Tis the season for retrospectives and wishes for the future. Wired’s 101 Ways to Save the Internet is actually a pretty good list. Though a MP3 player with something more than a gig but less than the current iPod offering storage for $100 would be nice.
Tis the season for retrospectives and wishes for the future. Wired’s 101 Ways to Save the Internet is actually a pretty good list. Though a MP3 player with something more than a gig but less than the current iPod offering storage for $100 would be nice.
Merry Christmas all and to all a good day.
Merry Christmas all and to all a good day.
Sun’s latest 3D Desktop looks potentially intresting. Hope it isn’t end like other Sun desktop offerings like say NeWS.
Sun’s latest 3D Desktop looks potentially intresting. Hope it isn’t end like other Sun desktop offerings like say NeWS.
Why patents cripple software development. Unless they are ignored.
Russell has a good User Interface Hierarchies Rant. I too have to admit think in hierarchies and outlines
. But given that I have a 60+ gig mp3 collection wonder if the iPod navigation would work well with so many entries. I expect the iPod navagation to be kinda like what Churchill had to say about Democracy, Democracy is the worst form of government
except for all those others that have been tried.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body.
�Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813
Perls of wisdom in a sea of site mismanagement
What sort of tools does Berk have in mind? Perl scripts, for instance. A tiny technical team armed with Perl scripts and an Oracle database ran the first sites he worked on back in the mid-1990s. Berk recalls his fascination as he saw larger and larger teams implementing more and more complex platforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s to achieve essentially the same result.
Sounds about right.