It's another covering of analogies run amok as the Macalope looks at Microsoft's retail design. Then there's the intriguing case of how Windows 7 is like the lead part in an early '90s Fox sitcom. (No, The Macalope is not saying Windows 7 is anything like "Herman's Divert." What is wrong with you people?) And then it's the most amazing Apple lawsuit ever! The Macalope can't cool one's heels for the depositions on this one!
The retail space race
Say, kids, do you like stilted analogies in your technology punditry? You do?! Great! Because the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon docking got the Macalope thinking again about Microsoft's retail strategy .
No, extremely. Please don't leave!
It has been uncharitably said that the space race communistic nothing more than flags and footprints. And the Macalope is kind of wondering if Microsoft unusually has a plan here beyond "MUST COMPETE WITH APPLE. CRUSH. KILL. Ruin." (That's not hyperbole. They really talk like that.)
Handy Substitutes for That Lost Screw
Last week I asked Alan Brooks, the longtime hardware manager of Page Hardware and Appliance Company, in Guilford, Conn., to recommend a $50 collection of hardware supplies to cover the basic needs of most homes. Here are his suggestions.
A Telescope as Sharp as Hubble — But On the Ground
The mirror at its heart is just 7.9 ft. (2.4 m) across, which gives it only about one-seventeenth of the light-gathering power of the 33-ft. (10 m) twin Keck telescopes, atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea. The HST's big selling point is its super-sharp vision.and more »
CIO Profile: Trinity Mirror's Tony Pusey on the tech for the modern newspaper
CIO Profile: Trinity Mirror's Tony Pusey on the tech for the modern newspaperBy Julian Goldsmith | Published: 14:18 GMT, 30 January 12 | Although the newspaper business evokes the sights and sound of the presses, more than the quiet hum of web servers, it has been Trinity Mirror CIO Tony Pusey's task over the last few and more »
The Love Box is an analog video mixer, house of mirrors for your iPhone (video)
Apps like Instagram may help you realize artistic talent, but software just doesn't get those creative juices flowing like an old-fashioned piece of hardware can. Despite its taboo-sounding name, The Love Box isn't an adult toy in the traditional sense and more »
Motorola Droid Razr
The gorilla glass front with a 4.3in AMOLED screen is large enough to be a bathroom mirror. Its Kevlar backing, and metal bezel are not things that all phones can claim. Consider it's overall "Razr" thin form and you can be sure the first thing by and more »
How-To: Set up a home file server using FreeNAS
you could mirror the ZIL with two solid-state drives. This would provide a very redundant and high-performing NAS. However, the scope of this how-to is strictly getting a cheap FreeNAS environment up and running with the most basic of hardware.
Kaspersky Lab Selects DataCore Storage Hypervisor to Safeguard Ten Petabytes ...
hypervisor software will be installed at the two data centers and will synchronously mirror all the production data currently located on diverse storage systems each with different characteristics tied to each vendor's hardware-based platforms.and more »
