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Machine rage is dead ... long live
emotional computing
Machine rage is dead ... long live
emotional computing
04/10/2004 09:41 PMGuardian Unlimited Apr 11 2004 1:23AM GMT
µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
12/17/2004 06:31 PMIntelligent wireless TCP/IP modems, which support application
features including E-mail, FTP and automated I/O & GPS location
reporting. - Part of a Box-to-Module-to-License design philosophy
offering rapid time to market. - Eases integration of legacy equipment
with Central Management applications. [PRWEB Nov 28, 2004]
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
08/04/2004 10:03 PMA Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal
Turing Machine
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Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.
Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.
12/02/2003 10:13 PMI had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all
over. My last full backup...
""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"
""Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's f
-- ing dead. He wasn't religious. So
thank you for your thoughts, but he's f
-- ing dead.''"
05/05/2004 09:39 AMDead pixels instead of dead trees
Dead pixels instead of dead trees
12/22/2004 01:49 AMI love books, I love browsing stacks, I love libraries, I love
Powell's in Portland, I like collecting books, I always have a stack
nearby to read, I love looking through picture books, and I love books
even though I didn't really become much of a reader until the end of
my college years (I never read for fun until then). Plunging into the
Internet fed my book addiction further, as I had to read dozens of
computer classics to get up to speed and stay ahead of the curve.
Every computer desk I've had until recently was flanked by bookshelves
loaded with titles.
Earlier this year, I remember hearing Cory
Doctorow give a talk about how ebooks were going to rule the world
and folks would abandon the printed page for the laptop screen. I
thought it was a good talk, but I felt the thesis was a bit ahead of
its time. There's really no comparison between curling up with a book
and a blanket in front of a fireplace, versus trying to read thousands
of words on a screen.
Last weekend I was doing some house cleaning and I kept finding
stacks of books. A stack next to the reading chairs.
A stack on the coffee table. A stack beside my bed. All these stacks
contained books I bought in 2004, but never read. Some, I got halfway
through, but even more I got maybe ten pages in. A few I never even
cracked open.
When I think back to the last three books I enjoyed, they were all
heard on my iPod,
while on a road trip. I can't recall the last book I finished in
my hands.
I'm going to take a holiday trip soon to a fairly remote location
where there's not much to do besides read. I'm going to sit and read
the
only book I've wanted to read this year, and I have a feeling it
might just be one of the last dead tree books I read for a long
time.
As much as I didn't agree with Cory back during his E-tech talk,
I'm finally realizing it's coming true in my own life. I read
thousands of words everyday on my monitors and I rarely take time to
read anything on the printed page, and there's no sign of reversal on
that trend. The scariest thing for the bookfan inside me is that I
don't think it's bad thing, either.
Long live the ebook. Long live the audiobook. So long, dead
trees.
Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?
Dead Like Me - Dead or Alive?
02/01/2005 09:59 PMIn television these days, there is hardly a show that doesn’t
have the blood flowing or the boobies showing. It is hard to find a
show that makes it on wit alone. Till a few weeks ago, I thought I had
found the saving grace with Showtime’s original show, Dead Like
Me. I guess a few executives didn’t share my opinion. The fight
is far from over though. In the past shows would have died…
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The Machine Age
The Machine Age
08/27/2004 02:09 PMThe Machine Age PC
The Machine Age PC
08/27/2004 02:08 PMWelcome To The Machine
Welcome To The Machine
09/06/2004 06:07 PMTechWeb Sep 6 2004 9:38PM GMT
SFX Machine RT 1.03
SFX Machine RT 1.03
12/02/2003 10:19 PMReal-time audio multi-effects plug-in with hundreds of effects.
Page Against the Machine
Page Against the Machine
09/21/2004 10:37 AMBooks-A-Million falls short and points to the sky.
Trust Me, I'm a Machine
Trust Me, I'm a Machine
04/07/2005 02:54 AMAn EU computer science project hopes to make the uncertainty attached
to the pervasive computing future a lot more secure through
establishing trust. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]
The Guts Of A New Machine
The Guts Of A New Machine
12/02/2003 12:37 AMThe iPod became an instant classic by combining high design and
powerful technology. But as Apple has learned before, that formula
alone doesn't keep you on top. By Rob Walker (New York Times via
MyAppleMenu)
dream machine
dream machine
08/04/2004 08:19 PM
dream machine
The
dream
machine is a creation of
Bri
on Gysin, a Canadian-English expatriate colleague of
William S. Burroughs and
Paul Bowles. Timothy Leary
called this device "the most sophisticated neuro-phenomenological
device ever designed." A
dream machine is being
exhibited this week in San Francisco. If you can't make it there, you
can perhaps
build
your own.
Raging Against The Machine
Raging Against The Machine
01/28/2004 09:15 AMIn its '1984' commercial, Apple suggested that its computers would
smash Big Brother. But technology gave him more control. By Theodore
Roszak (Los Angeles Times via MyAppleMenu)
Gmail Machine
Gmail Machine
06/20/2004 03:36 AMGmail Machine
gmailmachine.mmgn.com
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Big Machine Identified
Big Machine Identified
06/22/2005 01:56 AM
A few months ago, I asked
people what the machine was in a picture I found on the Net. Many
people commented and identified it as an earth-mover of some kind.
However, I got an email from Ian recently that included a somewhat
cheesy Power Point Show which included the pictures at right (click
for 600-pixel versions) and this text:
This is the largest earth mover in the world built by the German
company, Krupp, and seen here crossing a federal highway in Germany en
route to its destination (an open-pit coal mine). It is cheaper to
move the thing like this, than to construct or reassemble onsite.
The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
It weighs over 45,500 tons
Cost $100 million to build
Took 5 years to design and manufacture
5 years to assemble
Requires 5 people to operate it
The Bucket Wheel is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets,
each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material.
A 6-foot man can stand up inside one of the buckets.
It moves on 12 crawlers (each is 12 feet wide, 8' high and 46
feet long)
There are 8 crawlers in front and 4 in back.
It has a maximum speed of 1 mile in 3 hours (1/3
mile/hour)
It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000
large dump trucks at 40yds. each)
One hundred thousand dump trucks per day? Wow. I can't vouch for
any of the validity here, but it's a big machine no matter what
figures you slap on it.
On The Guts of a New Machine (Aside)
On The Guts of a New Machine (Aside)
12/02/2003 01:29 AMOne thing that I noticed for the first time today was the distinct
similarity between the navigational style of the iPod and the horizo
ntal-heirarchy menu-driven interface to Tivos. Is there a memetic
forebear to both of these that I'm unfamiliar with, or is this simply
an emerging standard in navigating through libraries of content when
you only have a few physical buttons and real-life interface elements
to deal with?
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The Political Machine
The Political Machine
09/15/2004 05:03 PMglobetechnology.com Sep 15 2004 8:37PM GMT
The Greeking Machine
The Greeking Machine
04/12/2005 05:56 AMthe greeking machine .. Duck
Island
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Citation Machine
Citation Machine
08/03/2004 04:13 PM
Citation Machine
The Maverick and His Machine
The Maverick and His Machine
02/10/2004 02:40 PMThe Toll of a New Machine
The Toll of a New Machine
04/15/2004 02:27 PMIt started with ATMs. Then gas stations. Now self-service kiosks are
taking over airports and invading McDonald's restaurants. Is this the
face of the jobless recovery? Or will automation make service better
for workers and customers alike?
JC virtual machine
JC virtual machine
07/05/2004 10:32 PMJC 1.2 released
Eco Egg Washing Machine
Eco Egg Washing Machine
04/15/2005 09:59 AM
The Eco Egg Washing
Machine will delicately handle even your most fragile, lacey
underthings, using "gentle agitation" in lieu of the traditional
agitator. It's been around since 2003, but Shiny Shiny covered it and
I couldn't resist. Definitely the most fun washing machine to pretend
you're an astronaut in, it's available from Amazon for just $75, and
can plug right into the kitchen faucet in your studio apartment. The
big downside: There's no spin-dry, so you have to hand-wring your
clothes.
Catalog Page ($75, in stock) [Amazon via shinyshiny]
A Machine With a Mind of Its Own
A Machine With a Mind of Its Own
07/29/2004 05:01 AMRoss King wanted a research assistant who would work full time without
sleep or food -- so he built one. By Oliver Morton from Wired
magazine.
Inside the machine
Inside the machine
07/27/2004 08:04 PMI have to say the upside of having bloggers at the
DNC is that I've learned the ropes of how these conventions go,
through their eyes. I didn't know about speech embargoes until a few
people posted about speeches before they happened.
While watching Fox news for a few minutes tonight (to see O'Reilly
take on Michael Moore), I noticed they don't show speeches in their
entirety like the other networks, but simply cut to certain sections.
Knowing about these embargoes, it becomes clear why they choose to cut
away to live, in-progress speeches -- they know exactly what's coming
up and they can highlight the most offending sections, and just those
sections, out of context from the rest of the speech.
The Noise Machine
The Noise Machine
09/06/2004 03:43 AM
The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history It's bigger
than Bush vs. Kerry. It's about billionaire funded thinktanks (
AEI,
Heritage) paying
columnists to sit around and make
stuff up or legitimize crackpot theories (
blacks are
genetically stupid,
japanese internment was okay).
Furthermore its about
radio,
internet,
blogs,
tv news and
publishing houses working in
concert to pummel
memes onto the
American public. When this stuff
infects your
culture and is no longer the domain of the loons but now as
mainstream as apple pie and Wal-Mart, what do you do?
Download machine 0.20
Download machine 0.20
04/10/2004 03:18 PMA noninteractive, nongraphical, pure Java batch file downloader.
A Cog in the Baseball Machine
A Cog in the Baseball Machine
04/09/2004 04:05 PMLast month I went to an all-day umpiring workshop, and today was the
Little League Opening Day parade. As a side-effect, I’m feeling
rather culturally well-rooted, not to mention erudite: two strikes on
the batter, a foul-tip bounces off the catcher’s mask into the air,
the third basemen charges in and catches it; is the batter out? Or...
runners on first and second, pop fly to third, infield-fly rule
called, the ball bounces off the third baseman’s glove through foul
territory into the dugout, what happens? Then there’s the crash and
howl of the bagpipe band as hundreds of bright-clad children march
onto the immaculate infield grass... Opening Day!...
"WayBack Machine"
"WayBack Machine"
02/19/2004 03:22 PMDownload machine 0.21
Download machine 0.21
06/06/2004 04:03 PMA noninteractive, nongraphical, pure Java batch file downloader.
drum machine
drum machine
01/02/2004 07:30 PM drum machine [note: flash, loud
audio] De-Malwaring a Machine
De-Malwaring a Machine
12/28/2004 05:13 PMHow to fix Mom's
computer: Here's a great article on how to de-malware a computer.
Gina from scribbling.net went
home over the holidays and had to "fix" her mother's computer. She
was so awesomely kind to write down everything she did, complete with
screencaps.
Related to this, the people in my office have purchased about a
dozen new home computers from Dell this year (the Dime
nsion 2400 was going for as cheap as $349 at one point). They
have them all shipped to the office, and they ask me to set them
up.
This means I've gone through a dozen new computer set-ups this
year, and I've developed it into an art-form. I really should write
the process down — what I enable, what I update, what I
uninstalled, what I reinstall, etc. I'm proud to say that I present
people with a pretty bulletproof machine, when everything is said and
done.
If you don't think it's necessary to set-up a brand new computer
well, read this. Via Kottke.
Yet Another Time Machine 0.2
Yet Another Time Machine 0.2
06/09/2004 08:42 PMA command line audio player with time stretching and compressing
capabilities.
Yet Another Time Machine 0.2.1
Yet Another Time Machine 0.2.1
06/10/2004 12:50 PMA command line audio player with time stretching and compressing
capabilities.
On The Guts of a New Machine (Part One)
On The Guts of a New Machine (Part One)
12/02/2003 01:31 AMI've been reading The Guts of a New Machine, the latest (and longest) article
on the iPod perpetrated by the
New York Times. It's an interesting article that does the journalistic
job of covering a variety of angles well while trying to find some
unifying theme - but that makes commenting on it in general almost
impossible. It itself has no thesis - no argument to make. So instead
of addressing the piece as a whole I'm just going to jot down a few
thoughts that occurred to me as I read specific chunks. I'm going to
do this in multiple posts as it should make commenting more
practical.
On rapid product development and coherent product vision
"The iPod came together in somewhere between six and nine
months, from concept to market, and its coherence as a product given
the time frame and the number of variables is astonishing. Jobs and
company are still correct when they point to that coherence as key to
the iPod's appeal; and the reality of technical innovation today is
that assembling the right specialists is critical to speed, and speed
is critical to success."
This chunk of the article (not a quote from anyone) interested me,
because of the perceived dislocation between speed, the right staff
and coherence. The process seems to me to have been successful in
producing something coherent and clean almost because of its
brevity. In my experience, three months is about as long as you can
reliably expect any individual person to care about their part of the
project more than they care about anything else - even if they're
given total free space not to have to think about anything else
(multi-tasking is the evil enemy of creativity in my opinion). Only
clear delineations between stages in a project (and strong management
over those transitions) can really help maintain people's levels of
constructive engagement if you need a project to go any longer.
When I see the iPod and hear the time it took to think through it,
I can almost smell the initial back-to-basics workshops, the
brainstorming around what MP3 players could and should be at their
core. You can feel the desire to understand something - grasp a
vision - and the reason that sensation still sits at the heart of the
thing is that there wasn't enough time for that vision to erode before
it got to market. The iPod's design to me isn't really about
simplicity or coherence at all, it's about getting to the essence
of the thing and sparsely sketching it out without letting the
cruft or baroque tendencies unfold. Where human beings are involved,
design is a process in time, and the quality of that design can
be affected directly by too-little time, too-much time, and not know
what to do with the time you have.
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Apache/PHP help needed: I'm getting a
new machine ...
Apache/PHP help needed: I'm getting a
new machine ...
11/19/2003 08:08 PM
Apache/PHP help needed: I'm getting a new machine up and
running and starting with Panther. Everything was going fine until I
got to PHP. When I attempt to POST to PHP pages on the new machine I
get the following error:
405 Method Not Allowed
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL...
Googling this came up with dozens of questions about it, and no useful
answers so...
Anyone know what I need to tweak in Apache for it to permit POSTs to
PHP pages?
Discuss
4:23 PM
| Chris
Cummer
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