United Football League Power Rankings over time.
In what way was this change for the better?
Herman Cain, who barely campaigns in the state, currently leads the pack in Iowa. Though I’m a fan of his tax proposals, I believe that his sincerity, his speaking ability, and his newness are what separate him. At this point, I would be surprised to see anything but a Cain nomination.
Slowly undoing the damage caused by her braindead predecessor, Meg Whitman has made the decision to stay in the PC business.
Visionless Apotheker had made an abrupt decision a couple months ago to exit the PC and mobile markets, even though the PC market represented the company’s identity and the mobile market was only beginning to flourish. I’d even suggest HP could re-enter the mobile market and still have a decent shot at gaining traction; the market is still so young with the potential for rapid innovation and entrance of new competitors. In fact, Apple and Android’s positions in the market are on very unclear footing. It would only take a small disruptive innovation to completely change the market landscape and reshuffle the deck.
While the Whitman sorts out the decision of whether to re-enter the mobile market or not, it’s clear to me that the company is back on the right track. It should have been clear that Apotheker was not the man for the job based on his performance as the chief at SAP. For years, SAP has been falling behind its competitors in the user-experience realm, and that suggests to me an inability to inspire, to lead, to implement a vision. If he was unsuccessful with user experience in a B2B world, how could he have been expected to succeed when selling a user experience direct to consumers?
I must be missing something, but why can’t I have project-level configurations that let me specify which version of the JDK said project should be built against?
Visual Studio changed my development life years ago, and it still seems like it’s so much further ahead than the other tools. Now, I know that sounds like a fanboi, but I’ve played with Eclipse, dabbled with Xcode, and I used to love Zend Studio; but I always come back to Visual Studio where the entire experience is around making my life easier as a developer.
I’m a big fan of my Roku player, so much so that I just bought a 2nd one for the living room a few weeks back. The one area where it doesn’t rock is sports programming. I believe the only available sports programming is on BYUtv, where you can catch the occasional volleyball match-up plus one football game per year.
Recently, the SEC Digital Network went live on Boxee, and the SEC Digital Network is powered by the same back-end technology as the Big Ten Digital Network. That got me thinking that the Big Ten Digital Network is also probably coming to Boxee shortly.
I’d like to think that they’ll eventually turn their attention to Roku also, which is selling like hotcakes (something like 3m units projected this year). Also, the Roku isn’t a horribly shaped, half-functional device like the Boxee box; it simply works.
But until this app is launched, I’ll still be glued to my Roku, hoping that small players like them can continue to take on the big guys like Apple and Microsoft.
Not sure why that made an ounce of difference, but I’m up and running iOS 5
You can’t upgrade (even if you’ve already downloaded the update) without an internet connection….
Apparently the reason for the upgrade error is simply that Apple’s servers are getting hit hard right now. I don’t really believe that, however. I’m going to try a test with my wifi turned off and see if the error still pops up.
…and getting an error immediately.
