If all of China were Hong Kong, yes. But Beijing will have to become a better global citizen before it can lead humanity.

If Wozniak's new job has turned his mind to data centers, that should surprise no one. But it's fatuous to think that he's acting as some sort of corporate flack.

Thanks. That's sounds about right. It does seem odd, however, that with almost unlimited campaign funds Romney could not have automated the "perfect list" strategy that Lincoln described in 1840:

Make a perfect list of the voters and ascertain with certainty for
whom they will vote... Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters and have
them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence... On Election
Day see that every Whig is brought to the polls.

In my first campaign, we selected voter households for GOTV by hand-sorting punch-cards and then having the computer guy make a tape and run out labels and precinct lists with shared (actually bootleg) time on a bank mainframe and a line printer.

So, all due respect, I know more about campaigns and elections after 38 of them than most slashdot posters. I also know that some of you hate the GOP and some of you return the sentiment with interest.

But I know next to nothing about network computing except as a consumer. Any chance of redirecting this conversation from what I know about to what you know about?

What was the deal with Romney's data processing? Were those management problems created by marketing/management guys like me, or were they technical fuckups by the IT guys? And what lessons can future campaign managers learn?
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After Romney carried Ohio.

...but he's had to do so twice in the past six months: first, for ill-advised changes in Apple's retail stores, and second, for the premature release of Maps.

Both executives whose decisions resulted in these apologies are gone.

You know what it feels like to be with someone who is kind and understanding. Oh, yes you do.

Do that. How tough could it be?

Besides, what could possibly go wrong?

Companies change. The development of the Macintosh was funded by the Apple II/AppleWorks cash cow. IBM, once the largest hardware company, used money from its PC business to help change into a services company. And then there's Kodak...never mind.

God, you're right. The same Silicon Valley yahoos who drive like fools are going to *design* these cars.

I can already hear those dual quads drink.

The best thing about autonomous cars is that robots don't cut each other off, flip the bird, and do road rage. I drive a Corvette just so I can get away fast from the crazy drivers.

The Apple I and II were designed strictly on a hobby, for-fun basis, not to be a product for a company. They were meant to bring down to the club and put on the table during the random access period and demonstrate: Look at this, it uses very few chips. It's got a video screen. You can type stuff on it.

Stephen Wozniak on the Homebrew Computer Club
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php

"There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. He leaves out his redeeming qualities and so appears only weak, unprincipled and vicious."

W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up

Oh, yeah. Sixty years ago.

Right. I haven't bought a refrigerator in a while either, but it's not because I don't like refrigeration.