New line of Robosapiens on their way
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Furry Robot Cats and Chrome Robosapiens
Furry Robot Cats and Chrome Robosapiens
08/30/2004 11:40 AMDon't want a robot dog? Sega is introducing a fur-covered robot cat
with the
odd name of "near me". From the photos it looks a bit like robot
zombie
cat but it's an improvement over last year's Omron Necoro robot cat
which
looked like it had been hit by a truck. Even better than fur-bearing
robots, Sharper Image has announced a special
edition Robosapien available in chrome or metallic blue. Both
versions include Mark W. Tilden's signature tattooed on the leg.
Keeping Party Line, Bottom Line Separate
(Los Angeles Times)
Keeping Party Line, Bottom Line Separate
(Los Angeles Times)
07/28/2004 05:45 AMLos Angeles Times - BEIJING — Taiwanese video game salesman
Simon Chang was drinking beer with a mainland customer at a nightclub
here recently, laughing as a stand-up comedian delivered off-the-news
material, Jay Leno-style.
End of the line? How mobiles are
preparing to replace your land line
End of the line? How mobiles are
preparing to replace your land line
05/24/2004 07:42 AMBBC May 24 2004 12:15PM GMT
The checkout line -- or the
check-you-out line?
The checkout line -- or the
check-you-out line?
07/26/2004 07:21 AMFor librarians, new identification chips in books make life easier.
But civil libertarians say the smart books are a scary invasion of
privacy
The telecommunications Industry
Handbook: Covers Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL), Data Over Cable
System Interface Spectrum Standard
(DOCSIS) cable modems, Very High Data
Rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) and
more
The telecommunications Industry
Handbook: Covers Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL), Data Over Cable
System Interface Spectrum Standard
(DOCSIS) cable modems, Very High Data
Rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) and
more
07/08/2004 03:39 AMResearch and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004
Technology - Infrastructure, Fixed Voice and Data Report to their
offering. [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]
The Line:
The Line:
09/01/2004 03:26 PM
A new newspaper
for London. The first edition of
The Line comes out today -
apparently, despite its size, the UK capitol lacked an independent
paper until now (please feel free to correct this if it is wrong).
It's still thin, but does provide an interesting alternative look at
issues both
local and
global.
On-line or Off?
On-line or Off?
08/23/2004 06:49 AMLilia
Efimova (fresh from her trip to Moscow) writes.....
Martin picks up my yesterday's
note about the need to change my usual "everything web-based"
working style since I got TabletPC and explains his struggles and
solutions for synchronising online and offline data. Given lots of
interests we share it's not surprising that Martin reframes it as more
general question:
I wonder how Personal
Information Management Software will develop in the future. How are we
going to cope with the different spaces we are in and the
accessibiloty of our online and offline data? Shall we just put
everything on the web and hope for permanent broadband connectivity
anywhere? (Nice idea, but how are you going to survive the next five
years while this is not an option?) How are you managing your data?
Where do you keep it? How do you make it accessible, for you, for
others?
(If your story is long and you don't want to post it as a comment
do email me! I can put together some of your writings in a seperate
entry or republish your story as an own article if you
like.)
I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. I guess it's not much about
the software, but our ways of using it :)
[
Mathemagenic
]
YES! It's always about how we use software, it's just that the
nerds have so much to say about what they're doing - they often lose
track of why.
I've started to use an Xdrive account - to back everything up and
have it readily accessible - if I don't have my laptopwith me.
I've switched to MT for blogging and I have an ODDpost account for
email - which I use as my backup mail.
But I still have Outlook as my primary account and make CD backups
of everything on my portable laptop. So I'm still tethered to the
off-line model - even though I've been on-line since 1994 with ISDN or
better.
I've actually gotten a lot of work done while traveling - as I
WASN'T able to blog and check email every :10 minutes.
this is not the line you are looking for
this is not the line you are looking for
04/05/2005 03:05 PM
The Good News: you're one of the first
in line at Mann's Chinese for the last Star Wars movie ever. The
bad news: the movie isn't scheduled to screen there. Logical
conclusion:
stay
put. Out of
protest.
TJX Gets in Line
TJX Gets in Line
08/17/2004 05:16 PMThe off-price retailer struggled in the second quarter but is in
decent position for the second half of the year.
The gap between on-line and off-line
The gap between on-line and off-line
07/19/2004 11:30 AMJeremy Zawodny brings up an
interesting point - which will be a major architectual issue
moving forward.
It was triggered by ODDpost and the realization that full "in-line"
browser apps are coming into reality. Folks like Laszlo Systems will also help make
this future become true!
Here's
Jereny post (my bit below......)
As you may have
guessed, I didn't know much about Oddpost until recently. But
since they're now part of the
collective, I had the opportunity to meet with a few of the
Oddpost folks on Friday.
Aside from the getting an idea of how all their server-side stuff
works (it's a classic example of "do the simplest thing that could
possibly work" and I love that aspect of it), which was the real point
of the meeting, I got to actually see the product first hand. And I
left the meeting in amazement at what they were able to do using only
a web browser and a lot of fancy DHTML wizardry. I mean, this thing
looked and mostly acted like a real, native desktop application.
Really. A few times I caught myself thinking it was a "fat" client,
only to look at the title bar and realize it was an IE window. But
other than that, it was hard to tell at time. It's really that
good.
The only downside to this I can see is that as the gap between
"desktop" and "web based" applications closes, users won't understand
the difference. The Oddpost client, for example, feels like a fancy
mail and RSS application. But take it offline (such as cross-country
flight) and suddenly it does a lot less that one might expect. Knowing
that it's a web-based system with most of the data stored on the
server, this comes as no shock to most anyone reading this. But to
average folks like my Mom, well... that's probably a whole different
story.
This makes me wonder how we're going to bridge the gap or if that
gap will become irrelevant as the odds of having an Internet
connection in any random location continue to increase.
[Jeremy
Zawodny]
Marc's bit starts here....
So it's great to see major companies like Yahoo (and their brains
like Jeremy) wake up to this issue - which first struck me - when I
first discovered browsers - oh what was it - 10 years ago?
For all the benefits of the AlwaysOn world and browsers - they're
useless once they're disconnected. Built-in features to download and
cache content have been around and as the comments to Jeremy's post
attest - lots of companies have come up with work arounds and trained
their people in how to deal with this issue.
But clearly the time will come when "intelligent" virtual file
systems will do the work or us!
Why put teh onus on the poor human to worry about:
- whether or not I'm on-line, within shouting distance of a Wifi
connection of STILL on-line?
- where-ever the hell my files are? That's something for computers to
worry about!
- whether something is cached, where it's coming from,l what my
connection speed is - or anythign else having to do with bandwidth
- and finally - just amke it work - dammit!
It's time for technology to bend over and work for humans, rather
than the other way around.
I dream of the day when major technological resources can be put
towards solving this issue - and NO - you don't get to patent
it!
I've seen others claim they have patents on this sort of
functionality - or similar "Internet File System" kind of
solutions.
Add them to the list of innovation stoppage - and send it to the
EFF.
End of the Line
End of the Line
04/11/2005 04:14 AM
« In the fog, at the Arabia terminus of tram 6, is Light X by
Kazushi Nakada which was unveiled on 25 January 2005. »
There is no X in Light X and there is
precious little light as well. I was lured to the end of tram 6 just
to see something glow in the dark by a blurb I saw in a neighbourhood
paper and I was sorely disappointed. Why bother spending some
outrageous amount of money on a bit of public artwork that involves
light if you place it in an area where street lights drown out any
light it might actually be emitting which, in this case, was scant?
The fog and the black and white film make it look a lot more
interesting than it actually is.
The apartment building next to the big fluorescent tube of Arabia was
a nice surprise. On two sides of the building were some lights that
vaguely suggested a caduceus but the roof had a really funky brightly
coloured spinning air vent that could have been designed by Gaudí. I
didn't take any pictures of it as I was on my way somewhere and didn't
take my tripod with me, but its uniqueness in a sea of boring modern
glass and brick featureless buildings certainly made me very curious
to know more about it.
And, a few new books of interest. I'm going to be very sad when
shipping costs make it just too expensive to bother ordering books
from Amazon at 25%-50% less than Akateeminen prices with the exchange
factored in. I think that will be very soon.
End of Line
End of Line
02/11/2004 01:14 AMSitting in a self-organizing session on categorizing weblogs after a
fine dinner with good friends. I'm outta here tomorrow AM. Too many
days on the road, too little time with the kids, too little time for
the other kinds of...
IPTABLES On-line
IPTABLES On-line
02/17/2004 02:28 PMTop-of-the-line online
Top-of-the-line online
12/28/2003 12:37 AMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 27 2003 11:09PM ET
Power Line
Power Line
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The High Line
The High Line
03/06/2004 01:52 AMToday was the first real spring-like day in New York this year, so Meg
and I celebrated by exploring the High Line. I took some photos (click
on the photo below for more): The High Line is an elevated railway
that has fallen into disuse and disrepair, currently running from 33rd
Street to the Meatpacking District on the west side of Manhattan.
Before setting off, we checked on the Web... (with comments)
Holding the line, maybe
Holding the line, maybe
06/11/2004 02:02 AMUSA Today Jun 11 2004 6:03AM GMT
The Long Line
The Long Line
12/09/2003 01:24 PM Apple must be
putting something in Tokyo's watersource. The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line
08/06/2004 06:26 AM
The guys who brought you the
timeline of terror alerts have been at it
again. This time they made a chart comparing
Bush's approval rating and the terror
alerts. It's getting harder to believe this isn't s big slight of hand
going on. Follow the ! icons and the thin red line.
Trailer On-Line For Everybody
Trailer On-Line For Everybody
03/14/2005 05:39 PMThe full trailer is now on line for everyone, including Hyperspace
deprived users at
Starwars.com. Hyperspace members look to be the
first ones who will get it in extra large size, but the 480 x 206
version isn't all that small either. Thanks to Jeaniest for the tip!
Blog tag-line of the day
Blog tag-line of the day
11/10/2003 10:56 PMWays & Means: "because
we fear the cliche of writing another urban angst narrative of
frustrated love."
Bodies on line
Bodies on line
08/17/2004 09:21 AMdanah boyd, Michele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman are running a workshop
in Chicago, Nov. 6, on Representations of Digital Identity: This
workshop will address the many ways by which online presentations of
self have been — and could be — constructed. In the
absence of the body as a source of accountability and social
legibility, individuals project a sense of self through multiple
layers of mediation, including email addresses, graphic avatars,
"friend lists," and results from search engines. How can we use the
body in a mediated world? Or alternately, how can we promote rich
modes of interaction that do...
Crossing the line?
Crossing the line?
03/14/2005 06:27 PMChicagotribune.com - Sat Mar 12, 01:59 pm GMT
psychoanalysis on line
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New Line on Mobile Sex
New Line on Mobile Sex
03/19/2005 02:52 AMMissing out on the thrill of mobile services? Maybe you just haven't
met the right phone yet. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
Line Pwner
Line Pwner
12/10/2003 06:52 AMFirst release
End of The Line For Red Hat Linux 9
End of The Line For Red Hat Linux 9
04/30/2004 07:37 AMInternet News Apr 30 2004 12:12PM GMT
Power Line: The ad
Power Line: The ad
08/05/2004 03:49 PMJohn Kerry chose to make Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. Now
he may have to live with the consequences ..
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End Of The Line For DVD Burners?
End Of The Line For DVD Burners?
06/15/2004 11:50 AMIndustry executives say that the newest 16X DVD burners that will ship
this fall will run into the same physical limits as CD-ROM drives,
ending the "X race" of faster and faster speeds.
slacktivist: L.B.: Get in line
slacktivist: L.B.: Get in line
12/22/2004 01:06 AMSlacktivist .. is
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Intel in Line?
Intel in Line?
07/14/2004 08:12 AMIntel lands on its own range, but that's not good enough.
Off Line Advertising
Off Line Advertising
11/04/2002 09:40 AMFrom classifieds to bumper stickers, what offline marketing works?
On-line calendars
On-line calendars
06/17/2005 04:39 PMI've recently been trying out all sorts of solutions - but I agree with Dan Gillmor - on-line calendars still need
work.
I too am also hopeful of Chandler - especially with Ted Leung
there.
Hurry up - will yah!
Wal-Mart on the Line
Wal-Mart on the Line
08/13/2004 10:40 AMMove over Ma Bell, make room for Ma Wal-Mart, your new phone company.
The last line of defense
The last line of defense
08/03/2004 09:24 AMThe 9/11 commission report and aviation security experts paint a
damning picture of how America's airline security failed -- and is
still failing.
PC can take your marriage off line
PC can take your marriage off line
01/18/2004 10:23 AMThe Mercury Jan 18 2004 2:06PM GMT
Dr. Soy sells on-line
Dr. Soy sells on-line
02/08/2003 06:31 PM I'm a big fan of Dr. Soy bars--especially the Chocolate/Peanut
variety. I was eating one this afternoon and got to wondering if they
were a public company. Maybe I'd like to buy some stock. I see on the
wrapper...
Can MCI Hold the Line?
Can MCI Hold the Line?
06/28/2004 01:50 AMBusiness Week Jun 28 2004 6:00AM GMT
Command Line PHP
Command Line PHP
12/20/2002 10:51 AMCommand Line PHP
Since I was doing this yesterday, I appreciated this pointer from
Keith (who also helpfully has links to Lord of the Rings Reviews)
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