Comment Re:My Hero! (Score 3, Insightful) 183
Right... it must be marketing that makes my iMac and suite of iLife and iWork tools with the neato Unix underpinnings work so well together. Woz made stuff. Jobs made stuff work well. BOTH are important.
Comment Re:My Hero! (Score 1) 183
Put another way...
Woz made stuff
Jobs made stuff work
Comment Re:My Hero! (Score 1) 183
Okay... I acknowledge that the guy did something incredible... about 25 years ago. In terms of tech, what's he done since then? (Well, Wikipedia says "Wozniak founded a new venture called CL 9, which developed and brought the first universal TV remote control to market in 1987.[3]). Yeah... not too much. Woz seems like a nice enough guy, but I can't help see him as anything more than a geeky, loveable, dufus. I must be missing the love-for-wozniak gene in my geek DNA makeup or something, so... for the geeks who do (really) like Woz... can I ask why?
Comment OK, but not great, without Steve Jobs (Score 1) 399
Apple will cease to be great if it loses Steve Jobs. His maniacal need to control and review everything put the best ideas from excellent minds into outstanding products. I'm far from a Mac fanboy (only just "switched" about three years ago) but I am much less often disappointed by what Apple builds and sells compared to others.
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
snydeq writes "Ars Technica's Nate Anderson and InfoWorld's Paul Venezia provide worthwhile commentary on a recent speech by FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (PDF), in which she praised DRM as 'very effective' and raised a flag in favor of ISP filtering. Anderson: 'Having commissioners who feel that the government has a duty to partner with and back educational classroom content from the RIAA; who really believe that ISP filtering is so unproblematic we can stop considering objections; and who think that universities worry about file-swapping because tuition might be raised to pay for the needed "expansion of storage capabilities" (huh?) isn't good for the FCC and isn't good for America.' Venezia: 'Leave the ISPs out of it — it's not their job to protect a failing business model, and a movement toward a tiered and filtered Internet will do nothing to stem the tide of piracy, but will result in great restrictions on innovation, freedoms, and the general use of the Internet. There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies.'"
Comment Re:I'll Tell You What It Means (Score 1) 3709
Thanks to you (and others above) for stating how I feel about John McCain. I've voted Republican in every election since I could vote (1992). Not this time. I knew (and know) that McCain is a good man and very deserving of the maverick moniker.
Barack Obama Wins US Presidency 3709
Last night, around 11pm, all the major networks announced that Senator Barack Obama had won the election. Soon after, Senator McCain conceded. There were no crazy partisan court hearings, just a simple election. This is your chance to talk about it and what it means for the future of our nation.
Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity 489
holy_calamity writes "After launching in a blaze of publicity that even warmed Slashdot, Google's browser grabbed a 3% share of the market, but has been slipping ever since, and now accounts for 1.5%. Google has also stopped promoting the browser on its search page. Assuming they wanted it to grab a significant share of the browser market, have they dropped the ball, or is this part of the plan?" On Slashdot, Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days, hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
