Developing a browser for Windows will be quite a test for Apple and the Safari developer community. Is Apple trying to get a larger user community (even tens of percents), or just making it possible for web developers easily test their servers for Safari? In any case, if Apple can survive in this market, they are in an interesting position - partner with Google, and offer their own services for Windows users perhaps?
I currently have a 9300i, and it is already starting to show signs of breakup (loosening of keys, noises etc.).
Previously I had a 6800 and a 9500, and both broke at the hinge. There were also numerous problems with the software.
At least iPhone doesn't have hinges or many plastic keys causing problems.
It seems that Vista divides testers in two categories, those who find - to their suprise - they like it, and others who get yet another confirmation of how bad Windows is.
Generally, meetings work well if there aren't too many participants. Half a dozen seems to be a good upper limit in many situations. When walking, you can form subgroups of 2-3 people, and then change the members as needed. I have never formally tried this, but once in a while have had nice productive group discussions while walking.
The current semantic web seems to offer a technology too fragile to use on the global scale. The complexity of various classification and ontological schemes, work needed to provide the metadata etc. Also, semantic web seems to offer great opporturnities for spammers and other mischief makers. Now we already have comment and reference spamming, but semantic web (on the global scale) raises the possibilities enormously.
Quote: "After eight years of planning, the actual creation and delivery into space took only nine months." This is fast. Now that space is not for big governments any more, it will be interesting to see what can be done with space. For example, what about debris in orbit, which will be a serious problem. Will space be a business opporturnity for waste-management companies?
Quote from the article: "Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before." Thus, Intel raises the capabilities on the low end systems. This is great. But besides gaming, are there anything needing such performance boost?
Here in Finland newspapers carried stories suggesting that meetings work better if they are organized while walking. Take an hour or two, and go for a walk with the meeting participants, discussing matters. Thoughts flows better, and you avoid the typical pointless PowerPoint sessions as well. Any experiences of this?
Suprise: I thought that the human visual systems is way superior to the existing computational image-processing systems. But I guess this technology switch directions as well, switching the roles and using human brain as co-processors in surveillance and security applications. Any volunteers for this?
From the Finnish perspective this discussion sounds silly. Finnish is written as it is spoken - but of course, there are dialects, and if you want you can write out the dialect also. In Finland the written language is more or less standard, but there are several spoken variant depending on your region, social backgroundetc.
How about the other side of authetication - anonymity. There are cases when the service provider doesn't need to know personal or professional details about the customers, but nevertheless this kind of data is collected widely. The Shibboleth technology developed in the Internet 2 project in principle makes it possible for a customer to limit the access to personal data by service providers. This kind of solutions should be made widely available. Now there are all too many authentication systems collecting data which may be used (at some point) for nefarious purposes.
Here is preceding text of the observation by abolitionist Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." How about the plot of the media companies and IT giants to hijack digital content using DRM? The spammers are small players compared to the corporate giants.
In related news from 2004: "Lucent Technologies names Jan M.K. Jaferian as Intellectual Property Business President... protecting, enhancing and generating value from Lucent's Intellectual Property assets, which includes Lucent's extensive portfolio of nearly 14,000 active patents worldwide."
Combine this trip with the idea of the million-dollar homepage selling
pixels, and you would get a inkjet-printer equipped Segway printing
commercials of the sponsors on the asphalt all the way from Seattle to Boston.
Why not say Finland, instead of "a European nation". Did you know that Linux Torvalds is Finnish, and that Nokia is a Finnish company? And that Santa Claus lives http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/tradition/sant a.htm in Finland?
Colleagues and friends have recently had a lot of problems with new IBM portables
(by Lenovo), which used to be the standard of reliability. I have been using
a Titanium PowerBook for over three years on the desktop and on the road,
as my only work computer, without a single problem so far. I wonder how
well the upcoming Intel-based Mac will perform in terms of reliability?
I remember how in the beginning of 1990 Finland had some issues in having faster connections to internet. Some people in the US thought that the Finns were only goint to download software, not contribute to the net. Then came Linux, which was first distributed from the Finnish server at nic.funet.fi, and there was more traffic to the US than to Finland. Afterwards we did have quite fast net connections overseas.
Friends and relatives ask more and more often to help with problems with PCs at home, because "you work in an IT company and know these things". Luckily I can point out that I'm using a Mac, and thus I can't help with virus protection issues or other Windows problems. But nevertheless I get phone calls all the time. Today I had a half-hour discussion with a relative about how having her pc serviced messed up the system.
Quote: "even if their true popularity doesn't warrant that elevated status". What about the true popularity of politicians? Wouldn't it be better to compare search engine optimizers with the spin doctors in politics instead of the lobbyists?
Let's quote the philospher-poet D.H. Rumsfeld on this:
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
I once bought a highly recommended cd from Amazon, and it was
the worst piece of noise I have ever heard (I won't mention the artist
in question). But almost all the reviews were five starts and glowing.
Finding new interesting artists which match your taste in music
is a hard task. Could a classification system help to make suggestions?
Can BOINC give cpu resources in emergency situations to, e.g., computing the effects of
a nuclear disaster, or an earthquake? This would greatly help in recovering from
catastrophes.
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Developing a browser for Windows will be quite a test for Apple and the Safari developer community. Is Apple trying to get a larger user community (even tens of percents), or just making it possible for web developers easily test their servers for Safari? In any case, if Apple can survive in this market, they are in an interesting position - partner with Google, and offer their own services for Windows users perhaps?
I currently have a 9300i, and it is already starting to show signs of breakup (loosening of keys, noises etc.). Previously I had a 6800 and a 9500, and both broke at the hinge. There were also numerous problems with the software. At least iPhone doesn't have hinges or many plastic keys causing problems.
It seems that Vista divides testers in two categories, those who find - to their suprise - they like it, and others who get yet another confirmation of how bad Windows is.
A new play by Shakespeare? Poems by Poe? Nonfiction by Carl Sagan?
Generally, meetings work well if there aren't too many participants. Half a dozen seems to be a good upper limit in many situations. When walking, you can form subgroups of 2-3 people, and then change the members as needed. I have never formally tried this, but once in a while have had nice productive group discussions while walking.
The current semantic web seems to offer a technology too fragile to use on the global scale. The complexity of various classification and ontological schemes, work needed to provide the metadata etc. Also, semantic web seems to offer great opporturnities for spammers and other mischief makers. Now we already have comment and reference spamming, but semantic web (on the global scale) raises the possibilities enormously.
Quote: "After eight years of planning, the actual creation and delivery into space took only nine months." This is fast. Now that space is not for big governments any more, it will be interesting to see what can be done with space. For example, what about debris in orbit, which will be a serious problem. Will space be a business opporturnity for waste-management companies?
Quote from the article: "Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before." Thus, Intel raises the capabilities on the low end systems. This is great. But besides gaming, are there anything needing such performance boost?
Here in Finland newspapers carried stories suggesting that meetings work better if they are organized while walking. Take an hour or two, and go for a walk with the meeting participants, discussing matters. Thoughts flows better, and you avoid the typical pointless PowerPoint sessions as well. Any experiences of this?
Suprise: I thought that the human visual systems is way superior to the existing computational image-processing systems. But I guess this technology switch directions as well, switching the roles and using human brain as co-processors in surveillance and security applications. Any volunteers for this?
From the Finnish perspective this discussion sounds silly. Finnish is written as it is spoken - but of course, there are dialects, and if you want you can write out the dialect also. In Finland the written language is more or less standard, but there are several spoken variant depending on your region, social backgroundetc.
How about the other side of authetication - anonymity. There are cases when the service provider doesn't need to know personal or professional details about the customers, but nevertheless this kind of data is collected widely. The Shibboleth technology developed in the Internet 2 project in principle makes it possible for a customer to limit the access to personal data by service providers. This kind of solutions should be made widely available. Now there are all too many authentication systems collecting data which may be used (at some point) for nefarious purposes.
Here is preceding text of the observation by abolitionist Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." How about the plot of the media companies and IT giants to hijack digital content using DRM? The spammers are small players compared to the corporate giants.
In related news from 2004: "Lucent Technologies names Jan M.K. Jaferian as Intellectual Property Business President ... protecting, enhancing and generating value from Lucent's Intellectual Property assets, which includes Lucent's extensive portfolio of nearly 14,000 active patents worldwide."
Combine this trip with the idea of the million-dollar homepage selling pixels, and you would get a inkjet-printer equipped Segway printing commercials of the sponsors on the asphalt all the way from Seattle to Boston.
Why not say Finland, instead of "a European nation". Did you know that Linux Torvalds is Finnish, and that Nokia is a Finnish company? And that Santa Claus lives http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/tradition/sant a.htm in Finland?
Colleagues and friends have recently had a lot of problems with new IBM portables (by Lenovo), which used to be the standard of reliability. I have been using a Titanium PowerBook for over three years on the desktop and on the road, as my only work computer, without a single problem so far. I wonder how well the upcoming Intel-based Mac will perform in terms of reliability?
I remember how in the beginning of 1990 Finland had some issues in having faster connections to internet. Some people in the US thought that the Finns were only goint to download software, not contribute to the net. Then came Linux, which was first distributed from the Finnish server at nic.funet.fi, and there was more traffic to the US than to Finland. Afterwards we did have quite fast net connections overseas.
Friends and relatives ask more and more often to help with problems with PCs at home, because "you work in an IT company and know these things". Luckily I can point out that I'm using a Mac, and thus I can't help with virus protection issues or other Windows problems. But nevertheless I get phone calls all the time. Today I had a half-hour discussion with a relative about how having her pc serviced messed up the system.
This finally proves that opinions on the net have an effect. But be prepared to prove your point in court. Net - it works for lawyers!
Quote: "even if their true popularity doesn't warrant that elevated status". What about the true popularity of politicians? Wouldn't it be better to compare search engine optimizers with the spin doctors in politics instead of the lobbyists?
I once bought a highly recommended cd from Amazon, and it was the worst piece of noise I have ever heard (I won't mention the artist in question). But almost all the reviews were five starts and glowing. Finding new interesting artists which match your taste in music is a hard task. Could a classification system help to make suggestions?
Can BOINC give cpu resources in emergency situations to, e.g., computing the effects of a nuclear disaster, or an earthquake? This would greatly help in recovering from catastrophes.
What versions of Windows? Linux? Mac OS X? - Yet another reason to switch?