- George Washington had to borrow 500 pounds to pay off his debts and another 100 pounds for the expenses of the trip to his inauguration in New York, in 1789.
All I'm gonna say. ¶ 10:43 PM 0 comments
19 million and counting for firefox
19 million downloads...Should have predicted 50 million, by midsummer, but I tend to be conservative on some things, knowing how hard it is to get people to try new things. I haven't convinced my parents to switch, yet.
but I will... ¶ 10:41 PM 0 comments
- Can you imagine how you would react if the bricks-and-mortar stores did to you what ecommerce does?
You go into the supermarket. Every item you're interested in is inside a box. You press the button on the front of the box. It kicks off a 30 second time delay. You open the box. There's a fuzzy picture of the item along with a note that says it's out of stock.
Nonetheless, you finally fill your cart with items that are in stock and go to checkout. You hand over your ATM card, and they hand you a long, three-page form to fill out, similar, yet different than the one you filled out in another four stores down the block earlier today. The same one you filled out in this store last week, and the week before that, and the week before that.
Across the street is another supermarket that has all the food on display, instantly available, and will take your ATM card with a smile, then seems to have the advanced technology known as a computer to gain all the information it needs about you without bothering you with a form.
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I gave one of the first TIVOs to my parents. They were scared of it. Now my dad can't watch football without it.
Tivo changed our perception of time.
The first UI for it was written in TCL, and the Linux code for it labored on a tiny PPC-405, with 16MB of memory. It was cool.
PowerTV labored for 3 years to create the same thing, and ended up with something inelegant (except for the fact that they managed to have it all run in a mmu'less environment) and slow.
What makes people think that the content monopolists can make a device that people want? Other monopolists?
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RTE Business - Former head of McDonald's dead at 44
RTE Business - Former head of McDonald's dead at 44: I wonder what he ate? ¶ 10:03 AM 0 comments
