Steve Jobs in 1991: Somebody at IBM a few years ago saw our NextStep operating system as a potential diamond to solve their biggest and most profound problem, that of adding value to their computers with unique software. Unfortunately, as I learned, IBM is not a monolith. It is a very large place with lots of faces, and they all play musical chairs. Somewhere along the line this diamond got dropped in the mud, and now it's sitting on somebody's desk who thinks it's a dirt clod. Inside that dirt clod is still a diamond, but they don't see it.
September 24, 2010 Justice Department Press Release: "Beginning no later than 2006, Apple and Google executives agreed not to cold call each other's employees...Beginning no later than September 2007, Google and Intel executives agreed not to cold call each other's employees...In June 2007, Google and Intuit executives agreed that Google would not cold call any Intuit employee."
Other awards were given for Best Design ('We also like how the chubby typeface is evocative of obesity') and Best Information ('Bonus points for the great smaller serving of spaghetti').
WSJ: It is likely the senator was going for 'body shop,' also a derogatory term, but one that describes firms who shuffle low-cost tech engineers around the globe.
A Futures Market in Computer Time, Communications of the ACM, June 1968: "An auction method is described for allocating computer time that allows the price of computer time to fluctuate with the demand...if the computer ever is idle, its price automatically becomes attractively low."
Since the W3C spec editor is a Google employee (see below), calling "witchcraft" on the W3C is essentially the same as calling "witchcraft" on Google, no?:-)
There's another, as-yet unpublished Google patent filing that discusses the use of a 'mobile device data collection module' to 'collect data on a set of mobile devices which are using [a] wireless base station', including GPS location information, time information, and 'application specific data, such as, map requests, etc.' The listed 'inventors' include a Google Latitude Product Manager.
CNET News: According to Wagstaffe, a special master is an unpaid agent appointed by the court to make sure judicial orders are followed. Special masters are typically volunteers, mostly former judges or law professors, Wagstaffe said. They are supposed to be unconnected to the cases they are working on. Wagstaffe said he was under court orders not to reveal the identity of the special master reviewing Chen's possessions.
Street View: Behind the Scenes. The Google Privacy Channel's cutesy explanation of Street View's privacy safeguards. Looks like Wi-Fi sniffing was left on the cutting room floor.:-)
Brian Dear, on PLATO: One of the most interesting little-known aspects of Xerox PARC has to do with its relationship to PLATO. What people don't realize is that Kay attended a 1968 symposium sponsored by ARPA, at the Univ of Illinois. Among the presenters was Don Bitzer and company, and what did they present? A 1-inch-by 1-inch prototype of a gas plasma flat-panel display. This was a major "aha" moment for Kay, who told me it was his "big whammy" epiphany. It suddenly occurred to him that computers of the future were not going to have big, bulky CRT screens, but rather, flat-panel displays. It is directly because of his seeing the demo of the PLATO plasma prototype that he got the idea for the Dynabook.
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Steve Jobs in 1991: Somebody at IBM a few years ago saw our NextStep operating system as a potential diamond to solve their biggest and most profound problem, that of adding value to their computers with unique software. Unfortunately, as I learned, IBM is not a monolith. It is a very large place with lots of faces, and they all play musical chairs. Somewhere along the line this diamond got dropped in the mud, and now it's sitting on somebody's desk who thinks it's a dirt clod. Inside that dirt clod is still a diamond, but they don't see it.
HP Pretexting Charges Dismissed: "Charges against defendants in the Hewlett-Packard pretexting case have been dismissed."
Wired: Wingdings of Disease
From Idiocracy: Keyboard for hospital admissions
June 6, 2007 Congressional Testimony of Laszlo Bock: "Google's hiring process is rigorous, and we make great efforts to uncover the most talented employees we can find."
September 24, 2010 Justice Department Press Release: "Beginning no later than 2006, Apple and Google executives agreed not to cold call each other's employees...Beginning no later than September 2007, Google and Intel executives agreed not to cold call each other's employees...In June 2007, Google and Intuit executives agreed that Google would not cold call any Intuit employee."
Oops: Parents at Google in the US talking about child safety online, from the just-announced Google Family Safety Center, apparently still in Beta.
Other awards were given for Best Design ('We also like how the chubby typeface is evocative of obesity') and Best Information ('Bonus points for the great smaller serving of spaghetti').
Credit where credit's due....
Per JFK, we're all covered. :-)
Earlier on /.: Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books
Larry E.'s new Java slogan... :-)
WSJ: It is likely the senator was going for 'body shop,' also a derogatory term, but one that describes firms who shuffle low-cost tech engineers around the globe.
Perhaps the poster is still reeling from this YouTube video...
A Futures Market in Computer Time, Communications of the ACM, June 1968: "An auction method is described for allocating computer time that allows the price of computer time to fluctuate with the demand...if the computer ever is idle, its price automatically becomes attractively low."
Any Last Words?
Since the W3C spec editor is a Google employee (see below), calling "witchcraft" on the W3C is essentially the same as calling "witchcraft" on Google, no? :-)
Geolocation API Specification
W3C Working Draft 07 July 2009
This Version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-geolocation-API-20090707/
Latest Published Version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
Latest Editor's Draft:
http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-geolocation-API-20081222/
Editor:
Andrei Popescu, Google, Inc
There's another, as-yet unpublished Google patent filing that discusses the use of a 'mobile device data collection module' to 'collect data on a set of mobile devices which are using [a] wireless base station', including GPS location information, time information, and 'application specific data, such as, map requests, etc.' The listed 'inventors' include a Google Latitude Product Manager.
So the FBI cut Joran Van der Sloot some slack, but this is worth pursuing?
New D.C. CTO scraps 'Apps for Democracy'
CNET News: According to Wagstaffe, a special master is an unpaid agent appointed by the court to make sure judicial orders are followed. Special masters are typically volunteers, mostly former judges or law professors, Wagstaffe said. They are supposed to be unconnected to the cases they are working on. Wagstaffe said he was under court orders not to reveal the identity of the special master reviewing Chen's possessions.
Will get back to you on that question in a sec - first I have to watch these babies impersonating Lady Gaga.
Street View: Behind the Scenes. The Google Privacy Channel's cutesy explanation of Street View's privacy safeguards. Looks like Wi-Fi sniffing was left on the cutting room floor. :-)
Brian Dear, on PLATO: One of the most interesting little-known aspects of Xerox PARC has to do with its relationship to PLATO. What people don't realize is that Kay attended a 1968 symposium sponsored by ARPA, at the Univ of Illinois. Among the presenters was Don Bitzer and company, and what did they present? A 1-inch-by 1-inch prototype of a gas plasma flat-panel display. This was a major "aha" moment for Kay, who told me it was his "big whammy" epiphany. It suddenly occurred to him that computers of the future were not going to have big, bulky CRT screens, but rather, flat-panel displays. It is directly because of his seeing the demo of the PLATO plasma prototype that he got the idea for the Dynabook.
What's the current exchange rate between Facebook Credits and Flooz, Whoopi?
Time to resurrect Living Books for the iPad. Little tykes would be enthralled by a touch version of Just Grandma and Me - and learn to read, too!