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With the iPad just days away, I just read and interesting post over at engadget. It looks like the Apple/Google break may be closer then we think. If you haven’t been following Apple’s mobile platform you might have missed the lack of flash on the iPhone and the upcoming iPad. I believe in part flash is a pig of a plugin and Apple is in the business of selling content on a closed platform. Google on the other hand is an open platform selling an experience and a different gateway to the web. Google has announced that it will build in the Flash platform as a component of its Chrome OS. There are a lot of similarities between the two companies. They are both innovators and have built their market share by making the best product.
The conflict that will divide the two will be the overlap into the same sectors of technology. As Google has branched out into the hardware sector it has begun stepping on Apple’s toes. Apple has been an end-to-end company from its inception, building the hardware and writing the software to run on it. Google has always been up in the cloud. Providing a service via software running on off the shelf hardware. Now that Google has stepped out of the box it will get more interesting as more components of there hardware platform emerge. Lets hope this won’t turn into another Apple/Microsoft implosion.
Haven’t posted in a while figured I should rock the blog… Hopefully I’ll get off my ass and post something worth while 
I think I am going to hold out until the first or second revision of the device. I’d like to see where they end up taking the hardware.
Societies come and go over time and with them their history and people. Ancient societies recorded their history in rock preserving the language and leaving a glimpse into their story for a millennia. With the advent of paper and printing press books became the standard lasting for centuries. With the advent of the digital age we have become dependent on magnetic and flash based media to contain ours hopefully lasting a decade.
Perhaps the most crucial loss will occur after half a century or so, as any surviving engineers, scientists and doctors start to succumb to old age. Their skills and know-how would make a huge difference when it comes to finding important information and getting key machinery working again. The NASA tape drives, for instance, were restored with the help of a retired engineer who had worked on similar systems. Without expert help like this, retrieving data from the tapes would have taken a lot longer, Cowing says.
A century or so after a major catastrophe, little of the digital age will remain beyond what’s written on paper. “Even the worst kind of paper can last more than 100 years,” says Season Tse, who works on paper conservation at the Canadian Conservation Institute. The oldest surviving “book” printed on paper dates from AD 868, he says. It was found in a cave in north-west China in 1907.
It will be interesting to see what types of initiatives will be taken to preserve our societies history, into the uncertain future…
[Via NewScientist]
Sony’s new laptops might be a touch to colorful. I mean look at that thing, it has to be the ugliest combination of colors I’ve ever seen…
[Via Engadget]
Finally Titanic taken down a notch. I had hope for Return of the King, but it looks like Avatar has done it.
The original Titanic sank in 1912. Now the blockbuster movie it inspired has also gone down.
This time, though, it was not an iceberg that toppled it, but a 3D film about a blue-skinned alien race defending their planet against human invaders.
Towards the end of the last decade, James Cameron’s epic Titanic became the most successful movie ever with global takings of $1.843bn (£1.14bn).
But that record no longer stands thanks to Avatar – also directed by Cameron – which this week stole its crown as the all-time global box office champ, with receipts of $1.859bn (£1.15bn).
It is an astonishing achievement for the 55-year-old Canadian, and one that is unlikely to be repeated in his or our lifetimes.
[Via BBC News]
After seeing Avatar and its excellent digital characters it really makes me wonder do we really need actors that are payed millions pre movie. It looks like they have the visual part of the technology very refined. Now they just need to add the back end. I mean really it’s a script that could be read by a computer, develop some emotion/inflection component and let the animators run wild.
