I cant even imagine what Video Games will be like in 15 years.
15 years ago... 1990... I remember playing a Football Arcade game. Top down view of little sprites running about. 10 Yard Fight!
Smoking and Booze bad for your health? So the Govt takes and extra cut in taxes.
Gambling sends people broke, ruins families, causes crime, targets the poor and takes money that could be spent of far more worthwhile things... tax heavy, and it's fine.
Prostitution? Hard Drugs? Let the Government be your pimp. If they can make a good buck out of it, they'll make it legal.
It's what everyone has been commenting on. The big thing left out of iWorks. If Jobs has any sense, he'll listen.
Unless it's a deliberate attempt to pander to Microsoft. Killing off "Office for Mac" would be a Very Bad Thing for Apple. Outside Slashdot, a large chunk of Mac users think Office is vital. And to be fair, MS has done a good job of making Office Mac friendly. It's not just a Windows port.
OO just isn't neat and simple enough for Apple's Volvo image. And again, it would upset Microsoft.
I'll just point out that until the more recent Firebirds, Mozilla, ummm, sucked.
It was slow and buggy and crashed and so on.
If I was making the decision 3 years or so ago, I would have been hesitant to use Moz too.
And I feel the same way about MacOS X.
Too much wizbangery detracts from the purpose of the computer. Widgets start to take up too much screen real-estate, and eat up too much RAM and CPU time.
With Windows 2000, MS got it's UI about right. But plain and functional doesn't sell upgrades.
I found Physics to be the most accessable of sciences. All the experiments with springs and optics and gravity.... they had that immediate feedback. Easy to get that feeling of "Okay, that makes sense".
It was far easier to grasp than rings of electrons and so on you got in chemistry, or the horribly obscure and seemingly pointless theory you had to absorb in maths.
Well, yeah there's that, and trying out every P2P program on the planet, most of which seem to come along with an uninvited guest.
They're curious kids. And as with teenage sex, they grab at whatever looks pretty without thinking too hard about what might come along with it, downloading all kinds of junk. I've tried to educate them in having a bit of restraint. (in downloading stuff... the sex thing is up to their parents (I hope))
Exactly! I was going to say Steamrollers, but tanks will do.
Line up a dozen side by side on the ground, and just send them forwards..... not much AI required there.
I have this feeling that the idea of People travelling to other planets, near or far, is out of date. It cost too much, and does too little practically.
As telemetry improves, and the intelligence and sensors in Robotic Rovers gets better, then there just isn't any point, apart from being a Cool Thing To Do.
...were a pain to upgrade memory for.
Apart from using SO-DIMMs, which were expensive, it was major surgery to take apart the machine and get into the spot to install them.
Obviously this bothered alot of customers because the later iMacs had a nice neat hatch at the bottom were you could slot in more common SD-RAM.
I wonder if the MiniMac has also gone down the "Neat package, but a pain in the arse to upgrade" path.
Maybe we just had a crap lot of students, but in the second year of my CS degree I put the One Third rule to one of my lecturers.
Basicly only 1/3 of the students could program.... that is, give them a task and they could go away and figure out an algorithm and turn it into code.
1/3 could do the job if you made things easy. Tell them an algorithm, make suggestions on how to actually lay it out.
And the final third just relied on copying others, random guesses until something did the job, scrounging through rubbish bins for printouts... PAYING others to do the work (disguised as "tutoring")...
So many people who just shouldn't have been there. They should have being off finding out what they are actually good at in life.
I did it too after the company I worked for went on a Downsizing spree.
As others are saying, going back to Uni a bit more mature and of your own free will, as opposed to finishing High School and going to College just for sumthin to do, tends to make you more successful.
When you are 25 years old and the people about you are mainly around 18 it can feel weird for a while.
You are surrounded by children.
But that feeling fades after a week or two.
I loved Uni. Learning stuff just for the sake of learning. The people and friendships. The cheap uncomfortable chairs. Best days of my life.
The thing that always bothered me about Microsoft was that it is always at War with it's competitors.... with Borland or Netscape or Wordperfect... not satisfied to make good products that have healthy sales, but a need to defeat and run out of business any competition.
When I see these Solaris vs Linux articles, I sort of feel that the Linux crowd is doing the same thing. Not enough to compete with Windows, you've got to take on everyone, even fellow Unixes.
(though the topic is now long dead)
As someone else said, Intelligence is just a tool to help the creature survive and breed. And it is very useful... we do rather better than most other higher lifeforms, that we are rapidly making extinct.
But as far as making sure genes replicate, which is the Meaning of Life, writing Shakespere or putting a man on the moon is neither here nor there.
Bacteria already have won.
Alot more bacteria in the world than Humans.
Humans, indeed mammals in general are a niche market. We're the iMacs of Life. All cool and sophisticated, but overpriced and outnumbered by simpler systems that do the job just as well.
Getting off topic, but Evolution is all about survival of the Individual.
Do you do things for the sake of the "Species"? Most of us, no, we don't. We do what's good for ourselves and our immediate family.
We want our personal traits, genes, to survive and the fate of Everyone Else is of far lesser importance. Competition within the species is the normal way of things.
As for the Drugs? Eh, Evolution is too slow. We still have these bodies designed for living in the Prehistoric Era. They don't fit Modern Life very well at all. What we do have is enough intelligence to circumvent those limitations, and we have been doing that for hundreds of years. I'd love a Mental Focusing drug.
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I cant even imagine what Video Games will be like in 15 years.
15 years ago... 1990... I remember playing a Football Arcade game. Top down view of little sprites running about. 10 Yard Fight!
Vice tax.
Smoking and Booze bad for your health? So the Govt takes and extra cut in taxes.
Gambling sends people broke, ruins families, causes crime, targets the poor and takes money that could be spent of far more worthwhile things... tax heavy, and it's fine.
Prostitution? Hard Drugs? Let the Government be your pimp. If they can make a good buck out of it, they'll make it legal.
BTW, The Badonkadonk is disappointingly small. More Davros' (the creator of the Daleks) wheelchair, then a massive Jawa transport.
Well, instead of waiting 139 days, wait for one weekend, until the rush of the first few days is over. Then you can sit anywhere you like.
It's what everyone has been commenting on. The big thing left out of iWorks. If Jobs has any sense, he'll listen.
Unless it's a deliberate attempt to pander to Microsoft. Killing off "Office for Mac" would be a Very Bad Thing for Apple. Outside Slashdot, a large chunk of Mac users think Office is vital. And to be fair, MS has done a good job of making Office Mac friendly. It's not just a Windows port.
OO just isn't neat and simple enough for Apple's Volvo image. And again, it would upset Microsoft.
I'll just point out that until the more recent Firebirds, Mozilla, ummm, sucked.
It was slow and buggy and crashed and so on.
If I was making the decision 3 years or so ago, I would have been hesitant to use Moz too.
And I feel the same way about MacOS X. Too much wizbangery detracts from the purpose of the computer. Widgets start to take up too much screen real-estate, and eat up too much RAM and CPU time.
With Windows 2000, MS got it's UI about right. But plain and functional doesn't sell upgrades.
I found Physics to be the most accessable of sciences. All the experiments with springs and optics and gravity.... they had that immediate feedback. Easy to get that feeling of "Okay, that makes sense".
It was far easier to grasp than rings of electrons and so on you got in chemistry, or the horribly obscure and seemingly pointless theory you had to absorb in maths.
Well, yeah there's that, and trying out every P2P program on the planet, most of which seem to come along with an uninvited guest.
They're curious kids. And as with teenage sex, they grab at whatever looks pretty without thinking too hard about what might come along with it, downloading all kinds of junk. I've tried to educate them in having a bit of restraint. (in downloading stuff... the sex thing is up to their parents (I hope))
What about us 40 years olds who have to fix the damn teenagers PCs filled with spyware.
I don't know what my neices are doing, but their PCs seem to soak up spyware like a sponge.
Stop clicking on "YES" when those popups appear on websites, kids!
A fine slogan for the 21st century.
Iceland is reasonably wealthy, tiny population that mainly lives in a small part of the island, with major natural resources.
A very enviable, and rare, situation to be in.
.... in a Zepplin, of course.
It would make for a beautiful sight. Airships floating about the city, refueling the (literally now) Gas Stations.
Exactly! I was going to say Steamrollers, but tanks will do.
Line up a dozen side by side on the ground, and just send them forwards..... not much AI required there.
I have this feeling that the idea of People travelling to other planets, near or far, is out of date. It cost too much, and does too little practically.
As telemetry improves, and the intelligence and sensors in Robotic Rovers gets better, then there just isn't any point, apart from being a Cool Thing To Do.
(How's that for flamebait?)
Okay, I saw the pic of a Mini with it's box off.
Pretty easy to replace that RAM.
...were a pain to upgrade memory for.
Apart from using SO-DIMMs, which were expensive, it was major surgery to take apart the machine and get into the spot to install them.
Obviously this bothered alot of customers because the later iMacs had a nice neat hatch at the bottom were you could slot in more common SD-RAM.
I wonder if the MiniMac has also gone down the "Neat package, but a pain in the arse to upgrade" path.
Maybe we just had a crap lot of students, but in the second year of my CS degree I put the One Third rule to one of my lecturers.
...
Basicly only 1/3 of the students could program.... that is, give them a task and they could go away and figure out an algorithm and turn it into code.
1/3 could do the job if you made things easy. Tell them an algorithm, make suggestions on how to actually lay it out.
And the final third just relied on copying others, random guesses until something did the job, scrounging through rubbish bins for printouts... PAYING others to do the work (disguised as "tutoring")
So many people who just shouldn't have been there. They should have being off finding out what they are actually good at in life.
I did it too after the company I worked for went on a Downsizing spree.
As others are saying, going back to Uni a bit more mature and of your own free will, as opposed to finishing High School and going to College just for sumthin to do, tends to make you more successful.
When you are 25 years old and the people about you are mainly around 18 it can feel weird for a while.
You are surrounded by children.
But that feeling fades after a week or two.
I loved Uni. Learning stuff just for the sake of learning. The people and friendships. The cheap uncomfortable chairs. Best days of my life.
Those numbers hit me too.
.... a, umm. Something you drop quickly anyway.
SCO was never a very big company. $10 million a quarter? Not exactly enourmous.
And down to $120,000 a quarter! That's the income of 2 guys and a secretary in someone's spare room.
The UNIX users of the world have obviously dropped them as a supplier like a
The thing that always bothered me about Microsoft was that it is always at War with it's competitors.... with Borland or Netscape or Wordperfect... not satisfied to make good products that have healthy sales, but a need to defeat and run out of business any competition.
When I see these Solaris vs Linux articles, I sort of feel that the Linux crowd is doing the same thing. Not enough to compete with Windows, you've got to take on everyone, even fellow Unixes.
(though the topic is now long dead)
As someone else said, Intelligence is just a tool to help the creature survive and breed. And it is very useful... we do rather better than most other higher lifeforms, that we are rapidly making extinct.
But as far as making sure genes replicate, which is the Meaning of Life, writing Shakespere or putting a man on the moon is neither here nor there.
Bacteria already have won.
Alot more bacteria in the world than Humans.
Humans, indeed mammals in general are a niche market. We're the iMacs of Life. All cool and sophisticated, but overpriced and outnumbered by simpler systems that do the job just as well.
Getting off topic, but Evolution is all about survival of the Individual.
Do you do things for the sake of the "Species"? Most of us, no, we don't. We do what's good for ourselves and our immediate family.
We want our personal traits, genes, to survive and the fate of Everyone Else is of far lesser importance. Competition within the species is the normal way of things.
As for the Drugs? Eh, Evolution is too slow. We still have these bodies designed for living in the Prehistoric Era. They don't fit Modern Life very well at all. What we do have is enough intelligence to circumvent those limitations, and we have been doing that for hundreds of years. I'd love a Mental Focusing drug.
Which Hollywood still makes plenty of recurring royalties from. Legal ownership of the delivery system isn't that important.