Quote of the Day [4.14.11]
"But you know what uses even less power than the Flash Player for Android? Not installing it.""Flash on Android: Look but don't touch," Neil McAllister
Quote of the Day
"But you know what uses even less power than the Flash Player for Android? Not installing it.""Flash on Android: Look but don't touch," Neil McAllister
“I think they started out with the goal of being open, but they are learning that this approach doesn’t work in the world of phones where tight tolerances on user experience require much more coordination between hardware and software.”
iOS versus Android: OS Footprint is not a Proxy for Application Footprint
Jules: Now Yolanda, we're not gonna do anything stupid, are we?
Yolanda: You don't hurt him.
Jules: Nobody's gonna hurt anybody. We're gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda what's Fonzie like?
Yolanda: C-c-c-cool?
Jules: What?
Yolanda: He's cool.
Jules: Correctamundo. And that's what we're gonna be. We're gonna be cool.Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) et Yolanda (Amanda Plummer), Pulp Fiction
The one bet me buy, the one bet me buy, it bust me, lordLong Shot Bus' Me Bet, Sons of the Pioneers
"The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive."Pvt. Joker (Matthew Modine), Full Metal Jacket
I ran into Charley Phogg
He blacked my eye and he kicked my dog
My dog he turned to me and he said
Let's head back to Tennessee, JedTennesse Jed, Grateful Dead
“Respect the cock! And tame the cunt!”
Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), Magnolia
"A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? [… A billion dollars.]"Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), The Social Network
"There was a time before the iPod too, when companies like HP, Samsung, and even Microsoft fought against Apple for the hearts and minds of the consumer — but I'll be damned if anyone can remember it."This piece I feel was written 3 years too late, and in hindsight, it's actually 10 years. I've felt that ever since iPhone, Apple has been dominating the consumer consciousness, but it was pretty much since the iPod. Every year, they set the bar in personal computing. They ignore what others are doing because after a bit, what others are doing is copying Apple. "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."Apple is the leader.The "iPod killer," the "iPhone killer," and the "iPad killer" are all followers.Microsoft is so confused it doesn't even know if it's still playing the same game.Every evolutionary step for Apple is a revolutionary step for the computing industry. We're just along for the ride.http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/editorial-its-apples-post-pc-world-were-all-just-living/#
When I breeze into that city
People gonna stoop and bow
And all them women gonna make me
Teach 'em what they don't know howJackson, Johnny Cash w/June Carter Cash