Jim and Dan talk about the Pirates of Silicon Valley, Apple, Microsoft, the heart of innovation, Guns n Roses, and more.
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This looks good, especially having apps available for both platforms.
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 will have a fingerprint sensor in the home button, just like the iPhone. Who didn’t see that coming?
Ryan Neudorf really seems to like it.
P.S. Kickass paint job on the travel trailer.
I am going to give this a try. I love the idea of being able to play Zelda on my iPad. Very cool!
Not a good defense in my opinion.
Donovan Hutchinson shows you how to use transforms to create a 3D object and animate it with nothing but CSS.
It’s like there’s nothing that can’t be done with CSS these days.
Just beyond description.
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Fucking crazy Canadians.
Betabeat:
For those of us in the startup, Silicon Valley-makes-the-world-go-round tech industry, the name Sam Biddle incites fear (in the timid), disgust (in the short-tempered) and a chuckle (for those with a good sense of humour).But before the 27-year old Brooklyn-based tech stroke gossip blogger wrote his first word, there was another Sam Biddle, the “real Sam Biddle”, as she jokes, who has beaten cancer and raised two children while building a global empire for nail artisans.
Anyone else have this issue? I share a fairly common name and have gotten all kinds of misdirected tweets for an NFL football commentator, a pastor in Haiti and Larry King’s wife.
I agree completely with Gruber. If you make a decision for your company, own it and explain it clearly for your customers. Don’t bullshit.
Congrats to Shawn.
Kirk McElhearn walks through the process of sharing files between two AirDrop capable iOS devices. A good read.
Wall Street Journal:
Starbucks isn’t an Olympic sponsor and is therefore forbidden to have an official presence here. But after Mr. Glinton, a journalist for NPR, trailed the mystery cup for several hundred feet, its owner told him that he was out of luck. It came from the”Office,” she said – the Olympic broadcasting center where NBC has its own secret Starbucks.
The best line of the piece had to be from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review sports columnist Dejan Kovacevic who carries around an empty Starbucks cup and pours other coffee into it. He said, “It’s a status symbol,” he explains. “It shows I’m not some kind of lowlife.”
If you believe that, you’re still some kind of lowlife.
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The Atlantic:
Recently I watched the four-episode original BBC House of Cards series from 1990. It’s on Netflix too, and, seriously, if you are interested in either politics or satire, this is not to be missed.
As a Canadian, I usually love the British originals of American shows better but the comparisons between both of these very good adaptations of the book is interesting.
Phys.org:
Ten questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score—6.5 correct—was barely a passing grade.Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
One in three respondents said science should get more funding from the government.
Apparently, so should science education.
Bored Panda
There are many biological theories behind why women live longer than men, but we’re sure that behavior like that in these pictures isn’t helping.
There’s an amazing amount of The Stupid going on here.
These games have hidden unused pieces of text, never intended to be seen during gameplay, because developers have voices too. These include things like programmer shout-outs, messages aimed at hackers trawling through the game data, and the furious ranting of overworked, underpaid coders doing crunch-time.
This is a pretty good list. 423 games. How many of these do you remember?
Ben Thompson nailed this one.
It’s Valentine’s Day so, why not? Not safe for work because of language but completely safe for facts. The “diamond ring is a scam” story is a fascinating one.
The analyst’s comments about docking stations etc. are asinine and Rene Ritchie agrees. The future of computing is going to be about us, and not as much about the device we carry. The device to make this all work could be as small as a pin, but more powerful than anything on the market today.
Evil.
$2.2 billion solar project appears to be killing birds that fly near it.
You have to love smart people.
iMore has a lot of great how-tos on its site. I didn’t expect this one, but Allyson Kazmucha wrote up a piece if you want some help.
This is such a great story on what can happen if your phone number shows up on the news just after Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone.
There are some amazing photos here.
There is no reason Apple should move an inch. Samsung are thieves.