business2blog: Buy One OS, Get the Second One Free – Well, the answer, due to be announced later today, is breathtakingly simple. Novell will … sell Netware and Linux simultaneously. When a customer licenses Netware, he’ll also get a license for Novell’s recently acquired SuSe Linux included in the price. For Novell, it’s a sensible ...
In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash – Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless and sometimes just careless sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires. [ “(extlink)NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com ] At last some ammunition for the strict spellers among us. Although, admittedly I don’t understand why ...
Expo Speculations [Jan. 05, 2004] – With all the hoopla over ITMS for Windows and the fact that iPods work with non-Mac computers, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Apple’s music strategy is another proprietary platform play. That’s the strategy that gave Microsoft its monopoly and made Apple a niche player in the computer ...
p. “(extlink)Philip Greenspun’s Weblog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ discusses the shock that some “(extlink)MIT”:http://www.mit.edu students at a presentation about the implementation of the “(extlink)OpenCourseWare”:http://ocw.mit.edu project, where it was revealed that much of the programming for the project was performed in India.
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: ...
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