That’s the motto for the group that created the USB connector.
I guess they never had to deal with actually finding and plugging in the right USB cord to connect or charge a device. And for each of those below there are corresponding male and female connectors. Such a hassle to have so many cords and power supplies just because devices have different USB connectors.
Can’t we just have SuperSpeed Wireless USB and inductive charging already?
This year the music will stop and the one left standing without a chair will be the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
The announcement today is of Oahu Publications Inc. buying the Honolulu Advertiser and putting the Star-Bulletin up for sale in two weeks must be blow to my friends at both daily newspapers as they try to read the tea leaves into the future.
I had often imagined the big Kapolei printing plant by Gannett on Oahu being like the Death Star becoming fully operational with the Star-Bulletin playing the part of planet Alderaan. The Advertiser seemed hell-bent at times on getting rid of the Star-Bulletin (I’m not talking about the Tiser’s editorial staff, I’m talking more marketing and management but hey, they have bosses and shareholders to answer to).
Will the Star-Bulletin find a buyer? I find it hard to believe they will in this economy.
Do the employees have the balls to buy the paper themselves and run it? It would take more than balls, it would be a huge gamble with life savings in a bad economy as newspapers are not cheap to run. There’s no way they could just turn it into an online paper and support the number of staff members they currently have. Everything beyond content creation would be cut if they went online: printing operations and circulation with delivery people.
Could Peer News buy the Star-Bulletin? I doubt they would in it’s current state. They’ve made it quite clear they don’t want to have a paper product. I could see them wanting to buy the name…didn’t some airline want to do that with the name ‘Aloha Airlines’ recently? I see both the Tiser and Peer cherry-picking reporters from the Bulletin staff.
Frank F. Fasi will be rolling in his grave if the Star-Bulletin closes. Fasi always hated the idea of a monopoly with a one newspaper town.
The HD version can be found here.
A friend gave me a memory card she found although it appeared blank because it was formatted erasing everything on it. Being the techie I am I ran a recovery application that recovered the images shot onto it.
Now the card needs to find its owner. I sent four images over to Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures and hopefully the owner or their family/friends will see the images and contact the site so we can mail the card off to the rightful owner.
I’m not going to reveal too much about the memory card except to say it was found in Hawaii but it looks like the images were taken somewhere else, maybe in New York?
Here’s one of the photos below. Recognize anyone?
Update: The camera that shot the photos looks like this below
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T1
Tempura, Teshima-style.
Had the annual Teshima’s birthday lunch but this time instead of driving to Kona we cooked it up ourselves in Waimea. Not all of it shown in these photos as I was too busy eating. Tempura purple sweet potato, carrots, yellow squash, zucchini, onion, shrimp, namasu, rice, miso soup, dipping sauce, green tea and something not served at Teshima’s, red velvet cake.
This was a ton of food and I had to take a break before the cake. Next year we’re gonna have to invite more people or cook less food. I think I ate enough tempura to last me a year…unless I drop by Sekiya’s. I usually get the teriyaki beef & tempura combo at Teshima’s. The tempura we made came out pretty darn close if not the same as Teshima’s.
Birthday cake for Aquarians.
Slice of Red Velvet cake.
(1/6/10) The rumor mill has been running at full-tilt that Apple will introduce the iSlate tablet computer during a January 27, 2010 event. Seems like a pretty solid rumor but the thing that gets me is that it appears that big newspapers like the New York Times are thinking this new gizmo will save the dying newspaper industry.
I’m sure the execs have been standing too close to Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field and have eaten up all he has said to them about this new ‘i’ device. And I’m sure it will be a beautiful device but really folks? I highly doubt newspaper readers will drop anything more than $200 on yet another gizmo in this bad economy.
Why would anyone spend the money if they can already read the newspaper on the computer they already own? And older folks who are used to and love the paper product are not going to buy some expensive shiny new tablet computer. And folks who already own an iPhone can currently read many news publications formatted just for their the smaller form factor.
Face it. Jobs is hoodwinking the newspaper industry to promote this device which is going to be a flop for newspaper readers. So newspaper readers won’t buy it but college students would buy it if all their textbooks are on it. Book publishers would sell books to be published on it, probably even Amazon.com too even if it appears to be a threat to the Kindle (I already buy and read Kindle books on my iPhone since Amazon created a Kindle app).
The newspapers will gush and glow all over the iSlate, since they think it’s going to be their savior and thus give it tons of free advertising. Jobs is playing them like a grand piano.
Update (1/26/10): Okay, it’s the day before T-Day (Tablet Day) and I still think dynamic textbooks will be the killer use. And as I said on Facebook, being able to view a cookbook and actually change the ingredient lists so they’re viewable by humans with normal vision would be great. On TWIT Leo Laporte talked about video possibly being a killer app and I’d have to agree. Having a great screen that has the same field of view as some $5,000 HDTV in your lap would be nice.
Also all this talk about Microsoft meeting with Apple to put Bing.com on the iPhone OS, yeah that could happen but maybe they’re meeting for a deal to put Silverlight on the iTablet. That’s what Netflix uses instead of Adobe Flash to deliver streaming movies on the Mac so why not have it on the iTablet and even on the iPhone in lieu of Flash.
A half day away Steve Jobs will show us something fantastic, we’ll want to buy one but in reality it won’t be something brand new, but Apple will have done it with the style and simplicity that has made their products hits. Sell your Kindle, sell your HDTV prepare to upgrade to RoadRunner Business Class cable modem at home.
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