USA Today: Hawaii zip line deaths raise concerns in unregulated industry
Yeah, that thing can potentially kill you. (I just broke my ankle.) But I don't know how some regulations can safeguard those. Dangerous sports are dangerous. And that's the reason we do them. And it's fun. I've been lucky so far. But I'm guessing my death will be a painful one, or maybe it will happen in an instant. I prefer the latter. I hope the one died in the accident had the latter too. RIP.
10 Things Apple Could Change Now That Steve is Gone [Mac|Life]
I disagree some of those. No budget Mac. I agree there will be some price drop. But the thing is because of tablets and smartphones a lot of people will no longer need "full-fledged" computers like PC and Mac. Those will remain only at work places to create something or for people creates something at home. So, what you will have is either mobile devices only or mobile devices + computers.
And no BluRay and no Flash. This could be just me, but you don't have to watch anything if something only available in those formats. There are way too many things available out there paid or free. If you desperately want to watch BluRay, get a player and a TV. If you want to watch Flash, do it in a PC/Mac. One device shouldn't be able to do too many things.
HP kills tablets, confirms PC spin-off plans [Computerworld] -- Ha! I knew you would do that, HP! It is not the first time. You raped and murdered iPAQ. And now webOS. You are like a sexual serial killer. Did you enjoy that? You must have. You were on probation on my list. I was hoping you would redeem yourself. And you miserably failed in the second chance. As I promised, I will never, ever buy your products. And it doesn't hurt at all, because your iPAQ was the only thing I have ever purchased. And I don't need a PC either. Ah! You are dumping PC too!
[electronista] -- It's a shame, but I knew this day was coming. I used to be a long time MS Reader/LIT user with my Pocket PC's. Since I started using it ten years ago, I have only bought a few books (except text/reference books.) It is not an exaggeration that it started my dropping physical media. I now do not buy not only books but also newspaper, CD, DVD and Blu-ray. I just don't buy any material if it's not available in an electronic format.
Years have gone by and I now use an iPhone. Before my transition from Pocket PC to iPhone, I made it sure that anything I was doing in Pocket PC could be done in iPhone. MS Reader was taken over by Stanza, and then iBooks. I have had no reason to go back to Pocket PC.
Again, it's a shame that yet another Microsoft's half-hearted effort is killing their great product. Those might have just been produced too early for a mass to accept. But that's the problem of Microsoft. They may be innovative, but cannot feel the air in the public. They may have had an acceptable OS at a time by luck, but do not know how to sustain it by leaving it. They had a key to solve the current issue of theirs right in Pocket PC and Windows CE ten years ago. But it has been lost forever.
A defense of charging more for Web TV (Q&A) [CNet] -- I don't really care, when I all want is news and NFL games. I don't have cable, satellite, or even OTA. I cannot just justify the price only to get those two program groups. When I still had the cable, I only watched news about 30 min on weekdays and an NFL games or two in a typical week. But NFL's only about for 5 months in a year. In the rest of the time, I only watched news. I wouldn't pay $70+/month for that. I really miss all the Colts games, but being out of the state of Indiana I couldn't watch all of them in the first place. I hope someone would come up with an Internet service having a news package for $10/mon + a Colts package for $20/mon = $30/mon. I would gladly subscribe on that. Till then, I watch NBC podcasts and listen to Colts radio network on the Internet. Thank you very much.
I rode Highland for the first time. I've been hearing scary stuff about this trail, and put it off for a long time. But the riding last week at Pontiac Lake warmed me up a bit and my friend gave me an advice and I decided to try it out. The advice of my friend's was "Ride A first, get the idea and ride the A again." So, that's what I did this evening. The first lap was the scariest ride next to Brighton's Torn Shirt. I was too cautious as usual as I am on a new trail, and lost momentum at the beginning of every hill climb. It wasn't fun. And then, I went for another lap. The trail looked much friendlier this time. I rode faster going down the hills and I could complete most of the climbs. At some point I started feeling comfortable, but it was a little bit far from enjoying it. At least I know now that "Highland is a mountain biker's trail" is true. I decided to go there often, so that I can start enjoying the ride. It starts tomorrow.
