Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have fun on the stage together!
Twiggy disk drive... (Gates)
Why woz didn't include floating-point in basic? -- I don't know... that's one of the misteries of life. (Jobs)
They're both cute and they changed the world!
Taking Care
I hope the next big thing is a consolidation of what we have learned over the last forty years. I hope the next big thing is the realization that software is not about hours worked, but about care. I hope the next big thing is the gradual understanding that developing good software is not about man-hours and raw labor; but about creativity, inventiveness, and a drive for elegance and beauty. (Jeff Atwood, CodingHorror.com)
Making a mess is not faster
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have fun on the stage together!
Twiggy disk drive... (Gates)
Why woz didn't include floating-point in basic? -- I don't know... that's one of the misteries of life. (Jobs)
They're both cute and they changed the world!
This video shows just how easy it is to clone magnetic stripe credit cards.
This is why EMV was introduced.
This is the best explanation of RSS that we have stumbled upon. Actually it's about Google Reader, which happens to be the best reader available for RSS content. Just watch the video and you'll find out that Google Reader is like an "inbox" for the web. RSS is a protocol that makes this possible - just like SMTP and POP are the protocols for the e-mail. You don't really have to know the details to be able to take advantage of this exciting new technology!
Using Windows Live Messenger 8.1, you can now help MS give back to the world.
An i’m icon next to your name will show people that you care about this.
It is almost an hour long interview, but really awesome.
Charlie Rose is a great interviewer and Bill Gates had his day too. He even managed to get a few great jokes through. What is it all about? Among other things they talk about Bill's new hobby (making the world a better place), Microsoft's competition with Google, Linux initiative, Apple, wars in gaming with Sony and others, MySpace and YouTube phenomenon and more!
"Value innovation is about making the competition irrelevant by creating uncontested market space. We argue that beating the competition within the confines of the existing industry is not the way to create profitable growth."
-- W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy
"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B."
-- James Yorke, mathematician
"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."
-- David O. Adeife
If you're using a feed aggregator (e.g. Google Reader) to follow up on your daily news, you may have noticed (like most of us) that the growing number of feeds (that you just can't live without, naturally) slowly becomes overwhelming.
If you're as information greedy as some of us, you might want to consider an additional layer of control over what gets in and what doesn't.