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I would love to try it some day, but first I have to get my wife to enjoy sailing (she has never been on a sailing boat), and then somehow find employment which could benefit (or who at least would not mind) from nomadism.
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Yes, there are a lot of places you can be with your boat, but not so many places *of interest* to be. The ocean is a big place, but you'll want to be near a big city in a marina with internet...
It's the same reason why waterplanes didn't take off. Sure, there's a lot of place they can land, but not so many places you would want to land...
Yes, if you think in mac vs. pc terms, that would be true. But if you think in terms of laptop brands, then suddenly apples shine out over there. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't unhappy with it, but I was very surprised about it.
(very happy with my Powerbook G4 for 4.5 years in academia now).
Colour me surprised when I found out that at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI - nuclear reactor-based research), the percentage of Macs was around 40-50%!
At a month-long course on X-Ray and Neutron science in France, 25% of the presenters laptops were macs too.
Well, buy (from e.g. B+W) an ND1000 filter or higher. that should do the trick, and unlike the welding goggles, cannot accidentally come off the lens...
Plastic (except from some biopolymers, which have not really caught on yet) is made from oil-based products in an imperfect reaction, leaving starting compound, solvents, catalysts, etc. in the product. It is in the nature of plastic to be "contaminated" with all these other compounds. I do not mean that it is harmful per se, but it certainly does not consist of all the same well-defined molecules.
1. They also drive better than a Yaris. 2. Your post adds weight to that 3. Your point? You hate mac users... 4. Sure. Colour me emo. 5. When was the last time you upgraded a proc? 6. Please use condoms to stop spreading that.
Plastic is amongst the "dirtiest" compounds in manufacturing. They commonly contain plasticisers, colorants, residual monomers, oligomers and solvents, all of whom can, and most likely will evaporate. Depending on the choice of plastic, this is much, little, odourless or smelly.
It looks like only the mention of Apple Mac these days will get your news posted..
There sadly seems to be more energy expended bickering about things that finding out what needs to happen to make OSS more appealing to the masses.
I think that is because the answer is not very appealing: more hierarchy in the development. That means that even though you spend your free time programming on OSS, You might "have to" program a part or set that you're not really all that into. Decisions will have to be made on UI design which are consistent and not always popular (i.e. the decision to drop some functionality in favour of usability, meaning that someone will see their hard work "wasted").
Such a structure can only be done by putting a non-programmer (but a designer instead) in charge of UI design and others in charge of the other aspects of the programming, and having a whole team of willing "lackeys" to to the brunt of the work. This set-up, however, is completely the reverse of the "everyone is in control"-OSS-mentality.
This people inherently do not like (without being paid for their work), so they bicker and argue without ever coming to an agreement. The biggest advances in OSS, I think, is when a big corporation donates a chunk of software or resources to work on it.
That said, there are some cases in which the "democratic method" seems to have worked to a certain degree, see for example the Gimp. Smaller projects with smaller teams (two or three) also tend to work out quite nicely. So the trick will be to get small teams to work together on something bigger:).
I understand the bitterness, looks like you've had more than your fair share of shit delivered on your lap. So far I've been pretty content with my G4 PB and assorted iPods, but I'll be sure to shell out for the overpriced insurance once I replace the powerbook. With stories like yours, can't be too careful, and with the way I treat my stuff, not getting the Applecare or similar insurance would be plain insane.
I'm not going back to the horrors of Windows, though, that has managed to literally pull the blood from under my fingernails for four years (and the laptop it came with also had to be repaired a whopping 13 times in those 4 years. Bloody Fujitsu-Siemens).
Anyway, I deviated. Yes, I agree there's shit coming out of Apple, and I hope they can get it together soon (more so because my G4 is up for replacement). Perhaps they grew too fast again, leaving QC too small to cope.
So far, though, it looks like it will take a while for the Open Source movement to come up with an appealing alternative for my purposes, and I have a major gripe with people that advocate OS as the only way to go forwards, because it sure isn't [the only way]. Hence my vitriol in earlier posts.
Linux developers would never, ever ship anything that say, wasn't finished or would break some thing else... Oh no, wait, they do: They just call it version 0.4c, and note that they are not responsible for anything.
Are we done with the examples yet?
Quality control is to prevent the majority of the flaws form reaching the public, be it either UI design flaws, usability flaws or programming flaws. In the end, though, QC cannot be perfect unless the programmers are. Every company, except those selling hot air, cannot guarantee the functioning of their product, but they can certainly try to get close to perfection.
I also think an accurate analysis cannot be made unless there are several Android-based devices on the market. That was the other advantage of Android, right? That it could run on many different phones from many different manufacturers without issues? I will be applauding Android if they get _that_ goal right.
Somehow I think consumers would not like to download a "phone"-app first (and have to choose between a plethora of not-quite-similar products), before they can use it as a phone. So yes, first-party applications ARE important.
Such are probably stipulated in their contract, to which one had to agree before developing starts. They are probably under no obligation to do anything with your software since it is their app store. They have not agreed to host every piece of software on their app store, and it's up to them to decide what to put on there.
It works both ways, though. If the Phone breaks using App store software, they will have to fix it, since now they are enforcing QC over it. Jailbreak the device, install your own software and break it, and they are not obligated to do anything.
Sounds to me like they are covering their asses and doing what the hell they want as well. For good and for evil.
Yes, or the PC LOAD LETTER error message which was _never_ fixed?
Or the completely broken APM implementation in Linux for which no-one takes responsibility?
Your argument would be identical to saying NASA doesn't have Quality Control just because a few shuttles blew up.
Thing is, Apple HAS quality control simply because they can due to their organisational structure and their business model. Linux doesn't necessarily have it (and in case of disagreement between developers the project forks and you're "able" to choose between two similar but slightly different versions), and it can't be implemented unless someone can take control and do the QC. Such OS QC doesn't work in many cases, since the OS model tends to eschew differentiation between developers. In other words, you need a pyramidal organisational structure to be able to do QC. This is not automatically present in OS software development.
I see. Even with a few developers pissed off, the influx of new programs for a relatively successful platform will not be harmed. In the end, the successful developers might even deride the pissed off developers, perhaps publicly so, further reinforcing the position of the platform.
I understand the problems of copy-and-paste functionality, though. How would you go about implementing it on the iPhone? You would have to "somehow" get a contextual menu working there, some kind of multi-tap gesture, I presume. How to get it implemented so it can be used intuitively, is beyond me. Media messaging never really took off here (Europe) because of the exorbitant prices. How was that in the US? It seems to be a non-issue for most people, or they're willing to forego MMS in favour of the advantages of the platform. Either way it seems quite profitable.
I think there is little news in success stories. The newspaper is full of failures as well, and it is cheap news to single out a single failure than to write an encompassing article about the good, which will require more research.
That said, highlighting bad things about a shiny thing can draw attention to the problems in the world. If there was one example of perfection, I would like to know.
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I would love to try it some day, but first I have to get my wife to enjoy sailing (she has never been on a sailing boat), and then somehow find employment which could benefit (or who at least would not mind) from nomadism.
Yes, there are a lot of places you can be with your boat, but not so many places *of interest* to be. The ocean is a big place, but you'll want to be near a big city in a marina with internet...
It's the same reason why waterplanes didn't take off. Sure, there's a lot of place they can land, but not so many places you would want to land...
Yes, if you think in mac vs. pc terms, that would be true. But if you think in terms of laptop brands, then suddenly apples shine out over there. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't unhappy with it, but I was very surprised about it.
(very happy with my Powerbook G4 for 4.5 years in academia now).
Don't get this the wrong way, but I guess most users don't.
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Colour me surprised when I found out that at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI - nuclear reactor-based research), the percentage of Macs was around 40-50%!
At a month-long course on X-Ray and Neutron science in France, 25% of the presenters laptops were macs too.
I guess we go for the shiny and UNIX.
Yes it is.
Well, buy (from e.g. B+W) an ND1000 filter or higher. that should do the trick, and unlike the welding goggles, cannot accidentally come off the lens...
Well, no, not really.
Plastic (except from some biopolymers, which have not really caught on yet) is made from oil-based products in an imperfect reaction, leaving starting compound, solvents, catalysts, etc. in the product. It is in the nature of plastic to be "contaminated" with all these other compounds. I do not mean that it is harmful per se, but it certainly does not consist of all the same well-defined molecules.
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1. They also drive better than a Yaris.
2. Your post adds weight to that
3. Your point? You hate mac users...
4. Sure. Colour me emo.
5. When was the last time you upgraded a proc?
6. Please use condoms to stop spreading that.
Whiner.
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I'm sorry, are you for real?
There is a lot of plastic _in_ there. They even employ a shaped plastic sheet in there to shape the airflow in the right way.
Check if you can see all the plastic in here:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/design.html
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Apple even replaced the power supply and subsequently the entire mac because of "smell". I call that a little service.
Also, having proper ventilation in offices can prevent headaches and the likes... sounds like he didn't have any.
I thought the mac pros had this airflow-shaping piece of plastic in their innards. That's a fairly sizeable chunk of cheap plastic..
I find it weird that one brings a dead bird to a vet. It's not like the vet can "fix" the bird... Is this normal behaviour?
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Wow, what a discovery...
Plastic is amongst the "dirtiest" compounds in manufacturing. They commonly contain plasticisers, colorants, residual monomers, oligomers and solvents, all of whom can, and most likely will evaporate. Depending on the choice of plastic, this is much, little, odourless or smelly.
It looks like only the mention of Apple Mac these days will get your news posted..
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There sadly seems to be more energy expended bickering about things that finding out what needs to happen to make OSS more appealing to the masses.
I think that is because the answer is not very appealing: more hierarchy in the development. That means that even though you spend your free time programming on OSS, You might "have to" program a part or set that you're not really all that into. Decisions will have to be made on UI design which are consistent and not always popular (i.e. the decision to drop some functionality in favour of usability, meaning that someone will see their hard work "wasted").
Such a structure can only be done by putting a non-programmer (but a designer instead) in charge of UI design and others in charge of the other aspects of the programming, and having a whole team of willing "lackeys" to to the brunt of the work. This set-up, however, is completely the reverse of the "everyone is in control"-OSS-mentality.
This people inherently do not like (without being paid for their work), so they bicker and argue without ever coming to an agreement. The biggest advances in OSS, I think, is when a big corporation donates a chunk of software or resources to work on it.
That said, there are some cases in which the "democratic method" seems to have worked to a certain degree, see for example the Gimp. Smaller projects with smaller teams (two or three) also tend to work out quite nicely. So the trick will be to get small teams to work together on something bigger :).
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I understand the bitterness, looks like you've had more than your fair share of shit delivered on your lap. So far I've been pretty content with my G4 PB and assorted iPods, but I'll be sure to shell out for the overpriced insurance once I replace the powerbook. With stories like yours, can't be too careful, and with the way I treat my stuff, not getting the Applecare or similar insurance would be plain insane.
I'm not going back to the horrors of Windows, though, that has managed to literally pull the blood from under my fingernails for four years (and the laptop it came with also had to be repaired a whopping 13 times in those 4 years. Bloody Fujitsu-Siemens).
Anyway, I deviated. Yes, I agree there's shit coming out of Apple, and I hope they can get it together soon (more so because my G4 is up for replacement). Perhaps they grew too fast again, leaving QC too small to cope.
So far, though, it looks like it will take a while for the Open Source movement to come up with an appealing alternative for my purposes, and I have a major gripe with people that advocate OS as the only way to go forwards, because it sure isn't [the only way]. Hence my vitriol in earlier posts.
Linux developers would never, ever ship anything that say, wasn't finished or would break some thing else... Oh no, wait, they do: They just call it version 0.4c, and note that they are not responsible for anything.
Are we done with the examples yet?
Quality control is to prevent the majority of the flaws form reaching the public, be it either UI design flaws, usability flaws or programming flaws. In the end, though, QC cannot be perfect unless the programmers are. Every company, except those selling hot air, cannot guarantee the functioning of their product, but they can certainly try to get close to perfection.
Don't assume, or you risk making an ass out of u.
I also think an accurate analysis cannot be made unless there are several Android-based devices on the market. That was the other advantage of Android, right? That it could run on many different phones from many different manufacturers without issues? I will be applauding Android if they get _that_ goal right.
Somehow I think consumers would not like to download a "phone"-app first (and have to choose between a plethora of not-quite-similar products), before they can use it as a phone. So yes, first-party applications ARE important.
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Such are probably stipulated in their contract, to which one had to agree before developing starts. They are probably under no obligation to do anything with your software since it is their app store. They have not agreed to host every piece of software on their app store, and it's up to them to decide what to put on there.
It works both ways, though. If the Phone breaks using App store software, they will have to fix it, since now they are enforcing QC over it. Jailbreak the device, install your own software and break it, and they are not obligated to do anything.
Sounds to me like they are covering their asses and doing what the hell they want as well. For good and for evil.
Yes, or the PC LOAD LETTER error message which was _never_ fixed?
Or the completely broken APM implementation in Linux for which no-one takes responsibility?
Your argument would be identical to saying NASA doesn't have Quality Control just because a few shuttles blew up.
Thing is, Apple HAS quality control simply because they can due to their organisational structure and their business model.
Linux doesn't necessarily have it (and in case of disagreement between developers the project forks and you're "able" to choose between two similar but slightly different versions), and it can't be implemented unless someone can take control and do the QC.
Such OS QC doesn't work in many cases, since the OS model tends to eschew differentiation between developers. In other words, you need a pyramidal organisational structure to be able to do QC. This is not automatically present in OS software development.
I see. Even with a few developers pissed off, the influx of new programs for a relatively successful platform will not be harmed. In the end, the successful developers might even deride the pissed off developers, perhaps publicly so, further reinforcing the position of the platform.
I understand the problems of copy-and-paste functionality, though. How would you go about implementing it on the iPhone? You would have to "somehow" get a contextual menu working there, some kind of multi-tap gesture, I presume. How to get it implemented so it can be used intuitively, is beyond me.
Media messaging never really took off here (Europe) because of the exorbitant prices. How was that in the US? It seems to be a non-issue for most people, or they're willing to forego MMS in favour of the advantages of the platform. Either way it seems quite profitable.
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I think there is little news in success stories. The newspaper is full of failures as well, and it is cheap news to single out a single failure than to write an encompassing article about the good, which will require more research.
That said, highlighting bad things about a shiny thing can draw attention to the problems in the world. If there was one example of perfection, I would like to know.