Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
IBM announces it is more/less opening up approximately 500 patents to open source developers working in areas “such as image processing, human language processing, user interfaces and data handling.” An interesting part of this, I thought: Over 30 patents were generated from within IBM Canada, many from IBM’s Toronto Software Lab. Brings to mind the […]
Neat feature on Wired re: ethics for the robot age. Though its less ethics and more “what if” speculation with some ethical questions thrown in. My favorite: 3. Should robots excrete byproducts? When cars were invented, no one imagined that hundreds of millions of them would spew carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. But they do, […]
As promised, we’re back to follow up on my headless speculation (and my debunkery…) and put a few items out about the Mac mini right off the bat. Like some people, I think that there’s a lot to like in this little package. And I go back and forth on whether/not I think it will […]
Highlight reel! Caught the minute-to-minute updates on Engadget today. Fortunately, it interfered with my work only minimally… I was surprised in both directions by what came out of the keynote and can’t wait to watch it later on. Thinking I’ll wait until tomorrow though… So where do I lie on my predictions? “Headless” iMac: Fortunately, […]
So far, my headless iMac prediction appears to have been fulfilled. Apple.com/store is currently down. No big surprise there. Periodically checking the updates on Engadget but not really enough time right now to do a full entry. I’ll recap later on tonight, I suppose. But I get the feeling it’s going to be a big […]
Seen Cringely’s article/prediction now basically blogged to death all over the damn place. To throw my own two bits in: He makes a good point in that prediction. By market share w/ an “under-priced” (read: no profit) version of the iMac. It makes a lot of sense: …where I calculate they’d be losing $100 per […]
Update on my last post (jeez, I really should have broken that up more… — b/c as it turns out, I can’t resist participating in the iHome/headless-iMac speculation extravaganza. Once I spent a few minutes with the photos, anyway… Whether the “headless” iMac (I just can’t call it “iHome” — ugh!) itself is/not farce, the […]
With pretty much the rest of the web making all sorts of preditions and proposals etc. — all just generally speculating up a-flurry with pre-MacWorld stuff, I figured I’d join in. In my own way, of course. I’d rather not spend too much time on the headless iMac or the Think Secret lawsuit or even […]
File this under the “Semi-Mindless Pondering” department… I’m wondering how much of articles like this one and this one are hype. There’s a fine line between running out of stock because you didn’t anticipate the demand and attempting to cultivate an increased perception of value by engineering a stock shortage. I won’t profess to know […]
While most of the time your Favorites/Bookmarks are significator-enough for the browsing you’re doing (i.e., “let’s go the Slashdot homepage!”) they don’t always pack the punch you need. Maybe they get you where you need to go but they don’t log you in. Or they get you to some page but then you need to […]