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Maxwell's House
Episode 22


Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ray Maxwell Topic: When Shift Hits the Fans Recorded: April 16, 2009 Video: yes Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Pre Topic Topics

Notes that since Leo now has the [Skypesaurus] working well; Ray recommends bringing on viewers with technology related topics -- basically a roundtable of 'different' technologies.
email roundtable show ideas to [ray@twit.tv]

Olympus annouced that they will be releasing a 12 MP camera unlike Canon and Nikon with their 21 MP camera -- Mega Pixals are not the area you should be looking at when getting a camera, bigger isnt always better

Incandescent lights are starting to be phased out as part of going green -- Ray quotes that Incandescent lights in northern area are efficent heat(if use electical heating) -- baiscally Incandescent lights create radiant heat --

Ray states that some guy has study the fact that a big smile as a child in family photos can lead to a long marriage

Intergraded circits

QDOS, later got to be known as MS DOS thinks to Bill Gates who bought the right for it
Personal friend of Ray's who worked at IBM, Bill Gates offered to sell it to them but they said it wasn't worth it and they would just pay the licensing agreements
The first Operating System where not GUI (Graphical User Interface) but it was all Command Line — very limited in customizations
Inventer of the Mouse Douglas Engelbart
'techies' are not is tune with 'others' (aka 'normal' users)
Don Norman offers 30 minutes in a software review, and Ray sat in the corner quitely and after his friend Dave (guy with the program) said that since he didn't say anything bad about his program it wasn't any good, but Ray told him that it means that he liked it and there wasn't any issues
Last note goes into how Steve Jobs has basically changed the way of marketing in the technology
Ray buys a Mac because he is 'rewarding' the people who did the paradign shift
Ray states that Mircosoft has not really had any paradogm shifts
Some people credit Bill Gates for selling 'packaging'
Hige paradigm shift in the news media industry, newpapers, TV, internet, all are changing in huge ways
Next weeks show topic is going to be on the Evolution of Colour, tune into [TWiT Live] at 2:00pm PST to find out more

Just got a laser printer, quite and smooth -- And the other guy though that it wasn't working as the old line printers where slow and load

Next weeks show topic is going to be on the Evolution of Colour, tune into [TWiT Live] at 2:00pm PST to find out more

email your questions, comments, and ideas for future shows/interviews to [ray@twit.tv]

Show is not yet released for download, can be viewed on TWiT Live reruns and/or download at [odtv.me]