James Carville is “scared to death” about whether Sanders and others can beat Trump - Vox
James Carville: “Look, Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat. He’s never been a Democrat. He’s an ideologue. And I’ve been clear about this: If Bernie is the nominee, I’ll vote for him. No question. I’ll take an ideological fanatic over a career criminal any day. But he’s not a Democrat.”
PSA. Pitchers and catchers report in one week.
Murkowski throws stones, demonstrating she is part of the problem.
The past weekend an update to Little Outliner was made available and with that I learned about a status page generator feature of it that I thought I would try. I guess it is equivalent to a Now page that some folks have, click here to see it.
My favs were the Hyundai Boston and the Jeep groundhog commercials.
+1 to Jeep for the groundhog commercial on the rodent’s day. (And you can never go wrong with Bill Murray in a commercial)
The best Super Bowl half time show was in Miami.
Happy groundhog day. The sun is shining 😎
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died by Jill Lepore
W. E. B. Du Bois predicted that, unless the United States met its obligations to the dignity and equality of all its citizens and ended its enthrallment to corporations, American democracy would fail: “If it is going to use this power to force the world into color prejudice and race antagonism; if it is going to use it to manufacture millionaires, increase the rule of wealth, and break down democratic government everywhere; if it is going increasingly to stand for reaction, fascism, white supremacy and imperialism; if it is going to promote war and not peace; then America will go the way of the Roman Empire.”
Guilty of the crime but will not be punished. The President of the United States is in fact above the law.
You don’t need to hear witnesses when you have already decided the case.
In December after installing a security update on my Pixel 2 I observed that the phone no longer displayed signal strength when connected to the AT&T Microcell in our house. I thought the problem was unique to the Microcell, but yesterday I was in a office where the phone only connected to a 4G network and then too the signal strength did not display. So, in December Android began to think there were only LTE networks.
Tablet Style Personal Computing:
Personal computing tablet style emphasizes simplicity. What is simpler, sliding a mouse along a table top surface and clicking a button to select an object on a screen, or tapping the screen where the object is displayed?
Personal computing tablet style is mobile. Tablets are smaller, lighter and have longer battery life than notebook computers, and they are designed to be typed on via an on-screen keyboard from almost any position, while a notebook is designed to be typed on while placed on a flat surface.
In short, the iPhone Way to simplicity is a combination of limitations and control, and both of these tenants are completely opposite to what we have known about personal computing.
It is my belief that Steve Jobs views the iPad as an implementation of the iPhone Way to personal computing, and because that the iPhone Way is completely opposite to how we have always thought of personal computing, there are a lot of negative reviews of the iPad. You see arguments like “the iPad does not multitask (run mulitiple programs at the same time) so it is not a real computer,” or “the iPad does not have any USB ports to plug in hardware peripherals, so it is not a real computer.” I think both of these intentional design limitations were made to make the iPad simpler to use, because, who is to say that our definition of personal computing today will be the same definition ten years from now.
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the Apple iPad announcement. Back on January 27, 2010 I wrote, “Has Apple Made Tablets Legit?” and the answer ten years later is a resounding yes. Personally, my iPads are my most used and most important personal computer. Ten years ago the iPad was limited enough to be viewed as a device one uses to read or watch videos, but the current iPads and now iPadOS paired with a keyboard and mouse make it capable of most forms of personal computing. There will always be situations and people demand nothing but a full notebook computer, and that is fine, as Steve Jobs said back then, one can still drive a truck. Happy belated birthday iPad!
P.S. Reading my past writing on this topic, I realize that embedded in the iPad was Apple’s transition to designing their own processors, with their first included in that iPad.
P.S.S. I find it really cool that I can look back and read what I wrote ten years ago. Of course, that only happens because I am paying the bill to continue hosting my old blog. This December I will have been blogging for 21 years.
Manton has added a replies feature to micro.blog that I think should provide a way for you to create and see replies to these posts.
You can buy almost anything on Amazon! And I mean anything. (Look at the address bar.)
Cold, wet, and melting
Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, has passed away.