Software That Lasts For Years And Years

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"Software That Lasts 200 Years"

"Software That Lasts 200 Years" 07/15/2004 10:17 AM

Software That Lasts 200 Years

Software That Lasts 200 Years 07/15/2004 01:39 AM
Software That Lasts 200 Years

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Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200
Years

Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200
Years 07/15/2004 07:09 AM

GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software
Activism

GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software
Activism 11/03/2003 08:58 PM

Computer Q&A: Five years is reasonable
for Windows software ...

Computer Q&A: Five years is reasonable
for Windows software ... 12/25/2003 07:52 PM
He correctly points out that "Windows 98 holds a strong second place" among operating systems used in Google searches. Unfortunately ...

Software firm's ex-bosses face seven
years

Software firm's ex-bosses face seven
years 02/11/2004 12:10 PM
Silicon.com Feb 11 2004 2:46PM GMT

The Free Software Community After 20
Years: With great but incomplete
success, what now?

The Free Software Community After 20
Years: With great but incomplete
success, what now? 01/05/2004 08:34 AM
It was twenty years ago today that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU. While we have never released a complete GNU system suitable for production use, a variant of the GNU system is now used by tens of millions of people who mostly are not aware it is such. Free software does not mean "gratis"; it means that users are free to run the program, study the source code, change it, and redistribute it either with or without changes, either gratis or for a fee.

Ford Dumps Online Purchasing Software
After 4-Years, Millions Of Dollars
Wasted

Ford Dumps Online Purchasing Software
After 4-Years, Millions Of Dollars
Wasted 08/17/2004 03:23 PM
Remember all those expensiv e new government computer systems that simply don't work (or made people cry by making the "save" process take 15 steps)? It's certainly not limited to the government sector. Ford is now admitting that they're dumping an internet purchasing system they bought from Oracle four years ago, after being unable to make it work with existing systems. Luckily, they kept the legacy system running, so they're just switching back to that. What's scary is that these stories don't seem that far off the norm. Almost everyone seems to have stories of multi-million dollar enterprise software systems that don't work.

Three Years On

Three Years On 09/11/2004 09:19 AM
Three Years On A sobering analysis by Juan Cole of the strategic motivation behind 9/11.

Five years!

Five years! 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The first post to this weblog was made on March 14, 1998, making it five years old last week. I'm trying to recall where all

Two Years

Two Years 06/17/2005 06:08 PM
... ago today, the Pie wiki was created.  During that period, we had interminable naming discussions, a lengthy process of selecting a standards body, endless discussion on dates, and a last call. One week from today, format-09 is scheduled to be reviewed by the IESG.

10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago 12/30/2004 04:35 AM

OK - so I didn't mark this exactly with an October 12th anninversary - but it was 10 years ago that Dave Winer first 'blogged' me - rapping out my Marc's 10 Things.

In honor of this auspicious anniversary - I'd like to comment on or update many of these claims on things that the media should be covering on Multimedia and Interactive TV but isn't.

I wrote (in 1994):

Interactive Music Videos

1. Interactive Liner notes are great. Repackaged old music is fine, but MediaBand has started a new category - called Interactive Music Videos - which are original pieces that combine songs, music videos and videogames. It's a new artform that breaks down the barrier between artist, musician and programmer.

I was in the midst of pushing our 'MediaBand' interactive music video ensemble in 1994 - which put out a CD ROM, performed live, had a screenplay and had it'sd own broadband network to interact with folks - in real-time.

So I was seriously into brow beating all my colleagues who simply licensed Bob Dylan or Prince and cranked out shitty ass CD ROMs. To me - that really missed the essence of what was possible combining, music, video and interactivity.

To this day, this new artform is just kind of bubbling beneath the surface - not really making it out. Dance Dance Revolution is the sign of times - now.

BTW a young artist named Moby took some of our MediaBand Director files and added his own artwork and music to it. :-)

Kid's Content

2. Kids today see the twitchy-ness of Nintendo and they see the production values of MTV. Multimedia today is neither. We need to combine the interactivity of Nintendo with the production values of MTV.

This area certainly has matured and grown. We were in the videogame business back in '81-'83, but we never dreamed that gaming would be so 'off the hook' - as it is today.

But Mimi (my daughter) has a great time playing with the Barbie fashion Designer software - and Dora the Explorer rocks. So I'd say this category has fulfilled it's destiny. At least so far.

CD ROMs

3. We didn't call it a floppy disk industry, so how come it's a CD ROM industry? In fact CD ROM [mentality] is holding back the creativity and growth of the entire interactive digital media industry.

Just take out CD ROM and insert 'web'. Same problem exists today. This is why we have CMSs.

I call the solution to this challenge "scalable content". In fact we were using this term way back in '94. Marqui outputs scalable content - BTW.

So CMSs have matured and we don't have to convince folks to de-couple their content from their form anymore. Thank goodness.

Scalable Content

4. Scalable content is an important concept when developing interactive media today. You don't want to design yourself into a corner, letting the technology define the content. Ideally you'd let the content define the technology. Scalability means downsizing through compression, it means user interfaces that work with both single and multiple users, it means getting ready for Interactive TV.

OK - so I just correlated how CD ROMs 'holding back' creativity were similar to what happened with 'the web'. And I said that we called that Scalable Content.

Now let's take my definition of Scalable Content (back then in '94) and extend that to mean 'dynamic user interfaces' - that adjust themselves to who you are, what level of technology you feel comfortable with and what content you've created yourself.

It's amazing to me to read what I said in 1994, and see how these words influenced my thoughts and ideas over the past 10 years and how some of these ideas remain unchanged, while others have morphed and adapted themselves to world today.

The word 'scalability' is just so malleable that you can twist and turn it to mean anything you want it to mean. But is IT clear - that us humans need to be in charge much more of our user experiences - and THAT's a key part of 'activity based computing'.

Audio

5. The classic line is "Audio is the orphan child of multimedia" - why do people still say this? What is behind the hodge-podge of audio - especially on the PC? How come it's taken so long for manufacturers to include audio on their motherboards? In 1984 it was $3 in parts!

MIDI II?

6. What about MIDI? How many people know what that is? Why isn't there an advanced MIDI format in place? The original MIDI frequency standard (32k) is based a 1Mhz crystal readily available in 1982.But what's the problem today? Why hasn't MIDI evolved and grown?

RAM

7. RAM apparently is not following along the path of Moore's Law. The price is still where it was 5 years ago and systems are suffering. Today MPC II is still speced at only 4M - MediaBand needs 8M. Standard business systems should have at least 16M TODAY!

Tee Hee Hee.

You see I'm a musician by training and we put out the first music product for computers that had a piano timeline notational system, qurter note and eigth notes and a piano and real-time interaction. That was 1984.

So 10 years after that - in 1994 - I was bitching about.... well it's now 10 years later and we still don;t have clean audio solved. But we're getting pretty close. Podcastign is evidence of that.

Time stamp - Dec. 2004 - $60 for a 128M MP3 player. Retail price.

MIDI II got usurped by all sorts of things - including OSC - I keynoted at their conference this summer.

Amd I just love to see Shawn Fanning appear in "The Italian Job" and just adore the notion that Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com for $5.6B.

All this is evidence that they'll be plenty more Googles, Netscapes and Eminems.

Set top tests waste of time?

8. The whole industry hopped when John Malone announced he was going to deploy one million set top boxes with MPEG chips in them. Once it became clear that he was practicing FUD, everyone backed off of their predictions, delayed their test trials and are now waiting for the next thing to react to. The tests going on (or planned to start soon) are not based upon the same technology or even marketing premises. What good will these tests do? Will any of these tests actually grow into a real service network.

Interactive Commercials

9. What exactly is an Interactive TV commercial. Lots of people talk about it, but no one does them.

This one is dedicated to Om Mailk. I hope to see him tomorrow night at the Geek Dinner.

I spent allot of the 90's waiting for and explaining why set top boxes suck. They still do. Oh well.

Set top boxes have always been a kind of thorn in my side. In fact I hope to get a Comcast PVR setup in time for the Alias 2 hour season premiere on Jan. 5th. Wanna guess how long it'll take to get?

And the Interactive Ads future - is in John Battelle's able hands. Search meets ads in the valley of the targeted consumer. It's finally here.

Support?

10. Where's the support? As the industry moves towards 900 # support and low priced consumer software, what happens to support? Dealers obviously can't supply it. Is this a new growth market?

Well we're still looking for good Support.

I don't think that will ever change.

OK - so that's it - my 10 year update. I hope you enjoyed it.

Also - how symbolic that Dave's post show's my old Applelink address which went back to 1985. We were the 10th Mac developer. That's why I was D0010.

Five years

Five years 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
Meg just wrote and pointed out that Pyra was incorporated five years ago today.

10 years

10 years 06/05/2005 11:06 PM
On his site's tenth anniversary, Zeldman thanks you for the memories.

Five years, one day

Five years, one day 01/22/2004 02:19 PM

Yesterday I realized it has been five years since Evan and I founded Pyra, the company that led to Blogger. We used to have a company weblog called pyrAlert! (actually the software we wrote to publish pyrAlert! was what lead to the creation of Blogger). This morning Paulo wrote to point out that pyrAlert! is still online and you can go back into the archives and read what was going on at Pyra in 1999. You may also notice that there are no permalinks on any of the posts, because these posts were made BP, or before permalink! It's funny to see the kind of stuff we used to write about.

4AD - The First 20 Years (brief)

4AD - The First 20 Years (brief) 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
An illustrated history of 4AD Records

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Seven years

Seven years 03/19/2005 02:37 AM

I started kottke.org seven years ago this week. I forget the anniversary until after the fact every year even though I know it's sometime in March (for whatever reason almost everything important in my life has happened in March, at least for the last few years). Seven years is way longer than I would have guessed keeping the site going on a near-daily basis...it's the longest I've ever done anything, even longer than all but a handful of friendships. So happy birthday, old friend, it's been fun. (0sil8 started in March as well...nine years ago.)

Six years!

Six years! 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Time is flying by so quickly these days, so I didn't notice on March 14th that this weblog is now six years old. Except for the basics (eating, sleeping, remaining alive), I've never stuck with anything for six years straight, so it's hard for me to believe I'm still here doing this. Six years!...

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago?

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago? 09/11/2004 12:25 PM
Stop being economic girly-men .. statistics never lie

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Four more years

Four more years 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
Bush is reelected President of the United States of America. Four more years of abuse, torture, murder, ignorance and selfishness will follow.

Five Years, That's All We've Got

Five Years, That's All We've Got 12/13/2003 11:02 PM
Much has changed at evolt.org over its five years. Much has not. We are the change we want to see in the world.

74 Years Old

74 Years Old 08/05/2004 11:29 PM
"The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court is denied." Hours later, James Hubbard is injected with lethal chemicals and dies in Atmore, Alabama. Hubbard , convicted of a 1977 murder, was 74 years old, demented, and retarded. File this one under "it's not cruel and unusual if you don't know what's happening to you."

"three to four years old."

"three to four years old." 08/03/2004 02:42 PM

Three Years Since

Three Years Since 09/12/2004 04:38 PM
I left work on September 10th at 9:00 PM. An hour before, my coworker was getting nervous. She was leaving on a trip to Italy on the 12th and wanted to meet me at 8:30 AM on the 11th to go over what projects of hers I needed to steer in her absence. I rolled my eyes and complained that no one schedules meetings at 8:30 in the morning, and convinced her to postpone the meeting to 10:00 AM.

Three Years Of Sideshow

Three Years Of Sideshow 07/10/2004 10:36 AM
The latest Sideshow Collectibles general newsletter just showed up in my inbox and features a link to a press release that runs through some of the details behind their planned 1/4 scale characters. Click here to read about how "Sideshow Collectibles and Lucasfilm Enter Three-Year Agreement to Produce Star Wars Collectibles".

100 years of Einstein!

100 years of Einstein! 12/31/2004 01:53 AM
Einstein's miraculous centenary - "A century after Einstein's miracle year, most people still do not understand exactly what it was he did. Here, we attempt to elucidate." [oh a nd, al so see :]

HIV: 20 Years of Research

HIV: 20 Years of Research 04/12/2004 12:52 AM

"Spymac Through the Years..."

"Spymac Through the Years..." 08/27/2004 01:50 PM

Looks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It

Looks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It 07/13/2004 11:41 PM
Today's stagnant PC world is a far cry from the golden era when exciting innovations emerged every few months. By Carl Skadian, Straits Times (via MyAppleMenu)

Spammer Gets Nine Years

Spammer Gets Nine Years 04/10/2005 05:16 AM
talkleft

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10 years on and still a long way to go

10 years on and still a long way to go 12/08/2003 02:22 PM
newmediazero Dec 8 2003 1:36PM ET

100 Years of Einstein

100 Years of Einstein 12/30/2004 02:22 PM

Man gets nine years for spamming

Man gets nine years for spamming 04/08/2005 07:49 PM
A US man gets nine years in jail for sending millions of junk emails selling pornography and sham products.

What Will Become Of Apple In The Next 20
Years?

What Will Become Of Apple In The Next 20
Years? 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Jobs is placing his bets that Apple can win the hearts and minds of digital media and Internet consumers. If he is serious about serving up enterprise-class solutions beyond digital media, he should consider finding partners who are willing to do the heavy lifting. By Dan Farber (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu)

What will become of Apple in the next 20
years?

What will become of Apple in the next 20
years? 01/22/2004 11:05 PM
ZDNet Jan 23 2004 2:47AM GMT

MUGs look at 20 years of Mac ads

MUGs look at 20 years of Mac ads 07/28/2004 10:58 AM
Two Mac User Groups (MUGs) have scheduled a presentation called "Twenty Mac Years: The History of the Macintosh Through the Advertisements of Apple" to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Mac...

What Does 4.4 Billion Years Look Like?

What Does 4.4 Billion Years Look Like? 04/10/2005 07:27 AM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 10 2005 10:40AM GMT

What Does 4.4 Billion Years Old Look
Like?

What Does 4.4 Billion Years Old Look
Like? 04/10/2005 07:27 AM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 10 2005 10:40AM GMT

Lie to me. Tell me all these years
you've waited...

Lie to me. Tell me all these years
you've waited... 06/18/2004 01:08 PM
The poet of nightfall Twentyfive years ago, film director Nicholas Ray died in New York. Like Jacques Tati and Samuel Fuller, Ray did a lot of living before he ever got around to filmmaking: he was of part of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, a devotee of southern folk music, an avant-garde theatre director. He had made Rebel Without a Cause and survived James Dean, and the title of the film seemed to dramatise his terrible, self-destructive battles with Hollywood. His films (They Live By Night, In a Lonely Place, On Dangerous Ground, Johnny Guitar, Th e Savage Innocents, King of Kings) were in love with imprisoned life, but the dark edge of mourning was always there, too. He was idolised by the young Cahiers du Cinem a critics who would become the directors of the New Wave. François Tr uffaut once noted: "There are no Ray films that do not have a scene at the close of day; he is the poet of nightfall, and of course everything is permitted in Hollywood except poetry." Contrasting Ray and Howard Hawks, he added: "But anyone who rejects either should never go to the movies again, never see any more films". Jean-Luc Godard offered another sweeping panegyric: "There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini ), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And cine ma is Nicholas Ray. These days, lucky Chicagoans can admire one of Ray's greatest works, Bitter Victory -- the film about the dangerous games men play with macho self-images... (more inside)
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