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Good stuff and bad stuff
Good stuff and bad stuff
02/12/2004 07:25 PMThe bad stuff first: The wireless connection here sucks. It sucks
less today than previously, but it is still bad. The other thing is
that there are far too few power strips available, and I've on several
occasions had my laptop die on me.
But the cool stuff just continues: Programmable matter and quantum
dots by Wil McCarthy just blew me (and probably everyone else)
away with the visions of windows that move according to sunlight,
wires that grow inside the walls as needed, walls that can produce any
sort of light at command, quantum wells and artifical atoms, but
especially the palm-sized, paper-thin über-PDA, which does
*everything*, including cooling your drinks. And it all works on
"ambient energy" - harvesting stray photons, sound and
movement. When any physical object can have any functionality you
desire, you get into some pretty interesting scenarios...
High sci-fi, mindblowing stuff - but the theory says it should
work.
I love Ferrari stuff. Got all stuff from
cap/jackets/T-shirts etc. Would love to
go for Ferrari Laptop. What's
I love Ferrari stuff. Got all stuff from
cap/jackets/T-shirts etc. Would love to
go for Ferrari Laptop. What's
07/14/2004 08:09 AMTechTree Jul 14 2004 12:21PM GMT
Breaking Down the Google IPO
Breaking Down the Google IPO
09/15/2004 11:09 AMSearch Engine Lowdown Sep 15 2004 2:50PM GMT
Breaking The IE Habit
Breaking The IE Habit
07/06/2004 08:08 PMFear of viruses, security whoa's, spyware, scumware, malware, and
general obsolecence is driving users away from IE in record numbers.
At the breaking point
At the breaking point
04/29/2004 07:45 AMThe Bush administration's unrealistic war planning has increased the
dangers facing the men and women on the ground in Iraq.
Breaking the rules
Breaking the rules
03/20/2003 08:30 AMGreat article over at Brighthand about how Palm has violated many
of its own design precepts with its new Tungsten T handheld.
Read
Amazon - Tungsten T
Breaking into Bioinformatics
Breaking into Bioinformatics
07/08/2004 05:10 PMWhen the Xserves arrived for the new Idaho State University
bioinformatics lab, says assistant professor of comparative genomics
Mike Thomas, “they were up and ready to be used almost
immediately.” [Jul 8]
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
07/18/2004 04:11 AMI was an iPod junkie. It was hard, but I had no choice. I had to say
goodbye. By Bret Begun, Newsweek (via MyAppleMenu)
Breaking GOP ranks
Breaking GOP ranks
05/12/2004 08:20 AMAs more Republican senators sour on Rumsfeld's war, John McCain and
Chuck Hagel may no longer be the party's lone men of conscience.
Breaking .htaccess
Breaking .htaccess
03/14/2005 05:02 PM Suppose you try to be a good web citizen, and set BBEdit to create
UTF-8 encoded files by default. Then you create an .htaccess...
HP: Breaking up is hard to do
HP: Breaking up is hard to do
03/31/2005 12:35 PMMark Hurd, who will take over the reins at floundering tech giant
Hewlett-Packard on Friday, was grilled by analysts Wednesday about
whether he plans drastic restructuring of the company.
Hurd, formerly the chief executive officer of NCR (Research), was
named CEO on Tuesday. During an introductory conference call with the
financial community Wednesday morning, Hurd stressed that his primary
goal is to repair the problems at HP (Research), and not necessarily
break up the company. "You talk about problems but there are a
bunch of opportunities at the same time," Hurd said in response
to one question about strategy. "I want to get underneath every
piece of the business and will be focused on doing my best to optimize
each part."
News source:
CNNRead full story...Breaking up J2EE
Breaking up J2EE
06/06/2002 06:00 AMCNET Jun 5 2002 10:13PM ET
Breaking Mail
Breaking Mail
06/17/2005 05:03 PMWe (Creative Commons) just upgraded to Apple's Tiger to get the
benefit of some cool new iCal features. I'm regretting the decision
already. I had moved to Mail.app a while ago, after being frustrated
with Entourage's bloat. And after some tinkering, I had crafted a
series of hotkeys to automatically move mail from the inbox to
different folders. I have always been astonished that this function
wasn't integrated into mail applications -- do you all really drag and
drop the hundred of emails you file, or do you just not file email?
Anyway, though Apple proudly lists all the improvements to Mail as an
inducement to upgrade, it doesn't list the things it broke -- in
particular, scripting. No longer can you script within Mail. And while
you can script at the system level, hot-key support for those scripts
doesn't work right now.
This is a bug, no doubt. I imagine they'll fix it. But meanwhile,
they've also changed the naming convention for such scripts (used to
be ctrl, now ctl, etc., or something like that). All of which makes me
wonder: who is it that thinks changes like this are improvements? How
could you ever imagine that there's more good than harm done by a
change like this? Just part of an endless conspiracy to disable the
ability to automate life in macland. Why work to automate when some
genius will change a convention to force you to recode every time you
"up"grade a system?
Update: I thought I had posted this update last week. Sorry for
the delay. Just about an hour after I posted this, a modest coder sent
along his work which solves the problem. Check out
Red-Sweater's
Fastscripts. See also
this free
plug-in.
Breaking Down The Benchmarks
Breaking Down The Benchmarks
09/22/2004 06:17 PM By James Galbraith, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!
07/07/2004 11:15 AMUsers of the FedEx Tracker trying, and failing, to get it to work with
a windows machine should find it now works. For what it's worth, an
error of 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in the Feed Validator
means...
Breaking the Laptop Barrier
Breaking the Laptop Barrier
08/03/2004 07:54 PMPre-loaded, supported HP laptops now are available with SuSE 9.1
Professional.
Wes Clark says Outkast is NOT breaking
up
Wes Clark says Outkast is NOT breaking
up
11/06/2003 03:01 AMamusing wes clark qt video clip .. Wesley Clark's new TV ad ..
QuickTime .. The
spot
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Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)
Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)
09/23/2004 03:15 PMcastigates the mainstream media .. sniffing in her castle .. has a
million excuses .. LA TINA
emotes:
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Microsoft says it isn't breaking EU laws
Microsoft says it isn't breaking EU laws
11/13/2003 10:01 AMMicrosoft Corp. defended its
business practices Wednesday during a three-day hearing in Brussels in
front of European competition regulators, in a final attempt to
persuade them that it isn't breaking the European Union's antitrust
laws.
MSN Money - Breaking News
MSN Money - Breaking News
04/02/2005 05:11 AMall-time high ..
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news.moneycentral.msn.com/breaking/breakingnewsarticle.asp?feed=OB
R&Date=20050401&ID=4342219
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"Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)"
"Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)"
09/24/2004 04:07 PMSun, Microsoft Breaking SOA Barriers
Sun, Microsoft Breaking SOA Barriers
02/05/2005 09:53 PMSenator proposes breaking up CIA
Senator proposes breaking up CIA
08/23/2004 01:12 AMA Republican senator calls for a post-9/11 overhaul of US intelligence
which would see the break-up of the CIA.
Breaking Down Language Barriers
Breaking Down Language Barriers
07/18/2004 08:08 PM
One of the big problems in the American presence
in Iraq has been a wall of misunderstanding and ignorance brought
about by lack of language skills and a lack of information. Machine
translation is getting better all the time, and we're seeing some of
the results of that improvement here.
The gear in the picture is a piece in the puzzle. From a satellite
dish outside this tent at the
Strong Angel II
exercise, it's capturing and recording the
Al-Manar TV station, a Hezbollah
outlet. U.S. military and aid workers may not like what this and other
Arabic stations are broadcasting, but they need to know what's being
said -- to know what prominent Arab news outlets are saying about the
U.S. occupation of Iraq and other issues.
Audio is extracted from the news broadcasts, and converted to text in
a speech-to-text program. Then the Arabic text is translated, also by
a machine, into English. The results, twice removed from what the
announcers have said, are rough approximations. But they capture the
gist of the reports.
The video, audio and texts (Arabic and English) go into a database.
Sean Colbath, senior engineer at the BBN Technologies Speech and
Language Processing Group, pulls out items -- short video quotes --
that look especially interesting or relevant to the key topics of the
day. He bundles them into a file that goes to a human translator on
the mainland, who gives an accurate rendering of what the broadcast
snippet actually told the audience.
This is a blending of human and machine translation capabilities, and
it's a smart one. The machines get us part of the way. Humans capture
more subtlety, but machines can winnow out a lot of the dross first.
Colbath's gear is just one element in the translation tests here at
Strong Angel, where people from the military, civilian, governmental
and non-governmental spheres are testing new ways to communicate and
collaborate in the aftermath of great human tragedy.
Another experiment, which I have yet to see, sounds amazing: a chat in
which you input in one language, someone gets your input in a
different language and replies in his or her own tongue, which then
comes back to you in your language. I'll tell you more when I've seen
it up close.
Electronic Arts Breaking Out
Electronic Arts Breaking Out
08/20/2004 04:29 PMThe company's stock is not as popular as Madden NFL 2005, with its top
sales numbers. Yet.
The Stakeholder :: Breaking News...
The Stakeholder :: Breaking News...
08/11/2004 10:28 PMhoisted by his own petard .. This makes me
happy
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Breaking Writer's Block
Breaking Writer's Block
04/19/2004 08:21 AMWebDevInfo Apr 19 2004 12:27PM GMT
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
12/02/2003 10:15 PMmegas writes "Max Lyons has just posted on his site what seems to be
the first 1 Gigapixel picture, created from 196 separate photographs
taken with a 6 ...
Breaking: Quake/Tsunami
Breaking: Quake/Tsunami
03/28/2005 03:45 PMTechnocrat.net Mar 28 2005 8:14PM GMT
Spy On What People Do, On Your PC and
Networks Without Breaking the Law
Spy On What People Do, On Your PC and
Networks Without Breaking the Law
06/05/2005 11:14 PMSurveilleTech, LLC. today announces a new version of the award-winning
e-Surveiller surveillance software, an easy to use and yet powerful
monitoring software package that empowers users to monitor what
happens on their computers. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
Breaking Down Communication Barriers
Breaking Down Communication Barriers
06/21/2004 09:15 AMCNET Asia Jun 21 2004 1:11PM GMT
Hit the Road Without Breaking the Bank
Hit the Road Without Breaking the Bank
06/30/2004 09:29 AMSummer is finally here, and for many Americans that means barbecues,
pool parties and, of course, road trips. But with the high price of
gas, even a short road trip can leave drivers feeling a lot lighter in
the wallet. People tired of emptying their wallets every time they
fill up the tank can now turn to a free service on MSN® at
http://www.autos.msn.com/ that makes it easy to find less expensive
gas in their area. The customized service analyzes prices at 30,000
gas stations daily. All consumers have to do is type in their ZIP
code, and MSN will tell them less expensive places to fill up.
"'Creed' is finally breaking up"
"'Creed' is finally breaking up"
06/05/2004 09:07 AMBreaking software easier than you think
Breaking software easier than you think
04/16/2005 02:26 AMBreaking Changes in System.Xml from v1.1
to v2.0 of the .NET Framework
Breaking Changes in System.Xml from v1.1
to v2.0 of the .NET Framework
07/05/2004 11:18 AMDare Obasanjo
discusses breaking changes in the System.Xml namespace of .NET 2.0:
Breaking the speed limit
Breaking the speed limit
06/05/2005 10:53 PMThis year's Indianapolis 500 race has something other than the cars
going fast - think wireless.
BoI ceo resigns after breaking internet
policy
BoI ceo resigns after breaking internet
policy
05/29/2004 12:27 PMIrish Times May 29 2004 3:59PM GMT
Week in review: Code breaking
Week in review: Code breaking
05/21/2004 11:20 AMGrokker: Breaking The Page Barrier
Grokker: Breaking The Page Barrier
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