I HATE APPLE

I have to use XP at work and I've trained it to mostly stay out of my way (tweakui has saved lives), but it still runs like an absolute dog, and it still actively hassles me on a four-hourly basis every time it downloads system updates (cmd -> "net stop wuauserv" has also saved lives).

xp is the stone age! well the iron age at least. it's so old it's been relegated to a virtual machine for stuff that doesn't like 64-bit

MS will support it forever though. Jobs has no qualms about killing anything, which is a plus when it comes to making products. Not having to play to corporate environments with high requirements and low margins? Excellent.

yes, more people may be programming but what are they creating and how is it transforming their worldview, etc. are there more possibilities now or is there a greater sense of market forces, consolidation, media consumption habits, it infrastructure reinforcing the status quo? in other words, what is transformative, what is revolutionary, what is a shiny new bauble, what is an easier time of passive consumption, or worse, the spectacle/mirage/hypocrisy of *changing the world*

^^ OTM

at least xp works! like doesn't crash all the time. that was a big step for microsoft.

Oh yeah, XP was solid for its time (and it's probably unfair of me to criticise it in 2011) but in UX terms it was on the brink of being my mother. Vista was my mother.

If you feel the need to constantly hold the the user's hand throughout a search function, you probably need to redesign the search function.

― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ boom

yes, more people may be programming but what are they creating and how is it transforming their worldview, etc. are there more possibilities now or is there a greater sense of market forces, consolidation, media consumption habits, it infrastructure reinforcing the status quo? in other words, what is transformative, what is revolutionary, what is a shiny new bauble, what is an easier time of passive consumption, or worse, the spectacle/mirage/hypocrisy of *changing the world*

You're getting at something here that I think is interesting, and I'd like to prod at it, but I'm not sure I follow you completely. Could you put it another way?

Because it strikes me that "are there more possibilities now or do we just have the illusion of same" is something worth posing, but you've got a lot of other larger ideas and commas thrown in there and I'm struggling to connect them with this particular insight.

PS Are there any Apple keynote speeches/presentations on youtube that are especially historic/amazing to watch? I don't mind sitting through that stuff but some of it is really long and I'd like to be pointed to the 'greatest hit' maybe. Is there a top ten list somewhere?

Of all of them (and I've seen a lot, even spoke w/Jobs very briefly) I love the iPhone introduction. The "are you getting it?" line kills...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASkis57blsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec76iwztQok

This is also great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

this thread

yeah, windows 95 was pretty crappy, take that bill

http://twitpic.com/5vbvf9/full

yes, mcdonalds have made sure their wifi is compatible with apple products -- now you can use your mac, in mcdonalds, to do things on the internet

lol silby

ahaha that's great

i'm going to pass on trying to explain how i feel about jobs & why his resignation was a deal to me

this df post that i linked to above about the resignation is worth reading: http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/resigned

no, it's not.

if ppl want some jobs & apple-related discussion, the this is my next guys put up this week's podcast: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/25/podcast-021-08-25-2011/

maybe someday i'll write something somewhere about jobs

oh, and talk show's recording tomorrow btw: http://5by5.tv/talkshow

:/

alright yo

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Steves-Brain-Leander-Kahney/dp/B001LF4ARC/

i've read that twice & think there's some good stuff in it

not a perfect book tho

i'll also be reading the isaacson bio starting the day it comes out

Man, first FCPX, then this!

lool turing machine markers

my feelings about jobs are kind of mixed. this comes pretty close for me to summing up probably the main problem i have with him http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/10/04/if-wishes-were-iphones

somebody call the waaaaaaaahmbulance

I do love that an allegedly gay man is now CEO of such an enormous company.

― ceci n'est pas une witty dn (Schlafsack), Thursday, August 25, 2011 1:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not even allegedly at this stage http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/25/dont-ignore-tim-cooks-sexuality/

also http://blog.fawny.org/2011/02/02/gaylives/

like, that's not an excuse to call you a dick, i'm curious why you're so weirdly venomous here.

― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:50 PM

for explanation, i turn it over to some dude

i'm done trying to cajole you into posting like the smart, opinionated person i know you are, i know you're dedicated to stupid gifs and youtubes and "looooool" til the end of time, i guess i should just ocnsider a killfile (i usually don't like the idea of a killfile because it seems like it would make threads confusing, but since you never prompt or participate in any real discussion it probably wouldn't make a difference).

― some dude, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:09 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry you feel that way

― markers, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:11 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry your posting persona sucks ass

― some dude, Friday, August 26, 2011 12:13 AM Bookmark

Picture of Steve Jobs from today, and ummm he doesn't look good at all http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick

oh no! poor guy.

:-(

:-\

he looks dressed for the grave

holy crap, that is bad. he didn't look that bad a month ago or whenever the icould thing got announced. not good.

I can't figure out if and when I should sell aapl. I feel like I should have sold at 400, and now this. Obviously not that much is going to change in the short term day to day, but who knows what will happen when he dies. I guess they have a ridiculous amount of cash though.

looks.... fake?

i mean obviously he's sick enough to quit as CEO but that there photo don't really look right

is he wearing a dress

it's like somebody redacted his clothes with #000000

Fuck cancer

My initial thought was that it looks shopped.

my first thought upon hearing of this resignation was that hes prob at deaths door

Not downplaying his situation in any way but the man credited with making technology stylish and desirable is wearing socks and sandals.

socks and birkenstocks

if that's a real picture and he is as sick as he seems I have no doubt he would just want to be physically comfortable at this point. but I think that picture is a little suspicious