Will SanDisk Sour Apple’s Tune?
via Business week Sandisk is making the same mistake Sony and Creative and every other MP3 manufacturer does: They’re assuming the iPod is about features and price. They do it because those things are easy to quantify. 30 gigs is more than 20 gigs. Simple. What they don’t get is that the iPod is more [...]
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The Loft » Blog Archive » What Net Neutrality Really Means Let’s say you want to send a birthday card to your nephew Ronnie. You put a 39-cent stamp on the envelope and drop it off at the post office. And away it goes (you hope). Now let’s say that instead of sending little Ronnie [...]
Caveat Emptor
I tried to switch to Verizon DSL because it’s significantly cheaper than Comcast. However, there are no open ports. No port 80. No port 8080. Nothing. Port scan reveals that there are two ports open: 2420 (dslremote-mgmt) and 6363, which is some flavor of telnet. What do I use port 80 for? WebDAV to share [...]
E-Paper. And Potential.
If someone, somewhere could create an iPod for e-Books, they’d be a billionaire. Combine an easy to use interface with a non-proprietary technology with exceptional battery life and the ability to sync RSS feeds or documents, and you’d have a great product. Couple it with a great piece of library management software and you’ll kill [...]
AOL’s Email Tax
via Snopes Even if it doesn’t block other people, it’s a step towards a future I don’t like. The next thing is this: AOL has a list of legitimate email users that they’ll sell to advertisers. This translates into more spam that can’t be blocked. Following that, you’ve got this: AOL blocking more email from [...]
I’ll learn it when my boss pays me to?
I was listening to Chad Fowler‘s great presentation “Ruby is a Toy and Rails is Boring” on Software Engineering Live when I heard a very disturbing thing from a member of the audience. I like Rails but I’ll learn it when my boss pays me to. I understand that the general attitude amongst many programmers [...]
Rotate?
Why is there a rotate drop down? Is Apple trying to tell us something?
AOL Developing AIM Pro
via Macworld AIM, the most widely used IM service, is designed for personal use, but many workplaces have adopted it. This causes IT departments problems when they can’t manage, secure and log their users’ IM communications. Yet another symptom of clueless management and tech school sysadmins. Jabber has been around for a couple years. It [...]
Phone Post
I just got a Motorola v557 from Cingular. It’s great. I get reception, my headset works. The only problem is that my Mac doesn’t work with it. No iSync, no File Browser. It sees it, but it doesn’t talk to it. Hopefully Apple will produce a fix for this in a couple weeks. I don’t [...]
On Flash Drives
I know I can get a 1GB flash drive at Costco for less than $50. But I don’t really need one. Virtually every computer is connected to the Internet, and I can always keep stuff I want or need on that instead of on a flash drive. If I want security, I’ll just use https [...]