February 2011
29 posts
January 2011
55 posts
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Sandy Bridge Schadenfreude
Hey, remember not-quite-three-weeks ago when I overreacted to a guy who claimed that Apple holds their customers back? His starting point seemed to be frustration that Apple was taking too long to use Intel’s brand-new Sandy Bridge processors. From there, the author branched out into other misguided criticisms, but the root cause seemed to be Apple’s slow uptake of Intel’s...
“The president was too polite to mention it during his State of the Union speech...”
– Scott Adams on How to Tax the Rich
Scott Adams states the obvious: There is no combination of solutions on offer that will work to solve our financial crisis. New solutions are required.
He has some amazingly bad ideas—and a few good ones—to start us off.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Death Cab for Cutie (63)
CAKE (55)
Genesis (51)
Jars of Clay (38)
The Crystal Method (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you... →
This sort of attention to detail is endemic to both iOS and Mac OS X, and is exactly the sort of thing that is difficult to express, but makes using both much better than any alternatives. It’s also the reason that people get so worked up on those rare occasions when things aren’t so well thought out.
It’s a high standard Apple has set, but so far they live up to it far more...
From Bad to Worse
Bad is checking how many “TODO:” comments I’ve left in some code, and seeing nine just in the model directory.
Worse is realizing that one of them says:
DAO.php: * TODO: Something real, like reading from the DB
Yeah, a Data Access Object should probably be accessing data at this point. Sigh.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-2) →
Switchfoot (79)
Relient K (16)
Son Lux (11)
Kings of Leon (2)
Casting Crowns (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Teledyne also wanted in on the market, so they introduced a system with rounded...”
– The Pentalobe Screw, And Apple’s War Against Self-Repair
So iFixit posted a somewhat hysterical screed about Apple’s recent shift to “Pentalobe” screws, suggesting that the only possible reason for Apple using such screws is to keep you and me from opening our iPhone 4s and...
Two churches located across the street from each...
Humorless Presbyterians: 0, Roman Catholics: 1.
P.S. I don’t know if our pets will be with us after death or not. Neither do the folks at Beulah Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
P.P.S. I strongly suspect this is fake, but I’m still going with it.
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
Cutting Edge Mobile
If you use an iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), there’s a better then even chance that you’re running the very latest OS update available, 4.2.1. For Bump users, it’s 52.89%.
If you use an Android device, the chances you are using the latest OS update, 2.3, drop to 0.4%. Of course, Android 2.3 was released two weeks and one day after iOS 4.2.1, so let’s back up to...
“I buy all my food — I wouldn’t know how to grow it or hunt it. Three or four...”
– A Day in the Future
So much of this is quotable, I’d end up quoting the whole thing.
We live in the future, and it’s amazing.
(via MeFi)
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Is Apple Holding Their Customers Back? (Spoiler:...
I saw a blog post earlier today that suggested that Apple is holding their customers back. It seemed an exercise in straining at gnats and swallowing camels, or missing the forest for the trees, or something else equally foolish. The company that created the modern smartphone, created the modern tablet computer, and dragged desktop computing into the present or recent past is not holding anyone...
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona,... →
Two things are very clear to me:
1. Sarah Palin was not expecting or calling for the assassination of elected officials, though people will rush to pretend she did.
2. Sarah Palin is an idiot who does not deserve even the attention I’ve given her by mentioning her name twice.
Beyond that, this strikes me as an issue of metaphor.
I’ve got some friends who are language geeks, and one...
Terrific TED Talks
When flying, I load up miPad with TED talks that seem like they might be interesting. On my current trip, I was deeply moved by some, and enjoyed others, so here’s a roundup.
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, so she has reached the pinnacle of corporate success. However, her success is rare. Of 190 heads of state, nine are women. Of all the people in...
“Android’s market may not be terrible in comparison to Apple’s App Store for paid...”
– Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform
It almost sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it’s all true. We know it’s true when it comes to search, and email, and maps, so it’s probably true of smartphone operating systems too, right?
(via Gruber)
