Sapere Aude
Month: June 2007
The iPhone will kill the Blackberry. Apple TV will kill the DVR. In Steve’s view, the iPhone is center-stage—everything else is a peripheral to it.
oh my. that steve dude used to say the same thing about RSS. you’d talk about transactional SQL, say, and he would be like “but what about RSS?”
we need to add these to the computer museum at google nyc
What happens when people working on open source, public space, open content, mash up art, and open business work together? How do we make Toronto a magnet for people playing with the open meme?
It seems that without providing data synchronization out of the box, Google Gears leaves the most difficult and cumbersome aspect of building a disconnected Web app up to application developers. This may be OK for Google developers using Google Gears since the average Google coder is a Ph.D but the platform isn’t terribly useful to Web application developers who want to use it for anything besides a super-sized HTTP cookie.
gears does not solve all problems in the sync space!!! film at 11.
FileSystemHashMapNotepadCalculator calculation engine works by loading Windows Calculator (how else could one guarantee a correct calculation?), copying the answer to the Clipboard, loading notepad, pasting it into notepad, saving a file to the folder with the appropriate Hash Key (C:\1.0000-ADD-2.0000 in this case), and then reading the resulting file to display the answer. It couldn’t be simpler!
very unixy approach
minimal markup language. i like!
A great example of this is the difference in how the WHATWG got a blog and how the CSS working group set one up. In the WHATWG, the idea was floated for a while, and then one day someone volunteered to run it, and the blog was up and running within hours. Anyone (literally anyone) can post to the WHATWG blog (there’s a moderation step that we added to deal with the spammers, but all it takes now is to get onto IRC and ask for the post you wrote to be published). The CSS working group, on the other hand, has been discussing how to set up a blog, and what the first entry should say, and what tool to use, for over 2 months! Nearly every phone call (the group has weekly teleconferences) for the past 9 weeks has had the blog discussed at some point.
more dragging of feet. i suspect some member companies have an interest in making CSS not too powerful.
for the last 4 years … has attended graduate physics seminars, used the offices reserved for doctoral and postdoctoral physics students and for all intents and purposes made the Varian Physics Lab her home. The only problem is that Okazaki appears to have no affiliation with Stanford and no real reason to be there.
When we discover a stowaway on the great Ship of Science, why throw her overboard when we could make her swab the decks?
The paper shows that it is not possible to make a self-replicating quantum mechanical device because of the linearity of quantum mechanics, the no cloning theorems and the conservation of entanglement.
would need decoherence. one worry less 🙂 otoh, also one hard scifi scenario less.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 