The word around the blogs yesterday was that Nintendo is launching yet another Nintendo DS variant (#4, in case you haven't been keeping track), this one with slightly larger screens. How long will they milk this line of handhelds? It's time to innovate, Nintendo!
I love my iPhone. App store magic has transformed the device from a mediocre phone with a vaguely interesting user interface into what I think is the single most important consumer electronics product ever. Unfortunately, three admittedly minor but deliberate limitations nearly wreck the iPhone party.
One of the nice things about writing a column every week is that I don't often have to tackle the really big issues -- such as why Unix is still the best OS or which big company is buying which other big company and how this is going to affect all of us. Instead, I can hone in on an issue as small and personal as how you loop through a sequence of values in a script. Speaking of looping, I've just learned (and then implemented) a new trick.
Multi-core, scripted, cross-platform, ...: gdb 7.0 is dense with buzzword compatibility. It does much more than that, though: it's actually a good value, even for programmers who think they can live without it.
Microsoft sent me two copies of Windows 7 Ultimate last Friday (the 23rd) and I installed the 64bit version on the refurbished HP mini-tower I bought last year with Vista on it. Based on my interview with William Stanek, author of the just-released Windows 7: The Definitive Guide I did for the Daily Tip on Windows 7 Upgrade, I felt sure my fairly new HP would run 64bit Windows fine. Stanek promised almost every PC bought in the last
three years could run Windows 7 64bit. He's right in my case.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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