April 30th, 2010 |
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Business, Language, Quotes
In Chinese, Kentucky Fried Chicken’s slogan, “finger-lickin’ good,” came out as “eat your fingers off.”
Ford executives spent a long time scratching their heads trying to figure out why the Pinto was a complete flop in Brazil. Then someone told them that pinto was Brazilian slang for “tiny male genitals.”
And the folks at Gerber didn’t know that because of high illiteracy rates in some African countries, pictures on the outside of packages are always representative of what’s inside. No surprise, then, that customers were more than a little repelled by that cute baby on the baby food labels.
—Mark Breier, The 10-Second Internet Manager, p. 118
April 28th, 2010 |
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Making sure that every issue has an “owner” is an essential part of being an effective internet manager. So as you go through each item on your agenda, make sure the first issue you deal with is “Who owns this?” If a particular issue has an owner (and that’s the case most of the time), he or she is the one who handles it. If an issue is homeless, spend a minute or two figuring out who it should be, or simply appoint someone.
Getting the ownership issue out of the way early will help your meetings—and possibly your entire company—run more smoothly. Instead of wasting a lot of time on endless discussions you’ll be able to turn a particular issue over to one person who will then coordinate what to do with it.
—Mark Breier, The 10-Second Internet Manager, p. 84
April 26th, 2010 |
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Business, Quotes
If there’s a hell, it’s probably an infinite number of two-hour meetings, one right after the other.
—Mark Breier, The 10-Second Internet Manager, p. 84
April 14th, 2010 |
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Science, Videos
April 8th, 2010 |
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Technology
The whole thing feels fast fast fast. The only thing that feels slow overall, so far, is web page rendering. Not because it’s slower than the iPhone — it’s not, it’s definitely much faster — but because it’s so much slower than my MacBook Pro. It’s easy to forget on modern PC-class hardware just how computationally expensive HTML rendering is.
The funny thing is, the iPad, in raw CPU terms, is a far slower machine than a modern Mac. But the iPad is running a lightweight OS and lightweight apps….
The iPad, so far, never gets warm. Browse a bunch of web sites. Play some video. Play a game. It still feels as cool to the touch as when it’s turned off. It is also dead quiet — no fan, no humming, nada. This is the future of computing….
The iPad is also eminently affordable. $500 for this thing seems hard to believe. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it at double the price.
—John Gruber, The iPad