Thought for the day: The long SP2 wait

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How long should I wait?

How long should I wait? 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
My British lover is waffling. Should I put the hammer down?

"your long wait is over"

"your long wait is over" 02/07/2005 02:02 AM

How long can you wait for security?

How long can you wait for security? 08/11/2004 04:29 AM
I do hope you saw the story in Network World last week, in which Bill Gates is quoted as saying that in the not-too-distant future security will come to be seen as a Microsoft strength (see editorial link below).

Wait Is Long for Citizenship in New York

Wait Is Long for Citizenship in New York 06/10/2004 10:23 PM
New York now has one of the nation's longest backlogs of newcomers awaiting answers to their citizenship applications.

After Long Wait, Google Set For Market
Debut

After Long Wait, Google Set For Market
Debut 08/19/2004 07:09 PM
Financial Express Aug 19 2004 11:27PM GMT

Trust denies long hearing aid wait

Trust denies long hearing aid wait 09/06/2004 08:56 AM
A hospital denies a claim that patients needing a hearing aid have the longest wait in Britain.

Bloggers Hoping To Become Fabulously
Wealthy May Have A Long Wait

Bloggers Hoping To Become Fabulously
Wealthy May Have A Long Wait 09/14/2004 06:37 PM
$120,000 a Year on BlogAds

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Impotent Chinese wait too long to see
doctor (Reuters)

Impotent Chinese wait too long to see
doctor (Reuters) 08/31/2004 08:15 AM
Reuters - More than half of Chinese men over 40 suffer from erectile dysfunction at some point but wait too long to see a doctor, the first national survey of its kind has found.

Long Thought Immune, Felines Contract
Bird Flu

Long Thought Immune, Felines Contract
Bird Flu 09/06/2004 11:51 PM

Just a Thought - Microsoft's New File
System Still A Long Ways Off

Just a Thought - Microsoft's New File
System Still A Long Ways Off 12/28/2004 05:38 PM
osOpinion Dec 28 2004 9:01PM GMT

Mourners Brave Cold Night, Long Wait to
See Pope (Reuters)

Mourners Brave Cold Night, Long Wait to
See Pope (Reuters) 04/05/2005 07:04 AM
Reuters - Wrapped in blankets against the dawn chill, but glowing with emotion, mourners flowed out of St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday after waiting through a cold night to see Pope John Paul lying in state.

Long Wait for a Taste of Home:
Guatemalan Fried Chicken Draws a Crowd

Long Wait for a Taste of Home:
Guatemalan Fried Chicken Draws a Crowd 11/02/2003 01:02 AM
re-writing the fast food history books

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38248-2003Oct16.html
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"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown." 01/17/2004 11:07 PM

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released

Finally .. after long long long time ..
Sonique 2 beta released 12/21/2003 03:42 PM

bought thought -- free thought has a
price

bought thought -- free thought has a
price 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Bought Thought .. john

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So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool)

So Long, Long Distance (The Motley Fool) 09/07/2004 02:07 PM
The Motley Fool - The Olympic Games are now history, but not AT&T's (NYSE: T - News) $25 million ad campaign to redefine its image. After years of getting clobbered by the regional Bell companies such as BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), Verizon (NYSE: VZ - News), Sprint (NYSE: FON - News), and MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP - News), the company has turned its business focus from traditional phone service to networking.

Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead

Long Live the Elephants, Long Dead 06/04/2004 01:01 AM
Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History are undergoing cutting-edge, high-definition digital radiography.

The long tail's long lead

The long tail's long lead 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
Chris Anderson has signed with Random House to do a book about The Long Tail, and has started a blog devoted to it. (The long tail is the social effect of the Web apart from the hit-heavy, glamorous side of it.)...

Long Tale of Long Tail

Long Tale of Long Tail 03/17/2005 03:58 AM

This recent post by Joe Krause about the i mportance of catching long tails in business is the best post I've read in recent weeks.

So Long, Long Distance

So Long, Long Distance 09/07/2004 02:04 PM
AT&T turns its business focus away from traditional phone service.

The Long, Long Arm of SGML

The Long, Long Arm of SGML 11/05/2003 08:20 PM
Commenting on Tim Bray's "UTF-8+names" proposal for creating memorable shortcuts for some Unicode code points, Kendall Clark sees the effort as part of XML's continuing struggle against the legacy of its SGML ancestry.

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic 03/29/2005 03:01 PM
The long tail is jagged, fractal – perhaps as any market achieves maximum efficiency it starts to look like everything...

Don't Wait

Don't Wait 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
Michael Harrison, an English poet, was once asked how to become a good writer. He replied, "If you want to be a good writer, write. You don't wait for inspiration."

Don Box, co-author of SOAP, gives similar advice in the above link:

• Read fewer specifications,
• write more applications,
• write less code by using tools that generate code automatically,
• and remember that humans matter, so if you must write a specification, make it legible.

And John's advice is: "You can be hasty, but keep a backup!"

Wait on Atom

Wait on Atom 01/07/2004 04:59 PM

 

Deprecat ing RSS Part II. Lockergnome drove some traffic to my entry about Blogware's RSS support that led to some interesting comments. TheRoss in dicated that we should probably just settle on one...but didn't make it easy to pick which one¹ :)

Winston took a slightly different tack - let users choose for themselves and avoid taking a religiou s position. I'm not sure I buy this. I mean, I get the sentiment - giving users control over how things get done is never a bad thing, but I'm left wondering if, in this case, that would be akin to letting the user pick which language we write the application in. Isn't it enough to allow them to specify whether or not they would like their particular blog to offer a syndication function to their readers? RSS might be a brand, but I'm not sure that publisher-users have the same loyalty to RSS 2.0 as they would to Tide?

Dave Winer, RSS 2.0 chieftain, chimed in with a feature request indicating that he'd like to see Blogware support the "...guid, comments, pubDate, and if possible, category" in our RSS 2.0 feeds. Done, done, done and done. We've been that way since the beginning, hopefully it does make things easier for various aggregators in the way that Dave suggests.

Through the discussion it became clear that there really is no "right" answer and also that no one really seems to give a rats-ass if we continue supporting 0.91. I suppose the bigger question is whether or not we build in support for ATOM. The problem with ATOM is that "its not just about feeds anymore". To do it right, I have to rip out a whole whack of code that deals with trackbacks, remote posting and feed generation and rewrite it to suport ATOM. We could also choose to only support a subset of the spec, but I'm more inclined to wait for an answer to the question of "why?" Why should we care about ATOM?

At this point, I honestly don't think that anything is going to change. Keeping 0.91 feeds in the UI doesn't cost us anything and users aren't going apeshit with support calls because we offer them three syndication options. And as far as Atom goes, well...we'll see I suppose.

¹As an aside, I'm not sure what TheRoss means when he says "if you value RDF"...I don't tend to value technology in the way that I think he's implying I might. If they are useful to me, then I value them, but I don't think that they are sacred cows in the sense of "standards must be preserved at all costs"...this aside is turning into a post of its own...to me, RDF (RSS 1.0) is simply an open agreed upon standard very similar to the standards that have gone through the IETF process whereas RSS 2.0 is a widely used pseudo-defacto "standard" that sits on a publicly documented specification - much more similar to open source software. In both cases, as an implementor, I have the option not to comply with the details that I think I know better about. It results in a non-standard implementation, or perhaps a fork, but the dynamics and risks associated with this type of behavior are well understood by the open (code/standard) communities. In any event, my point is that open standards/code only get my respect insofar as they deserve it. The fact that we didn't create our own syndication or publication specification should serve to speak to the degree that we support the current "standards".)

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But Wait... There's More: MSBlockFlix

But Wait... There's More: MSBlockFlix 08/12/2004 04:31 AM
Yesterday, I wrote about how Blockbuster's Netflix-copycat offering seeme d pretty weak in that it didn't do anything more than Netflix and didn't really leverage their stores at all. Oddly, it appears they held back on a bigger announcement for one day. Now, comes the news that Microsoft and Blockbuster are teaming up to offer downloadable movies among other things, as part of the effort. Netflix has said in the past that they'll eventually offer downloadable movies, but this is one way that Blockbuster can go a bit further out of the gate. Of course, that would be true if the offering were any good -- but unfortunately, it looks like they're just bundling the incredibly weak CinemaNow offering, which has been described as "annoyin g to use," "agonizingly slow," and having a "pathetically thin selection." Not particularly enticing. The MSN/Blockbuster link will also let people buy tickets to movies. Basically, they're setting up a system so that you can watch movies any way you want -- download, delivered by mail, picked up at store, or in that (oh yeah) theater place. This strikes me as a bit more interesting, but the implementation appears pretty weak. Still, it might be cool if they started to combine these features. For example, they could give discounts to those who saw a certain movie in the theater, so they could get that movie on DVD later. Or, perhaps let anyone buying tickets to a remake freely download the original version. The movie industry still seems to be missing out on the fact that movies are more of a social experience, and they should think up ways to use the content to encourage more group movie activities. Unfortunately, that's unlikely to happen, as the main focus seems to be on making sure they get paid for each and every movie, rather than looking at the bigger picture.

The verdict on SP2? Wait.

The verdict on SP2? Wait. 08/10/2004 10:57 AM
Microsoft Corp. has officially released its security-oriented Windows XP update, Service Pack 2 (SP2), to manufacturing, and said the update would become available to IT managers, consumers and PC makers starting next week. But while Microsoft is urging upgrades as soon as possible, IT managers contacted by Techworld say they are in no hurry to install SP2, which amounts to a new operating system, they say.

Longer wait

Longer wait 05/14/2004 07:33 AM
CNET Asia May 14 2004 12:17PM GMT

Error-Wait-0.03

Error-Wait-0.03 11/16/2003 04:50 AM

Wait, I almost forgot ...

Wait, I almost forgot ... 06/03/2004 01:33 PM

Wait, no Pocket PCs?

Wait, no Pocket PCs? 12/30/2003 12:02 AM
USA Today Dec 29 2003 11:02PM ET

One reason we can't wait for 3G to take
off in the US

One reason we can't wait for 3G to take
off in the US 09/02/2004 02:07 PM
Engadget Sep 2 2004 4:30PM GMT

Can't Wait Six Minutes?

Can't Wait Six Minutes? 03/30/2005 06:05 PM

Remember this?

A rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in just 6 minutes...

Well, now you don't even have to wait that long:

Impatient people may find Toshiba's latest invention something that would fit their lifestyle. The company announced Tuesday that it had discovered a way to recharge a Lithium-Ion battery to 80 percent in only one minute. Currently, the fastest batteries take approximately an hour to recharge to the same capacity.

Via BetaNews.

Error-Wait-0.05

Error-Wait-0.05 12/27/2003 06:42 PM

Error-Wait-0.01

Error-Wait-0.01 11/03/2003 05:54 PM

Can't wait to run into Russ

Can't wait to run into Russ 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

I sure hope to see Russell Beattie somewhere in my travels.

I gotta get him to help me find his new MyYahoo RSS reader for mobile phones.

I got a coolio 6630 from Charlie Shick at Nokia - and I'm roaming around using it and it's fancy features. Sure hope loading data off ofit works - as it's my only camera I'll have with me.

I wonder where the plug-in for Lifeblog for MT is?

It's kind of fun watching Russ turn into a Yahoopster.

Error-Wait-0.02

Error-Wait-0.02 11/16/2003 04:50 AM

No Need to Wait for Longhorn for LUA

No Need to Wait for Longhorn for LUA 06/24/2005 04:47 PM
Microsoft is on a mission to spread the word that customers don't have to wait until Longhorn to lock down their systems using least-privileged user account (LUA), or minimum rights, principles.

Wait time

Wait time 07/31/2004 02:05 AM
USA Today Jul 31 2004 6:05AM GMT

Avoiding the wait

Avoiding the wait 07/23/2004 02:35 AM
USA Today Jul 23 2004 6:25AM GMT
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