Posts by burntnorton

Rotten to the core: Apple’s 10 greatest FAILS

Re: @nematoad Im grown argue with me if you like

I'm fully grown and there isn't a technology company that isn't stuffing things up these days. But apple sell their crap at a premium, which builds an expectation that they should do better. certainly the story of final cut was an unmitigated disaster and photoshop is dying on its feet as well.

'No, I CAN'T write code myself,' admits woman in charge of teaching our kids to code

Re: Sorted

That might be the quality of coding need to pass the module I fear

Usual Government Failure - led by idiots in shiny suits

Again those that cant do - manage those who sadly can, and that mentality is the problem, the idea the woman leading this initiative cant code is a total indightment of the governments recruiting and selection process in favour of some PC bullshit, and the idea she has the delusion of being the next zuckerberg - complete fantasy. Absurd - such revolutions will never be a success, unless led by experienced coders themselves who have a gift for metaphor and teaching as well, the idea you can hand it off as a management task to a non coder - is crass and precisely why its a problem in the first place, the government will never learn. The idea you can learn to code a useful website in a day is rubbish, spouted by idiots, 500,000 to train 150,000 teachers ? crap. Just working your way round a web server with php and mysql setup on it takes longer than that initially, It is not until your on your fifth real world site or program, you even getting close to beginning to understand coding. The important thing as per usual it so select the write language to learn int the first place. Secondarily where is the fundamental understanding of hardware in the curriculum to back this coding knowledge up ? its all black box.

You’re NOT fired: The story of Amstrad’s amazing CPC 464

brilliant article

down my memory lane, my second computer was a cpc6128 and coming from a zx81, it was like jumping far into the future, the CPC6128 was the best machine amstrad ever made, regardless of the 464 hitting a cheaper more populous price point in the end, The CPC6128 hit all the high notes of user desire at a cheap price point, no other home/any machine could match it at the time for the money. And this article sits in alignment with my remembrances neatly, the PCW was the most sold business machine in the UK at the time, simple enough, for the on average older business user whose needs, were mainly word simple office work and printing, to be honest regardless of how many post pcw - amstrad Pc's - 1512's etc they sold, they were no where near as good, and other Pc's soon surpassed them in utility. Alan's good decision making then was knowing when to cut the losses down one route and find the right people or companys for the job, roland perry driving forward a team of bright people that succeeded in delivering a great computer.