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Friday, July 14, 2006
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Is God a Programmer? -- Comment()
Leibniz, Information, Math and Physics: "Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity." An interesting essay by G. J. Chaitin on algorithmic information theory, which was anticipated by Leibniz already in 1686.
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Do you need a faster computer? -- Comment()
Intel's Core 2 Desktop Processors Tested: "Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before." [Slashdot] Intel raises the capabilities on the low end systems. This is great. But besides gaming, is there anything needing such performance boost? Music, digital photos, digital video - I guess you can use a bit more speed. But having a four-year old PowerBook (1 GHz cpu) is not really an obstacle in terms of the cpu speed. Would I enjoy having a Core 2 Due cpu on my laptop? Sure, if it would run cool and the battery would last longer. The speed is secondary.
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Maximize Vista delay -- Comment()
Ballmer is infinitely quotable: "We will never have a gap between Windows releases as long as the one between XP and Windows Vista." How to guarantee that this prediction will happen? Maximize the delay between XP and Vista. Release Vista in November - 2007?
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Too much help from the computer -- Comment()
Where's auto-save 2.0? "Why can[base ']t an application monitor my usage of the program, and automatically save my document when it detects my attention has been diverted elsewhere?" On the other hand, if the computer does too much on behalf of the user, it may do things which the user didn't want (like saving changes to a document which shouldn't have been saved). I switched from Apple Mail to Entourage a while back, and the all too numerous dialogs ("Are you sure?") are driving me to distraction. I already lost one folder of e-mail messages. In Mail I at least had the undo command available, but not in Entourage. Goodbye, messages.
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