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Suppose you have been told “The Wire is the best serial fiction on any medium in the decade” which is (to be clear) not a claim that I am making but a claim I would like to investigate. My first stop to consume an episode with lofty expectations is iTunes, which will let me pull […]
I’ve had (what I suspect) to be some bad seconds on some Hitachi disks. The recommended tool to diagnose and repair such disks is Hitachi DFT. Unfortunately, the Hitachi DFT utility only runs in what appears to be real-mode DOS. They do provide ISOs and floppy disk images though, which are fairly easy to burn […]
By now, you’ve certainly heard about Siri. It’s a very cool piece of tech. So cool, in fact, that I think it represents a big leap for Apple. The narrative we got from Phil Schiller is that for years, the programmers have taunted users with the dream of voice recognition technology that actually works, and […]
A common meme around the anti-copyright tech scene (TechDirt, TorrentFreak) is that music companies need to compete with free and they are mostly shooting themselves in the foot by setting up silly barriers to music consumption. Well, they’re right. But here’s the deeper reality–they’re more right than even they realize. When Spotify launched in the US, piracy […]
I’d like to review a few things you may have been taught in high school civics class. First of all, Thomas Jefferson was a liberal. “Liberal” policies included: Laissez-faire capitalism, unregulated trade, Wealth of Nations Limited government, strict constitutionalism Strong private property and ownership rights Thomas Jefferson is widely heralded as one of the spiritual […]
Here’s the job of a CEO: to make money. To spend less than revenues. That’s it. It’s really that simple. Everything else is the how of doing that–how to cut costs, how to drive revenue, whether to worry about the short-term or the long-term, etc. The perception, though, is a lot different. Stereotypically, the CEO is […]
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time before software. If you wanted to do your taxes, you would ask your accountant; if you wanted to know how many people lived in Austin you would ask your librarian; if you wanted to back up your business records you got a photocopier and some […]
I’m afraid that this post is a little longwinded, and I take a long time to arrive at my point. I hope you will stick with me, as I think it is a valuable insight. It just takes some time to get there. There are two ways to deal with bugs. The first way is […]
From the chart below, 78% of what specific group agree that their school does a good job of encouraging parental involvement in educational areas? If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you can presumably answer this question without any difficulty. It may surprise you to learn that answering this question correctly puts you in […]
I’ve blogged in the bast about how I don’t believe in a distinction between applied and theoretical math. But there is a distinction, a distinction most of the world has completely forgotten about, between applied and theoretical music. What? Quick, think of your favorite song. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. No seriously, think of one before […]
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