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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Το trend δεν ήταν κάτι νέο. Τα σημάδια ήταν εδώ και καιρό εμφανή. Από το 2003 και έπειτα η απότομη, τρομακτική για κάποιους αλλαγή της θρυλικής εταιρίας που μόλις πριν από λίγα χρόνια είχε αρχίσει να ευθυγραμμίζεται και να ανακαλύπτει εκ νέου το κοινό της ήταν γεγονός: ο Mac, το βασικό για σχεδόν είκοσι έτη […]
Ok that’s it. My almost two year old Apple Bluetooth Keyboard officially sucks. Bigtime. It has sucked for a long time now, but I always kept postponing changing it. This is kind of weird, as I recall the thrill I got after using it for the first time, in May 2005. Back then it definitely […]