June 2010
11 posts
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Digital Camera Question
Once upon a time, it was supposed to be a good idea to format memory cards in one’s digital camera instead of in one’s computer (supposedly something to do with either the mapping of bad blocks or the vagaries of FAT32 compatibility). My camera will, of course, happily format CF cards but it renames every one of them to EOS_DIGITAL, forcing me to rename them on the computer so I can...
Jun 30th
Link-Supersized Cocktails - The Atlantic →
americandrink: THE ADIOS MO-FO is among the most popular drinks sold at Howl at the Moon, at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles. A friend and I ordered one on a recent visit, then watched the bartender deftly hoist and upend four bottles at once—rum, gin, vodka, and blue Curaçao—letting loose long strands of colorful liquid, as if from the udder of a magical cow. Sitting and sipping, I found...
Jun 30th
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Jun 23rd
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Marco.org: Rambling about Verizon →
Apple only has two options: either give up the mass market in the U.S. and accept slow growth in U.S. sales while Android undermines the iPhone’s base, or launch a CDMA 1X+EVDO Verizon iPhone very soon. How soon is difficult to say: the sooner, the better. Technology is almost certainly not the limiting factor here — I imagine a CDMA iPhone 4 is ready to go, or close to it, today — so it’s a...
Jun 22nd
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Jun 22nd
“If a novel is an archeological record of 4.54 billion decisions, then maybe...”
– Pick up just about any novel and you’ll find the phrase “somewhere a dog barked.” - By Rosecrans Baldwin - Slate Magazine This is brilliant and you should read it. That is all.
Jun 17th
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A Thought Experiment
Assume a component cost in the iPhone 4 of around $200 (+/-).  We’ll know more when the inevitable teardown and analysis happens but previous models have all come in somewhere around $200 in parts at introduction, so I think this is a safe guess. Figure in addition to the 600K in announced pre-sales that Apple will have enough supply on hand to sell through two million iPhones in the first...
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 14th
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“Incidentally, you should know that the Ambassador takes his steak like American...”
– Ambassadors and World Cup Trash Talk | SportsGrid (via)
Jun 9th
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Jun 3rd