TIFF indeed -- I recall the floppy disk for Mac mailed from Seattle with the TIFF spec printed on paper. A few weeks later, another graphics editor with TIFF support. I never, ever heard the name Carlsen until today. Thank you for this article
google internally started working on "indexing" patent applications, materials science publications, and new computer science applications, more than 10 years ago. You the consumer / casual are starting to see the services now in a rush to consumer product placement. You must know very well that major mil around the world are racing to "index" comms intel and field data; major finance are racing to "index" transactions and build deeper profiles of many kinds. You as an Internet user are being profiled by a dozen new smaller players. arxiv is one small part of a very large sea change right now
NeXT was incredible engineering but not a drop-in replacement for Mac OS. The sociology of the use of the machine is very different.
The careful and kind attention to the non-technical computer owners in Mac OS was replaced by corporate-controlled computer science with a GUI. The ambitions of Jobs became clearer later in life -- bizarrely manifesting the Big Brother that the early ad mocked. The iPhone drives Apple now, while Mac OSX slowly deteriorates with episodes of iPhone takeovers in the interface.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, Windows has also shown its true colors with spyware and ad-stuffing left and right.
can someone closer to the action speak about actual issues in that office? As an outsider, it seems like there was some fishy news about the International Space Station, for example...
Not an insider, but I think your comment gets to the core of the issue. One of the pictures used in the story has a Space Shuttle in it, and another has a Vehicle Assembly Building; neither of those have been used (for anything interesting to the public other than tours) for over a decade. NASA has become very constituency-driven, running many small projects which don't drive public support, or do anything visibly useful to the citizenry, which is why it's being cut. Choosing which navel-gazing experiment to fly to an expensive and obsolete space station seems very out-of-touch.
The guys doing the cutting are also the guys responsible for NASA having no other options but to try to keep the ISS going as long as possible with any science that can be performed on it.
Some of them are probably old enough to have been screwing over NASA since the end of Apollo.
Bullshit. It’s always been a constituency-driven jobs program, but that doesn’t meant it still doesn’t do important work. Apollo was incredibly useful to the citizenry and it still wasn’t widely supported.
that is absolutely false - the capital and resources used to create these things are societal scale. An individual consumer is not paying that cost at this time.
That only proves the point. If something increases the value of someone’s time by 5% and 500,000,000 people are affected by it, the cost will collapse.
These models are only going to get better and cheaper per watt.
