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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Saturday, October 19, 2002Steve Jobs screws Boston. IDG screws backSo IDG moved the summer MacWorld event from Boston to New York, causing Apple to suddenly announce that it would not attend the Boston show. A dig on Boston? Not quite: Turns out Steve Jobs told IDG months ago that it couldn't afford to attend two major shows a year anyway, so it's using the Boston move as an excuse. Furthermore, Jobs and company are unable to deliver two waves of exciting new products a year, making many of Jobs' once-exciting keynote address quite boring. If they just attend one show a year--in their San Francisco backyard, naturally--they'll save money as well as face. It's not going to be easy, however: IDG, not Apple, owns MacWorld, and IDG chief Charlie Greco now says that he'll keep Apple out of MacWorld San Francisco if the company doesn't come to New York. Go get 'em, Charlie. Show Jobs up to be the liar that he is. [ Posted at 11:17 AM | Permalink ]
I picked up a PS2 and an Xbox (yeah, yeah) last weekend and even though the few PS2 games I've tried so far are kind of lame and kid-oriented (I have a four year old I'm trying to wean off of Quake III), I have to say... I understand why it's (way) more popular. I forget the exact figures, but I believe the PS2 is outselling the Xbox by something like 30 million to 6 million, and that's a huge, probably impossible, gap for Microsoft to close. The Xbox is a decent "set-top PC" but the PS2 is a true appliance, with market ubiquity and an entire generation of PS1 users who were ready to upgrade. The PS2, like Windows, is just what it is. And it's not going to be defeated, ever. And I really like it. The thing just works. [ Posted at 10:59 AM | Permalink ] Speaking of security... It's official. No one trusts Microsoft. No one in their right mind anyway. And it's going to take years of education, solid upgrades, and good security in upcoming products to change minds. [ Posted at 10:55 AM | Permalink ] Mozilla 1.2 beta and Phoenix Link-prefetching is the big new feature in Mozilla 1.2b, but I'm still hooked on Phoenix, which recently was upgraded to version 0.3. I was on the road all week for a Windows & .NET Magazine Security Roadshow, so it's been a few days between updates here, sorry. [ Posted at 10:55 AM | Permalink ]
Monday, October 14, 2002Mac OS X is performance challengedIt's poorly-written, but this article verifies what I've been saying all along: Mac OS X is attractive, but it just can't keep up, performance-wise, with Windows. According to the author, a fairly new Dell laptop is 150% faster than the fastest desktop Mac system. I'm surprised it was that close. [ Posted at 4:52 PM | Permalink ]
Sunday, October 13, 2002Stephen Ambrose diesHe brought history to the masses in an easily digestible form, but Stephen Ambrose should be most fondly remembered for his portrayal of the regular Joe throughout history. "There's all this obsession with high command [when recounting war], but the real story is these citizen soldiers who still live in every town and hamlet in the United States," he said. Ambrose wrote over 30 books--many of which were best-sellers--and consuled on films such as "Saving Private Ryan." A longtime smoker, Ambrose died of cancer. [ Posted at 11:49 AM | Permalink ]
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