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Artie Shaw 1910-2004
Artie Shaw 1910-2004
12/31/2004 08:30 AM
Artie Shaw has
di
ed at age 94. An era continues to fade away into memory.
Star Bandleader Artie Shaw Dies at 94
(AP)
Star Bandleader Artie Shaw Dies at 94
(AP)
12/30/2004 07:57 PMAP - Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of
"Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his
home. He was 94.
Artie Shaw, Big Band Leader, Dies at 94
Artie Shaw, Big Band Leader, Dies at 94
12/30/2004 08:08 PMArtie Shaw, the jazz clarinetist and big-band leader, successfully
challenged Benny Goodman's reign as the King of Swing in the late
1930's.
Jazz giant Artie Shaw dies at 94
Jazz giant Artie Shaw dies at 94
12/31/2004 05:13 AMOne of the most famous American band leaders of the swing era,
clarinettist Artie Shaw, dies aged 94.
pendulum continues to swing swing back
to the left
pendulum continues to swing swing back
to the left
06/02/2004 02:27 AM
pendulum
continues to swing back to the left Meet Congresswoman
Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)
The New York Times > Washington >
Campaign 2004 > A Big Increase of New
Voters in Swing States
The New York Times > Washington >
Campaign 2004 > A Big Increase of New
Voters in Swing States
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Shaw Rewards
Shaw Rewards
08/04/2004 12:53 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Shaw Rewards'
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Telus wants to dial out Shaw
Telus wants to dial out Shaw
03/29/2005 11:45 PMglobetechnology.com Mar 30 2005 4:17AM GMT
Shaw moving into internet phones
Shaw moving into internet phones
06/25/2004 05:29 PMCBC Jun 25 2004 9:15PM GMT
Shaw Share Sale Sinks Stock
Shaw Share Sale Sinks Stock
04/06/2005 06:25 PMShaw's move to sell shares will firm up the balance sheet, but the
market doesn't like the dilution.
Two Replies to David Shaw of the Los
Angeles Times
Two Replies to David Shaw of the Los
Angeles Times
12/19/2004 03:15 PM"Both the American in me and the journalist in me hope Rosen is dead
wrong." Shaw argues against having a liberal news network that would
compete with Fox. He says my suggestions to that effect would be
terrible for journalism and democracy. MSNBC and CNN agree: terrible!
I reply to that, plus:
Reason columnist Matt Welch on David
Shaw.
Shaw to disclose digital phone
subscriber numbers
Shaw to disclose digital phone
subscriber numbers
04/16/2005 05:47 AMglobetechnology.com Apr 16 2005 10:14AM GMT
Shaw Communications links with Bell to
provide Internet phone services
Shaw Communications links with Bell to
provide Internet phone services
06/26/2004 07:29 AMCanadian Press Jun 26 2004 12:12PM GMT
Shaw to Provide Deep Catalytic Cracking
Technology for Aramco's Rabigh
Petrochemical Project in Saudi Arabia
Shaw to Provide Deep Catalytic Cracking
Technology for Aramco's Rabigh
Petrochemical Project in Saudi Arabia
03/23/2005 04:52 AMZDNet India Mar 23 2005 9:25AM GMT
Hop Off And Swing
Hop Off And Swing
04/01/2005 08:32 PMElectric New Paper Apr 2 2005 12:57AM GMT
XAML and... Swing
XAML and... Swing
12/30/2003 01:17 AMLet's see. There's this new language+API. It is, in theory
platform independent. It's pretty high level. Below the high-level
description, it runs on top of a virtual machine. It's verbose. Some
people say it will never work.
Gotta be Swing, right?
How about XAML?
On Saturday Sam commented on a XAML example.
He makes a number of good points. Which jump-started earlier
XAML-related musings.
XAML will be Windows-only, so in that sense the comparison is
stretched. But this is a matter of practice, in theory an XML-based
language could be made portable (when there's a will there's a way).
XAML was compared a lot to Mozilla's XUL, and rightly so, but I think
there are some parallels between it and Swing as well.
One big difference that XAML will have, for sure, is that it will
have a nice UI designer, something that Swing still lacks. On the
other hand, I think that whatever code an automated designer generates
will be horribly bloated. And who will be able to write XAML by hand?
And: the problem of "bytecode protection" in Java comes back with
XAML, but with a vengeance. How will the code be protected?
Obfuscation of XML code? Really? How would it be validated then? And
why hasn't anyone talked about this.
And another thing: Sun has shown in the past few years that they've
taken a liking to countering Microsoft announcements with some of
their own. ie., MS comes out with Web services, they come out with web
services. MS does X, Sun does it too, but in Java. One wish: that Sun
would ignore XAML and just continue improving Swing, and create a
simple, good UI designer for Swing. Supposedly Project Rave will do
this... but here's hoping there won't be any course corrections simply
to show up Microsoft. Please, pretty please, Sun.
On a related note, Robert says
this regarding XAML:
[...] you will see some
business build two sites: one in HTML and one in XAML. Why? Because
they'll be able to offer their customers experiences that are
impossible to deliver in HTML.
Come on, Robert, these
days, when everyone's resources are stretched to the limit, when CIOs
want to squeeze every possible drop of code from their people, when
everyone works 60-hour weeks as a matter of common practice, are you
seriously saying that companies will have
two teams to develop
a single website? Is this Microsoft's selling point? "Here, just
retrain all of your people, and double the size and expense of your
development team, and you'll be fine."
Of course not. Most companies will have one team, not two. Hence,
logically, either people will use it or won't, without a lot of middle
ground in between. That leaves two possibilities: 1) XAML will be
niche and never really used a lot (think ActiveX, or, hey, even Java
Applets!) or 2) XAML will kill HTML.
Which one do you think Microsoft is betting on?
Swing State
Swing State
06/22/2004 03:38 PM
In the swing states,
it's not just
the economy anymore, stupid. "The more you talk to West
Virginians, the more you stop wondering how Democrats lost the state
four years ago and start wondering how they ever won it."
Weird Swing Bug
Weird Swing Bug
06/22/2004 11:54 PMWe ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class
below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends
JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11
public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14
DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)
swt and swing, cont'd.
swt and swing, cont'd.
01/06/2004 08:01 AMYesterday Russ was
ranting (his term :)) on how Sun was botching it by not getting
behind SWT, because SWT is, in his view, better than Swing. I have
written about both a few times before, more recently in this
short review of my initial impressions of developing with SWT, and
earlier here
, here
and here
among others. Specifically on what Russ is saying I had a couple of
things to add. One is that, although I'm obviously partial on this :),
I think that clevercactus shows that Swing interfaces need not feel
out of place, or be slow, or whatever. And I think it looks better
than LimeWire too :). IDEA is also a fine example IMO. However, it's
true that all of that is subjective and that for hard-core Windows
users there are small differences. For power users in
particular the differences might indeed be difficult to accept. The
situation is much better in other platforms though.
That aside, there is the other matter that Russ mentions, that of
Sun not joining
the Eclipse consortium. The main reason given for this is that,
for all its platform appeal Eclipse is still, at heart, an IDE
toolkit. If you doubt that's true, spend some time perusing the
Eclipse APIs, and you'll notice how many times you have to use
components from within the IDE package rather than "platform" packages
(e.g., "org.eclipse.swt"). Restated, what I mean is that the
boundaries between platform and IDE APIs are not clear at all, and I
guess that some people would say that's precisely the point, Eclipse
is both an IDE and a platform, and that's fine. Fine indeed, but what
does that matter? Well, keep in mind that Sun has NetBeans to take
care of. With its own community, and plugins, and additional tools,
and so on. Were Sun to ditch NetBeans in favor of Eclipse as a
platform, they would have to a) port all sorts of plugins and code to
the new platform, not to mention "convert" their community, both of
open source developers and third party developers, to Eclipse. This is
by no means impossible, but it's not easy either.
Then there is the small matter of SWT. If Sun joined Eclipse, SWT
would have to be included in the JDK would it not? Sun would have to
maintain and release simultaneously three different windowing toolkits
for each release: AWT, Swing, and SWT. That doesn't sound good either.
And while I like some things of SWT, ditching Swing completely is to
me not an option.
Why?
First, Swing does run on every single platform that the full
JDK runs on. For example, some users today are running clevercactus on
OS/2. That would be impossible if cc were written in SWT.
Second, Swing is, for all its complexity (or perhaps because of it)
and incredibly rich and flexible toolkit. Much more so than SWT.
Surely this will change as SWT evolves, but that's the reality at the
moment. With SWT you are forced to write custom components more often
than with Swing, as I discovered when I worked for about a week
replicating the clevercactus UI using SWT.
And, finally (although this is a small matter compared to the two
above), SWT still requires release of resources "by hand". I find this
a horrible step back. Moreover, debugging becomes more difficult.
Something might fail not just on your java code, not just on the
SWT-to-Native code (say, if you're running it on Windows), but
something might also fail at the Native component level. Suddenly bugs
have to be tracked on three levels. SWT will be buggy for a while,
particularly on non-Win32 platforms (Win32 support is pretty good).
And Native errors are very difficult to pin down.
Please note, these are not reasons why "Swing is better than SWT"
but reasons why I think Swing can't be discarded at the moment and for
some time to come. And that puts Sun in a difficult position.
Ideally, yes, Sun would join Eclipse, ditch AWT in favor of SWT
keeping the latter as an alternative to Swing, plus using something
like the SWTSwing
project to bridge between both worlds. But for the moment, staying
out of Eclipse might have been a good choice by Sun to avoid creating
even more confusion.
MUGs get into the swing of things
MUGs get into the swing of things
01/03/2005 09:27 PMWhile the beginning of January tends to be quiet in the overall Mac
community, given the double whammy of the holidays ending and Macworld
Conference & Expo San Francisco looming around the corner,
Macintosh user groups (MUGs) continue to chug forward with their
monthly meetings and special events. In addition to bringing back his
weekly survey question out of its holiday-induced hiatus by asking
about leadership structure, MUG Center editor Chuck Joiner also runs
down this week's scheduled meetings on his Web site.
Secret Swing in Toronto
Secret Swing in Toronto
07/21/2004 01:14 AM
Joey's posted some info on Toronto's "Secret Swing," a mysterious art
installation that consists of a playground swing hanging in a downtown
grafitti alley. He also points to some of Rannie's pix (
L
ink,
Link) that show it off in all its glory.
Link
Musical Porch Swing
Musical Porch Swing
06/17/2005 06:11 PM
The Musical Porch Swing
is now available from Musical Furnishings, a company that specializes
in making everyday furniture that doubles as giant xylophones. The
furniture is made from western red cedar and operates in the same
manner as a normal xylophone. Each slat is a different note.
The swings begin at $1000 and include the mallets.
Musical Porch
Swing [i4u]
Swing and a Miss for Asteroid
Swing and a Miss for Asteroid
08/28/2004 06:11 AMWired News Aug 28 2004 9:42AM GMT
InterMute Gets In Channel Swing
InterMute Gets In Channel Swing
03/26/2005 04:12 PMComputer Reseller News Mar 26 2005 7:12PM GMT
" Jungle Swing - YetiSports 8 "
" Jungle Swing - YetiSports 8 "
04/18/2005 03:11 PMOpponents Take Swing at GMO Grass
Opponents Take Swing at GMO Grass
04/10/2004 05:10 AMLawn-products company Scotts is testing a bioengineered version of a
creeping grass favored by golf courses. The company claims the
Roundup-resistant grass is unlikely to spread, but a surprising
assortment of challengers disagree.
A Big Increase of New Voters in Swing
States
A Big Increase of New Voters in Swing
States
09/25/2004 11:19 PMA registration campaign in Democratic areas has added tens of
thousands of new voters to the rolls in Ohio and Florida.
Frances' Second Swing Hits Fla.
Panhandle (AP)
Frances' Second Swing Hits Fla.
Panhandle (AP)
09/06/2004 07:37 PMAP - Frances sloshed into the Florida Panhandle on Monday, taking a
second swing at a storm-weary state where it already had knocked out
power to 6 million people, torn up roofs and boats and been blamed for
at least five deaths.
Hunt for XP SP2 flaws in full swing
Hunt for XP SP2 flaws in full swing
08/14/2004 04:35 AMTechzonez Aug 14 2004 8:23AM GMT
Swing State summer camp
Swing State summer camp
07/21/2004 11:20 AMThis is a pretty cool successor to the Dean Meetups as a social way to
be politically active: you can sign up to go to a swing state and
recruit Democrat voters.
Swing State Summer Break is a 100% volunteer-operated program for
progressives of all ages and their allies, who volunteer to do
grassroots, electoral work during the months leading up to the
election.
We make it ultra-convenient, easy, and fun to get involved in the
nationwide effort to defeat Bush this November. Just tell us which
states you're interested in, and when you have time to do it, and
we'll take care of the rest.
Link
(
via Oblomovka)
For Internet merchants, a swing to
profitability
For Internet merchants, a swing to
profitability
05/31/2004 07:02 PMInternational Herald Tribune,France-38 minutes ago ... Meanwhile, they
relied much more heavily on search engine marketing on Google and the
other portals - an approach that retailers found more efficient early
...
Trade surplus for IT exports swing up to
Trade surplus for IT exports swing up to
07/04/2004 07:04 AMMaekyung Internet Jul 4 2004 11:05AM GMT
JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language
JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language
09/13/2004 01:09 PMProject JFCML History
Secret Swing visit report
Secret Swing visit report
07/23/2004 02:40 AM
After reading the earlier entry here on Toronto's Secret Swing, an art
installation in which a playground swing has been hung in a narrow
downtown graffiti alley, Chris sought it out and went for a ride and
shot some good pix of it in action.
Link
(
Thanks, Chris!)
Another swing of the pocketbook - U.S.
Business - MSNBC.com
Another swing of the pocketbook - U.S.
Business - MSNBC.com
06/05/2005 11:30 PMChristian Activists to Boycott Ford over 'Gay Agenda' Ad .. Preferably
a Jaguar .. training its sights
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Hunt for XP SP2 flaws seen in full swing
Hunt for XP SP2 flaws seen in full swing
08/13/2004 09:09 AMWhile users are testing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP to prevent
compatibility problems, hackers are picking apart the security-focused
software update looking for vulnerabilities, security experts said.
Student vote 'to swing 27 seats'
Student vote 'to swing 27 seats'
04/16/2005 07:52 AMThe Lib Dems say their plan to scrap tuition fees is going to be
crucial in winning over student voters in key seats.
Java Swing MVC Glue Layer
Java Swing MVC Glue Layer
01/01/2005 08:21 AMInitial release
Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 1.
Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 1.
12/10/2003 10:16 PMJoshua Marinacci:
Make
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