{"id":3521,"date":"2017-09-10T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2017-09-10T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T00:56:29","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-221-no-iphone-tock-rip-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/10\/mobileviews-podcast-221-no-iphone-tock-rip-jerry-pournelle\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 221: No iPhone tock? RIP Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/htqiv-72a9e1?from=yiiadmin' data-link='https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/htqiv-72a9e1?from=yiiadmin' height='100' width='100%' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' data-name='pb-iframe-player' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/\">Jerry Pournelle, RIP<\/a>. Some know of him from his SF novels. Others know of him from his incredible Chaos Manor column run in BYTE magazine which, I believe, influenced directly or indirectly everyone today who writes about technology. He moved tech writing from a dry dull style to a one with a point of view (the consumer) and opinions based on hands-on experience. True to form, he kept writing until the day before he passed away.<\/li>\n<li>A belated Happy Star Trek Day (Sept. 8)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/reports\/united-states\/\">Ookla 2017 Q1 &#038; Q2 mobile and landline speed test data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informeddelivery.usps.com\/\">USPS Informed Delivery Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Is Apple breaking the Tick Tock cycle that started with the iPhone 3G and 3GS? No tock? Jump from iPhone 7\/7+ to 8, 8+, and X. No &#8220;S&#8221;. Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/09\/09\/ios-firmware-indicates-apple-to-announce-iphone-8-iphone-8-plus-and-iphone-x-on-tuesday\/\">9to5Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NAS Story. Twice bitten, Very Shy (CrashPlan, previously Mozy)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast Jon Westfall and I discuss: Jerry Pournelle, RIP. Some know of him from his SF novels. Others know of him from his incredible Chaos Manor column run in BYTE magazine which, I believe, influenced directly or indirectly everyone today who writes about technology. He moved tech writing from a dry dull style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-UN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}