Over on his media center blog, Matt Goyer wrote that Front Row “really validates what we’re doing converging digital entertainment with the PC in the living room.” So you’re saying that a product that “doesn’t even have feature parity with the first version of Media Center” from three years ago validates what you are doing? …
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screen real estate is your friend
Merlin and Danny make the New York Times. Cool. But ever more interesting is this excerpt: But did more screen area actually help with cognition? To find out, Czerwinski’s team conducted another experiment. The researchers took 15 volunteers, sat each one in front of a regular-size 15-inch monitor and had them complete a variety of …
microsoft fixes their process
SmartOfficeNews summarized a Wall Street Journal article on Microsoft, covering how they fixed their software engineering process. Spin aside, the best part (emphasis mine): By late October, Mr. Srivastava’s team was beginning to automate the testing that had historically been done by hand. If a feature had too many bugs, software “gates” rejected it from …
reason #37 to like google
An ideas mailing list is open to anyone at Google who wants to post a proposal.
UKers get hawt broadband
£24/month, 24 Mb down, 1.3 Mb up. Sweet!
the YASNS spammer unmasked
At danah’s suggestion, I took the bait and sent a reply to the YASNS spammers. I picked “Carrie,” and sent her a note full of spelling mistakes and a run-on sentence: i got your email on myspacester isn’t it nice you are in san jose too now. its pretty nice but no san frnsacisco. do …
Ed Zander is a dumbass
“Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?” —Ed Zander, CEO, Motorola
the ten crazy ideas
the ten “crazy” ideas for Microsoft are: Schedule Unscheduled Time into Performance Reviews "Break Up" the Company Encourage Loose but Prominent Couplings Exile and Empower Incubation Projects Offer Super-exponential Rewards Offer Different Risk-Reward Compensation Profiles Cut Back on Bureaucracy Review Cost Cutting Reduce Headcount on Large Dev Projects Eliminate Exec Reviews
josh’s ten insane ideas
Josh Ledgard, a program manager at Microsoft, has an interesting blog entry: “Ten Insane Ideas for Microsoft.” Some of it is pretty mundane, like towel service, but he makes a few great points: 1. The “2 Secrets†Rule So, I propose the “2 secrets†rule. Every VP must tell their groups what the two protected …
Downloading iChat is a felony?
Kutztown, Pa. school district: Downloading iChat is a felony – IO ERROR Thirteen high school students in Kutztown, Pa., have been charged with computer trespass, a third degree felony, for simply trying to use the laptops the school district forced on them.