Alex Payne — On the iPad - "For now, though, I remain disturbed. The future of personal computing that the iPad shows us is both seductive and dystopian. It’s not a future I want to bring into my home."
Archive 29. January 2010
Apple buys P.A. Semi chip designer, Intel says wha? - because the other day at the Stammtisch the discussion was whether Apple really designed the A4 in the iPad themselves: in 2008 they bought a chip design foundry whose CEO was one of the StrongArm architects ...
AppScale, an OpenSource GAE implementation - an interesting project that mimics the Google App Engine API as an open source solution for self-hosting.
Clozure CL - not linked for the first time, but the current 1.4 distribution has become really nice by now, there are the first IDE tools (Apropos, Listener, Inspector, Editor) in a usable form and the Cocoa framework and the ObjC bridge are also quite mature. Furthermore, it is one of the fastest starting Lisps for the Mac. Offers nice possibilities to play around with OS X APIs.
Eucalyptus Community - and here is a project that emulates the AWS APIs (EC2, S3, and EBS). Interesting if you build AWS-hosted systems and later want to switch to your own systems. The cloud is quite nice, but you should have an exit strategy in case the provider goes under. Doesn't happen? Tell that to the potential customers of the SUN Cloud solution, which is currently being shredded by Oracle ...
Minimum Wage Ruling: Postal Service Provider PIN Wants to Lower Wages | tagesschau.de - great how the entrepreneurs immediately reach into the pockets of their already poorly paid employees. Somehow, the new swimming pool has to be paid for. Tariff-secured 6.50 in the East and 7.50 in the West? That's not security, that's an insult. For such an hourly rate, the entrepreneur assholes wouldn't even say good morning. So much for the social responsibility of entrepreneurs - the next time Merkel talks about it, remind her how willingly employees are ripped off by these supposedly social employers.