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Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American)

Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American) 07/17/2004 11:22 AM

A friend was complaining about Ronald Reagan yesterday, not completely mollified by his death.  What had Reagan done to bother her, I asked?  She was upset by Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court, by his inaction on AIDS, and a variety of other domestic issues.  How could she hate Reagan more than Bush? "Bush is out there messing up foreign countries instead of our own."

Despite not having voted for either man, I discovered a strong personal preference for Reagan over Bush II.  Reagan was an American working on American problems.  Maybe he didn't do as good a job as we would have liked, but at least he was trying.  Bush, on the other hand, projects an image of spending all of his time and energy thinking about Iraq and Iraqis.  The only explanation that makes sense is that Bush is actually an Iraqi.  Who other than an Iraqi would be so interested in Iraq?  When W. is not talking about Iraq he is often talking about Jesus so probably he is an Assyrian Christian, one of the groups that lived in Iraq before the Arab invasion (background< /A>).

Perhaps Kerry and Edwards have a chance after all because they are running against a foreigner.

[Note:  there is some chance that Bush is Kuwaiti or Saudi rather than Iraqi.  The owners of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were badly inconvenienced by Saddam.  There was a New York Times article right after the 1991 Gulf War where they talked about how the Emir of Kuwait would marry a 13- or 14-year-old girl every Friday night and then divorce her on Saturday and that this was the kind of lifestyle that American troops were supporting by giving Kuwait back to the Emir--you could understand why the Emir, even with $billions in foreign bank accounts, was so anxious to have his country back.  Still, there were never too many Christians in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia so evidence points back to W. being an Iraqi]

eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook

eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook 04/21/2004 06:37 PM
By Rob-ART Morgan, Bare Feats (via MyAppleMenu)

Google versus Yahoo versus MSN

Google versus Yahoo versus MSN 03/31/2005 09:13 AM
Hindustantimes.com - Thu Mar 31, 12:56 pm GMT

P versus NP

P versus NP 04/11/2005 12:05 AM
On Friday night, we were watching Numb3rs, and the math geek character made a big deal out of the "P versus NP" question. Sean wanted to know more about what he was talking about, so here's a couple of links...

Spy Versus Spy

Spy Versus Spy 06/15/2004 01:39 PM

Bruce Schneier: Breaking Iranian Codes. If the Iranians knew that the U.S. knew, why didn't they pretend not to know and feed the U.S. false information? Or maybe they've been doing that for years, and the U.S. finally figured out that the Iranians knew. Maybe the U.S. knew that the Iranians knew, and are using the fact to discredit Chalabi.

Intel 865/875 Versus 915/925

Intel 865/875 Versus 915/925 07/12/2004 09:04 AM

Red versus Blue

Red versus Blue 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
The Election Projection Website. A semi-scientific website that attempts to forecast the 2004 presidential election. Via Newmark's Door.

CBC versus Ann Coulter

CBC versus Ann Coulter 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
Ann Coulter and the facts on Vietnam
Its nice seeing Ann Coulter squirm. While being interviewed by the CBC's Bob McKeown, Coulter displayed her lack of historical knowledge on Canada's involvement (or lack of) in Vietnam. What's even more telling is her inability or refusal to back down even when she is dead wrong. Here is the video.

AOL versus some guy on the Internet

AOL versus some guy on the Internet 03/17/2005 02:53 AM
Is AOL watching you through AIM, and can they steal your soul? The blogosphere says yes and AOL says no.

Gays versus God?

Gays versus God? 04/12/2004 08:39 AM
MillionForChrist.com? Gays versus God? Looks like there's a race between people who support Christ and people who support same-sex marriages. They're both looking for a million signatures. Conincidence? Any bets on who's gonna win?

XML Versus the Infoset

XML Versus the Infoset 11/20/2002 07:48 PM
In his latest Endpoints column Rich Salz opines about the differences between XML specifications based on XML and those based on the XML infoset.

Firefox versus IE: Round Two

Firefox versus IE: Round Two 04/12/2005 03:59 AM
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is coming your way, but not from the Mozilla Foundation. Round Two held a corporate launch Monday night with the promise of bringing "a new crop of products and services that will enhance your Firefox experience."

Boating versus Flying?

Boating versus Flying? 07/11/2004 11:55 PM

My trip to Maryland included a cruise in the Chesapeake Bay on my brother's sailboat.  Afterwards I encountered an administrator from Howard University medical school ("the oldest black med school in the country") who said that he was trying to figure out whether to take up boating or flying as a weekend activity.  Boating seems like a more sociable activity.  Everyone with a boat in the Washington, DC area heads east toward the Bay on Friday evening or Saturday morning (those government jobs are fantastic but they result in terrible beach traffic jams because nobody ever has to work on a weekend).  The marina is packed with boats and people, some of whom are hanging out on their boats without even bothering to leave the dock.  Once on the water there are dozens of boats within sight at all times and the captain must exercise constant vigilance to avoid colliding with a fellow weekend enthusiast.  If one's boat is equipped with a VHF radio one is required to monitor Channel 16 at all times.  This channel is a non-stop chatter of hailing and emergency messages.

The drive to a general aviation airport, by contrast, is usually free of traffic.  Airplanes are big and need to be spaced apart from each other.  Nobody wants to hang out inside his tiny Cirrus or Piper unless the plane is about to depart on a trip.  You're likely to run into someone you know at the airport but not likely to run into any particular friend.  One in the air and above the traffic pattern altitude you're unlikely to see more than a handful of airplanes even on a 300-mile trip.  Until September 11th there was seldom a need to monitor a radio frequency for a trip in clear weather and even in these times of paranoia and strife there might only be one transmission on 121.5, the emergency frequency, every 10 minutes.

Flying seems like a better way to keep mentally young.  You are challenging yourself to think and react quickly and rationally despite a sometimes frightening environment.  I ran into a former MIT professor at the helicopter school in Nashua, NH.  He is 69 years old, has been flying airplanes for years, and is now taking up helicopters with the intention of buying a Robinson R44 (on my wishlist of airplanes).  I was shocked when he said that he was 69 because he doesn't seem older than 50.

Thoughts from those who are both boaters and pilots?

Wikipedia versus Britannica

Wikipedia versus Britannica 09/07/2004 10:55 AM
Cory Doctorow: Ed Felten's doing some empirical comparisons of the online Britannica versus Wikipedia, and Wikipedia's doing pretty good!

Virtual memory: Wikipedia has a pretty good entry; Britannica has no entry for virtual memory, and doesn't appear to discuss the concept elsewhere, either. Verdict: advantage Wikipedia.

Public-key cryptography: Good, accurate entries in both. Verdict: toss-up.

Microsoft antitrust case: Britannica has only two sentences, saying that Judge Jackson ruled against Microsoft and ordered a breakup, and that the Court of Appeals overturned the breakup but agreed that Microsoft had broken the law. That's correct, but it leaves out the settlement. Wikipedia's entry is much longer but error-prone. Verdict: big advantage to Britannica.

Overall verdict: Wikipedia's advantage is in having more, longer, and more current entries. If it weren't for the Microsoft-case entry, Wikipedia would have been the winner hands down. Britannica's advantage is in having lower variance in the quality of its entries.

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UI Guidelines versus Usability

UI Guidelines versus Usability 09/12/2002 07:48 AM

Linux Versus BSD for Web Applications

Linux Versus BSD for Web Applications 10/02/2002 03:47 AM
Linux Versus BSD for Web Applications Jeremy has a great analysis of Linux and FreeBSD based on his experiences at Yahoo (he's a lead developer for Yahoo Finance, author of a forthcoming book on MySQL and the deployer of what I suspect is the largest to date MySQL 4 application, Yahoo Finance). I think I actually blogged this when it first came out but it's good enough to be blogged again. PS -- Thanks to Keith Devens for this link; it took a bit to find where I found it.

SCO Versus the Linux World

SCO Versus the Linux World 06/10/2004 08:01 AM

Washington Post: Showdown With The Linux Gang. Working largely on their own time, Linux devotees apply their collaborative model for creating software, known as open source, to attack SCO and its case. Dozens of online detectives comb corporate documents, analyze legal filings and publish everything they can find about the company, its finances, management and connections to Microsoft. One Web site focused exclusively on the case, known as Groklaw, was started by a paralegal named Pamela Jones and now has roughly 5,000 contributors. Though it is ardently pro-Linux, the site has grown into such an exhaustive archive of software history and law that attorneys on both sides use it as a resource. "Our international membership means SCO can't do anything anywhere on the planet without someone seeing it and telling on them," Jones said in an e-mail interview.

This may be the best roundup of the SCO case by any mainstream newspaper. Note the tip of the hat to Groklaw, which is clearly the single best repository of information about the case. Groklaw is in my book as a particularly fine example of grassroots journalism, where people at the edges of the networks are feeding data back into the middle and then back out to the edges. This is a powerful trend. I'm glad to see it used for such excellent purposes in this situation.

Google Versus Microsoft

Google Versus Microsoft 02/13/2004 09:23 AM
Google Versus Microsoft
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/business/yourmoney/01goog.html

In the gathering storm of warfare between Google and Microsoft for dominance in Internet searching, some of the things to watch for are: the impact of Google's impending IPO on company morale (and on its new millionaires); the fate of Microsoft's own search technology, expected for release later this year; the possibility, fateful for Google, that Microsoft will decide to make its new browser an integral part of the Windows operating system; and the promise of a secret Google effort known as Project Ocean, which will digitize the entire collection of the Stanford Library published before 1923 and no longer subject to copyright restrictions. (Project Ocean would make millions of digitized books available exclusively to Google users). There is also discussion within Google of the possibility of developing and marketing a phone with a built-in custom personal digital assistant that could let Google searchers work from anywhere they happened to be.

GOOGLE VERSUS BOOBLE

GOOGLE VERSUS BOOBLE 02/14/2004 08:04 PM
By Rod Chaytor. THE world's most popular internet search engine Google has issued a writ against a copycat porn site called Booble. ...

Intranet versus Internet

Intranet versus Internet 02/15/2004 11:32 PM
Information Highways Feb 16 2004 3:47AM GMT

Bloggers versus journalists

Bloggers versus journalists 07/26/2004 07:47 PM

I think the DNC could turn into a key moment in the discussion about bloggers versus journalists. I've generally been rather low-key on this issue, taking a position that bloggers and mass media should work together and that bloggers and professional journalists had different strengths and weaknesses. I am getting a sense that an increasing number of professional journalists are beginning to feel threatened or at least seem to be trying to belittle bloggers as a source of news.

Jeff Jarvis addresses this question today by quoting Tom Rosenstiel on the question, what is a journalist?

Tom Rosenstiel - Boston Globe

- A journalist tries to tell the literal truth and get the facts right, does not pass along rumors, engages in verifying, and makes that verification process as transparent as possible.
- A journalist's goal is to inspire public discussion, not to help one side win or lose. One who tries to do the latter is an activist.
- Neutrality is not a core principle of journalism. But the commitment to facts, to public consideration, and to independence from faction, is.
- A journalist's loyalty to his or her audience, even above employer, is paramount.

Under this definition, a lot of what we are calling media or press is not journalism and I DARE any professional journalist to try to defend any big media company of sticking to the definition above without fail.

I've been interviewing a lot of professional journalists about "What is journalism? What makes a good journalist?" They usually talk about vetting sources, portraying things accurately, and other things that any blogger who is used to being ripped to shreds in comments by their readers on their blog do as second nature. My conclusion is that much of good journalism is just common sense, and I would even assert that compared to journalists who don't write in their name, have fact-check desks to do their fact-checking and editors to fix their grammar, bloggers are much more accountable and have to take it in the face compared to their anonymous counterparts in the mass media.

Is mass media more rigorous than blogs? Remember the "Rumsfeld bans phone cameras" story that UPI and AFP ran and all the media picked up? Xeni at Boing Boing called the defense department and debunked the story and I updated my entry as a lot of the mass media were still going to press with the story. Did they print any corrections? I didn't see any. And this isn't an isolated incident. I've seen many cases where blogs have fact-checked and vetted stories that the media have just passed over.

I'm not blaming the mass media for their lack of ability be as nibble as blogs, but characterizing bloggers as a bunch of amateurs with no news value is really silly. Particularly annoying are the articles that seem to be picking a fight with the blogs. Maybe as Mahatma Ghandi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Dan, maybe you and "We the Media" better get over hear before the real fighting starts.

As always, I like David Weinberger's. perspective on this.

David Weinberger

For example, after the breakfast, the bloggers were swarmed by the media. "You know one difference between you and us," said a friendly guy from NPR, "We don't applaud for the speakers." But, heck, it was Howard Dean and I'll be damned if I'm not going to stand and clap for him.

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It's not about Old Media versus the
Pajamahideen

It's not about Old Media versus the
Pajamahideen 06/05/2005 11:36 PM
When conversations turn to the rivalry between Old Media and the Pajamahideen, I try to steer another course. Blogging, rightly understood, isn't going to take down newspapers, magazines, and TV, it's going to energize them. The adversarial rhetoric mostly just gets in the way. ...

Phonesafe Versus BugLite

Phonesafe Versus BugLite 08/06/2004 10:01 AM

Everyone is carrying on about the Karrysafe Phonesafe wristband [pictured left] and I guess it's sort of interesting, although it reminds me a little too much of the sort of electrical tape contraptions we would rig as young Ninjas-In-Training, but just as interesting to me (while we're copping links from the Red Ferret himself) are these GE BugLite light bulbs which claim to use a special yellow pigment coating to block UV transmission from the bulbs. The UV is apparently what attracts all those bugs at night, making the BugLites effectively invisible to our more evolved six-legged friends.

So yeah, invisible light bulbs versus ninja cellphone stealth costumes. It's a tough choice, I'll admit.

Read - Phonesafe Product Page [Karrysafe via TRFJ]
Read - BugLite Product Page [GE]

Europe versus America

Europe versus America 06/21/2004 09:27 AM
the EU vs. the US .. Swedish report

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Napster versus Radio

Napster versus Radio 12/10/2003 03:03 PM
Doc says that Napster et al was "the market's correction for the failure of mainstream radio not just to adapt to the Net, but even to fulfill the missions it established for itself over the decades....Napster is radio! It's about sharing record collections the way the great radio stations of yesterdecade used to do, and today's robotic commercial radio can't remember and can no longer even begin to conceive."

I think that's a great idea, but I don't think that's what Napster was about to a large degree. If it was, than the majority of songs downloaded via Napster would not be the most popular songs played on the radio. I don't know what the numbers say about that, but from what I've heard before, they are. Napster may have been about sharing new and interesting music that we otherwise wouldn't have heard if it were designed differently. But the way it worked, you found stuff you knew of (Hot Lists allowed you to discover things, but it wasn't core to the application). And most people knew of stuff from "robotic commercial radio." Napster was about getting that stuff in a more conveneint (sometimes), more economical way.

Airplane versus Minivan

Airplane versus Minivan 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

As I plan and pack up for Alaska I have had a couple of offers from guys who wanted to come with me from Boston to Anchorage (we leave Wednesday).  It turns out that the Cirrus SR20 is not that practical for long trips unless you are either very thin or totally friendless.Full fuel is necessary for some of the long legs in the remote regions of Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories where airports are widely separated and airports that sell fuel are uncommon--mostly you only get fuel at airports that are accessible by road or ship.  With full fuel my old Diamond Star would carry 570 pounds.  The Cirrus has a longer range but the penalty is that it only holds 520 pounds fully fueled and its performance at gross weight is marginal on warm days or at high elevations.  You need a lot of runway and to make sure that you don't need to outclimb any terrain.

The airplane isn't any fun without Alex in the back seat.  Alex needs his Science Diet Nature's Best, which isn't widely available, plus some other accessories.  Dog+food is about 100 lbs. total.  The plane needs a towbar, canopy cover, and tie-down ropes at 20 lbs.  For navigation one needs paper charts and approach plates for a total of at least 20 lbs.  Survival equipment is required by statute (until 2000 or so the kit was required include a gun and ammunition) and a full tent, mattress pad, and sleeping bag is really a good idea for forced landings as well as impromptu camping when hotels are full or not dog-friendly.  That's about 35 lbs. together.  You want some electronics in the airplane, such as headsets, EPIRB (the emergency locator transmitter that Cirrus includes in the airframe is an ancient 121.5 MHz design, which is not very effective for getting rescued), and maybe a little Iridium phone.  That's maybe 10 lbs. put together.  If I want to take a camera and some clothing and my 195 lb. carcass it looks as though I will have only about 100 lbs. left over for a human passenger.  If I want to take a little folding bike that comes down to 70 lbs. spare capacity.

How does a minivan compare?  A 2005 Toyota Sienna has a "curb weight" of 4120 lbs., 2000 lbs. more than the Cirrus.  Its gross vehicle weight is 5690 for a "payload" of 1570 (the curb weight includes full fuel).

Politics versus Technology

Politics versus Technology 12/31/2004 10:40 PM

This is my last post of the year.

It was painfully obvious during the recording of today's Gillmor gang that creating a meta-identity standard will be 2% technology and 98% politics.

It's already 2005 around most of the world by the time I post this - so but as usual (as Steve Gillmor says) "I get the last word in."

So I just wanna say to Dave Winer, Kim Cameron, Craig Burton, Phil Windley, Drumkmond Reed - Papa Doc Searls and Mr. Steve "Dan's his brother" Gillmor - that we CAN do this.

We can put Microsoft's past behind them - and use them to help us build the mega meta momma backplane we talked about.

I really like Kim and he seems sincere and we can't blame him for his employer's past transgressions. Just like we can't blame Scoble either. Neither of them worked at Micreosoft during "those days" - but they work there now - and it's incumbant upon us to work with them - to help them change - from within.

As I said yesterday I'd like to nominate Dick Hardt and his Sxip Networks technology to lead this effort forward. Sxip can be a 'mini-backplane' of sorts - that can then plug into Kim's mega meta momma backplane he's talking about. I really think it's possible that 2005 can be the year that this all comes together.

By meeting the requirements of the 7 Laws of Identity (can't wait to hear the final two - Kim) and by balancing the needs of a centralized DNS with the pluralism that is required for uptake - we can help bring the era of 'Social Computing' to fruition (thanks Kim for that one.....)

Sxip Networks was designed for the type of KISS developers need to support digital identity that can become pervasive. Sxip is beholden to nobody but us. And I am not neholden to Sxip. I recieve no money from Dick and company. I just dig the shit out of what they're doing.

So it's a Ho Ho Ho and a three cheers mate (sorry Simon you didn't make it) and here's to a brand new year - and a brand new round of efforts at singing (in tune) "Kum Bah Yah" - my lord.

Cold Fusion versus PHP

Cold Fusion versus PHP 02/17/2003 08:07 AM
Cold Fusion versus PHP I just picked up some work (Pro Bono; sigh but for a good cause) doing Cold Fusion work and this resource (albeit quite dated) helped me wrap my head around it. It is also STILL the top resource for "PHP versus Cold Fusion" via Google which is quite impressive for a 2 12 year old technology article on web development. Testament to Google's ranking of weblogged content. [_Go_]

Technology Versus Terrorism

Technology Versus Terrorism 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
As we arrive at the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on America, NewsFactor takes an in-depth look at how satellite technology may be used to protect our country against future terrorism. In this series, Datacomm Research president Ira Brodsky analyzes how technology can be used to combat terror.

rc3.org | Labels versus folders

rc3.org | Labels versus folders 06/19/2004 04:32 PM
the ascendance of labels over folders .. better and more completely .. In a previous post

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Samoyed versus bicycle

Samoyed versus bicycle 04/14/2005 07:49 PM

Life with three Samoyeds can be unexpectedly eventful.  Today I walked Alex, Roxanne (his 1-year-old cousin, staying with me for one week), and Samuel (the rescued 9-month-old from Norfolk) around Harvard Square for 1.5 hours.On the way back to the apartment I thought it would be safe to tie them up outside a sandwich shop with Sammy near a bicycle.  When I came out with my sandwich the bike had been knocked over and he was chewing on the plastic brake lever housing.

Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?)

Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?) 11/03/2003 10:05 AM
Harry Fuecks wrote in to tells us about a display of Microsoft's "efforts" to come to some sort of harmony with the PHP community - a PHP to ASP converter.

OSX Spotlight versus Gnome BEST

OSX Spotlight versus Gnome BEST 06/29/2004 06:54 PM

Pear Versus ADOdb

Pear Versus ADOdb 11/25/2002 09:58 AM
Comparing Pear and ADOdb is one of those PHP things that we're all curious about. I haven't used it but I'd also look at Metabase (sorry for no link) since someone I respect technically really likes it. [ Go ]

Microsoft Versus the Europeans

Microsoft Versus the Europeans 11/12/2003 01:07 PM
Microsoft Corp. spent years trying to persuade the U.S. court system it was not the 800-pound gorilla that the Justice Department made it out to be. Now it's giving a command performance to European regulators. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant begins hearings today in Brussels to persuade the European Commission that the Windows operating system and its, shall we say, aggressive business practices are no threat to competition in the software industry. The company will argue that the European antitrust complaint "focuses unfairly on the company and disregards its intellectual property rights and consumers' demands. In a showpiece hearing, the company will seek to appeal beyond the staff of Mario Monti, competition commissioner, to other parts of the European Commission and national regulatory agencies in the hope they might rein back the Commission," The Financial Times reported.

Zope versus Cocoon

Zope versus Cocoon 11/26/2002 05:12 AM
Evaluating a Content Management System or Portal Solution? This excellent survey gives you a better idea of what to look for. It compares Zope, a CMS written in Python, with Cocoon, a Java framework.

I must say that most PHP systems such as PHP-Nuke or Post-Nuke still cannot compare with Zope, although they are improving. The only one that comes close AFAIK is EZ Publish. Midgard is another one that's supposed to be very good, but I've never figured how to install it (remember I am only a generalist).

"zeldman.b2"

AlltheWeb versus Google

AlltheWeb versus Google 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
Does size really matter? And what exactly is a "document?" Guest columnist Rich Wiggins investigates AlltheWeb's claim to have indexed more documents than Google. From the WebReference Update. 0621

SERP Locations #10 versus #11

SERP Locations #10 versus #11 01/06/2005 05:12 PM
Some belive strongly that bot roi and click through ranks increase for #11.

Perl Versus PHP - Which to Choose?

Perl Versus PHP - Which to Choose? 11/11/2002 10:12 AM

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