Larry Niven, at least in the early 1990s, took strong exception to anyone using his material for fanfic, after a work of fanfic was written about Niven's kzinti that Niven found distasteful. Niven's own words on the topic can't be found online, but are in the introduction to _The Man-Kzin Wars IV_ published in 1991.
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Perhaps you're missing the distinction here: only about twenty were laid off. Some of the rest may have chosen to resign, but the day of the layoff (Jan 29, 1998) my information was that only about twenty were laid off. I was present at Apple headquarters that day, by the way.
*ahem* The OTHER reason the original handwriting recognition was slower is that the original CPUs were 16mHZ StrongARM RISC chips. The 160mHz chips in the second-gen Newtons helped a lot, too:).
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Of the almost 1000 people in the Newton division when Apple killed the project in late January 1998, less than twenty were actually laid off. The other nine hundred-plus were roughly evenly split between the dev/test/QA/etc. groups for Mac OS 8.6 (which shipped that October) and the Mac OS X project. Apple probably couldn't build a Newton 2100 today without starting from scratch.
The main issue to remember about the handwriting recognition is that it learned you, as opposed to you having to learn Graffiti. (Graffiti was available for the Newton, too, if you liked it). A number of the more ridiculous failures of the Newton's handwriting recognition came from people trying to write on a Newton that had already been trained to recognize it's owner's handwriting.
a) to nitpick, I believe the last StrongARM RISC CPU used in the Newton 2000 and 2100 was 160mHz, not 200. b) the handwriting recognition was indeed in software. The original handwriting recognition was slower because it was a word-based recognition. For NewtonOS 2.0, the handwriting recognition was character-based, a *much* smaller problem space to solve. Still carry a Newton 2100: they've been gone for so long younger geeks think it's some new MaxiPalm or something.:)
On another note, consider that there's some confusion as to whether this was actually a denial of service attack, hardware failure, or a misconfigured router. Since a DoS attack is difficult to verify, might "hackers DoSd our website" become the portal/ISP's version of "the dog ate my homework"?
Note: I am not accusing anyone in *this* incident of lying, and I have no inside information on this incident from any possible side:) - I'm speculating in general.
The Eyepoppers set of background tiles is available free for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows. Pretty. Very pretty. There's a few hundred patterns in the three sets, or you can waste hours with the interactive webapp (click the Launch button on the main page).
"I know alot of geeks, myself included" probably doesn't reach statistical significance. While I also know polymaths who do everything well, and also know IT professionals who are nice, normal, vanilla people, the stereotypical hacker is moderately close as an archtype that it fits a surprisingly large chunk of the IT community. Of course, a cluster of seemingly random personality traits such as that used by astrology to describe Virgos (for example) fits a large chunk of the roughly 1/12 of the population born in the associated timeframe. Ever look at how the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index) was developed? Empirically: they took approximately 600 true/false questions and gave the tests to people diagnosed as paranoid, as manic, etc. Then they examined the results until they found sets of the questions that (for example) kleptomaniacs answered in patterns statistically significant (based on bell-curve probability charting). So to bring this back to stereotypes of programmers, just because YOU aren't a fan of Chinese food doesn't mean that many also don't.
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Larry Niven, at least in the early 1990s, took strong exception to anyone using his material for fanfic, after a work of fanfic was written about Niven's kzinti that Niven found distasteful. Niven's own words on the topic can't be found online, but are in the introduction to _The Man-Kzin Wars IV_ published in 1991.
Perhaps you're missing the distinction here: only about twenty were laid off. Some of the rest may have chosen to resign, but the day of the layoff (Jan 29, 1998) my information was that only about twenty were laid off. I was present at Apple headquarters that day, by the way.
*ahem* :).
The OTHER reason the original handwriting recognition was slower is that the original CPUs were 16mHZ StrongARM RISC chips. The 160mHz chips in the second-gen Newtons helped a lot, too
Of the almost 1000 people in the Newton division when Apple killed the project in late January 1998, less than twenty were actually laid off. The other nine hundred-plus were roughly evenly split between the dev/test/QA/etc. groups for Mac OS 8.6 (which shipped that October) and the Mac OS X project. Apple probably couldn't build a Newton 2100 today without starting from scratch.
The main issue to remember about the handwriting recognition is that it learned you, as opposed to you having to learn Graffiti. (Graffiti was available for the Newton, too, if you liked it). A number of the more ridiculous failures of the Newton's handwriting recognition came from people trying to write on a Newton that had already been trained to recognize it's owner's handwriting.
a) to nitpick, I believe the last StrongARM RISC CPU used in the Newton 2000 and 2100 was 160mHz, not 200. :)
b) the handwriting recognition was indeed in software. The original handwriting recognition was slower because it was a word-based recognition. For NewtonOS 2.0, the handwriting recognition was character-based, a *much* smaller problem space to solve.
Still carry a Newton 2100: they've been gone for so long younger geeks think it's some new MaxiPalm or something.
On another note, consider that there's some confusion as to whether this was actually a denial of service attack, hardware failure, or a misconfigured router. Since a DoS attack is difficult to verify, might "hackers DoSd our website" become the portal/ISP's version of "the dog ate my homework"?
Note: I am not accusing anyone in *this* incident of lying, and I have no inside information on this incident from any possible side :) - I'm speculating in general.
The actual file is at ftp:/ /ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeB SD-SA-00%3A01.make.asc.
The Eyepoppers set of background tiles is available free for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows. Pretty. Very pretty. There's a few hundred patterns in the three sets, or you can waste hours with the interactive webapp (click the Launch button on the main page).
"I know alot of geeks, myself included" probably doesn't reach statistical significance. While I also know polymaths who do everything well, and also know IT professionals who are nice, normal, vanilla people, the stereotypical hacker is moderately close as an archtype that it fits a surprisingly large chunk of the IT community.
Of course, a cluster of seemingly random personality traits such as that used by astrology to describe Virgos (for example) fits a large chunk of the roughly 1/12 of the population born in the associated timeframe.
Ever look at how the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Index) was developed? Empirically: they took approximately 600 true/false questions and gave the tests to people diagnosed as paranoid, as manic, etc. Then they examined the results until they found sets of the questions that (for example) kleptomaniacs answered in patterns statistically significant (based on bell-curve probability charting). So to bring this back to stereotypes of programmers, just because YOU aren't a fan of Chinese food doesn't mean that many also don't.
Is it just me, is my pattern matching algorithm cranked too high, or does this really look like Kenny from SouthPark?
But the thought of having to address current Red Hat luminaries with titles is odd, "Sir Robert", "Lord Donnie", and so on.