A More User-Friendly Direction
Are you waiting for a usable interface? The Renaissance integration of disciplines that Leonardo da Vinci exemplified could be our new guide.
Reprinted by permission of MIT Press. Excerpt from Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Copyright 2002, by Ben Shneiderman; All Rights Reserved.
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I guess you have to move your product somehow. This struck me as a bit bizarre. Microsoft expands Mac Office line with x86 emulator. Cuts prices too [The Register]
Ars Technica posts Killing the music: who’s the real enemy here? with a pointer to an equally good BBC article. Bottom line: sharing a party mix with friends, or letting a friend check out a new album is not the same as selling mass-duplicated copies on the street corner. But you already knew that.
Jeremy Zawodny nails it with The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers. I am guilty of #2 and #8, but that’s because that’s how I chose to blog. Mine is an aggregator and ny editorial choices reflect the voice behind them. Most of my audience reads few, if any, other blogs. Link courtesy of Garrett [...]
“There was a story in the news a couple weeks ago about how IBM was planning to move thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of technical positions to India. This isn’t just IBM, though. Nearly every big company that is in the IT outsourcing or software development business is doing or getting [...]
A new worm exploiting an older Microsoft flaw. Read the story at http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5062532.html?tag=fdfeed
More details here: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5062524.html?tag=fdfeed
A friend called me yesterday to say the Internet was falling down around him (he also said it was a buffer overflow in an RPC call to DCOM, so maybe he knew what he was talking about). Another complained the [...]
Five posts in a few days puts Craig Berntsen back in the blogoshere, and on my blogroll at right. Keep ‘em coming, Craig!
And how ’bout an RSS feed, to complete the circuit?
In my inbox this morning are two security bulletins originally issued by Microsoft on July 9th. I cannot find anything in the body of the message or the linked bulletins that indicate why these were re-issued, whether the original patch had a flaw that required a patched-patch, or whether Microsoft was sending these out based [...]
Great column by Robert X. Cringely at his PBS haunts on why SCO is doomed to fail in its persecution of IBM, and what may be really motivating the suit. In addition, a bit on Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, J.D. Edwards, IBM and DB2. And if that’s not enough for you, a little history of Ashton-Tate, [...]
