Gizmodo’s Jason Chen on video tearing and distortion issues with Apple’s new Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adaptor:
Our own limited testing showed that this happens really quickly (in about a minute) when there’s a USB hub plugged either into the second MacBook Pro USB port, or into the pass-through port on the actual adapter itself. If we have nothing plugged in, the display is fine, but if we have a powered hub plugged in, the distortion hits almost immediately.
The eternal battle between Apple’s priorities with form over function played a major role in this summer’s past Mobile Me meltdown. Apple puts so much emphasis on making sure every millimeter of the screen is pixel perfect, and that the User Interface is so shiny that you want to lick it. But when it comes to the core infrastructure of the service, or the back-end functionality holding up in critical times, it seemed like an after thought. Perhaps in the future they’ll spend less time on perfecting that gradient, and more time making sure their servers scale.
The Onion, in 1999:
In an effort to prevent such incidents of “excessive iconoclasm” in the future, Apple has developed a manual outlining the company’s rules and regulations regarding individualism. Permitted will be such unorthodox activities as removing shoes when seated or within four feet of a desk; whistling when given prior written permission from a direct supervisor; and kicking puddles, provided the kicking is conducted during one’s lunch hour and the puddle is one of the 35 on the Apple campus specifically designated for such a purpose. Prohibited will be such “gratuitously idiosyncratic” behaviors as singing out loud, flying kites and catching butterflies.
Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu:
“While CEO Steve Jobs deserves a lot of credit for the revival and success of Apple and, as one of the founding fathers of technology, helping revolutionize the world with the Apple I, Apple II, Lisa, Macintosh, NeXT, Pixar, Mac OS X, the Apple Store, iTunes, iPod, and iPhone, we believe Apple today has a deep bench and its culture of innovation and execution or ‘spirit’ has more or less been institutionalized…
As the news of Apple’s withdraw from Macworld settles in on the Macintosh user community, the news that Steve Jobs won’t be holding the company’s last Macworld keynote still has a lot of people wondering about the health of Apple and of Jobs himself. While some believe Jobs has fallen ill and the company scrambled to figure out what to do, the general consensus is that this is the beginning of a long, gradual transfer of power and public face time from Jobs to other members of Apple’s core leadership group.
So much about this article makes me mad, I can’t decide what to quote.
The holiday includes novel practices such as the “Airing of Grievances,” in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the “Feats of Strength” are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is actually pinned.
Most people- including me, until this morning- thought Festivus was fictional, created by Seinfeld writers. Wikipedia corrected the error in my ways:
Apollo 8 was the first manned space mission to leave Earth’s gravitational pull and enter that of another body- the moon. It was the the first manned mission to use the still impressive Saturn V rocket, and was the first time humans saw the dark side of the moon. Circling the moon 10 times, the mission hosted several television specials from space and took the first photo of the whole Earth from space. Time named the three men aboard (Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders) “Men of the Year” in 1968.
I usually like Lifehacker, but today, I’m not sure:
We had to look at this desktop twice to make sure it really was Windows.
I mean, that’s horrific.
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu guy) says that notifications should be simplified to completely eliminate the need for user interaction. To accommodate that goal, the new notification system will not support response buttons or any other interactive elements. This change is intended to reduce the disruption caused by notifications. He says that applications which require persistent notifications should use panel notification area icons and that conventional popups and other mechanisms can be used for messages that require an interactive response.
After updating to Mac OS X 10.5.6, Mail may unexpectedly quit. This can be caused by using a copy of Mail that wasn’t updated properly (you may need to install the Mail Update).
Windows PC owners always pull the “Macs aren’t compatible with any decent software” card when bashing Apple. But that insult is clearly outdated if Barack Obama was able to win the U.S. presidency with a Mac as his computing weapon (while using iChat to stay in touch with his family, no less). And wait — there’s one more thing: Obama has his own official iPhone application! Can we all “think different” if we’re all using the same trendy gadgets?
