I got a Dell Latitude D820 for work. What follows is a fairly predictable rant from a longtime mac user. First, it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would. Sure, it’s ugly but I get the impression Dell is really trying. However, many of the typical PC oddities are present on [...]
This phone apparently sucks. See that cool scroll wheel (just like the iPod!!!)? Turns out it’s a poorly designed four-directional pad. Okay, WWAD (What would Apple do?). Let’s assume they’re designing a phone (which everybody believes they are). My guess is that they will attempt to minimize the number of buttons on [...]
The mac-nerd world is eagerly awaiting the WWDC keynote on August 7th. Everybody’s got predictions and some are sure things: Intel towers Leopard others are a little more uncertain: new Finder Intel Xserves iTunes Movie Store and/or new iPods Most of the rumors relate to the shiny things that users want but not the things developers want. Let me try [...]
ouch. An Office developer talks about transitioning to Xcode.
On February 2, I said, referring to Apple’s stock:my guess is that it bottoms out at $58 and then goes back to the mid 70s by next earnings release. The next earning release is on April 19th. It bottomed out at 58.25 on March 28th. Today, it’s around 71.
I’ve let my resume stagnate since I got my last job and started SlipperySoft so I thought it would be a good exercise to update my resume with all my new experience. A real problem with writing a resume is figuring out which program to use to write it. Once upon a time, [...]
A Microsoft employee calls for the firing of top-level managers and many Microsoft employees agree. The comments are very telling; they detail a buearocratic mess the sits above them. Seems like there are a staggering number of hurdles between coding something and getting it incorporated into a repository. Even worse, the employees [...]
Scott Byer , an Adobe engineer has written an account of why it’s taking Adobe so long to transition Adobe’s apps to Universal binaries. Turns out Adobe really wanted the ability to seamlessly call x86 code from an app running in Rosetta just like 68K code could call PowerPC code in the olden days. [...]
Some backgroundApple just released a new Mac Mini with Intel processors and it includes Front Row. Front Row is only available when bundled with particular macs and the Intel Mac mini is the first Mac that Apple is marketing as a viable device to hook up to a TV. So, the speculation is [...]
my guess is that it bottoms out at $58 and then goes back to the mid 70s by next earnings release.