The Inquirer isn’t normally this silly, and it isn’t even April 1. Nick Farrell writes: Why Apple might regret the Ipad [sic] THE IPAD HAS DOOMED Apple, according to market anlaysts [sic] that are expecting the tablet to spell trouble for its maker. … Rather than killing off the netbook, the Ipad [sic] is harming [...]
Archive for the ‘Opinion & Editorial’ Category
The “You Call This Journalism?” Department
Posted in Apple, Opinion & Editorial on 2010-05-07 | 2 Comments »
Links I enjoyed this week: Flash and HTML5
Posted in Friday Thoughts, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development, Web on 2010-05-06 | 1 Comment »
These are the two best links I’ve read in the wake of the Flash and HTML5 brouhaha(s). They discuss other informative points too, but their biggest value lies in discussing three things, to which I’ll offer the answers that make the most sense to me: What is the web, really? “The web” is the cross-linked [...]
“Readability”
Posted in Apple, Opinion & Editorial, Web on 2010-04-10 | 7 Comments »
If you like reading just about anything on the web, including my articles, in a pretty nicely rendered plain format with no ads or other distractions, you might want to try out arc90’s Readability. All you do is drag a bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, and then on any article-like web page you can click [...]
Flash In the Pan
Posted in Opinion & Editorial on 2010-03-30 | 9 Comments »
You’ve no doubt noticed the recent acceleration of the transition from Flash in favor of HTML5, thanks in large part to Apple’s refusal to support Flash on iPhone and iPad. First YouTube, and now TED, Vimeo, CBS, and Time and The New York Times are adding support for HTML5 in addition to, or instead of, [...]
whois terry.crowley
Posted in Concurrency, Opinion & Editorial on 2009-10-14 |
Astute readers may have noticed that Terry Crowley’s name frequently crops up in the Acknowledgments section of my Effective Concurrency columns. Who is Terry? To answer, Mary-Jo Foley profiles him this week.
Effective Concurrency: Design for Manycore Systems
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on 2009-08-11 | 5 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Design for Manycore Systems, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Why worry about “manycore” today? Dual- and quad-core computers are obviously here to stay for mainstream desktops and notebooks. But do we really need to think about "many-core" systems if we’re building a typical mainstream application right [...]
Income in Perspective: 2 Bppl @ $3/day
Posted in Friday Thoughts, Opinion & Editorial on 2009-02-06 | 4 Comments »
I just saw a CNN headline that read: “Young workers scrimp to live on $15/wk.” Before reading further, what do you think: Is that stunning and shocking? Or shockingly typical? The story turned out to be a piece about white-collar workers in China trying to live frugally, spending only 100 Yuan on travel and food [...]
Answer to "16 Technologies": Engelbart and the Mother of All Demos
Posted in Hardware, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on 2009-01-08 | 10 Comments »
A few days ago I posted a challenge to name the researcher/team and approximate year each of the following 16 important technologies was first demonstrated. In brief, they were: The personal computer for dedicated individual use all day long. The mouse. Internetworks. Network service discovery. Live collaboration and desktop/app sharing. Hierarchical structure within a file [...]
16 Important Technologies: Who demonstrated each one first?
Posted in Hardware, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on 2009-01-05 | 13 Comments »
We enjoy such an abundance of computing riches that it’s easy to take wonderful technological ideas for granted. Yet so many of the pieces of our modern computing experience that we consider routine today were at one time unimaginable. After all, back in the early days of computing, we were still discovering what these newfangled [...]
The 2008 Media Inflection: Meet Dr. Web, the New Gorilla
Posted in Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on 2008-12-31 | 34 Comments »
[edited 2009.01.15 to add link to DDJ's announcement] 2008 was quite a year, full of landmark events that were certainly historic, if not always welcome. If I had to pick one technology-related highlight from the past year, it would be this: A notable inflection point in the ongoing shift from traditional media to the web. [...]
