The memory chipmaker introduces a new parallel bus logic interface
family (codenamed Redwood), which offers a per pin data rate between
400MHz and 6.4GHz.
Grok Headline matches for Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees
Rambus sees earnings climb
Rambus sees earnings climb04/14/2004 09:11 PM Chip designer Rambus reported a rise in earnings and revenue for the
first quarter, despite higher legal bills.
XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document Trees
XML Tourist: Directory Trees to Document Trees03/30/2005 09:19 PM In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpsons discusses TreeSpace, a
hard disk space analysis tool that uses XML to represent data
portably.
News: Apple takes pre-orders for Logic, Logic Express 7.1
News: Apple takes pre-orders for Logic, Logic Express 7.104/06/2005 03:15 PM Apple is now taking pre-orders for the next major update to the
companies professional grade music applications, Logic and Logic
Express. The update, which brings both applications to version 7.1,
will ship on DVD and will cost US$19.95.
Hey now, you're rock star! Apple releases Logic Pro 6 and Logic Express 6
Apple takes pre-orders for Logic, Logic Express 7.1 (MacCentral)
Apple takes pre-orders for Logic, Logic Express 7.1 (MacCentral)04/06/2005 03:47 PM MacCentral - Apple is now taking pre-orders for the next major update
to the company's professional grade music applications, Logic and
Logic Express. The update, which brings both applications to version
7.1, will ship on DVD and will cost US$19.95.
NAMM: Apple introduces Logic Pro 6, Logic Express 6
NAMM: Apple introduces Logic Pro 6, Logic Express 601/16/2004 10:58 AM At this week's NAMM show in Anaheim, Calif., Apple announced that it's
streamlining its pro audio production software line with Logic Pro 6.
It's also introducing Logic Express 6, aimed at students and
educators. To find out more about this and a related announcement
about new technology coming to new versions of Logic Pro, MacCentral
spoke with Apple's vice president of Applications Marketing Rob
Schoeben and senior director of pro applications, product marketing,
Richard Kerris.
Apple offers Logic, Logic Express 7.1 pre-order
Apple offers Logic, Logic Express 7.1 pre-order04/06/2005 03:51 PM Apple is now taking pre-orders for Logic 7.1 and Logic Express 7.1,
the next versions of the company's powerful music creation
applications...
Logic Pro 7, Logic Express 7, and Jam Packs Released
Apple Launches Logic Pro 6, Logic Pro Express01/16/2004 11:04 AM Logic Pro 6 consolidates 12 pre-existing, groundbreaking products into
one comprehensive package. (MacNN via MyAppleMenu)
Logic Pro 6, Logic Express 6 Announced
Logic Pro 6, Logic Express 6 Announced01/16/2004 11:33 AM Apple has announced Logic Pro 6 for professionals and Logic Express 6 for students and educators. Logic
Pro combines 12 separate audio tools into one comprehensive package
for audio professionals. Logic Express provides a more basic set of
tools and capabilities.
Logic Pro 6 will retail for $999, while Logic Express 6 will retail
for $299. Both packages will be available in March.
Logic Pro 6, Logic Express and Soundtrack 1.2
Logic Pro 6, Logic Express and Soundtrack 1.201/16/2004 01:05 PM
Apple announced updates to their audio applications today:
Logic Pro 6 - Logic Pro 6 consolidates 12 pre-existing, groundbreaking
products into one...
« A rowan tree, heavily laden with fruit foretelling a harsh
winter. »
Talking about the weather and weather folklore has to be one of the
few universal traits that transcends race and culture. Everybody has
some goofy 'old wives tale' about a wolly worm with a full furry coat
signals a harsh winter. This year, the rowan trees
in Finland are practically bending to the ground they are so full of
fruit which I am told is part of the Finnish weather folklore and
warns people of a harsh winter approaching. I don't know that I
believe it, but with th
e geese migrating early and the generally crappy weather we've had
all summer long, I'm starting to wonder what nature knows that we
don't.
Back home, we've got lots of weather sayings and wives tales, and
some of them are pretty funny. I haven't found anything with a
collection of Finnish weather folklore, but I'm guessing that it isn't
terribly different. You have to wonder where some of these stories
came from and why people still either believe them or mention them
aside from their entertainment value.
Weather Folklore
Horses run fast before a violent storm or before windy conditions.
Pigs gather leaves and straw before a storm.
Flowers close up before a storm.
If the bull leads the cows to pasture, expect rain; if the cows
precede the bull, the weather will be uncertain.
Expect rain and maybe severe weather when dogs eat grass.
Wolves always howl more before a storm.
When the rooster goes crowing to bed, he will rise with a watery
head.
Ants are busy, gnats bite, crickets sing louder then usual, spiders
come down from their webs, and flies gather in houses just before rain
and possible severe storms.
Evening red and morning gray are sure signs of a fine day.
Evening gray and morning red, put on your hat or you'll wet your
head.
When small clouds join and thicken, expect rain.
Dandelion blossoms close before a storm.
If autumn leaves are slow to fall, prepare for a cold winter..
When the leaves of trees turn over, it foretells windy conditions
and possible severe weather.
Redbirds or Bluebirds chatter when it's going to rain.
Birds on a telephone wire indicate the coming of rain.
Before a storm, cows will lie down and refuse to go out to pasture.
When spiders weave their webs by Noon, fine weather is coming soon.
If wasps build their nests high, the winter will be long and harsh.
When it is evening you say, "It will be fair, for the sky is red."
In the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and
threatening." Matthew 16:2
It will be a cold, snowy winter if:
-Squirrels accumulate huge stores of nuts.
-Beavers build heavier lodges than usual.
-Hair on bears and horses is thick early in season.
-the breastbone of a fresh-Cooked turkey is dark purple.
A severe summer denotes a windy autumn; a windy winter a rainy
spring; a rainy spring a severe summer; a severe summer a windy
autumn; a month that comes in good, goes out bad.
The sky turns green in a storm when there is hail.
A veering wind will clear the sky, a backing wind says storms are
nigh.
When you look out your window and see your Dogs jumping around and
ducking Its a sign that its hailing.
When dogs in your house start looking paranoid schizophrenic expect
very heavy sleet for 5 hours.
Flowering Trees04/09/2004 04:05 PM Here in Vancouver we have multitudes of flowering trees. At this time
of year they delight the eye, but are a challenge to the photographer.
A bit of progress on that front, with a note on infused vodka...
Trees, Temporarily12/03/2003 07:19 PM In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains XSLT 2.0's
Temporary Trees, and then he demonstrates how to use them.
Building XML Trees With PHP
Building XML Trees With PHP02/20/2003 07:01 PM Need to manipulate XML document trees, but don't have the DOM
extension compiled into your PHP build? Take a look at XMLTree, a PEAR
class
that allows you to create and manipulate XML document trees without
requiring the PHP DOM extension.
The genius of Jon Udell's work is not sheer technical
innovation (not that TransQuery amounted to anything like that either)
but rather the ability to make sense of how such technologies can be
used in simple but powerful ways over compelling content. ...
Omnivorous Trees: Part 412/05/2003 07:50 PM Here's another hungry tree. This one has a
taste for rusty farm machinery. Link(thanks,
Paul!)
Help with an article on the fate of trees...
Help with an article on the fate of trees...12/30/2004 11:29 AM I have agreed to write the February issue of Esther Dyson's Release
1.0, but I need your help. The topic is something like: What's up with
taxonomic trees? We used to think that they represented the actual
shape of knowledge. We generally now realize that they're "just"
tools, but they seem to be less popular as ways of browsing. So,
what's going on? Are they as important as ever? What new ways are they
being used? (E.g., they're sometimes used to disambiguate full-text
search queries.) What's being used in their place? I'm particularly
interested in vendors who build trees for...
Designing Trees and Hierarchies in SQL
Designing Trees and Hierarchies in SQL06/05/2002 07:50 AM If you've followed Joe Celko's columns or bought his books, he
recommends the nested set model for representing trees in SQL (he's
posted it on SQL Team a few times). It's very well detailed in the
following articles, Part I, II, III, IV, and also in his book, SQL For
Smarties, and I recommend checking it out. It's very efficient and
makes it extremely easy to pull out trees/subtrees from the table.
However (you knew this was coming!) one of the issues I have with
nested sets is the complexity required to do relatively simple tasks,
like adding, deleting, or moving nodes in the tree. Even finding an
employee's immediate supervisor or subordinates requires 3 self-joins
AND a subquery! - robvolk
"btn" Focusses on MS SQL Server, but the principles can be applied to
most databases.
"zeldman.vh"
Photos: amorous trees
Photos: amorous trees12/09/2003 04:58 PM
BoingBoing reader George Perdicaris points us to the work of
photographer Yuri Dojc. His "Amorous Nature" series reveals hidden
eroticism in the world of plants. Link
I've started noticing these totem pole-like sculptures around
Helsinki and, I presume given the Finnish fondness for wood, that
there are plenty of others around Finland. Perhaps Finland and Alaska
could trade artists and Helsinki could get a Native American totem
pole and the Inuits could proudly display a totem featuring Finnish
ice hocky or giant makkara. :)
Updates may be light for the next few weeks as I get my brain flossed
by the nuances of louna, loukse, louta, kanssa, mukana, mukaansa,
itse, the plurals, et al. After 3 or 4 hours of homework every
evening, I'm not much for anything save staring at the TV. Pääni on
täysi.
Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into
Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition -
right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one
of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing published in
the print world, so I'm chuffed to have achieved it! I'll upload a
scanned version of the article tomorrow, because it isn't on the Computerworld NZ website at
this point in time.
For those of you who may have arrived at my personal website via
Computerworld, you may be interested in reading the extended
version of the Marc Canter interview. Or perhaps pay his company
website Broadband
Mechanics a visit (newly re-designed, with my interview
linked on the homepage too. Excellent!). Or you could stick around,
make yourself at home, put your feet up and browse through my
archive of weblog writings - by date or by topic.
What the heck is Blogging?
Some of you may be wondering what all this "blogging" business is
about. The best way I can explain it is invite you to participate in
the personal publishing revolution. Firstly, to read and subscribe to
weblogs - try out Bloglines as
an easy-to-use "newsreader". You can start by subscribing to this
weblog ;-) Click here to subscribe to Read/Write Web in Bloglines. Or, see
that orange button with RSS on it - to your
left? RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". Right-click that and
copy it directly into Bloglines.
The second part of the blogging equation is the writing and
publishing. There are a variety of tools out there, including Radio Userland, Movable Type and TypePad. I currently use Radio
Userland to publish this weblog and Movable Type for my linklog (daily list of
links).
So am I really a Journalist?
Not really, but my interview with Marc Canter was an example of
journalism. The reason I bring this topic up is that there's been a
lot of talk lately about whether blogging is journalism. Jay Rosen wrote an excellent essay on this a
couple of days ago. His conclusion was that "Blogging is not
automatically journalism." There's a lot more to the debate than just
this statement, but it's all philosophical. Read Jay's post and all
the great comments others made on his weblog, if you
want the full picture.
For what it's worth, I think journalism is a craft
that must be learnt and practised constantly - much like being a Web Designer or
Producer is a craft. I can occasionally practise the craft of
journalism, and perhaps I'm even good enough to "turn pro". But the
reality is I'm an amateur Journo (sometimes) and a professional Web
Craftsman (all the time).
Tom Coates wrote an essay last year called (Weblogs and) The Mass
Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... that outlines how
weblogs make it easy for "amateurs" to publish. Nowadays anyone
can create original content and distribute it to the
world. If it gets picked up by a professional publishing outfit, all
the better for both writer and readers. It's a win-win two-way web world!
Scoop! Trees are warm-blooded!02/05/2005 09:53 PM The snow has melted around the tree in front of our house, leaving
about a four inch gap all the way around the trunk. The snow has not
melted around the wooden telephone pole a half block up from our
house, on the same side of the street. What other scientifical
conclusions can we draw from this shocking evidence except that trees
are our warm-blooded brethren and sistren? Quick! Call the Texas
educational system and demand that our children's textbooks be
re-written!...
Taller Trees? The Limit Is Plumbing04/26/2004 06:53 PM To find an answer to the question, "How tall can a tree get?" a
research team has performed an act of scientific derring-do.
The mother lode of omnivorous trees12/05/2003 07:50 PM Here's the site of a guy so obsessed with
"gluttonous trees" that he has a collection of pictures of them and a
book, to boot. Don't you wish someone had trained a time-lapse movie
camera at some of these trees? Links
Web Spawns Growth in Tracing Family Trees12/07/2003 07:33 PM Calif. "I tell [people] to go straight to Google and put a name in
they're looking for, and they might be amazed at what comes up.". ... Grok Description matches for Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees GrokA matches for Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees
Mai Logic Licenses IBM's Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of PowerPC 970 Microprocessor Family.
Download of the week: Speed Download 212/07/2003 04:05 PM After reading a forum post yesterday inquiring about DSL vs. cable
download speeds (specifically Cox Cable), I though I’d write about
one of OS X’s more underappreciated applications.
Let’s face it. If you’re using OS X, you’re using the Internet; and if
you’re using the Internet, you’re looking for one thing: speed. For
most people, dial-up just doesn’t cut it anymore, and for some, cable
speeds still aren’t enough. While Safari and Camino have taken care of
many gripes about page...
Download.com.sg, a Full Fledged Software Download Site Hits 100,000 Visits a Day, Increasing User Base Steadily and Keeping Software Developers and Sponsors Happy
SMB Download 0.510/30/2003 04:56 PM An SMB download utility similar to wget.
10.3.2 available for download
10.3.2 available for download12/18/2003 08:08 AM Apple has released Mac OS X
v10.3.2, an update to its "Panther" operating system, available
for download through the Software Update System Preferences pane.
Apple also notes that a standalone installer should be available,
though it didn't appear to be available yet as MacCentral posted this
article. The new update is recommended for all users, according to
Apple.
Aug. 11, 2004 | Hollywood's
nightmare scenario is that high-definition TV will become
"Napsterized," with shows available online to anyone, anytime, for
free -- which may sound, to some TV fans, less like a nightmare than a
heavenly dream.
And, indeed, despite Hollywood's efforts, it's a dream that in many
ways is coming true. While the government and Hollywood fret over ways
to keep high-definition television off the Internet, copies of
standard-definition TV shows are now heavily traded online. Once an
underground activity plagued by hard-to-use tools and
less-than-stellar picture quality, the systems for finding and
downloading TV are steadily becoming easier to use, and the current
watchability of the shows is nothing to scoff at.
In recent months, a host of developers and TV enthusiasts have been
working on ways to improve the TV trade online -- they're building
sophisticated trading networks to record and encode and distribute
shows, and they're improving peer-to-peer transfer systems to make
downloading easier. The hottest new improvement is made possible by
the merging of two of the Internet's newest innovations, the p2p
protocol BitTorrent and RSS, the popular Web syndication standard.
Together, these systems allow a computer to automatically find and
download a user's favorite shows -- something like having a TV station
designed just for you.
[Salon] - subscribe or watch an add to read the entire
article.....
download
download09/03/2002 11:37 AM This class allows to download files with the appropriate headers.
Client web browsers recognize the headers, file and mime type and save
to disk or offer to open the file using a local application. Files
bigger than a given limit are automatically compressed defore
downloading to the client.
Konfabulator V1.8.3 Download12/24/2004 12:41 PM What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is
that it takes full advantage of today's advanced graphics. This allows
Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of
traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these
little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.
Download-To-Own Movies: Get Less For More!01/16/2004 01:03 PM You may recall CinemaNow - the major studio backed online movie
downloading company - from the review
in the NY Times last year which included such great quotes as:
"How CinemaNow stays in business is a marvel. The site is so marred by
typos and poor programming, it could have been a high school
sophomore's first Web design project." and "CinemaNow stand[s] out
primarily for [its] puny selection, poor video quality and overly
rigid copy protection." A ringing endorsement. Well, now it looks
like they're trying to adjust their business model, and instead of
just allowing people to watch movies for a limited time, they're
starting up a "download-to-own"
feature complete with annoying copy protection (of course). As
with the download movie rentals, you get less for more. Now, instead
of actually owning a DVD that you can play anywhere on any machine
(and which comes with extras and perhaps a booklet with more info),
you get a digital copy of the movie that is completely clamped down on
the machine you downloaded it on. Also, the prices are more
expensive than buying a DVD. A quick look at their featured choice
for "download-to-own" shows that you can get the same movie, brand
new, on DVD at Amazon for $3.75 less. They're also claiming that you
can now start watching a movie 30 seconds after it begins downloading.
If it really works well, that's great, but if it includes typical
video buffer loading pauses, I imagine it's not going to make many
movie renters happy.
Soundtrack 1.2 available for download
Soundtrack 1.2 available for download01/16/2004 11:33 AM Apple has released Soundtrack 1.2, an updated version of its
royalty-free music production tool...
Rambus Sees Logic for the Trees
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Here's another hungry tree. This one has a
taste for rusty farm machinery. 
Here's the site of a guy so obsessed with
"gluttonous trees" that he has a collection of pictures of them and a
book, to boot. Don't you wish someone had trained a time-lapse movie
camera at some of these trees? 
Aug. 11, 2004 | Hollywood's
nightmare scenario is that high-definition TV will become
"Napsterized," with shows available online to anyone, anytime, for
free -- which may sound, to some TV fans, less like a nightmare than a
heavenly dream.