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Some talk at Hack the Planet about Apple's old Newton PDA. Made me wonder about a few things. First some background. Everybody is reporting that the much rumored Apple branded Palm Pilot is not happening. Apple is officially saying they have NO PDA in development. This has left the door open, and led people to speculate that the widely reported PDA effort at Apple has morphed into a tablet web appliance type thing (thus allowing for top brass to mislead people with the no pda line - "well, it's not a pda, it's a tablet.") Fine. This sounds reasonable. With Apple's proven knack for industrial design, the web appliance category is clearly in their sites. (Really, I think only Sony can challenge them, although placing Apple so high on the list of future powers might seem bizarre to some people.) This will be a huge market. Probably much bigger than the whole PC market. So, what is this thing going to run. Strongarm? I don't think so. G3? Too hot, too high of a power drain. G4? No. Same reasons, plus, Motorolla can't even supply enough for the desktop line. So what's the deal? Could it be that porting Darwin to x86 (which is NOT porting OS X to x86, but is a first step) is a prelude to bringing Transmeta on board? A transmeta powered, Apple branded, OS X running, wireless (airport) tablet? Pure speculation.
Can you identify today's picture? (I know, cheap humor, plus it's been around a lot, but hey, it's all I could find.)
I've been ignoring this one because it seems way too crazy to actually pass. Unfortunately it has already passed the Senate, and is waiting on a vote in the house. I guess it would be struck down eventually in the courts even if it did make it into law, but still... (Don't rant, don't rant, don't rant...) All I'm going to say is that I am definitely moving out of the coutry if this one passes. Here's the full text of the bill.
Slashdot released the letter they sent in response to Microsoft's letter asking (telling) them to remove some posts that alledgedly violated their copyrights (one or two probably did.) Very tough stuff. Seems reasonable that they would take this approach, figuring Microsoft won't want the bad publicity right now. And not that I've seen a lot of legal documents, but I didn't think they could be this straightforward and readable. It's actually funny it's so bold.
Today is the first day I'm getting reasonable response times from the site. Not sure what the deal is, but I haven't made any major optimizations. This makes me feel good in the sense that it's not all my fault (because sometimes, like today, it works O.K.) Must be some variable loads on our server (coming from other accounts.) Hope it stays like this. Eventually we'll get our own box and then it should be more consistently speeded up. When? you ask. I don't know.
Microsoft released a patch for that browser hole (the cookie one.) You should probably try to install this if you're using ie on windows. (via blogger)
huh? New trend in interface design? (Requires Flash 4.)
I am an idiot. This afternoon I've been building the editing system for the individual pages, and I accidently erased my apple page that was underneath this one. I am going to take it as a sign that I shouldn't have that page. Luckily I didn't erase the whole database. Must be careful with that mysql delete command!
I'm listening to: Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens
Most recent book purchace: Cascading Style Sheets: the definitive guide
Mailing lists I'm still on: CHI-web (computer, human interface)
Mailing lists I'm no longer on: Blueworld Dreamweaver list, and that ridiculously high volume Flash list.
old computer I'm using now: Power Computing Power Center pro (with 128 megs ram and a 19'' Radius monitor.)
Newer computer I will get back soon from the lovely MB: Blue and white G3 400 with 256meg ram and 37gigs of storage.
Favorite recent blog topic: riotHero's soul searching about whether he should experiment with drugs.
Most overpriced meal I've had lately: Tabla
Best restaurant that is so crowded I don't want to go anymore: 71 Clinton St.
Slow day so far (from where I sit) so I'm digging this one out of the vaults: The Hobbes' Internet Timeline, the self described "definitive internet history." Bland and dry with just a hint of geekish excitement. For instance, today's picture is supposedly the diagram of the first imp to host connection set up in September of 1969 at UCLA. Good thing they had it so well planned out.