Khürt.com/blog http://khurt.com/blog An inchoate stream of opinions, links and other stuff related to technology and photography. And sometimes coffee. And diabetes. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:05:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Alex Payne — On Business Madness http://khurt.com/blog/2012/02/22/alex-payne-on-business-madness/ http://khurt.com/blog/2012/02/22/alex-payne-on-business-madness/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:04:15 +0000 Khürt Williams http://khurt.com/blog/?p=4646 What I disagree with is the notion that anyone should start or operate a business in the explicit mold of someone else’s experience, as reduced to a couple hundred pages padded with illustrations and diagrams. It’s a bit like starting a fad diet without considering the particulars of your health and lifestyle. It may be hard to subsist on kumquat juice when your neighborhood grocer doesn’t sell kumquats.

via Alex Payne — On Business Madness.

I’ve become a victim to this sort of thinking. I work inside a large bio-pharma that is in the throes of change. We’ve adopted a Lean Sigma process model and ITIL framework as though this alone will save us from our crap.

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via Sonic.net CEO Blog » Blog Archive » Web Hogs!.

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via Seths Blog: The sad irony of selfishness.

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  For me, the answers are easy. It’s the software that matters most to me. I’d pick a Nokia Lumia running iOS 5 over an iPhone 4S running any other OS, and I’d pick the ThinkPad running Mac OS X over a Mac running Windows. No hesitation.

via Daring Fireball: Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’.

For me, it’s always been about the software. Put it this way, I bought an app to calculate how much I spend on apps.

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Seriously, it’s 2012, and Apple has rocketed past Exxon Mobil as the most valuable corporation on the planet. You don’t get to that level of success driven along by a handful of dedicated, froth-flecked fans, nor do you achieve what Apple’s achieved by having a “cult” of people who will buy what Apple sells no matter what. Think logically for just half a second: Apple sold 37 million iPhones in 3 months. 37 million. If that’s a cult, it’s one damned huge cult.

Source How to avoid sounding dumb when you write about Apple

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via The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics — NYTimes.com.

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Model X is designed from the ground up to blend the best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan, as only an electric car can. It is an automobile above category, built around the driver—and six of her friends. It artfully provides unfettered performance and brilliant functionality.

via Model X | Tesla Motors.

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But Android is largely closed for the typical consumers who use it, because they have little choice about which version of Android will run on their device. They’re left at the mercy of the device makers or mobile carriers.

Source:Danny Sullivan

Open for modification but closed for use.

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The simple fact is that we now have two types of computing devices: general purpose and niche. All of these devices are “personal computers” it just so happens that not all of them a general purpose personal computers.

Source: The Brooks Review

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Never one to miss out on an up-and-coming tech trend, Google is all set to launch its very own cloud storage service, competing with the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft and Apple. 

People familiar with the matter were unable to keep schtum and spilled to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), telling it that the Chocolate Factory’s new service Drive was getting ready to burst on the scene with online storage for files that can be accessed from any device with a Wi-Fi connection.

I thought this was mostly rumor. I already pay Google for extra storage for Picasa, Google Docs. I would be excited to have direct access to that from my desktop.

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