Disqus - Latest Comments for D Steele

Re: Mac vs. Windows: Does it even matter?

antje wilsch — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:12:38 -0000

You must be a developer :) I can't even remember which VMware environment I'm in half the time.

OS is not important to most end users except for how the browser behaves. I still prefer aethetically the way that most sites look in IE7 over Opera, Safari and FF (even FF3 - not that impressed), but FF is more stable so I switch between them constantly, and they behave differently depending on which system I'm on.

Re: Mac vs. Windows: Does it even matter?

D Steele — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:29:33 -0000

Apart from the fact that all the OS's have converged tremendously in the last few years, the most important development for me is virtualization. I make my living programming MS Office; my current main development machine is a Macbook running VMWare Fusion - I can use different virtual machines: Windows XP with Office 2003, Win XP with Office 2007 and SQL Server Express, Win 2003 with VS 2008 etc. etc.

Re: Don’t worry, media: Old people love you

mathewi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:33:07 -0000

Good for you, D. Me too :-)

Re: Don’t worry, media: Old people love you

D Steele — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:10:04 -0000

I strongly believe that any business who thinks that they are going to cruise to riches with traditional 'old folks' advertising to the ageing baby boomers is doomed. I was born in 1946, so I'm on the leading edge. What products have I looked at recently? The new VW crossover SUV; light weight tents; computer programming books at Amazon; memory upgrades for my new Macbook. What, no incontinence products? Sorry. I just turn off completely when I see 'Senior', 'Elder', etc etc in any advertising.

Re: More reasons to love the British

D Steele — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:01:43 -0000

Newcastle? You should have asked for the Kohlkeller.

Re: Blogs and the settling of the Wild West

mathewi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:49:02 -0000

Thanks, D. -- are you going to lead the financing round? :-)

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Re: Blogs and the settling of the Wild West

D Steele — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:58:51 -0000

Hey, Mathew, if Silicon Alley Insider can raise $3 million, so can you. Go for it! You're worth every penny...

Re: Video interlude: Big Dog robot

D Steele — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:45:57 -0000

Wow. Four legs good, two legs bad?

Re: Yahoo and AOL: Desperation squared

mathewi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:33:01 -0000

I think you're right. I'm expecting articles any day now about how
Yahoo is going to merge with Cisco or Amazon -- or maybe Wal-Mart.

Re: Yahoo and AOL: Desperation squared

D Steele — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:29:25 -0000

I think the Times post about Yahoo/AOL links nicely to your previous 'media at hyperspeed' article. It's been over two days now, and all the reasonable opinions about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal have been beaten to death. I'm looking forward to a sensational article about a Baidu.com/Yahoo merger. After all, Lenovo took over IBM's struggling PC business...

Re: Scoble says he’s biased — does it matter?

D Steele — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:50:58 -0000

Pretty soon the only people who don't 'question the substance' of any blogs are going to be the same people who double click on attachments in emails from strangers. Keep your job in the MSM, Mathew.