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The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
Mythological reputations
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008I’ve had a hell of a month. I have been spending most of this year so far working with a large expensive piece of software called MATLAB. By expensive, I mean the student version is over $100 for the most basic package. By expensive, I mean the research package starts at $1000 and climbs somewhat [...]
License to Code…
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Update: If you think licensing doesn’t matter to you as a programmer… check out this article about how the PwnageTool developers may have lost control of their source code. Licenses do matter! You know, I really haven’t been alive for that along. Less than 3 decades still. And yet, I am often in awe at [...]