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Thursday, November 7, 2002 |
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Doc Searls on the future of software: "The business we knew wanted software to be expensive, high margin stuff. It wanted to lock customers into dependencies. And it wanted to hold on to its position as the paradigmatic hot business category, the kind of business high-rolling investors would help drive to huge successes in the stock market.
That's over, and it's not because a pile of overfunded dot-com fantasies
crashed to the ground. It's over because the market doesn't want it any
more. The market wants something more like professional
services--architects, designers and builders. Good businesses all, but not
the kind that are "venture scale", as they say." I think Doc has it right.. small, focused packages that are a good deal, visibly add value and are well-supported will be successful. The dew is off the tech lilly: people want things that work and business partners that will be responsible and helpful... |
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Amiga G3 and G4 boards go on sale for delivery by Christmas, at about $600 and $800 repectively. They run Linux PPC and soon, Amiga OS 4.0. Hmmm... nice Xmas present... build your own PowerPC machine... Comments 11:51:09 AM 
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On our Republican future: Dan Quayle. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." George Burns. "Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair." [Quotes of the Day] New Zealand looks better and better... Comments 11:39:41 AM
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Dusty Baker and Peter Magowan: "a relationship Magowan let spoil far too long ago" according to Ray Ratto. Magowan has done so much for the Giants: I am just amazed he couldn't keep Baker on board. I don't know anyone in SF who's happy about this, least of all my wife... Comments 11:20:33 AM
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Tablet PC: 8 full-page ads in the West Coast edition of the NYT today, article yesterday. Friend, LA Times Editor Saul Daniels is really interested in these things, as it seems visionary Roger Fiedler's tablet PC is upon us. My take: tablet PCs cost $1000 per pound, vs. about $200 a ton for newsprint. Newspapers have one of the most highly developed, intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces on the planet: tablet PCs have a version of Windows that has been kludged to fit, rather than designed from the ground up for the tablet. Imagine a piece of foam core, page-sized, a quarter-inch thick, with a bright OLED screen on one side. It weighs under 6 ounces, and has an easy touch interface - something like the VCR play-stop-fastforward paradigm. It wirelessly connects almost everywhere, and has access to any book, magazine or newspaper (and videos and TV stations and Web sites). Imagine it costs under $300, not counting content and ISP fees.
When? Expensive prototypes in 3 years, affordable production models in 5 or 6. Who? Don't count Apple out... they had a Newton OS machine made by Sony that I saw in '97 that was already almost as capable as what Microsoft is touting now. Wonder why OS X has hand-writing recognition and digital ink built in? Hmm... |
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Crashing OS X on B&W G3: I can not get my 400 Mhz G3 to run OS X server longer than a few days, sometimes hours. I've replaced RAM and HD... anybody else observe this? It's been in the shop, where of course, they found no problems...G4s and other G3s around here go for months on OSX without a problem... Comments 10:40:20 AM
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Scientist keeps human genome on his iPod: "Will Gilbert, head of the bioinformatics group in the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire has found that the iPod is a perfect way to store the gene sequence -- and it's faster than waiting for his network to churn out the data. Apple also developed DNA search software, which, together with the iPod, helped Gilbert and his colleagues pinpoint important human genes." From Wired News. In FireWire mode, the iPod is a nifty, small, fast hard drive... I have my contacts and calendar on mine, along wiith 2000 MP3s... Comments 7:41:35 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:07:34 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:07:34 PM
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