Modded "Off-Topic"??? Like nobody else here posts off-topic for a joke.
This was probably modded by the person who thought I was serious and posted a smug reply only to delete it (and my reply to his/her reply) after I pointed out that it was a (perhaps bad) joke. Note the reference to the version numbers which seems not to realize that they are from different versioning methods.
I did the same as you. My first thought was that the article was about employees of Microsoft leaving to go to Apple.
No doubt Microsoft has a lot of really excellent people working for them, but their results are constrained by the code-base they have to work with, as well as the mega-corporate morass of Microsoft.
However, I don't see Apple really gaining by this unless it is (1) a few higher profile people (high profile for talent reasons, not high profile in the Balmer sense) or (2) Apple really really grows and needs a lot of people.
Public Sharing but not Public Viewing.
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Please excuse this if it has been posted already (a search did not find it).
This is not useful to me unless I can give a link for my students in the course web page for them to view the calendar.
If I have to cancel an office hour for a meeting whose time I can't change, I immediately update my calendar and my students can (with Yahoo) check to see if my schedule has changed before they drop in. [As Faculty Senate President this year, it happens more than I'd like.] Google's Calendar is much nicer than Yahoo's to use and view, but it can't seem to be viewed publicly. There is no way I can expect my whole class to use an news reader or a calendaring application which can use the ical format.
Also, it has a great deal of difficulty importing my ical files. I have to enter about half by hand.
As much as I am in love with Google, I'd have to call this 'alpha'.
....a good hint that I was joking (even though it might have been lame) was the mention of something as inconsequential as version number (particularly since the 3.11 was of the old style and the '95 was of the new type).
No.
No analogy attempted.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
I was reading through the fray and just thought I'd use the moment to pick on the creaky dos underpinnings which should have been gone long before 1995.
I have been an 'evolutionist' for my whole life. I find the offered alternatives so banal that I don't waste my breath on arguing the point with anyone.
Has anybody wondered what the missing link is between Windows 3.11 and 95?
There is a very wide gulf there, both in the OS and the version number. They have to be related, though, because the have so much common DNA (dos).
So far, Apple has been hurt more by expectations (by the media, investors, us) that every MacWorld, press conference, and birthday is going to bring some earth-shattering device or service. 2006 has be rough in that regard for Apple. Along the same line, there are press reports that sales of the iPod are down, but don't say relative to what...how could the sales continue at the pace set in the Christmas season? Apple is not Jesus.
Of course, neither were the Beatles and they weathered that ok.
I always though it was funny that people did not buy into the success of the Ewoks in the last skirmish. They'll buy into death stars, light sabers, but then balk at the Ewoks.
There is a probably lot of truth in what you've said.
However, here is something I tell my children:
The reputation you build is the lens through which others see whatever you say or do. If you build a reputation for saying crazy things, then you'll have a difficult time getting any ideas across, well-reasoned or not. Similarly, if you have a reputation for delivering shoddy products, you'll have to deliver many a good product before they're given the credit they're due.
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Modded "Off-Topic"??? Like nobody else here posts off-topic for a joke.
This was probably modded by the person who thought I was serious and posted a smug reply only to delete it (and my reply to his/her reply) after I pointed out that it was a (perhaps bad) joke. Note the reference to the version numbers which seems not to realize that they are from different versioning methods.
I did the same as you. My first thought was that the article was about employees of Microsoft leaving to go to Apple.
No doubt Microsoft has a lot of really excellent people working for them, but their results are constrained by the code-base they have to work with, as well as the mega-corporate morass of Microsoft.
However, I don't see Apple really gaining by this unless it is (1) a few higher profile people (high profile for talent reasons, not high profile in the Balmer sense) or (2) Apple really really grows and needs a lot of people.
Please excuse this if it has been posted already (a search did not find it).
This is not useful to me unless I can give a link for my students in the course web page for them to view the calendar.
If I have to cancel an office hour for a meeting whose time I can't change, I immediately update my calendar and my students can (with Yahoo) check to see if my schedule has changed before they drop in. [As Faculty Senate President this year, it happens more than I'd like.] Google's Calendar is much nicer than Yahoo's to use and view, but it can't seem to be viewed publicly. There is no way I can expect my whole class to use an news reader or a calendaring application which can use the ical format.
Also, it has a great deal of difficulty importing my ical files. I have to enter about half by hand.
As much as I am in love with Google, I'd have to call this 'alpha'.
....a good hint that I was joking (even though it might have been lame) was the mention of something as inconsequential as version number (particularly since the 3.11 was of the old style and the '95 was of the new type).
No. No analogy attempted. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I was reading through the fray and just thought I'd use the moment to pick on the creaky dos underpinnings which should have been gone long before 1995. I have been an 'evolutionist' for my whole life. I find the offered alternatives so banal that I don't waste my breath on arguing the point with anyone.
Has anybody wondered what the missing link is between Windows 3.11 and 95? There is a very wide gulf there, both in the OS and the version number. They have to be related, though, because the have so much common DNA (dos).
So far, Apple has been hurt more by expectations (by the media, investors, us) that every MacWorld, press conference, and birthday is going to bring some earth-shattering device or service. 2006 has be rough in that regard for Apple. Along the same line, there are press reports that sales of the iPod are down, but don't say relative to what...how could the sales continue at the pace set in the Christmas season? Apple is not Jesus.
Of course, neither were the Beatles and they weathered that ok.
As it says on the bag of non-Walmart flour I buy: "The bitter taste of the others remain long after their bargain price is forgotten."
I always though it was funny that people did not buy into the success of the Ewoks in the last skirmish. They'll buy into death stars, light sabers, but then balk at the Ewoks.
There is a probably lot of truth in what you've said. However, here is something I tell my children: The reputation you build is the lens through which others see whatever you say or do. If you build a reputation for saying crazy things, then you'll have a difficult time getting any ideas across, well-reasoned or not. Similarly, if you have a reputation for delivering shoddy products, you'll have to deliver many a good product before they're given the credit they're due.