Well yeah, the Lisa might have been a failed PRODUCT, but it wasn't a failed technology.
Whether the Mac is a parallel product or an evolved product, the point is that the idea of user friendly computer with a WYSIWYG, mouse based GUI was not a failure. This was an early unsuccessful attempt, but in the long run the problems and costs were sorted out.
You are working on a machine right now, no matter what the brand of OS, that took those basic ideas and made something successful out of them.
And the Newton... same thing. It's Version One of a new tech. The Newton failed, but the Palm arose out of it, and from there a whole world of handhelds and now smartphones.
Of course small companies have to exchange documents with the outside world. Perhaps even more so. You are very reliant on your clients and suppliers and have to bend to interact with them neatly.
I would have thought that the Shuttle was the Version 1.0 of a reusable Spacecraft.
The Newton of Reusable Spacecraft, if you like.
And as with all Version 1.0's it exposes the twists and difficulties involved in this new tech, and it isn't very profitable. But then you work on version 2 and version 3...
I am surprised and a little disappointed that the Shuttle has been in service as long as it has. We should be up to Palm Pilots by now.:)
Well from that point of view, the Telekom magenta is a darker colour to the Engadget magenta. Engadget is not stealing the precise hue that T-Mobile uses. Nor are they using the same font. Both logos have a gratutitous use of excess dots, but in quite different ways.
You don't buy a Touch as merely a music/video player. If that's all you want, then there's other cheaper players.
You buy one because it's just a really really cool gadget. People make lists of what is lacking in iPhones and Touchs, but if you actually use one, you'll understand.
The UI, the form factor... it's just a well designed, lovable, Apple thing. When this mysterious SDK comes out and people start making quality programs for it then it will really shine.
Right now, you have a situation where the jailbroken applications run as root user. They have complete access to the entire filesystem, and to all the communication systems such as wifi net access, with no firewall or any other protections.
A naughty program can do anything it damn well likes with your iPhone/Touch. To me, that it the most serious issue that Apple has to sort out before letting in 3rd Party software.
I've got no problem with people jailbreaking their gadgets, and I've done it myself, but it's Unprotected Sex at the moment. No condoms.
My take is these gadgets are early days in the design cycle. Eventually they'll evolve into full Newton 2.0's, but Apple just isn't finished the work it needs to do yet.
Well, if you have a good quota then it's probably because you pay for it. Probably more than the typical household wants to pay. But then the typical household isn't going to download OOO either.
It's all a rather abstract issue that doesn't really matter much.
I just wanted to point out that this movie doesn't need to be a super serious and reverent 6 hour Epic.
Read the book. It's a fun kids book that gets great joy out of doing horrible things to Dwarves. Characters like Elrond have quite different, and lighter, personalities. It doesn't need a great deal of "Poor poor Frodo/Bilbo is suffering so much! Just look into his sad puppy dog eyes!"
I hope it's a light hearted adventure and not taken too seriously.
Ps, Ian Holm? Maybe he can be sitting by a fire telling kids his story "Many years later"
One thing to note is that Australian net users, and especially customers of Bigpond, have fairly tight, stingy, download quotas. This means that the unmetered archives becomes important when you want to download the large stuff.
Having said that, just how often do you download a fresh copy of OOO anyway?
I'd be interested to know if this would be helpful for people with ALS, where nerves slowly degenerate. It might not be a cure to the fundamental problem, but might extend a life.
To me it sounds like they are up to version 1.1 of a hardware/software system. Still new, not tested enough. Still getting debugged.
Plenty of Systems seem crap in Version 1.
But give it 5 years. Let it evolve from being a Lisa into an iMac. Things get lighter and more robust and more tested and streamlined. It will eventually work well.
"The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday confirmed it had discovered the apparent sabotage of a noncritical component of the international space station due to be carried up by the space shuttle Endeavour. It launched an investigation after finding cut wires in a piece of computer equipment intended to transfer data from station sensors to the ground, the agency said."
That's about it on the topic.
It still has the feeling of "Wha? I don't get it.". Either NASA is deliberately playing down a more serious issue, or we have some very incompetent saboteurs. Or an employee who had a momentary temper tantrum at whatever piece of equipment was in front of them.
I sometimes wonder how the Engineers and Programmers who work on this kind of thing feel. Realising that the purpose of the code you've written is to Kill People.
I suppose you'd wrap it up in patriotism and defending the nation, but still, jeez. I couldn't do it.
It sounded like the larger companies... MS, McAfee, Symantec... probably have had talks to Law Agencies, whether anything came of it or not.
So, if you are doing unlawful things, don't rely on the Majors to scan for law-ware, use a lesser known company who hasn't had Discussions with The Man yet.
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Well yeah, the Lisa might have been a failed PRODUCT, but it wasn't a failed technology. Whether the Mac is a parallel product or an evolved product, the point is that the idea of user friendly computer with a WYSIWYG, mouse based GUI was not a failure. This was an early unsuccessful attempt, but in the long run the problems and costs were sorted out. You are working on a machine right now, no matter what the brand of OS, that took those basic ideas and made something successful out of them. And the Newton... same thing. It's Version One of a new tech. The Newton failed, but the Palm arose out of it, and from there a whole world of handhelds and now smartphones.
Thank you. That makes sense. Asset stripping, then money laundering.
Of course small companies have to exchange documents with the outside world. Perhaps even more so. You are very reliant on your clients and suppliers and have to bend to interact with them neatly.
I would have thought that the Shuttle was the Version 1.0 of a reusable Spacecraft. The Newton of Reusable Spacecraft, if you like. And as with all Version 1.0's it exposes the twists and difficulties involved in this new tech, and it isn't very profitable. But then you work on version 2 and version 3... I am surprised and a little disappointed that the Shuttle has been in service as long as it has. We should be up to Palm Pilots by now. :)
Now that would be nice. To be able to simply disagree with the Law, and be able to get away with it.
Well from that point of view, the Telekom magenta is a darker colour to the Engadget magenta. Engadget is not stealing the precise hue that T-Mobile uses.
Nor are they using the same font.
Both logos have a gratutitous use of excess dots, but in quite different ways.
Yep. Lame cliches all the way. Second rate Nerd humour.
Indeed.
Why not just invest $100 mill into Novell instead?
You don't buy a Touch as merely a music/video player.
If that's all you want, then there's other cheaper players.
You buy one because it's just a really really cool gadget.
People make lists of what is lacking in iPhones and Touchs, but if you actually use one, you'll understand.
The UI, the form factor... it's just a well designed, lovable, Apple thing.
When this mysterious SDK comes out and people start making quality programs for it then it will really shine.
Right now, you have a situation where the jailbroken applications run as root user.
They have complete access to the entire filesystem, and to all the communication systems such as wifi net access, with no firewall or any other protections.
A naughty program can do anything it damn well likes with your iPhone/Touch.
To me, that it the most serious issue that Apple has to sort out before letting in 3rd Party software.
I've got no problem with people jailbreaking their gadgets, and I've done it myself, but it's Unprotected Sex at the moment. No condoms.
My take is these gadgets are early days in the design cycle. Eventually they'll evolve into full Newton 2.0's, but Apple just isn't finished the work it needs to do yet.
The book is full of Comical Dwarves.
I hope they don't remove that humour from the movie.
Well, if you have a good quota then it's probably because you pay for it.
Probably more than the typical household wants to pay. But then the typical household isn't going to download OOO either.
It's all a rather abstract issue that doesn't really matter much.
I just wanted to point out that this movie doesn't need to be a super serious and reverent 6 hour Epic.
Read the book. It's a fun kids book that gets great joy out of doing horrible things to Dwarves.
Characters like Elrond have quite different, and lighter, personalities.
It doesn't need a great deal of "Poor poor Frodo/Bilbo is suffering so much! Just look into his sad puppy dog eyes!"
I hope it's a light hearted adventure and not taken too seriously.
Ps, Ian Holm? Maybe he can be sitting by a fire telling kids his story "Many years later"
One thing to note is that Australian net users, and especially customers of Bigpond, have fairly tight, stingy, download quotas. This means that the unmetered archives becomes important when you want to download the large stuff. Having said that, just how often do you download a fresh copy of OOO anyway?
I'd be interested to know if this would be helpful for people with ALS, where nerves slowly degenerate.
It might not be a cure to the fundamental problem, but might extend a life.
But it does bring up a serious issue.
The capacity is growing hugely, but the data transfer speeds aren't really speeding up all that much.
It's like a giant dam of water with a tiny backyard tap attached at the bottom.
It makes copying and checking quite time consuming.
What percentage have an old out-of-subscription Norton's installed, and think that they are protected, but aren't really?
To me it sounds like they are up to version 1.1 of a hardware/software system. Still new, not tested enough. Still getting debugged.
Plenty of Systems seem crap in Version 1.
But give it 5 years.
Let it evolve from being a Lisa into an iMac.
Things get lighter and more robust and more tested and streamlined. It will eventually work well.
A little group with a 30 million or so turnover a year in the best of times.
Not exactly in the same league as MS, Sun, IBM, HP.
Trying to develop a UNIX to compete with companies with vastly more resources was always a losing game.
It's not obvious to you?
You've GOT to know where these things are always.
You can't accidentally stick them on some transport.
If anything deserves a tonne of Red Tape and Bureaucracy, it's the storage and movement of Nukes. Surely.
So... it's sort of like Apple locking iPhones with AT&T.
Actually, It doesn't say much more.
"The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday confirmed it had discovered the apparent sabotage of a noncritical component of the international space station due to be carried up by the space shuttle Endeavour. It launched an investigation after finding cut wires in a piece of computer equipment intended to transfer data from station sensors to the ground, the agency said."
That's about it on the topic.
It still has the feeling of "Wha? I don't get it.". Either NASA is deliberately playing down a more serious issue, or we have some very incompetent saboteurs. Or an employee who had a momentary temper tantrum at whatever piece of equipment was in front of them.
I sometimes wonder how the Engineers and Programmers who work on this kind of thing feel.
Realising that the purpose of the code you've written is to Kill People.
I suppose you'd wrap it up in patriotism and defending the nation, but still, jeez. I couldn't do it.
It sounded like the larger companies... MS, McAfee, Symantec... probably have had talks to Law Agencies, whether anything came of it or not.
So, if you are doing unlawful things, don't rely on the Majors to scan for law-ware, use a lesser known company who hasn't had Discussions with The Man yet.
Similarly, .NET 3 is out but it only works for XP and Vista, so it's safer to stick with .NET2 for now if you have an app that is being released soon.
If you are writing for a wide audience, then the Latest Stuff isn't always what you should use.