Mining (And Learning) With The 21 Bitcoin Computer | TechCrunch

Mining (And Learning) With The 21 Bitcoin Computer | TechCrunch Essentially a Raspberry Pi connected with a custom bitcoin-mining ASIC and a heatsink, the computer is one of the most interesting MVPs in modern memory.

Don't mind if I do.

Woz: Jobs didn't design Apple computers - Business Insider

Woz: Jobs didn't design Apple computers - Business Insider Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II computer and printer interfaces and serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He’d never designed anything as a hardware engineer, and he didn’t know software.

I suppose we can ask Walter Isaacson what SWEET16 is and whether Jobs designed it. APPLE ][ FOREVER! Apple more or less controls popular media through yellow journalism. I mean, what major media outlet wants to be excluded from a fall special event? Exactly. Which is why we're hearing about this from a blogger.

Wozniak: I don’t like being trapped in Apple's ecosystem

Wozniak: I don’t like being trapped in Apple's ecosystem Finally, Wozniak said that he likes to keep his options open when it comes to his tech devices, by using a wide range of products — despite the fact that this means it’s a bit harder to integrate devices. “I don’t like being in the Apple ecosystem,” he said. “I don’t like being trapped. I like being independent.”

Most of the major platform success have been driven by openness. That would include Unix, which is the underpinnings of all Mac and iOS devices. Without the openness of unix and GNU, I don't think we would have iOS or Mac OS X.

Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design' | The Verge

Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design' | The Verge Worse, other companies have followed in Apple’s path, equating design with appearance while forgetting the fundamental principles of good design. As a result, programmers rush to code without understanding the people who will use the products. Designers focus entirely on making it all look pretty.

Don Norman is the first and last word on good design. Long live the king!

iPad Pro Diary: The iOS ecosystem is much deeper than I knew | Cult of Mac

iPad Pro Diary: The iOS ecosystem is much deeper than I knew | Cult of Mac As I say in the video, a keyboard is essential to making the iPad a computer replacement. But I’m also discovering the joys of doing things with multitouch instead of a trackpad and keyboard. I’m discovering how rich and powerful it all is. It’s a better way to work — easy, intuitive and fun.

Once you add the keyboard, it's not really an iPad anymore, is it? It's an iMac running iOS on ARM. Without a stand or a mouse.

Heads up: Unity mac store rejection Unity Deprecated API Usage - QuickTime | Unity Community

Heads up: Unity mac store rejection Unity Deprecated API Usage - QuickTime | Unity Community

So, I will fix this code to use the non-deprecated AVFoundation framework for 4.5. The question for us to find out, is if this fix will go back to 4.3.2 (as it is not a trivial change), or if we'd rather chose a faster fix by temporarily disabling webcam support in OS X standalones to fix this. Does anyone critically need web cam support in OS X standalone?

I'm not sure you can even call OS X an operating system. I have 16-bit, pre-protected mode Win16 code written in 1989 that, as of 2012 was still running on Windows XP and Vista. Hadn't tried it on Windows 7 or 8, but as long as WOW (Windows-on-Windows) is working, does a fine job of illustrating why Windows rules the desktop.

I guess the Mac is going the way of the Watch. Meaning it's jewelry, not a computer.

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 - The New York Times Michael J. Flynn, a computer scientist at Stanford University and former colleague of Dr. Amdahl’s at IBM, said the 360 series “set the design philosophy for computers for the next 50 years, and to this day it’s still out there, which is incredible.”

“This same instruction set,” he added, “is still bringing in billions of dollars for IBM.”
Dr. Amdahl is remembered at IBM as an intellectual leader who could get different strong-minded groups to reach agreement on technical issues.

This is what enterprise computing looks like: the same instruction set for 50 years, backwards compatible and stable. Every hour of software development invested is captured and retained.

Apple's iPad Pro & powerful A9X CPU pose threat to Intel, Cowen says

Apple's iPad Pro & powerful A9X CPU pose threat to Intel, Cowen says A look at the GPU shows a similar story: The A9X outperformed all Apple laptops that use integrated Intel graphics, registering a three-to-four-times improvement in frame rate of the 12-inch MacBook with Retina display. The iPad Pro processor also posted an improvement of as much as 40 percent over the Intel Iris 5200 integrated graphics featured on the 15-inch MacBook Pro.

Now all we need is an installer for OSX on the iPad Pro and I'll be a happy camper. I never was a fan of Intel integrated graphics. I personally believe Steve Jobs would never have shipped a Pro MacBook without a real GPU.

iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS | Ars Technica

iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS | Ars TechnicaHow good is the iPad Pro and its accessories? How is iOS 9 different on a larger screen, and what does the internal hardware do to earn that “Pro” label? What lessons can Apple learn from Microsoft, which has already iterated on this same basic idea a whole bunch of times? And most importantly, when can an iPad replace a computer (if it can at all)?

Finally, a computer that you need to replace every 18 months! The ultimate wall street cure for those pesky long upgrade cycles for well-built Macintosh computers.