9mm Self Contained Solar Power System
From the University of Michigan
“Millimeter-Scale Nearly Perpetual Sensor System with Stacked Battery and Solar Cells.”
Also known as ‘friken tiny solar powered battery charger that can be used to make small robots that will take over the world’…or medical robots/implants, sensors, monitoring systems or any number of sci-fi-ish tech. Freaky and amazing.
Microsoft spends more than 9 billion on R&D
From ComputerWorldUK
Saying things like “We’re going to change and reinvent our company around leading in the cloud” and spending $9 billion on R&D doesn’t mean anything if you don’t actually *have* a product.
Steve Jobs said it best:
“You know, our friends up north spend over $5 billion a year on R&D and yet these days all they seem to do is try to copy Google and Apple. I guess it’s a good example of how money isn’t everything.” - WWDC 2006
Windows Phone 7 doesn’t count (yet), and I can’t help thinking that it’s too late to be relevant. Consider that by the time it should be released:
- iPad will have been out for about 9 months.
- The fourth version of the iPhone will have been out for about 6 months.
4 years and 9 months behind the bleeding edge, good luck with that.
Tip: Move windows between Spaces with the keyboard
I’ve been using OS X for a few years now, it still amazes me that there is so many little things like this that make it awesome to use.
You can also use this method to move the window directly to a numbered space — just select the window, then press Control-1, -2, -3, etc. This is my preferred method of moving a window to a space, as it seems by far the quickest.
If using the mouse is more your thing, you can drag a window to the screen edge and wait a brief moment, the window will jump to the next Space.
Simple time savers I’ll curse not having every day I have to use Windows.
Happy 55th Birthday El Jobso!
Cult Of Mac is celebrating Steve Jobs 55th Birthday. They’ve posted the full transcript and video of Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University’s graduating class.
It’s a must watch if you…draw breath. The first time I read this I had a ‘light bulb moment’ that changed me permanently.
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
That’d be because they are idiots.
“In addition, revenue from iTunes is said to have been “marginal” for producers and distributors.”
Baloney. Make *everything* available, price it reasonably and people will fall over themselves to hand you money. Marginal commitment = Marginal return.
