I do like a well-turned simile*
Jun. 25th, 2007 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenNever mind the tired old "operating systems as airlines" one. Been done to death. I like this one:
Roughly Drafted "magazine" is a sort of one-man tech comment site. Dan Eran Dilger is sometimes infuriating, sometimes absolutely bang on the nail as I see it, but usually stimulating to read. I hate the site layout - it's all autogenerated by iWeb, I think, URLs and all, and it's a mess and doesn't zoom well or display nicely on Firefox. But one can cope.
* Even if it is a snowclone...
It will be interesting to see how things turn out; mobiles in 2007 are looking a lot like computers in 1984:(From RDM here.)
• Palm OS is the new CP/M, a bit past its prime as a holdover from the last decade.
• Windows Mobile is the new DOS, struggling to clone and conquer yesterday's standard.
• Apple's OS X is the new Mac, an intelligent rethinking of how things should work.
• Linux is the new Amiga, a tinker fantasy that will ultimately go nowhere until it finds a driver.
• Symbian is the new Unix: the commercial standard currently powering the majority of mobiles.
Roughly Drafted "magazine" is a sort of one-man tech comment site. Dan Eran Dilger is sometimes infuriating, sometimes absolutely bang on the nail as I see it, but usually stimulating to read. I hate the site layout - it's all autogenerated by iWeb, I think, URLs and all, and it's a mess and doesn't zoom well or display nicely on Firefox. But one can cope.
* Even if it is a snowclone...
