p. A “C|Net Article”:http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5066632.html?tag=fd_top discusses a “NPD”:http://www.npd.com/ survey that concludes that since the “RIAA”:http://www.riaa.com” began suing individual file swappers that the volume of file-trading has decreased more than they would expect due to “seasonal variations.” I wonder just how much attention they have paid to the annual exodus of college students away from their high-speed ...
Michael Hanscom and some other people have finally started to post on something that increasingly has surprised me, and that is the level of Mac penetration into the Movabletype user community. (or is it the penetration of MT with those using Macs) When browsing Mac oriented blogs, a strong majority of them clearly are powered ...
Wired News has an article discussing the spread of automated toilets to America. While on the face of it this article may seem humerous, I think this is exactly the kind of application of technology and robotics that we will see proliferating as opposed to Marshall Brain’s commentary “Robotic Nation”.
Marshall Brain, the creater of the How Stuff Works website has written a piece discussing his belief that Humanoid Robots will take over the American Economy by 2050. His claim is that advances in robotics will produce humanoid robots that will increasingly replace humans at lower-income jobs due to their lower operating costs, producing millions ...
There’s been a lot of web discussion about the possibility of OSX 10.3 including support for piles. It sounds like an interesting feature, and Bruce Tognazzini talks about the original research regarding piles on his website Ask tog. He talks about piles being a context sensitive data structure. I see 2 useful roles for piles: ...
Are swappers scared of the RIAA?
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21
2003
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