The Confusion

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The new IT confusion

The new IT confusion 10/30/2003 08:16 PM
Droplets chairman Philip Brittan warns that lingering customer confusion about the differences between "grid" and "utility" computing could stall their wider adoption.

Gender Confusion

Gender Confusion 04/22/2004 10:43 PM
I really wish spammers would get their story straight. Hey, I just wanted to share with you the experiences I've had in the past...

FAQ | Resolution confusion

FAQ | Resolution confusion 06/17/2004 03:19 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 17 2004 7:15AM GMT

confusion and the benefits of WS-I

confusion and the benefits of WS-I 06/22/2004 12:13 PM
the great thing about standards...

Clearing Up The Confusion

Clearing Up The Confusion 04/15/2004 04:59 AM
Paul Boutin talks with Snow Crash science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his latest book, The Confusion, the second part of his ambitious Baroque Cycle of novels.

Confusion over Google IPO

Confusion over Google IPO 07/30/2004 06:51 AM
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Calendar Confusion

Calendar Confusion 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
All day I've been thinking it's March already. My watch (the $13 one that has outlasted all other watches combined) tells me it is "3-1" today. I believed it until a few minutes ago. I was catching up weblog reading and came across Brad Fitzpatrick's leap year entry. Then I realized that, while reliable, my cheap-ass watch doesn't have a clue what year it is. Doh! <homer>stupid watch!</homer> On the other hand, this completely rocks. I just got back an...

The confusion of the restrooms

The confusion of the restrooms 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni has a funny article today entitled, Forget the Specials, Explain the Restroom. He talks about the confusion taking place in many restaurant bathrooms in New York City, including those at such high-end spots as Per Se and The Modern (the new restaurant at the MoMA). I can concur with many of his observations.

...I couldn't figure out how to trigger the electronic-eye sensors above the commodes, motion-detecting flushing mechanisms with enough of a delay that you were sometimes asked simply to trust in a cleansing aftermath to your departure. I've encountered religions with less daunting leaps of faith.

I couldn't figure out how to tell whether commodes were occupied. Neither, apparently, could anyone else, because whenever I was using one, someone in the communal area would rattle the door, not to mention my composure.

And I couldn't figure out why, in restaurant after restaurant, the attempt to relieve oneself turned out to be anything but a relief.

I always panic when, instead of simple labels like "Ladies" and "Gentlemen" or pictures of a man and a woman, they put those gender symbols on the door. I have to stop and think, "Which one does Austin Powers wear around his neck?" and then when I get the answer, I open the opposite door.

In the various parts of Europe I've visited, I've noticed two great things about the restrooms: 1. They put pictures on the door, which are easy to comprehend no matter what language you speak, 2. When you lock the door to your stall (which is really your own private compartment! Nice!), it rotates a little colored panel on the outside of the door to red. So when you enter a restroom, you look at the doors and see either red or green, and voila, you know which are occupied. New York restaurant designers, please take note!

A Confusion of Styles

A Confusion of Styles 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
In John E. Simpson's latest XML Q&A column he discusses various styling options and alternatives for a nonstandard HTML variant.

.Mac Benefits Confusion

.Mac Benefits Confusion 11/19/2003 08:06 AM
"I looked at that page also, but didn't feel deceived. I felt the page was saying, 'Look what you could have received if you had a .mac account' and [implying] that new subscribers would get equivalent offers in the future." (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

Wireless Confusion

Wireless Confusion 05/07/2004 04:32 PM
Fixed broadband wireless is in the spotlight, now that 802.16 and WiMax are being written about in the mainstream press: But that attention seems to be adding a lot of confusion to the market, particularly about the difference between different technologies. The Financial Times ran a story about PCCW's launch of broadband wireless in the U.K. but said that the network would use WiMax gear. In addition to the fact that there is no WiMax gear yet, the network will be built with equipment from IPWireless, which doesn't aspire to be WiMax. Strangely, PCCW doesn't even mention IPWireless or the type of technology used in its press release about the launch, which came out yesterday. IPWireless followed up today with an announcement of its own that adds a bit more information. There seems to be a lot of confusion especially around the 802.16 and 802.20 camps and some of it may be caused by some of the companies involved. For example, I was once told by an 802.20 member that IPWireless was active in the development of that standard. I talked with an IPWireless spokesperson at the time who I understood to say that IPWireless had moved to the 802.16 camp. However, she recently contacted me to say that IPWireless has never been part of the 802.20 effort and while the company has an engineer who attends the 802.16 meetings, the company is not active in the 802.16 development effort and does not at this time have plans to build to the 802.16 standard. At the same time that the 802.16 and 802.20 efforts work on developing their standards, some of the member companies are also developing and selling their own systems, which sometimes adds to the confusion. Flarion, for example, is one of the founders of 802.20 and is conducting trials for Nextel and Vodafone. But the 802.20 standard is far enough away from being complete that Flarion can hardly call its current equipment 802.20-based. So Flarion and companies like IPWireless are each in their own category. Generally, it's great that the fixed broadband world is getting a lot of attention but companies and journalists have to be more careful about the facts. The space is confusing enough for folks who are just being introduced to it....

Future confusion

Future confusion 01/23/2004 02:22 PM

Shuffling confusion

Shuffling confusion 02/07/2005 01:05 AM

Steven Levy over at Newsweek has a great article on the iPod's seemingly non-random random function. See I wasn't crazy when I wrote about the rock block, but I do recall a couple people wrote me explaining much of the same thing Levy heard. I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these things can happen, though they seemed to happen with such frequency that it seemed uncanny. Of course, like Ev, I remember when the Pyra music server seemed to play Cake incessantly, even though there were hundreds of other artists on the drive.

Random really is random, and it's human nature to make sense of it all, looking for patterns wherever you see them and doing your best to make order from the chaos. It's what humans do well and what I notice myself doing everyday.

My 2000+ song libary still constantly surprises me by playing artists twice in a row, multiple times in the same 20 minute car ride, but I've resigned to thinking the random really is just that, and I'm just getting lucky rolls of the dice, remember those instances and forgetting the rest of the randomness.

TidBITS Goes Med Confusion
(19-Jul-2004; 1.9K)

TidBITS Goes Med Confusion
(19-Jul-2004; 1.9K) 07/19/2004 08:28 PM

Microsoft tries to clear confusion over
SP2

Microsoft tries to clear confusion over
SP2 08/19/2004 02:18 PM

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“A week after releasing Windows XP Service Pack 2 to enterprises, Microsoft is trying to quell confusion over an apparent security flaw and applications that won’t work without adjustments. The software giant acknowledged Wednesday it’s investigating reports of a method attackers can use to bypass SP2’s Attachment Execution Service. The feature is designed to help protect users from executing files from unknown sources or untrusted locations….

Confusion over high-definition TV

Confusion over high-definition TV 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
According to the BBC, just because a TV set is being sold as HD does not mean that it actually is. The problem stems from these sets being sold as HD without the needed adapter to make this happen. While some people may know to ask about this, many more do not realize that is can be an issue….

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Confusion reigns over Web services

Confusion reigns over Web services 06/22/2004 07:13 AM
ZDNet Jun 22 2004 11:45AM GMT

Confusion over MG Rover's future

Confusion over MG Rover's future 04/07/2005 05:58 PM
MG Rover denies comments by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt that it has gone into administration.

SAPPHIRE Responds to 128-bit Confusion

SAPPHIRE Responds to 128-bit Confusion 06/16/2004 05:57 PM

Confusion swirls around Google IPO

Confusion swirls around Google IPO 07/30/2004 08:30 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 30 2004 12:40PM GMT

Clearing up the confusion over
outsourcing

Clearing up the confusion over
outsourcing 08/09/2004 12:54 PM
Forrester Research's John McCarthy ignited a firestorm when he issued a report on the number of U.S. jobs that would wind up overseas. Only one problem: The press botched the story.

E-invoice rules cause confusion

E-invoice rules cause confusion 01/26/2004 05:17 PM
vnunet.com Jan 26 2004 9:37PM GMT

Spam Law Generates Confusion

Spam Law Generates Confusion 01/26/2004 07:09 AM
The federal act meant to reign in spam is creating confusion among e-mail marketers, who say it's unclear how to remain on the right side of the law. Chris Ulbrich reports from San Francisco.

Stepheon's Confusion on Salon

Stepheon's Confusion on Salon 04/21/2004 03:23 AM
My copy of Neal Stephenson's Confusion, the new, enormous sequel to Quicksilver, arrived in the mail yesterday before I left for Turin, and it's in my suitcase, waiting for me. Quicksilver was a remarkable book, a triumphant combination of Stephenson's trivia-obsessed, research-intensive approach to the precursors of the information age (viz. Snow Crash's Nam-Shub of Enki and Cryptonomicon's Bletchley Park sequences) and his gift for sprawling, braided stoorylines that combine slapstick action scenes with intense, emotional passages.

Salon's running a double feature on Stephenson today: a long interview with Neal, and a review by Andrew Leonard. Both are highly recommended -- I can't wait to sink my teeth into this book.

Science was new and they didn't know how to do it yet. Science was and is a somewhat contentious thing. Someone's got a theory and they promulgate that theory and then something else comes along and alters, improves on or even flatly contradicts it. Now that we've got 350 years of perspective on this, scientists understand that this is how it's done and there's a mechanism in place for how to do it. It's refereed journals and it's become institutionalized. They didn't have that perspective on it. They couldn't stand back and say, Well, my theory may get contradicted here and there, but this guy who's contradicting it will get contradicted in turn. They didn't have that expectation. They didn't have journals. The first two journals were the Journale de Savants, which was about 1665, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society, which was right about the same time. Leibniz had to found his own journal in order to publish his own work. They were kind of banging around in the dark trying to figure out how to do this.

Hooke, for example, when he figured out how arches work, published it as an anagram. He condensed the idea into this pithy statement: "The ideal form of an arch is the form of a chain hanging, flipped upside down." Then he scrambled the letters to make an anagram and published it. That way, he wasn't giving away the secret, but if somebody came along a few years later and claimed that they'd invented it, he could just unscramble what he'd published. He was establishing precedence.

Hooke squabbled with [Christiaan] Huygens over a bunch of clock-related inventions. This kind of thing was just rife. It came to a head in a grotesque way in the priority dispute over [who invented] the calculus. That was so embarrassing to the whole institution of science and people were so nauseated by it that it taught everyone a lesson. After that, no one would dream of doing what Newton did, which was to invent something really important and then sit on it for 30 years.

Confusion and Chaos in the Search Space

Confusion and Chaos in the Search Space 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
POINT: I don't claim to fully understand the product, and the clients definately don't understand it, nor do they have the time and patience. They're still trying to get their heads around putting keywords in title tags. That's their level. COUNTERPOINT: Confusion makes our jobs easier. It also makes Search Engine Marketing an easier SELL! If it was too easy, then anyone could do it. Companies are looking for SEM partners to lead them through the mess. It is a great time for our Industry.

Confusion around child work laws

Confusion around child work laws 02/10/2004 07:56 PM
No-one knows exactly how much teenagers can work, because local authorities don't know the law, new research says.

Unscrambling Digital Music Confusion

Unscrambling Digital Music Confusion 07/27/2004 06:17 PM

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“Due to an ever-growing array of digital rights management (DRM) strategies, incompatible file formats, and disparate portable music devices, the digital music scene has gotten complicated. Nevertheless, digital music is selling briskly online, and innovative new strategies for distributing music and sidestepping proprietary formats are appearing.”…

Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released

Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released 04/13/2004 12:49 PM

Seeds of Confusion Land in Court

Seeds of Confusion Land in Court 01/22/2004 02:37 AM
Beleaguered canola farmer Percy Schmeiser makes his last stand against Monsanto in Canada's Supreme Court, but it might be a while before a decision is reached. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Wired News: Clearing Up The Confusion

Wired News: Clearing Up The Confusion 04/16/2004 12:54 AM
Paul Boutin (Wired News) talks with Snow Crash science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson about his latest book, The Confusion

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Kevin Spacey Sorry for Mugging Confusion
(AP)

Kevin Spacey Sorry for Mugging Confusion
(AP) 04/19/2004 09:42 AM
AP - Kevin Spacey apologized for confusion arising from his report to police that he'd been mugged. The Oscar-winning actor made, then retracted, the complaint after a weekend encounter in a London park that left him dazed and bleeding.

As Confusion Reigned, Cheney Took Charge

As Confusion Reigned, Cheney Took Charge 06/19/2004 02:45 AM

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Kevin Spacey sorry for mugging confusion

Kevin Spacey sorry for mugging confusion 04/19/2004 12:36 PM

Wal*Mart Weekend Events Confusion

Wal*Mart Weekend Events Confusion 03/29/2005 11:51 AM
Perplexed by the various store lists describing Wal*Marts weekend plans? Read on as we unravel the complexities of this mystery. . .

Confusion over tax on technical services
persists

Confusion over tax on technical services
persists 04/03/2005 11:46 PM
Business Standard India Apr 3 2005 11:54PM GMT

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion 01/01/2004 02:38 PM
Sina Ahmadian points us to the FarsiWeb Project, and corrects my sloppy references to lanugage in Iran on recent posts (1, 2) about blogosphere reaction to the Bam earthquake (now said to have taken 50,000 lives):

I noticed that you have used the word "Farsi" (instead of "Persian") as English equivalent of our language in your web site. I would like to point out that FARSI (which is originally PARSI) is the native name of our language and PERSIAN is its English equivalent; as the native name of German language is 'Deutsch', but we never use 'Deutsch' in place of 'German' in English; or native term of Greek Language is "Ellinika" and always in English we say 'Greek' language, not 'Ellinika' language.

The titles of dictionaries written by several great Persian scholars (eg. Prof. Moein, Prof. Aryanpour, Prof. Baateni, etc.) are "English-Persian Dictionary" not "English-Farsi Dictionary". And the official institution "Farhangestan" (the Academy of Persian language and literature, in Tehran) in an announcement has rejected the use of the word 'Farsi' instead of 'Persian' in English.

According to Dr. Hossein Sameie (visiting linguistics professor of Emory University in Atlanta), "PERSIAN, alongside the name of a language, may be used, as an adjective, for the other aspects of our history and culture. For example, we can speak about 'Persian Literature', 'Persian Gulf', 'Persian Carpet', 'Persian Food'; this way, 'Persian' may be a common concept and function as a link between all aspects of Iranian [Persian] life, including language. 'Farsi' does not have such a characteristic..." And finally, all international brocasting centres (eg. BBC, VOA, DW, etc.) have "Persian Service" not "Farsi Service" -- BBC, VOA, DW, Radio Free Europe, etc.

Thank you, Sina!

Telegraph | News | Kerry's confusion
over Cambodia

Telegraph | News | Kerry's confusion
over Cambodia 08/13/2004 10:42 AM
January and February .. now sounding off .. CHANGING AGAIN:

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Microsoft clears up extra patch
confusion

Microsoft clears up extra patch
confusion 12/12/2003 05:43 AM
Silicon.com Dec 12 2003 4:54AM ET

Mass Confusion Rules the Graphics Market

Mass Confusion Rules the Graphics Market 04/08/2005 12:59 PM

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