Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
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I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
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This
week: August 24-30, 2015
Summary of this week:
- Tim Cook announces yet more Apple money going into schools
- Stock markets fall worldwide
- And now we have Desksourcing
- Facebook releases M—a personal assistant
Monday
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- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday August 24, 2015
It is a Monday, the world hasn't quite starting spinning again.
Apple continues to hire automotive engineers from Tesla. Here comes the Apple car.
TV streaming: #1 Roku, #2 now Amazon Fire, #3 Apple TV.
Expert tech investors are passing right now because companies are over-valued.
A close look at Google's Trekker camera system—a 40lb load to carry and photograph the world.
The diversity report for the major US tech companies.
"How did America spend 60 years fighting communism and end up in a barter economy on Craigslist?" A good question from Bill Maher.
Intel continues to evolve the Next Unit of Computing—powerful single-board computers.
Tim Cook goes to Good Morning America to announce new education program.
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Tuesday August 25, 2015
Stocks fall worldwide. Apple and others fall as well. A very bad ten days.
Twitter's stock price at an all-time low.
Netflix's valuation is down 20%.
Thousands of refugees are streaming towards France and Germany.
Does all this sum to something truly earth changing?
Women talk about the lack of women in the tech industry.
Sigh, a judge has to explain to our DHS that they can't just take your laptop computer from you without a warrant.
The entertainment and consumer world changed before our eyes in the last 15 years. Yes, the change lost some people while others profited.
A message in a bottle was found after 108 years. It was released as a science experiment. Hurray for science.
Microsoft's Research Lab developed software that allows a phone camera to be a 3D scanner.
Microsoft Office 2016 is coming in September (2015).
New money builds new housing in San Francisco (as in other cities). Poorer persons are forced out. Pity how prosperity hurts the poor. If anyone has a solution, the world is anxious to hear it.
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Wednesday August 26, 2015
The history of the birth of Linux. Sometimes things just work out that way.
How the buffer overflow security hole works.
Anandtech has a detailed review of Windows 10.
Tim Cook just received a $58million performance bonus.
Don't put the Galaxy Note 5 pen in backwards; this is why.
And now we have Desksourcing. Use your little mobile computer to employ someone at a desk computer.
More layoffs at Intuit.
Fish oil pills; dubious at best.
VMWare Fusion now puts Windows 10 inside OS X.
If you use a free AT&T hotspot, you will see extra ads. Why complain? It is free. How is it that we all now complain about the quality of things that are free?
The government of Russia just un-censored Wikipedia.
The Apple Watch is selling well at Best Buy, so Best Buy will now sell it at all 1,000+ stores.
Folly. Once again, someone creates an education model that works for a handful of persons, but won't scale.
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Thursday August 27, 2015
Facebook has a personal assistant inside its Messenger app.
There are actual intelligent people on the other end of the line in Facebook's M.
John Sculley appears with a lower-cost Android phone for the developing world.
In Virginia, a former reporter kills two reporters during a live interview.
The state of in-flight WiFi is still slow and expensive. I just want ice cream on the airplane. Could they just serve ice cream?
Codementor offers live programming mentors instead of recorded videos for online learning.
Got old media? Google now allows you to ship data physically to them, and they put it in cloud storage.
Google has been using searches to help it find programmers. If you search for certain programming items, Google calls you back.
Our military is replacing the Humvee with the Joltvee. Yes, it has technology to win the previous, not the next, war.
75million Windows 10 installs in four weeks.
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Friday August 28, 2015
No Internet viewing this morning as instead I had breakfast with a group of fine gentlemen.
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Saturday August 29, 2015
Amazon is paying a lot of money for the cast of Top Gear.
Microsoft is pushing to release the Surface Pro 4 by Christmas; still too expensive.
The rush to flee to Europe continues with many deaths along the way.
September 9th is the big day for the next iPhone introduction.
On Monday, Facebook had 1billion users. The definition of success has changed.
Twitter promises to raise the number of female employees, but in what jobs? Secretaries?
Our Dept of Defense is teaming with Silicon Valley on a flexible electronics innovation hub. We shall see what wins—innovation or bureaucracy.
Hacking, IP tracking, and kinetic weapons. We are in the 21st century, and this is how we conduct wars.
A study of psycology studies shows that most can't be repeated. They are junk science.
United Airlines in-flight WiFi is blocking a lot of news sites. Censorship or just dumb?
The rumor is that the new Apple TV will have an industry changing controller. On, Off, change channel?
Somebody realizes that "follow you passion" is usually a bad idea.
This man spent three years building a 24-foot Lego battleship. Amazing.
Uber just hired a team of car hackers.
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Sunday August 30, 2015
In praise of email. One of the best inventions of all time, it lives on.
We created bootcamps to address the shortfalls of college. Now we realize that the bootcamps don't prepare people for work.
Success in the world often leads to isolation. See the Minecraft billionaire as an example.
Tips on writing about boring topics. Of course "boring" is subjective to your place and mood. You can change your place and mood.
The title says is all: How Short is Short Fiction?
Things writers hate to hear people say about writers.
Staying at home? Ways to stay productive. Get out of bed and get dressed.
Excellent tips for writing more.
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