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- All USB ports aren't created equal
- All USB ports aren't created equalPretty much convincedGood grief. What has happened to journalism today? Never mind. I already know.Point is, you don't need to be pretty much convinced. There's this radical concept that's been floating around for about 400 years called the scientific method. It's key element is experiment....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), USB port, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-05-10
- Dreamforce 07: George Lucas pitches edutopia
- Dreamforce 07: George Lucas pitches edutopiaSocrates, not Aristotlealthough I applaud Lucas for his new mission in lifea but ironic that he used the wrong Greek in his samples about teaching by asking a question :)
- Tags: George Lucas, Dreamforce 07
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 1)
- If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 1)There is no such thing as Asperger's syndrome!!Ok. I thought that might get your attention.My first son is similar in that he has displayed exceptional development is certain areas, while being more slow to develop expressive language skills.Your child...
- Tags: nerd, moron, Part 1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb.
- Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed. Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting, but CEO Jerry Yang said a workforce review and a targeted "jobs realignment" will begin in February. First the good news...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?
- Blogging had its tenth birthday party this week. What a big big boy it has become. Even I acknowledge that not each and every 70 million bloggers are fools and not each and every one of their 1.5 million daily blogs are idiotic. The question is how to determine value...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- 3-D virtual maps for the blind
- According to Scientific American in "Virtual Maps for the Blind," Greek researchers have developed a system to convert videos into touchable maps for the blind. These 3-D haptic maps "use force fields to represent walls and roads so the visually impaired can better understand the layout of buildings and cities."...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- On anonymity
- I should have renamed it Keens code of misconduct. Minus 28 votes, 72 mostly critical comments... Wow! I never realized I was so spankingly popular."Eh, Adolf Stalin, faschocommunista girlie, tell me what do you REALLY think about anonymity..." One of my more historically erudite critics anonymously emailed asked me over...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Google's Ten Commandments
- Who needs Aristotle, Socrates, Plato…when Google offers “Our Philosophy.” Heck, who needs Moses’ Ten Commandments, as Google is being proclaimed the new God.Google all knowingly advises, “To fully understand Google, its helpful to understand all the ways in which the company has helped to redefine how individuals, businesses and...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Enterprise mashups: More about processes and less about services?
- Enterprise mashups: More about processes and less about services?Architecture By ObjectivesThe first book on excellence was written in India over 2300 years ago. Before that ancient Greece had achieved excellence and Aristotle had concluded concerted action driven by consensus is the way to excellence. Since then, while mankind has progressed...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Enterprise software, Knowledge Flow, information technology, mashup, SOA, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- A unified point of control
- A unified point of controlData management?I don't think Sun looks at Java as a language for data management. I'm not sure anyone in their right mind looks at Java as a language suitable for data management.All that aside, it seems to be one of the more common applications of...
- Tags: Programming languages, Storage, Databases, object-oriented, Java, data management, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- Torvalds dodges GPLv3's 18-wheeler?
- Torvalds dodges GPLv3's 18-wheeler?Profound misunderstandingI'm hoping that it's just a misunderstanding and not a malicious effort to spread FUD John...First off, GPL v 3 isn't even a license yet, it's a PROPOSED license that hasn't been finalized.Second, all software currently licensed under GPL v 2 will remain licensed under GPL...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Intellectual property, TiVo Inc., Linux, GPL, GPLv3, GPL v-2, V-2, GCC, Torvalds
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- Redefining value in an open source world
- Redefining value in an open source worldRecognition is not the same as respect.The word "notoriety" implies someone whose name is recognized for damage done.So Linus Torvalds is recognized. Richard Stallman is notorious.There are values within fame.You wrote:"Richard Stallman is a high value person. Linus Torvalds is a high value...
- Tags: prophet, Stallman, Marx, open source, Richard Stallman
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity
- Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricityIt's ok, David...Dan misuses the term "deconstruct"...as well.There seems to be a penchant for media types to expropriate terms philsophopy: paradigm Thomas Kuhn, deconstruct (Derrida, Heidegger) amonng others. Y'all think it makes ya sound real cool! But we (who know better...ex-philosophy majors) forgive, you...
- Tags: Strategy, centricity, Wittgenstein
- Discussion threads 2006-05-26
- Will Google buy TiVo? Here's how it could make sense
- That's not as an outlandish idea as it might sound. In fact, columnist Rick Aristotle Munarriz of the investing news and advice site The Motley Fool mentions TiVo first in a list of companies he thinks "may be in the process of dolling temselves up in frnt of the dressing...
- Tags: Google Inc., TiVo Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
- What should be Skype's business model? I sort through the visions
- On Om Malik's Broadband Blog, guest writer Jesse Kopelman sees Skype as some sort of a worldwide, next-generation, virtual PBX/Centrex. And on The Motley Fool investment-related site, contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz sees Skype as an uber social networking enabler.In this post, I will try and weave these two disparate visions...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-08-18
- Will Howard Stern deal turn satellite into a star?
- Will Howard Stern deal turn satellite into a star?Go HOWARD!!!I don't listen to Howard myself..but it amuses me that he is able to say what he wants, when he wants..and others can listen.As a patriot once said, and this is not a direct quote mind you."I may NOT agree with...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Network technology, Howard Stern, radio, satellite
- Discussion threads 2004-10-07
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