http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/selfmadethings _20050727.shtml
In this five-part series, Jonathan Miller returns to his roots in medicine and tells the story of how we came to understand reproduction & heredity. Disposing with the idea of an external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalising force, he describes how we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as Self-Made Things.
More (or less) informative is the podcast/transcript
of an interview that BG gave at PDC-2005 to Jon Udell over
here. Lots of technical talk - role of XML, etc.
Theories of Relativity
Five specially commissioned short stories to mark the centenary of Einstein's discovery.
Listen to them for next few days only
here .
Share and Enjoy!
At least recent Mozilla/Firefox
security updates were due to exploits in
drag and drop tab interaction.
For
example
Watch out MS - tabbed browsing ain't as simple as you might be thinking...
...Really! The radio plays, the book, the BBC TV series,...
Plus, the final and Quandary [4th] and Quintessential [5th] Phases of the HHGTTG Radio program are wrapped into the final an *fourth*
radio series - beginning today!
RealPlayer stream available etc
here
Final Hitch
Radio 4 to broadcast final Hitchhiker's series.
The eight-part series, produced by Above the Title, will be broadcast
from Tuesday 3rd May at 6.30pm.
Following on from last year's radio smash hit, Life, the Universe and
Everything, the original cast - Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern,
Stephen Moore, Mark Wing-Davey and Susan Sheridan - were again
reunited to record the series alongside William Franklyn as the Voice
of the Book.
Several actors connected with the Hitchhiker's Guide from its other
incarnations, both on stage and television, take lead and supporting
roles, including Bill Paterson, Sandra Dickinson, Jonathan Pryce, Rula
Lenska and David Dixon.
Supporting stars include Jane Horrocks, Jackie Mason, June Whitfield,
Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Saeed Jaffrey, Miriam Margolyes and a
surprise Hollywood star guest appearance
Jon Udell, reliable innovator, has
a nice take on this
over here
Rather than taking sides in this debate -- which I can't do, because I sympathize with both positions while endorsing neither -- I'd like to try to broaden its scope....
Xforms now present in OpenOffice-2=Beta and in Firefox 1.01 as an extension does exactly that:
allow the manipulation of an XML document
using client side software.
It would be a shame to lose out on that.
Given their stated security mantra it
will be interesting to see just how much MS can resist the
temptation to add bleeding-edge new features, since any new component increases the chances that a critical update gets released later on.
Since the IE6 codebase is patch upon patch might it not be wiser to start over - by refactoring from scratch.
just my 2 centessimi
Google put your mouth where your money is:
give cash and let Wikipedia chose where they get the bandwidth from. That way there is no pulling the plugs if editorial conflicts occur.
No profit means no profit.
Simple as possible but no simpler!
I would do this if LAME could give good low bit rate results such as are obtained using the Windows *ACM*
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer 3 Codec (Professional)
at 24 kBit/s, 12,000 Hz , Stereo
For radio speech/drama produces fine audio with
minimum disk space. At thesame rates LAME is poor.
Another thing to consider is how long it takes to download a non-live real stream.
On Windows there is some abandonware StreamBox-VCR-1.0 Beta 3.1 that does it in much less than real time for broadband at bbc ListenAgain real resources.
THE UCL team working on the worldwide OpenElectronicHealthRecords initiative
are about to release an Java EHR server.
But information is
scarse
OpenEHR
uses open-standards based
archetypes
as "flexible easily
understood templates"
for specifying complex systems that are
inevitably going to evolve overt time -
as health systems always do.
Netscape and then Sun stopped just when
they were getting the plot.
The Calendar Server has a backend that does
the conflict resolution inc case of double-booking.
It is time to integrate that with Mozilla
Calender client.
The Certificate Management system played nice
with LDAP and but had a top-heavy administration
server. It was a nice web-based GUI that
an CertAuthority might be delegated to use.
It will be a big win for OSS if these servers
can now supported in linux - Sun were never
going to do that properly.
my 2 cents
European Communities citzen are
a bit eccentric [MontyPython etc]... for instance
they don't find
two rich US politicians bashing it out
as riveting as they ought to.
Are these vunerablities addressed
in the latest flurry of Windows Updates?
On Win XP is was 5 critical updates
On Win2K it was 6!
- or are they taking it too seriously?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/selfmadethings _20050727.shtml
In this five-part series, Jonathan Miller returns to his roots in medicine and tells the story of how we came to understand reproduction & heredity. Disposing with the idea of an external, perhaps even supernatural, vitalising force, he describes how we have arrived at the picture of ourselves and all organisms as Self-Made Things.
More (or less) informative is the podcast/transcript of an interview that BG gave at PDC-2005 to Jon Udell over here. Lots of technical talk - role of XML, etc.
Theories of Relativity
Five specially commissioned short stories to mark the centenary of Einstein's discovery. Listen to them for next few days only here .
Share and Enjoy!
At least recent Mozilla/Firefox security updates were due to exploits in drag and drop tab interaction.
For example
Watch out MS - tabbed browsing ain't as simple as you might be thinking...
...Really! The radio plays, the book, the BBC TV series,... Plus, the final and Quandary [4th] and Quintessential [5th] Phases of the HHGTTG Radio program are wrapped into the final an *fourth* radio series - beginning today! RealPlayer stream available etc here
Final Hitch
Radio 4 to broadcast final Hitchhiker's series.
The eight-part series, produced by Above the Title, will be broadcast from Tuesday 3rd May at 6.30pm.
Following on from last year's radio smash hit, Life, the Universe and Everything, the original cast - Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Stephen Moore, Mark Wing-Davey and Susan Sheridan - were again reunited to record the series alongside William Franklyn as the Voice of the Book.
Several actors connected with the Hitchhiker's Guide from its other incarnations, both on stage and television, take lead and supporting roles, including Bill Paterson, Sandra Dickinson, Jonathan Pryce, Rula Lenska and David Dixon. Supporting stars include Jane Horrocks, Jackie Mason, June Whitfield, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Saeed Jaffrey, Miriam Margolyes and a surprise Hollywood star guest appearance
Be aware it's MATHS not Math!
at least on this side of the pond.
Jon Udell, reliable innovator, has a nice take on this over here
Rather than taking sides in this debate -- which I can't do, because I sympathize with both positions while endorsing neither -- I'd like to try to broaden its scope....
Xforms now present in OpenOffice-2=Beta and in Firefox 1.01 as an extension does exactly that: allow the manipulation of an XML document using client side software.
It would be a shame to lose out on that.
January 13, 2004
Quantum Astronomy IV: Cosmic-Scale Double-Slit Experiment
by Laurance Doyle
Fascinating reading
Is that free as in speech or as in beer?
Free Root Beer!
Ha ha.
Given their stated security mantra it will be interesting to see just how much MS can resist the temptation to add bleeding-edge new features, since any new component increases the chances that a critical update gets released later on.
Since the IE6 codebase is patch upon patch might it not be wiser to start over - by refactoring from scratch.
just my 2 centessimi
Google put your mouth where your money is:
give cash and let Wikipedia chose where they get the bandwidth from. That way there is no pulling the plugs if editorial conflicts occur. No profit means no profit.
Simple as possible but no simpler!
I would do this if LAME could give good low bit rate results such as are obtained using the Windows *ACM* Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer 3 Codec (Professional) at 24 kBit/s, 12,000 Hz , Stereo For radio speech/drama produces fine audio with minimum disk space. At thesame rates LAME is poor. Another thing to consider is how long it takes to download a non-live real stream. On Windows there is some abandonware StreamBox-VCR-1.0 Beta 3.1 that does it in much less than real time for broadband at bbc ListenAgain real resources.
OpenEHR uses open-standards based archetypes as "flexible easily understood templates" for specifying complex systems that are inevitably going to evolve overt time - as health systems always do.
Thomas Beale is lead on the archetype work,
"Ghosts in the machine" by the Guardian TV correspondent of many years standing Mark Lawson here
Netscape and then Sun stopped just when they were getting the plot. The Calendar Server has a backend that does the conflict resolution inc case of double-booking. It is time to integrate that with Mozilla Calender client. The Certificate Management system played nice with LDAP and but had a top-heavy administration server. It was a nice web-based GUI that an CertAuthority might be delegated to use. It will be a big win for OSS if these servers can now supported in linux - Sun were never going to do that properly. my 2 cents
Google also owns the domains "GOS.com" "Gporn.com" "Goffice" and "Gword"
I think it's safe to say they've got big plans.
And how about God - browsing for meaning amongst all those octal dumps?
European Communities citzen are a bit eccentric [MontyPython etc] ... for instance
they don't find
two rich US politicians bashing it out
as riveting as they ought to.
I'd love Abiword much more if it managed to do
*PageUp* properly at the top of the document.
On Win32 it didn't last time I checked.
Seems to have been a longggggg term bug.
As it is Abiword is a great way to fix lost
content when MS screws up major.
Are these vunerablities addressed in the latest flurry of Windows Updates? On Win XP is was 5 critical updates On Win2K it was 6! - or are they taking it too seriously?
Is *Word97* vunerable?
I never got a round to updating since then.
There were 2 service pacs though.
Less features more security?
Abiword ain't too bad neither
They'reall too busy downloading from Project Gutenburg.
BBC - the British Public Service broadcaster is doing it's damnedest to make itself the voice available to anyone anywhere:a dio/3177479.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_r
We only accept 192Kbps MP3 files in stereo with 44KHz sampling. and you get 50MB free space so that sounds like about half and album.