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Santa Corp. Selects USAT to Automate
Field Deliveries

Santa Corp. Selects USAT to Automate
Field Deliveries 12/17/2004 06:31 PM
Nearly 10,000 Mall Santas, all employees of Santa Corp., will be equipped with mobile data terminals, global positioning systems, plus a range of wireless voice and data services helping Santa Corp. to maintain accurate, on-time Christmas Eve deliveries. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Medical Technology Leader Sysmex Selects
Metrix for Field Service Management:
Field Service Software Improves
Productivity of Service Operations

Medical Technology Leader Sysmex Selects
Metrix for Field Service Management:
Field Service Software Improves
Productivity of Service Operations 09/17/2004 02:49 AM
Metrix, Inc., a global leader in field service management software, today announced that it has expanded its fast-growing customer base to include Sysmex, a leading manufacturer of diagnostic systems for medical laboratories worldwide. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

ByteWyze Computer Services Names Elkins
as Field Technician

ByteWyze Computer Services Names Elkins
as Field Technician 05/28/2004 12:39 PM
dBusinessNews.com May 28 2004 4:47PM GMT

Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband
At 300Mbps

Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband
At 300Mbps 07/27/2004 09:49 PM

WiFi Wireless, Inc. Announces Private
Industry Field Test

WiFi Wireless, Inc. Announces Private
Industry Field Test 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Dec 22 2004 6:04AM GMT

SKY Perfect, DoCoMo to Field Test
Integrated 3G FOMA, SKY PerfectTV!
Streaming Services

SKY Perfect, DoCoMo to Field Test
Integrated 3G FOMA, SKY PerfectTV!
Streaming Services 05/12/2004 05:34 AM
Japan Corp May 12 2004 10:11AM GMT

Book Review: A Field Guide to Wireless
LANs for Administrators and Power Users

Book Review: A Field Guide to Wireless
LANs for Administrators and Power Users 05/04/2004 05:10 AM
A good resource for readers with some knowledge of wireless networks who are looking to increase their skills.

Field

Field 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

Joe's article yesterday (See The Ether) reminded me of something I bumped into a while back about an artist's display in England called field.

Richard Box, the "Artist in Resident of the Department of Physics at the University of Bristol" assembled a display of 1301 flourescent tubes that are illuminated only by the ambient energy from high-voltage transmission lines.

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Wheat Field Wi-Fi

Wheat Field Wi-Fi 09/07/2004 10:57 AM

The Search Field

The Search Field 07/01/2004 05:22 AM

One of the new features added to WebCore is an HTML wrapper for the Cocoa NSSearchField, which means you will be able to use this control in your Web pages and Dashboard widgets.

The syntax is:

<input type="search">

The incremental attribute can be used to control whether or not the search is performed as you type.

The placeholder attribute can be used to set the greyed placeholder text in the control.

The autosave attribute allows you to specify an autosave name for your search results in the dropdown. What's cool about the autosave is that it's global, which means that two Web sites could put up a search field with an autosave name of google and then they would share the search results. (Since the actual result values are not accessible to the page there is no privacy violation.)

The results attribute allows you to specify how many results should be displayed in the dropdown.

The search DOM event fires at the precise time the search should be performed and obeys the heuristic for the control, so you don't have to trap key and click events at all. You can use the onsearch attribute on the control to respond when the search happens.

When submitted, the search control will save the submitted result, so that the user can select it from the dropdown when returning to the page.

In addition the search control is a subclass of NSTextField and also supports all of the functionality of the text input element, so you can make it readonly, set a maxlength, etc.

The search control will also even degrade gracefully in other browsers, since they won't recognize the unknown type and so will just use a text field instead.

If you have the 1.3 preview for Panther or are playing with Tiger, you can try this feature out. It works in both.

Robot Dog, One of, Field Use

Robot Dog, One of, Field Use 01/07/2004 01:56 PM
The US Army TACOM group is spending $2.25 million on research projects aimed at building robot dogs that can carry a soldier's field equipment and keep up with the soldier over any terrain. Right now, each man has to carry up to 100 pounds of ammunition, food, and equipment. The long term challenge is making a four legged robot that can move as fast and quietly as a man over any terrain. The immediate challenge is making a four legged robot big enough for the job that doesn't fall over and doesn't need an internal combustion engine for power. For more, see Noah Shachtman's interesting article on the program in Wired.

Field Day 2004

Field Day 2004 06/25/2004 11:31 PM

In the Flat Field

In the Flat Field 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Woke up early yesterday, anxious to get out on the trail . . . and immediately went back to sleep....

That's Why There's a BCC Field, Folks

That's Why There's a BCC Field, Folks 06/17/2005 03:44 PM

119 students who failed courses get group email: 119 kids are failing out of the University of Kansas, and now they all know each other.

The students were notified earlier this week that they were in jeopardy of having their financial aid revoked. The e-mail sent Monday by the Office of Student Financial Aid asked for additional information to determine if they were still eligible for aid.

The e-mail address list included the names of all 119 students, with the result that everyone on it could see the names of all the others.

Reports from the field

Reports from the field 06/17/2005 04:55 PM

As I announced, we focused on people who are maintaining nodes in the distributed podcasting community directory in our current round of testing. Nick Starr who maintains the AudioBlogs category has already managed a successful conversion. For the most, people were editing their OPML by hand, now that they have an editor whose native format is OPML, the job gets easier and the quality of the output goes up.

I tend to cackle while I work at my computer. Nothing earth-shaking here. This is about as important as the observat ion that I'm more popular than Jesus. Sorry James, no smiley.

Field Trip

Field Trip 01/30/2004 03:07 PM
Get out of the house with this week's educational freeware. You'll be going places and learning new things.

Join me for my informative and entertaining picks in this week's Freeloader Friday.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

FC Now: Look Back: Cyrus Field

FC Now: Look Back: Cyrus Field 04/14/2005 06:51 AM
Just to add to Heath's blog below, did anyone catch PBS's "American Experience" special on Cyrus Field, "the father of the transatlantic cable"? Amazing film about an amazing man who failed, failed and failed again. In the process he lost...

Assess the Playing Field

Assess the Playing Field 02/11/2004 09:44 AM
TheStreet.com Feb 11 2004 1:47PM GMT

A field all covered in cheese (09:25 PM)

A field all covered in cheese (09:25 PM) 03/11/2003 09:30 PM
Dan: "You know, sometimes it's worth it -- taking all the pies in the face. Sometimes, you come through it feeling good." Casey: "Yes." Dan: "And how

Field Guide to SMS 2003

Field Guide to SMS 2003 04/21/2004 06:08 AM

Web phone field grows

Web phone field grows 12/11/2003 10:48 PM
IHT Dec 11 2003 10:07PM ET

Track and Field Tech

Track and Field Tech 06/17/2005 03:44 PM

Can We Trust Track & Field Records? - How accurate are they?: Interesting anaylsis of the technology used to time track and field events. This is in the news lately because a Jamaican just broke the 100 meter record by .01 seconds. Not a big margin.

The best systems use a digital camera positioned on the stripe that marks the finish line. This camera has a very narrow field of view and records only the thin slice of space directly above the line. As runners cross the line and into its field of view, the camera takes a rapid series of time-stamped pictures. These create a composite image that shows when each athlete passed through the slice and over the line.

Via Kottke.

Clemens Gets First Win at Wrigley Field
(AP)

Clemens Gets First Win at Wrigley Field
(AP) 06/02/2004 04:53 PM
AP - Roger Clemens won for the first time at Wrigley Field, keeping his perfect season intact by pitching the Houston Astros past the Chicago Cubs 5-1 Wednesday.

Depth of Field II Demo

Depth of Field II Demo 12/28/2004 11:17 AM

SMS FAQ: Experiences from the Field: SMS
2.0 and NetWare 4.11

SMS FAQ: Experiences from the Field: SMS
2.0 and NetWare 4.11 09/14/2004 05:08 PM

'Farmer' not exactly outstanding in his
field

'Farmer' not exactly outstanding in his
field 08/30/2004 05:07 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 9:02PM GMT

Field Specifications for E-Commerce

Field Specifications for E-Commerce 08/08/2004 02:07 PM
saves having to wonder what you're supposed to name a field

Edwards in "left field"? Not quite

Edwards in "left field"? Not quite 07/07/2004 06:18 PM

Leveling the Playing Field

Leveling the Playing Field 12/10/2003 05:23 PM

Brilliant Collaborative Effort

"These last few days I've been very excited about the PER:NA project, sponsored by the National Library of New Zealand. PER:NA stands for Purchasing Electronic Resources: a National Approach. What the National Library has done is negotiate a consortium deal that covers every library in New Zealand. All sizes. All sectors. School, public, academic, special. Everybody is included.

The idea is that as many libraries as possible sign up for the consortium, which gives us access to some quality general information sources, supplied by Ebsco and Gale. We get access to full-text and bibliographic databases containing business, health, news, and general reference sources, both serials and monographs.

A quick flick-through shows me I could save quite a significant sum by signing up, and gain access to titles I wouldn't have a chance of purchasing any other way. And my customers (colleagues, staff, whatever) like the idea too (which is really what's important). Looks like we are good to go.

I'm really pleased by this. Let's hope it's the beginning of something even bigger, and well done the National Library." [VALISblog]

I missed this when Simon first posted it last month, but this is a fantastic model. I think Canada is doing this, too, at least for academic libraries. Think of the collective bargaining power libraries could leverage if we started working together on this kind of thing. On some level, Illinois is doing this statewide with some FirstSearch databases, but we should be able to do more. Especially in light of recent develo pments.

Tom DeLay's fallow field

Tom DeLay's fallow field 06/11/2004 12:47 PM

SLMC to field moulavis at PC elections

SLMC to field moulavis at PC elections 05/15/2004 03:48 PM
Sri Lanka Sunday Times May 15 2004 7:48PM GMT

A hero in the field of computer
programming

A hero in the field of computer
programming 12/22/2003 05:34 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 22 2003 4:38AM ET

An Artist Who Makes the Field His Canvas

An Artist Who Makes the Field His Canvas 09/14/2004 12:14 AM
The Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki might be the only man who can eclipse George Sisler's major league record of 257 hits in a single season.

Taxation Without Representation Field at
RFK Stadium

Taxation Without Representation Field at
RFK Stadium 04/09/2005 01:08 PM
Taxation Without Representation Field at RFK Stadium

taxationwithoutrepresentationstadium.com
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The Ajax reality distortion field

The Ajax reality distortion field 04/14/2005 03:33 PM

David Temkin raps it out.

WE spent five years trying to build a "Laszlo-like" rich media interface platform inside of Javascript and tehbrowser. Believe me this is one subject I know about.

I LOVE ODDpost and the Google Maps thingie and what people are doing with D HTML nowadays. Our weboutliner is in D HTML.

But lordy lordy lordy - do these folks have a reality distortion field up. David Temkin agrees. Or shall I say - I agree with him.

Ajax, Ajax, Ajax -- the buzzword has taken the Web world by storm. As it's been presented, A jax ("Asynchronous JavaScript + XML") is a new way of creating rich Internet applications by means of "standard, mature, and well-understood technologies" -- i.e., DHTML. This is the big draw of Ajax, and is the core of the hype.

It is indeed possible (and sometimes even desirable!) to create rich Internet applications using DHTML; I've been talking about this for some time. But the idea that DHTML technology is standard, mature and well-understood is accurate in only a theoretical way.

Until very recently, it was commonplace knowledge that DHTML doesn't work consistently across browsers, isn't maintainable, requires code forking, delivers limited fidelity and so on. And while perhaps this is still common knowledge among level-headed developers, somehow the introduction of the "Ajax" buzzword has induced Web-wide amnesia, and people are now under the illusion that creating full-scale applications in JavaScript is a simple proposition -- just throw in a little script here and there, and you have an app suitable for Web deployment. No new learning required, just a few clever hacks.

Welcome to the Ajax reality distrortion field.

This one post about replacing Flickr's Flash UI with a DHTML UI seems to sum up these contradictions rather concisely:

First, the developer, Neil Kandalgaonkar, writes that this DHTML version of the Flickr UI will work in more places that the Flash UI that Flickr uses:

"So what's wrong with Flickr's perfectly good Flash interface? Nothing. But maybe...you often use operating systems where Flash doesn't work, or doesn't work well."

But later in the post, Neil goes on to write:

"This is a hack that works in just one browser, Firefox. Developing cross-platform DHTML is much harder and more painful. Flash has a lot of advantages over DHTML; it's truly cross-platform, and can do much more special effects. If that works for Flickr, more power to them."

Well, that sounds rather different! Finally, when explaining why someone might be interested in what he's done, Neil writes:

"...you're a web developer and you are interested in this bleeding-edge Ajax stuff."

I'm confused. Isn't Ajax/DHTML "standard, mature, and well-understood"?

Just to be clear: I think what Neil has done is cool. But cool, bleeding edge, difficult and incompatible isn't what Ajax is supposed to be all about.

I sometimes think of how developers look at DHTML apps in terms of grading on a curve. A Laszlo-, Flash-, or Java-based RIA will typically receive all sorts of complaints from Web standards vigilantes about non-standard UI, accessibility issues, problems with bookmarking and deep linking, and incomptibility with search engine crawlers. But a similar app built using DHTML -- excuse me, "Ajax" -- elicits enthusiastic responses from the very same crowd like "Wow! Look at how cool this DHTML site is! Isn't that UI great?"

Of course a full Ajax/DHTML app has nearly identical issues with UI, accessibility, bookmarking, and search engines that other RIA technologies do; but they have the veneer of being "standard". And just to state the obvious, lest we forget: HTML as a standard for Web applications is in a precarious position, with the leading browser vendor actively working to define its own all-new markup language for networked applications, and other browser vendors creating a splinter group that diverges from the W3C to promote their own standards for Web applications.

Theoretically, DHTML is a standard. But to quote Yogi Berra: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

[David Temkin]

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Monsanto's Fallow Wheat Field

Monsanto's Fallow Wheat Field 05/11/2004 02:57 PM
Monsanto's decision to stop development of its spring wheat demonstrates customers continued wariness of genetically modified food.

The Earth's magnetic field may flip

The Earth's magnetic field may flip 07/14/2004 03:01 AM
trend for a magnetic flip .. changing magnetic fields

nytimes.com/2004/07/13/science/13magn.html
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Nick Kereakos: A Studio In The Field

Nick Kereakos: A Studio In The Field 12/15/2003 09:19 PM
"That's where Pro Tools on the PowerBook is great, because my whole recording rig is just a small laptop and a small interface from Pro Tools. It weighs -- what? Six pounds?" By Barbara Gibson (Apple via MyAppleMenu)

3G W-CDMA Field Trial in Beijing

3G W-CDMA Field Trial in Beijing 12/16/2003 06:38 AM
3G Dec 16 2003 5:38AM ET
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