August 2007
27 posts
BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware →
wow
“This is all your app is: a collection of tiny details.”
– Review of the C4 conference
“We put ourselves in the customer’s shoes and say, what do we want?”
This is why Apple does not compete in the enterprise market in the traditional sense. This is why no other company created the iPhone. This is why most desktop PCs are pieces of crap. When you don’t focus on the user, the user gets shafted.
stuck on the enterprise via Daring Fireball
Mori’s hypothesis states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong repulsion. However, as the appearance and motion continue to become less distinguishable from a human...
new Dell vs new iMac
Just configured a new Dell machine with as-close-as-i-could-get specs as the base £799 iMac.
Dell
Intel Core Duo 2 2.0Ghz
19” Monitor (It’s not 20” but closest I could get)
Vista Ultimate
320GB drive (That’s bigger than the iMac)
16x DVD +/- RW Drive (Again faster)
256 ATI Graphics (Bigger than the iMac)
Dell Enhanced Wired Keyboard
Dell Optical Scroll...
Dell launches Linux PCs in the UK →
At some point Ubuntu need to get into the hardware business and start pumping out brown boxes for themselves.
“I would like to gain access to your base. Shall I enter from the front or the...”
– Top 10 Halo Pick-Up Lines
