instead of a groundswell of support, Real was skewered as a false advocate for open standards and mocked for its history of being unfriendly to its customers. Not surprisingly, a good chunk of the criticism came from Apple users who are legendary for their loyalty to the brand.
A US defence contractor has received more than $1bn in funding to build a prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military.Northrop Grumman will build at least three full-scale flight prototypes for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) over five yearsThe contract win will allow Northrop to continue work on its X-47B combat [...]
Copy protection provider Macrovision is sufficiently confident that it will be able to incorporate FairPlay support into its CDS-300 copy control that is has begun telling customers that it will add iTunes and iPod support to its software in Q4.
I’ve posted several new pictures of Christian at home, and playing with Lisa’s parents. I have some more of the little guy with my parents and some friends that I’ll post later today.
He’s doing pretty well at home, keeping his mom up with his constant demand for food. The hospital gave us a [...]
One purloined test key can mean a book has to be junked, Haga said, resulting in a potential loss of $20 million for a popular textbook. ‘We’ve seen more and more of these teacher solution manuals showing up on peer-to-peer networks, eBay and other places,’ she said. ‘Once that happens, it can kill a textbook…It [...]
Hey all, Starting this morning, I modified meyerweb.com to have the following on every page[1]: Why? To allow anyone who wants to restyle my site to do so simply by adding the appropriate rules to a user stylesheet. By using descendant selectors starting with the site ID, [...]
This site is an interesting idea, since it seems like it would be a fairly good way to share calendars. While Apple’s gotten some attention with iCal calendar sharing, the fact is that there are still poor standards for exchanging calendaring information. Any standards for exchanging data could be interesting
Christian and Lisa made it back from the hospital yesterday So far everything has been pretty good with Chris doing lots of babyish tasks. Eating, sleeping, filling all those pesky empty diapers. He’s been a pretty good baby — though he definitely lets us know when there’s something cold and wet [...]
Fantastic Idea, though there aren’t that many templates here right now, and the ones that are here aren’t that involved. What I’d really like to see is something akin to Blogger’s new template collection. Kind of a CSS Zen Garden, meets click and run. Good start though.
I’m proud to announce that at 11:06PM Sunday, August 15th 2004 Christian Alexander Shao took his first leap into the world. He was 7 lb. 13 oz, 20.5″ long, and judging by the strong cries he uttered immediately after entering the world, rather cold and wet.
Lisa is currently recovering at St. Peters [...]
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