notes.husk.org. archive page 2 of 5.tagged technology.

2012-03-15

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From the iFixit teardown of the new iPad:

On the non-A5X side of the logic board:

Texas Instruments CD3240 driver device

Broadcom BCM4330 802.11a/b/g/n MAC/baseband/radio with integrated Bluetooth 4.0+HS and FM transceiver

2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration

Fairchild FDMC 6683

Broadcom BCM5973 I/O controller

Broadcom BCM5974 microprocessor

Apple 338S0987 B0LI1150 SGP

“ Our species will survive neither by totally rejecting nor unconditionally embracing technology - but by humanizing it; by allowing people access to the informational tools they need to shape and reassert control over their own lives. ”

The editorial (PDF) in the first issue of Radical Software, quoted by Molly Wright Steenson in a post on the magazine.

2012-03-06

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theeconomist:

An ambitious gesture-recognition system aims to let you use your body instead of a range of portable electronic devices.

2012-02-02

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courtenaybird:

Fifty years ago, the four most valuable U.S. companies employed an average of 430,000 people with an average market cap of $180 billion. This year, the four largest U.S. companies employ an average 120,000 people with an average market cap of $334 billion. The titans of 2011 have twice the the value of their 1964 counterparts with a quarter of the employees.

(via The Atlantic)

I’m not sure why people think the tech industry is a panacea for job creation. Wealth creation? Perhaps. Jobs? Not so much.

2012-01-24

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“ I think TV is pushing ahead. It used to be we make TV on video and they remake it on 35mm. We all now work in high-def, we all have the same cameras. You can get things made the same year you think of it, rather than 12 years later. We can make three Sherlock films in the time it takes Hollywood to have lunch. ”

Steven Moffat, answering “Isn’t choosing British TV over Hollywood nuts, career-wise?” in an interview in the Guardian: ‘There is a clue everybody’s missed’: Sherlock writer interviewed.

2012-01-10

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“ Cities look to me to be our most characteristic technology. We didn’t really get interesting as a species until we became able to do cities—that’s when it all got really diverse, because you can’t do cities without a substrate of other technologies. ”

William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 in the Paris Review.

My world seems to be a series of tightly-connected cities, separated by a series of scenery for viewing from trains or planes.

2012-01-06

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“ About 35 percent of Finns also use mobile laptop modems and dongles, or modems in a USB stick; one operator, Elisa, offers unlimited data plans for as little as 5 euros, or $6.40, a month. ”

Kevin J. O’Brien in the New York Times: Top 1% Of Mobile Users Consume Half Of World’s Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing (via Chris, who notes there may be a loss of subtle T&Cs; nonetheless, interesting)

2011-12-06

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(via toffeemilkshake)

2011-08-07

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“ Once you understand that there’s an architectural politics baked into technology design, it’s easy to look at the protocols and interfaces and say: I can see what will happen to the people that use this, and therefore the world they inhabit. ”

Quinn Norton: Ways in which I am old.

2011-06-23

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The just-announced Pentax Q system is an interesting addition to the crop of compact system cameras (or whatever you want to call them), but this image from DPReview makes it clear that the sensor is relatively tiny. Looking at the figures, it’s smaller than the S90/S95 sensor.

Mind you, given two of the five announced lenses have “toy” in their names, perhaps that won’t be a big deal.

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