In other Street View news. One of their cars went down our street yesterday. Try explaining to your father-in-law what street view is and why seeing the car is cool!
Category Archives: Technology
They’re still shipping and we don’t notice…
“OLPC has shipped over 300,000 units to kids around the world. They plan to ship at least another 50,000 more each month, and very likely more than that. It’s entirely possible that by the end of 2008, there will be a million OLPC systems deployed worldwide.”
New sport for the summer…
Spotting the compyright criminals on the silver screen.
“Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities”
How things look different from a distance…
This one statement says something simple about how the BBC views the US and how the US views the UK. The BBC views the US as more important as it is; in return the US views the UK as class riddled. Both are right.
“I finally figured The Money Programme was interested because of vestigial class consciousness in British culture, and especially in British broadcasting. Bill Gates is viewed as a kind of industrial maharajah in some quarters, more so the further you get from the USA. In those parts people still think he makes a difference to Microsoft’s success or failure.”I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Go Home, Bill | PBS
You have to wonder…
…would Apple buy Sony? Spin off the media business and then slowly close down the Sony brand and move it over to Apple.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Conglomerate
It’s a decade long job but possible.
Gates understands it…
I can only assume that he gets tech support calls from his family as well.
“Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.”
iMac working again…
So how did I get the iMac working again?
Simple, I put in the installation DVD and went 24 hours back in time.
Apple – Mac OS X Leopard – Features – Time Machine
I’m amazed how well it worked; you’ve got to love technology like that.
Testing the link…
This is a VERY cool idea. Almost everyone I know uses www.google.com to test if their connection is working; now they will be able to get the next layer of information.
Commodities…
“Apple appears to have other plans to further innovation around its Multi-Touch platform that will reduce its reliance on chip designs conceived largely by third parties.”AppleInsider | Steve Jobs: it’s time we design our own iPhone and iPod chips
If you read the business papers, they give the impression that all hardware is now a commodity, that everything is assembled from off the shelf parts. Either they’re wrong or Apple is about to change that.
It just shows that very few things are really commodities.
Cars by Apple…
“An absolutely superb customer experience and once again gives a lot of weight to what Jobs says: when you control the hardware and the software (and, it turns out, the point of sale) then the integrated experience you can give to the consumer is nothing short of superb. I bet there is not a single phone on the market made by anyone else that could reproduce this experience.”
What this actually shows is how bad most customer experiences are. You spend tens of thousands of Euros on a car and you can’t get service like this!