Apple is toast without Jobs. Just a matter of time.

There will always be individual gripes about product design tradeoffs. I have many about my Mac, not the least of which is that it cuts my wrists when I type on the damn thing. But the proof is in the pudding: Apple is the most valuable company in the world by making and selling electronic crap. It has to be doing something right.

Mod parent up. This is EXACTLY Jobs' MO. All Jobs cared about was providing a positive user experience for the technology-ignorant masses. He fought tirelessly against engineers who worked hard inventing features to throw into products and thus were their champions, whether they added to the user experience or not. Look at all the devices where the engineers have too much control over product design and features - way over engineered and complicated, not designed with the user in mind, and nowhere near the market share of your typical like Apple product. Jobs was the consummate product manager, who typically has no power, but he was also in charge.

She thought enough of your work to take you to lunch? I think you have to declare that. I've been doing version control for years and never even got a Twinkie.

Just put unique identifiers on the bot, like colored reflectors, in horizontal sequence. Then you can tell if it's another bot, or your own bot in the mirror. The real trick is to take a random object, with no unique identifiers, and classify it. beep beep - that's a bird - beep beep...

You are impatient. Given time, most of the items on the list will come to pass

to discourage Windows use. Same problem as how crappy MS Office runs on the Mac.

He knows what he said, and he knows he's right. Now he doesn't have the balls to stand in - either personally because of public reaction, and/or professionally because he was threatened by the MS -> Gartner chain of command.

Absolutely.

Because before they got smart enough to master long distance space travel they mastered WMDs and blew themselves up.

If you haven't seen the text of the Inman suit against Carreon it is required reading. Someone is going to jail for this one.

How long before FB is hated and flamed as much as MS and Apple on /.?

D'oh!

If the core of the lawsuit is over the free parts of Java, are you telling me Ellison was not even prepped enough to answer that question? Who will get fired over that I wonder?

Always wondered...