https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/public/ recent bookmarks from guardiantech 2012-08-31T14:52:46+00:00 http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1730586&highlight= guardiantechAmazon.com, Inc. today announced that since Kindle Fire was introduced less than a year ago, customers have downloaded hundreds of millions of apps and games from the Amazon Appstore, and the number of developers building apps for Amazon Appstore continues to grow quickly. Completely missing from press release: any evidence of the extent to which developers are making money. There is zero financial content in this release; it's simply flim-flam. The question then is, why publish it at all? It's not for discerning shareholders, certainly.]]> amazon nonsense tablet apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:ad521181150a/ 2012-02-19T22:35:30+00:00 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/singularitarianism.php guardiantechMagazines will continue to praise Kurzweil's techno-religion in sporadic bursts, and followers will continue to gullibly accept what he says because it is what they wish would happen. Kurzweil will die while brain-uploading and immortality are still vague dreams; he will be frozen in liquid nitrogen, which will so thoroughly disrupt his cells that even if we discover how to cure whatever kills him, there will be no hope of recovering the mind and personality of Kurzweil from the scrambled chaos of his dead brain. Perhaps "Singularitology"?]]> science singularity nonsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:e2dc24e94086/