Microsoft: Macs ‘not safe from malware, attacks will increase’ | ZDNet.
Translation: We’re paying good money for security exploits on OS X, so expect more!
Curious Rat – Home – I’m Giving Up Reading for a Year.
See previous post on the douchebag giving up the internet. Very funny.
Paul Miller Is Leaving the Internet for a Year — Shawn Blanc.
I have to totally disagree with both Paul Miller and Shawn Blanc on this. Shawn calls it “fun and challenging.” It seems particularly stupid with Miller being a tech writer. I do agree it is very much like going without electricity. Miller makes some statements about him “being a better Paul.” Maybe he is kind of a douchebag, I don’t know. In that case, perhaps it will help.
The internet is more than distraction, folks.
Aug 142011
one problem not mentioned: drinking through thermal mugs removes the smell factor, making your high-quality coffee into something much less.
Mar 212011
Bezos: Hello?
Jobs: Hi, Jeff, you’re stealing our intellectual property. It needs to stop.
Bezos: What?
Jobs: You know. Your fucking “app store!”
Bezos: But we call it an “Appstore.” Yours is called “the App Store.” Obviously very different.
Jobs: If you were in an elevator I would so fire you right now.
Jan 162011
I draw three conclusions:
- Apps overtaking digital music is a watershed event. Apps are a new medium: they will impact all other media.
- As the number of apps attached to any single device continues to increase, apps create increasingly higher switching costs for users.
- Apps consumption is increasing at a rate to overtake the PC software market.
This is just incredible. The result of point number one will be mind-boggling for culture as a whole.