Category: Computer
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Marketing physics is trivial compared to technology
What should engineers developing products know about marketing?There are three laws of what I call marketing physics, three things that matter. The first is “overt benefit,” which, in a consumer’s words, is “What’s in it for me?” The second is “real reason to believe,” which translates to “Why should I believe you?” And the third…
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Computers
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.Douglas Adams
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Ray Kurzweil
Last night, the Graduate Programs in Software, IT & IS at the University of Saint Thomas celebrated their 20th Anniversary with a talk by Ray Kurzweil.His talk was most interesting and focused mostly on his belief that all progress in technology follows a logrithmic curve. We live in a linear world, but that isn’t how…
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The Mac OS X Tipping Point
Read this Daring Fireball article, then this comment:And then there are those of us who’s first personal computer was the Apple II, got sucked into the dark side when we left college and worked on CPM and PC-DOS’s. We were always yearning for a multi-tasking operating system with a useful beautiful interface.  We were seduced again…
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A kludge is just a kludge
It’s all well and good to define a kludge as using a band-aid to attach a box to the side of the box that’s affixed to the main system with chewing gum and duct tape, but that doesn’t do much when the time comes to design a solution to a system problem.Bob Lewis
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DiskWarrior
I was having a little bit of trouble with my Mac Mini locking up and being unresponsive. Of course, the answer I got from Apple support was to back everything up, format the drive and reinstall OS X. Because that sounded too much like a Windoze solution, and I had read the article Resuscitate an…