After about 14 years, I just took home the last colocated physical server that we owned. All our sites have moved to cloud servers, mostly at Amazon and Rackspace. Hopefully I will never have to buy a physical server again. No more exploding fans (yes), funny motherboard timing errors, and faulty RAID arrays. No more [...]
Big Picture
Lots of speculation that Google will come out with electronically enhanced glasses by year’s end. They will supposedly contain a camera (so they see what you see) and a heads-up projector (so they can modify what you see) Here are some of the more “interesting” (frightening!) scenarios that this would enable, like: Look through things [...]
I found myself asking Five Whys about the current economic difficulties in the Euro zone and the world in general. The 4th question is the really hard one and one that I had not seen answered well anywhere. I suggest that even if you disagree with my answer, do not believe any commentator on the [...]
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Very worthwhile to listen to. http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/37-a-story-of-triumph “People made this!” Hat tip to Scott Loftesness on Facebook.
Will Apple Buy a Carrier?
Jean-Louis Gassée now thinks it’s likely Apple will get into the carrier business, perhaps as a MVNO. I predicted something like it a while back. My reasoning is simple: 10 years down the road (or 5, or 20 if you like), do you really think that the oligopolic, infuriating carriers get to remain unchallenged in [...]
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