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Nine awesome computer ads from the 70s and 80s
Nice computer ads from the 70s and 80s. Liked all of them ;o)
The Apple ad rocks! View all the 9 ads here.
Stroke of Insight
via ted.com
Heard about this TED talk on Diggnation. Really gets you thinking.
Daring Fireball: Untitled Document Syndrome
Saving a document for the first time is a minor chore, but it’s a chore nonetheless. The avoidance of such a minor chore is not rational; it is neither particularly complicated nor time consuming to hit Command-S and deal with the Save dialog. But we humans are not perfectly rational. We don’t always floss our teeth. We’ll pick the burger and fries instead of the salad. We’ll have one more beer. And sometimes we just don’t feel like dealing with the Save dialog box yet so we’ll put it off.
Great post from Chairman Gruber.
Merlin Mann on Time and Attention
via youtube.com
As a massive advocate of Inbox Zero I have enjoyed many of Merlin's speeches over the years. His work with The Merlin Show was particularly inspiring but his second time speaking at Google was also very provoking.
Über-geek: Intel SSD Issue
I have a huge crush right now and it's on SSDs. They are better than traditional magnetic hard disk drives in almost every way. Sadly one way that they are not better than HDDs is in the realm of support and that seems to be causing Intel some headaches.
While I personally opted to set my sights on the newest SSD offerings from OCZ, it's been clear that the general tech consensus is that the X25-M from Intel is the way to go if you have the cash. I won't bother arguing the point now, but it seems that while initial testing was amazing on this model, there have been a few issues occurring since. In short the drives performance appears to be slowing down to the point where PC Perspective decided to re-benchmark the drives after extended use.
Ars Technica and later Engadget picked up this story and have some great write-ups on it. In short though it's due to lack of support at OS/software level. Intel are taking the brunt of the blame since it's their product and they are working on a firmware fix with no one really knowing how likely that is. The issue is a little outside the scope of a simple blog post but it's fundamental to how the drive differs from its magnetic platter cousins. Ultimately however, with better support from OS' and a better management interface available the issue would cease to be.
Okay, I don't think I will go into any more detail here since it's been covered so well elsewhere, but I thought this was worth pointing out. Check out the articles about it here, here and here, and most of all please support the companies trying to resolve this - it could end up being for everyone's benefit in the long run.
Update: It now seems that Intel has responded to the issue by saying that the results of the tests used as evidence were not replicable and were caused by the testers and not a fault with their drives. This is kind of odd since they were previously reported to have said they were working on a firmware patch. Read more about it at Engadget.
