Mac OS X: The Grand Unified Platform

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Grand Unified Linux Installer

Grand Unified Linux Installer 09/13/2004 01:09 PM
In the beginning...

The Grand Unified Theory of Media

The Grand Unified Theory of Media 07/23/2004 08:01 PM

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“Convergence, hah. Right now, I’m suffering from massive media divergence. I’ve got TV shows on my TiVo, photos and some videos on my PC, different MP3 tunes on my laptop and my desktop (not to mention on my portable MP3 player). So when I want to find a particular piece of media, I don’t know where to start.”…

A Grand Unified Theory Of Filesharing

A Grand Unified Theory Of Filesharing 04/12/2004 11:19 AM
Ed Felten is trying to explain seemingly different conclusions found in three different studies on the impact of file sharing to come up with a "A Grand Unified Theory of Filesharing." His theory is that there are really two different types of file sharers - and most people looking at these studies try to take the aggregate data and assume they define a single type of user. The two types he sees are "free riders" and "samplers" - which makes a lot of sense. Those are the two competing forces that everyone (other than the recording industry, who doesn't believe samplers exist) always talk about. All of these studies that suggest little impact on sales from file sharing suggest that these two forces may cancel each other out right now. The studies suggest that younger users are more likely to be free-riders (downloading music instead of buying), while older users are more likely to be samplers (buying music based on what they downloaded and liked). On top of this, he believes that studies that are based on surveys will tend to over count free riders - since samplers may be more aware of the legal issues involved in file sharing, and less willing to admit to the practice. As Felten points out, of course, this only describes the situation today and doesn't try to predict what will happen as today's younger generation of free riders grows older. Of course, if you look back one or two decades, I'm sure we'd see a similar dichotomy where younger music fans (with less money) were much more likely to pass around copied tapes until they got older and could afford to buy more albums. Of course, if you look at this from the view of the recording industry, it would make sense to focus on ways to turn free-riders into samplers. Of course, that's not what they're doing. Right now, they're trying to stop both free-riders and samplers by suing just about everyone. It seems like a better strategy would be to work on ways to give extra incentives to people who buy - such as access to concerts or fan clubs. While these are the types of things more likely to attract younger users, if Felten's theory is right, those are the users who need these incentives more.

Felten's Grand Unified Theory of
Filesharing

Felten's Grand Unified Theory of
Filesharing 04/12/2004 03:34 PM
On "Freedom to Tinker," Ed Felten writes:

Recently we've seen several studies of the impact of filesharing on CD sales. We have enough data now to draw some (very) preliminary conclusions, assuming the studies are correct. Despite the apparent contradictions between the various studies, I think there is a plausible theory that can explain them all -- a Grand Unified Theory of Filesharing.

Link

"Freedom to Tinker: A Grand Unified
Theory of Filesharing"

"Freedom to Tinker: A Grand Unified
Theory of Filesharing" 04/14/2004 10:32 PM

Linux.exe: an introduction to Mono as a
unified development platform

Linux.exe: an introduction to Mono as a
unified development platform 07/15/2004 01:42 AM
The end of June saw the release of Mono 1.0, an Open Source integrated development environment. Linux.Ars gives an introduction to Mono as the first in a series.

iXware International, a Provider of a
Leading Unified Messaging Platform,
Appoints iComProducts as Distributor in
US and Canada

iXware International, a Provider of a
Leading Unified Messaging Platform,
Appoints iComProducts as Distributor in
US and Canada 04/14/2005 04:33 AM
iXware International, a leading provider of unified messaging solutions, today announced the appointment of iComProducts International as its distributor in the United States and Canada. iComProducts will be responsible for expanding iXware’s existing partner and customer base in the US and Canada. iXware’s innovative unified messaging platform offers a stand-alone solution for e-mail, fax, voicemail and text messaging. It can also be used as a gateway to add fax, text messaging and/or voicemail functionality to existing e-mail servers such as MS Exchange and Lotus Domino. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

"We yearn for a grand unified theory of
Bushism that would put the two halves of
the agenda together. Now, at last, with
the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has
been passing intelligence information to
the regime in Iran, the opportunity
presents itself to..."

"We yearn for a grand unified theory of
Bushism that would put the two halves of
the agenda together. Now, at last, with
the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has
been passing intelligence information to
the regime in Iran, the opportunity
presents itself to..." 06/05/2004 03:05 PM

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Complete
Diagnostics Software Platform Supporting
ADI Engineering's Pronghorn Wi-Fi
Application Platform; Kozio test suite
supports diagnostic and manufacturing
test for ADI’s Intel® IXP42x-based
802.11 Application Platform

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Complete
Diagnostics Software Platform Supporting
ADI Engineering's Pronghorn Wi-Fi
Application Platform; Kozio test suite
supports diagnostic and manufacturing
test for ADI’s Intel® IXP42x-based
802.11 Application Platform 09/09/2004 03:14 AM
Kozio, Inc., a developer of embedded systems software, has introduced a new software release supporting ADI Engineering's Pronghorn 802.11 Application Platform based on the Intel® IXP42x. Kozio's test software now ships with this ADI product, providing diagnostic and manufacturing test capabilities to manufacturers who build WLAN products using Pronghorn. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

The Internet Is A Communications
Platform, Not A Content Platform

The Internet Is A Communications
Platform, Not A Content Platform 03/19/2005 03:17 AM
It seems that any time you hear someone saying they're trying to reach the "middle ground" on an argument, you might want to suspect their motives. That was the case a few months ago when some think tank wanted to reach a middle ground on file sharing, which was really a thinly veiled explanation for why the entertainment industry should control the internet. We've now got another one, which is even scarier. TheRegister has published an excerpt from a paper supposedly about "media literacy" which claims its looking for a " middle ground" between "etopians" who want the internet to remain open and the regulate and control crowd who want to ban and filter everything. However, the conclusions are anything but a middle ground. They're saying that people are stupid and can't handle the internet as is, and that there should be a separate internet that is more like TV, with acceptable providers handling the content, and acting as the guides to all the content out there. This is mischaracterizing the debate. It's not a middle ground at all, but a fairly radical solution. There's already a TV out there. This is designed from the wrong mindset. The internet is not a content platform, but a communications one. This article flips that around and assumes that it's a content platform -- for the sake of the content providers.

Unified I/O 2.0

Unified I/O 2.0 07/25/2004 02:24 AM
A high performance I/O library for random access to any data or stream.

Europe unified on GMO

Europe unified on GMO 04/15/2005 12:28 PM
USA Today Apr 15 2005 4:46PM GMT

why Solaris and Linux can't be unified

why Solaris and Linux can't be unified 09/22/2004 08:51 PM
Sun's Eric Schrock wrote a great post about why Solaris and Linux can't be unified.

Quality through Unified Action

Quality through Unified Action 11/12/2003 10:24 PM
AQUA releases JSPuzzles7 under Academic Free License

Best practices for unified security

Best practices for unified security 07/02/2004 05:54 PM
*Have a clear, strategic plan ? including goals and expectations for deployment ? developed with broad participation from multiple constituencies.

Unified Data Access for .NET

Unified Data Access for .NET 11/19/2003 12:27 AM
WebmasterBase Nov 19 2003 0:02AM ET

AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in
the Workplace Only

AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in
the Workplace Only 07/15/2004 10:03 AM

Unified Qmail Patch 2004_04_11

Unified Qmail Patch 2004_04_11 04/11/2004 09:32 AM
A concatenation of various patches.

Unified Mail Filter Interface

Unified Mail Filter Interface 04/10/2004 06:25 AM
First alpha release jumfi

How to Fail with the Rational Unified
Process (PDF)

How to Fail with the Rational Unified
Process (PDF) 04/12/2004 06:14 AM
This article has a good summary of a lot of mistakes in the software development life-cycle, including a comprehensive critique of the waterfall model (waterfalls are pretty but they just don't work).

More info on RUP. At our company we don't use RUP (you have to pay to use RUP), but we do adhere to the ideas of the spiral model.

Verizon Discovers Unified Messaging

Verizon Discovers Unified Messaging 08/09/2004 06:09 AM
Apparently, the telcos are being forced to innovate again, and they're doing so by looking back at what people have talked about for ages. The idea of "unified messaging" or "unified communications" isn't particularly new, so it's not entirely clear why Wired News seems to think it's absolutely amazing that Verizon has just figured out how to offer such services. A lot of the big telcos have been slow to offer these kinds of features, even if smaller, nimbler companies (especially in the VoIP space) have been messing around with them for years. In this case, Verizon is giving some users the ability to manage voicemails, emails and text messages via their computer or their phone, including the ability to transfer calls to the most appropriate phone based on time of day or to automatically transfer certain calls to voicemail. These are all things many VoIP providers have been offering for a while, so if anything, this is just Verizon trying to catch up.

Sun drops out of unified Java talks

Sun drops out of unified Java talks 12/04/2003 08:28 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 4 2003 7:16AM ET

Report: Unified Modeling Language

Report: Unified Modeling Language 08/20/2004 12:59 AM
more recommendations, Borland Together may be coming to the Mac

Updated And Unified Font HOWTO

Updated And Unified Font HOWTO 12/28/2004 10:53 PM
Slashdot Dec 29 2004 2:13AM GMT

Unified Qmail Patch 2004_05_02

Unified Qmail Patch 2004_05_02 05/02/2004 10:00 AM
A concatenation of various patches.

PHPDN News: Unified Site Search

PHPDN News: Unified Site Search 07/08/2002 01:45 PM

PHPDN News: PHPComplete, USE, and
Unified Logins

PHPDN News: PHPComplete, USE, and
Unified Logins 07/18/2002 08:24 AM

Neutouch: Revolutionary Unified
Messaging System

Neutouch: Revolutionary Unified
Messaging System 12/24/2004 12:11 PM
Neutouch provides online fax, voicemail, tollfree services, email forwarding, customized voices recording services, fax on demand, and fax broadcast, call conferencing features all in one package at a very cheap price. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Tech industry presents less-than-unified
defense

Tech industry presents less-than-unified
defense 09/09/2004 09:03 AM

Daniel Unified Non-Profit Admin Suite

Daniel Unified Non-Profit Admin Suite 04/26/2004 05:18 PM
Website is Online

Desktop row threatens unified Linux
effort

Desktop row threatens unified Linux
effort 12/21/2003 07:07 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 21 2003 6:40PM ET

A Step Closer to Unified Storage
Management

A Step Closer to Unified Storage
Management 04/13/2005 10:55 PM
Internet News Apr 14 2005 3:14AM GMT

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced

Unified Site Contest III Winners
Announced 04/21/2004 10:24 PM
The third installment of the Unified Site Contest is over and the winners have been announced. Find out if you are lucky and just where WERE all of those hidden pieces?

VeriSign Introduces Unified
Authentication System

VeriSign Introduces Unified
Authentication System 09/22/2004 08:27 PM

Microsoft Begins Beta Of Unified Update

Microsoft Begins Beta Of Unified Update 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:47PM GMT

Unified Hyperstructures for
Bioinformatics: Escaping the Application
Prison

Unified Hyperstructures for
Bioinformatics: Escaping the Application
Prison 07/25/2004 05:51 AM
Unified Hyperstructures for Bioinformatics: Escaping the Application Prison by Adam Moore and Tim Brailsford
http://jodi .ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Moore/

Abstract
The Next Big Thing in hypertext will be unifying different applications in bioinformatics through the ZigZag paradigm, allowing this field to live up to its promise of revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry. The paper outlines ZigZag, Ted Nelson's unique hyperstructural paradigm, and illustrates how, by examining a current bioinformatics task such as structure/binding prediction, the application of this novel paradigm has the potential to revolutionise bioinformatics completely by allowing a unified approach to a task currently fulfilled by fragmented data and applications. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

TeliaSonera announces unified mobile
Internet portal

TeliaSonera announces unified mobile
Internet portal 04/04/2005 01:23 PM
The Local Apr 4 2005 4:30PM GMT

Intellectual property experts call for
unified IP legislation in the GCC

Intellectual property experts call for
unified IP legislation in the GCC 04/22/2004 07:48 AM
AME Info Apr 22 2004 11:36AM GMT

The Unified Modeling Language simplifies
software design

The Unified Modeling Language simplifies
software design 09/06/2002 10:43 PM
CNET Sep 6 2002 10:06PM ET
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