tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56559652011-07-01T12:33:47.947-07:00TechnologyTechnology history, quotes, trends, and things that go bump in the night....Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-36196822099298050752007-07-24T15:14:00.001-07:002007-07-24T15:14:30.653-07:00“The Best Phone that Anybody Has Ever Made.”Sunday, July 01 11:09 AM 2007“Steve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. It’s also the best phone that anybody has ever made,” says Lev Gossman (Time). “The user interface,” Grossman marvels, “is crammed with smart little touches — every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-12098556363720993322007-07-24T15:13:00.001-07:002007-07-24T15:13:43.475-07:00“Like a Star Trek Gadget Come to Life”Sunday, July 01 05:56 PM 2007Shortly after activating his new iPhone, Michael DeAgonia (Computerworld.com) received his “ first phone call. A few moments after that, I got another. I was able to swap between calls, merge them, put them on hold, and separate them without hassle. Other phones, of course, do that as well. What’s the difference here? The Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-14546996146645297692007-07-24T15:11:00.001-07:002007-07-24T15:11:15.290-07:00“iPhone buyers have no regrets,” says Edward C. Baig (USA Today). Baig spoke with Jason Kramer, the chief strategy officer of Interpret, a market research firm that conducted a survey of recent iPhone purchasers. The study found that “90% of 200 owners said they were ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ satisfied with their phone. And 85% said they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ likely to recommend the device to Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-64686389827432587912007-04-15T12:13:00.001-07:002007-04-15T12:13:55.807-07:00http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412132140.htmDate: April 12, 2007 More on: Microarrays, Computer Science, Mobile Computing, Information Technology, Batteries, Biometric3-D Chips: IBM Moves Moore's Law Into The Third DimensionScience Daily — IBM has announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-54455284221780282172007-04-09T17:59:00.000-07:002007-04-09T18:01:12.044-07:004/8/07Lamont WoodSpecial to LiveScienceLiveScience.com Mon Apr 9, 8:30 AM ETJust when you got used to hard drives with hundreds of gigabytes (hundreds of billions of bytes) they do it: make one with a terabyte (a trillion bytes).ADVERTISEMENTYes, you can now get a terabyte hard drive on a desktop PC. Breaking the ice with a Hitachi drive was Dell, with “Area 51” game-oriented machines from its Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1310424725598826432007-02-23T13:31:00.000-08:002007-02-23T13:33:19.758-08:002/23/07Flash drives are now assuming the same storage capacity as hard drives. Adtron introduces 160 GB Solid State Flash Disk. Just a month ago 32 GB was just announced.Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-44816591093291432522007-02-05T14:47:00.000-08:002007-02-05T14:49:30.339-08:002/5/07World's oldest newspaper goes digitalBy KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writer Mon Feb 5, 2:41 PM ETSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace.ADVERTISEMENT The newspaper, founded in 1645 Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1143313339251464302006-03-25T11:01:00.000-08:002006-03-25T11:02:19.263-08:00Post-it Notes The 3M Company encourages creativity from its employees. The company allows its researchers to spend 15 percent of their time on any project that interests them. This attitude has brought fantastic benefits not only to the employees but to the 3M Company itself Many times, a spark of an idea turned into a successful product has boosted 3M's profits tremendously. Some years ago, a Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1139931675859723932006-02-14T07:39:00.000-08:002006-03-25T11:03:51.393-08:00MAGNETIC MICROCHIPS - A Revolution New Microchips Shun Transistors The Game Graphics Chip RaceBy John Hudson | Also by this reporter02:00 AM Feb, 14, 2006For the first time researchers have created a working prototype of a radical new chip design based on magnetism instead of electrical transistors.As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law, a group of electrical engineers at Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1139506633976004292006-02-09T09:36:00.000-08:002006-02-09T09:37:13.996-08:00Quotes186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's the law. Tech Quote Sticker BumberLubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. Tech Quote LubarskyIf you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. Tech Quote Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1137277590393438622006-01-14T14:26:00.000-08:002006-01-14T14:26:30.406-08:00USERS:Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?Clifford Stoll-------------------Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1133225609324120722005-11-28T16:43:00.000-08:002005-11-28T16:53:29.336-08:00GREAT IDEAS ARE NOT ALWAYS RECOGNIZED:(some passing examples:)"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1133224966168021602005-11-28T16:29:00.000-08:002005-11-28T16:42:46.200-08:00WHO GETS THE CREDIT?"It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit" (anon.)---------------------Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1115932714020604592005-05-12T14:17:00.000-07:002005-05-12T14:18:34.026-07:00"Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge "a thing of the past".Bill Gates - Tuesday, 10 May, 2005, 22:50 GMT 23:50 UK How Microsoft plans to beat its rivals - By Tim WeberKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1113158881331843182005-04-10T11:47:00.000-07:002005-04-10T11:48:01.333-07:00One test is worth a thousand opinions....(NASA - Axiom)Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1113093164650832232005-04-09T17:05:00.000-07:002005-04-09T17:32:44.650-07:00Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developedHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?- Al Gore on Y2KWindows is just DOS in drag.- AnonymousWhen I took office, Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1113091367459448132005-04-09T16:45:00.000-07:002005-04-09T17:02:47.460-07:00The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969 It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.-- Clive James"The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."-Bill Gates, talking to Business Week, 1984Windows 3.1 is like the Mac in the same way that a Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1106876174883016292005-01-27T17:35:00.000-08:002005-01-27T17:36:14.883-08:00 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's 69th Law, The Odyssey File, 1984) User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." Author: Dave Barry To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1106874187686083032005-01-27T17:02:00.000-08:002005-01-27T17:03:07.686-08:00"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from Hades." "But what... is it good for ?" — An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968. "Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'." "Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1106873709603683462005-01-27T16:54:00.000-08:002005-01-27T16:55:09.603-08:00Never trust a computer you can't lift. - Steven Jobs (Apple Computer) Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097028459764532642004-10-05T18:49:00.000-07:002004-10-05T19:07:39.763-07:00 The Internet is the Viagra of big business. - Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be. - David Thornburg Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. - Anonymous Release early and release often. - Open source Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097027249480436392004-10-05T18:44:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:47:29.480-07:00 "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." -- Omar N. Bradley "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." -- Andrew Brown "The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing." -- Douglas Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026988489732812004-10-05T18:36:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:43:08.490-07:00 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. (B. F. Skinner) The global village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane. It’s created by instant electronic information movement. (Marshall Mcluhan) That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. (Larry Niven) On the Internet, nobody knows you're aKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026545467087302004-10-05T18:35:00.001-07:002004-10-05T18:35:45.466-07:00It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute. (Marvin Minsky) Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026512030755212004-10-05T18:35:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:35:12.030-07:00If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning -- and the response would be, "We're sorry, here's a coupon for two more". (Mark Minasi)Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026443035030422004-10-05T18:33:00.001-07:002004-10-05T18:34:03.036-07:00How would a car function if it were designed like a computer? Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine, and the airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off. (Katie Hafner)Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026403356165322004-10-05T18:33:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:33:23.356-07:00All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. (1925 IBM Maintenence Manual)Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097026319981638292004-10-05T18:31:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:31:59.980-07:00So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work f or you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025760103564872004-10-05T18:22:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:22:40.103-07:00Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. Author: M. G. SiriamKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025635194822992004-10-05T18:20:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:20:35.196-07:00Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. Linus TorvaldsKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025552145280892004-10-05T18:19:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:19:12.146-07:00We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. Robert WilenskyKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025367288713992004-10-05T18:15:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:16:07.286-07:00It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive JamesKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025184618641632004-10-05T18:12:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:13:04.616-07:00You are what you browse....Kent Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1097025085334166132004-10-05T18:10:00.000-07:002004-10-05T18:11:25.333-07:00Bill Gates is a very rich man today .. and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. Dave BarryKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1094176695506881662004-09-02T18:51:00.000-07:002004-09-02T18:58:15.506-07:00 The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tannenbaum Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? - T.S. Elliot The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that manyKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1085971258598722942004-05-30T19:38:00.000-07:002004-05-30T19:40:58.596-07:00Technology Trends... In 2001 IBM was granted 3,411 patents in the United States, more than any other company for the ninth year in a row. IBM’s patent portfolio- more than 37, 000 in force worldwide - generated $1.5 billion in licensing royalties in 2001. In 1991 the US Patent and Tradesmark Office issued 106,482 patents. In 2001 they issued 185,057 patents. (Source Patent Office) The expense Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1081731126095401612004-04-11T17:52:00.000-07:002004-04-11T17:54:54.046-07:00A Spec of Paint.... Over 10,000 people took 8 years to create the Hubble telescope. The Hubble once launched immediately was recognized as a "failure" - being unable to take a clear picture. After investigation it was discovered that the original instrument used to measure the mirror's proper surface was flawed. It seems that a single spec of paint on a mirror surface testing sensor has a small Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1075418558880277942004-01-29T15:22:00.000-08:002004-01-29T15:24:14.060-08:00Had a great workshop - great librarians!!!!Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1068429748685728122003-11-09T17:58:00.001-08:002003-11-09T18:02:26.630-08:00eMarketer Forecasts Over 160 million US Internet Users in 2003 New North America Online Report Says Baby Boomers, Teens, Minorities, Women Key to Internet's Future Growth New York, NY / 12 February 2003 - Internet growth may be leveling off, but certain demographics such as teens and baby boomers, as well as the continued adoption of broadband, reinforce the online medium's Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1068429543350754702003-11-09T17:58:00.000-08:002003-11-09T17:59:00.523-08:00STAMFORD, Conn. (April 22, 2003) - META Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: METG) today announced findings showing that 80% of businesspeople surveyed believe e-mail to be more valuable than the phone for business communication. The startling findings are the result of a recent META Group survey designed to identify the preferred method of business communication. Findings also revealed that 74% of respondents Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1068428370716193742003-11-09T17:34:00.001-08:002003-11-09T17:39:28.163-08:00The internet sent more than 4.7 trillion e-mail messages this week. (Leo LaPorte) - Tech TV - November 2, 2003 Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1068428226086596552003-11-09T17:34:00.000-08:002003-11-09T17:37:03.556-08:00This week the music industry sold for the first time more music on-line than as CDs. (Leo LaPorte - Tech TV) - (November 2-9, 2003) Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1066234286500806502003-10-15T09:10:00.000-07:002003-10-15T09:11:26.570-07:00Welcome to the "What's Going On in Parkway Technology Workshop." May The Force Be With You! Kent & DaleKent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1063674483619345482003-09-15T18:08:00.000-07:002003-09-15T18:15:57.606-07:00The average wired adult will spend 5.3 percent of the rest of his or her life online, according to research firm Cyber Dialogue, based on an extensive survey of Internet users. The study's results showed that the average adult online today will spend a total of 23.5 months of his or her life online. That’s 17,500 hours. (CodeKit.com) Internet access in the country of Burma is restricted by Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1060461428204518602003-08-09T13:37:00.000-07:002003-08-09T13:37:08.133-07:00At the end of the Second World War the average American needed only a fourth grade education to be in the 50th percentile in salary. In the 1990’s, a twelfth grade education is necessary to reach the same level. Today, a college graduate earns more than twice as much as someone iwth less that 12 years of education. We now suffer from the greatest gap between high and low income earners in the Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1060461214315108442003-08-09T13:33:00.000-07:002003-08-09T13:33:34.256-07:00“Technology is part of a child’s world - they have disregard for those who won’t or don’t use it.” ~ Missouri Department Of Technology - Susan Cole ------------------------ “Predicting the future is easy....getting it right is hard” - Authur Miller ------------------------ “Children are native to the digital age and adults are immigrants. Students grow up digitally and as a result they learn Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1060460727790637962003-08-09T13:25:00.000-07:002003-08-09T13:25:27.760-07:00Favorite Quotations regarding Technology K.Forrest ------------------------ Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. ~ John Tudor ------------------------ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ Pablo Picasso ------------------------ Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are. ------------------------ Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5655965.post-1060269670799186702003-08-07T08:21:00.000-07:002003-08-07T08:21:10.850-07:00"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory." ~Mahatma Gandhi From: Bruce Frank Subject: THE ZEN OF COMPUTERS Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:12:39 -0500 THE ZEN OF COMPUTERS, THE ART OF ERROR-- In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem Kent Forrestnoreply@blogger.com