#Oblique Strategies widget
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget:
#i have a new hero
Took me a while to work up to this article in the most recent issue of Wired. But J Allard is now my new hero.
First:
But Allard insists that his plan is different [...] To him, hi-def is about more than screen resolution [it's about] a persistent, evolving online persona regardless of which game they’re playing. [...] if you’re a Halo 3 ace, you won’t get thrown into a multiplayer Splinter Cell session with a bunch of newbies.
Second:
Allard is not exactly your typical Microsoft employee [...] saying and doing his own thing regardless of whether it jibes with corporate strategy. He uses an Apple PowerBook, fires off rambling, profanity-laced emails to his superiors, and [...] has the respect of Gates and Ballmer.
Third:
In January, Allard and the rest of the Xbox senior executives gathered to write brief statements on what motivates them to come to work every morning. The mission: to inspire the group’s rank and file. “Most people put down flowery, make-the-world-a-better-place, Miss America types of things,” Allard says. “I wrote: What gets me out of bed and into the office every day is the thought of Ken Kutaragi’s resignation letter, framed, hanging next to my desk.”
currently playing: Sister Machine Gun “Not My God”
#just no stickers on the case please
No sooner do I get Malkovich set up than Apple makes the announcement at WWDC ‘05. har har har
The comment thread on Engadget’s livecast was worth a good gander. The same mix of uninformed knee-jerk reactions and “oh yeah!” insightfulness one would expect from that crowd. But the two most interesting [p]reactions were on Carmo’s Tao of Mac and Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Carmo’s five bullet point list on misconceptions was a nod to reasonable thinking just prior to the announcement. And there’s Gruber’s usual sober analysis:
I think it boiled to a choice between two difficult options: either initiate a painful and expensive transition to Intel processors, or stick with PowerPC and fall behind.
My personal take? There’s more here going on than we know. My guess is there’s an Intel CPU as-yet-unveiled — something 64-bit that measures up to the PowerPC line. (That’s my bias showing.) I just find the hardware switch terribly interesting in light of the Xbox 360 and it’s triple PowerPC core.
currently playing: Massive Attack “Dissolved Girl”
#sometimes I love Dilbert…
Recent criticism aside, sometime I just fucking love Dilbert.
