Ahead of the Curve | Tom YagerForward-looking insight informing today's technology choicesRTFM: Good advice in troubled times- June 25, 2008 Don't search for answers. Reach for knowledge. Back when five bucks' worth of dinosaur squeezings bought you a misspent weekend, working in technology required desks, and the reason for desks was to have a place to lay out your manuals. Massive hole-punched tomes ending in "Guide" and "Reference" were techies' bread and butter. It was so taken for granted that you had manuals that RTM (we'll go F-less now that we know what we're talking about) became shorthand for "go look it up; you might...http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/06/rtfm_good_advic.html?source=rss Digital TV foreshadows erosion of Internet rights- June 18, 2008 With regard to the free exchange of information over the Internet, we, the people, have mostly managed to hold our ground. We can thank activists, hacktivists, legislators saying "no, thanks" to money from the entertainment lobbies, and forward-thinking artists and content distributors--I'm proud that writers and publishers took the lead on this--who recognize that reach is the currency of the digital age. We should take as a warning sign of descent down the slippery slope toward the loss of...http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/06/ahead_of_the_cu_7.html?source=rss Can anything beat iPhone Handset makers, here's how.- June 10, 2008 One of my live blog entries from the keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference had a one-line body: iPhone competitors, it's over. It doesn't excite me to say that. I don't like seeing any one player rise to lord of the realm. At least theoretically, a cornered market isn't good for buyers. But make no mistake, Apple entered the mobile market to corner it, and at this moment it's largely unopposed. If you wonder how Apple got there so fast, consider the zeitgeist that Apple tapped: Most.http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/06/can_anything_be.html?source=rss AMD shakes PC notebook status quo- June 4, 2008 At the logic level, MacBook, the benchmark for success in mainstream notebooks, is unremarkable -- indistinguishable from every PC notebook built on Intel Core 2 and its chipset-integrated graphics. Why, then, can't anyone with the same parts list emulate Apple's growth in an otherwise stagnant notebook market Because Apple painstakingly hand-optimized its OS for a tiny variety of hardware architectures, presently Intel Core 2, while Microsoft wrote Vista to run on absolutely everything. No PC..http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2008/06/ahead_of_the_cu_6.html?source=rss |