But your first paragraph takes everything away from the last bit. You just brush his talent aside with faint praise.
I am not an apple user or even a fan. But I am old enough to remember the entire history of Apple from the introduction of the Apple II to today. Jobs' performance since he came back to Apple was nothing short of phenomenal.
A CEO doesn't have to be an engineer, but he must be a leader, and Jobs was a hell of a leader when he sat in the driver's seat. And as the final arbiter of what was good design and what was going to be marketed, he was a genius.
The anti-Jobs bile and vitriol in this thread is disgusting, quite honestly.
>Steve Jobs did not envisioned the GUI interface, the mouse, video games, WYSIWYG, tablets, PDAs, smartphones, or anything else that has made Apple a successful company.
But he made them popular.
Creativity is nothing without execution. PARC had all this neat shit and basically predicted the future of where computing was headed, including tablet computers, but Xerox sat on it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he made them popular. Jobs and Woz both deserve as much credit as Ford.
I don't think you understand what "evangelical" means.
Wherever you live, they're bringing it to you. To save you. And if you won't be saved, they will convince enough of your neighbors that you need saving. Even if it means you have to die, like what they tried doing in Uganda.
>Only a very small fraction of Christians - even evangelical Christians - insist on taking every word of the Bible literally.
Between 40-50% of adults in the United States say they believe in YEC, depending on the poll.[7] According to a Gallup poll in December 2010, around 40% of Americans believe in YEC, with 52% among Republicans and 34% among Democrats. The percentage falls quickly as the level of education increasesâ"only 22% of respondents with postgraduate degrees believed compared with 47% of those with a high school education or less.[8]
PRINCETON, NJ -- About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word. This percentage is slightly lower than several decades ago. The majority of those Americans who don't believe that the Bible is literally true believe that it is the inspired word of God but that not everything it in should be taken literally. About one in five Americans believe the Bible is an ancient book of "fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by man."
While that sounds like a coincidence, it's probably the truth.
Borders carried all of the computer rags that mattered. Now it's just down to Waldenbooks and Barnes&Noble and the odd "super-mega-newsstand" (that is getting rarer than hen's teeth) for retail dead tree geek mags.
Protip: Retailers allow a certain amount of "stealing" (selling things at a loss) to get people in the door.
I see piracy as a market distortion. It locks out alternatives and competition. To wit, the last quote I put there. Bill Gates saw this. You don't. This is one reason why Bill Gates is rich. Personally, I would love to see this "unbreakable licensing" implemented. It would drive people to Linux in droves.
You are a fool if you reject the reality that piracy helps companies through increasing market share.
He's just echoing the common sense that Bill Gates has said over the years.
Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
The sooner the theft of Microsoft products ends the better. Turn all the knobs to 11, Mr. Ballmer. The sound of gnashing teeth will be as sweet as Beethoven's Pastoral symphony.
An SX chip is merely a 386 without the floating point coprocessor.
SX machines came with an "overdrive chip" socket, which was just a full 386 with math coprocessor. It was a way for Intel to sell 386s that had defective floating point.
When faced with a machine without a math coprocessor, Linux compiled for 386 will do "math coprocessor emulation" if you build it.
>The point you seem to be missing is if there's nothing on the other end actually demanding all that data,
Let me introduce you to my music collection when I transfer it from one drive to another.
You are arguing, continually, from your own little point of view and applying it to everyone, saying that you are a typical user. What utter nonsense, and what hubris. You are also arguing from incredulity.
I'm done here. You will not concede the point that people are different from you and have different needs or desires.
But obviously you haven't done performance testing on SSDs.
SSDs are not limited to the rate of the spinning physical media. They can be read much faster. When a hard disk runs out of its cache, the SSD is still delivering data *at the maximum rate.* There is no dropoff as you exhaust "cache" because there is no cache to exhaust
That's what you're not getting. It's not just seek time difference, an SSD behaves as if it has a cache the same size as the disk itself.
>Just what are people likely to be doing on consumer PCs that is bandwidth limited ?
It's a nonsense question.
You may as well ask the purpose of facebook. What do people really *need* it for? What do we really need any of this for? You seem to be having trouble separating need and desire.
You are arguing against speeding up of computers with modern technology. You are on the wrong side of history. If you wish to go that route, I suggest you might want to check out these used Hayes modems I've got because nobody could ever physically read text at over 240 chars/sec.
Programs have grown in size over the years, in case you hadn't noticed. You may be certainly happy with your copy of PFS:Write on 8 inch floppy in your S-100 bus CP/M machine, but the rest of the world marches on. Just because *you personally* do not have any need for speed doesn't mean other people don't or shouldn't have a desire for speedy computers.
I'll take a saturated bus at 6Gb/sec (600MB/sec (with overhead)) over ATA-6 (100MB/sec) any day.
Your argument sounds like the yammering of an old man on his porch telling me that bias ply tires were just fine back in the 70s and should be just fine today, honestly.
Speaking as someone who used to use laser rangefinders in inclement weather, I have to call *bullshit* on using any kind of laser in a fog.
Having billions of little floating lenses in the air tends to play havoc with getting any kind of reflectivity beyond 20 feet even from a the most expensive retro-refracting prism you can find. I don't care how much money and technical expertise you've got but you can't fight physics.
Fog turns a laser into the light equivalent of a plant sprayer..
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You said: Henry Ford is known for inventing the assembly line for automobile manufacturing. Not for inventing the car.
I said: Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but...
What kind of douchebag are you?
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But your first paragraph takes everything away from the last bit. You just brush his talent aside with faint praise.
I am not an apple user or even a fan. But I am old enough to remember the entire history of Apple from the introduction of the Apple II to today. Jobs' performance since he came back to Apple was nothing short of phenomenal.
A CEO doesn't have to be an engineer, but he must be a leader, and Jobs was a hell of a leader when he sat in the driver's seat. And as the final arbiter of what was good design and what was going to be marketed, he was a genius.
The anti-Jobs bile and vitriol in this thread is disgusting, quite honestly.
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>Steve Jobs did not envisioned the GUI interface, the mouse, video games, WYSIWYG, tablets, PDAs, smartphones, or anything else that has made Apple a successful company.
But he made them popular.
Creativity is nothing without execution. PARC had all this neat shit and basically predicted the future of where computing was headed, including tablet computers, but Xerox sat on it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he made them popular. Jobs and Woz both deserve as much credit as Ford.
Anything less makes you an ass.
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>implying that none of the christians outside the US are literalists.
Right. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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I don't think you understand what "evangelical" means.
Wherever you live, they're bringing it to you. To save you. And if you won't be saved, they will convince enough of your neighbors that you need saving. Even if it means you have to die, like what they tried doing in Uganda.
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>Only a very small fraction of Christians - even evangelical Christians - insist on taking every word of the Bible literally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
http://www.gallup.com/poll/27682/onethird-americans-believe-bible-literally-true.aspx
1/3 of the US are literalists. That's not a small number. And they are motivated.
And they are telling you and me that we are going to Hell.
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Come for the beer; stay for the freedom.
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While that sounds like a coincidence, it's probably the truth.
Borders carried all of the computer rags that mattered. Now it's just down to Waldenbooks and Barnes&Noble and the odd "super-mega-newsstand" (that is getting rarer than hen's teeth) for retail dead tree geek mags.
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....Oscar the Cat is still sniffing out dying people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/02/us-cat-death-idUSTRE6115QB20100202
Sniffing out cancer in the breath of someone who has lung cancer does not surprise me.
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Italian == mob
Yeah. Say hello to your new status, moron.
Jesus Christ.
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>You need to learn how to read between the lines to see when somebody is on the same team rather than lashing out.
Then you need to stop taking my statement of facts as an endorsement and flaming me for it.
Capice?
And yes, if Walmart is having good success with a business model, it would be stupid for Target to not try it out.
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Protip: Retailers allow a certain amount of "stealing" (selling things at a loss) to get people in the door.
I see piracy as a market distortion. It locks out alternatives and competition. To wit, the last quote I put there. Bill Gates saw this. You don't. This is one reason why Bill Gates is rich. Personally, I would love to see this "unbreakable licensing" implemented. It would drive people to Linux in droves.
You are a fool if you reject the reality that piracy helps companies through increasing market share.
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He's just echoing the common sense that Bill Gates has said over the years.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-212942.html
"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." - Bill Gates
The Economist. Piracy: Look for the Silver Lining (July 19th-25th, 2008 ed.). pp. 23
If you write software, you're better off tolerating the thieves in order to get market share.
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I'm OK with this.
The sooner the theft of Microsoft products ends the better. Turn all the knobs to 11, Mr. Ballmer. The sound of gnashing teeth will be as sweet as Beethoven's Pastoral symphony.
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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/92982-6-computer-labs-that-created-the-digital-world?print
And there you go.
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>curriculums
CURRICULA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
"People called Romans they go the 'ouse?!"
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Gah, ok, i misremembered.
Old timer's disease.
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An SX chip is merely a 386 without the floating point coprocessor.
SX machines came with an "overdrive chip" socket, which was just a full 386 with math coprocessor. It was a way for Intel to sell 386s that had defective floating point.
When faced with a machine without a math coprocessor, Linux compiled for 386 will do "math coprocessor emulation" if you build it.
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MATH_EMULATION.html
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>The point you seem to be missing is if there's nothing on the other end actually demanding all that data,
Let me introduce you to my music collection when I transfer it from one drive to another.
You are arguing, continually, from your own little point of view and applying it to everyone, saying that you are a typical user. What utter nonsense, and what hubris. You are also arguing from incredulity.
I'm done here. You will not concede the point that people are different from you and have different needs or desires.
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But obviously you haven't done performance testing on SSDs.
SSDs are not limited to the rate of the spinning physical media. They can be read much faster. When a hard disk runs out of its cache, the SSD is still delivering data *at the maximum rate.* There is no dropoff as you exhaust "cache" because there is no cache to exhaust
That's what you're not getting. It's not just seek time difference, an SSD behaves as if it has a cache the same size as the disk itself.
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I'm going to slap you with a fish.
Swap on SSD is the quickest way to kill it, even with wear leveling.
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>Just what are people likely to be doing on consumer PCs that is bandwidth limited ?
It's a nonsense question.
You may as well ask the purpose of facebook. What do people really *need* it for? What do we really need any of this for? You seem to be having trouble separating need and desire.
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You are arguing against speeding up of computers with modern technology. You are on the wrong side of history. If you wish to go that route, I suggest you might want to check out these used Hayes modems I've got because nobody could ever physically read text at over 240 chars/sec.
Programs have grown in size over the years, in case you hadn't noticed. You may be certainly happy with your copy of PFS:Write on 8 inch floppy in your S-100 bus CP/M machine, but the rest of the world marches on. Just because *you personally* do not have any need for speed doesn't mean other people don't or shouldn't have a desire for speedy computers.
I'll take a saturated bus at 6Gb/sec (600MB/sec (with overhead)) over ATA-6 (100MB/sec) any day.
Your argument sounds like the yammering of an old man on his porch telling me that bias ply tires were just fine back in the 70s and should be just fine today, honestly.
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Fog *and* laser rangefinders?
Speaking as someone who used to use laser rangefinders in inclement weather, I have to call *bullshit* on using any kind of laser in a fog.
Having billions of little floating lenses in the air tends to play havoc with getting any kind of reflectivity beyond 20 feet even from a the most expensive retro-refracting prism you can find. I don't care how much money and technical expertise you've got but you can't fight physics.
Fog turns a laser into the light equivalent of a plant sprayer..
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You're kidding, right?
Do the math. 100MB bandwidth is a 1/6 the bandwidth of 6Gb including overhead.
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