Readers who enjoyed “The Five Types of Technological Standard” will like “Software Bugs and Scientific Progress” by John Regehr. The best conceivable advice to the computer industry would be: “Revisit assumptions.” But of course this is just the kind of advice least likely to be taken.
In the past, I predicted that publishers will inevitably declare war on book-lending: “Let’s pretend that a Nook book (or any similar DRM’d ebook) could be lent in exactly the same manner as a physical book: to whomever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like – with the added benefit of […]
I believe that Apple manufactures and sells junk and crapware. If you, my dear reader, have even a rudimentary awareness of what is possible with regards to personal computing – or even of what was possible two decades ago – the above should seem obvious to you. Hopefully the idiots who accused me of kissing […]
