Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison To Google is a look at two major changes in how business behaved. It is part success story, and part warning, and it does a great job of both.
The first fifth of the book is about the process of moving from a world powered [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The Big Switch
March 17, 2008Macs take over astronomy
March 11, 2008Okay, maybe not all of astronomy, but I got these numbers yesterday from the people who handle HST proposal submissions:
Platform Proposals
Mac OS X 492
Linux 297
Windows 115
Sparc [...]
