The XBOX 360 is a great machine, but god help you if something goes wrong with it or it doesn’t perform as advertised. Connecting the 360 to Windows Live is a consumer’s nightmare and an engineer’s dream project. First, only selected routers can be used to connect with the XBOX. If you have Belkin or […]
Continue Reading...Archive for April, 2007
We are going back to the UNIX-Windows Wars
Why can’t software companies figure out that competing with proprietary standards is a lose-lose proposition.The effort to build and maintain compliance with competing standards is a huge waste of development resources without adding any value. The cost of using the technology to the consumer rises dramatically as the cost is passed on as well as […]
Continue Reading...Now I Know What Was Missing in My Last Company
Go to this link in Youtube: How long can you last before laughing out loud??
Continue Reading...Jobs is Nobody’s Fool
Everyone’s talking about the Steve Jobs’s publicized call to end DRM and then boom — He gets EMI to drop their rights. Brilliant!! What nobody is talking about is the timing of his call. Note that he has over 75% of the MP3 player market using a proprietary file format in a market where 90% […]
Continue Reading...My Microsoft Days are Numbered
I have been a big fan of Microsoft for over 20 years. I bought one of the first IBM PC-XT’s instead of an Apple II because I could tell that the IBM-MSFT combination would bring killer productivity to the business world — and it has. The problem is that my time is becoming too valuable […]
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