Jobs was certainly a controversial figure, and his business steamrolled a lot
of the smaller companies whose entrepreneurial initiatives could have gone
farther. But I think I will remember him for challenging his rivals. Some
things that are hard to deny:
* He showed that industrial design (for
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On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Richard Chonak wrote:
> You stay classy, now!
> --RC
>
>
> On 10/05/2011 08:26 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> I know it is bad form to speak ill of the dead, especially the recently
>> dead. In the end, Steve Jobs did copy some other people's
I am truly sorry to seem crass, but there is always that uncomfortable
reality where "titans of industry" have their transgressions white-washed
out of respect for their good works.
Apple under Steve Jobs was a litigious nightmare. Anything that threatened
Apple's ever so holy image was sued into
You stay classy, now!
--RC
On 10/05/2011 08:26 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
I know it is bad form to speak ill of the dead, especially the recently
dead. In the end, Steve Jobs did copy some other people's products in a
way that people liked, but his business practices were as bad as busines
Steve Jobs did something right, but was no saint either. He drove the
concept
of a simple human interface almost to a fault, even if he did pick up many
of the
innovations from others over time.
He had a life that provided a computing and entertainment experience to
others
that would not have bee
> A comment like that would be bad form, spoken of any person dead or alive.
> We all know there are people who like and dislike people like Jobs and
> Gates
> and Lennon. It doesn't do any good to speak like that. It's only going
> to
> inject a little bit of venom into the minds of people who r
I know it is bad form to speak ill of the dead, especially the recently
dead. In the end, Steve Jobs did copy some other people's products in a
way that people liked, but his business practices were as bad as business
gets. The world has lost a litigious huckster who has squashed the
innovation of
It is being reported in the media that Steve Jobs passed away this evening.
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
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On 10/05/2011 12:25 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> This isn't a reply to any particular message on this thread, but I
> haven't seen anyone mention the /dev/disk directory yet. On my
> Ubuntu systems, it contains subdirectories by-uuid, by-label,
> by-path, etc. Those sub-directories contain symlink
On 10/05/2011 10:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
>>
>> Btrs is supposedly a better
>> file system than ext4, but, it is still somewhat immature on Linux. I
>> think t
A coworker of mine has relocated his family from Israel, and his wife is
looking for a job, primarily as a biology researcher. I know that a few
people here have contacts in biology departments at MIT and other
colleges, I just want to see if anyone here can provide me with a few
contacts that I ca
This isn't a reply to any particular message on this thread, but I
haven't seen anyone mention the /dev/disk directory yet. On my
Ubuntu systems, it contains subdirectories by-uuid, by-label,
by-path, etc. Those sub-directories contain symlinks to the more
traditional sd or mapper names for dri
Jerry Feldman observed:
> one of the biggest issues is not patents per se, but the fact that
> litigation can take many years ... it does
> not matter if the allegation stands or not, it is sometimes the fact
> that a company will settle even though it knows it can win.
One of the famous cases is
>> From: Jon Masters [mailto:jonat...@jonmasters.org]
> Nothing against John or Peter, but there's such a thing as change
> management. If it was easy to put it back up quickly and safely, but it
> needs to be overhauled to enhance functionality, then the thing to do is
> put it back up quickly,
> From: Jon Masters [mailto:jonat...@jonmasters.org]
>
> > Kernel.org has been down for like 3 weeks.
>
> It's back up now (well, the main archive).
Whew, thank goodness. Now I'll see if I can get to the btrfs mailing list. ;-)
> > I know there was a security
> > breach, but by not getting i
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
>
> Btrs is supposedly a better
> file system than ext4, but, it is still somewhat immature on Linux. I
> think that if one of the major distros decides to use it as a
On 10/05/2011 02:26 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 14:36 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 10/01/2011 10:49 AM, Matt Iavarone wrote:
>>> On 10/01/2011 10:26 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
2 weeks ago when I added a new 1.5TB ($49) HD to use as backup, my
drives were numbered sda
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