I always try to cheer for the underdog and therefore am not really a fan of mega corporations, monopoglies, oligopolies, etc. Learning that the Big Three are in trouble I was a little excite. I think, and this is not hard to prove*, that monopolies and oligopolies and such simply kill innovation or slow it down. Here’s Seth’s take on this:
Not only should Congress encourage/facilitate the organized bankruptcy of the Big Three, but it should also make it easy for them to be replaced by 500 new car companies.
Or perhaps a thousand.
That’s how many car companies there were 90 years ago.
That’s right, when all the innovation hit the car industry, there were thousands of car companies, with hundreds running at any one time
* Look at Microsoft’s example. Need I say more?
As I was thinking of going to bed, I thought I should write a post here, but didn’t know what to talk about, so I closed the lid of my laptop and after it went to sleep, I put it in my backpack to have it ready for tomorrow.
Then I thought, hmm…maybe I should backup my data using Time Machine, it seems really simple and I do have a handy external hard disk. I had read somewhere (or come to think of it, it was an Apple video) that on the first run, it’ll take some time to back-up everything, so I thought I’ll remove the battery and just use AC until the morning. One minor mistake was that I took the battery out before plugging it in. As I plugged it in, I noticed the sleep indicator was not blinking, and then it hit me! I thought I had lost the work I was doing, the programs that were open and just lost track of what I was doing in general. You see, one thing I love about the laptop is that in the middle of any work I can just close the lid, pick it up and then continue later exactly where I left off. It’s brilliant that way, but it needs the battery–or so I thought. So, now I thought I’d lost my reading place, if you will.
I plugged the laptop in, pressed the power button, and …wait, what’s this I see…wait a sec, it’s the Dashboard which I left open with my to-do list! I was ecstatic to see that! It hadn’t lost a thing! Wow! الْحَمْدُ للّهِ (btw, that means Praise be To God in Arabic)! Amazing.
P.S.: You should know that the laptop I’m talking about is my new macbook (exactly a week old) and yup, you guessed it, it was Designed by Apple in California 
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Update:
I forgot to mention what happened with my backup. Nothing, it turns out I need to check what in my external hard disk before I format. We’ll leave that for another day.
