Large aircraft have to be the most complex things built by man; how difficult? This article in Flight International is a wonderful overview of how things can slowly slip out of control…
One year on: the story of the 787
Is it coincidence that the 787 is being build in the same city as Vista? Both projects tried to be radically different and in both cases, the companies learnt a lot of lessons.
There are a number of articles like this around at the moment…
FolderShare vs. Dropbox – GigaOM
I’ve been a Foldershare user for years, on the whole it’s been very good except when they had “server issues”.
However, the new version is awful. The old version listed the synced directories, the number of files they contained and how they were synced. In a single page you could see the complete status.
Now Microsoft has got their developers on the case. It looks prettier but the summary view has gone. This simple change makes it much harder to use. At least they were sensible enough to keep the Mac version.
In the year 2012 someone will write a bestseller about Vista. It’s an operatic tragedy in multiple parts.
Could Windows 7 be the best Windows yet? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
As an aside, the best thing that they could do for Windows 7 is keep that name. Nothing fancy just a version number.