December 2009
10 posts
“At Disney this is called the 3 oclock question because the most common question...”
– commenter Lori Reed, on the blog post “First Impressions and Rethinking Restroom Questions”
“Is Google going to become the computing platform for the enterprise? Is a bank...”
– IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, on the idea of “Google Dominance”
There Is No Page Fold →
Clever.
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➤ The devil you know
I’ve given up on Jolicloud, Moblin, and the other “netbook Linuxes” for now.
Most people think Linux does not make deeper inroads with consumers because of the lack of “critical” applications, like Microsoft Office. That’s part of the problem, sure, but the more fundamental issue is that consumers don’t understand the value proposition of Linux. This is...
It took a very long time for me to decide to purchase a netbook, but now I have done so. Right now, I am the proud owner of an Asus Eee 1005 and I must say it’s incredibly sweet.
Once I realized that I was already a two-machine person (the mini HTPC and the MacBook Pro) before, the decision to go back to a two-machine setup (the MacBook Pro HTPC and a simple netbook) instead of constantly...
“I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best...”
– Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms owner (via 37signals)
This goes back to a saying of mine: At some point, you have to decide if you’re in the product-making business, or the money-making business.
(Companies that treat their customers poorly are always in the money-making business.)