The few remaining uses of the name “Macintosh”
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I know this because I develop a library for parsing them and just days ago someone filed an issue telling me that “Macintosh” was old timey and I should be transliterating to “Mac”. I did not accept the change.
"Could we perhaps rename the Macintosh platform to simply Mac? It hasn't been branded as Macintosh since 1998, and I'd like to avoid having to "translate" this to Mac for newer users that simply don't know what a Macintosh is."
"Standard Oil" in the US is one still used like that. It was split up between different companies for different states, and the current companies still use "Standard"/"Esso"/etc trademarks in obscure places to keep them active even though it's not part of their regular branding. I believe Chevron has a single gas station in each state named "Standard" although everything else looks like a Chevron station. Exxon sometimes labels their diesel pumps "Esso Diesel". At one point BP owned it in some states; I think they sold marine fuel on Lake Erie as "SOHIO" (Standard Oil of Ohio) still despite rebranding SOHIO stations in the late 80s everywhere else in the state. (This was several years ago that I remember seeing this, some things may have changed since then.)
(Outside of the US I think ExxonMobil owns it everywhere, and still regularly brands stations as Esso.)
As I've gotten to do business, negotiations, and dealing with "money" more, I became kind of disillusioned to the power game. It's not always as fun as commonly portrayed and medicine seems like a very demanding but cool job. Maybe the grass is just greener and it gets as boring (if not more due to the lower potential for creativity).
>The job of a doctor is at least partly to memorize a bunch of rules that take symptoms as input and return a diagnosis. Why is that not a python script?
"X is just a system! Why is this not automated?" is a common engineer mindset :) Unfortunately, X is just a system is only a good approximation if you don't actually understand much about what's going on. When you actually zoom in on the problem, the rough edges and hidden complexity start to become apparent, and your abstraction is no longer useful.
Computers are incredibly simple machines when compared to most messy real world systems, and we still have a heap of trouble dealing with them.
I actually have hands on experience with EMR (epic) and I can tell you their convoluted solutions only make a complex system worse. As for actual clinical care, all the experience I have is second-hand, through friends and family in the field, but the ones I've talked to have admitted that most of med school is rote learning and bemoaned how easy it is to make mistakes.
That made me laugh big-time even though I can't tell a python script from a boa constrictor.
Later rather than sooner would be much more accurate.
Curiously the MDs I work with have been relatively unanimous about this: there is a variability in cases and you do, in a way, have to be "creative", but in a very limited sense of what that means. "Creative" in your analysis. Some thought that was a boring aspect of the job, some thought that was the whole point.
What kind of creativity could you demonstrate in the OR?
The reason he had difficulty as a resident from time to time is that he was reluctant to do things unless there was a logical reason to do so. In medicine, and especially anesthesiology, where five minutes of respiratory obstruction/anoxia can lead to permanent brain damage or death right on the OR table, there are times when you do what works and has been shown by experience to work WITHOUT reasoning about the absolute best thing to do. Sometimes the correct action is not logical.
See also: 'Mac in a Sac': https://www.macinasac.com/
> The Bluesbreakers then consisted of Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall. Mayall gave Green free recording time as a gift, in which Fleetwood, McVie and Green recorded five songs. The fifth song was an instrumental that Green named after the rhythm section, "Fleetwood Mac" ("Mac" being short for McVie).
..and then there's "Big Mac". I'm not sure where that got its name from, nor if it has anything to do with McIntosh (labs or apple). It was innovated before the Mac was invented though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)
[2] https://www.mcintoshlabs.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_Laboratory
Big McDonald -> Big Mc -> Big Mac
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No I have never used a mac and I know what macintosh is.
Where is the interesting part of the article ?
You're affirming the consequent! The author isn't saying "Only people who have been using Macs for two decades won't blink at this".
I should have written that I haven't blinked while not being a mac user.
Its called a symbol. What else would you do, put a piece of plastic called SSD instead?
And Child would ask their mum and dad why have they 3D Printed the Save Icon. ( And this is not a Joke )
Yes it is
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16505912/floppy-disk-3d-...
> So what should Apple do? Customized icons for different types of drives would be a good start. Time Machine drives get custom icons automatically, as do many other types of storage devices that were more common in the past, so surely Apple could design different icons for SSDs and Fusion Drives, and then display them appropriately based on the type of drive.
Apple could repurpose one of the existing SSD icons pretty easily.
That doesn't sound like Apple has icons for SSDs already.
The author is making the point that this shouldn't take much effort because Apple already uses different icons.
There's no SSD icon.
You can also take it to the extreme and make sure that it's noticebale as an SSD. For example like this: https://dribbble.com/shots/123884-HDRV-Solid-State
The Date & Time icon is an analog clock with a paper calendar icon on top of it. Does the author think this is "incorrect" because the computer does not actually have a tiny analog clock inside of it? It does have another type of clock based on a newer technology.
The Energy Saver icon is a light bulb with a standard base screw-in socket. The computer doesn't have one of those inside it either. And the computer's energy usage isn't primarily from lighting. But the icon is an LED bulb, and we understand those as a way of saving energy.
The Screen Time icon is an hourglass. Is this incorrect because the computer does not internally use an actual hourglass to judge whether your session is too long? Nevertheless, the idea comes across OK because you can use an hourglass for similar purposes.
Interestingly, this used to be a normal lightbulb, then evolved into a CFL and is an LED bulb today.
I've stopped renaming it because it's hidden away in the Finder and Desktop ️
The list goes on and on, Macintosh/McIntosh is a common family name and many businesses are named after it.
The Apple Macintosh was named after the McIntosh apple (the fruit) variety.
It’s just good pricing technique, nothing to do with logistics.
Your comment reads as some kind of deadly notice full of hatred and thinly veiled sadistic glee at correction.
So you're essentially wrong.