The first open mobile solution is out and available for purchase (developer preview).
Neo Base US$300
The Neo Base kit contains everything the mobile application developer needs to enjoy the benefits of the first freed phone, the Neo 1973.Neo Advanced US$450
The Neo Advanced Kit everything the mobile device hacker wants to get down and dirty with the first freed phone, the Neo 1973.
/happy-dance
I was recently talking to someone about the first computer I owned: an Amstrad CPC 464 (@wikipedia). Attached is a nice flickr photo of the beast in all of its 64kb-RAM-and-tape-recorder glory.
Good times; good times indeed. I was 12 (1987) and saved my money for around two years to get one. It was my first major purchase on my own. The first computer I used was a Thomson TO 7, and its lovable turtles, at school.
Oh, how I wish I was back in Vancouver, where people actually celebrate our country, instead of disguising the day as the province’s official moving day…
Something rather peculiar puzzled me today… I went on to purchase the latest Nine Inch Nails album, eager for a fresh batch of their trademark sound. If you haven’t heard about Year Zero yet, they had a killer marketing campaign associated with it that anyone interested in the viral trend should check out.
When the download was complete, I promptly went the the Recently Added smart playlist in iTunes, and there were the two last album I purchased from the iTMS: Year Zero, by NiN and The Best Damn Thing, by Avril Lavigne. Before you scold me for the latter, I bought it last month on my wife and kids’ request… Everybody should know the artwork is all I wanted. ;)
What I found peculiar about this view was the rating on the tunes. Every single Avril Lavigne track was labeled as explicit, while none of the NiN ones were flanked by the telling red icon.
Had I purchased the radio-edit version?!? Argh… But no. After listening to the whole album, it just does not contain anything deemed offensive by the music rating authorities.
Really, what has the world come to when the music marketed to my kids gets such a rating and an album many puritan bodies would surely like rated 18+ is squeaky clean?!?
Personally, I think it’s a giant yet brilliantly subtle [explicit] to the rating bodies. Kudos Trent and co. You did it again.
On July 24th 1967, French president Charles de Gaulle delivered a speech in Montreal in which he declared 4 simple yet revolutionary words, echoing the Quebec separatist slogan: Vive le Québec Libre.
After reading about the said speech for years, I finally found the video on the Web in its entirety today. Regardless of one’s (or even my) opinion on the subject, this is a historical moment by all measures.
The CBC Archives also has a newsreel for this day, highlighting the controversy this created in the rest of Canada.
