October 2009


It seems like I have a minor loss of fidelity every time I use a Windows application; it makes me feel dirty.

via email from Todd Bosch, Oct 21, 2009 15:17

Real love pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without demanding any return.

Florence Scovel Shinn

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

The lust of power is not rooted in strength, but in weakness.

Erich Fromm

On 28 October 2008, Robin Harris at ZDNet wrote:

Blu-ray is in a death spiral.  12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.

With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope.  Even $150 Blu-ray players won‚Äôt save it.

16 months ago I called the HD war for Blu-ray.  My bad.  Who dreamed they could both lose?

In Blu-ray is dead – heckuva job, Sony!.  It’s now a year later… where are we?  Is there any HD DVD format left?

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

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