I have no special talents. I'm only passionately curious.
— Albert Einstein
PC emulator written in Javascript that boots Linux.
Only a little bit of Linux, but still...
Not that I can confirm or deny, but here's an article about "Windows 8".
Walk and talk is a distinctive storytelling-technique used in film and television in which a number of characters have a conversation en route. The most basic form of walk and talk involves a walking character that is then joined by another character. On their way to their destinations, the two talk.
Just finished watching The American President, which is basically Sorkin's prequel to The West Wing, including having most of the same cast, the same set, and the same "walk and talk" style.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question.
Wonderful descriptions of what I feel as one of those 25% of people who are introverted and why.
Josh has a problem, you see Josh has learned how to make sites that are both scalable and reliable. So he's puzzled why companies "whose downtime interfaces (Twitter) are more well known than their uptime interfaces" get all the attention, respect, and money for being failures. Just doing your job doesn't make you a hero. You need these self-inflicted wounds in-order to have the war stories to share at conferences. They get the attention. Just doing your job is boring.
Paul Graham and Reihan Salam have been popularizing the term "ephemeralization", originally coined by Buckminster Fuller, to describe this process whereby special-purpose products are replaced by software running on general-purpose computing devices. ... Ephemeralization offers an alternative explanation for the puzzling growth slowdown of the last decade. Every time the software industry displaces a special purpose device, our standard of living improves but measured GDP falls. ... The real lesson here may not be that the American economy is stagnating, but rather that the government is bad at measuring improvements in our standard of living that come from the software industry.
This assumes, of course, that you accept the face-value explanation of the movie, and not an alternate theory.Inception as explained by the OS X folder system.
[via Kottke]
I've noticed a further manifestation of this compulsive behavior as regards installing software on my machines, and I've called it the Critical Customisation Cost (CCC, henceforth) of software. Put simply, there's a cost (not just financial, but rather psychological and emotional) associated with installing third-party software on a computing device, and there's an associated threshold above which the CCC is so high that it outweighs the benefit of the functionality offered by the software.
His list of symptoms fits me to a T, among them:
- Balking at an app because its menubar (status bar) icon isn't monochrome, or generally homogeneous with the system-supplied icons (or, even worse, is confusingly similar to one of the standard ones).
- Returning to one of the factory-installed desktop wallpapers after only briefly trying a custom one, and repeating this process every two months.