"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences."
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How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I've recently rediscovered Slate after spending most of my time over at Salon these past few months, and it's articles like this that make me kick myself for ignoring Slate for so long. Here, Slate's Harry McCracken argues that Google Gears introduces functionality that will be ...
You know what's ironic? I work in desktop support, and I tell people to back up their data every day. Yet just recently I experienced my worst case of data loss ever, which could have been easily avoided had I just backed up my massive collection of music (nearly 50GB by this point) and lesser (but more invaluable) collection of digital photos.
It all started when I decided to do a clean installation of Windows XP. I was having an annoying issue that was preventing me from loading XP without using the "Last known config" option at startup, and multiple repair ...
OK I know it's been a while since I last updated, but I think I've finally gotten over the fact that A) nobody reads this blog and B) it's just one of many of the same sort of tech punditry blogs online. My impetus behind this thing was to find my voice in tech writing while discussing interesting topics. I'll try to keep that in mind and force myself to update consistently.
Anyway, MS just announced that they will be offering HD content on-demand for the 360. Who knew they could keep a secret so well? In a ...
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