Here’s what Brooks Jensen has to say in his nomination: …for not including Flash, crippling untold numbers of both web pages and PDFs from playing correctly. What gives with implementing a format half way? What if the iPad had Word document capabilities, but no tables or bold fonts? What if it played MP3 files, but didn’t… [Read More]
Tech Hall of Shame: Windows 7 Update
You’re using your laptop. Maybe you’re doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. You’re well into it… No, wait. You’re trying to get your startup funded. You’re making a presentation to a group of VCs. All the partners are in the room. It was hard to get them there, and some of them don’t… [Read More]
Tech Hall of Shame: Blu-Ray (again)
While I’m waiting for the Dell workstation to arrive, I thought I’d return to the Hall of Shame. I’m sorry, but I just can’t leave Blu-Ray alone. The scenario that most drives me out of my gourd is this: You put in a Blu-Ray disc. The volume jumps to way above the level for a… [Read More]
On-site service
If a personal computer is a computer that you have all to yourself, my first personal computer was a Hewlett-Packard 2114, which was assigned to me in 1970 when I was working at hp. It came with a form of onsite service; if anything broke, I’d either swap the new part in myself or call… [Read More]
Getting more RAM, part 3
With the Lenovo D20 looking like it could be too loud, I reduced the list of possibilities to the hp Z800 and the Dell T7500. The hp workstation wins the design competition: nearly everything snaps together and requires no tools to access – it’s actually a step ahead of the Mac Pro, and the Mac… [Read More]
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