My 2009 tweet cloud.
We have a saying in Hebrew that it’s much easier to look for a lost key under the light, than to look for the key where you actually lost it, because it’s dark over there. That’s exactly how (North American airport security officials) act,” Sela said. “You can easily do what we do. You don’t have to replace anything. You have to add just a little bit — technology, training. But you have to completely change the way you go about doing airport security. And that is something that the bureaucrats have a problem with. They are very well enclosed in their own concept.
Consumer Reports’s rankings, which put AT&T last and Verizon first, were based on actual customer surveys. Actual customers reporting their actual experiences.
Daring Fireball: Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?
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So, how to protect your ideas in a world where ideas spread?
Don’t.
Instead, spread them. Build a reputation as someone who creates great ideas, sometimes on demand. Or as someone who can manipulate or build on your ideas better than a copycat can. Or use your ideas to earn a permission asset so you can build a relationship with people who are interested. Focus on being the best tailor with the sharpest scissors, not the litigant who sues any tailor who deigns to use a pair of scissors.
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Obviously there is a lot more to the story of Indian/Puritan relations in New England than in the thanksgiving stories we heard as children. Our contemporary mix of myth and history about the “First” Thanksgiving at Plymouth developed in the 1890s and early 1900s. Our country was desperately trying to pull together its many diverse peoples into a common national identity. To many writers and educators at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, this also meant having a common national history. This was the era of the “melting pot” theory of social progress, and public education was a major tool for social unity. It was with this in mind that the federal government declared the last Thursday in November as the legal holiday of Thanksgiving in 1898.
In consequence, what started as an inspirational bit of New England folklore, soon grew into the full-fledged American Thanksgiving we now know. It emerged complete with stereotyped Indians and stereotyped Whites, incomplete history, and a mythical significance as our “First Thanksgiving.” But was it really our FIRST American Thanksgiving?
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Apple made $1.6 billion in operating profit off of the iPhone in Q3. Nokia, meanwhile, made $1.1 billion. Let’s put this in perspective. Recent numbers suggest Nokia controls roughly 35% of the worldwide handset market. Apple? About 2.5%.
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To people who follow Apple closely, this should be absolutely no surprise. It’s the same thing it does in the computer industry. Despite having a much smaller market share than its rivals, it makes more money than most of them. The key, of course, is that Apple maintains its high profit margins, while the competitors shuffle to battle each other for market share.
That’s not to say that Apple doesn’t care about market share for either its computers or the iPhone, it undoubtedly does. But it’s a secondary goal to running a successful business. A business which is now absolutely thriving in an awful worldwide economic environment.
While Rivals Jockey For Market Share, Apple Bathes In Profits
not every existing Android phone will be upgradeable to Android 2.0 because individual device updates depend on phone makers and carriers, not Google
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The demands that are being created by the [Apple] (APPL) iPhone and other mobile broadband technologies threaten to outstrip the amount of spectrum available for commercial mobile, and it’s important for the country that we get long-term planning right because it takes time to identify spectrum and put it on the market.
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Privacy depends, ultimately, on people and institutions showing a reasonable regard for the privacy interests of others.
Privacy as a Social Problem, Not a Technology Problem | Freedom to Tinker
FemToCell uses YOUR existing broadband connection to make calls. Wait, you mean that you have to pay for this product, pay for your broadband connection just for a company to somehow manage to have you foot the bill for the service.
Ever seen inside a Nikkor 18-200 VR lens, in the middle of a wedding? (via imanenigma)
Blasted keeps track of the files you’ve been using on your computer and gives you super easy access to them. (via factoryjoe)
Simply put, the iPhone is the first truly ‘personal’ computer; more personal to its owners than the PC ever was. Talk to iPhone owners (not to mention, the 20M iPod Touch owners), and this truth bubbles to the top again and again.
iPhone, the ‘Personal’ Computer - Future of the Mobile Web - O’Reilly Broadcast
What if, just like becoming a cannibal or painting your face green, you eliminated righteous indignation as an option in your list of responses to various situations, no matter how unfair? What if the people you work with weren’t permitted to indulge? Just think of how much more you’d get done and how much calmer everything would be.
We often think of journalism as encompassing what we know. But a key part of journalism that usually goes unreported is what we don’t know.
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org
If you look at Microsoft’s customers, they’re only satisfied when they don’t look at alternatives. And most of its core customers are Windows Enthusiasts and Microsoft shop IT departments that are careful not to examine alternatives out of fear their faith might be shaken if exposed to some reality.
Why Can’t Microsoft Develop Software for Zune HD? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
If you want to change what your boss believes, or the strategy your company is following, the first step is to figure out how to be the best informed person in the room.
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My friend Chris took this near the end of his work day.
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Self-enforcing protocols improve security not by implementing countermeasures that prevent cheating, but by leveraging economic incentives so that the parties don’t want to cheat.
There’s a lot of ways to work with appreciation. You can pull out a pen and paper and list all the things you love, the things you need, the things you depend on. You can remember someone or something that is no longer in your life. There’s also that famous workshop exercise where you have to eat a raisin or a potato chip very, very slowly.
But then there’s just the simple checking in right where you are, wherever you are and discovering the appreciation that is already present.
Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Weekend Meditation: Appreciation
Perhaps the biggest challenge for business owners is developing the ability to see the “big picture” in their particular business and to make sense of all the various parts that have to be developed, maintained and orchestrated. It is easy to get caught up in focusing more on systems — doing things right — at the expense of understanding whether they are doing the right things.
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What is impractical now with 3G may become routine with 4G/LTE.
Why the iTablet is Critical to Apple’s Future | Hidden Dimensions | The Mac Observer
People who love computers overwhelmingly prefer to use a Mac today. Microsoft’s core problem is that they have lost the hearts of computer enthusiasts. Regular people don’t think about their choice of computer platform in detail and with passion like nerds do because, duh, they are not nerds. But nerds are leading indicators.
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iPhones come locked so they can’t be used with other carriers, so people spend hours and plenty of money to ‘unlock’ them. That’s bear shaving. Better to figure out an easy way to pay AT&T their tribute so they can be truly unlocked…
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I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous. It’s because when you buy our products, and three months later you get stuck on something, you quickly figure out [how to get past it]. And you think, “Wow, someone over there at Apple actually thought of this!” And then three months later you try to do something you hadn’t tried before, and it works, and you think “Hey, they thought of that, too.” And then six months later it happens again. There’s almost no product in the world that you have that experience with, but you have it with a Mac. And you have it with an iPod.
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If you don’t like the way someone is acting, understand you can’t change his behavior, you can only change his circumstances. … Sure, people are willing to lie, break promises, willfully misunderstand, avoid responsibility and blame others. But why? They’re doing it because under the circumstances, it seems like the right thing to do.
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The external world is remarkably consistent, and yet we blame it for what’s going on inside of us.
The only reason to go to work, I think, is to do work. It’s too expensive a trip if all you want to do is hang out. Work will mean managing a tribe, creating a movement and operating in teams to change the world. Anything less is going to be outsourced to someone a lot cheaper and a lot less privileged than you or me.
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It’s through space that air fills your lungs. It’s through space that your body moves. It’s through space in the vibration of the air that sound is heard. It’s in the gaps between veins that blood flows. Without the space between these letters, there would be no words for you to read -it would all be incoherent.
In this way, you realize something…
Emptiness truly roars. Silence speaks. Space gives birth to form.
It’s in the gaps that beauty is found.
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The iPhone is the client, the MacBook (they’re all Pro) the server, and you can bring it into the office and plug into the corporate Exchange server with one click. Never has the fear of Apple holding developers or users hostage been so overstated. Apple’s rigorous march forward and its deep understanding of what the market will want next is not only keeping them ahead of the competition but building the markets they will own tomorrow. They’re like WIllie Mays and the basket catch, making the hard stuff look easy. The market may have bounced down a bit on the Jobs no-show, but Steve and company — and the smiling developers — know better.
Why Apple wins. every. time. by Steve Gilmour
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Bing, of course, stands for But It’s Not Google. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that it is trying to be the next Google. And the challenge for Microsoft is that there already is a next Google. It’s called Google.
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Luxury goods are needlessly expensive. By needlessly, I mean that the price is not related to performance. The price is related to scarcity, brand and storytelling. Luxury goods are organized waste. ……. Premium goods, on the other hand, are expensive variants of commodity goods. Pay more, get more.
(NOTE: I’m paraphrasing).
The iPhone is all the netbook I’ll ever need.
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Next time I encounter a Microsoft executive tsk-tsking about the onerous “Apple Tax” imposed by a Mac’s needless glitz, I’m tempted to ask him what car he drives—and whether he chose the model with the cloth seats and hand-cranked windows, or one with a few creature comforts.
Apple is known for its savvy marketing, but its campaigns seldom target the enterprise. Its core customer base consists of students, educators, creative professionals, and individual consumers, whom it courts with a brand message that’s equal parts Porsche and Picasso. Far from being a business darling, Apple paints the Mac as the anti-corporate PC: You either “think different” or shop elsewhere.
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance | Open Source - InfoWorld
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For us, it’s about doing great products. And when I look at what is being sold in the netbook space today, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens, and just not a consumer experience… that we would put the Mac brand on, quite frankly. And so it’s not a space, as it exists today, that we’re interested in, nor do we believe that customers in the long term would be interested in.
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Prediction: The effort required to outsource a task involving the manipulation of data of any kind will continue to decrease until it will be faster and cheaper to outsource just about anything than it will be to use in-house talent. What will you do today to ensure your prosperity when that happens?
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While Microsoft is busy, fighting over the desktop Apple is busy getting people to carry the desktop with them. If you have an iPod Touch or an iPhone you know how much that product has displaced your laptop. You also realize that for most people an iPod touch or iPhone is enough computer. And this time “enough” is competitively priced.
by Chris Seibold Apr 14, 2009
Forget the “Apple tax”—maybe PCs cost less because Windows is worth less
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Whenever a trade association raises the barricades and tries to lobby their way into maintaining the status quo, they are doing their members a disservice. Instead of spending time and insight and effort reinventing what they do and organizing for a better future, the members are lulled into a sense of security that somehow, somehow, the future will be just like today.
Seth’s Blog: Beware of trade guilds maintaining the status quo
The studios have a very long history of betting against technology people want, and on technology people don’t want. This is just another such case. The technology people want always wins in the end — no duh — and usually benefits the businesses who fought that technology to the death. Here’s hoping the technology people want — Boxee — doesn’t wind up benefiting the studios fighting it now.
Every Mac geek out there screams for this machine and screams most loudly when it comes time to buy a new computer. They look around and realize that there’s no way they need the power of a Mac Pro (and no way to justify the price) but they don’t want to feel locked in to an iMac or something. Why, they moan, doesn’t Apple make a machine for me? I want to be able to swap out the video card and really bump up the RAM.
If you’re that guy time to shut your pie hole. The reason that Apple doesn’t make that machine is because you, me, and about three other people really want it. Apple isn’t in the business of making computers for people who feel like stripping them down and mucking with the motherboard, the company is in the business of selling computing solutions to people who don’t want to mess with a computer. Face it, if you’re willing to swap out a video card and add a hard drive you’ve got both the time and expertise to trick out a Linux box or really make Vista sing.
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People like to conflate the concept of property ownership to that of data ownership. I mean it’s you right? You own your house so surely, you own your e-mail address, your name, you date of birth records, your identity. However when you go into the details, from a conceptual level, it doesn’t make sense.
You don’t nor need to own your data » By Elias Bizannes » article » Liako.Biz
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Android Market has a zero installed base, and its initial customers will overwhelmingly be people who don’t buy software: Linux users, DIY hobbyists, and Windows Mobile defectors.
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Turns out that it’s going to be Apple and Google who will usher in the future of browsers, and who will get to determine just what that future of browsers are going to look like. To put it mildly, things just got a whole lot more exciting.
To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different, it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates, 1983
Engineers, in general, crave facts and detest bullshit.
Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will. Intelligent people love to sing its praises because it gives them permission to avoid the much more challenging alternative: focusing on one thing.
Timothy Ferriss
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If the CEO buys an iPhone, it’s a business device, no matter what the IT folks say.
MICHAEL GARTENBERG, ANALYST, JUPITERRESEARCH LLC, AND A COMPUTERWORLD COLUMNIST
A world without failure is a world without freedom. A world without the possibility of sin is a world without the possibility of righteousness. A world without the possibility of crime is a world where you cannot prove you are not a criminal. A technology that can give you everything you want is a technology that can take away everything that you have. At some point, real soon now, some of us security geeks will have to say that there comes a point at which safety is not safe.
I’ve thought for a while that sending laptops to developing countries is simply the 21st century equivalent of sending bibles to the colonies.
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Linux users are never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They can’t just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge that it will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong.
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technical people, especially when younger, get a particular thrill out of dicking around with their software.
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A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
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Innovation isn’t always sexy, it isn’t always the stuff people go crazy for. Innovation is more generally the little things that add up to big changes over time.
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business projects have the advantage of potentially generating income, whereas IT security simply has “nothing bad happening” as the goal
I bought a Sony HDR-CX7 last month. The Sony is a HD camcorder that record video and still images to Sony Memory Stick. It was while testing out the photo features that it suddenly hit me. This isn’t just a camcorder. This is a 4.6 megapixel image camera with a 10x optical zoom lens!
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Viewed from the perspective of economics, security is a trade-off. There’s no such thing as absolute security, and any security you get has some cost: in money, in convenience, in capabilities, in insecurities somewhere else, whatever.
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We would have to buy 1.4 barrels of oil from the Saudi oil sheiks to produce the equivalent of one barrel of oil in ethanol.
The stability of this sushi makes eating it with chop sicks impossible…
Brad Kellet via Twitter
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khurt: Ordered me a Time Capsule. My MacBook and Mac mini… http://tinyurl.com/3araaj
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khurt: Friday is jeans day. http://tinyurl.com/2d89my
khurt: Taking the boy to the school bus. http://tinyurl.com/2pl5ek
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Getting the wife hooked on watching iTunes movies on the mac mini. Apple TV in my future?
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twitter giving me errors about exceeding request limits.
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khurt: 5 Teaching Techniques that will Improve your Blogging http://tinyurl.com/ynpafd
khurt: Defend your coffee addiction. http://tinyurl.com/yv4gfk
TuDiabetes Celebrates First Year http://tinyurl.com/2zlafl
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khurt: 5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done http://tinyurl.com/32xbu9
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khurt: Attended a support group meeting for fibromyalgia with my wife…. http://tinyurl.com/2oznrp
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Wondering how I wil survice the day on just 5 hours of sleep.
Searching for a way to “Post to Ma.gnolia” from NetNewsWire
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Wishing Apple Into the Enterprise Won’t Get It There http://tinyurl.com/2y3rcq
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My Amazon Unbox experience has been terrible! http://tinyurl.com/2vuwfp
submitting yearly objectives for approval.
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My biggest decision today? Choosing which Adobe AIR twitter client to use.
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Social networking sites need to start using OpenID. Registration takes too much time.
Adobe AIR is shaping up to be a very hot platform.
Everyone twitter user should have a go at twhilr: http://www.twhirl.org/
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IMHO, Jyte is useless.
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Trying out twirl. twhirl is a Twitter desktop client based on the Adobe AIR platform.
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Installing Ubuntu Linux in a VirtualBox VM at midnight? I am nuts ( and tired ).
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Company just announced closure of all central NJ facilities due to inclement weather.
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What at idiot. I am the only one in the office and the yes, the company is still open.
Searching Scribd for documents on security metrics.
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khurt: Einstein says check your intellect at the door. http://tinyurl.com/22skbs
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Thought I was hacked http://tinyurl.com/yp2c9a
Mail.app has multiple personality http://tinyurl.com/25fygk
Sick.
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Too much of a good thing? http://tinyurl.com/2r2os8
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I don’t wanna look like the borg http://tinyurl.com/2tsl65
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The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet
Williams Gibson
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Stop the Spying: Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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The jack of all trades maximizes his number of peak experiences in life and learns to enjoy the pursuit of excellence unrelated to material gain, all while finding the few things he is truly uniquely suited to dominate.
How Addicted to Apple Are You?: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch
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Diabetes 365, Day 16: I am a technologist. I love computers. I love numbers and data collection and graphing and… you get the point. Most of the time I get a blood glucose reading in the “safe” range ( 70 - 120 ). But quite a few are in the “low” arena (30 - 70).
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Diabetes 365, Day 17: As someone with diabetes I pay attention to everything that enters my mouth. Food is an important part of my life. Spontaneous eating is a thing of my past. Each and every meal is planned and each and every gram of fat, protein and carbohydrate ( especially the caarbohydrate) is measured.
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