A cautionary tale
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SMS is a cautionary tale too
SMS is a cautionary tale too
04/27/2004 07:26 AM
Another cautionary tale from the dinner in Amsterdam, SMS is
going down the same path as WAP/WML, what used to be a firm standard
is being extended in incompatible ways. There will be eighteen brands
of SMS, and you'll only be able to message people who use the same
brand of phone. I don't use SMS, I don't think it exists in the US,
but I understand it's popular in Europe and Asia.
I used to say this to Bill G when he started giving money to
charities to help make the world a better place, presumably. I said
that he had so much more leverage in the computer business, if he
would just do a few things differently we could solve some of the
biggest problems in the world by working together. He either didn't
get it, or ignored it, or is insincere in his desire to make the world
a better place, or something else I don't understand.
Working together in the users' interest, is by far the most
important thing we can do, far more important than any one brand of
software.
Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
Another Cautionary Tale for Car Renters
01/16/2004 01:00 PMHiawatha Bray points me to
this New York Times horror story about a
man who was charged more than $3,000 for a car rental because he took
the car out of state without realizing that would violate his
contract.
FAQ | Cautionary tale: When buying PC,
do research
FAQ | Cautionary tale: When buying PC,
do research
12/26/2004 05:00 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Dec 26 2004 8:29AM GMT
10.3: A cautionary tale regarding
modified display contrast
10.3: A cautionary tale regarding
modified display contrast
12/16/2003 11:18 AMI recently noted that the screen display on my Panther system had
suddenly changed. The pin-striping had disappeared and the fonts
looked strange. Changing to another user returned the system to its
usual appearance. Trashing...
Cautionary Tales for Children
Cautionary Tales for Children
06/22/2004 09:09 AM"Jim, Who Ran Away from his Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion," a poem by
Hilaire
Belloc, demonstrates why he's considered to be the father of
chi
ldren's snuff literature.
Cautionary Tales of Indiscriminate
Breeding
Cautionary Tales of Indiscriminate
Breeding
11/14/2003 05:17 PM The
Flawed Dog-O-Matic, a Friday Flash piffle that 'morphs' dog
breeds, shamelessly promoting
Berkeley
"Bloom County" Breathed's new book and
Humane Society pet adoption
(in that order). Everybody go "Aw-w-w-w-w."
A tale of two Tigers
A tale of two Tigers
06/28/2004 09:48 PMAlso: Google bolsters star power...iPod plans turn car owners green.
A Tale of Two Concepts
A Tale of Two Concepts
06/02/2004 08:23 AMSome eateries thrive while others suffer through the low-carb craze.
The Tale of Two Hazards...
The Tale of Two Hazards...
04/28/2004 11:45 AM
That boy ain't
right... Recently -- for some reason -- I have found
myself listening to the song
Hazard by Richard
Marx, and my interest in the murderous storyline has been
re-piqued. This place has the whole shebang.
Background
information,
conspiracy
theories and even a
kangaroo court!
A tale of two tunes
A tale of two tunes
04/28/2004 08:12 PMCNET Apr 29 2004 0:45AM GMT
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
FC Now: A Tale of Two Teammates
09/14/2004 05:38 AMWhile Michael Eisner and Fanklin Thomas were by no means
contemporaries at Disney, this weekend's news about recent
developments in the lives and careers of...
A Tangled Tale
A Tangled Tale
09/24/2004 02:10 PM
Math
s puzzles and
more problems.
Found whilst searching for the fiendish
the Monty Hall
Problem. A
Tangled Tale, indeed.
A Tale of Two Soldiers
A Tale of Two Soldiers
05/11/2004 03:11 PM
A tale of two West Virginia soldiers: one named Jessica, one
named Lynndie. Both are on
opposite sides of the propaganda war. One is a
hero, one is a
monster. No, wait - actually, one is a
fraud, one was
just following orders. No wait, one is
perky and blonde, the other is
kind of butch
and ugly. Now I'm all confused. Help me Metafilter, you're my only
hope.
A Tale of Two Patents
A Tale of Two Patents
05/19/2004 07:23 PMInternetNews.com-1 hour agoGoogle's Gmail could be a huge
moneymaker for the search leader. But someone else may have thought of
it first. Google got gobs ...
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
A Tale in the Desert II 1.0
09/17/2004 04:27 PMAn online game set in ancient Egypt where players work together to
build the perfect society.
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
FC Now: A Tale of Two Squares
09/01/2004 06:16 AMThis week, in New York City, there's a tale of two squares -- one is
Times Square, and the other -- seven blocks south --...
Do these lists tell a tale?
Do these lists tell a tale?
01/07/2004 02:02 PM In "How to Kill a Country" there's a list of steps:
(1) Destroy the engine of productivity
(2) Bury the truth
(3) Crush dissent
(4) Legislate the impossible
(5) Teach hate
(6) Scare off foreigners
(7) Invade a neighbor
(8) Ignore a deadly enemy
(9) Commit genocide
(10) Blame the imperialists
In
"Fog of
War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" the
lessons list as:
(1) Empathize with your enemy.
(2) Rationality will not save us.
(3) There's something beyond one's self.
(4) Maximize efficiency.
(5) Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
(6) Get the data.
(7) Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
(8) Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.
(9) In order to do good you may have to engage in evil.
(10) Never say never.
(11) You can't change human nature.
Two sides of the same coin?
A tale of two cultures
A tale of two cultures
01/01/2004 01:35 PM
It's clear that that the future of the Unix-style pipeline lies with
Web services. When the XML messages flowing through that pipeline are
also XML documents that users interact with directly, we'll really
start to cook with gas. But a GUI doesn't just present documents, it
also enables us to interact with them. From Mozilla's XUL (XML User
Interface Language) to Macromedia's Flex to Microsoft's XAML, we're
trending toward XML dialects that define those interactions. Where
this might lead is not so clear, but the recently published WSRP (Web
Services for Remote Portals) specification may provide a clue. WSRP,
like the Java portal systems it abstracts, delivers markup fragments
that are nominally HTML, but could potentially be XUL, Flex, or XAML.
It's scary to think about combinations of these, so I'm praying for
convergence. But I like the trend. XML messages in the pipeline, XML
documents carrying data to users, XML definitions of application
behavior. If we're going to blend the two cultures, this is the right
set of ingredients. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
My recent stuff has provoked some diametrically opposed reactions.
Responding to this column, Dan Kegel wrote:
Jon, you've been drinking too much XML / web services kool-aid. Only
clueless analysts and those who wish they could program, but can't,
think there's anything novel about "web services". Anything you can do
with XML can be done more simply without it; the standards documents
associated with XML and "web services" are absolutely mind-numbing. In
the meantime, real programmers are getting real work done, and
ignoring the analysts.
...Tale of Two Stories
Tale of Two Stories
02/07/2003 07:39 AMWhat does coverage of Google's success tell us about what's really
going on with Linux? Google has achieved maximum Linux irony ...
A tale of two mergers
A tale of two mergers
04/02/2005 01:53 PMInternetRetailer.com Apr 2 2005 4:43PM GMT
A tale of two Cairos
A tale of two Cairos
12/02/2003 01:37 AM
Microsoft's 2003 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) reminded
some observers of the same event in 1993, when the hot topics were the
Win32 APIs, a rough draft of Windows 95 code-named Chicago, and a
preview of a futuristic object-file-system-based NT successor
code-named Cairo. The hot topics this year were the WinFX managed
APIs, a rough draft of a future version of NT code-named Longhorn, and
... Cairo. Now called WinFS, this vision of metadata-enriched storage
and query-driven retrieval was, and is, compelling. Making it real
wasn't then, and isn't now, simply a matter of engineering the right
data structures and APIs. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
...A Tale of Two Printers
A Tale of Two Printers
07/23/2004 02:35 AMTechnology Review Jul 23 2004 5:54AM GMT
A Tale Of Two American Women
A Tale Of Two American Women
05/17/2004 06:03 AMFree Internet Press May 17 2004 10:23AM GMT
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
Novell OES: A tale of two kernels
02/01/2005 08:19 PMI got to sit down last week with Charlie Ungashick, Novell's director
of product management and marketing, Linux servers and desktops.
(Charlie hands out two business cards: one for his title, one for
everything else!) We talked about - what else - Novell's upcoming Open
Enterprise Server.
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
Twisted Tale of Art, Death, DNA
06/04/2004 05:50 AMSteve Kurtz is an artist who works with DNA. His wife's recent
unexplained death has suddenly made him a very interesting man to the
FBI. By Mark Baard.
Bloodlines: A Jedi's Tale
Bloodlines: A Jedi's Tale
04/28/2004 05:21 PMDark Horse releases
Star Wars:
Republic #64 today. "Bloodlines" is by John Ostrander and
Brandon Badeaux, with a cover by Tomás Giorello. Take a look at an odd
pairing between Jedi Ronhar Kim and Senator Palpatine, and get a
closer look at politics, war and death in this
Clone Wars
tale. You can check out an online preview
here<
/a>.
A tale told by an idiot
A tale told by an idiot
03/31/2005 11:49 PMWildly overplaying the Schiavo protesters, ignoring facts and giving
Bush a free ride, the press was full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing.
Historic Tale Construction Kit
Historic Tale Construction Kit
12/09/2003 07:28 PM Historic
Tale Construction Kit.
[flash]
[more] A fractured fairy tale
A fractured fairy tale
02/12/2004 09:54 AMDisney, now embroiled in a board-room squabble and takeover fight, was
once considered a technology leader but it has been a straggler in the
digital era.
A tale of modern day slavery
A tale of modern day slavery
08/11/2004 08:22 AM
Slavery is not just the shameful stuff of history books - not in
Florida. Last year, 7 journalists spent 9 months in a
behind-the-scenes exploration of the state's immigrant workers. In
more than 30 articles and photo essays, they revealed a system where
workers are threatened, beaten, locked up, injured, forced into
prostitution, and trapped in a spiral of debt and abuse. Powerful
forces are arrayed against them in a state where agricultural laws are
shaped by politician-farmers who have a vested interest in the status
quo.
- more - Enjoying Japanese Tale
Enjoying Japanese Tale
12/19/2004 03:24 PM
Japanese fairy tales. In English, illustrated.
Tell Tale Weekly's audiobooks
Tell Tale Weekly's audiobooks
04/09/2004 06:31 PMA New York Times article recently pointed to Tell Tale Weekly, an audio book
site selling MP3s as cheap as $0.25 each. They've also committed to
licensing the books under a Creative Commons license after 5 years or
100k downloads, whichever comes first.
It's not easy to find good, cheap, DRM-free audiobooks and Tell
Tale Weekly looks like a pretty cool new provider of such work.
The tale of the bounced check
The tale of the bounced check
04/16/2004 08:55 AMA Tale of Timber and Love
A Tale of Timber and Love
05/05/2004 07:00 AMMom might not find timber so exciting -- until she rakes in some hefty
dividends.
Behind the Google IPO: A tale of hubris
and greed
Behind the Google IPO: A tale of hubris
and greed
09/04/2004 03:30 AMInvestors Business Daily Sep 4 2004 6:36AM GMT
Freak Waves Are No Tall Tale
Freak Waves Are No Tall Tale
07/28/2004 06:17 AMStories of giant ship-wrecking waves are no longer just for crusty sea
captains spinning a good yarn. Data from European Space Agency
satellites shows that monster waves do exist -- and they're more
common than expected. By Amit Asaravala.
A Tale Of Two iPods: iPod Vs hPod
A Tale Of Two iPods: iPod Vs hPod
09/16/2004 10:56 AMWe don't see much reason for Mac users to purchase an HP-branded iPod
unless that iPod is sold at a significant savings and the Mac user is
comfortable troubleshooting software issues on their own. Similarly,
owners of HP-branded Windows PCs will probably want to go for a
matching HP iPod. By Dan Frakes, Playlist (via MyAppleMenu)
"sniff out tell-tale signs of
alteration"
"sniff out tell-tale signs of
alteration"
07/03/2004 08:04 PMShrek's Green Fairy Tale
Shrek's Green Fairy Tale
05/21/2004 01:05 PMThat's green as in money. If Shrek 2 succeeds, it might lead to an IPO
for DreamWorks SKG's animation unit.
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