According to sources unfamiliar with anti-matter, Mac OS X Lion has reached the Golden Master state. Public release will follow roughly in the next two weeks. Mac OS X Lion will be distributed through Mac App Store.
Futurama – Ghost In The Machines
From Comedy Central:
Ghost in the Machines (619)
When Bender dies, his disembodied software begins haunting the Planet Express building.
In “Lethal Inspection” it was revealed that Bender does not have a backup unit. In “Ghost In The Machines” Bender dies and turns into a ghost, robot ghost.
There’s Robot Devil, voiced by Dan Castellaneta from Homer Simpson fame.
Credit where credit is due.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball points out the importance of giving credit properly.
It is just plain annoying when mainstream news media picked up a story without giving the proper credit to the original writer. It is not that hard to mention the name or the site.
Sadly mainstream news media site are raking in a lot more oney than the average sites and blogs.
Amazon Terminates Associates Program in California.
Amazon.com sends termination notices to its California Associates program members as Governor Jerry Brown signed the law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don’t have any physical presence in California.
Hello,
Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011. Those California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.
Would you still purchase products from Amazon if they were charging Sales Tax?
iPhone Celebrates Fourth Birthday.
iPhone 4 went on sale on June 29th, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. local time in the United States. iPhone was available in a 4GB model for $499 and an 8GB model for $599 initially.
Subsequently Apple released iPhone 3G in 2008, iPhone 3GS in 2009 and iPhone 4 in 2010. Apple is expected to release the next generation of iPhone sometimes in late 2011. While many speculate that the next iPhone might get a new design, our sources said that it will retain similar iPhone 4 form factor. Curiously, our sources never used the moniker “iPhone 5” to describe the next iPhone. Back in December 2010, one particular source mentioned that there would be no new iPhone during WWDC 2011. It turned ut to be true. To answer a particular question, our particular source is not Phil Schiller.
Happy 4th birthday, iPhone.
Amazon and California.
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed the law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don’t have physical presence in California. Amazon announced that they will terminate the Associates program in California.
We do use our Amazon Associates account to feature products on our site (and blog). We are also based in California.
Dream Theater: On The Backs Of Angels
Dream Theater‘s new song “On The Backs Of Angels” is now available for streaming on Roadrunner Records’ YouTube Channel.
“On The Back Of Angels” is a song off Dream Theater’s new record “A Dramatic Turn Of Events” which features Mike Mangini on drums.
