Peace by Pieces

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Pieces

Pieces 05/25/2004 03:53 AM
Pieces of words jumbled together sometimes flowing and sometimes just a little too knowing at first glance they don't seem...

Longhorn goes to pieces

Longhorn goes to pieces 05/13/2004 03:20 PM
Some much-hyped features of Microsoft's next major release of Windows are being cut back, while others may debut ahead of schedule, CNET News.com has learned.

EMC Pulls the Pieces Together

EMC Pulls the Pieces Together 06/21/2004 12:05 PM
CEO Joe Tucci develops big plans for software, systems and services.

Pieces of first T. rex fetch $93,250

Pieces of first T. rex fetch $93,250 05/16/2004 10:51 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 17 2004 3:05AM GMT

Picking Up the IM Pieces

Picking Up the IM Pieces 06/28/2004 04:23 PM
Yahoo, AOL exits get Microsoft on move.

XPointer splits into four pieces

XPointer splits into four pieces 07/15/2002 07:38 PM
The much delayed XPointer specification has broken into four pieces, including an XPointer Framework and three schemes - xmlns(), element(), and xpointer(), with all but the last in Last Call.

7 pieces of social software you must
have,,,,,,,

7 pieces of social software you must
have,,,,,,, 05/07/2004 05:00 AM

Incentives for online software: the 7 pieces social software must have .... This is an excellent read as I think about Drupal's role within social software... After years of study, I found th is blog from Matt Webb most interesting, and actually very accurate. Enjoy reading. [drupal.org - community plumbing]

This is an excellent read as I think about Drupal's role within social software... After years of study, I found this blog from Matt Webb most interesting, and actually very accurate. Enjoy reading.

From the blog:

"We need mechanisms in the online software to bring in a similar incentive structure to the offline world. The single most useful piece of thinking I've been using is Stewart Butterfield's March 2003 post on the devices in social software, mechanisms successful pieces of social software tend to have.

Identity
Presence
Relationships
Conversations
Groups
Reputation
Sharing
I'll describe each of these, as I see them, critiquing AOL Instant Messanger (just as an exmaple), and then describe how we put them into use.

Identity | Your identity is shown by a screenname, which remains persistent through time. There are incentives not to change this, like having your list of friends stored on the server and only accessible through your screenname. This acts as a pressure to not change identity. Having a persistent identity is more important than having one brought in from the physical world.


Presence | Presence is awareness of sharing the same space, and this is implemented as seeing when your friends are online, or busy. AIM isn't particularly good at group presence and visibility of communication, although other chat systems (such as IRC and early Talkers) use the concept of "rooms" and whispers.

Relationships | AIM lets you add people as buddies. From that moment, their presence is visible on your screen. This is a relationship, you're allowed them to have an effect on your environment. Not terribly nuanced however.

Conversations | Conversations are implemented as synchronous messaging. There's a difference between messaging and conversations. Messaging is just an exchange of text with no obligation, but conversations have their own presence and want to be continued. AIM does this by having a window for a conversation. It's difficult to drift out of it, it hangs there, requesting you continue. Contrast this with email which often is just messaging, and conversations die easily.

Groups | AIM isn't great at groups. Although you can have group chats, the group is transient. People have more loyalty to a group when there's some kind of joining step, when they've made some investment in it. Entering a window just doesn't do that, and there's no property of the group that exists outside the individual user's accounts.

Reputation | Reputation is used more in systems which allow meeting new individuals. AIM's simple version of this is "warning". Any user may "warn" any other user. A users total "warn" level (a figure up to 100) is shown to everyone they communicate with. Unfortunately, it's not a trustworthy reputation system, and reputation is notoriously difficult -- but humans are great at dealing with it themselves, given certain affordances: persistence identities, and being able to discuss those identities with other people. AIM's simplistic relationship system makes reputation not so important though.

Sharing | People like to share. With AIM, sharing is often as simple as giving a friend a link to follow. Other systems, such as Flikr, are about sharing photographs. These act as small transactions that build genuine group feeling."

Curious what our Drupal development community thinks about these 7 components (as pivotal/needed) to the Drupal project. Thoughts/discussion? Thanks. [MapTheWay]

SCO sends IBM 1,000,000 pieces of paper

SCO sends IBM 1,000,000 pieces of paper 12/10/2003 10:17 PM
As part of a court order to provide IBM with evidence relating to SCO's frivolous anti-Linux lawsuit, SCO sent IBM one million sheets of paper on which were printed the source-code that SCO alleges is being infringed upon. Of course, this is just a tactic to sabotage IBM's defense, since it needs all that code in a machine-readable format.

"Knowing full well that IBM would need its source code in electronic form so that proper analyses--such as those SCO itself claims to have performed--could be conducted, SCO instead produced the source code on one million sheets of paper," IBM said in the motion. "The only reason for SCO's production of code on paper was, we believe, to stall the progress of these proceedings while giving the (false) impression of being forthcoming in its discovery responses."

In response to IBM's complaint, Stowell said, "If a company wants code, it's the other party's decision to provide that any way they feel like providing that."

Link< /a> (via Dan Gillmor)

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware

PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware 04/16/2004 07:40 AM
vnunet.com Apr 16 2004 11:55AM GMT

First 'Palladium' Pieces to Debut in
Longhorn

First 'Palladium' Pieces to Debut in
Longhorn 04/15/2005 09:53 AM
Remember 'Palladium'? Microsoft's combined hardware/software solution for tightening Windows security, that later became known as "Next Generation Secure Computing Base" (NGSCB)? Microsoft has reworked its plan for the technology and is planning to deliver the first pieces of it in the Longhorn preview release that it will distribute to hardware and software vendors who attend the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month.

Pieces of Rakesh: The Economics of XHTML

Pieces of Rakesh: The Economics of XHTML 09/15/2004 07:53 AM
Rakesh Pai has posted an interesting piece on The Economics of XHTML, which explains why websites would benefit from following the new standards-based school of web design.

Putting the pieces back together, slowly

Putting the pieces back together, slowly 01/02/2005 04:41 AM
It's been a long strange trip since the election, and I haven't felt much like writing, and recent developments in my life haven't left me much time to write, hence the two month silence. I worked in campaign mode for the month leading up to the election, as part of a fabulous team that Dan Robinson and Henri Poole of CivicActions put together to do online support of Get Out The Vote efforts using AdvoKit! While we had our ups and downs, the biggest down of course being the election results, it was a great experience. I helped build sites like Rock the Vote, Vote All Your Values, Voter Call, and I supported some great kids on Zephyr Teachout's Baobabs Teams in their use of AdvoKit! I was putting in 16 to 20 hour days doing everything from project management to Apache configuration to writing documentation for AdvoKit, and I loved it. It was at least moderately effective as well, 15,000 people registered to use our sites and they recorded more than 110,000 phone calls to newly registered voters in battleground states, which research shows should add up to at least 11,000 additional voters going to the polls and voting against Bush. Of course, it wasn't enough. In spite of massive efforts by groups on the left, we were out-organized by the Republican GOTV operation, as detailed in a recent Washington Post article, and the American people elected as president of the United States a man who condones torture, is borrowing money in our children's name to fund tax breaks for his friends and war on his father's enemies, and who is raping the environment. As you may be able to tell, I took the election hard, which was another reason not to write. Many of my thoughts I am just as happy not to have preserved for posterity. I found consolation in the support of my wonderful family, including a beautifully written note from my conservative father (and Bush 41 government appointee) thanking me and my sister for our efforts to defeat George W. Bush, in the great friends I made working with CivicActions, and the fact that I can at least say, I did my best to elect John Kerry as president of the United States. But great as they are, the consolations make a thin bowl of gruel to subsist on during 4 more years of...

40 Pieces of Fish Disappear From Luggage
(AP)

40 Pieces of Fish Disappear From Luggage
(AP) 07/06/2004 11:51 AM
AP - Something fishy happened to Ray Bolanos' luggage. Somewhere between Anchorage and Seattle, about 40 meticulously wrapped and packed one-pound pieces of fresh-caught halibut vanished from his checked bags.

XPointer splits into four pieces
(xmlhack)

XPointer splits into four pieces
(xmlhack) 07/17/2002 01:09 PM

A Couple of Large Pieces, Joined at the
Hip

A Couple of Large Pieces, Joined at the
Hip 06/15/2004 11:29 AM
Akamai is having some issues. It turns out a lot of really large companies use Akamai as their DNS host and apparently most of their DNS servers are no longer respondi ng. And it's not like this is th e first time. Geeks are in a tizzy. Whither the decentralized network?

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Small Pieces Loosely Joined 11/07/2002 06:44 AM

Executing Pieces And Parts Of SQL
Queries

Executing Pieces And Parts Of SQL
Queries 05/24/2004 04:45 AM

Small pieces, slightly broken

Small pieces, slightly broken 03/13/2003 11:27 AM
Ben Hammersley: The trouble with small pieces loosely joined is that if one goes, the others look really silly.

Small Pieces, Slowly Moving

Small Pieces, Slowly Moving 08/01/2004 01:25 PM
I spend quite a bit of time writing lots of little scripts that use Web Services. I find them very useful. But I also find them spectacularly annoying. A lot of the time, I'll be debugging things that just aren't...

10 Dumb pieces of advice about not
offering a newsfeed

10 Dumb pieces of advice about not
offering a newsfeed 04/09/2004 07:57 PM
Their is 10 pieces of advice on why you should not offer a news feed. I had to laugh was...

More Longhorn Client Pieces Fall Into
Place

More Longhorn Client Pieces Fall Into
Place 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Microsoft may not be talking publicly, but Windows watchers are unearthing more details on Microsoft's evolving Windows roadmap. It'slooking like "Shorthorn" (officially code-named "Oasis") is DOA. But a new Windows XP Premium bundle and a seriously pared-back Windows file system are now part of the grand "XP Reloaded" and Longhorn client plans.

Rest in Pieces, Mozilla Browser Suite

Rest in Pieces, Mozilla Browser Suite 03/14/2005 04:42 PM
The Mozilla Foundation is calling it a day and officially putting to rest the Mozilla Application Suite, known as Seamonkey. No further development will be done on old-man Mozilla, as focus shifts entirely to newcomers Firefox and Thunderbird. But the legacy browser will live on with a new name and independent community.

Some Pieces Of Genesis Are Intact,
NASA Says (washingtonpost.com)

Some Pieces Of Genesis Are Intact,
NASA Says (washingtonpost.com) 09/10/2004 08:13 PM
washingtonpost.com - SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 10 -- NASA scientists said Friday that they have recovered intact some critical pieces of the Genesis space capsule and are optimistic that the wreckage will yield valuable information about the origins of the solar system.

Create semi-transparent Chess pieces

Create semi-transparent Chess pieces 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
You can rotate the board in Chess by clicking and holding on the edge of the board while dragging. This may seem obvious, but I have used Chess for ages without noticing it. And now for the semi-transparent pieces. Backup you...

Indonesians Start to Pick Up the Pieces
(washingtonpost.com)

Indonesians Start to Pick Up the Pieces
(washingtonpost.com) 01/03/2005 01:12 AM
washingtonpost.com - BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 2 -- A week after a tsunami devastated the western end of Sumatra island, the streets of this provincial capital are beginning to show a semblance of rejuvenation, with markets reopening, power and water restored to nearly half the city and a paralyzing fuel shortage ended.

their frequently-updated collection of
short pieces

their frequently-updated collection of
short pieces 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
The BBC have their own election weblog

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/blog/default.stm
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Liberty ready to pick up Passport pieces

Liberty ready to pick up Passport pieces 01/05/2005 02:03 PM
vnunet.com Jan 5 2005 4:55PM GMT

SAP's Focus: Getting Pieces to Work in
Harmony

SAP's Focus: Getting Pieces to Work in
Harmony 03/28/2005 12:44 PM
Software maker sees benefits in bringing applications, infrastructures into sync.

Tiny, wicked Disneyland uniform pieces
on eBay

Tiny, wicked Disneyland uniform pieces
on eBay 05/23/2004 03:03 PM
This Disneyland Parking Attendant coat and shirt on eBay look great, but they're way too small for me. Link

MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5
supercomputer

MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5
supercomputer 02/12/2004 03:53 AM
Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5-based supercomputer has already passed into legend among Mac fans, and now you can own a piece thanks to Mac catalog reseller MacMall. They're advertising refurbished Power Mac G5s that until recently powered Virginia Tech's Terascale Computing Facility -- the supercomputing cluster known as System X, sometimes affectionately referred to as Big Mac instead.

MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5
supercomputer.

MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5
supercomputer. 02/11/2004 11:13 PM
MacCentral: MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5 supercomputer. I still think only a dumbass would buy millions of dollars of equipment and sell it a few months later.

MallMall Sells Pieces Of Virginia Tech
G5 Supercomputer

MallMall Sells Pieces Of Virginia Tech
G5 Supercomputer 02/12/2004 08:47 AM
Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5-based supercomputer has already passed into legend among Mac fans, and now you can own a piece thanks to Mac catalog reseller MacMall. By Peter Cohen (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)

Programmers Devise New Ways to Make the
Pieces Work Together

Programmers Devise New Ways to Make the
Pieces Work Together 08/07/2004 03:47 PM
A host of new programs for Windows-based computers can, in one way or another, be considered tools for thinking.

Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa
mourns the Power PC

Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa
mourns the Power PC 06/17/2005 07:14 PM

Yesterday's announc ement that Apple is switching to Intel CPUs was epochal, not only for what it means for Apple architecture going forward, but for what it means to fans of the Power PC and the risks Apple has taken over the years.

A lot of people are excited about the prospect of a future Apple without the dark cloud of CPU uncertainty over its head. I like that idea too, but I only wish it had come to fruition through IBM. After the G5 introduction, I thought it had. I was actually encouraged by IBM's game console contract wins. It seemed like the PowerPC ISA had a bright future. Maybe it does, but apparently not with Apple.

Ars Apple Technology Specialist John Siracusa reflects on the switch to Intel and what it means for Apple and Mac users.

WebsByUs.com a Division of MBE HOLDINGS,
Announces Deal with 'Roost' Home Decor
and Accent Pieces

WebsByUs.com a Division of MBE HOLDINGS,
Announces Deal with 'Roost' Home Decor
and Accent Pieces 06/07/2004 02:37 AM
WebsByUs.com of Oakville, Ontario, Canada, announced a website and online marketing deal with with Roost Home Decors of Port Hope Ontario on Saturday. The online package provided by WebsByus.com will help Roost build its online presence to gear up for their grand opening later in June. WebsByUs.com will provide a website and full search engine optimization and website hosting for Roost. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]

War is peace

War is peace 03/11/2003 01:59 PM

And I'm firmly convinced, if we have to, we will act [i.e. go to war]
in the name of peace and in the name of freedom.

press conference by George W. Bush

Love is hate War is peace No is yes And we're all free

Why, by Tracy Chapman

Reading the transcript of George w. Bush's press conference tonight (I couldn't bear to watch it), Tracy Chapman's song kept running through my head. It seemed like Bush had a script of 5 points he set out to make, and he kept on making them in response to the questions, no matter how inane they sounded. It was amazing the number of logical fallacies he committed in the course of one press conference, but just as amazing is the fact that as a body politic, we don't expect our representatives to be able think and speak logically. Still, I can't resist noting a few of the more egregious offenses against logic and reality.

it's hard to say the United States is defiant about the United Nations when I was the person who took the issue to the United Nations September the 12th, 2002. We've been working with the United Nations. We've been working through the United Nations.
vs.
I'm confident the American people understand that when it comes to our security, if we need to act, we will act. And we really don't need United Nations approval to do so.

and

Peace for Oil

Peace for Oil 01/08/2004 07:07 PM
Sudan's 20 year war reached oil wealth-sharing agreement between the Muslim north and Christian south. Perhaps the worst war we know the least about, the longest in Africa, it cost 2 million lives, uprooted 4 million others and has been...

No peace for piece of art

No peace for piece of art 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
Israeli ambassador to Sweeden vandalises artwork. This is front page stuff in my part of the world and I truly hope, but doubt, that he will find himself out of work tomorrow. The question is: what was he thinking? Was it intentional? Could he have chosen to interpret the upsetting work of art in another less disturbing way?

War is Peace, continued

War is Peace, continued 07/20/2004 09:09 PM
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind," -- George W. Bush, February 2004 "Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president... For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace. ... America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safe and the world will be more peaceful" -- George W. Bush, July 2004 Source: Reuters. Strangelovian or Orwellian or both?...
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