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This Guardian article asserts that Betamax superiority over VHS is an urban myth, received wisdom based upon a misunderstanding of what makes one technology better than another — it’s the market, not the lab.
I would challenge the assertion that the market is always what decides the best technology — but this [...]
Well, while it’s up briefly, I may as well report in. For some reason the network drop on my machine has been occasionally disappearing, and sometimes the performance has been nearly glacial. Today I took off a new-ish CD-R and things suddenly got rather better. There’s also a new machine on order, but [...]
In case anyone is checking in… Through The Wire isn’t dead; it’s just resting. I was out of town for most of the couple of weeks around Christmas and New Years, and since I’ve been home, the network connection on the machine which hosts the blog has been very flakey. Things may be [...]