Why Computers Are Screwed Up
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Why Computers Are Screwed Up - Video
Why Computers Are Screwed Up - Video
11/16/2003 11:47 PMFrom 60 Minutes: "One day about 10 years ago, the door to my office
opened and in walked Bill Gates. I knew his name but really didn't
know much about him.
He seemed like a nice guy, and he's done more good things with his
money than most billionaires, but that's as far as I want to go being
kind to Bill Gates. "
Gerrymandering for ALL! And we are
screwed!
Gerrymandering for ALL! And we are
screwed!
04/28/2004 02:29 PM
Veith v. Jubelirer affirmed by the US Supreme Court
In a 5-4 opinion, the
US Supreme
Court upheld that gerrymandered Congressional districts are legal
and overruled
Davis v. Bandemer.
Full opinions available. For a background on why this is a
structural constitutional problem and why we should be worried about
it, read
Gerrymandering - "The
Great Contradiction".
McDonald's Screwed Up Giveaway
McDonald's Screwed Up Giveaway
03/06/2004 01:48 AM
McDdonald's
gives away $15,000,000 after previous giveaways found
fixed.
Better get 'em while they're hot!
Screwed by search marketing firms?
Screwed by search marketing firms?
09/16/2004 07:21 PMSource: netimperative - There is no doubt that, with the current
euphoria surrounding search because of the predicted billions that go
with it, everybody in the marketplace is an expert and everybody has
the best deal. Rarely has the term...
Adult magazines screwed by the Internet?
Adult magazines screwed by the Internet?
11/10/2003 11:24 PMInteresting AP story about the web's impact on the economics of adult
print magazines:
After 35 years in the business of titillating and
offending, pornographer Al Goldstein says his magazine can't compete
anymore. The audience is just as large, he says, but the Internet has
transformed the product and its delivery. Just over a month ago,
Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy, giving him a chance to cut costs, relaunch the magazine
and refocus attention on his Web site.
Goldstein said circulation woes throughout the field show "we are
an anachronism; we are dinosaurs; we are elephants going to the bone
cemetery to die. ... The delivery system has changed, and we have to
change with it if we want to survive."
Link (Thanks, JP!)Dear Atari: your DRM screwed me, so now
I hate you
Dear Atari: your DRM screwed me, so now
I hate you
12/19/2003 11:45 AMGood letter from an Atari fan to Atari, describing the way that their
anti-copying technology has screwed the innocent in order to get at
the guilty.
Link
(
Thanks, Marie!)
Franken as "Enforcer? Dems are screwed!
Franken as "Enforcer? Dems are screwed!
01/27/2004 05:16 PM AL
FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER Defending free speech by tackling
a heckler?
"I got down low and took his legs out," said Franken
afterwards. "I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom of
speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak
without being shouted down." Wacky.
[via the delightful and always dependable NY Post!] Voters in California tell Walmart to get
screwed
Voters in California tell Walmart to get
screwed
04/09/2004 04:00 PMFinally people are standing up to Walmart. I wish my home town would
have had the fortitude to stand up...
Child's play screwed over by media.
Child's play screwed over by media.
01/05/2004 03:39 AM Wil
Wheaton sums it up best -- Penny Arcade's
Child's Play,
as posted previously,
has been completely ignored by the media, despite donating over
US$200,000 worth or toys and cash to a local children's hospital.
11,100 news items on violence in video games, 3 news items on video
gamers opening their hearts and wallets.
Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance
Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance
12/30/2004 04:48 PMCory Doctorow:
Thomas sez, "Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights
Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers: A pair of researchers
documented increasing barriers to documentary film production caused
by the high cost of obtaining rights clearances from IP holders."
The study explores the implications of the current terms of rights
acquisition on the creative process of documentary filmmaking in
today's marketplace, and from them makes recommendations to lower
costs and promote creativity. It focuses on the lived experience of
independent documentary filmmakers who work primarily within a
broadcast environment (sometimes with a theatrical "window"), in
coping with the creative challenges created by acquiring and granting
rights. Click here to read Untold Stories.
Independent documentary filmmakers were selected because their work
regularly requires them to interact with a wide variety of rights
holders, from archives for photographs and stock footage to musical
performers to other filmmakers. This is especially clear when it is a
historical documentary or one that comments on commercial popular
culture, but it is an issue for most documentary filmmakers, no matter
what the subject matter. When a trademark appears on a baseball cap,
or a subject happens to be watching television, or a radio in the
background plays a popular song, or a subject sings "Happy Birthday,"
rights clearance becomes a professional and creative challenge.
Link
(
Thanks, Thomas!)
I'm an open source virgin, but Microsoft
has screwed me (again)
I'm an open source virgin, but Microsoft
has screwed me (again)
04/26/2004 11:53 AMToo many open source advocates complain about Microsoft writing
terrible buggy software and think that open source developers do it
better. The truth is Microsoft is innovative, has vision, and
executes well. If open source developers can do as well as Microsoft,
it's a big compliment. Smart people like Miguel de Icaza and Brendan
Eich have known this for a long time. Miguel has a reality check for
these innocent virgins.
Brendan (one of the Mozilla leads) has a frank assessment of Mozilla too. I talked about this last
year.
An
introduction to Avalon by Charles Petzold.
CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19
CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19
05/23/2004 09:20 PMTime For CEOs To Realize How Screwed Up
The Patent System Is
Time For CEOs To Realize How Screwed Up
The Patent System Is
09/27/2004 03:20 AMWe wrote about the book
Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is
Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
earlier this year noting that
it sounded
quite good, as it not only showed what was wrong, but also
suggested a solution. The book still isn't out, but the New York
Times has some more information about it, including a discussion on
how the patent
system got to be so bad, as well as what the book's authors think
it will take to change. They say that most companies don't realize
how much damage the patent system is doing, and that a very small
group of lawyers in the D.C. patent bar have the incentive to keep the
patent system screwed up. Thus, the only real change will come when
CEOs of companies realize just how the patent system is harming their
prospects by turning the whole process into
an arms
race rather than a system for encouraging innovation. Hopefully,
this book will help get the point across.
CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19
CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19
05/23/2004 01:50 PMGeneral Zinni: They've screwed
up
cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/60minutes/main618896.shtml
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How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed
the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America
How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed
the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America
03/29/2005 11:56 AMCory Doctorow:
This long, excellent article on the history of broadcast spectrum
allocation in America is the single best explanation of the mess that
we're in today. In short: greedy broadcasters tricked Congress into
giving them free spectrum for a second set of digital channels, so
that Americans who bought digital TVs would have something to watch.
Then they did nothing with them. Meantime, cops and firefighters and
EMTs are (literally) dying for some of that squat-upon spectrum so
that they can coordinate their rescue efforts. Remember how everyone
rhapsodized about how postmodern it was that the World Trade Center
rescuers used cellphones and Blackberries to stay in touch? It wasn't
because the private sector's phones are designed by smarter people
than the emergency-squads'. It's because there's no spectrum available
to emergency workers because the broadcasters (now largely owned by or
affiliated with movie studios and cable companies) have stolen it all
from the American public.
This stuff was used as the justification for the Broadcast Flag, too
-- spectrum allocation is practically the root of all evil in America,
when you get right down to it.
From the beginning, the key combatant has been the National
Association of Broadcasters, which organized itself into a lobby in
the 1920s, even before the Federal Communications Commission was
formed in 1934. For more than 75 years, the NAB has been fighting to
help the broadcasting industry hold on to its slice of the spectrum --
the frequencies TV and radio stations use for their broadcasts -- in
the face of demands from competing technologies and rival industries,
and even public safety concerns.
In the 1980s, when the FCC appeared ready to reallocate some of the
spectrum for public safety, the NAB persuaded Congress to block the
commission and hold off the change because, the broadcasters said,
they needed the spectrum to develop high-definition television. Yet
soon thereafter, the broadcasters abandoned HDTV, and it nearly died
Link
(
via Dan Gillmor)
The Village Voice: Features: The 10 Ways
Bush Screwed New York by Wayne Barrett,
special reporting by Daniel Magliocco
The Village Voice: Features: The 10 Ways
Bush Screwed New York by Wayne Barrett,
special reporting by Daniel Magliocco
08/27/2004 01:45 PMIf You Don't Anything About Computers
Then Go Ply With A Toy
If You Don't Anything About Computers
Then Go Ply With A Toy
08/30/2004 11:09 PMTechTree Aug 31 2004 2:12AM GMT
First Computers
First Computers
12/23/2003 05:44 PMWhere computers go to die
Where computers go to die
08/17/2004 12:09 AMSalon Aug 17 2004 4:01AM GMT
Computers That Jam
Computers That Jam
08/17/2004 01:29 PMWhile many musical purists dislike electronic music for a variety of
reasons, one big thing is the "programmed" feel to it. However, the
latest software is trying something different: it will
let
the computer jam with a real musician. The software takes the
music the live musician plays, and tries to riff off what's actually
being played. It's not clear how
good it is, but realizing
that computers are only getting faster, it's only going to get better.
Some will still question how well a piece of software will be able to
improvise compared to human musicians, but it may not be long before
your favorite jam band adds in some computerized solos.
Computers 101
Computers 101
08/08/2004 03:19 AMMiami Herald Aug 8 2004 7:18AM GMT
Course on computers
Course on computers
08/03/2004 06:09 PMTimes Of Oman Aug 3 2004 9:34PM GMT
Why not lease computers?
Why not lease computers?
07/24/2004 01:15 PMPhilippine Daily Inquirer Jul 24 2004 4:43PM GMT
Computers & compassion!
Computers & compassion!
03/27/2005 08:09 AMCalcutta Telegraph Mar 27 2005 11:03AM GMT
Growing Up With Computers
Growing Up With Computers
03/30/2005 09:01 AMAs another birthday comes closer with its ugly reminder of how short
life is, it makes me think of you younger folks. Because while you
grew up with computers, my situation was just the opposite - computers
grew up with me.
Computers For Uganda
Computers For Uganda
12/10/2003 09:09 PMIn Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do
They?
In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do
They?
04/09/2004 03:55 PMA leading mathematics journal has finally accepted that one of the
longest-standing problems in the field has been conclusively solved.
AOL To Sell Computers
AOL To Sell Computers
08/12/2004 07:41 AMAOL to Sell Cheap PCs
to Minorities and Seniors: Good strategy — when your market
stagnates, you take steps to make it bigger.
America Online on Thursday said it plans to sell a low-priced PC
targeting low-income and minority households who agree to sign up for
a year of dialup Internet service.
The computers will come configured with a simple desktop with large
icons that send users to specific areas of the AOL service or
applications loaded on the computer.
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Why Our Computers Act Irrationally
Why Our Computers Act Irrationally
06/17/2004 06:00 PMJava Pro Jun 17 2004 9:40PM GMT
3,300 new viruses hit computers
3,300 new viruses hit computers
09/07/2004 10:33 AMTechzonez Sep 7 2004 2:35PM GMT
Keep out: TV, DVD and computers rule
Keep out: TV, DVD and computers rule
08/12/2004 08:18 PMTelegraph Aug 13 2004 0:33AM GMT
"Computers & Technology"
"Computers & Technology"
06/03/2004 05:04 AMHyperSpace to buy MPC Computers
HyperSpace to buy MPC Computers
03/22/2005 04:51 PMZDNet Mar 21 2005 9:33PM GMT
The many dangers on our computers
The many dangers on our computers
05/16/2004 03:09 PMBangkok Post May 16 2004 6:42PM GMT
RI in need of affordable computers
RI in need of affordable computers
03/26/2005 02:36 AMJakarta Post Mar 26 2005 5:30AM GMT
Ping a Given Set of Computers
Ping a Given Set of Computers
06/12/2004 12:09 AMCursed computers
Cursed computers
01/16/2004 11:33 AMI have had more than my share of hardware problems. While I'm waiting
for the electrician, or someone like him, to put a second circuit into
my office, I'm having problems that defy the physics of
electromagnetism. Two days ago, my son's computer crashed. The hard
drive - about 1.5 years old, well within the MTBF for drives in our
house - was making ugly, repetitive crunching sounds, as if it were
doing sit ups, and Windows XP Home was refusing to boot because
NTOSKRNL.EXE had gone all corrupt. The drive was so far gone that I
couldn't put a...
Computers Do The Hiring
Computers Do The Hiring
05/31/2004 11:28 PMXposed Jun 1 2004 3:45AM GMT
Computers help farmers
Computers help farmers
12/30/2004 07:54 PMCNN Dec 30 2004 11:01PM GMT
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Mac OS X
Dreamweaver MX 2004 For Mac OS X
01/16/2004 11:04 AMDreamweaver MX 2004, the recently released version, has some
improvements that may affect your decision. We survey some popular new
and cool features of MX 2004. By Jackie Dove (O'Reilly Network via
MyAppleMenu)
Product of the Day: Product Spotlight
Supercomputing 2004 - Quadric Network
Hardware
Product of the Day: Product Spotlight
Supercomputing 2004 - Quadric Network
Hardware
12/19/2004 03:17 PMThe following information has been provided by the product vendor and
does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Linux Journal.
New: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy
New: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy
05/07/2004 09:15 AMSybex released Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy, which provides in-depth
coverage of Dreamweaver, complete with tips and hands-on tutorials.
Integrating Dreamweaver MX 2004 with
Contribute 3
Integrating Dreamweaver MX 2004 with
Contribute 3
07/19/2004 01:31 AMExplore powerful, cost-effective ways to develop and maintain websites
with designers and contributors.
Customizing and Extending Dreamweaver MX
2004
Customizing and Extending Dreamweaver MX
2004
06/05/2005 10:49 PMEnhance the power and functionality of Dreamweaver to fit your own
needs using the extensibility API.
Macworld reviews Dreamweaver MX 2004,
more
Macworld reviews Dreamweaver MX 2004,
more
12/19/2003 01:15 PMMacworld has recently published reviews of Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash
MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Kyocera Finecam L3v, Toshiba PDR-M700,
Nikon Coolpix 5400, Fuji FinePix S5000, Kodak EasyShare DX6490, Fuji
FinePix F700, Digital Performer 4.1, Mathematica 5, Nisus Writer
Express, Eudora 6.0, Maxtor OneTouch, CMS ABSplus, Internet Cleanup
1.0, and Spring Cleaning 6.0...
Macworld review: Dreamweaver MX 2004
Macworld review: Dreamweaver MX 2004
12/19/2003 06:23 PMDreamweaver has become an indispensable part of any Web-site
developer's tool kit, and Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the latest
incarnation of Macromedia's powerful Web-site– development tool.
Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 improves CSS
support
Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 improves CSS
support
11/14/2003 03:33 AMCNET Nov 14 2003 1:59AM ET
lynda.com offers Dreamweaver MX 2004
learning guide
lynda.com offers Dreamweaver MX 2004
learning guide
01/22/2004 02:13 AMIf you're just getting started with Macromedia Dreamweaver, or if you
need to get up to speed with the MX 2004 release, you'll want to learn
more about
lynda.com's "
Learning
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004," a 9.5-hour workshop that uses a
series of video tutorials to drill down into the application's many
features. Topics include site management, rollovers, tables and other
layout elements, frames, XHTML, CSS, integration with Fireworks, and
more.
O'Reilly publishes Dreamweaver MX 2004
Missing Manual
O'Reilly publishes Dreamweaver MX 2004
Missing Manual
03/08/2004 11:17 PMO'Reilly and Pogue Press just
announced the publication of David Sawyer McFarland's
"Dreamweaver MX
2004: The Missing Manual." It's the latest user guide in the
Missing Manual series
started by acclaimed tech writer David Pogue, and it's the third
Dreamweaver Missing Manual composed
Microsoft touts change management
product
Microsoft touts change management
product
11/13/2003 04:16 AMvnunet.com Nov 13 2003 3:23AM ET
Bud Redhead 1.2
Bud Redhead 1.2
08/09/2004 04:41 PMAn exciting Jump ’n run platformer.
Dreamweaver MX 2004: An Indispensable
Part Of Any Web-Site Developer's Tool
Kit
Dreamweaver MX 2004: An Indispensable
Part Of Any Web-Site Developer's Tool
Kit
12/19/2003 11:32 AMDreamweaver MX 2004 is a great tool for any Web developer working on
the cutting edge of CSS design. It's too bad the same kind of
innovation isn't demonstrated in other areas of the program. By David
McFarland (Macworld via MyAppleMenu)
Phelios Releases Bud Redhead
Phelios Releases Bud Redhead
08/09/2004 09:13 AMPhelios Releases a New Platformer Game for Mac, Bud Redhead
August 9, 2004 - Phelios announced the release of their new game for
Mac called, Bud Redhead, a retro-style, side-scrolling game that takes
the real spirit of Platformers and mixes it with adventure and time
travel. Bud Redhead is another game in the growing Phelios library
created with their game engine, PTK.
Bud Redhead, a multi-award winning game, was originally created for PC
by game developer, Space Ewe, and was rewritten with Phelios'
multi-platform game engine, PTK, so that it could easily be ported to
the Mac. Phelios was more than happy to team up with Space Ewe to help
with getting them on-board using the PTK engine, and within a very
short period of time, Bud Redhead for Mac was completed.
CNN.com - New Jersey governor quits,
comes out as gay - Aug 12, 2004
CNN.com - New Jersey governor quits,
comes out as gay - Aug 12, 2004
08/13/2004 09:20 AMGov. McGreevey came out today ..
why
cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/12/mcgreevey.nj/index.html
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Apex Foot Health Industries to Change
Name, Rocket into the Future with New
Product Divisions
Apex Foot Health Industries to Change
Name, Rocket into the Future with New
Product Divisions
03/14/2005 04:09 PMFoot Health Leader Rebrands for the 21st Century [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]
Time For A Change?
Time For A Change?
06/09/2004 05:16 PMA new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're asking if
fans/collectors think it's time for a new company to take over the
Star Wars 12" action figure line. Considering the fantastic work
companies like
Sideshow
Collectibles have done on other properties, would you like to see
the 12" line find a new home, or do you think Hasbro is doing just
fine? Look for the new Probe Droid ballot now and cast your vote
today!
Time for Change.....
Time for Change.....
04/09/2004 03:57 PM
Ok... Think it is time to kill the database and start this blog
over......Do something new......
-Kevin
CBS News | NJ Gov. Comes Out Of Closet,
Quits | August 12, 2004 18:40:43
CBS News | NJ Gov. Comes Out Of Closet,
Quits | August 12, 2004 18:40:43
08/12/2004 08:24 PM"My truth is that I am a gay American," he told a packed
news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton,
N.J
cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/12/politics/main635631.shtml
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Shaken Saez Quits After Euro 2004 Exit
Shaken Saez Quits After Euro 2004 Exit
06/25/2004 01:33 PMReuters via Wired News Jun 25 2004 4:57PM GMT
Time Change and 360 Invites
Time Change and 360 Invites
04/04/2005 10:49 AMI wonder if we'll put a stop to this moronic "daylight savings time"
during my lifetime. Seriously. I've had a pretty good routine going
for the last month or so--waking up before my alarm clock goes off and
feeling quite refreshed. Of course, after yesterday's time change
that's all shot. I had to drag myself our of bed this morning because
there wasn't yet enough daylight to convince my body that it was time
to do so. Oh, well. In...
Time to change the guard!
Time to change the guard!
07/06/2004 10:04 AMOr at least lay on more. Here's the scoop--we need a Perl 6 pumpking,
someone to take on the responsibility of making the Perl 6 compiler
happen. When we started this whole process these many years ago, we
though having one person handle the software end of things was
sufficient, but making perl 6 a reality is a much larger task than
we'd originally figured, as both Perl 6 the language and Parrot the
interpreter have ended up bigger than we'd thought they'd be. Bigger,
in fact, than one person can reasonably manage, especially with a
volunteer project. Hence, the...
p2pnet: time for a change
p2pnet: time for a change
05/30/2004 06:58 PMp2pnet.net,Canada-6 hours ago ... Consequently, p2pnet has just gone
online with the new machine and, "is ready to handle any onslaught
visitors the likes of Google and Slashdot are liable to ...
Time to change your PM tool?
Time to change your PM tool?
11/17/2002 11:48 PMCNET Nov 17 2002 11:03PM ET
The DVDO(R) iScan(TM) HD Receives the
Electronic House 2004 Product of the
Year Award at CEDIA EXPO 2004
The DVDO(R) iScan(TM) HD Receives the
Electronic House 2004 Product of the
Year Award at CEDIA EXPO 2004
09/11/2004 03:37 AMAnchor Bay Technologies, Inc. announced today that the DVDOÒ iScan™ HD
High Resolution Video Scaling Engine has been chosen as one of the
Electronic House Products of the Year for 2004. [PRWEB Sep 11, 2004]
"CNN.com - Bush adviser quits after
appearing in swift boat ad - Aug 21,
2004"
"CNN.com - Bush adviser quits after
appearing in swift boat ad - Aug 21,
2004"
08/22/2004 08:59 PMIntel Chiefs Want Time to Change
Agencies
Intel Chiefs Want Time to Change
Agencies
04/14/2004 11:44 PMNewsMax.com Apr 15 2004 3:48AM GMT
Notes and Tips: Entourage and Time
Change
Notes and Tips: Entourage and Time
Change
04/04/2005 11:21 AMRelaunch Microsoft Entourage if it gets confused by daylight savings
time....
Change At Apple: Is It Time For A
Successor To Steve Jobs?
Change At Apple: Is It Time For A
Successor To Steve Jobs?
08/02/2004 10:32 AM By Jack D. Miller, Mac360 (via MyAppleMenu)
texan terrorist ring discovered, time
for regime change
texan terrorist ring discovered, time
for regime change
01/07/2004 05:34 PMthey found the weapons of mass destruction ready to be used against
americans. they're in east texas.
Why Computers Are Screwed Up
