Absolutely, 100% agree. The difference between a computer with a standard HDD and one with a blazing fast SSD is night and day. I've loudly and publicly professed my love for the bargain OCZ Vertex I picked up a few weeks back. It's that good.

I hesitate to link to the New York Times, but, uh, yeah, what they said.

Controls on the back of the tablet, where your fingers wrap around? That's brilliant.

«Jack Balkin invited me to be on a panel yesterday at Yale’s Information Society Project conference, Journalism & The New Media Ecology, and I used my remarks to observe that one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature of authority. In particular, I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.)»

«Ubiquity drives increasing returns in the network economy. The question becomes, What is the most cost-effective way to achieve ubiquity? And the answer is: give things away. Make them free.»

"These systems do not ask people to accommodate to the technology: they ask the technology to accommodate people."

"Instead, I’m eagerly anticipating development in alternate touchscreen text-entry approaches combined with the addition of better touchscreens, haptic technologies and new sets of software idioms."

"You see the future of television IS Internet television. There is no other in sight."

"Publishing the metrics of sharing on the social web is something that is very fairly compared to indexing the pages of the web and analyzing the links between them. We may not find the next Google in Bit.ly or the services built on top of it, but something very important is afoot."

"Right now almost every web application has an Apache server fronting a database box running MySQL or its closed source equivalent like Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server. The data bottleneck in all those applications is the SQL box, which is generally doing a very simple job in a very complex manner that made total sense for minicomputers in 1975 but doesn’t make as much sense today. Five years from now the situation will be very different with HBase running everywhere, the dedicated SQL box eliminated completely, and the database shared across redundant web servers like a micro-Google."

"When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem." People, let's wake up.

«About twenty years ago people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they'd produce when they converged. We now know the answer: computers. It's clear now that even by using the word "convergence" we were giving TV too much credit. This won't be convergence so much as replacement. People may still watch things they call "TV shows," but they'll watch them mostly on computers.»

Innovation. It's what's for dinner.

Great analogy to begin the article, terrible plan for saving the US economy. The Peretic Plan: stop inflating the money supply, reduce taxes across the board (specifically on businesses), decrease government spending, and let the market correct itself. Here's the key, recessions are not part and parcel of the free market system, they are the cruel side effect of fake booms caused by government credit injection. Spare the credit injection, spare the world.

The future of cars?