Jeff Hawkins NPR Interview

I saw a link today to a NPR interview with Jeff Hawkins [wikipedia], creator of the Palm Pilot, Treo and currently the Executive Director and Chairman of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. His book On Intelligence was the most amazing book I read in 2004. His theory of what makes Intelligence happen in meat-space is very…

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Linus Torvalds uses PowerPC not Intel for Linux

From Slashdot, who got it from ZDNet Australia: “As to the why … Part of it is simply that I wanted to try something else, and I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn’t need me. Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main…

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Treo 650: My Buttons Broke

So Sprint has a big problem with replacement phones… namely, their replacement service sucks. You can spend $450 on a brand new Treo 650 and if it breaks the next day, you get a replacement Refurbed phone… not a new one. Not to mention that you wait about 2 days (unless you are willing to…

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