This was the bit of pure luck which got Apple off the ground. If Jobs and Woz had been even five years older Jobs would have laid all these NDAs and contracts and such onto Woz and he would have bailed out of the partnership in disgust.
And Apple wouldn't have happened. It needed the tech guy and the marketing guy to be young and immature enough not to hate each other.
ubuntu is the closest thing (rich dictator at top making decisions) to OS X that linux has. But he's not talking about ubuntu, he's talking about the FSF. How many Aunt Millies use HURD?
Ubuntu is loaded with software owned by the FSF. The entire GNU userland for example.
I'm not involved in cutting video but I work with someone who is, and they tell me they like H.264 a lot better than Ogg Theora.
A writer may like PDF or FrameMaker ahead of html but if they want people to read their stuff its going to have to be published in html. Where would we be if you had to use a restricted format to read normal web pages?
It takes a steady hand to lead a company through reinventing their product line. Jobs, as you point out, did it twice. I don't think Palm had people with attention span to pull it off.
I looked at the first few examples in TFA and they all violate KISS (keep it simple, stupid). My 1MB palm pilot (from 1997?) had a simpler UI than the cheap organisers of the day. The sliding keyboard of the Pre made it more complex IMHO.
..its just keeping Conroy in the news, giving him lots of data points on whether this is good or bad for him. I don't see much of a point in having a/. article on each and every apparent change.
What bothers me about this, though, is that this science project has to pander to the public with eye-candy. Because we can't sell them on the science. I think this says something about our national lack of education, and something about the public having become a massively parallel knee-jerk driven by the lies fed to them daily on Fox TV and the trash TV that is more important to them than mankind's future.
No Bruce its the same all around the world. I don't think it is education as such. I am sure there are plenty of highly educated managers who would not care about the science and perhaps be inspired by a good picture in passing.
Immersion is a good way of catching people's attention. Cameron did that with Avatar and found new viewers for a simple action+SF story. Maybe he can do the same with Mars. Maybe someone can sell monitors just for viewing the latest from Mars in 3D. I don't think data on air temperature or organics in the soil will ever do it for the majority.
Robert Heinlein used to claim that an armed society is a polite society but he was wrong. An armed society has these dangerous pockets of paranoia because police, border guards, etc expect to be shot at and consequently behave as if everybody they deal with is going to do that.
I can understand a Canadian being rather confused by this situation.
If you are worried about a gun shouldn't you get the occupants out of the car first? They could have handguns in their pockets but they could have a bazooka in the back seat, so keeping them in the car seems like bad tactics to me.
When I broke my arm last year there was a wait for X-Ray because they had a virus in their system. I asked for my X-Rays on CD and they came with handy DLLs which I wouldn't recommend any windows users touch.
Fortunately there are free DICOM implementations around for Java and *NIX.
I just spent three weeks in Malaysia, accessing the internet from the local internet cafe. A lot of local guys came in to browse porn, mostly from yahoo mail. I assume they trade it among themselves.
If you want to control porn you are going to have to address email, which immediately means you impact freedom of speech.
Well okay but how can you seriously propose to filter porn, when a major distribution mechanism is email? The proposed system which uses a database of "bad" URLs just won't work.
The fundamental problem with filtering and censorship now in all media is that it only draws attention to the blocked material, so the filtering can't be done transparently. You have to pretend the stuff isn't there at all to have a hope of filtering it.
The opposition Liberal Party are finally getting their act together and the Labour Government doesn't want to feed them any issues to debate, so filtering is on hold.
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This was the bit of pure luck which got Apple off the ground. If Jobs and Woz had been even five years older Jobs would have laid all these NDAs and contracts and such onto Woz and he would have bailed out of the partnership in disgust.
And Apple wouldn't have happened. It needed the tech guy and the marketing guy to be young and immature enough not to hate each other.
n general term it's still a PITA to use.
I know quite a few Aunt Millies using Ubuntu who'd disagree with you.
I bet those Aunt Millies didn't install it themselves.
Maybe they did, but if not so what?
ubuntu is the closest thing (rich dictator at top making decisions) to OS X that linux has. But he's not talking about ubuntu, he's talking about the FSF. How many Aunt Millies use HURD?
Ubuntu is loaded with software owned by the FSF. The entire GNU userland for example.
Its news for me because Apple got an operating system for free (BSD and Mach underlie OSX) because of those free software guys.
I'm not involved in cutting video but I work with someone who is, and they tell me they like H.264 a lot better than Ogg Theora.
A writer may like PDF or FrameMaker ahead of html but if they want people to read their stuff its going to have to be published in html. Where would we be if you had to use a restricted format to read normal web pages?
Sounds like the work of Catbert.
Thats what have to use so I use Outlook Web Access on Linux and it is the worlds worst web mail program by design.
I still think slash is about a million times better than movable type over on boing boing.
If you didn't need to log in to delete an account I could write a bot to delete all of facebook.
It takes a steady hand to lead a company through reinventing their product line. Jobs, as you point out, did it twice. I don't think Palm had people with attention span to pull it off.
I looked at the first few examples in TFA and they all violate KISS (keep it simple, stupid). My 1MB palm pilot (from 1997?) had a simpler UI than the cheap organisers of the day. The sliding keyboard of the Pre made it more complex IMHO.
In an armed society there is a much-reduced need for police.
So why were the police in this instance so jumpy?
Or don't even drop the ballot paper in. Once they cross your name off you are good to go.
..its just keeping Conroy in the news, giving him lots of data points on whether this is good or bad for him. I don't see much of a point in having a /. article on each and every apparent change.
Wish I could skip to the end.
What bothers me about this, though, is that this science project has to pander to the public with eye-candy. Because we can't sell them on the science. I think this says something about our national lack of education, and something about the public having become a massively parallel knee-jerk driven by the lies fed to them daily on Fox TV and the trash TV that is more important to them than mankind's future.
No Bruce its the same all around the world. I don't think it is education as such. I am sure there are plenty of highly educated managers who would not care about the science and perhaps be inspired by a good picture in passing.
Immersion is a good way of catching people's attention. Cameron did that with Avatar and found new viewers for a simple action+SF story. Maybe he can do the same with Mars. Maybe someone can sell monitors just for viewing the latest from Mars in 3D. I don't think data on air temperature or organics in the soil will ever do it for the majority.
Robert Heinlein used to claim that an armed society is a polite society but he was wrong. An armed society has these dangerous pockets of paranoia because police, border guards, etc expect to be shot at and consequently behave as if everybody they deal with is going to do that.
I can understand a Canadian being rather confused by this situation.
He should have patented his DNA before he entered the US.
If you are worried about a gun shouldn't you get the occupants out of the car first? They could have handguns in their pockets but they could have a bazooka in the back seat, so keeping them in the car seems like bad tactics to me.
When I broke my arm last year there was a wait for X-Ray because they had a virus in their system. I asked for my X-Rays on CD and they came with handy DLLs which I wouldn't recommend any windows users touch.
Fortunately there are free DICOM implementations around for Java and *NIX.
(and quite often only their rear ends).
Lets leave our deputy PM out of this.
I just spent three weeks in Malaysia, accessing the internet from the local internet cafe. A lot of local guys came in to browse porn, mostly from yahoo mail. I assume they trade it among themselves.
If you want to control porn you are going to have to address email, which immediately means you impact freedom of speech.
Well okay but how can you seriously propose to filter porn, when a major distribution mechanism is email? The proposed system which uses a database of "bad" URLs just won't work.
The fundamental problem with filtering and censorship now in all media is that it only draws attention to the blocked material, so the filtering can't be done transparently. You have to pretend the stuff isn't there at all to have a hope of filtering it.
Fucking morons.
Ooh, that one too. Sorry, but thanks for understanding.
Actually I thought that was how we got into this situation.
How about a write in campaign? Write No Internet Filter on the ballot papers for both houses.
The opposition Liberal Party are finally getting their act together and the Labour Government doesn't want to feed them any issues to debate, so filtering is on hold.