Actually, Apple's Stage Manager is a better multitasking system
Actually, Apple’s Stage Manager is a better multitasking system
Apple’s Stage Manager is an entirely new multitasking experience that automatically organizes apps and windows, making it quick and easy to switch between tasks. For the first time on iPad, users can create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view, drag and drop windows from the side, or open apps from the Dock to create groups of apps for faster, more flexible multitasking. The…
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The millennium bug is back with a vengeance, after programmers in the 1990s simply pushed the problem back by 20 years
Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.
“Windowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,” says Dylan Mulvin at the London School of Economics.
Coders chose 1920 to 2020 as the standard window because of the significance of the midpoint, 1970. “Many programming languages and systems handle dates and times as seconds from 1970/01/01, also called Unix time,” says Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, an engineer at cloud platform provider Fastly.
Unix is a widely used operating system in a variety of industries, and this “epoch time” is seen as a standard.
The theory was that these windowed systems would be outmoded by the time 2020 arrived, but many are still hanging on and in some cases the issue had been forgotten.
“Fixing bugs in old legacy systems is a nightmare: it’s spaghetti and nobody who wrote it is still around,” says Paul Lomax, who handled the Y2K bug for Vodafone. “Clearly they assumed their systems would be long out of use by 2020. Much as those in the 60s didn’t think their code would still be around in the year 2000.”
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Kanye’s new album, The Life of Pablo, dropped on exclusively on Tidal today and the app quickly shot to the top of the app charts.
It will be interesting to know how many new subs this drives for Tidal and the churn on that cohort three months from now. But regardless of whether this moves the needle for Tidal, it’s a great move for Kanye.
First the album drops as an exclusive on Tidal. Then for download on kanyewest dot com. Then on itunes. And finally streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and the others.
By windowing the availability of the album first on the more profitable platforms then over time to the lesser ones he collects maximum value from the market.
Hollywood wrote the playbook a long time ago. First you release in theatre, then as a rental on itunes (or in store), then on Netflix, and eventually on ad supported TV. Platforms, can skip in line of course, but they’ll have to pay for that.
There is a good article on ebooks by Molly Flatt in today’s edition of The Memo. Titled “The ebook is dead, long live the ebook.” the article uses an interview with Kobo CED Michael Tamblyn to solidly make the point that ebooks are alive and well. It is a fascinating read.
As I sat down to do a write-up on the article, I was distracted by the following paragraph:
