Of course we are not going to predict with complete accuracy what 2050 will be like. I'm hoping to have genetically engineered eyes in the back of my head so I can see my boss approach when I'm reading/.
But isn't it interesting to speculate about where we might be heading? We can look to the past 50 years of computing and see that the progress is incredible and only hope that the next 50 years will be as interesting. And in discussing the possibilites we might be exposed to ideas that will help us shape that future.
Sports commentators are paid mega$ to 'predict' the outcome of football games, and nobody says they can't predict the future, so why bother.
So what's wrong with IT commentators making a few $ suggesting where the industry might be going?
"coding glitch"
Maybe. Maybe not. Perhaps it's subtle viral marketing- let the nerds think they've spotted an error in the apple shrine / website and create excitement over the product.
Perhaps Jobs is sitting in his execs chair reading/. stroking his white cat and laughing manically as his latest plan comes together.
maybe ponces and posers do buy macs. Maybe apple do market their products to wannabes (God forbid a company makes a few ££ out of selling, er, stuff)
but if you attend any chemistry conference, I estimate 1/3 of all laptops used are iBooks / PowerBooks. This is accross the range of academia, from PhD students to Nobel Prize Winners and 1/3 seem to have chosen Macs.
Buy most definitions, chemists are pretty good nerds. So why the Mac? I suggest it's because it offers to speed and secuirty of *NIX / Open Source coupled with a wide range of proffesional software apps (ChemDraw, SciFinder) in a (pretty) box which is a piece of cake to use. If you're a busy scientist, you want the power, but you don't always want to spend all day reading man pages.
Maybe these people are all deluded idiots with heads up thier own arses, but to keep banging the same old tired drum about Macs only being the preserve of posers and artists just doesn't ring true any more.
Inverse snobbery from linux dorks is a terrible thing.....
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I have always used "Windows" as my primary navigation aid when driving.
Mainly by looking out of them
In an English court (High Court, and I think Crown Court) judges recevie the title "Mr Justice Smith" or "Lord Justice Smith."
Of course we are not going to predict with complete accuracy what 2050 will be like. I'm hoping to have genetically engineered eyes in the back of my head so I can see my boss approach when I'm reading /.
But isn't it interesting to speculate about where we might be heading? We can look to the past 50 years of computing and see that the progress is incredible and only hope that the next 50 years will be as interesting. And in discussing the possibilites we might be exposed to ideas that will help us shape that future.
Sports commentators are paid mega$ to 'predict' the outcome of football games, and nobody says they can't predict the future, so why bother.
So what's wrong with IT commentators making a few $ suggesting where the industry might be going?
Perhaps Jobs is sitting in his execs chair reading /. stroking his white cat and laughing manically as his latest plan comes together.
maybe ponces and posers do buy macs. Maybe apple do market their products to wannabes (God forbid a company makes a few ££ out of selling, er, stuff) but if you attend any chemistry conference, I estimate 1/3 of all laptops used are iBooks / PowerBooks. This is accross the range of academia, from PhD students to Nobel Prize Winners and 1/3 seem to have chosen Macs. Buy most definitions, chemists are pretty good nerds. So why the Mac? I suggest it's because it offers to speed and secuirty of *NIX / Open Source coupled with a wide range of proffesional software apps (ChemDraw, SciFinder) in a (pretty) box which is a piece of cake to use. If you're a busy scientist, you want the power, but you don't always want to spend all day reading man pages. Maybe these people are all deluded idiots with heads up thier own arses, but to keep banging the same old tired drum about Macs only being the preserve of posers and artists just doesn't ring true any more. Inverse snobbery from linux dorks is a terrible thing.....
I am a mac geek, 100%. I sat on my G4 powerbook, running Firefox and started to watch the ad 'restart'. The fuckin' browser crashed. The irony.