MetaFilter posts tagged with cringely

Technology and Education

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:53:27 -0800

Three columns on technology and eduction by Robert Cringely: the clash between those who grew up with computers and those who didn't in War of the Worlds, Amish Paradise looks for learning models in unexpected places and Ozzy knows best talks about how important digital games, not video games, could be to education. If you're curious, Cringely is pseudonym

"The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way."

amyms — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:35:56 -0800

Triumph of the Nerds is a 1996 three-part documentary recounting the rise of the personal computer, including interviews with Gates, Wozniak and Jobs, among others. It was originally produced for British television, and aired on PBS in the USA. Part One: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Part Two: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Part Three: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Transcripts here. After you watch, you can play the "Guess the Computer" game.

Local-online-applications-API

acro — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:58:59 -0800

'Google Gears' is program interface for AJAX application developers. * A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server * A database, to store and access data from within the browser * A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

NerdTV

NotMyselfRightNow — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:27:30 -0800

NerdTV. “Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available – exclusively over the Internet [and under a Creative Commons License] – broadcast television’s first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely’s interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology.” [Via]

Let's try this again

delmoi — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:07:34 -0800

Robert X cringely's tech predictions for 2005 Discuss.

What do you know about CALEA?

TedW — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:27:49 -0800

Bob Cringely thinks the government's information gathering capability is a disaster waiting to happen. Does our government have too much faith in computers as a solution to our problems? Just as electronic voting is looked at skeptically by the computer-savvy among us, so should the use of computers to gather information.