Sculley, who bet the farm on the Newton, which bombed?
I wouldn't say he bet the farm on the Newton. In fact, many of Apple's patents for the iPhone come from work done on Newton. But it did bomb--can't really argue that.
Sculley, who fractured the Mac lineup into a large number of similar and confusing models?
No, that was Michael Spindler.
Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Again, Spindler.
How about Sculley, who made sure that every Mac had a CD drive long before Windows PCs. Sculley who brought QuickTime and Hypercartd to the world? I could go on about Apple innovations between 1985 and 1993, but you get the idea.
That said, comparisons with Sculley and Jobs are a bit off. Sculley wasn't a showman like Jobs was. That's what Jean-Louis Gassee was for. I remember seeing Sculley at WWDC back in 1991. Probably the most boring guy I've ever heard. Even Bill Gates was better!
Actually, the NRA readily admits that a certain percentage of gun owners are not only irresponsible but should not be gun owners. The NRA usually refers to them as known criminals.
Actually, all of those things are out to get me. That's why I carry a gun wherever I go. If some tall thing tries to get me, I'll shoot it!
Needless to say, yes, I am being silly. It's sort of a reference to the joke about trees jumping in front of cars and skiers and such and how the trees are out to get us.
I'd be really curious about your references for those numbers, though. I tried to look up the number of deaths from falling, but the best I could find was the World Health Organization's fact sheet about falls, where they claim that 424,000 people a year die from falls worldwide. Of course, they define a fall as "an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level." If I fall off my motorcycle while doing 50 MPH, is that really a "fall-related death"?
As an aside, I'm always wary of statistics that come up with nice round numbers. I have no problem with 851 accidental deaths from firearms. But 26,000 sounds like somebody estimated something. 25,732 sounds a bit more convincing to me.
Actually, considering the number of people who are accidentally shot when the gun "just goes off" while it is being cleaned, put in a holster, unloaded, or simply held, I wouldn't be too sure that those guns aren't out to get us.
According to the NRA, all gun owners are highly responsible people, so it can't be the people who own the guns. It must be the guns themselves. They're out to get us, I tell ya!
About the only difference between syndication and the original broadcast episodes are the music--in the original episodes (and, sadly, I'm old enough to remember them) they used music that you'd hear on the radio. In syndication, since they didn't want to pay again for the right to air the music, they replaced it with generic rock music.
I knew a physical education instructor and his rules were simple:
If you're not hungry, don't eat
If you're hungry, eat.
When you're not hungry anymore, stop eating.
This sounds simple, but it can be difficult to practice. First, food is a social thing. We all get together and have lunch or dinner. So it's tough to tell the crowd, "You go ahead--I'm not hungry yet."
Also, if you're going out, the restaurant decides the portions and they do so based upon various factors that have nothing to do with your appetite. Yet, many of us were told to clean the plate because children are starving in Europe. At the very least, it was considered rude to not finish your food--your mother spent some time cooking it so you'd better eat it. And that lives with us into our adult lives.
The other good point about this is time. My sister is quite overweight. She's done some things about it and she's losing the weight. But as an instructor pointed out, "You spent 20 years putting on that weight. It's not going to all come off in 20 days."
I tried reading a book on my phone, and it was a miserable experience. I see people on the bus doing it, but having to scroll constantly is very annoying.
Again, it's the trade-off of size versus convenience.
I have a couple of books on my iPhone and I'll be the first to agree that reading is far from optimal. On the other hand, my phone is always with me so that convenience makes up for the hassle. I probably won't drag an e-reader or tablet around with me on the off-chance that I find myself with 20 minutes of thumb-twiiddling to do.
But if I was lying in a hammock on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I wouldn't put up with it, agreed.
Actually, I'm not sure that the Cable Companies particularly care about Aereo. So far they've been sued by the broadcast networks because they don't pay for the programming they're putting out.
You still need that broadband connection in order to get to Aereo.
There's a site in New York City that streams live TV called Aereo. They've fought the fight in court and have come out ahead.
It would be interesting to see TWC set up a site like this to stream, say, KCBS from an antenna located in the Los Angeles area to TWC cable boxes in the Los Angeles area, WCBS from an antenna located in the New York City area to TWC cable boxes in New York City, etc.
Hey, if Aereo can do it and not have to pay the stations, why shouldn't Time-Warner?
It won't solve the Showtime/TMC/Flix/Smithsonian issue, though.
According to TFA, it's "up to 9 hours." The original Nexus 7 had 10 hours, so it's an hour less. But considering it has to drive that Retina-like display, it's pretty darn good.
Fortunately, "instant, as it happens" is frequently inaccurate and generally a waste of time.
I'm not in Venice, CA. No one I know is in Venice, CA. So I don't really need "instant, as it happens" information on things that happen in Venice, CA. I can certainly wait until the next day to find out what happened. I'd rather have accurate information the next day than misinformation now.
I think he means things that act as servers but are based in the home.
For example, I was recently having an issue with my garage door opener remote. I went and bought a new one and was looking through some of the instructions that came with it when they made a reference to their Liftmaster Internet Gateway product, which will allow you to open/close/lock your garage door via the Internet, as well as monitoring the status of your garage door (eg, is it open?)
I'm not all that convinced that this is a good idea--personally, I don't want to open my garage door from anywhere in the world and I'd prefer if others didn't have the capability either. I wouldn't mind being able to know if my garage door is open--I've been known to forget to close it from time to time and it does make me a bit paranoid.
But according to Google, this is a "home server" and, therefore, would not be allowed.
And I'd like to say how proud I am of this community right now, here is a legitimate small business trying to stay alive and instead of the usual "Just accept getting ripped off, information wants to be free!" bullshit instead there is actual discussion on how best to protect his content while still giving the customers a good experience.
You assume we're actually giving him good advice...
"Uh, yeah, I'd use that ROT 13 encryption. Nobody would ever be able to break that..."
Actually, I would argue that the other issue is range.
The baseball bat and sword are as effective as a pistol at close range--say, within 3 feet or so. However, a pistol is effective at a much further range--figure 20-30 feet. It is much more difficult to get out of range of a pistol than it is to get out of range of a baseball bat or sword.
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When I was a kid, we used drums to communicate. We didn't even have string!
Now get the hell off my lawn.
Sculley, who bet the farm on the Newton, which bombed?
I wouldn't say he bet the farm on the Newton. In fact, many of Apple's patents for the iPhone come from work done on Newton. But it did bomb--can't really argue that.
Sculley, who fractured the Mac lineup into a large number of similar and confusing models?
No, that was Michael Spindler.
Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Again, Spindler.
How about Sculley, who made sure that every Mac had a CD drive long before Windows PCs. Sculley who brought QuickTime and Hypercartd to the world? I could go on about Apple innovations between 1985 and 1993, but you get the idea.
That said, comparisons with Sculley and Jobs are a bit off. Sculley wasn't a showman like Jobs was. That's what Jean-Louis Gassee was for. I remember seeing Sculley at WWDC back in 1991. Probably the most boring guy I've ever heard. Even Bill Gates was better!
Rubbish. Apple did that in 1989.
Actually, the NRA readily admits that a certain percentage of gun owners are not only irresponsible but should not be gun owners. The NRA usually refers to them as known criminals.
Or Police Officers.
Actually, all of those things are out to get me. That's why I carry a gun wherever I go. If some tall thing tries to get me, I'll shoot it!
Needless to say, yes, I am being silly. It's sort of a reference to the joke about trees jumping in front of cars and skiers and such and how the trees are out to get us.
I'd be really curious about your references for those numbers, though. I tried to look up the number of deaths from falling, but the best I could find was the World Health Organization's fact sheet about falls, where they claim that 424,000 people a year die from falls worldwide. Of course, they define a fall as "an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level." If I fall off my motorcycle while doing 50 MPH, is that really a "fall-related death"?
As an aside, I'm always wary of statistics that come up with nice round numbers. I have no problem with 851 accidental deaths from firearms. But 26,000 sounds like somebody estimated something. 25,732 sounds a bit more convincing to me.
Actually, considering the number of people who are accidentally shot when the gun "just goes off" while it is being cleaned, put in a holster, unloaded, or simply held, I wouldn't be too sure that those guns aren't out to get us.
According to the NRA, all gun owners are highly responsible people, so it can't be the people who own the guns. It must be the guns themselves. They're out to get us, I tell ya!
"The BBs go up,
who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says
various Koreans trying to win a free phone.
(With profuse apologies to Tom Lehrer)
Actually, I believe you can see it in reruns.
About the only difference between syndication and the original broadcast episodes are the music--in the original episodes (and, sadly, I'm old enough to remember them) they used music that you'd hear on the radio. In syndication, since they didn't want to pay again for the right to air the music, they replaced it with generic rock music.
Well said.
I knew a physical education instructor and his rules were simple:
This sounds simple, but it can be difficult to practice. First, food is a social thing. We all get together and have lunch or dinner. So it's tough to tell the crowd, "You go ahead--I'm not hungry yet."
Also, if you're going out, the restaurant decides the portions and they do so based upon various factors that have nothing to do with your appetite. Yet, many of us were told to clean the plate because children are starving in Europe. At the very least, it was considered rude to not finish your food--your mother spent some time cooking it so you'd better eat it. And that lives with us into our adult lives.
The other good point about this is time. My sister is quite overweight. She's done some things about it and she's losing the weight. But as an instructor pointed out, "You spent 20 years putting on that weight. It's not going to all come off in 20 days."
Maybe it's sort of like a Fail Whale?
I tried reading a book on my phone, and it was a miserable experience. I see people on the bus doing it, but having to scroll constantly is very annoying.
Again, it's the trade-off of size versus convenience.
I have a couple of books on my iPhone and I'll be the first to agree that reading is far from optimal. On the other hand, my phone is always with me so that convenience makes up for the hassle. I probably won't drag an e-reader or tablet around with me on the off-chance that I find myself with 20 minutes of thumb-twiiddling to do.
But if I was lying in a hammock on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I wouldn't put up with it, agreed.
Yeah, I saw "Full Metal Jacket," too.
We're leaving Iraq. We're leaving through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It's the overland route...
(It's a variation on an old George Carlin bit)
ob. joke.. I like my coffee like my men - strong and black.
I like my caffeine the way I like my women: Cold and Yellow.
(I like Mountain Dew/Mello Yello)
Actually, I'm not sure that the Cable Companies particularly care about Aereo. So far they've been sued by the broadcast networks because they don't pay for the programming they're putting out.
You still need that broadband connection in order to get to Aereo.
One thought that a friend of mine had...
There's a site in New York City that streams live TV called Aereo. They've fought the fight in court and have come out ahead.
It would be interesting to see TWC set up a site like this to stream, say, KCBS from an antenna located in the Los Angeles area to TWC cable boxes in the Los Angeles area, WCBS from an antenna located in the New York City area to TWC cable boxes in New York City, etc.
Hey, if Aereo can do it and not have to pay the stations, why shouldn't Time-Warner?
It won't solve the Showtime/TMC/Flix/Smithsonian issue, though.
Compared to?
According to TFA, it's "up to 9 hours." The original Nexus 7 had 10 hours, so it's an hour less. But considering it has to drive that Retina-like display, it's pretty darn good.
Not to mention Stew. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.
If you want instant, as it happens [...]
Fortunately, "instant, as it happens" is frequently inaccurate and generally a waste of time.
I'm not in Venice, CA. No one I know is in Venice, CA. So I don't really need "instant, as it happens" information on things that happen in Venice, CA. I can certainly wait until the next day to find out what happened. I'd rather have accurate information the next day than misinformation now.
Just warm up the planet and then we won't have to worry about this "ice" stuff.
I think he means things that act as servers but are based in the home.
For example, I was recently having an issue with my garage door opener remote. I went and bought a new one and was looking through some of the instructions that came with it when they made a reference to their Liftmaster Internet Gateway product, which will allow you to open/close/lock your garage door via the Internet, as well as monitoring the status of your garage door (eg, is it open?)
I'm not all that convinced that this is a good idea--personally, I don't want to open my garage door from anywhere in the world and I'd prefer if others didn't have the capability either. I wouldn't mind being able to know if my garage door is open--I've been known to forget to close it from time to time and it does make me a bit paranoid.
But according to Google, this is a "home server" and, therefore, would not be allowed.
And I'd like to say how proud I am of this community right now, here is a legitimate small business trying to stay alive and instead of the usual "Just accept getting ripped off, information wants to be free!" bullshit instead there is actual discussion on how best to protect his content while still giving the customers a good experience.
You assume we're actually giving him good advice...
"Uh, yeah, I'd use that ROT 13 encryption. Nobody would ever be able to break that..."
Keep in mind the training costs of using these circular round objects to generate binary decisions.
I'd be interested in seeing a citation for that one...
Actually, I would argue that the other issue is range.
The baseball bat and sword are as effective as a pistol at close range--say, within 3 feet or so. However, a pistol is effective at a much further range--figure 20-30 feet. It is much more difficult to get out of range of a pistol than it is to get out of range of a baseball bat or sword.