An almost 2 hour film by the Immortality Institute on, you guessed it, immortality, or if you prefer a more politically correct term, ‘Life Extension’. I won’t comment on it at length, as it is a vastly complex matter, both socially, technologically, scientifically and philosophically. The film also includes a section dealing with breaking away […]
Το 2007 μου μπήκε περίεργα. Πρωτοχρονιά, όπως και χιλιάδες (;) άλλοι εκείνη τη περίοδο, αρρώστησα. Η πρώτη εβδομάδα έφυγε έτσι. Εγώ στο κρεβάτι, με σχετικά ανεκτό πυρετό (βλ. μέγιστο 38.5°C), απίστευτη δυσφορία, μπούκωμα+βράχνιασμα που με έκανε να μιλάω δύομιση οκτάβες κάτω και τρομερούς πονοκεφάλους. Και μετά; Τρείς ημέρες και κάτι πλήρους ανάρρωσης τις οποίες — […]
The Apple Newton may have been canned by Steve Jobs as part of his efforts to get Apple out of the red in the late 90s, just when the most powerful and promising models were coming out. It might also have been criticised early on for its quirks. Many have openly stated that it was […]
In a prime example of blather, the BBC (cf. some Murdoch-owned-fact-twisting medium) engaged in a smearing generalisation of the Hellenic population's sentiments on the U.S., by invoking parts of the history of the 20th century where U.S. policy harmed Hellas and its people. And while it is true that many Hellenes, like most of 'Old-Europeans' (and, indeed, many Britons) have strong feelings on many U.S. foreign policy and military actions ('insanity') witnessed in recent (and not so recent) times, that in itself in no way implies or signifies 'widespread anti-Americanism'. Furthermore, the implication of any association between the intent of a terrorist attack by a small extremist group of people with the generalised feelings of one nation towards another is, at least, unprofessional, if not sensationalistic and offensive. I'm inclined to think that Malcolm Brabant's writing is brimming with potent bull. is allegedly what Steve Jobs told Newsweek and continued: "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up". Even Jobs can't make plain-ol' BS look good. It's so absurd it's not even funny. Surely Stevey has heard of restricted well-defined public APIs and I'd think he'd be the first to consider iPhone as something more than just a 'phone'; something like the 'Ultimate Digital Device', perhaps? I bet Apple will start selling 'approved' apps sometime in 2008 on their online store. I don't even want to think how much it'll cost to get the SDK (if that's ever possible) and how easy it'll be to get your app approved. 'Sorry We're Closed'.
Update: An interesting report on the iPhone lock-down by the British Macworld. I’ve been meaning to do this since mid-November 2006, but only got to do it some days ago. I created a OLPC virtual appliance for my VMWare Workstation 5.5.3 and gave Sugar, the OLPC UI a try. Here’s a short list of what I think of it after a very quick run through its functionality. […]