I used the same email address, an @gmail.com addy, to sign up for YouTube, that I registered as my G+ account. I have had the YouTube account for years, so it wasn't something new I did.
Last time I tried to log onto YouTube I got a dialogue saying I would from now on have to log onto YouTube using my Google+ credentials. It would no longer be possible to log on using my old YouTube account's password, which only incidentally is connected to Google through my using a gmail account to sign up. I think I even got the YouTube account before Google bought them.
Just as an experience, install Windows 7 on your mac and see how it runs there. Those hardware specs look overkill and you might just need a more robust OS.
All of the cards listed worked almost entirely on bizarre proprietary drivers and were built specially for the hardcore gamers of the time.
Wrong. Completely wrong.
There are thousands and thousands of perfectly usable Dell Optiplex boxes out there with integrated ATI Rage video on embedded AGP. There is no hardware AGP connector, so if you opt out, your other choice is a plain vanilla PCI card. They are not exotic gamer-only hardware.
80's Jobs couldn't have done these deals (the arrogant sob), it took him 20 years to become experienced enough to cut these kind of deals (and running a successful media company himself for a decade probably didn't hurt either.) But yeah look down on him because he succeeded where others fail because failing makes you a tragic hero and succeeding just means you sold out.
He had to run around in the 'Entertainment Industry Sleeze Crowd' which he got the opportunity to do with Pixar. It was basically Jobs upgrading his skills from the 'computer wiz, cocaine dealer' era, which had been an upgrade from the 'bluebox dealer' hustle he played to fund the start of Apple. The guy is a slippery marketing dude. The kind of person we all avoid and hope the senior staff in Engineering at our workplaces can keep out of our meetings.
No, it wasn't features. It was Jobs' "connections" with the entertainment industry. He made a deal with the big music publishers and 'broke the ice' in a big way with the whole iTunes operation. Translate: he introduced just the right amount of poison, in the form of DRM, to entice the public while keeping the media-company attorney at bay. That was 'the miracle' that 'saved Apple.'
OSX was based on all the work done at NeXT. Some of that work could have happened while he was at Apple and OSX (with a different name) could have been released in the 80s or 90s.
Sadly, you are incorrect. The developers' culture at Apple proved incapable of producing a real operating system with robust mutlitasking. Apple pissed away countless millions trying before they gave up and bought an outside codebase (which itself was just layers on top of something from outside NeXT.) The 'regulars' at Apple had failed dismally.
Apple was and is full of ninnys who fret about details, 'industrial design' and their Trotskyite-style* views of 'what the users MUST experience using our product.' Things like the legacy of the one-button mouse.
When those sorts of deals are being made, it is titans fighting over the shell of whatever the company was in the past. So saying 'it worked' is like saying that the Levis you buy at WalMart are the same pants, from the same company,as the Levis you bought in 1973.
Many 'famous American Brands' are just hollow shells these days, i.e. Coleman the camping gear company. Winchester the gun company. You can buy Chinese junk with those brands on it at home stores now.
Yes. In those photos, Jobs looks like a crack dealer. Not the high-class cocaine dealer he was back in the 80's before the crack epidemic really kicked in.
until Jobs came back after learning hard lessons at NeXT.
So what old 'blow' learned at NeXT was 'product first' marketing? You're nuts. Maybe he figured that out after the major smackdown. What Jobs learned in the years after he first was thrown out of Apple was how to schmooze. Then, on his return, they were ballsy and just barely big enough to have the critical mass to 'in your face' market an MP3 player that the Music Industry couldn't defeat.
Your revisionist history is fun to spin up, though. Looks spiffy balanced on the tip of your finger.
Hopefully it will be worthless. In the best scenario, the Apple logo will be mainly seen on cards sold at supermarket checkstands, the way the Napster logo presently is.
We're allowed to say that here, even on the wholly apple-owned apple.slashdot.org sub-domain, correct?
You are correct, but what you are talking about is not 'making the market,' you refer to 'keeping the economy viable.' As in: producing something of actual value.
'The Market' as grandparent referred to it is a gathering of parasites. They may be somewhat necessary. Some of the time.
Why would you need 3D graphics support for a home server?
Then again, why would you use an OS that required X at all for a home server? Just avoid the 'Windows Tailpipe Fume Chasing' options that insist that configuration has to be done using X11. NetBSD is a good option, for instance.
GenRad is still pretty good, though I am not that big an enthusiast for Digibridges. Any instrument that goes 'dead' when a calibration battery dies is a disappointment to me. My old General Radio LCR Bridges have stayed accurate and usable for decades without needing any special attention.
Their driver software, particularly the 'bundle' that comes under the guise of being a 'printer driver' is more immense and bloated than many full operating systems.
It used to be that an HP printer sat out on the other end of a wire and you just shot Postscript at it. But those days are long gone.
In my mind General Radio (GenRad) and Tektronix equal high quality test equipment. And Fluke used to be in that bracket. HP has good gear in certain segments of the market (frequency generators, spectrum analyzers, etc.) but their Oscilloscopes have been total junk going back even to the analog days.
When techs would compete to see who got which scope in the lab, someone had to end up with the HP scope. Nobody really wanted it.
Slashdot is all about IT these days. Or so a certain crowd has come to believe.
And the IT people don't even realize they don't 'own' computers or hardware in any way. But they think anything posted here has to be about their crappy job 'programming' web pages and putting more toner in the fucking LJ4 over in accounting.
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I used the same email address, an @gmail.com addy, to sign up for YouTube, that I registered as my G+ account. I have had the YouTube account for years, so it wasn't something new I did.
Last time I tried to log onto YouTube I got a dialogue saying I would from now on have to log onto YouTube using my Google+ credentials. It would no longer be possible to log on using my old YouTube account's password, which only incidentally is connected to Google through my using a gmail account to sign up. I think I even got the YouTube account before Google bought them.
Just as an experience, install Windows 7 on your mac and see how it runs there. Those hardware specs look overkill and you might just need a more robust OS.
All of the cards listed worked almost entirely on bizarre proprietary drivers and were built specially for the hardcore gamers of the time.
Wrong. Completely wrong.
There are thousands and thousands of perfectly usable Dell Optiplex boxes out there with integrated ATI Rage video on embedded AGP. There is no hardware AGP connector, so if you opt out, your other choice is a plain vanilla PCI card. They are not exotic gamer-only hardware.
He had to run around in the 'Entertainment Industry Sleeze Crowd' which he got the opportunity to do with Pixar. It was basically Jobs upgrading his skills from the 'computer wiz, cocaine dealer' era, which had been an upgrade from the 'bluebox dealer' hustle he played to fund the start of Apple. The guy is a slippery marketing dude. The kind of person we all avoid and hope the senior staff in Engineering at our workplaces can keep out of our meetings.
No, it wasn't features. It was Jobs' "connections" with the entertainment industry. He made a deal with the big music publishers and 'broke the ice' in a big way with the whole iTunes operation. Translate: he introduced just the right amount of poison, in the form of DRM, to entice the public while keeping the media-company attorney at bay. That was 'the miracle' that 'saved Apple.'
OSX was based on all the work done at NeXT. Some of that work could have happened while he was at Apple and OSX (with a different name) could have been released in the 80s or 90s.
Sadly, you are incorrect. The developers' culture at Apple proved incapable of producing a real operating system with robust mutlitasking. Apple pissed away countless millions trying before they gave up and bought an outside codebase (which itself was just layers on top of something from outside NeXT.) The 'regulars' at Apple had failed dismally.
Apple was and is full of ninnys who fret about details, 'industrial design' and their Trotskyite-style* views of 'what the users MUST experience using our product.' Things like the legacy of the one-button mouse.
(* Microsoft is Stalinist, Apple is Trotskyite)
Sure. That's $80 billion worth of sizzle. If they had that $80B tied up in productive capital or investments, it would be steak.
Companies can't 'buy' innovation. It's been tried before many times. Being cash rich means a company has done something successfully in it's past.
When those sorts of deals are being made, it is titans fighting over the shell of whatever the company was in the past. So saying 'it worked' is like saying that the Levis you buy at WalMart are the same pants, from the same company,as the Levis you bought in 1973.
Many 'famous American Brands' are just hollow shells these days, i.e. Coleman the camping gear company. Winchester the gun company. You can buy Chinese junk with those brands on it at home stores now.
Yes. In those photos, Jobs looks like a crack dealer. Not the high-class cocaine dealer he was back in the 80's before the crack epidemic really kicked in.
until Jobs came back after learning hard lessons at NeXT.
So what old 'blow' learned at NeXT was 'product first' marketing? You're nuts. Maybe he figured that out after the major smackdown. What Jobs learned in the years after he first was thrown out of Apple was how to schmooze. Then, on his return, they were ballsy and just barely big enough to have the critical mass to 'in your face' market an MP3 player that the Music Industry couldn't defeat.
Your revisionist history is fun to spin up, though. Looks spiffy balanced on the tip of your finger.
Hopefully it will be worthless. In the best scenario, the Apple logo will be mainly seen on cards sold at supermarket checkstands, the way the Napster logo presently is.
We're allowed to say that here, even on the wholly apple-owned apple.slashdot.org sub-domain, correct?
If Appe never had made the iPhone, the touch interface would never have gotten popular either.
That cannot be proven or disproved. So all it amounts to is an ungrounded assertion.
You are correct, but what you are talking about is not 'making the market,' you refer to 'keeping the economy viable.' As in: producing something of actual value.
'The Market' as grandparent referred to it is a gathering of parasites. They may be somewhat necessary. Some of the time.
Why would you need 3D graphics support for a home server?
Then again, why would you use an OS that required X at all for a home server? Just avoid the 'Windows Tailpipe Fume Chasing' options that insist that configuration has to be done using X11. NetBSD is a good option, for instance.
Whatever happened to the hard living souls that crossed America in wagon trains?
The people in NYC are the other people who stayed behind.
It explains quite a lot.
Or, there might be several shooting incidents, and the people tempted to become looters getting a little clue and calming down.
They don't actually do that in Texas.
Now, panicked limousine liberals might have their hired armed security dudes do that for them, though.
GenRad is still pretty good, though I am not that big an enthusiast for Digibridges. Any instrument that goes 'dead' when a calibration battery dies is a disappointment to me. My old General Radio LCR Bridges have stayed accurate and usable for decades without needing any special attention.
Better yet, publish it as one of those back-to-back books that you flip one way or the other to have the matched front covers.
I only bought my Kindle 3G for the free 3G internet. I've never, ever, bought any 'content' for it. Where do I get a torrent of this ebook?
oBama's Petroleum industry backers.
Well, apparently you've got nothing more to say, anyway.
Their driver software, particularly the 'bundle' that comes under the guise of being a 'printer driver' is more immense and bloated than many full operating systems.
It used to be that an HP printer sat out on the other end of a wire and you just shot Postscript at it. But those days are long gone.
In my mind General Radio (GenRad) and Tektronix equal high quality test equipment. And Fluke used to be in that bracket. HP has good gear in certain segments of the market (frequency generators, spectrum analyzers, etc.) but their Oscilloscopes have been total junk going back even to the analog days.
When techs would compete to see who got which scope in the lab, someone had to end up with the HP scope. Nobody really wanted it.
Slashdot is all about IT these days. Or so a certain crowd has come to believe.
And the IT people don't even realize they don't 'own' computers or hardware in any way. But they think anything posted here has to be about their crappy job 'programming' web pages and putting more toner in the fucking LJ4 over in accounting.