Slim trim. Apparently Eclipse might be going on a feature diet:
“We started off as an integrated development environment and now it’s become an integrated everything environment. The trouble is finding what you want in it,” Cole said.
There will be a focus on the valuable parts and lots of it will not be valuable, he said. It cannot be predicted yet how this will all unfold, according to Cole.
I blame it all on apple.
Bloated. Speaking of Apple, I’m not particularly surprised by their decision to dump Safari on unsuspecting iPod and iPhone users. Let’s see if you can complete this sentence: Apple to Safari is like ________ to IE.
Or for that matter by Sony’s latest offer: $150 (Vista Business + processing fee) to tune new machines to “conserve memory and processing power while maximizing system performance right from the start”. Their words. That was quickly followed by a $50 discount coupon, unexpected, quick and very welcome. We’re talking hours between outcry and response, and we’re talking Sony, which left me quite shocked and pleasantly surprised. I really did not expect that. (I also didn’t expect Sony to one-up Apple)
Inside job? And speaking of operating systems, interesting perspective on GNOME vs KDE vs OS/X vs Windows. As an end-user flipping back & forth between these operating systems: what Robin said.
On a different note, scroll through the comments on this post. Seems like other people are also experiencing Kubuntu as the distribution that makes KDE look worse.
Instant gratification. Another win for simplicity:
Instead, the Flip has been reduced to the purest essence of video capture. You turn it on, and it’s ready to start filming in two seconds. You press the red button once to record (press hard — it’s a little balky) and once to stop. You press Play to review the video, and the Trash button to delete a clip.
There it is: the entire user’s manual.
Any takers? First time I hear of the KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities. My initial thoughts:
1. Yes, this makes perfect sense, it’s just so obvious.
2. Definitely ought to give it a try.
3. It’s just begging to be done as a Web service, isn’t it?
PC vs Mac, via Michael Gartenberg.