内部 E メールから見えてくるアンドロイド戦略

［グーグルを訴えた Ted Morgan］

Skyhook Wireless v. Google Case Yields E-Mail Insight | NYTimes.com

A stack of internal e-mail messages from Google, which a Massachusetts state court made public last week, provide a glimpse into the competitive tactics and decision-making inside a business that is crucial to the company’s growth — its Android software for smartphones. […]

Android phones must adhere to a “compatibility” standard determined by Google. In an e-mail on Aug. 6, 2010, Dan Morrill, a manager in the Android group, noted in passing that it was obvious to the phone makers that “we are using compatibility as a club to make them do things we want.”

How Google controls Android: digging deep into the Skyhook filings | This is my next…

かつてのスパコン並みの iPad

The iPad in Your Hand: As Fast as a Supercomputer of Yore | NYTimes.com
〈久しぶりの John Markoff〉

新人教育のために最新のビルを建てるグーグル

Google to build its own office space | San Jose Mercury News

The company will spend top-dollar to accommodate all those “Nooglers,” as the company calls its new recruits. Google (GOOG) is planning a cutting-edge environmentally friendly design and has agreed to pay the city of Mountain View $30 million to lease 9.4 acres near Shoreline Boulevard, one of the highest prices ever for land in that section of the city.

アメリカを変えたオサマビンラディン

How Osama Bin Laden Changed America | The New Yorker

Bin Laden, as medieval ideologist and global terrorist, had a record of accomplishment that was as vast as it was hideous. He did more to slash the fabric of American life than anyone since the Second World War. His capacity to arouse the fevered imaginations of young fundamentalists led to the murder of thousands of men, women, and children—among them Muslim men, women, and children—in Aden, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Washington, New York, Shanksville, Bali, Madrid, London, Baghdad, Kabul, and Marrakech. He provoked wars. He forced the rise of expensive structures of security and surveillance. He incited a national politics of paranoia and retribution. He did as much as the economic rise of China and India has done to undermine America’s short-lived post-Cold War status as a singular, self-confident, seemingly omnipotent superpower. Bin Laden signed his last will and testament on December 14, 2001, while hiding in the caves of Tora Bora, instructing his children not to work for Al Qaeda: “If it is good, then we have had our share; if it is bad, then it is enough.” Despite all efforts to capture or assassinate him, he survived for a decade, eventually finding greater comfort in a Pakistani hill station.

くたばれ、テク系メディア

［Michael Arrington］

The Tech Press: Screw Them All | TechCrunch

くたばれ、テク系メディア | TechCrunch Japan

Michael Arrington on Tech Press: ‘Screw Them All’ | The Atlantic Wire

Journalist or not? Wrong question | Scripting News

製品サイクルはハードよりソフトを主に考える：アップル

Apple execs focused on software-driven iPhone product cycle, says analyst | AppleInsider

Fresh off a meeting with senior executives at Apple, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said the company sees product cycles as being driven by software rather than hardware and is expected to announce major software updates at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

After meeting with Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, Senior Vice President of Retail Ron Johnson and Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue, Huberty issued a note to clients reiterating her Overweight rating for the company and downplaying concerns about the company’s margins and the possibility of iPhone saturation.

中国でも iPad 2 に行列

iPad 2 launch in China | Flickr

The iPad 2 Launch Madness in China | M.I.C. Gadget

Apple’s iPad 2 launch in China draws crowds, scalpers | AppleInsider

三里屯 Apple Store 玻璃碎 营业停 有真人街霸(未证实) | MacX.cn

Bloody Incident Happened in Beijing Apple Store (video!) | M.I.C. Gadget

Violence Shatters Apple Store Queue in China | The Mac Observer

ビンラディン襲撃に使われたステルスヘリコプター

［ステルス Black Hawk］

Osama Bin Laden Dead: SEALs’ Stealth Helicopter [Video] | ABC News

［ミステリーヘリコプターの残骸］

Mission helo was secret stealth Black Hawk | Navy Times

［同じステルスヘリの RAH-66 Comanche］

Stealth Helos Used In Osama Raid | Aviation Week

Bin Laden Raid May Have Exposed Stealth Helo | Aviation Week

A Stealthier Helicopter for the Bin Laden Raid | NYTimes.com

新 iMac のバラシの難易度は 7/10：iFixit

［吸着盤を使って開ける］

iMac Intel 21.5″ EMC 2428 Teardown | iFixit

iMac 21.5″ EMC 2428 Repairability Score: 7 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)

- The front glass panel and LCD are quite easy to remove for accessing all the hardware underneath.

- RAM, hard drive, and optical drive can be replaced with relative ease, as long as you don’t mind taking out the LCD (for the drives).

- Limited use of adhesives (pretty much all the fasteners are mechanical) make disassembly pretty straightforward.

- Replacing the CPU and GPU is possible to do, but you need to remove the logic board from the computer.

- Removing the logic board is a pain, since you have to disconnect a bunch of connectors, and wiggle it out of the machine.

- Making the LCD and glass spotless when reassembling the machine is nearly impossible.

最後のブログエントリー

［Derek K. Miller］

The last post | Penmachine – Derek K. Miller

Here it is. I’m dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote—the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive.

If you knew me at all in real life, you probably heard the news already from another source, but however you found out, consider this a confirmation: I was born on June 30, 1969 in Vancouver, Canada, and I died in Burnaby on May 3, 2011, age 41, of complications from stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. We all knew this was coming.

A Writer’s Astounding Self-Obituary | Gawker.com