Casulo: a complete rooms furniture in a box
elektroholunder
The official site of the Ministry of Fairness, Niceness, and Free Ponies
Google Streetcar in Berlin | F.A.T.
How meta: guys plant GPS tracking device on Google Streetview camera car in Berlin, let you follow it on Google Maps.
SimpleDesktops: nice, minimalist wallpapers in 2560x1600.
via davidkaneda
“ Figuring out when a software project will ship is a famously difficult problem, and nearly everyone who writes software for a living has to grapple with it. I remember asking an experienced developer at my first job how I should calculate my project ship date. He said (and please imagine him cheerily chirping in a Scottish accent): “Just go with your gut. Then double it, add twenty percent, and pray.
FogBugz: EBS 2.0
Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Those incantations that only we can perform to heal their computers, those oracular proclamations that we make over the future and the blessings we bestow on purchasing choices. Ask yourself this: in what other walk of life do grown adults depend on other people to help them buy something?
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Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. Think of the lengths that people have gone to in order to acquire skills that are orthogonal to their core interests and their job, just so they can get their job done. If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people’s perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with. I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a price worth paying to have a computer that isn’t frightening anymore.
After having been the Go-To Guy for issues with the digital world, privately and professionally as a system administrator for close to fifteen years, I whole-heartedly agree. The degrading effect computers have on most of the world is disheartening.
The iPad excites me a great deal, less because of the device itself, but because of the focal change it represents. It’s time to lay off the shaman robe and burn the magic staff. I can’t wait.
“ To say that “either a device is user friendly or it’s open” is a false dichotomy
Adam Pash on The Problem with the Apple iPad
I would be honestly interested in a good example of the contrary being true — something Pash unfortunately doesn’t provide.
Some open questions on the iPad
- Will there be a way to print iWork documents from the iPad? This is one feature I would deem essential if Apple is trying to sell this as a standalone machine for people with limited computing needs.
- Can it be used completely on its own without ever synching it with iTunes?
- Can I get emailed MS Office/iWork documents into the iWork apps? How do I get them out of them, and in which formats (PDF or native formats only) ?
- Will we be able to read purchased iBooks in iTunes?
Thou shall not kill Judas!
