Pcalc function list3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Science loses ground to pseudo-science because the latter seems to Later, the astronomer Carl Sagan reached a similar conclusion: Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-scienceįlourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is,Īnd we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling.” Decades In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new Splendid feature in Wired by Amy Wallace on the movement to skip childhood vaccinations: Wired: ‘An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All’ ★ iTunes 9.0.2 Breaks WebOS Syncing Again ★Īt this point, it’d be news if a new version of iTunes didn’t break Palm’s WebOS syncing hack. One-handed operation wasn’t feasible on stylus-based systems. With one hand can be used in a surprising variety of situations. Networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated Grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. Obvious selling points but is one of those little features that The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone is not one of its I’m a sucker for a good cheap shot like this. (And they’ve switched the system font from Lucida Grande to Helvetica.) A Comparative Study of User Intellect Based on Anti-Productivity Applications Included in Operating Systems ★ Looks good to me - especially how they’ve moved “My Movies”, “My TV Shows”, etc. New UI and adds support for the iTunes Extras (movies) and iTunes LP (music) formats. You have to wait for updated versions of existing iTunes LP and Extras content before they’ll work on Apple TV 3.0. Thursday, 29 October 2009 Updating iTunes Extras and LP Content for Your Apple TV ★ Sprint Loses $478M, 135,000 Subscribers in Quarter ★ Not sure though if he means no tether at all, or no tethering for “free” without an extra tethering charge. Sprint: No Internet Tethering for Smartphones ★ The bad news is, the hardware is outdated, and isn’t really capable of the sort of killer features people are really hoping for in Apple TV. The good news is that the 3.0 software is a nice update for the existing hardware. That’s still not nearly as capable as it should be. Apple TVģ.0 is a nice, mild update to an outdated piece of hardware Improve things over the next year, 18 months, we can crack Of people have tried and failed to make it a business. Steve Jobs said, “The reason I call a hobby is, a lot More good writing from another good friend - a Halloween poem by Jim Coudal. Speaking of Halloween, Colin Nissan has a festive piece at McSweeney’s. It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers ★ Ulysses has a generous 60-day fully-featured demo period, and DF readers can save 25 percent off the regular price with coupon code “DARING”, good through the end of November (which, not coincidentally, is National Novel Writing Month). Check out their screencasts for a tour of Ulysses’s interface and features. It also has several options for full-screen editing, a big boon for concentrating. It uses a project metaphor that lets you group all related documents, and their notes, together in a single window - think of it as an IDE for writers. It uses a plain text syntax that borrows from LaTeX, Setext, and Markdown, separating content from presentation. My thanks to The Soulmen for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Ulysses 2.0, their Mac OS X semantic text editor for writers. Shooting down a report from the always-wrong Scott Moritz. Google Not Making Their Own Android Hardware ★ The software clearly isn’t as polished as the iPhone’s, but the year-over-year improvement from last year’s HTC G1 to next week’s Droid is pretty remarkable. Joshua Topolsky likes it, especially the hardware. Seems like a good way to put the Droid and Android 2.0 in context. Greg Kumparak Compares the iPhone 3GS and Motorola Droid ★ Linked List: October 2009 Saturday, 31 October 2009 ‘Sometimes Gruber Is Right’ ★īottom line: this video from my pal Albert McMurry - with contributions from dozens of kind folks around the web - is precisely the sort of concentrated awesomeness that just might make my dream come true. ![]()
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