Driving a car is, on the surface, quite an easy task. With some modern vehicles, you don’t even need all four limbs; just one arm and one leg can be enough. Americans in particular seem to loathe manual gearboxes– 85% of new cars sold in America are sold with automatic transmissions. That means that for [...]
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I was planning on writing a long piece today about the iPhone 4S, how it related to Jobs’s departure from the CEO role, what post-Jobs Apple would look like…but that all seems a bit irrelevant right now. RIP Steve Jobs Rest in peace, Steve. I may not have always agreed with your rationale or [...] “To make this investment a financial success would require significant investments over the next one to two years, creating risk without clear returns. Therefore we have decided to shut down operations around webOS devices and will be exploring strategic alternatives to optimize the value of the software platform and development capability.” –HP CFO Cathie Lesjak, [...] Netflix raises prices: With this change, we will no longer offer a plan that includes both unlimited streaming and DVDs by mail. The response has not been positive, ranging from sadness to downright anger. But I think this comment best summarizes the current atmosphere and why this is not welcome news for most users: [...] It looks like RapidSSL is doing A/B testing with prices per browser. They aren’t filtering this by IP address however, so loading the site in different browsers back-to-back gives you wildly different prices. IE9: $79.00 Firefox 5: $49.00 Chrome: $19.00 $60 price swing depending on your browser. Occasionally you get in-between prices as well; after [...] For the past decade, I had been using DynDNS to give me a memorable hostname for my home network. I signed up in either 99 or 2000, hard to tell at this point, and picked a hostname on the .ath.cx domain; it was free at the time and I liked the sound of it. All [...] Chrome’s omnibox behavior is so irritating, I’m actually going back to Firefox for good. [...] Gruber is slowly but surely sinking in the sand. [...] Steve Jobs to the world: Hold your phone differently. [...] Remember when I said the iPhone’s “Retina Display” was disingenuous? Yeah, I was right. The human eye is a lot better than Apple is giving it credit. Good screen, sure, but it’s not better than our eyeballs. |
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