June 2011
1 post
Time Travel, 6502 Assembly
I’ve never googled myself in images before that is, until, today. The results were amazingly accurate, however I noticed an old green screen monitor in some of the results.
Stranger still, it looked vaguely like a program I had written as a teenager. It was called beautiful boot. In a nutshell, it replaced the OS on a disk in place of a dynamic catalog. This in turn, freed up...
May 2011
1 post
Apple should purchase Skype
Before you get hung up on all of the reasons it can’t/wont happen, take a moment and imagine the possibilities:
Apple gains a critical piece of technology: A distributed low cost communications framework on top of which they can build other technologies. A few ideas:
iTunes CDN - efficient content distribution is hard. Skype does this better than anyone.
iPhone Games - they could add...
Apple gifted Microsoft $4.7 Billion
Now that Apple has surpassed Microsoft in terms of Market Cap, I’m starting to read how “Microsoft saved Apple” back in the day when they invested $150M in Apple (1997).
Give me a break. That’s not what I remember.
I remember Microsoft hiring the same people that worked on quicktime.. and somehow ending up with Apple’s source code in their player. I remember them...
