Apples actual response to the Flash issue

[Randall Lee Reetz]

The ayn rand-ers believe that consumers know enough to guide the direction of technology by voting at the apple app store or on amazon.  But consumers can only choose from the current selection.  People have a hard time imagining that which they can't hold in their hands right now.  It is up to visionaries to innovate.  Despite public opinion.  I've used my computer for 25 years and it still has no idea who I am.  If I haven't hit a key or touched the mouse button, it just sits there completely stupid-like.  The power of a supercomputer in the role of typewriter.  Ridiculous.  Where are the open source projects that are attempting to actually evolve computing beyond typing and spreadsheets and watching tv?  If the xtalk community was commuted to making sure that it was as amazing each year as hypercard was 25 years ago, I wouldn't feel so defeated or act so crotchity.  Programming IS what it used to be...  What a drag.

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Lee Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:39 AM
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Subject: RE: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

Yes, and there is a tendency in silicon valley for  software engineers to never grow out of their inability to acknowledge exactly how statistically rare and strange are their views.  When everyone you run into is exactly the same as yourself, there are no social control rods to keep your weird ideas from spinning out of reasonable scope.  So few of the engineers I know can ask the big questions about the evolution of complexity handling machinery.  And the scientists have long sence left computer "science".  That computation defines (despite any long range plan) more and more of the future means we are in trouble as a species.  Big trouble.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 1:57 AM
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

  On 02/05/2010 11:31, René Micout wrote:
> Le 2 mai 2010 à 00:44, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit :
>
>> It is largely an ayn rand anarchist after school club for all white mall arcade raised nerds lacking in any real vision.
> Very difficult for a french to understand that !
> If English speaker dont speak English then "Je m'exprimerai en français sur ce forum !"
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