ATI RV410 'to ship in October'

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Orange to ship Wi-Fi Pocket 'in October'

Orange to ship Wi-Fi Pocket 'in October' 09/10/2004 09:19 AM
Update M2000 same as XDA IIs, VPA III, MDA III

ATI will pitch RV410 at GeForce 6600 GT

ATI will pitch RV410 at GeForce 6600 GT 08/18/2004 06:27 AM
Both GPUs built on TSMC's 110nm process, reportedly

Australia to vote on '9 October'

Australia to vote on '9 October' 08/28/2004 10:19 PM
Australian leader John Howard is set to call a general election, widely expected to be on 9 October.

Don't ship it yet!

Don't ship it yet! 02/16/2004 12:51 AM
I just remembered something funny that happened. You may remember my tale about the Inktomi assimilation (or at least that's what I called it). Well something funny happened recently. How recently? I'm not saying. I had played a bit with the upcoming version of Yahoo Search. You know--the one that doesn't use Google on the back end. Anyway, I ran my standard queries for testing a new search engine. One of those, of course, is my first name. I wasn't...

Boeing's Ship Comes In

Boeing's Ship Comes In 06/15/2004 10:15 AM
Boeing's new contract to build aircraft for the Navy continues its string of positive news.

The Ship Shape

The Ship Shape 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

Up on The New Yorker site, you can find Our Perfect Summer, a new story by David Sedaris.

We actually heard Sedaris read this story back in April when he made a stop at the San Francisco Opera House during his last book tour. Then, the story was called "The Ship Shape," (I think this is a better name) and immediately after hearing it, it rose to the very top of my Sedaris personal favorites lists. I, of course, have been anxiously awaited the print version since then.

It was especially great to hear him read this story live since it's so terribly bittersweet and he does an incredible job delivering it. It's moving without being over-the-top sentimentality (this is still Sedaris, after all) and the amount of humor in the piece is just right. No one plays the fool; instead it's a story about hope and disappointment amidst the sort experiences we all have as a kids.

It's a great piece and definitely worth the read.

We also met Sedaris at the signing he was doing before the event. He was sitting at a table, alone, sort of behind a pillar. Us being us, we made some horrible small talk and I embarrassed myself fully. As we were leaving, I put my hand out to offer a handshake and then quickly pulled it back, not knowing if he even likes to be touched. (Based on his books, who'd think he'd like strangers touching him?) After I asked if it was alright to shake, he laughed and probably thought I was a nutcase.

This is why you should never meet the people you admire.

Link via Kottke.

Jumping ship at the EPA

Jumping ship at the EPA 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
The Bush administration has a plan to get rid of the senior career staff at EPA -- and it's working.

It's a ship! no, it's a submarine...no
it's:

It's a ship! no, it's a submarine...no
it's: 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Have you ever wondered how disabled ships make it back to the wharf to be repaired? Take a look at...

the ship is waiting

the ship is waiting 01/22/2004 05:08 PM
I was *incredibly* sad this afternoon when I read that Spirit hasn't talked to JPL for 24 hours, and they're afraid that they may have lost contact with the rover.

IBM to ship 4GB microdrive

IBM to ship 4GB microdrive 02/11/2004 09:36 PM
Big Blue unveils tiny hard drive made by Hitachi, targeting laptop users.

PeopleSoft CEO abandons ship

PeopleSoft CEO abandons ship 12/28/2004 05:41 PM
Not interested in Ellison's cold embrace

Homeworld 2 to ship by end of month

Homeworld 2 to ship by end of month 09/13/2004 10:53 AM
Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of Homeworld 2 has hit gold master status and is expected to begin shipping at the end of September...

Pat Buchanan jumps ship

Pat Buchanan jumps ship 12/28/2004 05:19 PM
Writing in his syndicated column this week, Pat Buchanan asked President Bush to tell the American public the “Unvarnished Truth” about the current situation in Iraq. For starters, Buchanan would like the President to tell us why we are really there. Referring to “One of the greatest bait-and switches in the history of warfare," Buchanan again reminds us of the now-discredited reasons Bush and his neocon advisers at the Pentagon used as a pretext to war with Iraq: WMDs, ties to 9/11 and al-Qaida. Since the initial invasion, we have suffered over 1,300 servicemen and women killed, over 10,000 wounded, and enormous setbacks to our prestige and national reputation as a result of prisoner abuse scandals. Our risk of suffering another terrorist attack is greater than ever.

Hey, hey LBJ! How many containers did
you ship today?

Hey, hey LBJ! How many containers did
you ship today? 05/21/2004 08:27 AM
Cargo cultists versus Christians. Two religions enter, one religion leaves! Differences have led to murder on an island near Oceania. Many of us learned about cargo cults from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. However, it seems that there's more to the story, including a Lyndon Johnson connection.

Sony to ship Wi-Fi LCD TV this autumn

Sony to ship Wi-Fi LCD TV this autumn 05/21/2004 06:47 AM
LocationFree by name, nature

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS

Microsoft to ship Longhorn with RSS 06/24/2005 06:55 PM

Microsoft on Friday announced its intention to fully support the RSS Web publishing standard in its next generation version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, along with plans to help application developers more easily create RSS-enabled applications for Windows.

Officials said the company is proposing its own Simple List extensions to RSS that will better allow the technology to support ordered lists of information. Presently, RSS feeds are sent and received as streams of messages with their order being determined only by the time they were sent. Microsoft's extensions are reportedly offering a way to add ordering information so RSS feeds can more intelligently handle, for instance, a Web site's list of best-selling items.

"The RSS [Simple List] extensions we are developing can allow a content publisher to enable a Web site to publish feeds that represent ordered lists of items. We will make these extensions widely available to developers through the Creative Commons [license]," said Megan Kidd, a group product manager on the Windows team.

Microsoft has already done some "baseline work at the platform level" that supports a range of basic functions that are contained in all applications that support RSS, which should help lighten their overall development effort.

"RSS feeds now come through Weblogs but it will go way beyond that. For instance, if you are at a conference and go to that Web site, subscribe to a feed that has all the conference information, you can have an RSS feed right into your calendar application like Outlook that will automatically update you on all changes being made at the conference like keynotes and sessions," Kidd said.

Some industry observers were encouraged not only by Microsoft's endorsement of the technology, but also because the software giant appears uninterested in dominating the technology and is being proactive in trying to help create commercial opportunities for other application developers.

"When Microsoft would talk about embracing and extending a technology, many would interpret that as engulfing and devouring. In this case, they seem to be really going out of their way to talk about extending but not co-opting this technology. The fact they are releasing this under the Creative Commons License, the same license that RSS is released under, is a pretty big deal in and of itself," said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president and research director at Jupiter Research.

Another upside for Microsoft, according to Gartenberg and others, is that the inclusion of RSS in Longhorn, along with the commitment to help ISVs create compatible applications, is that it builds more interest around Longhorn among developers and users, something the upcoming product needs.

"This should get developers a little more pumped up over Longhorn," Gartenberg said.

The downside about the move however, is that many smaller developers with RSS technologies will have the added pressure of having to be more innovative with their applications in order to stay ahead of much larger developers as RSS-based products become more of a commodity.

Asked about Microsoft's plans to incorporate RSS support into its upcoming Office 12 suite of desktop applications, Kidd said, "you can expect to see some functionality with Outlook," but that the company has yet to formulate any specific plans.

Microsoft will also make it easier for users to discover feeds within their browsers by illuminating icons that allow them to easily see what RSS feeds are available to them at any given moment. The company will also allow users to view the feed live from within the browser, which Kidd said is not available today.

"They will be able to actually see the feed, pick the one they want to subscribe to. We want to make it a one click experience," Kidd said.

Microsoft is expected to make the announcement Friday at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle.

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AMD to ship 600,000 K8 CPUs in 3Q, 1.5-2
million in 4Q

AMD to ship 600,000 K8 CPUs in 3Q, 1.5-2
million in 4Q 09/21/2004 06:41 AM
Current shipments of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 processors to OEM clients and the channel are better than anticipated, and the company expects to ship 600,000 units in the third quarter, according to sources at AMD Taiwan.

With the current level of demand likely to carry over to the end of the year, AMD is optimistic it will ship 1.5-2 million K8 CPUs in the fourth quarter, the sources estimated. Shipments of AMD’s Sempron processors will also be good in the third quarter, though not at strong as the Athlon 64 CPUs, the sources added

News source: DigiTimes

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The Navy's robotic ship

The Navy's robotic ship 12/18/2003 02:16 PM
The US Navy is deploying an experimental robotic ship to the Persian Gulf. The 23 foot long Spartan Scout class unmanned sea going vehicle is...

HP iPod to ship 15 September

HP iPod to ship 15 September 08/27/2004 01:31 PM
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CSI game to ship in August

CSI game to ship in August 06/22/2004 10:44 AM
Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has hit beta status and is expected to ship in early August...

Homeworld 2 to ship in August

Homeworld 2 to ship in August 06/23/2004 11:06 AM
Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of Homeworld 2 has hit beta status and is projected to ship in August...

Nova gets read to ship

Nova gets read to ship 06/28/2004 11:40 AM

Danny Ayers review of Nova Spivacks From Semantic Web to Global Mind. I guess Nova's getting ready to ship. Hopefully he'll (Nova) be able to make it to our "micro-content" dinner in NYC at Keen's on Aug. 19th.

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A post from Nova Spivack, From Semantic Web to Global Mind, in which he looks atā€¦well, the title says it all. Itā€™s funny, I donā€™t really disagree with any of his major points, though I wouldnā€™t have put things in this way at all.

My personal take on each section:

Distributed Intelligence
A nice line here: ā€¦whereas basic written languages simply make raw information portable, metalanguages make knowledge and intelligence about information portable. But I disagree Thereā€™s the usual problem of differentiating between x and meta-x, if that matters in the slightest. Existing human languages are pretty good at making at making knowledge portable, but there are certainly at least two related aspects of web languages that do make a difference. That the (meta-)data is machine-readable is one big step, and from that the data being machine-processable is another. A practical key is that the web languages are allow declarative expression of the information independent of processing, something which Nova is obviously aware with his reference to there being no need for hard-coding.

The Internet is a Brainā€¦and the Web is its Mind
Again I kind-of agree, but would be very reluctant to put it in these terms. The Internet has features like those of a brain, but isnā€™t yet at all smart like a mouse, and the web is currently nothing like a mind apart from in the sense of carrying a whole load of jumbled information around in it. The analogy to the animal brain only works to a point, the nature of the system is so very different. Iā€™d have probably thrown in the phrase ā€˜hive mindā€™ somewhere around here, the net as a whole gets what intelligence it has from lots of little stupid entities. But even then that isnā€™t a very good analogy, as the millions of individual humans sat on the edges are an incredibly important part of the system.

Memes are Evolving Minds of their Own
Hmm, sounds nice but Iā€™d be tempted to use the meme notion as it currently stands - pretty self-unaware little items of belief (or knowledge).

The Infrastructure of Distributed Intelligence
This is more on ground Iā€™m comfortable with, whatever analogies you use for net intelligence, the wiring is a significant part. A distinction I think Nova blurs here is between design and emergence. Viewed holistically I suppose the XML spec could be seen as an emergent property of the human+machine system, but if weā€™re talking about the net as an mind in its own right then the watchmaker isnā€™t blind.

The Evolution of Metalanguage
Not sure about the angle of this section at all, many of the ideas of the Semantic Web languages have been around for thousands of years (leading up to first order logic), itā€™s only when theyā€™re combined with computers, in particular a big network of computers that the utility explodes. The feedback loop, that the philosophers can now use the computer as a practical tool is probably quite significant too.

Mutter - we might have these metalanguages, but still I canā€™t link to the individual paragraphs in Novaā€™s piece, can we really expect a global mind before TypePad features named anchors? MARC's answer = NO!

How the Global Mind Thinks
This section gives a high-level view of the layers of the Semantic Web, and notes the role grassroots stuff like RSS is likely to play. But ā€œThinksā€ should either be in italics or at least a courier font (as in (cwm ā€“think).

Can the Global Mind Pass the Turing Test
I like Novaā€™s example here, he was able to get the answer to a math problem quicker than an expert by farming it out to other semi-expert folks. But I think the Turing Test only makes sense for a very human kind of intelligence, and a future clever web is highly unlikely to think like like that.

Reading the Global Mind
Here Nova discusses data mining and meta-metrics on the cognitive web. Itā€™s an interesting area, the fact that we can safely probe inside live systems makes everything a lot easier than analysis of biological systems. But I think thereā€™s a caveat here - beware of reading too much into statistics. Just because it talks and wears the same clothes as a causal relationship doesnā€™t mean to say it is a causal relationship.

Minding Your Business
As the global mind develops it will initially be focused around making information more useable. Indeed. Nova goes into the high-level sharing of knowledge in organizations here, which does make sense, those which take advantage of these developments are likely to have an advantage. I donā€™t think the mind analogy is needed for that.

Knowledge Objects: A New Medium for the Web
Here Nova goes into discussion of the framework his company, Radar Networks is developing. Sounds interesting, the approach seems to be something along the lines of signed RDF Objects or CBDā€™s. There seems to be emphasis on the separation of data (e.g. media objects) and metadata, which is interesting - other folks (like Adobe) go the other way, embedding the metadata. Iā€™m sure both have their place.

Knowledge Networks
I canā€™t comment much about this because a lot relates to the approach taken by Nova and co. Iā€™m not sure whether the Knowledge Networks he refers to are the semantic ā€˜islandsā€™ that when joined will for the Semantic Web, or whether itā€™s a different (proprietary) idea. Whatever, if you stick the stuff on the web you can have whatever knowledge networks you choose.

On a personal noteā€¦before the Semantic Web ideas were around (before the web or IBM-compatible PCs in fact) I myself carried the flame of the realisable global mind. Iā€™d got the idea from old SF novels, and it fitted with the growth in computing power and distribution (particularly of early personal computers). But in recent years Iā€™ve tended to avoid this angle, being more interested in making what weā€™ve got just one (big) step more useful. I still think the old-AI notion is basically reasonable, just the timescales and expectation of the work involved were completely out. Thatā€™s another reason Iā€™m wary of talking in old-AI terms, the hype angle - engineers are much more likely to be receptive to a tool that does work today rather than a vision that might work tomorrow. Letā€™s just get the RDF and OWL designed in, the vision emergence will take care of itself.

My own change in focus has more and more pointed to the notion of human augmentation as an alternative (but not incompatible) long-term vision. Right now the distributed communications angle offers a major augmentation, when the Semantic Web parts kick in a little more I believe weā€™ll start to exploit computing power of computers a lot more. There were I suppose two major sci-fi angles to all this - the individual cyberman and thereā€™s the global mind. Those of us with access to computer technology already are cybernetic, just that the human-computer interface is a whole lot clunkier than we expected. Right now the global mind is maybe bigger, thanks to the distribution of hosts, but an awful lot dumber. Really, really dumb. But an enormous benefit is already coming from a third avenue, those two pretty crude things mixed together, an augmented humantity. Not that it shows very much outside science and technology.

Anyhow, Nova has a word along those practical, next-step lines:

Note: The patent-pending Radar Networks Semantic Applications platform represents four years of stealth R&D. The platform is in pure Java and complies with open standards for the Internet and Semantic Web. A lightweight, unsupported version of the platform will be released to the public under an LGPL open-source license in summer of 2005. The full, commercially supported version of the platform will be available via a commercial license from Radar Networks.

Looking forward to it.

Marc's final note: Oh goodey, Nova's technology is patented. That way it'll attract investment and THEN they can fuck us - right? Why would we get involved in something that's patented?

Nintendo DS to ship 29 November for
$200?

Nintendo DS to ship 29 November for
$200? 05/17/2004 06:07 AM
Online retailers begin forecasting

Call of Duty to ship May 10

Call of Duty to ship May 10 04/23/2004 12:21 PM
Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of Activision's Call of Duty, the popular World War II game, has gone gold master and will begin shipping on May 10, to be in stores by May 14...

Other News: 2.5GHz G5 to Ship?

Other News: 2.5GHz G5 to Ship? 07/29/2004 10:09 AM
AppleInsider says 2.5-GHz G5's are coming next week, but only in small numbers.

Spider-Man 2: The Game to ship Aug. 16

Spider-Man 2: The Game to ship Aug. 16 08/05/2004 01:53 PM
Aspyr said today that Spider-Man 2: The Game has hit gold master status and will ship Monday, August 16...

Navini Jumps 802.20 Ship

Navini Jumps 802.20 Ship 04/16/2004 01:12 PM
Navini, which has been associated with the developing 802.20 standard, said it has joined the WiMax Forum: The 802.16 standard, backed by the WiMax Forum, and the 802.20 group are ultimately after the same idea. The 802.20 standard, spearheaded by Flarion and ArrayComm, is meant to deliver mobile high speed data. The 802.16 standard was originally designed for fixed wireless broadband implementations but is now working on adding mobility to the standard. Navini says it decided to join the WiMax group because 802.16 has so much momentum and will ultimately deliver mobility. Navini isn't the first to make the migration. I worked on a story a few months ago and 802.20 backers often mentioned IPWireless as a participant in the 802.20 standard process. But when I called IPWireless to talk about 802.20, I was told the company is more active in the 802.16 effort. While 802.16 has Intel backing it, the 802.20 crew gets a boost because Nextel is using Flarion's gear in North Carolina where it just opened its network to paying customers. The 802.20 supporters defend their efforts by saying that their standard was architected from the ground up for mobility so it's more efficient than the 802.16 mobile version which had to accommodate for the previous fixed version of the standard. Still, the WiMax Forum has quite a bit of momentum behind it and a long list of supporters. History shows that kind of momentum can be powerful....

Freescale Can Ship UWB Chips

Freescale Can Ship UWB Chips 08/09/2004 12:53 PM
Motorola's Freescale spinoff, which includes the acquired XtremeSpectrum UWB developer, has FCC approval on its UWB chips: The company is saying that chips will ship almost immediately to OEMs, and that there may be early consumer products this Christmas that use ultrawideband (very short distance, high speed) wireless to connect video, audio, and other data among devices. Freescale uses the leading proposal in the IEEE 802.15.3a task group: the "classical" direct sequence version of UWB. The proposal has foundered in the IEEE process because the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA)--led by Intel with dozens of other members--has decided to push forward with their incompatible version of UWB that they believe has more promise, especially for peripherals. The IEEE still hasn't approved Freescale's approach because MBOA and other members of the task group are denying the super-majority required to accept the proposal....

Man rescued after ship fall

Man rescued after ship fall 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
A workman is rescued at a Belfast shipyard after falling into the hold of a ship and breaking his leg.

Age of Empires 3 to Ship This Year

Age of Empires 3 to Ship This Year 01/05/2005 11:00 AM
Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios have issued a joint press release for the ages: Age of Empires 3 is scheduled to ship some time in the second half of 2005. This time around, the time tables have advanced to when European powers duked it out to conquer the "New World" and impose colonialism.

Apple: Mac OS X 10.4 to ship 29 April

Apple: Mac OS X 10.4 to ship 29 April 04/12/2005 11:48 AM
Tiger adds the obligatory triple-figure list of new features, including Spotlight, a system-wide, multiple document format search tool, and Automator, a GUI-based task automation tool leveraging AppleScript and OS X's Unix underlay. Tiger will also include QuickTime 7, which adds the H.264 video codec - a tool utilised by Apple's instant messaging client, iChat.

AMD to ship 1GHz FSB Athlon 64 FX Q1 '04
- SiS

AMD to ship 1GHz FSB Athlon 64 FX Q1 '04
- SiS 11/14/2003 05:45 AM
Chipset maker launches support part

Mac OS X Tiger to Ship on April 29

Mac OS X Tiger to Ship on April 29 04/12/2005 10:09 AM
Apple has announced the date when it's new version of OS X - Tiger, v10.4 - will go on sale. Friday, April 29, at 6pm is the magic time - $129 or £89, the price. As Neowin has previously reported, among the new features will be an updated Mail client and iCal app. Apple also says it will include the new version 7 of Quicktime, and native 64-bit application support. Preorders are now being accepted.

Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said: "Mac OS X Tiger is the most innovative and secure desktop operating system ever created. Tiger's groundbreaking new features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way people use their computers, and drive our competitors nuts trying to copy them."

Spotlight is Apple's new search system, which it touts as being a "new, lightning-fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac". Dashboard, meanwhile, allows users to put widgets on their desktop for anything from the weather to tracking flights. Also new, an updated iChat, Automator - which can make repetitive tasks easier - and RSS reader support in the Safari browser.

In other news, the BBC reports that a group of US newspapers, along with the AP news agency, are to back bloggers being sued by Apple for leaking details of the new features. A court had ruled they should be forced to reveal the sources of the information - Dave Tomlin, assistant general counsel for AP, said the case had potential implications journalists of all kinds. "For us, this case is about whether the First Amendment protects journalists from being turned into informants for the government, the courts or anybody else who wants to use them that way," Mr Tomlin said.

View: Apple announcement | Apple Store | Tiger info
View: Neowin discussion

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Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Ship Date

Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Ship Date 04/12/2005 11:31 AM

Apple OS X 10.4 "Tiger" is officially announced, to be released on Friday, April 29th. Like the release of Panther, the cost is $130. (Thanks, Dave!)

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Update: I knew all that whoring would pay off. It looks like the rumor of Gizmodo being included by default in Safari RSS turned out to be true. Thanks, Apple!

Mac OS X Tiger To Ship April 29

Mac OS X Tiger To Ship April 29 04/12/2005 11:44 AM

The operating system, which the company says includes hundreds of enhancements, will be available to customers beginning at 6.00 pm on Friday, April 29, 2005, at special events held at the company's retail locations and authorized retailers. Pre-orders for Tiger are being taken today at the online Apple Store -- Tiger will cost US$129. By Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral

Russian ship reaches ISS

Russian ship reaches ISS 06/22/2005 02:17 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Jun 20, 08:50 pm GMT

More on the Swedish Stealth Ship

More on the Swedish Stealth Ship 06/10/2004 09:36 AM

Red Hat to ship midlevel server OS

Red Hat to ship midlevel server OS 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
The Linux company wants to expand sales further with its enterprise customers while also drawing business from small and medium-size companies.

HAL Exoskeleton to Ship by End of 2005

HAL Exoskeleton to Ship by End of 2005 04/07/2005 03:19 PM
The Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) exoskeleton developed by Yoshiyuki Sankai at the University of Tsukuba in Japan is expected to be commercially available by the end of this year, according to a New Scientist article. The HAL exoskeleton acts as a bionic suit that could allow normal humans to have super-human strength. It may also allow the elderly and people with brain and spinal injuries to walk normally again. The strap-on bio-cybernetic system monitors the nerve signals sent by the wearer's brain to the limbs and mimics the intended movements. Video of a HAL prototype in action can be found on the University website.
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