Quotes from 1992
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Quotes from 1992
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#2>On big things failing to scale down:
It occurs to me that the same applied in the transition to mobile. Microsoft was obsessed with making hand-helds and phones into little PCs, keyboard and all. It actually required a radically new interaction model and interface technology to unlock the potential of the form factor.
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#3I used to listen to his podcast during my morning commute. I'll miss him when he retires.
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#4... has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library? That Adobe DRM is the industry state-of-the-art.
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#5... has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library? That Adobe DRM is the industry state-of-the-art.
has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library?
To be fair I don't know anybody who has either. I know it's possible and I know my local library offers this, but I've never met anybody who's actually used this service.
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#6>On big things failing to scale down: It occurs to me that the same applied in the transition to mobile. Microsoft was obsessed with making hand-helds and phones into little PCs, keyboard and all. It actually required a radically new interaction model and interface technology to unlock the potential of the form factor.
If we trace personal computers to their root origins, we'll see the LINC. The LINC was designed to be used by a single person. This was before time-sharing and interactive computing happened and, due to the differences in their use, the two kinds of computers diverged into what we saw in the 70's until today in every way - from the hardware to the software to the way they are used.
OTOH, my laptop has more in common with a VAX running Unix than it has with a Commodore PET. Or a LINC.
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#7... has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library? That Adobe DRM is the industry state-of-the-art.
The more punishing the process of getting shared access to the book, the more units it'll sell. At least, that seems to be what publishers believe in.
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#8On the value of limiting yourself to standards:
...which was why the idea of 100 percent IBM compatibility took so long to be accepted. "Why be compatible when you could be better?" the smart guys asked on their way to bankruptcy court.
It sounds a bit like a jab at Apple (or maybe even NeXT, which I believe was struggling in 1992 with its hardware releases). AFAIK neither company ever went bankrupt.
Or was it referring to the crop of other personal computing platforms from the late 70s/early 80s? (Vic20/C64, TRS-80, Sinclair, Heathkit, etc.)
Or something else? Big SGI workstations, etc.
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#9Apenwarr podcasts are really good, recommended to everyone.
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#10On the value of limiting yourself to standards: ...which was why the idea of 100 percent IBM compatibility took so long to be accepted. "Why be compatible when you could be better?" the smart guys asked on their way to bankruptcy court. It sounds a bit like a jab at Apple (or maybe even NeXT, which I believe was struggling in 1992 with its hardware releases). AFAIK neither company ever went bankrupt. Or was it referr…
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