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Many moons ago I read that Apple came super close to buying Be, but Jean-Louis Gassée wanted to much money and negotiations fell apart.

I reckon it was the star power of Jobs more than the OS as such that saved Apple in the late 90s.

Jobs' ability to do the deal with MS to get MS Office on the Mac and a cash injection of $150m saved Apple at the time.

We were well into the 2000s before OSX really began to make a difference to Apple's fortunes, and no one could have predicted that OSX would be the foundation for the iPhone OS.

It wasnt even a given that OSX would be the OS for the iPhone during development.

But absolutly, NeXT was the best choice, even if the OSX Beta and 10.0 were almost unusably slow and buggy!

I was at the Paris Mac Expo when Jobs launched the beta, and the excitement was amazing!

Same year as the Key Lime iBooks IIRC. They rose up our of the floor on a pedastal if I'm remembering it right LOL.

I worked at Apple in the 90s, and saw all the demos of early releases of OSX and the confusing stack of platforms and tools. Jobs did the right thing ditching that!

Finally, I remember being at the Mac Expo in London and BE was there. We were standing around admiring the cool light bars on the front of the Be Box and its multitasking abilities.

If I'm remenbering right the lights on the front went up and down to indicate CPU usage. I could be imagining that?

Someone correct me if I'm misremembering :-)

I've noticed students working in the IKEA Cafes here in Australia!

They offer similar benefits to a good sized Starbucks store.

Free charging points, WiFi, bench seating in secluded corners and so on.

Though I'd wager that WiFi is less important, as people have mobile plans with plenty of data.

Given the accommodation crises in Australia, I'd suspect many students dont have a decent place to study in their homes. Many of them are sharing bedrooms etc..

Here in Australia there are thousands of ex-Lease Dell 7060 SFF and 7060 Micros PCs on aucation sites every week.

The Dell's coming off lease now have modern features including Intel 8th Gen CPUs with TPM and USB-C etc...

> So, what new features are in the 9.0 Community Edition? We have already been informed that things like vector data handling and embedded JavaScript functions are not in the Community Edition and are saved exclusively for the HeatWave variant.

* https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-9-0-community-edition-a-q...

The thing is….

If I want to play a AAA game, and can afford it, and the latest fancy iPhone to play it, then there is a good chance I have. Gaming PC or Console only it on!

And for people that can’t afford or don’t have a Gaming PC or console, it seems unlikely they want to drop $100 on a game for their iPhone that can’t even run it!

Also, you can get the latest XBox or PS5 for a 3rd of the price of the latest iPhone Pro required for the latest AAA games!

There just isn’t basic product market for at the price points demanded by publishers :-/

People played Fortnite on iOS and iPadOS because it was free and synched to their main accounts!

The article is really not very clear is it!

Did the driver have their foot hard down on the brake pedal?

Were they using both feet and applying brake and accelerator at the same time?

These seem like obvious basic questions that this motoring journalist has failed to ask.

We will have to wait for keen YouTubers to answer these questions for us I guess LOL

Such is the modern world!

Exactly.

That’s what is not clear.

Traditional ICE cars with auto transmissions allow you to do this, by design.

But you’d have to have a front wheel drive car and engage the parking brake / handbrake to lock the rear wheels like that.

Which is not possible in a Tesla.

For a Tesla to have locked the rear wheels whilst the front wheels continue to drag the car forward, does, on the surface seem like a failure in software or electronics somewhere.

I should test what happens in my Tesla :-)

(Side note: I wish Musk would just leave Tesla so we can all feel less shitty about owning them :-/ )

Australia went hard on immigration for a hot minute there when the new Labour governent got into power post Covid.

And they've now realised we dont have any housing for them!

Note: I'm pro Labour and pro Immigration :-)

> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/migra...

Guided Meditations are a good place to start!

The Smiling Mind app is excellent.

I'm sure there are plenty of Podcasts and YouTube guided meditations to be had as well!

There is a lot of that.

But there is far more.

Kara Swisher is on Threads, for instance.

I also immediately thought Potato Chips!

Or Crisps as we British call them :-)

Threads also is popular.

Probably the mainstream Twitter alternative at this point?

There is a subreddit for Open Directories!

Exactly, and Django isnt the Python alternative to Rails!

FWIW, no issues on first run on my iPhone 13 Pro Max :-)

Could be related to the 13 mini cameras specifically.

Hopefully we will get good Linux support on those new ARM PCs!

If it's not here already - I dont really follow the space :-)

I read it exactly as you did.

Not sure how your response can be framed as 'Denying the antecedent'. :-/

Seeing the recent Planet of the Apes Movies advertised, I wondered about the reality of Humans vs Smart Apes.

Absurb as it is LOL

I havent seen all the movies, but from memory they show Apes using their physical advantages vs Humans that have no tech or weapons.

But Humans clearly have some physical advantages over other apes.

And I thought we could be friends! LOL

They are not bad reasons to me :-)

Jim Simmons thought the aesthetic componant was important! :-)

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1789402566909886799

So it's not just me! ;-)

I do not understand the love of Python.

Generally I assume it's just me and I must be missing something.

If nothing else I cannot abide the four-spaces indentation standard and the short line lengths.

Why waste so much space!

I read right to left, and I can read long lines of code just fine!

I'm forever scrolling up and down in Django code and losing my place!

Well, it's this M.G. Siegler...

'M.G. Siegler (born November 2, 1981) is a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on seed and early-stage investments.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Siegler

You cant delete your posts on here either!

Which I dont like :-)

I'm with you, I think you should be able to delete your own posts and erase your internet history.

I dont think that everything we ever write on the internet should be stored forever because of some misguided intention to preserve conversations for future generations :)

I'm surprised OpenAI hasnt just crawled all of SO already?

Indeed, Supercard was the Hypercard option with colour!

And amazingly seems to still be around!

https://supercard.us/

Well... Apple do have Swift Playgrounds.

And SwiftUI is about as easy as it gets!

Although using Xcode and setting yourself up in the App Store still requires some understanding of arcane settings and Xcode IDE familiarity :-)

I remember things like that!

Dont think I ever saw that one, but I'm sure there were some HyperCard Stacks floating around that were mini databases of cool things with images.

Sort of an early Multimedia before the 90s Multimedia bubble :-)

Yes, I thought so LOL

Lots of comments, but yet the downvotes! :-)

I guess I'm long past being on the internet for upvote points LOL

Well I never!

Side note: I wonder how much harm Apple is doing to it's brand with it's Pious Attitude and Arrogant Behaviour?

Even as a long time, but relatively small shareholder, I'm on the fence about Apple right now.

I cant see the iPhone failing to lay golden eggs anytime soon.

But the Apple Vision Pro feels like they took those golden eggs and gold platted a toilet seat.

Tim Cook runs a tight shop, but he's been riding the wave of iPhone growth and the engineering excellence that gave us Apple Silicon.

The overall Apple brand hasnt been doing so well IMHO, and it's the Brand that saved Apple back in the 90s!

You cant fake passion, and everytime we see Tim Cook on stage or presenting, I get the vibe he would rather be somewhere else!

I dont think so... I'd need to double check. So maybe :-)

I use an Australian online broker.

They do offer pre-market orders, however they do say:

> However, a limited number of buyers/sellers and volatile prices can make pre-market trading risky for novice investors.

Am I am solidly a novice investor LOL :-)

He seems like a decent enough bloke!