asciilifeform: Mr. Jobs himself would frequently cry << gotta be a hatchet job
asciilifeform: jurov: x86 is not scar tissue because it is popular, but because it genuinely sucks, and sucked from day 1 compared to virtually all known alternatives.
asciilifeform: the maggots are rarely the murder weapon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not necessarily a zapped theory, just needs a little 'epicycle.' that being: orc and human exist in dynamic equilibrium; 'orcish' land has a trace element of 'human' and vice versa
asciilifeform: bounce: but before you can 'run' them, have to recruit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: simple heuristic. folks who incorrigibly piss in apartment lobbies, elevators - 'orcs.' those who don't - 'humans', or 'germans' if you like.
asciilifeform: agenturnaya rabota >> in english lands, called, afaik, 'HUMINT.'
asciilifeform: bounce: the term 'agent work.' refers to how traitors are traditionally recruited by the masters of the 20th century - totalitarian intelligence agencies. (and, arguably, every intelligence worker since cave man)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so classic and textbook, though, it's riotously funny
asciilifeform: and what his plan is for the recruited chump.
asciilifeform catches up with log, reads the latest mr. spam, and wonders if he's the only one here familiar with traditional 'агентурная работа' tradecraft. i.e. why the bugger wants you (for some value of 'you') alone, in dark alley, and feeling warm & special & 'pre-qualified.'
asciilifeform would much rather see computer cost (and worth) 50k then wheeled coffin
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: works well << yes! 'tell me again about the waters of your homeworld.' ('Dune'.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: precisely same. diddles the mark's 'feeling educatickled' receptors.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the time honored tradition of con artistry << i call this '10th dimension-ism' in honour of a particularly egregious web-based psycholoscamz0r.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: engineers? on the board ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ousted by engineers? afaik it was his immediate subordinates who coordinated his ouster, a la khruschev
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: herr jobs is credited with resurrecting the company, but he actually strangled it and turned the taxidermied skin into a kind of animatronic dinosaur.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: steve jobs - as described in my 'hypercard' piece - was a master of chumpatronics, not of electronics. when he returned from exile, he zapped pretty much all r&d personnel, killed every project, smart or foolish, replaced all apple tech with repainted 'next'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bad example, 'pi' is a pseudo-open turd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who asked them << presumably, apple corp. legal dept.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hook it with any number of tablets and watch a film with your friends << verboten, order of usg dept. of copyrasty (riaa/mpaa/etc)
asciilifeform: /me confesses that he liked it. and recently dug up a mac laptop circa 1999, and enjoyed playing with it.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i (and perhaps BingoBoingo) would argue that ui disappeared.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: current 'mac os' product is actually 'nextstep' with a new graphical skin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: it is important to remember that mac product actually died. it is deader than many other dead things, even, because got hollowed out and taxidermied.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mac did not fit the cargo-cult spec - defined by ibm, naturally - of 'feeling businessy' - and therefore yes, did suffer from 'nice package.'
asciilifeform: rithm: mac in question here is circa mid-1980s. different animal.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: package being what? ui? in a way, they did. recall why ibm pc - similarly costly - ran over the early macs, despite technical inferiority in every sense.
asciilifeform: all it takes to speak at mit is a pulse << nah. yours truly, for instance, has pulse, but will not be invited to speak there. etc
asciilifeform: middle of nowhere usa << antarctica, even cheaper.
asciilifeform: decimation: 500k buys a small house here where i live...
asciilifeform vaguely recalls that firm was bankrupt not long ago ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why'd they bring back baronies? 'fuse' ? (i.e. somebody for the next set of bolsheviks to guillotine, so normal people might escape ?)
