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Not the Verb
Not the Verb
06/24/2004 09:16 PMWhat's a Vacation?
"vacation (n): an extended trip away from home in search of
inconvenient ways to connect to the Internet..." [Barbara Feldman: Welcome to my
Office]
I would also add the following:
"library conference (n): a meeting for consultation or
discussion away from home in search of inconvenient ways to connect to
the Internet..."
Stop Using WiMax as a Verb
Stop Using WiMax as a Verb
06/03/2004 04:47 PMParks Associates presents a clear chart of WiMax, 802.16, and cell
flavors that explain their nature and timetable: Anyone writing about
or planning to deploy fixed and mobile wireless data services needs to
take a gander at Parks Associates's layout of what WiMax will
incorporate and when, including a break-out into the individual
standards. "Using the term WiMAX in a homogeneous fashion has created
a lot of hype and confusion in the industry," said one of Parks's
senior analysts. Bravo and thank you. [link via Om Malik]...
Verb Exchange Inc. Requests Management
Cease Trade Order
Verb Exchange Inc. Requests Management
Cease Trade Order
05/31/2004 03:56 PMBC Technology May 31 2004 8:00PM GMT
Sudden Sun
Sudden Sun
03/22/2005 03:19 PMThe weather’s been terrible pretty well all month, we’ve hardly
seen the sun and the temperature’s hardly been over 10°C. At
six-ish this Equinox afternoon, I glanced out the front window and
gasped aloud; a trailing shaft of sideways sun sliced through the
drizzle, some of the visuals were surprising. Then my integrity
slipped...
Sony's Sudden Samurai
Sony's Sudden Samurai
03/14/2005 04:01 PMBusiness Week’s opinion about what Sir Howard needs to do to fix
the company… “It wasn’t as far-fetched as, say, a
geeky high school student morphing overnight into your web-spinning,
friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man. But the Mar. 7 announcement that
Sir Howard Stringer would take over management control of Sony (SNE),
a $68 billion consumer-electronics and entertainment colossus, came
pretty close to defying belief in Japan. Sure, Sony is a
much-diminished force. But was it so…
Direct and Related Links for 'Sony’s Sudden
Samurai'
Beware of Sudden Wealth!
Beware of Sudden Wealth!
08/09/2004 10:04 AMGetting rich quick has some drawbacks, believe it or not.
Sudden burst of insanity
Sudden burst of insanity
07/02/2004 09:55 AM
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G5 develops sudden insomnia
G5 develops sudden insomnia
08/19/2004 01:53 AMIt has been a long time since Apple made a little oops in the software
update process. Since the last update-round (presumably OSX 10.3.5) a
lot of single processor G5's have trouble sleeping, and so do their
owners. In an Apple forum almost
150 complaints have accumulated about this issue. Put
the Mac to sleep, the HD spins down, the screen goes black, but the
fans keep running. Sofar the only "feedback" from Apple has been a not
very helpful
info
doc.
Hopefully they didn't go home for the weekend before trying to solve
this one....
All of a Sudden, the Neighborhood Looks
a Lot Friendlier
All of a Sudden, the Neighborhood Looks
a Lot Friendlier
09/21/2004 02:31 AMThese are hopeful times for those who like to think the prospects of
life elsewhere are good.
Jayalalitha makes sudden U-turn
Jayalalitha makes sudden U-turn
05/18/2004 01:22 PMThe chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu introduces
drastic policy changes following last week's elections.
PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor
PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor
03/14/2005 05:28 PMA very interesting article at kernelthread.com explores the Sudden
Motion Sensor in the 2005 PowerBooks.
[[ Visit http://www.macmegasite.com for full article ]]
Beware of Sudden Wealth! (The Motley
Fool)
Beware of Sudden Wealth! (The Motley
Fool)
08/09/2004 11:47 AMThe Motley Fool - As Google prepares to go public, many of its
2,000-plus employees are preparing to get rich via their stock
options. According to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle,
several hundred employees could end up with more than $1 million,
with roughly a dozen clearing more than $20 million.
Fall in sudden infant death rate
Fall in sudden infant death rate
08/19/2004 07:53 AMThere were 175 sudden infant deaths in England and Wales last year,
down from 192 in 2002.
Netcraft: Sudden Closure of Webl0gs.com
Strands Bloggers
Netcraft: Sudden Closure of Webl0gs.com
Strands Bloggers
06/15/2004 07:45 PMDave Winer shuts down weblogs.com hosting with no warning .. Netcraft
article on the debacle .. pulled the plug ..
Netcraft
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logscom_strands_bloggers.html
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New Faster G4 Powerbooks with scrolling
TrackPad and the Sudden Motion Sensor
New Faster G4 Powerbooks with scrolling
TrackPad and the Sudden Motion Sensor
02/01/2005 10:05 PMApple today announced the fastest, most affordable
PowerBook line
ever, featuring PowerPC G4 processors as fast as 1.67 GHz, faster hard
drives and a faster
8X SuperDrive. All new PowerBooks come standard with 512MB memory,
faster graphics, integrated AirPort 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 wireless
networking as well as the two new Apple patent-pending technologies --
the scrolling TrackPad and the Sudden Motion Sensor.
Scientists Identify Genetic
Underpinnings of Some Sudden Infant
Deaths
Scientists Identify Genetic
Underpinnings of Some Sudden Infant
Deaths
07/23/2004 02:49 AMSudden action: How FreshDirect alerted
customers of a delivery interruption
Sudden action: How FreshDirect alerted
customers of a delivery interruption
04/27/2004 09:28 PMInternetRetailer.com Apr 28 2004 1:26AM GMT
Matias Adds Sudden Motion Sensor Tech to
Laptop Bags
Matias Adds Sudden Motion Sensor Tech to
Laptop Bags
04/01/2005 03:21 AMJeff Carlson (~270 words)
Matias Adds Sudden Motion Sensor
Tech to Laptop Bags -- Laptop bag designer Edgar Matias
announced today that his company has licensed Apple's Sudden Motion
Sensor technology for use in a new line of bags for PowerBook and
iBook portable computers. First announced in the 31-Jan-05 revision of
Apple's PowerBook G4 line, Sudden Motion Sensor technology
automatically detects changes in axis position and accelerated motion,
then instantly parks the heads of your hard drive to reduce the chance
of data loss. The new models in Matias's Laptop Armor/Inflatable line
of bags includes a similar sensor chip. When the sensor detects that
the wearer is toppling (backward, forward, or to either side) due to
the weight of the bag's contents, self-inflating balloons deploy
around the bag to add further protection to the laptop and the person;
balloons in the forward-facing backpack straps provide protection in
the event of a forward topple. A vital catalyst to speed the inflation
of the balloons is a secret ingredient derived from domesticated
foliage grown widely in British Columbia, Canada. The company refused
to elaborate further. Once deployed, the bag must be returned Matias
so that the bags can be refolded and the internal air canisters
replaced. For an extra $50 up-front fee, Matias will perform this
service up to five times. People with exaggerated balance issues can
also opt to purchase a $35 self-refill kit that includes the
replacement canisters and detailed folding instructions. The Laptop
Armor/Inflatable bags, ranging in size to accommodate all Apple laptop
sizes, are available as of 01-Apr-05 for $200. [JLC]
W3C to give the Web more meaning
W3C to give the Web more meaning
02/11/2004 08:16 AMPC Pro Feb 11 2004 12:24PM GMT
meaning of life plus one
meaning of life plus one
01/03/2005 10:02 PM
Think about
43 things
you'd like to with your life:
finish reading
Ulysses,
stop
trading time for money,
visit Machu
Picchu, or tell
someone you love
them everyday...
and at least 38 other things. War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
War Gives Memorial Day a New Meaning
(AP)
05/31/2004 02:18 AMAP - Deb Granahan never gave much thought to Memorial Day. It was a
day off from work, an excuse to find some great buys at the mall and a
chance to crack open the grill for a family barbecue.
The Social Meaning of RDF
The Social Meaning of RDF
03/11/2003 01:22 AMThe W3C is about to undertake a discussion of what the social meaning
of RDF is -- what the real world import is of an RDF statement.
Kendall Clark previews the debate and recent related discussion.
on the meaning of "parody"
on the meaning of "parody"
07/27/2004 09:36 AMEveryone's seen the brilliant
JibJab Flash of Bush/Kerry. The
piece claims to be a "parody" of Woody Guthrie's "This Land."
As any copyright lawyer recognizes, it is not a "parody" in the sense
that "fair use" ordinarily recognizes it. A "fair use" "parody" is a
work that uses a work to make fun of the author. JibJab is using
Guthrie's work not to make fun of Guthrie, but of the candidates. (For
the now classic case on this, see
Dr. Suess v. Penguin Press, where a "parody" of
O.J. Simpson using The Cat in the Hat was not "fair use.")
Guthrie's publisher's lawyers too recognize this. As CNN's Allen
Wastler
reports, Guthrie's publisher is now threatening JibJab.
What's great about this story, of course, is the levels of hypocrisy.
Guthrie was not much for property rights himself. It's
said that there is a not-often-sung verse:
As I went walking, I saw a sign there;
And on the sign there, It said, 'NO TRESPASSING.'
But on the other side, It didn't say nothing.
That side was made for you and me!
But whether Guthrie believed in property rights or not, the key thing
this story should do is force us to ask generally: Does a law that
makes a political parody such as Jibjab illegal (even if it is not a
"parody" in the copyright view of the world) make sense?
(Note to citizens: We're permitted to change the law.)
(Thanks to Paul Puglia!)
The Meaning Of iPod
The Meaning Of iPod
06/18/2004 07:54 AMHow Apple's iPod music-player and its imitators are changing the way
music is consumed. By The Economist (via MyAppleMenu)
Meaning of Silence
Meaning of Silence
12/19/2004 03:05 PMSmall counterpoint to the last post. What you don't blog about,
what conversations you choose not to participate in, is the strongest
signal you can send around here....
The Meaning of Innovation
The Meaning of Innovation
12/19/2004 03:12 PMI'm at a "Global Innovation Outlook" event organized by IBM in New
York. Lots of great folks here, and -- halleluja! -- open WiFi in the
auditorium at Rockefeller University. It's too early to pass judgment
on the program, but IBM is asking the right questions in exploring the
nature of innovation in today's world.
The Meaning of a House
The Meaning of a House
09/10/2004 12:18 AM
This has a value in our profession, and it doesn't have to do with
scale at all. It has to do with
the actual meaning of a house.
What's the meaning of 'trust'?
What's the meaning of 'trust'?
04/23/2004 04:00 AMDavid Heath, writing in "The Sydney Morning Herald" last week (link
below) asks, "What do identity and trust have in common?" His answer:
not very much.
Bluetooth gives hearing aid a new
meaning
Bluetooth gives hearing aid a new
meaning
06/23/2004 07:56 AMPC Pro Jun 23 2004 11:56AM GMT
On The Meaning Of The Word Shareware
On The Meaning Of The Word Shareware
10/30/2003 09:23 PMI'm not sure what it means these days. (Brent Simmons via MyAppleMenu)
Quest for meaning at arcade
Quest for meaning at arcade
01/25/2004 06:21 AMLos Angeles Times Jan 25 2004 9:38AM GMT
Robotics and the Meaning of Life
Robotics and the Meaning of Life
07/20/2004 11:18 AMThe Open University in the UK, has
found a practical use for Asimov's robot stories. They're being used
as
part of a robotics class, called Robotics and the Meaning of Life:
a practical guide to things that think. The Laws of
Robotics are
considered in terms of real control architectures such as subsumption
and on the practicality of using them to design safe robots. Asimov's
Laws are just one part of a larger course that reviews the history and
state of the art in robotics from
R.U.R.
and the Turing
Test to Moore's
law. Students get hands-on experience using a Lego Mindstorms
compatible
robotics
simulator called OU-Robotlab.
Required reading for the course includes Asimov's I,
Robot, and Ruth Aylett's Robots:
Bringing Intelligent Machines to Life.
Subculture, the meaning of style
Subculture, the meaning of style
09/25/2004 12:03 PM
For Westerners, the index case of subculture has to be the
1960s UK
conflict between the razor-sharp, tailored
mods and their
mortal enemies, the greasy
rockers
.
Difference was critical to these first self-identified
youth subcultures: difference in dress, in music, in drug of choice,
in the favored
mode of
transport...everythin
g. This obsessive focus on not just standing out, but standing out
just so - on showing the world precisely the right angle of a
hat, length of a coat, shortness of hair - has defined many a
subculture since. We recognize
b-boys,
ganguro
girls, and
straightedge
punks by such deployments, among many, many other identifiable
groups. (It's not just a youth thing, either:
leath
ermen and the
delightfully recrudescent
roller derby culture are largely adult phenomena.)
To a
devotee of a given subculture, such matters, far from being a
"narcissism of small differences," are a matter of pivotal
import in framing how one presents oneself to the world:
how we want to
be seen, how we want others to understand us. But I'm getting
older now, and further out of the loop, and I realize that just maybe
I'm losing the ability to discern these differences in the people I
pass walking down the street. I find myself asking, who and where are
the new subcultures? And how do they choose to present themselves to
us?
Meaning behind the Google mania
Meaning behind the Google mania
08/14/2004 09:01 PMObserver Aug 15 2004 0:22AM GMT
Meaning Mobile Entertainment
Meaning Mobile Entertainment
07/28/2004 01:20 PMJustin Hall explains what he's about.....
Two new articles give some sense of what I
trumpet as a freelance writer. I cover
technology, digital culture, and electronic entertainment. What I get
most excited about professionally these days is mobile multiplayer - I
have the feeling like mobile phones have terrific potential for play,
for poking fun, for horsing around. So I keep my eye out for signs
that these devices are becoming less productive.
I found one of those signs recently, and finished an article about
it this morning:
Mobile Play by Mail - The future of wireless entertainment may
well lie in some of the oldest modern games. Soon, your buddy list may
light up with game moves as well as messages.
This was a fun article to write, because I had a chance to research
some of the history of games played through the post. That's some
dedicated gameplay! Filling out 3x5 cards and mailing them around -
cards filled with orders and movements and even intrigue. Play by Mail games
were an early way to enjoy social, multiplayer gaming before the
internet. And I saw a company in Hong Kong that has instituted Play
by Mail gaming for mobile devices and so this article is working to
spell out some of the best potential for that technology.
For a broader view of the positive potential for mobile
entertainment, check out my last article before that:
Mobile Entertainment: The Power of Play. In that piece I argue
that mobile entertainment serves a critical social function -- it
will teach us how to be connected citizens.
Both of these articles were written for TheFeature.com, a
Nokia-sponsored research publication about the mobile internet. I've
been a contributing editor there since August 2003; moving and going
to school has me scaled back to a sort of regular contributor. I look
forward to continuing to write, and play in this area!
[Justin Hall's Links]
The Nature of Meaning in the Age of
Google
The Nature of Meaning in the Age of
Google
04/16/2004 06:20 AMThe Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google by Terrence A.
Brooks http://information
r.net/ir/9-3/paper180.htmlAbstract By
Author:The culture of lay indexing has been created by
the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as
Google. Meaning is constructed in this culture by harvesting semantic
content from Web pages and using hyperlinks as a plebiscite for the
most important Web pages. The characteristic tension of the culture of
lay indexing is between genuine information and spam. Google's success
requires maintaining the secrecy of its parsing algorithm despite the
efforts of Web authors to gain advantage over the Googlebot. Legacy
methods of asserting meaning such as the META keywords tag and Dublin
Core are inappropriate in the lawless meaning space of the open Web. A
writing guide is urged as a necessary aid for Web authors who must
balance enhancing expression versus the use of technologies that limit
the aggregation of their work.
Diminishing America's Meaning
Diminishing America's Meaning
06/10/2004 11:35 AMRichard Cohen (Washington Post): A Plunge from the Moral Heights. The Bush administration
constantly reminds us that there's a war on. That's wrong. There are
two. One is being fought by soldiers in combat, and the other is being
fought for the hearts and minds of people who are not yet our enemies.
However badly the administration has botched the first war -- where,
oh where, is Osama bin Laden? -- it has done even worse with the
second. It has jutted its chin to the world, appeared pugnacious and
unilateralist, permitted the abuse of POWs and others at Abu Ghraib,
and now toyed in some fashion with torture. The Bush administration
has shamed us all, reducing us to the level of those governments that
also have wonderful laws forbidding torture, but condone it anyway.
Even if there wasn't a moral issue, you'd imagine
that even this crowd would grasp the practical necessity of treating
prisoners with decency. If we declare license to do this to other
nations' combatants, other nations will do it to ours.
But the issue is deeper. As Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the
University of Miami, notes on
his blog, the adminstration's rationale is
truly frightening. Of a redacted copy of the Justice Department memo
Ashcroft won't give Congress but which has been leaked widely to the
media, Froomkin writes:
(It) sets out a view of an
unlimited Presidential power to do anything he wants with “enemy
combatants”. The bill of rights is nowhere mentioned. There is
no principle suggested which limits this purported authority to
non-citizens, or to the battlefield. Under this reasoning, it would be
perfectly proper to grab any one of us and torture us if the President
determined that the war effort required it. I cannot exaggerate how
pernicious this argument is, and how incompatible it is with a free
society. The Constitution does not make the President a King. This
memo does.
Will this be the catalyst that helps
Congress find its spine?
How a Nation Forfeits its Meaning
How a Nation Forfeits its Meaning
05/08/2004 11:43 AMSidney Blumenthal: Thi
s is the new gulag. President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and other
officials, unable to contain the controversy any longer, engaged in
profuse apologies and scheduled appearances on Arab television. There
were still no firings. One of their chief talking points was that the
"abuse" was an aberration. But Abu Ghraib was a predictable
consequence of the Bush administration imperatives and policies.
There was a saying in Vietnam that summed up much of
America's operations there: "We had to destroy the village to save
it."
We are going to destroy America to save it if we keep on the current
path. The nation I love is risking its very soul, operating as if law
and morality are irrelevant because, after all, "We're in a war, don't
you see?"
We're in a war with ourselves, too. We are risking the part of being
American that has so attractive here and around the world: the sense
that we paid attention to human rights and meant it.
We are still better than most. We are investigating the abuses. We are
not Saddam-like butchers and madmen. But we are not going in the right
direction.
It seems that Rumsfeld and Bush apologized for horrific abuse mostly
because there are pictures of it. They're warning us of even worse to
come, because there are also pictures of that.
But such abuse is not new. There were
re
peated warnings (Washington Post) from the Red Cross and human
rights organizations. For that matter, prisoners are widely abused
in
America's domestic prisons (NYT) -- and guess what, some of the
worst conditions are in Texas.
We are a revenge-loving society to begin with: Throw away the key or
hang 'em high, and if the state kills a few innocents in our names,
well, sorry about that. And we decided after Sept. 11 that we would
fight a dirty war, here and abroad, thumbing our nose at international
law and the Constitution because that would get the job done.
Anyone in authority claiming surprise at the reality of the prison
abuse is surely lying, because the reality of our new way of making
war has been no secret. (See, for example, Mark Bowden's Atlantic
Monthly piece,
"The Dark
Side of Interrogation," which was published in October 2003.)
The polls suggest that Americans are comfortable with the idea that
it's okay to shred the Constitution at home and ignore all human
rights abroad in the amorphous "war on terrorism," which has now been
expanded to include anything the Bush administration says it is. Shame
on our government. Shame on us.
How deep in to the anything-goes depravity have we sunk? I hope it's
not too far to come back out. And I pray that Americans as a people
will wake up to what is being done in our names, and then put a stop
to it.
No one is suggesting we give in to terrorists. We went to Afghanistan
for good reasons, though we then pulled vital resources from that
battle to take out Saddam and his nonexistent weapons of mass
destruction, and then make a terrifying muddle of the reconstruction.
(We
must see it through in Iraq. I don't know how we can do it
at this point, but we must.) Now Afghanistan is a mess again, and the
entire world is coming to loathe us in unprecedented ways.
The soldiers and mercenaries in one Iraqi prision are the tip of a
foul iceberg. At stake here is the very meaning of America.
These are frightening times.
The True Meaning of Service
The True Meaning of Service
07/17/2002 07:16 PMKendall Grant Clark investigates the DAML-Services ontology, which
ties together web services with the semantic web and could well play a
key part in the web of the future.
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