the customer fails to register with Apple on the machine's first run. Failing these two things, how else will Apple know the date that the one year limited warranty should begin? By default, it then begins at when it is received by the dealer.
All technical information should be conveyed this way! Seriously, can you imagine how well this would work to teach difficult concepts to people who are otherwise not entirely technical?
That's a great idea! I've been working on a cartoon paperclip to assist people when they write documents. He helps you format your docs through song. Imagine "Looks like you're writing a letter," sung to the tune of Perpendicular, only out of key and really loud. I'm thinking of calling him Clip-... whoops.
Don't you worry, as soon as they have serious money in the bank, they'll feel compelled to set up shop in a regular office building, with a flashy street sign, they'll start wearing suits, and they'll start hiring overhead such as "managers", "VP of sales" or "HR manager".
Apple Computer became a corporation with similar job titles (which are fairly necessary when you have a thousand-plus employees). They have a Friday Beer Bash, so maybe they're soulless drones the other six days of the week. Also, Steve Jobs is so damn uptight that it makes me cringe. Know what I mean? Man, that guy screams corporate!
The death of AppleWorks now leaves us open source guys as one of the remaining strongest office suite competitors on the platform.
AppleWorks didn't die. If you check the Mac mini page, it ships pre-installed. AppleWorks and iWork are independent (at least, for now). I was relieved when I noticed that, because I thought AppleWorks would be EOLed and there would be no Apple spreadsheet software. Guess we were both wrong.
Also, I predict that there will be some kind of add-on in the next 6 months that allows you to control this Mac with a infra-red remote -- something to run the CD & DVD without a display attached.
At Macworld, Griffin Technology was demonstrating a new remote (radio, not line-of-site) that interacts with a programmable USB dongle. It ships in a couple of months with an anticipated price tag of $49. Your prayers are already answered.
The box is - get this - smaller than the standard iPod box.
Wrong. I played with a mini at MacWorld, today. It certainly cannot fit in a box with the dimensions of an iPod box, even without styrofoam. I kind of doubt that would meet Apple's criteria for safe packaging.
This is ONLY about OO.org reverse engineering the Microsoft DRM (more power to them) in order to allow their ".doc" DRM-protected files to work with Microsoft Office.
I buy tracks from iTMS, and the licensing doesn't get in my way. I don't pay for individual Word documents. I pay for a program to create those docs. I see a hole in your analogy.
The first in line for the San Francisco store opening was there three days in advance. I felt bad for his preteen kid, who didn't look too excited to be there.
Take a bad thing and make it worse by encouraging every slashdotter to see how slow it really is. Nice to know that no matter how bad server load gets, the/. crowd is ready to tip the scales so that they come crashing down! Woooooohoo!
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It has been reported that Steve Jobs decides the order of the applications in the Dock when a new machine cold boots. Of course, someone must decide the order of these apps. The significance is that the CEO considers it important enough to have a hand in it.
Not so disconnected, I think.
I always hold my phone to my right ear. My sense of hearing is noticeably desensitized in this ear. This has been obvious to me for a few years. I think any device that sends a signal to one ear more than another will create similar results. I don't consider in-earbuds any more damaging than any other speaker.
I think you mean something more like:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
What's with your TPS reports?
This article has an image of the new bulb.
The most compelling evidence against a video update can be seen in the recent update of iTunes to version 5.x. It's a safe bet that Apple would save the first digit upgrade and interface revamp for a month if they had a video iPod ready to go.
I can't stand behind the death penalty in any but the most extreme cases and I have to say that I find this ludicrous. I think a more appropriate punishment for major virus writers would be forcing them to use Windows 3.x while serving time in prison. Let the punishment fit the crime. Fuck up our computing experience and we'll fuck with yours. In fact, make them use a second machine that exclusively operates via Clippy the rest of the time.
OK, I'll bite. It's because I don't want to load ten web pages one after another to get all the info I get in a few seconds from Dashboard. Wait, is it possible that a widget developer might also parse out all the crap I don't want from a website and help me customize the way I view oh, I don't know, train schedules? A well designed widget does more than provide info, it also reduces clutter.
So if it's so ugly, boring & uninspired, there should be a ton of examples as to how, say, Mac OS X is so much more beautiful, exciting and uplifting? Yet, he's only able to give us one:
Oh, shit... I misread the other recommendations like Comic Life and PSPWare .
Also, you cite performance issues with an MDD dual 1.25. I have the same damn machine you have and I don't have any problems with Dashboard. I'm also willing to bet I'm running more at once than someone who claims that it's "retarded."
Troll troll troll.
I would expand on that to say under-promise and over-deliver. Set a time-frame that gives you breathing room in case the unexpected delays a repair. When our service department expects a job to take an hour we always quote two or three hours. The logic is that it's better to surprise and delight a customer with an early repair than to find out that a roadblock in the process made liars out of us.
I'm glad there is evidence that we may not have caused the extinction, but this sentence immediately made me think of Occam's Razor and our likely need to rationalize the devastating effects of humanity on all other species. Just a thought.
http://www.teslatech.info/ttmagazine/v1n4/valone.h tm
http://www.braincourse.com/wirelessa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
``Apple's the best,'' said Joseph Ruff, a programmer at Mountain View start-up TellMe Networks. ``The egg burritos, they make them nice and spicy. Network Appliance -- that had a pretty good salad bar, but it was smaller than Apple's.''
This submission works for Google and Apple fanboys. Great two-for-one!
This only applies in cases when dealers do not register the transaction (ie, link the serial number to the sales date) and the customer fails to register with Apple on the machine's first run. Failing these two things, how else will Apple know the date that the one year limited warranty should begin? By default, it then begins at when it is received by the dealer.
That's a great idea! I've been working on a cartoon paperclip to assist people when they write documents. He helps you format your docs through song. Imagine "Looks like you're writing a letter," sung to the tune of Perpendicular, only out of key and really loud. I'm thinking of calling him Clip-... whoops.
But if properly marketed....
"Open a new account to take advantage of our new patented savings-encouragement-system."
You would think that when a company destroys evidence they lose the right to appeal. These are the times in which we live.
Actually, it's "sole purpose," dumb-ass.
Otherwise, great post.
Apple Computer became a corporation with similar job titles (which are fairly necessary when you have a thousand-plus employees). They have a Friday Beer Bash, so maybe they're soulless drones the other six days of the week. Also, Steve Jobs is so damn uptight that it makes me cringe. Know what I mean? Man, that guy screams corporate!
AppleWorks didn't die. If you check the Mac mini page, it ships pre-installed. AppleWorks and iWork are independent (at least, for now). I was relieved when I noticed that, because I thought AppleWorks would be EOLed and there would be no Apple spreadsheet software. Guess we were both wrong.
At Macworld, Griffin Technology was demonstrating a new remote (radio, not line-of-site) that interacts with a programmable USB dongle. It ships in a couple of months with an anticipated price tag of $49. Your prayers are already answered.
The box is - get this - smaller than the standard iPod box.
Wrong. I played with a mini at MacWorld, today. It certainly cannot fit in a box with the dimensions of an iPod box, even without styrofoam. I kind of doubt that would meet Apple's criteria for safe packaging.
I buy tracks from iTMS, and the licensing doesn't get in my way. I don't pay for individual Word documents. I pay for a program to create those docs. I see a hole in your analogy.
The first in line for the San Francisco store opening was there three days in advance. I felt bad for his preteen kid, who didn't look too excited to be there.
"Well, this gated and restrictive open-source government suppository fits."
Take a bad thing and make it worse by encouraging every slashdotter to see how slow it really is. Nice to know that no matter how bad server load gets, the /. crowd is ready to tip the scales so that they come crashing down! Woooooohoo!