Of the combinations possible in order of conclusion when acquiring the items in a series, the intended order is always the least probable.
Or, in English: when you download a bunch of TV shows, the first episode will always finish downloading as late as possible, and the last episode sits there unwatched, taunting you, hogging your disk space.
Moreover, I advise that the iPhone software platform must be opened.
Swedish Customs gives its employees Chinese iPod clones for christmas.
You just can’t make this shit up.
Moreover, I advise that the iPhone software platform must be opened.
Joel on Software has been designed. Considering what was there before, I didn’t find reasons to say redesigned.
On occasion, I enjoy going back to read old bits, but before today that just used to be randomly opening a bunch of links from a big list, and I had no idea which ones were just mayflies and which ones were interesting articles with some semblance of staying power. It is now harder to do exactly that, since the archives page has gone from a simple “list of all my posts” to a month-based doodad on a separate page, whose front page entry link is not labelled “archives” nor lies above the fold, but is labelled “old news” and lies at the very bottom. That’s the fail; the page did not behave exactly as expected, therefore it is not usable.
The win is the lists of recommended articles for each target audience. They appear in the sidebar on the front page and I’ve already opened ten articles I’ve managed to completely miss. Given this sudden interest and the time spent “categorizing”, I’m hopeful that there’s more metadata on the way.
The site has a new layout and a new look as well, but I hope this continues to hammer home the point that the design is how something works. The canary yellow background and the drop shadow on the article pages are as much design as is the organization of the articles, and Joel on Software has needed attention of both sorts for a long time.
Moreover, I advise that the iPhone software platform must be opened.
I have it on good authority that in the first half of 2009 (and likely during Macworld San Francisco 2009), Apple will present a tablet device with a 10″ screen — approximate — that runs the full Mac OS X. (Which doesn’t mean it won’t be tailored to touch — but it won’t be iPhone OS either. You now know why Snow Leopard put Mac OS X on a diet.)
Additionally, during MWSF, the iPhone will adopt a new manufacturing process; there will also be new models of the Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro 17″ before February is over, and at least two of those will feature in the MWSF keynote. I only say February here because I’ve never seen Apple launch all these things in January, which is what the source information triangulates to.
I know there are a lot of tablet rumors, because there’s always been tablet rumors. However, I’ve never personally bought into them. I am reporting this because of my trust in the source, not because I necessarily secretly wish for a tablet.
In other words: this post in particular is not me wishing “gee, wouldn’t it be great”, nor is it speculating, when-an-analyst-flaps-his-lips–like, that “because the release cycle stars converge, it’d make sense for the Mac mini to adopt a Mini DisplayPort, Blu-Ray and a tasteful and timely Obama sticker”. This is me reporting that I’ve heard from believable sources that all this is coming on roughly this timetable, and I don’t believe them to be speculating.
Moreover, I advise that the iPhone software platform must be opened.