Gates will be remembered, rightly or wrongly, as leading the computer revolution by taking it from the hobbyist era to what it is today.
Then wrongly, of course. It was Dan Bricklin primarily, and the IBM logo secondarily. I.e. Apple ][ was making inroads into business with Visicalc before the IBM PC came along. The IBM logo just gave businesses cover to save face. And of course that's not even mentioning the whole Digital Research and QDOS stories you were hinting at.
50 years from now, there will be a chapter, or at least a paragraph, of Jobs' handiwork in an industrial design textbook (or eBook). No one will care what Gates did because the environmental condition that permitted his tactics -- closed-source, closed file-format, vendor lock-in, intentional incompatibility with competitors -- will never exist again.
Java was popular because it had the backing of Sun, a multi-billion dollar company. C was popular because it had the backing of AT&T, ditto. Ada was popular because it had the backing of DOD.
Not just self-selected, but those who have time to play videogames (and maybe have lots of prior experience playing videogames -- like maybe because there is no sunlight in Anchorage during the winter?)
The uppercase is deck chairs. The uppercase does make it look a little cleaner; yes, and the tradeoff is a little harder to read. Not a big deal either way. But if you've read any of the Windows Metro philosophy papers, the "chrome" was supposed to go away and be replaced with blank panels, clean typography, images, and animation -- in short, give desktop apps the same clean appearance as iPhone apps. Then why is there still a strip of little-used icons? Does anyone really click the floppy icon to save? No, of course, not. You either click CTRL-S, or, since it's Visual Studio (and I don't know why Borland and Eclipse don't do this), you just click "Build" and it saves automatically. And all the other icons, I still don't know what they do after 20 years of using Visual Studio.
After reading the Metro philosophy papers, I was initially excited. I was eager to see how Microsoft was going to adapt its products to the new philosophy. Now I see that has gone the way of Longhorn WinFS. And besides, I've since realized that it's better to target HTML5 (with Canvas -- pixels finally come to HTML) than Metro anyway.
A quick CTRL-F on "salary" and "money" turned up no matches at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/socioplt/viz/rank.html. And just to add a bit of flamebait. I guess that's what we can expect from an institution with the political and economic philosophy of Berkeley.
Sometimes it really is sad watching one of the oldest countries in the world, once rich and deep with its own unique culture...be reduced to a Xerox machine.
There are a lot of things Facebook could be doing to increase revenue. Building a smart phone is not one of them. Facebook is reminding me of Microsoft: some early standing on the shoulders of giants and good timing on being second to market, then total bust on later creativity.
Facebook has identified the lack of screen real estate on mobile devices as limiting their revenue growth. So their solution is to come out with their own phone with a larger screen? This reminds me of Microsoft's solution to Google's competition by coming out with Bing. I dunno, maybe this lack of creativity comes from the constraints of being a public company, but nevertheless it's a lack of creativity.
Facebook should embrace the smartphone rather than fight it. Along with limited screen real estate comes continuous connectivity and more frequent interaction. Facebook should improve its ad-serving algorithm and present users with one good ad at a time instead of a panoply of irrelevant ads. Here are some ideas for you Facebook execs out there:
1. Nice idea to make a default Facebook page for every Wikipedia entry. But they're not only all dead, they're also all locked! Why not create an automatic discussion group out of every one of those pages instead of waiting for a masochist to claim ownership of it? Then people would be more inclined to Like those pages/groups instead of ignoring them. And then Facebook would be able to create an even better profile on each user.
2. When there is a quotation on a Facebook group dedicated to an author, how about an Amazon affiliate link to buy the book from whence it came?
3. Expanding on #1 above, how about a DMOZ-style human-edited directory of Facebook interest pages? User interests could be determined by which portion of the DMOZ tree the user focuses on, as well as of course also encouraging users to express their interests by joining additional groups.
4. Buy Yelp! or one of the other city guides. Facebook needs to not only know more about its users to serve more relevant ads, it needs to know what its users' desires are when they have them and are actually searching (the advantage Google has over Facebook -- e.g. GM and Facebook didn't know when users were actually in the market for a car).
5. Allow advertisers to target fans of any given group, not just the groups/pages they own! Extending that, allow advertisers to select whether to have their ads displayed when users are actually on that group page.
In short, Facebook needs to think, "I have room for one ad; what is the one ad I will show this user right now?" I remember Facebook used to show only one or two ads at a time. Now they show five or six. More of the same. Lack of creativity.
Also, additional holes are often cut into the sub hull, to access locations inaccessible from the interior, to bring large equipment in/out, and to provide convenient (horizontal) human access.
Vacuum tubes went the way of the dinosaurs in the 1960s
Cutting the summary writer some slack, ignoring audiophile amps, ignoring guitar amps, ignoring microwave ovens, ignoring broadcast equipment, and even ignoring cathode ray tubes (which still outnumbered flat panel sales through 2004), consumer television sets didn't go "solid state" until 1975 (I remember it being a big deal to have the "solid state" badge on the front of a new-fangled TV because it meant you didn't have to wait (as long) for it to warm up).
Web pages that rely on JavaScript and JIT will be big losers.
Two things wrong with this statement:
1. A browser lacking JIT will still process JavaScript, just more slowly.
2. While a web page might lose a few impatient users, and thus become a secondary loser, the primary loser is the one who is the subject of the summary: the smartphone user who is locked in to a particular browser.
Taking these together, the statement "Users who rely on JIT will be losers" would be more accurate.
I took BASIC in the summer between fourth and fifth grade. It was the summer before the TRS-80 and the Apple ][ were widely available, so we learned on the instructor's home-built ALTAIR. Storage was on paper tape. OK, so it wasn't standard curriculum (although it was held at a public school, it was privately arranged with the instructor volunteering his time). But just four years after that, The Math Box put Atari 800's in every Fairfax County school. Rumor has it that salesman made $80,000 commission. It wasn't until a few years ago that I learned the rest of the world went Commodore 64.
For a while last night, the front page of cnn.com read, "Days after his company made its stock market debut, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan." The new cycle has shortened so much that even journalists now make the error of thinking several days have elapsed when only 24 hours have.
FB knows your stated desires. GOOG knows you're hidden desires. FB gets you when you're goofing off. GOOG gets you when you're actively seeking something and you're ready to buy.
Muslims weren't always extremists, that happened after Brittian, France and US decided to chop up the Ottoman empire "so it didn't pose a threat". That backfired didn't it?
You're right. When a Taliban enforcer drags a school teacher out into the town square that used to be a soccer field before they banned playing soccer, and shoots her in the head because she has offended Allah by encouraging girls to think, that is definitely the fault of western civilization. No question.
Indeed it is the fault of the U.S. for seeking out during the cold war the harshest, most extreme Muslims in Afghanistan, prop them up and arm them in response to the Soviet invasion, thereby conducting a cowardly war by proxy. Oh, wait, it's even worse than that. The U.S. did that before the Soviets invaded, meaning the Soviets invaded in response to the U.S. propping up the Taliban.
Isn't it time to drop the "D" in DDR? Double what? Double of DDR3?
It's actually double 1990's technology, as DDR 1.0 was specified in 2000! Good thing this isn't a mass consumer product, because the FTC might go after a company claiming "double" in comparison to product that was produced potentially prior to the birth of the purchaser.
It reminds me of the mistake computer and software companies would make in the 80's of calling the second version of a product the "plus" version, and then the subsequent versions would be "plus 2.0", "plus 3.0" etc.
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Then wrongly, of course. It was Dan Bricklin primarily, and the IBM logo secondarily. I.e. Apple ][ was making inroads into business with Visicalc before the IBM PC came along. The IBM logo just gave businesses cover to save face. And of course that's not even mentioning the whole Digital Research and QDOS stories you were hinting at.
Please send money immediately.
50 years from now, there will be a chapter, or at least a paragraph, of Jobs' handiwork in an industrial design textbook (or eBook). No one will care what Gates did because the environmental condition that permitted his tactics -- closed-source, closed file-format, vendor lock-in, intentional incompatibility with competitors -- will never exist again.
This reminds me of the common quarrel, "It's not that you cheated on me, it's the way you did it, that you lied about it."
Java was popular because it had the backing of Sun, a multi-billion dollar company. C was popular because it had the backing of AT&T, ditto. Ada was popular because it had the backing of DOD.
Not just self-selected, but those who have time to play videogames (and maybe have lots of prior experience playing videogames -- like maybe because there is no sunlight in Anchorage during the winter?)
The uppercase is deck chairs. The uppercase does make it look a little cleaner; yes, and the tradeoff is a little harder to read. Not a big deal either way. But if you've read any of the Windows Metro philosophy papers, the "chrome" was supposed to go away and be replaced with blank panels, clean typography, images, and animation -- in short, give desktop apps the same clean appearance as iPhone apps. Then why is there still a strip of little-used icons? Does anyone really click the floppy icon to save? No, of course, not. You either click CTRL-S, or, since it's Visual Studio (and I don't know why Borland and Eclipse don't do this), you just click "Build" and it saves automatically. And all the other icons, I still don't know what they do after 20 years of using Visual Studio.
After reading the Metro philosophy papers, I was initially excited. I was eager to see how Microsoft was going to adapt its products to the new philosophy. Now I see that has gone the way of Longhorn WinFS. And besides, I've since realized that it's better to target HTML5 (with Canvas -- pixels finally come to HTML) than Metro anyway.
A quick CTRL-F on "salary" and "money" turned up no matches at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/socioplt/viz/rank.html. And just to add a bit of flamebait. I guess that's what we can expect from an institution with the political and economic philosophy of Berkeley.
Like Virginia?
There are many ambiguities in the summary.
1. The bridge was over water, not a roadway.
2. This was neither caused by "New York traffic" nor did it disrupt (land) traffic.
3. The protective covering that was damaged was on the Enterprise, not the bridge.
4. You can view photos of the damage yourself.
We have reentered the realm of scribes. Time to apply textual criticism.
Enforcement will be via Predator drone.
Maybe IE10 could also automatically add you to the Do Not Kill list. Microsoft can use all the incentives it can find to coax people into using IE.
There are a lot of things Facebook could be doing to increase revenue. Building a smart phone is not one of them. Facebook is reminding me of Microsoft: some early standing on the shoulders of giants and good timing on being second to market, then total bust on later creativity.
Facebook has identified the lack of screen real estate on mobile devices as limiting their revenue growth. So their solution is to come out with their own phone with a larger screen? This reminds me of Microsoft's solution to Google's competition by coming out with Bing. I dunno, maybe this lack of creativity comes from the constraints of being a public company, but nevertheless it's a lack of creativity.
Facebook should embrace the smartphone rather than fight it. Along with limited screen real estate comes continuous connectivity and more frequent interaction. Facebook should improve its ad-serving algorithm and present users with one good ad at a time instead of a panoply of irrelevant ads. Here are some ideas for you Facebook execs out there:
1. Nice idea to make a default Facebook page for every Wikipedia entry. But they're not only all dead, they're also all locked! Why not create an automatic discussion group out of every one of those pages instead of waiting for a masochist to claim ownership of it? Then people would be more inclined to Like those pages/groups instead of ignoring them. And then Facebook would be able to create an even better profile on each user.
2. When there is a quotation on a Facebook group dedicated to an author, how about an Amazon affiliate link to buy the book from whence it came?
3. Expanding on #1 above, how about a DMOZ-style human-edited directory of Facebook interest pages? User interests could be determined by which portion of the DMOZ tree the user focuses on, as well as of course also encouraging users to express their interests by joining additional groups.
4. Buy Yelp! or one of the other city guides. Facebook needs to not only know more about its users to serve more relevant ads, it needs to know what its users' desires are when they have them and are actually searching (the advantage Google has over Facebook -- e.g. GM and Facebook didn't know when users were actually in the market for a car).
5. Allow advertisers to target fans of any given group, not just the groups/pages they own! Extending that, allow advertisers to select whether to have their ads displayed when users are actually on that group page.
In short, Facebook needs to think, "I have room for one ad; what is the one ad I will show this user right now?" I remember Facebook used to show only one or two ads at a time. Now they show five or six. More of the same. Lack of creativity.
As Naomi Wolf, explained about a decade ago, porn has an equal effect on women, as they must act out porn scenes in order to get close to a man.
Also, additional holes are often cut into the sub hull, to access locations inaccessible from the interior, to bring large equipment in/out, and to provide convenient (horizontal) human access.
Cutting the summary writer some slack, ignoring audiophile amps, ignoring guitar amps, ignoring microwave ovens, ignoring broadcast equipment, and even ignoring cathode ray tubes (which still outnumbered flat panel sales through 2004), consumer television sets didn't go "solid state" until 1975 (I remember it being a big deal to have the "solid state" badge on the front of a new-fangled TV because it meant you didn't have to wait (as long) for it to warm up).
From the summary:
Two things wrong with this statement:
1. A browser lacking JIT will still process JavaScript, just more slowly.
2. While a web page might lose a few impatient users, and thus become a secondary loser, the primary loser is the one who is the subject of the summary: the smartphone user who is locked in to a particular browser.
Taking these together, the statement "Users who rely on JIT will be losers" would be more accurate.
I took BASIC in the summer between fourth and fifth grade. It was the summer before the TRS-80 and the Apple ][ were widely available, so we learned on the instructor's home-built ALTAIR. Storage was on paper tape. OK, so it wasn't standard curriculum (although it was held at a public school, it was privately arranged with the instructor volunteering his time). But just four years after that, The Math Box put Atari 800's in every Fairfax County school. Rumor has it that salesman made $80,000 commission. It wasn't until a few years ago that I learned the rest of the world went Commodore 64.
For a while last night, the front page of cnn.com read, "Days after his company made its stock market debut, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan." The new cycle has shortened so much that even journalists now make the error of thinking several days have elapsed when only 24 hours have.
FB knows your stated desires. GOOG knows you're hidden desires. FB gets you when you're goofing off. GOOG gets you when you're actively seeking something and you're ready to buy.
GOOG is undervalued.
Indeed it is the fault of the U.S. for seeking out during the cold war the harshest, most extreme Muslims in Afghanistan, prop them up and arm them in response to the Soviet invasion, thereby conducting a cowardly war by proxy. Oh, wait, it's even worse than that. The U.S. did that before the Soviets invaded, meaning the Soviets invaded in response to the U.S. propping up the Taliban.
Isn't it time to drop the "D" in DDR? Double what? Double of DDR3?
It's actually double 1990's technology, as DDR 1.0 was specified in 2000! Good thing this isn't a mass consumer product, because the FTC might go after a company claiming "double" in comparison to product that was produced potentially prior to the birth of the purchaser.
It reminds me of the mistake computer and software companies would make in the 80's of calling the second version of a product the "plus" version, and then the subsequent versions would be "plus 2.0", "plus 3.0" etc.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fb
When is the physical cat ever let out of the bag?