Monday, December 9, 2002

HP, Gateway furlough workers without pay over holidays. The PC makers say the moves are necessary to curtail costs. As much as I wish I had the kind of money I had a couple of years ago, I'm very grateful to be working at Apple right now. I'm working day and night on keeping a stable job and making a little more on the side to replace my money-guzzling Mitsubishi and put myself in a secure financial position. Most of the money that I actually spend goes towards tech goods. If everybody keeps spending on tech toys, it'll help the industry pick back up again. This month's tech purchases: more RAM and a MacAlly iceKey to replace the Fisher-Price/Apple keyboard that I had left over from my old PowerMac. [Computerworld News]
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Cable Companies Despise PVRs PVRs (such as Tivo) are a stopgap solution at best... cable and TV networks could stop them dead in their tracks by offering solid and complete libraries of VOD stuff. But since the bandwidth necessary for everyone to start watching video-on-demand at once isn't here yet, PVRs make an excellent interim solution. This is another example of an established business fighting a paradigm change that they don't understand with fear and legislation. [Slashdot]
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Daily Show on Kissinger QuickTime. In case you missed it, here is Jon Stewart and friends on the Daily Show running down Henry Kissinger's unique qualifications to investigate the September 11th attack. I can't find a transcript at the moment, but the gist of the remarks are this: who better to investigate war crimes than a war criminal? Who better to investigate intelligence failures than someone who hid a campaign of secret bombings? And so on. Funny, sad, scary.

Link (57MB QuickTime)

Discuss

(via On Lisa Rein's Radar) [Boing Boing Blog]
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Jonathan Peterson: " The quality of "amateur" content is exploding at the same time that Big Media companies are going through one of their all-time lows in music and television creativity. No wonder we're spending more time with our PCs that we are with our TVs." [via instapundit] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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