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  • Apple Intelligence inches closer to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator

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    StrangeDays said:
    chadbag said:
    cg27 said:
    Um, interesting story, but go back to 1968 when 2001: A Space Odyssey blew everyone’s mind, on several levels, the tech depiction being just one.  HAL, tablets (albeit “laying” on a desk since they were 50 years ahead of the tech), etc etc

    Let’s not give Sculley any credit for this.
    So Elon Musk doesn’t get credit for usable EVs then as they had EVs roaming the streets a century ago.  Is that how we score it?
    No, because he didn’t found Tesla, he bought it, and he’s not an engineer, and as we’ve learned with the very public Twitter fails, a rather foolish manager. Classic case of failing upward (he was fired from PayPal before they even became PayPal). Wish my daddy had an emerald mine in S. Africa, nice way to start in life. 
    Exactly.  He wanted to call PayPal "X", smarter people wouldn't let him.  Unfortunately nobody could stop him from ruining Xitter.
    Alex1N9secondkox2jony0

  • Apple Intelligence inches closer to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator

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    StrangeDays said:
    VictorMortimer said:
    One of the best things John Sculley ever did was firing Steve Jobs.

    The worst thing Gil Amelio ever did was bringing him back.  NeXTSTEP was a good OS, and an excellent choice for the basis for a new Mac OS.  But the second thing Amelio should have done after buying NeXT was firing Steve Jobs again.
    Insanity 
    I know, right?  Jobs was very good at one thing:  Taking credit for other people's work.  One of the first things he did when he came back was taking the engineers' names out of the about boxes, removing credit from the people who actually wrote the software.  It was something that Apple had always done until then, something that Steve Wozniak wouldn't let him take away from the engineers.  He was an absolute psychopath, that's the part of his personality that lots of people seem to want to forget.  He should never have been allowed to run the company, if he was given any responsibility it should have been as a marketing personality, he could do a good keynote - mostly because that let him take credit he didn't deserve.

    We're still suffering from bad Steve Jobs decisions.  Nobody but a psychopath would glue the batteries into a laptop or phone.
    9secondkox2

  • Apple Intelligence inches closer to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator

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    chadbag said:
    cg27 said:
    Um, interesting story, but go back to 1968 when 2001: A Space Odyssey blew everyone’s mind, on several levels, the tech depiction being just one.  HAL, tablets (albeit “laying” on a desk since they were 50 years ahead of the tech), etc etc

    Let’s not give Sculley any credit for this.
    So Elon Musk doesn’t get credit for usable EVs then as they had EVs roaming the streets a century ago.  Is that how we score it?


    The elongated muskrat doesn't get credit for EVs.  Tesla existed before he stuck his nose in it and turned it into Turdla.

    And yes, EVs did exist a century ago, they're not a new concept.  And they were just as usable then as ICE cars were.  It's unfortunate that the petroleum industry managed to grow to the point that they could prevent them from becoming the standard.  We'd probably have some amazing battery technology by now, with thousand mile range cars that charge in 5 minutes.

    All Twitler gets credit for is being vulture capitalist scum.
    StrangeDaysDAalsethAlex1N9secondkox2

  • Apple Intelligence inches closer to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator

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    One of the best things John Sculley ever did was firing Steve Jobs.

    The worst thing Gil Amelio ever did was bringing him back.  NeXTSTEP was a good OS, and an excellent choice for the basis for a new Mac OS.  But the second thing Amelio should have done after buying NeXT was firing Steve Jobs again.
    9secondkox2

  • Apple's new diversity exec hails from Bank of America

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    AppleZulu said:
    Came here to see the knee-jerk semi-racist and pretty-much-racist responses to anything ever posted here related to this subject. I was unsurprised to find it stacking up as expected.

    It's funny when people object to intentional efforts for diversity and inclusion as a pearl-clutching affront to "merit-based" hiring, as if merit based hiring has ever been a thing. When non-male, non-white people are excluded and steered away from a field like coding or engineering at every turn starting with early childhood, the resultant competition among the folks who make it to the point where they can even apply for the job cannot then be called winners in a merit-based system. If your competition has been repeatedly kneecapped before they ever make it to the starting line, getting to the finish line first does not make you a merit-based winner. If half your competition has never had a chance to get to the race, even as you "win," you should know that you've never actually been tested in a merit-based system.
    I was afraid I'd see nothing but racism in this thread.  Thank you for being the voice of sanity.
    JustSomeGuy1dewmeAlex_V9secondkox2argonaut