“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”
Apollo 13…
% of Jobs Lost in Recessions since 1948…
The Swiss…
Mac CPU…
“Sometime in 2012, however, AMD will likely release a new, more powerful CPU core and pair that with one of its GPUs. If Apple is going to consider moving any of its products to AMD, that would be the time. Apple and AMD have been discussing Fusion over the past couple of years. Whether or not it’s simply to keep Apple’s options open is up for debate at this point. I guess we’ll find out in 2012”
Or there is the other option.
Apple likes what they see. Buy AMD for $8bln and then swtiches. They’ll then own almost all the value in their Macs.
Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech…
“Oh, you can find some gadgets whose descendants are still around: iPod, BlackBerry, Internet Explorer and so on. But it’s mind-frying to contemplate the millions of dollars and person-years that were spent on products and services that now fill the Great Tech Graveyard: Olympus M-Robe. PocketPC. Smart Display. MicroMV. MSN Explorer. Aibo. All those PlaysForSure music players, all those Palm organizers, all those GPS units you had to load up with maps from your computer.”
Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech Beat — State of the Art – NYTimes.com.
Oh so true…
“Clearly, there is no longer such a thing as a safe electronic archive, whatever computing’s snake-oil salesmen claim. No organisation can treat digitised communication as confidential. An electronic secret is a contradiction in terms.”
It’s stopped snowing…
At 6:19 Mickey actually acts and the camera shots are well done. A real film that I remember for the first time I saw realistic snow in a cartoon.
At 7:40, it stopped snowing.
A stunning film…
From the music to the camera angle; it’s almost perfect.
Daring Fireball on AirPlay…
“So my best guess is that Apple really wanted to ship iOS 4.2 in November — especially for the sake of the iPad — and some features didn’t make the cut. Widespread AirPlay video support, I suspect is one of those things — and that we’ll see a lot more places where AirPlay works for video in future iOS updates.”
Daring Fireball: Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2
So this maybe true, programmers often run out of time but I think that this is missing the elephant in the room.
I love AirTunes (the old name for AirPlay) and have used it for years. I’ve two AirPort Expresses at home and they’re in use almost every day. However…
I’ve stopped recommending it to friends because it’s so flaky. Too often I’ve sold it on a friend for it to not work. And this is just music, not video.
My guess is that they assumed that they could build on the existing stack of software and have found that it’s not up to the job. I’m expecting that 4.3 will come with a new version of iTunes, new Express fireware, new router firmware etc. This probably won’t work properly till well into next year.