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theodp writes "Over at Slate, Tim Wu argues that the iPad is Steve Jobs' final victory over Steve Wozniak. Apple's origins were pure Woz, but the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad are the products of the company's other Steve. Jobs' ideas have always been in tension with Woz's brand of idealism and openness. Crazy as it seems, Apple Inc. — the creator of the personal computer — is leading the effort to exterminate it. And somewhere, deep inside, Woz must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists."
The difference being... (Score:5, Funny)
Woz actually DESIGNED all of those products, and IIRC he did actually work on the mac as well while Jobs couldn't design his way out of a wet paper bag.
That's not to say that Jobs isn't an EXCELLENT CEO though. Probably one of two or three that are actually worth their compensation and relevant to their companies.
Re:Sure, it's official (Score:5, Funny)
It worked for Max Powers
I don't know who tagged that "zzzzz" (Score:5, Funny)
but if I meet you, I'll offer you a beer.
Seriously, we have about 3 news on the iPad a day. Am I posting about the new pad my gf is using ?
(follows numerous post on the non existence of a slashdoter's gf)
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder how long it will take Apple to crack into gaming and really hit the big time?
Two words: Apple Pippin.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:5, Funny)
As anyone who has ever watched Max Headroom in the 80's knows these things need to be kept separate by separate companies.
Yes, 80's TV shows taught me everything I need to know. The A-Team taught me that people don't die even if you shoot guns at them and blow things up. The Dukes of Hazard showed me that you can jump a nearly 2 ton car at ridiculous speeds numerous times and still have it drivable when it lands. MacGyver proved that you could solve any problem with a rubber band, a pen, and a paperclip.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:3, Funny)
I suspect the iPad doesn't have a replaceable battery either.
The replacement battery is a new (or refurbed) iPad, same as for iPods.
It's not the same. (Score:3, Funny)
The Apple II actually worked.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:5, Funny)
Do you know what came from Apple *before* the Apple II?
I won't give you any hints.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh what I would give to have a "Parodox" mod...
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:4, Funny)
MacGyver proved that you could solve any problem with a rubber band, a pen, and a paperclip.
Hey! That guy became a general in a top secret military project for visiting alien worlds! Don't ever make fun of the power of a paperclip.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:2, Funny)
my Dell mini9 running Ubuntu 10.04 serves me very well, thank you and at a fraction of the price of an iPad :)
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? (Score:3, Funny)
my Dell mini9 running Ubuntu 10.04 serves me very well, thank you and at a fraction of the price of an iPad :)
According to Amazon that fraction is 6/5.
Re:Meshworks, Hierarchies, and Interfaces (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks!, and your post Reminds me of Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan D. Sokal [nyu.edu].
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There are many natural scientists, and especially physicists, who continue to reject the notion that the disciplines concerned with social and cultural criticism can have anything to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Still less are they receptive to the idea that the very foundations of their worldview must be revised or rebuilt in the light of such criticism. Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook, which can be summarized briefly as follows: that there exists an external world, whose properties are independent of any individual human being and indeed of humanity as a whole; that these properties are encoded in ``eternal'' physical laws; and that human beings can obtain reliable, albeit imperfect and tentative, knowledge of these laws by hewing to the ``objective'' procedures and epistemological strictures prescribed by the (so-called) scientific method.
But deep conceptual shifts within twentieth-century science have undermined this Cartesian-Newtonian metaphysics1; revisionist studies in the history and philosophy of science have cast further doubt on its credibility2; and, most recently, feminist and poststructuralist critiques have demystified the substantive content of mainstream Western scientific practice, revealing the ideology of domination concealed behind the façade of ``objectivity''.3 It has thus become increasingly apparent that physical ``reality'', no less than social ``reality'', is at bottom a social and linguistic construct; that scientific ``knowledge", far from being objective, reflects and encodes the dominant ideologies and power relations of the culture that produced it; that the truth claims of science are inherently theory-laden and self-referential; and consequently, that the discourse of the scientific community, for all its undeniable value, cannot assert a privileged epistemological status with respect to counter-hegemonic narratives emanating from dissident or marginalized communities. These themes can be traced, despite some differences of emphasis, in Aronowitz's analysis of the cultural fabric that produced quantum mechanics4; in Ross' discussion of oppositional discourses in post-quantum science5; in Irigaray's and Hayles' exegeses of gender encoding in fluid mechanics6; and in Harding's comprehensive critique of the gender ideology underlying the natural sciences in general and physics in particular.7
Here my aim is to carry these deep analyses one step farther, by taking account of recent developments in quantum gravity: the emerging branch of physics in which Heisenberg's quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity are at once synthesized and superseded. In quantum gravity, as we shall see, the space-time manifold ceases to exist as an objective physical reality; geometry becomes relational and contextual; and the foundational conceptual categories of prior science -- among them, existence itself -- become problematized and relativized. This conceptual revolution, I will argue, has profound implications for the content of a future postmodern and liberatory science.
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