I was once told that a man hasn't truly lived until he's planted a tree, written a book and fathered a child.
I can point to dozens of trees around the Portland metro area that I've helped plant, including one in my front yard which is doing great. My son is fourteen weeks old, so that one's in progress.
Now if I just had something interesting to say, I'd get started on that book. Of course, I'm in no hurry to finish *all* my tasks...
Ummm, I'm a total Apple fanboi, but I sort of feel like if you're making the F-U list for the reasons you describe, well, it's a reasonable list, and Apple probably deserves to be on there.
I remember that flick. The first of many (first for me, at least) films largely based out of the L.A. river. Seeing all those Jeeps disappearing down those ducts, flame-throwers a-ready. Damn. Wonder if I could find that flick on-line.
I agree with you in spirit, but that doesn't mean that they are blocking or stifling it. There's a difference between being the most popular (because you're the best or just the most entrenched) and having some sort of lock-in which prevents people from using competing products.
And one other thing: they're absolutely right to be somewhat modest. Why? Yahoo was the unseat-able champion of search when they came along. There were a raft of other options, too. Lycos, Altavista, and more. Google came along with, well, a cleaner interface, really, and suddenly they took over from all those places which had previously been vying to be the one-stop shop for all your Internet needs.
You're absolutely right. And Google provides open source tools to access all it's products and gives a huge amount of access away for free. I'm not saying they're perfect, nor that they're small, but if they are an 800lb gorilla, they are one which at least appears to scootch over and share the bench when you want to sit down.
This is a good point. I use PGP Desktop, and that software--built for security--allows me to choose to see or not see my password as I type it. Considering I have a 19-character password, it's nice to have that option when you think you might have skipped a letter and it's otherwise safe.
But yeah, shoulder surfing is real, and some people have great memories, even for crazy random passwords.
That's true in so many cases. I friend of mine runs a clothing company which prides itself on being a good corporate citizen. They have good working conditions, wages and benefits for their employees.
Occasionally, they need to subcontract, and once, several years ago, one of their subcontractors subcontracted out to another company without due diligence, and this sub-sub-contractor did some Very Bad Things. They hired undocumented workers. They did not pay a fair wage. They closed up shop after the job was done and did not pay anyone for their last couple of weeks of work.
This sub-sub was terrible, in that they had apparently done the same thing several times, under different names. The owner--or at least the guy who walked away with the most money, who did not claim ownership of any of the versions of this company he had opened and folded--was very well versed in hiding his assets and covering his connection to the illegal activities.
Because the original client (my friend's company) did not do their due diligence, and did not specifically include verification steps in the subcontractor's contract, they were held equally responsible, and had to share in not only the payment of back wages, but also several hundred thousand dollars in punitive fees.
Of course, because the responsible party was a friend of mine, I feel this was a pity, but given how common the Reagan defense is, it was probably the right thing to do.
It's quite possible that they knew of the likelihood of cancer at the time of the announcement, but that only the hormonal imbalance had been officially diagnosed. I mean, I think that Jobs has done a great job since his return to Apple, but there's more than one way to skin a cat, and it's possible that someone like Cook could take over and take the company even further into the stratosphere. I'm just saying, Jobs is only a man.
Combine that with the fact that plenty of perfectly healthy CEOs have been raping and plundering their companies, destroying entire industries with practices ranging from questionable to outright fraudulent. Jobs' health is his own concern, and I wish him good health for its own sake, not the value of my share in Apple.
Ah, welcome. I meant no harm. I actually found your post interesting, albeit hard to read. Part of it, I'm sure, is that I have a new (13 weeks old today) child and I'm fairly sleep deprived.
So please don't let my humor-cum-snarkiness turn you away.
I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I personally split each paragraph with '<br/><br/>'.
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I'm amazed. I've never had a first post. And yes, last time I was in Italy, I did have my laptop. It was a G3 iBook. Those were the days.
I'll have to remember to take my laptop the next time I'm in Venice.
The Lisp fanatics will say stuff is just as primitive as it was 50 years ago, if not more primitive ;).
One good CDADDDR deserves another!
The things these eye have seen. All lost. Like tears... in the rain. Time... to die.
RIP Roy Batty.
If only I had mod points... and if only there was an option for "+1 Snicker".
I was once told that a man hasn't truly lived until he's planted a tree, written a book and fathered a child.
I can point to dozens of trees around the Portland metro area that I've helped plant, including one in my front yard which is doing great. My son is fourteen weeks old, so that one's in progress.
Now if I just had something interesting to say, I'd get started on that book. Of course, I'm in no hurry to finish *all* my tasks...
Of course it's amorphously defined. It's a CLOUD, fer chrissakes!
Yes! Unicorn farts! That would solve everything!!
Ummm, I'm a total Apple fanboi, but I sort of feel like if you're making the F-U list for the reasons you describe, well, it's a reasonable list, and Apple probably deserves to be on there.
At least with the Elks, we know they're benevolent. With the ants, we can't know that for certain.
I remember that flick. The first of many (first for me, at least) films largely based out of the L.A. river. Seeing all those Jeeps disappearing down those ducts, flame-throwers a-ready. Damn. Wonder if I could find that flick on-line.
And does it run line-x?
Har-de-har. I guess a Critical Mass would be like a beowulf cluster of them.
...it just wants to be anthropomorphized.
You, my friend, have clearly never seen the movie "Diva".
I agree with you in spirit, but that doesn't mean that they are blocking or stifling it. There's a difference between being the most popular (because you're the best or just the most entrenched) and having some sort of lock-in which prevents people from using competing products.
And one other thing: they're absolutely right to be somewhat modest. Why? Yahoo was the unseat-able champion of search when they came along. There were a raft of other options, too. Lycos, Altavista, and more. Google came along with, well, a cleaner interface, really, and suddenly they took over from all those places which had previously been vying to be the one-stop shop for all your Internet needs.
You're absolutely right. And Google provides open source tools to access all it's products and gives a huge amount of access away for free. I'm not saying they're perfect, nor that they're small, but if they are an 800lb gorilla, they are one which at least appears to scootch over and share the bench when you want to sit down.
Actually, the question, as written, is obvious. Chickens do not predate dinosaurs; dinosaurs had eggs; thus, eggs came first.
The question should be: which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
Um, punch cards? Switches? Vacuum tubes?
I would hope that most eight-year-olds haven't been exposed to the kind of language I use in my passwords.
This is a good point. I use PGP Desktop, and that software--built for security--allows me to choose to see or not see my password as I type it. Considering I have a 19-character password, it's nice to have that option when you think you might have skipped a letter and it's otherwise safe.
But yeah, shoulder surfing is real, and some people have great memories, even for crazy random passwords.
That's true in so many cases. I friend of mine runs a clothing company which prides itself on being a good corporate citizen. They have good working conditions, wages and benefits for their employees.
Occasionally, they need to subcontract, and once, several years ago, one of their subcontractors subcontracted out to another company without due diligence, and this sub-sub-contractor did some Very Bad Things. They hired undocumented workers. They did not pay a fair wage. They closed up shop after the job was done and did not pay anyone for their last couple of weeks of work.
This sub-sub was terrible, in that they had apparently done the same thing several times, under different names. The owner--or at least the guy who walked away with the most money, who did not claim ownership of any of the versions of this company he had opened and folded--was very well versed in hiding his assets and covering his connection to the illegal activities.
Because the original client (my friend's company) did not do their due diligence, and did not specifically include verification steps in the subcontractor's contract, they were held equally responsible, and had to share in not only the payment of back wages, but also several hundred thousand dollars in punitive fees.
Of course, because the responsible party was a friend of mine, I feel this was a pity, but given how common the Reagan defense is, it was probably the right thing to do.
It's quite possible that they knew of the likelihood of cancer at the time of the announcement, but that only the hormonal imbalance had been officially diagnosed. I mean, I think that Jobs has done a great job since his return to Apple, but there's more than one way to skin a cat, and it's possible that someone like Cook could take over and take the company even further into the stratosphere. I'm just saying, Jobs is only a man.
Combine that with the fact that plenty of perfectly healthy CEOs have been raping and plundering their companies, destroying entire industries with practices ranging from questionable to outright fraudulent. Jobs' health is his own concern, and I wish him good health for its own sake, not the value of my share in Apple.
Does golf count? I always get the high score.
Ah, welcome. I meant no harm. I actually found your post interesting, albeit hard to read. Part of it, I'm sure, is that I have a new (13 weeks old today) child and I'm fairly sleep deprived.
So please don't let my humor-cum-snarkiness turn you away.
I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I personally split each paragraph with '<br/><br/>'.