Operating System Pricing
Over at the Mac Night Owl, Gene Steinberg has just written...
"Did anyone think that Vista Ultimate was truly worth $399 list price, when Apple charges $129 for its standard Mac OS X user licenses? Talk about greed!"
Hm.
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.
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.)