I’m mad at Rosetta Stone right now and I think it is a lesson in how NOT to run a company. Here is the crux of it: Rosetta Stone is more concerned about preventing software piracy than they are about existing customer satisfaction. These things always come from the top down. Some big important MBA [...]
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My wife gave me a Kindle. I obviously knew about the Kindle and I am an admitted bibliophile so I was curious, but, like many, I love traditional paper books so much that I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy the Kindle. I love it. It is really awesome. Here is why. It’s not backlit. This is [...]
This is so stupid many people haven’t been sure if it is a hoax or not. “…Windows 7 Starter Edition [is limited] to running only three concurrent applications“. Says a Microsoft spokesperson: We ran a study which suggested that the average consumer has open just over two applications [at any time] They claim this will [...]
Just a little dorking around I’ve been doing with the Arduino and Lego sensors…
The Windows Weenies are mad (again) that people really truly seem to enjoy Apple products. Even journalists! How dare journalists enjoy Apple products! Don’t they know the appropriate response? Just ask Mary Jo Foley: …I hear/see a lot more jeers than cheers in the Microsoft press rooms and events… Umm maybe that’s because they make [...]
AppleTV is Apple’s hardware “set top box”. You hook it up to your TV, the Internet and your stereo and you can listen to music and podcasts, buy and watch movies, watch youtube, look at flickr photos and more. It’s a nice little box. But it could be a great little box if Apple hadn’t [...]
I’ve been playing around with iPhone development and I have to say — I love the Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language. It’s got all the simple goodness of C but with very nice OOP extensions. I’m not sure to what extent, if any, it’s used besides in the Appleverse, but it’s nice and I like it. [...]
1. Executive experience is required to be President! But McCain doesn’t have any! Neither does Obama! Neither does Biden! But Palin does, 18 whole months of it! 2. Foreign policy experience is required to be President! Obama doesn’t have any! Neither does Palin! Both McCain and Biden do! 3. Washington insiders are bad. McCain is [...]
All the windows weenies are mad! They don’t like Vista! It’s different and strange and…and…it’s not XP! So they started a site: Save Windows XP. Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. InfoWorld believes such an expensive, [...]