TIME:
The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was retired from active service on Saturday. The Enterprise was the largest ship in the world at the time it was built, earning the nickname “Big E.”
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was the eighth U.S. ship to bear the name Enterprise, but it won’t be the last.
My dad was in the Canadian Navy for many years and I still remember getting a tour of the ship as a ten year old.
David Barnard, founder of App Cubby, explains and apologizes to users of Timer for one of his decisions.
Much respect David.
Pixar was the inspiration behind a new creation that involves a desk lamp, servos, a web cam and Arduino, the open-source electronic prototyping platform.
Top Gear:
In a special edition of Top Gear, Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of James Bond films with a look back at 007’s legendary cars. He also talks to Daniel Craig and Sir Roger Moore, gets exclusive access behind the scenes of Bond’s latest adventure, Skyfall, and pays special tribute to 007 by attempting to turn a Lotus in a fully working submarine car.
This is the 50th anniversary of James Bond and of all the people jumping on the bandwagon, I’m most looking forward to the Top Gear take on some of the iconic Bond cars. Sadly, this show, while available on the iTunes Store, doesn’t include the full Top Gear complement – it’s just The Hamster.
A San Francisco judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order compelling Twitter to continue providing access to its “Firehose” – the full daily stream of some 400 million tweets – to PeopleBrowsr Inc, a data analytics firm that sifts through Twitter and resells that information to clients ranging from technology blogs to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Philip Berne:
I stopped downloading any pirated content about 5 years ago, when I was caught and sent a nastygram by my cable company. But it wasn’t really the cable company who caught me. It was HBO. I was trying to download The Wire. The warning I received said they were not pressing charges immediately, but they wanted me to stop and destroy my copies. They also reserved the right to sue me at any point in the future. I’m probably in the clear, but hopefully this screed will go some way to convincing HBO that I’m completely on their side. I have seen the error in my ways.
I bet that would be enough to make anyone stop illegal downloading.
This argument is both ludicrous, and wrong. Ludicrous, because if piracy is actually wrong, it doesn’t get less wrong simply because you can’t have the product exactly when and where you want it at a price you wish to pay. You are not entitled to shoplift Birkin bags on the grounds that they are ludicrously overpriced, and you cannot say you had no alternative but to break into an the local ice cream parlor at 2 am because you are really craving some Rocky Road and the insensitive bastards refused to stay open 24/7 so that you could have your favorite sweet treat whenever you want. You are not forced into piracy because you can’t get a television show at the exact moment when you want to see it; you are choosing piracy.
If that’s not wrong, then hey, no need to write long articles about how they’ve really backed you into a corner. If you think it is wrong, then act like a grownup and wait until you can buy it legally. And really, if you wouldn’t write an op-ed urging storeowners to stay open 24/7 lest they drive their customers to a little light B&E, then please don’t write essentially the same thing about cable networks.
What a great article.
This is the best prank ever.
PC sales are still in the toilet despite Microsoft’s best efforts with Windows 8.
The Wall Street Journal did a nice profile of Apple Senior Vice President, Eddy Cue.
One of the classics. […]
MG Siegler describing Microsoft’s nightmare.
Printers manufactured by Samsung have a backdoor administrator account hard coded in their firmware that could enable attackers to change their configuration, read their network information or stored credentials and access sensitive information passed to them by users.
This is hilarious. The best is Nokia.
Jim and Dan discuss different approaches of growing a business, taking advertising, and building audience. They also chat about past and future logos, the history of iTunes, the Diamond Rio, lame Apple rumors, the Apogee Jam, Amplitube, AmpKit, and more.
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Doesn’t Google make its revenue from ads? Sucks when even your own users hate you.
Now this is a great campaign from Microsoft. They’re going straight for Google’s heart.
One industrious YouTube user gathered together 485 videos that represent every Apple TV ad ever. I honestly don’t know if it’s really ever ad ever, but it’s really cool.
[Via TNW]
Great video from National Geographic. […]
Hewlett Packard Co rebuffed a request by former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch to detail accusations of accounting fraud leveled against the British software company and its former executives, and challenged Lynch to submit to questions under penalty of perjury.
HP was responding to an open letter that Lynch shot to HP’s board on Tuesday, asking for specifics of the U.S. company’s allegations that Lynch and former Autonomy executives inflated revenue and gross margins, which HP said last week forced it to take an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy’s value.
It really appears that both sides think they have something on the other. If Lynch really did do something, wouldn’t he just go hide and count his money? Now HP ups the ante with the “penalty of perjury” request.
It’s hard to know who has the upper hand here.
If you like the Swiss Federal Railways clock design in iOS 6 and you’d like to wear it or hang it on your wall, Mondaine is the place to get one.
Love Billy Gibbons. […]
Arik Hesseldahl got to the bottom of rumors that Google bought ICOA Wireless:
But people within the company say that contrary to a press release posted on PR Web, Google has not bought ICOA, a Rhode Island-based player in public Wi-Fi Networks.
It fooled a lot of people this morning. Good job Arik.
Fascinating how one of the most recognized landmarks came to be.
But what makes Amazon not just amazing but downright dangerous is that as a financial matter it has something even better than profits—the boundless faith of the investment community.
It’s truly amazing how the investment community treats Amazon differently than many other companies.
This fellow was leaving a voicemail when he witnessed an accident between a man and four old ladies. What happens next is nothing short of hilarious. The Loop reader Jack sent this to me and said the guy’s laughter reminded him of me during Amplified.
This helps to put things in perspective on how useless those Apple component cost breakdowns are by doing the same with your body.
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James Bond is a Time Lord. Really, it’s the only plausible explanation.
They probably don’t even know what they are fighting for.