schwanksta

Fortunately for Woz, he probably didn't have all the hype in the world surrounding his product. Wolfrom might be an interesting experiment, but all of the Google-killer talk might make it into more of a Cuil.

I'm completely underwhelmed. Chalk it up to hype I guess.

I couldn't get anything for "Most popular names in 2008," and when I clicked the "Examples" tab and clicked Socioeconomic Data->Countries and used its default of France, it gave me three pieces of info (country code, full name and something else) and apparently tried to load some kind of information underneath, but it never happened.

Maybe it's because it's launch day.

Edit: Here's another thing that bothers me. It doesn't give you the source of its info. So when I click "Names" and have it give me info on a specific name, when it tells me it's the 8th most popular (in 2007, nicely outdated), I'd like to know how it deduces that rather than take it as fact.

Interestingly, there's a "Source information »" link at the bottom that doesn't work.

Think I'll stick with well-crafted Google queries and more primary sources.

Good article, but oh God, when she described the Visual C++ wizard I had these awful MFC flashbacks.

//TODO: Shower.

I forget the exact numbers now, but I called them about it for my college paper and the numbers seemed pretty astronomical (at least, to a college student like myself) for a CMS. I was quoted an amount in the tens of thousands to license the source, and a still-hefty sum to have them host it.

So you're not really going cold turkey at all. You're just shucking traditional forms (ie, TV and print) and getting your news second-hand from blogs (well, depending on the blogs you read, anyway).

I really like this. Offline browsing for a full 7 days, video and even a crossword puzzle? That's a pretty good bridge between Web-only reading and traditional newspapers. This app could really take off if they promote it right. At the very least, this would be awesome for an airplane or car trip.

Hopefully they roll out an iPhone/Blackberry/Whatever app too. Make it as mobile and easy to read as the real paper.

I liked this guy's post on the education bubble, but this one seems like he's grasping at straws. All he's proven is that people Google terms a lot more often when they need to sound like experts on the subject. Brilliant!

So someone put a little interface on the SheevaPlug: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope...

Was wondering when someone would do that, but apparently, it's been done and done and done: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope...

Have you ever lived in the south? A/C is very much a necessity.

I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying we're more or less intelligent or capable than the last generation, nor am I blaming them for things like IPv4 (I mean really, it sure sounded like enough address).

We grew up with different tools, ideas and starting points though. To say we take the work of previous generations for granted is ridiculous. For one, it's a sweeping generalization. But what's more, it could be said about every other generation. The old saying about "standing on the shoulders of giants" rings true here. We're all building on the work of others.

Sure, there's nothing about your age that physically stops you from learning new tools or adapting to the world. If you can't adapt, it's your mindset that needs fixing.

Our world has been shaped from an early age by the Internet, and that will have profound effects on what we do with it from here on out.

That's kind of a bullshit question. Of course we could. We don't need to re-invent Internet protocols (beyond fixing the mistakes of the previous generation -- IPv4 and DNS flaws, anyone?) at this point though.

Right now, it's more profitable to build on the platform we grew up with than to think about reinventing it. Programming talent and intelligence haven't suddenly declined in my generation thanks to the Internet and PHP. There have always been crappy programmers -- they just use PHP instead of BASIC now.