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31 Oct 2001 Fresh take on the iPod: Think outside the box. Stop assuming that the statement 'this device plays MP3s' is logically equivalent to 'this device is just another MP3 player' and really *think* about what your life would be like if you had 5 gigs of data storage in your pocket. Now take another look at an iPod, and tell us what you see..
Or how about Bill Gates' reaction. "You mean it's only for the Mac!!?" [ 31-Oct-01 7:28am ] Do you even know what I am talking about, you lamer! Take the Geek Test and find out.
[ 31-Oct-01 7:18am ] A list of essential sources of rumours, gossip and dirt
[ 31-Oct-01 7:05am ] 30 Oct 2001 Philips sees no future in HiperLAN/2 chipsEurope's third largest chip maker is concentrating on the US-oriented 802.11a and upcoming 802.11h standards.. What is about wireless naming standards? As if the 802.11 bit isn't hard enough to say, they go from b to a to h.
[ 30-Oct-01 8:14pm ]  Plush Cthulhu dollies! The bOing bOing crew continue to astound and amaze by finding this stuff. Just gotta have one.[ 30-Oct-01 8:56am ] Web Services, Business Models, and Storage. - Dan Bricklin: Some good points and worth a read. So what exactly are "Web Services" An interface exposed with SOAP or XML-RPC? Or a complete ASP hosted business service and model?
[ 30-Oct-01 8:47am ] [ 30-Oct-01 8:45am ] 29 Oct 2001 BBC News | ENGLAND | Party balloon flight breaks record : A 46-year-old man from Herefordshire has flown into the record books by setting a new world record for a flight powered by party balloons. Ian Ashpole, from Ross-on-Wye, reached a height of 11,000ft, while strapped to 600 balloons in a harness. Remember the Darwin award story about the sofa or lawn chair lifted by a balloon that ended up in LAX airspace?
[ 29-Oct-01 8:29am ] 28 Oct 2001 Hack the Planet Prime: : There's been plenty of talk about the possible impact on the open source community if SourceForge shut down, but I haven't seen much creative thinking about what to do about it. In particular, it is not cost-effective for developers to pay for their own hosting today. The only hosting options I see in the market are $20/month web hosting accounts that aren't powerful enough to run SourceForge-style software, or $150/month dedicated servers that would break the budget of most open source projects. Thus a business plan: Set up a SourceForge clone, charge $30/month/project, provide an easy way for users to donate to projects, and take out ads on Slashdot saying "we're not going to go out of business because we actually charge money".
Wes is overstating the costs a bit. Hosting for a Sourceforge like system for a single project is more like $50-60 and by aggregating projects together, the costs per project with some margin would be more like $5-10 per month. But this raises a number of interesting issues. SourceForge is a hugely beneficial resource and it would be an enormous blow to see it disappear. And his comments about easy ways for donating to individual projects admits the crazy economics of most open source development. There are plenty of examples from the past in things like shareware and the systems for managing shareware payments that could be applied. But the real problem is a lack of reasonable business models for small scale open source development. The patronage model is a good one, but needs some sort of intermediary to facilitate the movement of funds, if it's going to really work on a wide scale. One possibility here is to set up a cooperative charity as the collection and distribution mechanism. Another possibility that is going to really wind people up is for one of the big computer companies (IBM comes to mind) to treat Open Source as a community driven research department. Imagine if IBM donated $10m to an Open Source support fund. And this was then distributed to all the Sourceforge projects perhaps in proportion to the number of programmers involved. Clearly there would have to be some controls to prevent gaming the system. But it would put money into programmer's pockets for writing code that benefits the computing community and by implication the Patron. What if Sourceforge was incorporated as a Charity and Companies could get Tax credits for donating patronage to it? [ 28-Oct-01 8:28am ] BlogNet . Main . WebHome A Wiki to document a project for connecting Blogs with Readers more efficiently So, here's what I want in a nutshell:
[ 28-Oct-01 7:03am ] 27 Oct 2001 Noam Chomsky: The New War on Terror : We certainly want to reduce the level of terror, certainly not escalate it. There is one easy way to do that and therefore it is never discussed. Namely stop participating in it. That would automatically reduce the level of terror enormously. But that you can't discuss. Well we ought to make it possible to discuss it. So that's one easy way to reduce the level of terror. You may not agree with Chomsky and what he stands for but he is very good at making his case.
[ 27-Oct-01 6:28pm ] 26 Oct 2001 Ethical media are doing some really neat stuff
[ 26-Oct-01 2:36pm ] 25 Oct 2001  What is Cybiko! Is it really really cool, or is it the pits?[ 25-Oct-01 7:56pm ] possibly apocryphal Muhammad Ali visited the ruins of the World Trade Center on Thursday. When reporters asked how he felt about the suspects sharing his Islamic faith, Ali responded pleasantly, "How do you feel about Hitler sharing yours?" [bOing bOing]
[ 25-Oct-01 1:40pm ] Salmon Days. At last the BOFH[1] gets his own TV show.
[1]Bastard Operator From Hell. Your favourite corporate IT Support person. [ 25-Oct-01 1:25pm ] Internet Archive : the Internet Archive's comprehensive library of the Web's digital past comprises 100 terabytes of data and is growing at a rate of 10 terabytes per month, eclipsing the amount of data contained in every library in the world including the Library of Congress, and making it the largest known database in existence. It goes back to 1996 and is aiming to archive the web. All of it. But probably without pictures.
[ 25-Oct-01 1:02pm ] 24 Oct 2001 Mail Sterilizer Unbelievable. An industrial strength steam-heat sterilization system for your mail room. Protects against all known biological weapons.
[ 24-Oct-01 7:39am ] 23 Oct 2001 n/a
Webservices.org : OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Develop Web Services Component Model for Interactive Web Applications. I'm going to have to think a bit to get my head round this one. Exposing an interactive web service in a standard way so that local client applications can build a native UI to it on the fly. Um, what?
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