The difference between computer heaven and hell
In computer heaven: the management is from Intel, the design and construction is done by Apple, the marketing is done by Microsoft, IBM provides the support, and Gateway determines the price.
In computer hell: the management is from Apple, Microsoft does design and construction, IBM handles the marketing, the support is from Gateway, and Intel sets the price.
Posted 2008 November 28 at 2:09 p.m.
Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco.
Richard M. Stallman
Posted 2008 November 12 at 4:58 p.m.
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
Undecided by David Sedaris.
Posted 2008 October 22 at 10:52 a.m.
| Title | Django Toronto Meeting |
|---|---|
| Location | linuxcaffe |
| When | 2008-11-04 19:00:00 |
Posted 2008 October 19 at 3:24 p.m.
Blackbird - Open Source JavaScript Logging Utility (via) Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again. It has a syntax like Python's Logging module.
Posted 2008 October 17 at 3:04 p.m.
Past research has investigated ideals of beauty and how these ideals have changed across time. In the current study, facial and body characteristics of Playboy Playmates of the Year from 1960-2000 were identified and investigated to explore their relationships with U.S. social and economic factors. Playmate of the Year age, body feature measures, and facial feature measurements were correlated with a general measure of social and economic hard times. Consistent with Environmental Security Hypothesis predictions, when social and economic conditions were difficult, older, heavier, taller Playboy Playmates of the Year with larger waists, smaller eyes, larger waist-to-hip ratios, smaller bust-to-waist ratios, and smaller body mass index values were selected. These results suggest that environmental security may influence perceptions and preferences for women with certain body and facial features.
Posted 2008 October 17 at 3:02 p.m.
$ python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"
Run this in any directory and create a instance web server.
Posted 2008 September 24 at 10:53 a.m.
Imagine if Apple had adopted the best practices for making usable phone interfaces… then we would have an iPhone that looked like a Blackberry.
Baekdal.com
Posted 2008 September 07 at 9:20 p.m.