Just What No One Needed
Why would they do this: Apple announces Windows browser
Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft’s Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple “dream big” and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys.
Does he want to go back to the future with browser wars? Does anyone need another propriety chunk of software? Being faster than IE is not exactly a technological tour de force. What’s next, a text editor?
Perhaps Whig at Cannablog saw this coming. [If you are not a geek, you won’t get it, so don’t worry.]
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whig: i could live with being able to vote in a whole cabinet. and edwards / kucinich / richardson isn’t a bad triumvirate, as these things go. glad to hear about the new airport, but tearing down one stadium and replacing it with 2 more? geez.
jim: gracious! now that’s a tiny mass spec! thanks for the links. i look forward to reading them.
on leaping into the 21st century:
today was the first day of train-the-trainer training.
the guys slated to get the first round of computers are major technophobes, but even they are looking forward to ditching the 19th century record-keeping. on a whim, i stoked some of this a couple of years ago. i had an old laptop that was going to be thrown out anyway, so i loaded what data i had and a primitive version of the software onto it and tom sawyered a crew into taking it out into the field. they accepted with bad grace. a few months later when that laptop died for good, they missed it so much that they all but held a wake for it. about half the remaining technophobes here [and they are legion] are jealous that they didn’t get to be the first guinea pigs.
this is probably the first big project of this sort i’ve been involved in that has been so heavily user-driven, and with full support from management. quite a luxury.
dangnabbit, these are pretty darn small laptops, and therefore eminently tossable. you don’t mean i’m going to have to wear my hardhat for this, do you?
steve: i [heart] recorders!
A hardhat wouldn’t be a bad idea. Expect “accidents” in the field.
also digging out steel toed boots from back of closet… ok, boss! i’m ready!
You almost sound like you are working with archaeologists and diggers, Hipparchia.