Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360 vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution

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Xbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture

Xbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture 06/05/2005 11:36 PM

Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka

Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka 01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Guy Davenport is dead. The irrealist w riter, tra nslator of Archilochus, friend of modernists, and influential teacher has joined Hugh Kenner in whatever lies beyond this mortal coil. More links at today's wood s lot, where I learned the sad news.

Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L

Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 2:03PM GMT

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool

NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool 06/17/2005 04:35 PM
NADAguides.com recently announced the launch of an online side-by-side comparison tool, giving car buyers the ability to compare up to four new or used cars simultaneously online. With this new service, shoppers can compare new against new, new against used or used against used for makes and models dating back to 1998.

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side

Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side 03/19/2005 02:58 AM

The Idea: What do you do if you need or want to collaborate, but you can't do so in person? What purposes are best served by weblogs, wikis, and other types of online collaboration tools, spaces and media? Collaboration entails finding the right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge, work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to the collaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment, tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they work together effectively. This is challenging enough face-to-face in real-time. It's doubly difficult virtually and asynchronously. But there are examples of great music, literature, invention, scientific discovery and problem-solving that have come from such handicapped collaboration. How did they do it, and can you improve the likelihood of brilliant virtual collaboration by using the right tools and media? Let's take a look at some of the alternatives: Tool / Medium Collaborative Advantages Collaborative Disadvantages Best Suited to Collaborative: weblog easy to post & comment; content is subscribable/ publishable participation limited to comments Conversations wiki anyone can contribute content harder to learn; can be easily sabotaged; inelegant appearance Projects / Alliances whiteboard real-time; anyone can contribute content content only persists for duration of call; possible firewall issues Conversations / Projects document-sharing can be real time; anyone can contribute content possible firewall issues; attention is focused on a document Conversations / Projects IM/skype/phone/ e-mail/ videoconferencing real-time conversations; audio/visual context; speed content only persists for duration of call Conversations mindmaps shows and documents consensus can't capture detail Projects discussion forums threading of comments; content is subscribable/ publishable limited contextual knowledge of participants; can attract undisciplined behaviours; threads can be hard to follow Conversations community of practice/ interest spaces organization; defined membership; multiple collaborative tools harder to learn; formality can reduce intimacy and level of participation Projects / Alliances personal e-mail groups flexible; personal; easy to use e-mail overload/spam; threads get lost or hard to navigate and follow Projects / Alliances social networking tools large number of members; good way to find collaborators most actual collaboration is done using other tools and media Finding collaborators in-person collaboration easy; real-time; context-rich; flexible expensive; time-consuming All of the above if time & cost permits There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of contact: Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a few times, discussing a particular subject or group of subjects. Projects: Where you're in contact as often as necessary to complete a project. Alliances: Where you're in contact in multiple conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an indefinite period of time. A collaborative conversation may be provoked by an interesting or important idea or an urgent one-off need for information or assistance. Much of the time spent in business is consumed in consulting with others, in canvassing for ideas or suggestions or comments, and in making decisions on what something means or how to respond to it. These are generally quick, collaborative conversations. In large organizations these conversations are usually peer-to-peer (where trust is stronger than up or down the hierarchy), and as size increases further they tend to be more and more intermediated (one middle-manager recently told me that 70% of his e-mail and 50% of his telephone calls are of the "Who should I talk to about X?" variety). In smaller organizations, these conversations are more likely to draw on external networks, and to involve the use of today's clunky social networking tools like LinkedIn and eCademy. I have argued before that the next generation of social networking tools should include 'people-finders' that streamline and automate the process of finding the right person (inside or outside the organization) to talk to, so that more time can be spent on actual conversations with those people. Once you've found the right person to converse with, if they're close and inexpensive to talk to in person, that's likely what you'll do. But what if they aren't? How do you quickly provide your Conversation Collaborators with the context they need to converse with you effectively when you can't put a chart or a piece of paper in front of them and brief them? Organizations have found that if the person you want to converse with face-to-face is more than two minutes walk (or elevator ride) away, the probability of you making the effort to converse with them in person drops precipitously. If you have a blog, an audience, and a little time, your blog can serve this need well. Ask a question on a popular blog and you'll probably get an informed answer quite quickly (thank you readers!) Most businesses, alas, have few established blogs and even less time. Preferred conversation tools in business, when face-to-face is impossible, are now IM and the telephone -- with IM trumping the phone for its self-documentation, its suitability to multi-tasking, and because it's easier to browse than voice-mail, and the phone trumping IM if a lot of iteration is needed to provide context. White-boarding and document-sharing applications, awkward as they are, can be helpful additions to IM and telephone conversations if the participants are savvy enough to use them properly (most aren't) and if documents and graphics are needed to provide more context. E-mail is the increasingly unpopular fall-back. Discussion forums are the ultimate tool of last resort for conversations, because of the disadvantages listed above. In most of the companies I am familiar with, they are only sporadically used and quickly grow stale. A variety of tools have been developed for more enduring project collaborations and alliance collaborations. Because they tend to involve more participants than conversations do, the logistics get tougher and the effectiveness of these tools gets more challenging. And the threshold point for giving up on the viability of in-person collaboration rises dramatically. I think this is an absolutely critical point. It is the reason large corporations, with the internal resources (people and money) to sequester, have the capacity to collaborate more effectively than small corporations and loose, unfunded collaborative groups (though whether they use that capacity to advantage is another question entirely). Open Source project teams and alliances have pioneered low-budget, virtual, asynchronous collaboration, and are the role model to follow. But is the reason for this perhaps that Open Source collaborations are generally undertaken by exceptionally tech-savvy groups, very agile at using and even inventing their own collaborative tools to get the job done? They usually have a good GUI for the non-techie, but wade into the material and collaboration technology behind a lot of these groups and your head will start spinning. What about the other 95% of the population? If I want to set up a virtual collaboration team to design a model intentional community (with people I might end up spending the rest of the my life with) or to invent a post-capitalist economy (a large project if there ever was one), what tools and media should I use? Wikis are one place to start -- a bit nerdy and physically inelegant but functional and not that hard to learn once you take the plunge. They are, however, asynchronous tools, which is a significant barrier to true collaboration. There are some more robust collaborative 'spaces' for communities of interest and communities of practice to adopt, but some of the best 'groupware' (like Groove and Exchange and eRooms) costs money and requires considerable learning to use its different tools effectively. These tools generally also require a coordinator to invest a lot of time to setting up and managing the 'space'. There are a variety of document-sharing technologies in the market, which allow several people to see a document at once and to 'take control' each in turn to change that document. Ideally, using a combination of Skype (free global VoIP telephony), White-boarding (everyone online can see what anyone posts to the white-board), Document-sharing and Mindmapping or some similar session annotation tool (everyone can see what the group's 'scribe' has documented as the findings, decisions and next actions from the collaboration) would be a close approximation to an in-person collaborative session. But that's a lot of technology to juggle on your screen, to hog and interfere with your bandwidth, and (if you opt for the more powerful tools in these categories) can also require some outlay of money. My experience has been (thanks in no small part to the valuable insights of online communication wizard Robin Good and Skypemaster Stu Henshall) that video-conferencing (seeing the people you're talking with online) is a "nice to have" not a "need to have", especially when bandwidth limitations force you to choose which applications to have running at any one time. I am confident that, as bandwidth and processing power continue to expand, we will soon see: A single, free, reliable, easy-to-use, professional-looking application that will provide what I've called Simple Virtual Presence -- the four applications listed above plus the option of videoconferencing (illustrated above), and A simple, free, easy-to-use collaboration space where the results of the online collaboration sessions, and a library of relevant resources and links, are stored, with wiki-like capability so it can be maintained by any and all in the group. Now that would be a real virtual collaboration environment.

Nintendo plans rival Playstation 2 games
console

Nintendo plans rival Playstation 2 games
console 06/10/2004 08:41 PM
Afr.com - Thu Jun 10, 06:24 am GMT

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD

The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD 03/22/2005 04:52 PM
New York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT

"side-by-side comparison"

"side-by-side comparison" 09/19/2004 02:22 AM

they're just on the other side

they're just on the other side 12/13/2003 08:11 AM
launched a new campaign .. "German Peace Movement" .. Medienkritik

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the other side

the other side 04/13/2004 09:07 PM
So I got a PC. Yes, a Windows box. I've been needing it for various little things lately and I'm...

Side-stepping IE

Side-stepping IE 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
I've explored the MOSe (Mozilla/Safari/Opera enhancement) concept twice in the past: MOSe and MOSe Menus. Let's turn that telescope around. Let's take a look at some of Internet Explorer for Windows' biggest CSS deficiencies, and how you can use...

"Side Salad"

"Side Salad" 06/13/2004 02:39 AM

Spam on the Side?

Spam on the Side? 04/12/2005 04:41 PM
Is spam getting more appetizing?

On the Sunni side

On the Sunni side 02/01/2005 10:02 PM
From the besieged Sunni triangle, the glowing portrait of the Iraqi election doesn't hold.

Pick A Side

Pick A Side 02/01/2005 08:32 PM
So, let me get this straight: They support a murderous tyrant in Iraq. They install sanctions to strengthen him and…

Client-side PHP

Client-side PHP 12/02/2002 01:17 PM

The Green Side

The Green Side 06/05/2004 08:48 AM
dissenting .. a Marine .. postings

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"the other extreme side"

"the other extreme side" 07/27/2004 03:02 PM

Client-side PHP (2)

Client-side PHP (2) 06/05/2002 07:24 AM
Getting PHP to the desktop, part two. In order to do this, I have chosen to move the web server to the desktop, too.

A different side of Dean

A different side of Dean 01/23/2004 03:54 AM

keep my hands by my side

keep my hands by my side 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
I just finished my two hours of Just A Geek rewrites for today, and I am so emotionally drained I think I'm going to fall over.

Because JAG is based entirely on my real life, and the foundation for the book is the WWdN weblog, I have to revisit some very painful times in the retelling.

Other side of the curve

Other side of the curve 06/28/2004 01:50 AM
USA Today Jun 28 2004 6:19AM GMT

" NYT is attacking the other side"

" NYT is attacking the other side" 07/09/2004 10:12 PM

More lawyers on our side

More lawyers on our side 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
ZDNet Feb 2 2005 1:52AM GMT

Nintendo DS Console Pic

Nintendo DS Console Pic 05/11/2004 10:43 AM

The not so glam side of life......

The not so glam side of life...... 12/22/2003 12:45 PM
I was up before the sun today (go me!) I'm going back to work the beginning of Feb. so I'm...

One disk to Mediums CD on one side DVD
on other

One disk to Mediums CD on one side DVD
on other 08/27/2004 01:52 PM

A group of record labels plan on introducing a disk that would be a CD on one side and an DVD on the other. This is so they can put one good song on one side and one good music video on the other and sell the rest of the junk for $39.95.

Supposedly this is to allow artist a way to offer more creative artistic content. (gag) [ZDNet]

The Internet's Wilder Side

The Internet's Wilder Side 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
With much of the Internet beginning to resemble a pleasant, well-policed suburb, a little-known neighborhood known as Internet Relay Chat remains the Wild West.

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life 04/19/2005 09:06 AM

There is one good thing, in my opinion, in Apple being forced to change the name of Rendezvous to Bonjour: a lot people know how to pronounce Bonjour. :-)

Tempted By The Dark Side?

Tempted By The Dark Side? 09/24/2004 01:58 PM
An all-new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're searching for what fans/collectors would do if a high quality DVD copy of the original, theatrical version, of the Star Wars Trilogy was offered to them. How would you weigh your desire to own the original classics against the issue of video piracy? Look for the new Probe Droid ballot now and cast your vote today!

Come over to the dark side.. of the
shire

Come over to the dark side.. of the
shire 12/20/2003 10:58 PM
Welcome to Pushington Downs This amusing fairy tale is brought to us from some of the fine folks from MST3k. Edward the less is an amusing bit of comedy based in a universe almost completely unlike that of JRR Tolkien. It never made it past series 1. Perhaps a bunch of renewed interest would push it along.

which side of the Laffer Curve we're on

which side of the Laffer Curve we're on 05/05/2004 02:38 AM
revenues are increasing

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Bright Side Framework

Bright Side Framework 03/21/2003 04:54 AM
The Bookstore online demo available

Thomson's Flip Side

Thomson's Flip Side 05/04/2004 04:49 PM
Thomson's earnings, free cash flow, and valuation tell the full story.

Dare To Go To The Dark Side...

Dare To Go To The Dark Side... 03/29/2005 02:15 PM
Rebelscum reader Rick Schmidt alerts us to this spiffy new ad for the M&Ms Mpire promotion. Click here for more.

Dine With The Dark Side

Dine With The Dark Side 02/05/2005 09:09 PM
Revenge of the Sith dinnerware is spotlighted on the official site. Zak Designs will release plates, tumblers and more this April featuring images of Darth Vader.

The software side of Intel

The software side of Intel 06/30/2004 07:47 AM
CNET Jun 30 2004 11:49AM GMT

Moving to the dark(er) side

Moving to the dark(er) side 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
No, this post is not about Star Wars. Yes, the title is a Star Wars reference. No, I haven’t seen the new Star Wars. Please stop asking me about Star Wars and get a life. Today I’ve finally given in to the fact that I must be getting older. But let me tell you more. About a [...]

A New Use for a CD's Flip Side

A New Use for a CD's Flip Side 12/08/2003 02:21 AM
New York Times Dec 8 2003 1:46AM ET
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Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360 vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution