Ruminations on biblical studies, technology, economics, and sports from Jason A. Staples
Since the class I’m teaching ended today (grades are already done!), I dropped by the Apple Store to tinker a bit with the new machines. I had the opportunity to run a few tests on the new machines including running Geekbench (I also ran it on a few others for baseline comparisons). Geekbench is a [...] Read more »
CNN’s tech geniuses are at it again. After telling us that the iPad2 was going to have “dueling operating systems so you can do more,” a new article about the forthcoming iPhone update explains, “The term “HSPA+ is a reference to high-speed processing.” And this after explaining that a dual-core processor “is considered faster at [...] Read more »
The Apple Special Event, which is supposed to go “Back to the Mac” is about to start, so I figured I’d put down a few of my hopes for the new Mac OS, which, based on the picture sent out with the invitation, will likely be called “Lion.” (Where do they go from there? It [...] Read more »
Apple has released its long-awaited tablet computer to mixed reviews. Some apparently expected the so-called “JesusTablet” to have the ability to raise the dead in its first version, expressing disappointment at the lack of a built-in camera, the lack of Adobe Flash support, no GPS, and assorted other perceived shortfalls. Those criticizing the new release [...] Read more »
I’ve been working some on improving the SBL formats for the Bookends bibliographic database (since I’m using it for my doctoral exam bibliographies and dissertation research). The “book chapter” format was completely screwed up; I’ve fixed that and will now be de-bugging some of the others soon. It’s nice to be able to import the [...] Read more »
