Quote of the Day [10.14.08].

broderic on October 14, 2008

"I mean the updates are cute and all… but I think I actually prefer the refurb of previous gen. I like the old silver keys."TheSeed, hoisted from comments in today's "Link of the Day"

iPhone kills Flash dead

broderic on June 18, 2008

Here’s an interesting link to understanding why running flash on iPhone sucks.

For all you stupid people complaining about Flash support on iPhone. The number one reason is that Flash is a performance pig. You may not feel it with an octocore Intel Mac, or whatever the latest is for Windows, but it cripples older computers like no ones business. On my PPC Macs, the performance meter is spiked. On my PC in the lab at work, a four year old Dell, it spikes the task manager. Flash is just the suck.

Hopefully, once everyone has iPhone, Flash will go the way of RealMedia — a dinosaur in the days of mammals. Suck it Adobe!

Who’s Next, too?

broderic on June 11, 2008

Are you getting the latest Mac OS?

Snow Leopard is not as fearsome sounding as ocelot would’ve been, but that’s what Apple’s giving us. No new features, but supposedly changes under the hood.

First and foremost, I hope they do some optimization. Make OS X run faster on my MBP. Make it consume less battery.

Next should be some bug fixes. Fix whatever is scary. Then fix the security of the OS. Just make it better.

From a programming perspective, the multi-core programming doo-hicky has to be explained more. I want to know how to make an octocore mac scream. That would be nice.