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Doctor’s Guide: It’s in the Eyes

Doctor’s Guide: It’s in the Eyes. It’s more distracting, doctors say, to perform delicate surgery while constantly having to read information on a computer. That’s why they like a new device than scans the info directly onto the retina. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Low-Bandwidth Set-top Codec in Trials

The Replay TV incident is different

AskTog: Replay TV. The Replay TV incident is different: users never requested a sharp reduction in the functionality of their machines, no notice was given that the machines would be downgraded in this way, and the users had no way of avoiding the damage that was done. [Tomalak’s Realm]

MS to Users: Pay Up

InternetWeek: MS to Users: Pay Up “These days, the only thing that Microsoft is interested in discussing with its customers is licensing issues,” said John Luludis, CIO of Danzas AEI, an international shipping company with about 10,000 Windows desktops. “We spend a lot of time and resources constantly proving license compliance, while we try to plan an optimum configuration to deal with the rising cost of ownership related to Microsoft’s products.” [Zope Newbie News]

IBM Research Magazine: From No 4, 1998;

IBM Research Magazine: From No 4, 1998; As Fine as the Eye Can See [Tomalak’s Realm]

IBM to spring Roentgen hi-res LCD monitor

EE Times: IBM to spring Roentgen hi-res LCD monitor. While academicians and human-factor researchers working in industry testified to the increased productivity that high-resolution displays can bring, executives questioned whether the displays’ higher costs would have perceived value in mainstream markets. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Why do we think Christ was white?