Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC
The Apple iPad is a radical, game-changing device.
When people complain that the iPad doesn’t have multitasking, a camera, a full-fledged desktop OS, or an exposed filesystem, they’re missing the point. They’re forgetting what came before: a slew of tablets from the likes of HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Asus, Toshiba and others. What do all of these existing tablets have?
Today I was interviewed by Zynga, the social gaming company. Some of the details of the interviews are covered by an NDA, so to be safe I’ll just talk about my feelings at a high level. To keep people’s identities under wraps, I’ll refer to them using the first one or two letters of their names (for my own memory’s sake).
I met so many interesting people today that I’m not even sure where to begin.
There are the four panelists, plus a few other folks I met as well.
The iPhone 3GS wasn’t Apple’s first “GS” computer. Back in 1986, Apple released the Apple IIGS, where the GS stood for Graphics and Sound.
Answer: our own government’s foreign policy of military interventionism.
This question — what motivates terrorists? — is the key question that we must understand in order to reduce and, ideally, eliminate terrorism.
It can be done. My first iPhone app, Brain Tuner, took about a week.
8 developers, 2 designers, and 1 team lead created a social networking, event planning app called Wikimeety, in just 7 days. Here’s the marketing blurb they sent me:
Even though my blog has been installed for many years, today I was treated to the “Welcome to WordPress” installation page, asking me to enter a Blog Title and my E-mail address.
A little over a year ago, I posted the lyrics to The Christmas Song by Owl City. Two days ago, thomas replied to that post with a comment, prompting me to take a second look at it. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a rare physical disorder called Patulous Eustachian tube, and I think I have it.
I sometimes hear my own breathing in right ear– very loudly– along with my voice, when I speak.
Safari was storing an old password for my Gmail account, so it kept pre-filling an incorrect value.
It didn’t let me delete the obsolete entry, though. I tried clicking “Remove”. Nothing happens. “Remove All”. Still nothing.
