Color is pretty much what is missing today in all electronics. Everyone, including Apple, wants to play it safe with the brushed silver, sleek black or cool white. Grow some and try the rest of the color wheel.

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…I also found out if you buy a breathalyzer at Bestbuy.com under the car accessories category. Scary stuff.

Ten resolutions Microsoft should make for 2010

1. Resume giving financial guidance to Wall Street. – So giving Wall Street a bunch of useless forecasts will help things? Who gives a crap what Wall Street has to say?
2. Spend even more on advertising. – How about spending more money on making your products work better?
3. Engage enthusiasts. – Are there any enthusiats? Yeah .Net Framework 3.3.4.1117 SP5 is out!!!!
4. Release an iLife-like suite for Windows. – Sorry shrinkwrap software is dead. It needs to be online.
5. Develop a WebKit browser. – Meh. I guess this is important, but way too late to make a difference.
6. Choose a Frontman. – They need a leader not a front-man. They need someone who can do stuff, not say stuff better.
7. Open 50 more stores or cafes. – Why would I go to a Microsoft store? It works for Apple because they make hardware. What the hell will be in the stores?
8. Buy Facebook — and not Twitter. – Both don’t make any money so what the hell are you buying?
9. Make incubation projects your top development priority. So you are telling me that Microsoft should have R&D? No shit.
10. Create a mobile Manhattan Project. – I think this one is pretty obvious.

Chapter 2389; Section 121; Sub Section 28 – X1-B – How to active the window shield wipers on your new space shuttle

Where's the button for the seat warmers?

Integrated 8-bit NES gaming and image viewing (bmp only) capabilities

Obviously some of the critics comments are eye-rolling now, but I found Bill Gates’ comments the most insightful. Not in terms of the MAC or Apple, but into Microsoft’s philosophy. Each new version of Windows has always called for more RAM, disk space and faster processors. Instead of fine tuning and simplifying their code, the engineers have just piled on more and more code into their last gigantic trash heap called “Vista”. Gates and the rest of his gang never really learned that limitation drives creativity.

“Anybody who could write a good application on a 128K Mac deserves a medal.” – Bill Gates on the new MAC – 1984

(via kottke.org)

Rather than trying to explain it, here an example:

This total blows my mind because the applications of AR are endless. What if you could scan a room of strangers and learn their names, where they live, likes, dislikes…? Lost your dog in the park? Simply do a 360 scan to find out his location, direction or how fast his going (assuming he has one of those chip implants). Slightly scary and fascinating at the same time.

After my experience of working on web applications  I can attest to the fact that nothing is deleted. Deleting a record from a database causes all kinds of performance and maintenance issues.  It’s the equivalent of removing a brick from a wall. Remove too many bricks and the wall integrity is compromised. So instead of deleting you account, email or post, your data is simply flagged as deleted.

The moral of the story: Be careful what you put out there because it’s there for good.