The iPad and Resolution Independence
One thing is sort of bugging me about the iPad, but I will have to wait till it arrives to get a better idea of how resolution independent it is. What I want is for these devices to be able to have improved resolution without have to rewrite the software. I’m a little disappointed at the [...]
Bill Gates on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Tonight Bill Gates was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the interview was just too painful to watch. First Jon joked about Bill Gates getting and iPhone. First rule, never joke with Bill Gates, he’ll freeze up. Then Jon mentioned that Bill Gates was now on Twitter, which was fine. Except it was clear that [...]
John Rubinstein Thinks Ignoring Apple is a Good Approach for his Failing Company
Quick Facts Featured Story Palm CEO, former Apple exec says he’s never used an iPhone Excerpt In an interview at CES this week, Palm chief executive and former iPod chief Jon Rubinstein said his company doesn’t pay much attention to Apple, and noted he has never even used an [...]
Intel’s New App Store: “AppUp”
Quick Facts Featured Story CES: Intel takes wraps off netbook app store, dubbed ‘AppUp’ Excerpt Intel this week unveiled a beta version of its application storefront for netbooks, designed to make downloading and purchasing applications similar to the experience on App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Called the [...]
The Future of Programming Languages
Lately I’ve been a bit concerned. One of the things I love about the internet is that it allows anyone to invent something like a programming language or a blogging system. That’s really good. But what’s bad is that it seems like there are a lot of lessons we should have learned from the past that [...]
Garbage Collection Gets a Bad Rap
Today I was searching for information why the iPhone doesn’t implement garbage collection. Programs using Cocoa for the Mac do have garbage collection available. Everywhere I looked I saw people stating their opinion that garbage collection was not implemented because it was a performance hog and would reduce battery life. Now, this may be the case, [...]