Phasor Burn

This is the way that system software should be architected. Each successive release of OS X has gotten lighter and more efficient. It hasn’t introduced bloat that forces users to upgrade their systems. Quite the opposite: It’s gotten leaner while getting more powerful.

It’s not clear that Microsoft will ever feel compelled to work the same way. It’s got too much riding on it now that the entire PC ecosystem seems to be counting on Windows 7 to drive new a new crop of PC sales.

That’s a pity for the consumer, who shouldn’t be required to shell out for new hardware just to run the newest system software. It’s all the more troubling when the new system software is released chiefly to fix problems with previous system software (think back to Vista’s marketing as being a more secure replacement for Windows XP; now consider Windows 7’s positioning as a faster, less cumbersome Vista. See a pattern here?)

Apples Snow Leopard puts the industry to shame

Everything just works (mostly) and os updates are not forcing hardware updates in the majority of cases. Yes, there are a few edge cases and a bit of bugs in the system here and there but nothing, nothing NOTHING like the M$FT crap.

First place I have worked at in quite some time that has had some relatively serious internet bandwidth requirements.

Those square shaped posts in the troughs of the bell curves are some off-peak file transfers coming in to us. (Data from a customer that we provide some folding, spindling, mutilating, chopping, dicing, and graphical display of in the end. Directly related to the bell curve immediately prior, logs about traffic from their side of the equation. )

Greaseball: 1943 — via Shorpy

Evening Lighthouse, originally uploaded by bonedad.

‘Evening Sherrif’

’shaddup’