Links and Thoughts 26: 18 June 2014
CHVRCHES – Recover
Good Morning.
Psychology: Tasty, tasty psychology, with a side of tech, and a splash of restaurant-wages-debate.
“If you come hungry and you don’t have to wait for a server and you’re looking at an enormous picture of gooey nachos… there’s a good chance you will order those nachos.”
Chili’s Is Betting You’ll Spend More Money If Your Server Is a Screen : The Atlantic – Citylab
Books:
“The only way to finance the changes needed is to drastically cut costs. The best way to do this is to move out of Manhattan, but no publisher wants to take that hit in its perceived respectability (or give up the awesomeness of living in New York). Well imagine what would happen if a major publisher announced a move that increased their reputation while dramatically slashing the cost of doing business.”
The People Aren’t the Problem : Hugh Howey
additional commentary at The Passive Voice
…And might I suggest any publisher who simply Must keep a Manhattan address could perhaps look at Manhattan, Kansas
Tech:
Long thought dead, PC sales are coming back : Quartz
Our tablets have become a new class of device, and while the best of tablets are also fine computers, I think we’re starting to realize tablets do not replace computers-with-keyboards — and many were making due with PCs and laptops are at least 5 years old now.
Tech:
SanDisk drops $1.1 billion to buy Fusion-io
Don’t worry if you’d never heard of Fusion-io before — I don’t think anyone not building enterprise-scale servers had. I don’t know if the tech would (or will) filter down to consumers, but Fusion-io makes very fast SSDs on PCIe cards (utilizing the latest PCIe bus speeds — theoretically.) Until this news dropped, as noted, I’d never heard of them.
Tech:
Investors Pour $44 Million Into Instacart as Google Is Forced to Take Notice
The first company that can deliver a couple of cases of beer so that I don’t have to put on pants on a Saturday morning wins. And….. go!
Tech:
“And lest anyone think that Tesla just jettisoned all its intellectual property, keep in mind that the company still has a wealth of IP in the form of trademarks, trade secrets and so. This means that if anyone decides to copy Tesla’s cars too closely, Musk (who is no stranger to lawsuits) will probably sue the bejabbers out of them.”
What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents : GigaOm
Gaming:
“The Steamboy project team is aiming for a release next year, which may end up coinciding with the official launch of the already announced Steam Machines. And I am actually more excited about this device than Steam Machines because of the gaming-on-the-go aspect it introduces for PC games.”
Steamboy: it’s like a PS Vita, but for Steam games : Geek.com
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