perspective

Tech Drive-in: "To put things in perspective, I have never ever played a game in my Android so passionately."

No one I know puts "scale" into perspective better than Randall Munroe at xkcd. If you haven't seen the latest, you should take the time to dive into what may be his largest image ever (and he's known for creating large images) dealing with money.

Split Perspective: Apparently not as much as you might think...

Depending on your perspective, the FCC is set to vote on an Order that could change the face of the Internet—or keep it just as it is.

Here we are at the US Thanksgiving holiday again. I tend towards a glass-half-empty perspective, so I make a point of reminding myself of all the good things in my life, and there are a lot of them.

Ghacks: "I realized that some users simply don't have the ability to look at the computer desktop from the same vantage point as those of us who “get it”.

With that thought in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to give a sort of walk through of the GNOME desktop from the perspective of the new user."

The Educated New Village Boy: "My perspective on using the Android isn't really so much of a comparison, mainly because I've never actually owned an iPhone before.

But I still like, even love, the HTC G1/Dream that I first bought and the Nexus One that replaced it."

We took a look at the advertising landscape from the perspective of a gadget hound, and found what we think are five of the worst ads we've seen in years.

Truly awful stuff. In the spirit of cooperation, we pointed out the errors of their ways, and have offered up five more ads that took the same approach yet came out shining.

Last week we looked at Firefox 3.6 from the user perspective. This week we'll take a quick look at some of the under-the-hood improvements for Firefox 3.6 for developers.

LWN.net: "The Ubuntu Developers Summit (UDS), held November 16-20 in Dallas, while kicking off the development cycle for the next Ubuntu release, "Lucid Lynx", had a surprising amount to interest a kernel hacker with embedded tendencies."