July 2009
3 posts
Because it's next
[Edit 2009-July-20, 19:53GMT Added source for number of taxpayers in the United States]
“Why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?” asked President Kennedy during a speech at Rice University in 1962. The answer he gave then still rings true:
“We choose to go to the moon…and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard., because...
The NYTimes blogs discuss how Microsoft and Bill Gates have put seven Feynman lectures online. The actual site, Project Tuva, runs on Silverlight. But that’s Microsoft for you.
Apple's WWDC vs. Microsofts' PDC
I’m still getting new post-WWDC Apple development podcasts.
They’re mostly “There was this really cool thing that I can’t talk about! And there was another cool thing I wish I could tell you! And they’re going to blow you away with this thing that is under NDA.”
Contrast this with Microsoft’s PDC. Almost immediately after the conference was over,...