Naming Superman
In the original 1978 Superman movie, Lois Lane names Superman after he has flown away from his interview with her using the following line of dialogue...
"What a super man. Hm. 'Superman!'"
The Operating System on Flash
Flash memory, used in the ubiquitous USB thumb drives, has been happily chugging along to Moore's Law for a while now and they've managed to get high enough capacities at low enough prices that it's perfectly feasible to have a computer's internal drive entirely made up of fast flash memory. However, it's a little pricey yet and flash drives - generally called solid state drives - can't hold the sheer quantity of data as their more refined disk-based predecessors.
In the meantime, I've been wondering why not use a chip or two for some targeted speed improvements? Say, for example, putting the operating system on a flash chip.
Mac Misconceptions
Ah-ha! Here I am trying to debunk a mess of myths regarding Apple's Macintosh computing platform. I must be one of those brainwashed Mac junkies who can't see anything past the rose-coloured blindfold they continuously wear, right?
Well, there's myth one for you.
Dead Space
I recently played the new science fiction horror survival game Dead Space. It was extremely stylish and had some very original ideas in it, although not in regards to the story which was pretty much a copy of System Shock 2 only less interesting. (It even had the same pair of plot twists.)
Adobe Got It Right
John Gruber at Daring Fireball just asked why on earth Adobe would put the little 'X' close buttons on the right of the tabs in the Mac version of Photoshop. Macs, of course, traditionally have the close window buttons on the left.
I expect that Adobe has no good reason for doing this - that they are simply transferring something from the PC version to the Mac with minimal changes. However, whether by design or accident, it's occurred to me that it's actually better that way. The close button has some big problems on the left.