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The Hero of WWDCThe Hero of WWDCThe Hero of WWDC 06/17/2005 04:30 PM (Update 12 June 2005: this post has been edited so that no one person
at Apple is singled out—teams are teams, and the entire Intel
team deserves a huge round of applause.) This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)The Hero of WWDCGrok Headline matches for The Hero of WWDCEverybody Wants to be a HeroEverybody Wants to be a Hero 01/23/2004 02:21 PM Both Microsoft and open-source backers are claiming to be leading the charge to break down the digital divide in Third-World countries. My new heroMy new hero 12/31/2004 12:54 PM DOJ coup d'etat. Ashcroft is gone. Now, six days before the confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the acting Attorney General, Daniel Levin, issues a new official memo (pdf)on torture, reversing and specifically repudiating the definitions of torture from the August 2002 memo addressed to Gonzales. The new memo states, among other things, 'we disagree with statements in the August 2002 Memorandum limiting "severe" pain under the statute to "excruciating and agonizing" pain [...] or to pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death' From zero to heroFrom zero to hero 01/16/2004 11:33 AM This is like a commercial for the atkins diet and golds gym. (quicktime mov) My HeroMy Hero 04/26/2004 07:05 PM Davi d Bowie invites fans to remix his songs.
The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or “mash up” two existing tracks. The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car. ”I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself,” Bowie told The Times newspaper.[The Digital Music Weblog] "Hero""Hero" 08/27/2004 01:29 PM It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait. Hero Helper X 2.0Hero Helper X 2.0 09/11/2004 12:04 AM Aid for the popular Hero Games role playing system. An XML Hero Reconsiders?An XML Hero Reconsiders? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM Kendall Grant Clark assesses reaction to an essay by Tim Bray that claimed XML was too difficult to work with. Was Bray right, or is he out of touch? Auntie HeroAuntie Hero 09/16/2004 09:33 AM 20th-century American artist, Alice Neele , "The Auntie Hero": "While Uptowners were making their way downtown to have their portraits painted by Warhol, Downtowners were going up to 107th Street to sit for this bohemian, auntie-like artist." Check out seven decades of raw, sometimes amazing, but always deeply humane portraits of the often larger-than-life figures who peopled the New York art/lit scene and Neel's personal landscape, including such iconic irrepressibles as Joe Gould, Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, and Bella Abzug. (NSFW) Hero Builders.comHero Builders.com 12/17/2003 07:15 AM Amusing and somewhat disturbing all at the same time .. Okay, I find this really hilarous .. Action heroes for modern times .. truly tasteless dot com .. bearded Saddam dolls .. these action figures .. als Puppen erwerben .. make an honest buck .. rest herobuilders.com Hero Helper X 1.5Hero Helper X 1.5 12/03/2003 05:00 PM An aid to the popular HeroGames role playing system. It helps GM’s and players during gaming sessions. A True HeroA True Hero 03/19/2005 02:56 AM Private Johnson Beharry awarded the Victoria Cross. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for bravery in combat. It's awared is incredibly rare. The last awards were made posthumously after the Falklands War in 1982. The last living recipients were two Australians in the Vietnam War in 1969. It is said that in order to qualify for a VC, conditions must be so dangerous that only 10% of recipients survive. The actions of Private Johnson Beharry are therefore worthy of a mention. SBC is Hotspot Hero?SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations... "Hero in Fallujah""Hero in Fallujah" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM Amazon tax gaffe: from hero to zeroAmazon tax gaffe: from hero to zero 02/18/2004 10:46 AM Amazon is a super-savvy Internet company, except when they screw up. I, along with other Amazon Associates, am now reeling from the double whammy of a database error compounded by unusuable voice mail. According to Amazon, I no longer exist as a legitimate taxpaying citizen, and I've been told it will take the full might of the IRS to correct Amazon's mistake. Dark Hero of the Information AgeDark Hero of the Information Age 03/14/2005 06:03 PM Norbert Wiener is known as the father of Cybernetics. His 1948 book on cybernetics is standard reading for AI and Robotics engineers even today. He was a child prodigy, wrote science fiction, and did some of the earliest computer research on chess playing algorithms (after being defeated at chess by a chess playing automaton built by 19th century Spanish scientist Leonardo Torres y Quevedo). His ideas on feedback provided part the basis for John Von Neumann's pioneering work. Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have co-authored a new book, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics. A New York Times book review (registration required or use bugmenot to bypass it) gives a good summary of the biography. Another HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhhAnother HERO for STERNO, sighhhhhhhhhhhh 08/15/2004 01:25 PM Blog Interrupted (washingtonpost.com) .. Washingtonienne .. feature story washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html Canada's True Hero.Canada's True Hero. 09/17/2004 05:45 PM Canada's True Hero The author Douglas Coupland has a book coming out in 2005 about fellow Canadian Terry Fox. Until then, read this interesting, but heart-warming article. "A Real American Hero ""A Real American Hero " 04/24/2004 03:25 AM Antarctic hero 'reunited' with catAntarctic hero 'reunited' with cat 06/21/2004 07:51 AM This month, the carpenter on Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance ship and his beloved tabby, Mrs Chippy, will be "reunited", when a statue of the cat is placed on his grave. SARS Hero Jailed?SARS Hero Jailed? 07/01/2004 10:23 AM
Greg Palast, You're My HeroGreg Palast, You're My Hero 09/07/2004 01:26 AM So, does posting unreported news on mefi decrease the likelihood the corporate media will pick it up? Let's find out. Greg Palast is at it again, but is anybody listening? Former Texas Lt. Governor admits pulling strings to get Dubya into National Guard and then keeping quiet for big-time money. ... now all we need is a "control group" story. Any ideas? Email me. the difference between a winner and a
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David Bowie
has today asked fans to bootleg songs of his latest album
“Reality” to create a new song (mash-up).