Archive for the ‘misc’ Category.
A recipe for radical change: BCP process improvement
Auerbach via TechRepublic:
A recipe for radical change: BCP process improvement
Dr. Aibo, You’re Wanted in O.R.
Dr. Aibo, You’re Wanted in O.R.. You’re in the operating room, about to go under, when you spot two mechanical arms coming your way. Don’t worry, it’s just your robotic brain surgeon. Charles Mandel reports from Canada. [Wired News]
Information Wants to Be Worthless
| As RageBoy points out, Bruce Sterling’s Information Wants to Be Worthless is an approximately perfect piece of writing. There’s a quotable line in just about every paragraph, and he drives every nail home with a perfect whack. He even works a cluetrain reference (albeit in lower case) in his ultimate paragraph. |
Google Time Bomb
John Hiler: Google Time Bomb. [Scripting News]
Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum
Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum. File trading turned into a tale of international intrigue after a seemingly impervious sharing network went down last week. Now, complex corporate relationships in four countries could spell trouble for everyone involved. By Brad King. [Wired News]
.NET morphing over time
CNET: .NET morphing over time ‘As Microsoft prepares to launch the first trials of .Net My Services this fall, key details of the plan are still “not figured out,” said Jim Allchin, Microsoft’s group vice president in charge of Windows and server software development. “I think we just got ahead of ourselves and didn’t get clear enough thinking,” he said, echoing similar concerns
voiced last August.’
FCC Approves Initial Ultrawideband (UWB) Standards
The FCC
Approves Initial Ultrawideband (UWB) Standards: UWB is a very, very clever idea. Instead of using swaths of spectrum at low or high power,even rotating frequencies and jumping, you use incredibly short-duration high-power pulses across broad swaths of bandwidth that a similarly synchronized device interprets. You can use existing spectrum without (proponents hope testing will bear out) interference because existing devices rely on, would be affect or damaged by, or listen to a different pattern. By the time a pulse would pass, existing equipment wouldn’t even tick over. Because of the broad amount of spectrum that could be reused, even many times in the same physical area, UWB might ultimately replace a number of existing technologies across a broad swath of consumer, scientific, medical, and military purposes. Here’s a highly technical article on it from EE Times.
