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Brain works best at age 39. Oh no! Only a few months left!
Of course, as one slashdot comment points out:
... they base their result on a sample of 72 persons within an age range from 23 to 80.Still it's funny because I was talking about something similar last night. Must finish my project soon...
Science at its best.
Jobs made an unusual appearance on Apple's quarterly earnings report conference call yesterday. Here's part of what he said about the phenomenal iPhone sales numbers:
I would like to now highlight two remarkable milestones resulting from iPhone’s outstanding performance last quarter. The first is that Apple beat RIM. In their most recent quarter, Research in Motion, or RIM, reported selling 6.1 million BlackBerry devices. Compared to our most recent quarter sales of 6.9 million iPhones, Apple outsold RIM last quarter and this is a milestone for us. RIM is a good company that makes good products and so it is surprising that after only 15 months in the market, we could outsell them in any quarter.Although they've made a few decisions I personally disagree with (about openness to 3rd party developers mainly,) it's hard to argue with the success. When Jobs initially said the goal was to sell 10 million iPhones this year a lot of people thought he was insane. But they sold 6.9 million just last quarter alone. Pretty impressive.
But even more remarkable is this — measured by revenues, Apple has become the world’s third-largest mobile phone supplier. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true — as measured in revenues, not units, Apple has become the third largest mobile phone supplier. Let’s look at the ranking — Nokia is clearly number one at 12.7 billion; Samsung number two at 5.9 billion; Apple is number three at 4.6 billion; Sony Ericsson, number four at 4.2; LG, number five at 3.4 billion; Motorola, number six at 3.2; and RIM number seven at 2.1. Pretty amazing.
New Apple notebooks due out later today. For sure the Pro, and maybe the regular MacBook too. I really need to upgrade, although my super old 867 Mhz Titanium PowerBook continues to work flawlessly despite the incredible amount of use it has seen. Just an amazing product. But software continues to require more and more power, and this means it has gotten - relatively - slower and slower over time.
One interesting note on the new machines - Displayport connectors. You out there Mark? Any advantages here?
Video of a talk Brian Cox gave at TED on the Large Hadron Collider. Fairly understandable given the subject matter.
Funny (because it's true) article about problems with CSS. I agree with all 10 points, but this afterthought really hits home for me:
Oh and while I'm complaining, can someone make an HTML form file upload capability that doesn't look like it escaped from a Borland Turbo Jaquard Loom application circa 1645?
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Not sure what I'm going to use it for, but I was surprised to find the domain frictionlessplane.com available so I bought it. Does that phrase have meaning to people, or is it just me? Of all the stupid domains I've bought and then never used (well, okay, not that many) I'm most excited about this one. Now to just find a use.
I've been immersed in pChart - a PHP Class to build charts - for the whole day. Wow, what a package. Very powerful and very well made with great documentation. What's not to like? I made a surprising amount of progress and I now have the traffic logging part of geneva almost done. This was the last big piece (have you heard that before?) Anyway, this is making me quite happy because it was a real struggle to figure out a way to do this that wouldn't completely kill the server once a site had a ton of historical data. But I think I have it worked out. And then with pChart on the front end I can actually output some great looking line charts rather than just a boring table of numbers. I think this is going to be very important. Site owners want to see their traffic stats!
Google launches a browser: Chrome. Somewhat strangely there is a comic to go along with the launch that explains what it's all about. It's based on Webkit which is the open source project behind Safari. In short: yet another browser isn't that interesting, but this isn't that. More thoughts when I collect them.