The Insomniac Coder

Yes, it misses the mark, but it is still going to make Apple boatloads of cash, and this is without even trying hard at it. I currently own two of the first generation AppleTVs, and both have been sitting idle for months. Why? We kept losing the remotes, that's $29 each and Apple did not allow an easy way to program any remote to use the AppleTV until we were fedup about it. Aaccording to my other blog, we had the two AppleTVs since February 2008, and the "new" feature to program remotes did not arrive until the 2.3 upgrade in October 2008. We probably bought four of those remotes in that period of time. Re-coding content sucks. Even with a hardware encoder dongle, which only worked in the Mac, it still meant that using the AppleTV involved a time tax for the conversion. The "hacks" available to add functionality to the AppleTV were not very consistent, so I always ended up resetting them to the official firmware. This is not Apple's fault, and sure as h...

I am at a loss for words:   I majored in Mechanical Engineering , which means I took as much advanced math as it was humanly possible without switching my major to Math Nerd. It was a lot of math, and about 99% of it was pretty damn painful, it all hinged on who was teaching the class and having the wrong professor meant a high C at the best (I was VERY lucky, I got some incredible professors too, but there were also a few that were, well, not good). Now ANYONE can have access to all of this knowledge for free, they are posted on Youtube ! These are so good that Bill Gates gave them a shout out, both him and his 11-year old son have been using these for homework. The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) and they have produced over 1600 high quality educational videos on Math, Science, Economics and other stuff. Anyone can watch these videos, and they are structured so they can be used as part of a proper curriculum , not just for informal learning . Related articl...