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Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron Apple has ONLY one goal: Make as much money as possible. They will do anything to get there. Is Jobs still on a $1 salary? You can't characterize any company that way. In Apple's case, they genuinely are i…
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Competition is also a bad thing in software development. Enlightened and agile software development says to break down the barriers. That is, you don't have analysts and designers vs programmers, with the analysts disappearing after paper documents …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas So, all you are really saying, is that for a business, the owners or the shareholders, a lack of competition is good. That is sort of what he meant when he said "Unless you're a shareholder I guess". Obviously, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Competition is neither good nor bad. Its results can be constructive, or destructive. It is only the actions of competitors that make the result of competition positive or negative, and there is no guarantee…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacFitzPro My biggest worry (and I am a worry wart) is that post-PC will mean post-content creation. I love my ipad, but in its current 1.0 form, its really difficult to create content with. I worry Apple is headed d…
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iTunes 9.1.1 - this must have been an emergency update in the US!
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Quote: Originally Posted by christopher126 This may have already been said but, at first glance the two most important complaints of Adobe's Flash is it is not modern and a resource hog... Stevo does not want his Apple platform infected with i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor I think that Gates represents a big segment of the tech nerd set but a small segment of the overall population. The tech nerds look at the iPad's tech specs, not at the whole device. They go down the spec she…
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Quote: Originally Posted by steviet02 You do know Steve Jobs never developed, engineered, or designed anything right? Is he a hypocrite too for saying something isn't up to snuff? At least Gates actually designed, engineered, developed, SOMET…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AngusYoung If you are reading a story on Reuters and a message comes in from SMS or Email and you answer it, you have to go back into the App. Find the story, and then find out where you left off reading. Epic Fail…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CU10 Spoken like a true Burroughs salesman! Ha you are joking - Burroughs sales people couldn't sell anything - they were known as the Burroughs sales prevention force \ Mind you, they did have to combat the IBM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sidste Why multi-tasking: because I might want to. It is that simple. I could be working on a document and need to go to the web to look something up. Save the document, close it out, open safari, get my info and so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by b-a-r .. I'm sorry, but this thing just baffles me. I felt seriously sorry for Jobs, watching the keynote and seeing all those webpages load with the missing Flashplayer icon. I see he's totally into it, and honestly s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by habesz85 Have you guys ever made a presentation or something like that? The ones telling, that multitasking is not needed at all, probably have no idea of productivity! You don't need *general* multitasking. How …
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No it's named after the Burroughs A4 ;-) from its A Series, the later version of the original B5000. The link is very close - Robert (Bob) Barton designed the B5000 and later taught students such as Alan Kay at Uni of Utah. Kay of course started all…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I don't see that at all. Forget what I said about bits and its storage, which is why I restated it, I didn't think you'd keep focus on that. Either you put a "document" into the "trash" or a "document" int…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Let me restate it then. It doesn't actually matter what the label is. If you drop a paper into a trash bin or a recycle bin, once the Janitor empties it, you're not getting the information on that paper back a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ijoyner No, you've still missed the point. The file as an abstraction is far removed from the bits it is stored on. It IS the FILE this operation applies to. The line of thinking is not rigid, just accurate. What shoul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Your line of thinking seems too rigid, possibly blinded by your hatred. Sure, it's not really environmental, and it is on the politically correct side, but you are freeing up the storage for other uses, recycli…
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Microsoft pundits would like to believe Apple's fortunes against MS were due to the ad campaign, thus living in the usual state of denial that Apple makes superior stuff. Secondly, the fact that internally MS people are putting "I'm a PC" sticker…