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Ski centres up for sale
Ski centres up for sale
02/13/2004 09:26 AMThe Glencoe and Glenshee ski resorts are being put on the market after
losing £1m in two years.
CMS Computers'new centres
CMS Computers'new centres
12/24/2003 08:49 AMNews Today Dec 24 2003 7:42AM ET
UK call centres 'unbeatable'
UK call centres 'unbeatable'
05/07/2004 06:18 AMThe Register May 7 2004 10:41AM GMT
Call centres are a nightmare
Call centres are a nightmare
09/07/2004 07:01 AMPress '3' to read this story or hold for a hack
Praise for new family centres
Praise for new family centres
06/12/2004 12:02 AMOfsted inspectors say a new breed of family centre is helping tackle
the effects of poverty on young children.
IBM opens SOA design centres
IBM opens SOA design centres
05/19/2004 07:19 AMComputer Weekly May 19 2004 11:33AM GMT
EU in battle over air traffic control
centres
EU in battle over air traffic control
centres
02/19/2004 03:31 PMPersonal Computer World Feb 19 2004 8:11PM GMT
HP cans Centres of Excellence scheme
HP cans Centres of Excellence scheme
06/28/2004 06:33 AMPersonal Computer World Jun 28 2004 10:49AM GMT
Maintenance of computerised reservation
centres
Maintenance of computerised reservation
centres
10/31/2003 10:39 PMThe Hindu Oct 31 2003 9:26PM ET
IBM opens two Linux centres in Brazil
IBM opens two Linux centres in Brazil
12/08/2003 06:57 AMZDNet UK Dec 8 2003 6:07AM ET
Apple Centres For Middle East
Apple Centres For Middle East
05/19/2004 08:55 AMThe distributor of Apple products in the Middle East is seeking to set
up the region's first chain of Apple Centres. By Macworld UK (via
MyAppleMenu)
E Cape creates multimedia centres
E Cape creates multimedia centres
08/02/2004 10:18 PMSunday Times South Africa Aug 3 2004 2:21AM GMT
Computerised customer care centres to be
set up Statewide
Computerised customer care centres to be
set up Statewide
11/01/2003 08:41 PMThe Hindu Nov 1 2003 7:48PM ET
NCHD to setup 16 computer training
centres
NCHD to setup 16 computer training
centres
08/28/2004 11:17 AMGeo Tv Aug 28 2004 2:40PM GMT
On future developments in home media
centres...
On future developments in home media
centres...
06/05/2005 10:48 PMA couple of days ago I was e-mail interviewed by a guy writing an
article on future developments in televisions and home media centres
who was interested in the piece I wrote on Social Software for Set-Top Boxes. For what
it's worth - here are my answers in full, slightly edited for
clarity:
In your presentation you outlined some interesting ideas (buddy
lists, watch with friends etc.) - Is anyone going down this route?
Online gaming is leading this kind of hybridised social /
entertainment stuff - things like Xbox Live already make it possible
for you to talk and chat and play alongside people from all over the
world - and to manage those relationships. Simultaneously, each of
these boxes is coming closer and closer to the idea of a home
entertainment hub, so I wouldn't be surprised if the edges between the
various activities you could do with them started to blur. Also,
around the same time that I put up my stuff on Social Software for
Set-Top Boxes, the PARC people also started talking about similar stuff.
Obviously, a huge amount of the technology that we take for granted
today was developed at PARC, so that bodes quite well for the
future.
Is TV and PC convergence a dead idea? I think the idea of a
screen in the corner of your room that you watch TV on and then
completely change modes so that you can do your taxes is pretty much
inevitably going to have limited appeal. There are machines that can
do this kind of stuff already of course, but they're really targeted
towards people with very limited space - students and the like. I
think the future looks much more interesting than that - with some of
the functionality that has been associated with PCs starting to appear
in entertainment appliances all around the home. The technology behind
all the devices is probably going to be pretty much the same and
slightly further off I think we can expect that they'll all be talking
to each other behind the scenes. The various devices in your home will
be acting together to give you relatively unified access to your data
and media and to the network - but each device will provide its own
way of mediating that data - it's own tailored interface.
What about the Apple media hub? Yeah, I don't know quite
what Apple are doing to be honest. With computer technology gradually
moving out of the desktop PC and into the rest of the home, you'd
think they'd be right at the forefront. That kind of thing - making
complex concepts and devices comprehensible - is exactly what they're
great at. Sony and Microsoft are clearly making huge inroads with
their gaming machines to the extent that they already have low-powered
media hubs attached to millions of televisions worldwide - I really
would have thought that Apple would similarly be looking to get into
that space by leveraging their advantage in the digital audio space.
But while there are rumours that the Mac Mini is destined to be a
foundation for that kind of thing, there's very little actual evidence
of it so far.
Is D-TV more likely to see a continuation of selected internet
or internet-like functions rather than fully-fledged net access?
Fundamentally the interface just isn't there for web-browsers on the
TV to really take off enormously. I don't doubt that people will
continue to develop them, and I don't doubt that there will be some
people who use them, but having to have an extra wireless keyboard or
input device and having to control the screen from the other side of a
room makes the whole enterprise less than optimal. In the longer term,
I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't pretty easy to install
network-enabled apps on your TV that allowed you to do things like
access your Flickr photostream or the iTunes music store, but I would
think you'll probably do that kind of stuff via a different
lean-forward interface somewhere else in your home.
How do the next generation of games consoles fit in to the
mix? I think they're fundamental - unlike with set-top boxes, it's
not a fully commoditised market, there's enormous scope for
technological development and each of the major players is throwing
enormous amounts of money into the area - often expecting years of
loss-leading before profit. Of course they're looking to the
future. Of course they're competing to own this new critical
space under the TV and at the heart of the connected home. That's not
to say that the gaming element is just a Trojan horse - it's clearly
not - but I think it's also fairly clear that it's not the end of the
road. The set-top box space is a really powerful and important area -
for a start it can potentially mediate all your media consumption.
Whoever controls that has a lot of power. And the market for operating
systems is huge - how many more people in the world have televisions
than computers right now? Think how much money you could make by
having your media centre installed on every new TV sold. And boxes
like the X-box are in the perfect space to position for that final
leap...
Call centres 'bad for income and health'
Call centres 'bad for income and health'
06/23/2004 04:30 AMUNISON backs workers
Microsoft to set up 20 training centres
in Pakistan: Berkin
Microsoft to set up 20 training centres
in Pakistan: Berkin
12/22/2004 01:56 AMHi Pakistan Dec 22 2004 6:39AM GMT
Apple Centres coming to Middle East
Apple Centres coming to Middle East
05/19/2004 10:18 AMThe distributor of Apple products in the Middle East is seeking to set
up the region's first chain of Apple Centres, according to Macworld
UK...
Birlasoft plans centres in Bangalore,
Noida
Birlasoft plans centres in Bangalore,
Noida
03/28/2005 05:56 AMZDNet India Mar 28 2005 8:28AM GMT
Suck on this!
Suck on this!
07/12/2004 08:42 PM
Selfellatio
(NSFW)
[via Jane's
Guide] Suck
Suck
12/15/2002 12:23 AMThe store is really messy, so I get to work 3pm to 11pm tomorrow,
Sunday. I get to work until 11pm on a Sunday. Ass.
Suck it, NYC!
Suck it, NYC!
06/11/2004 07:56 AM
The latest
affront in a war of
good vs.
evil.
I Suck
I Suck
11/15/2003 12:02 AMI tried making an AppleScript for iTunes that would change the case of
articles in ID3 tags, I got it to work, but it removed...
Wireless 'hot spots' plan for hi-tech
centres
Wireless 'hot spots' plan for hi-tech
centres
02/14/2004 10:33 PMThe Scotsman Feb 15 2004 2:33AM GMT
Compuware products selected for use at
Microsoft Technology Centres
Compuware products selected for use at
Microsoft Technology Centres
01/19/2004 05:06 AMAME Info Jan 19 2004 9:43AM GMT
TNOU to develop study centres for
computer courses
TNOU to develop study centres for
computer courses
03/26/2005 06:59 PMThe Hindu Mar 26 2005 9:43PM GMT
"Why does Windows still suck?"
"Why does Windows still suck?"
02/07/2005 02:02 AMWebl0ggers Suck
Webl0ggers Suck
03/13/2003 10:23 AMYou're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging
for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to
get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all
with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to
make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.
Sites That Suck
Sites That Suck
04/15/2005 09:55 AMSites
That Suck: This site is worthy of a browse — it's a gallery
of painfully-designed Web sites (sadly, the site itself doesn't look
all that great). I like the use of vacuum cleaners instead of stars to
measure how much a site "sucks," and great commentary like this:
I would assume that at some point, an actual person decided that a
hit counter wasn't enough, and that it needed to be an animated hit
counter that comically rolled at such a speed that it caused you to
imagine traffic so intense that the poor counter couldn't keep up. Oh
the hysteria!
It's in blog format, so there's an RSS feed.
Verbs Suck
Verbs Suck
03/11/2003 11:53 AMJoe Gregorio:
XForms doesn't support the DELETE verb.
I find this very
amusing<
/a>.
Forget SOAP. Forget ReST. Consider the following flow. I POST an
email address to a URL. An SMTP message comes to that address. In
the body of that message is a URL. Issue a GET on that URL. You get
a cookie.
It's just data.
It is a very
big
world out there
Deadlines still suck
Deadlines still suck
03/26/2005 01:16 PM
Even when you're doing work you love. In other news: today I finally
finished Chapter 14: Blog Your Build Process and Chapter 15: Blog From
a Chat Room.
Why, oh why, does Windows suck?
Why, oh why, does Windows suck?
02/05/2005 09:35 PMA SFGate columnist (and Mac user) has asked a hot question, but I
think those looking to Microsoft to solve all their ills are missing
part of the social landscape that keeps the company cozy.
but tweakers still suck
but tweakers still suck
04/11/2005 07:45 PM
I
told you Ecstasy was good for you. "The study of Ecstasy for
the terminally ill will involve 12 cancer patients who have less than
a year to live. They'll receive varying doses during two strictly
supervised therapeutic sessions. The drug, once hailed as
'penicillin for the
soul,' is a chemical cousin to amphetamines that reportedly
induces feelings of profound empathy. It will be combined with
traditional psychotherapy, and, [Dr.]
Halpern hopes, 'enable them to open up in therapy so they can talk about
challenging issues and resolve their grief.'" (reg rq'd)
Why Does Windows Still Suck?
Why Does Windows Still Suck?
02/05/2005 09:08 PM“Why does Windows still suck”
“Why does Windows still suck”
02/05/2005 09:55 PMread the whole article .. and answers
it
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Air America Might Not Suck
Air America Might Not Suck
08/05/2004 10:54 PMI've made fun of Air America once before for having way too many
people on staff for a radio station, but things might not look...
All KVMs suck.
All KVMs suck.
04/04/2005 11:57 PMMacInTouch:
All
KVMs suck.IBM to spend $35M to create services
centres for small and mid-sized
businesses
IBM to spend $35M to create services
centres for small and mid-sized
businesses
09/04/2004 12:25 PMCanadian Press Sep 4 2004 4:15PM GMT
Bill Gates to open computer centres for
indigenous Aussies
Bill Gates to open computer centres for
indigenous Aussies
06/28/2004 08:01 AMHindustan Times Jun 28 2004 12:26PM GMT
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