| Friday,
July 19, 2002 I expect to see Men In Black II tonight. If
you haven't seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, do so: it's hilarious.
Finding PrintScreen:
Cringely asks of Palladium, What if It Doesn't
Work?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020718.html
But I am not convinced I know what it is, so I don't know what it would
mean if it worked or didn't. I think I am not going to join the hysteria
just yet.
Cringely (did you know that I once wrote the Cringely column when I was
at INFOWORLD? So did Laurie Flynn) makes one point: so far what we
are going to be doing with our new powerful Palladium PC's is what we do
now, and thus there's no reason to get a new PC anyway. And that does give
me a slight chill: Microsoft's new "upgrades" to everything may
yet patch Windows 2000 to require some kind of "Activation" and
that will then let them play games with our systems. Buy a new one because
your old one no longer works.
I can't think they are stupid enough to do that; but you never know.
Keeping those numbers up can turn sane people into monsters who have lost
both their morality and their common sense: it happened at IBM some years
ago when they are convinced that PC's were "entry level systems"
and just could not stand the notion that the world was changing. Can the
same virus now be infecting Microsoft's management?
Still, there are too many good reasons why Microsoft will consign
Palladium to the same management team as Hailstorm... See
more in mail on the Life and Death of Microsoft
And David Wooten is outraged:
Sir,
I've never heard of this before. Maybe you have, but
to me, this is an outrage:
http://www.license.shorturl.com
Indeed.
And Eric Pobirs found this:
The headline is rather sensational, being a British
publication, but this is very interesting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-358995,00.html
Which reminds me of a wonderful line from "Fiat Lux", the
second installment of "A Canticle for Leibowitz" in which a
reactionary old brother asks if the scientist who is going to create life
from only 6 elements will also do so while riding on horseback and
simultaneously playing two trombones...
And Roland discovers that Transmeta, once the Great Hope, is laying off
people:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-944936.html?tag=fd_top
And if we didn't have enough to worry about, Roland and others have
also found patents on JPEG:
http://ir.forgent.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker
=FORG&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=314044
--
Jerry -
Remember the LZW/GIF controversy with Unisys about
10 years ago?
Apparently a small company named Forgent claims a
patent on JPEG and nearly all uses of same.
http://theregus.com/content/4/25658.html
Holy mackerel!
Regards, Nick
Have a nice day.
Publish and Front Page
My practice is to use Front Page to maintain this site. I then use
WS_FTP to move pages I have made changes to over to the web host. The
problem is that sometimes I move pages and that makes a number of changes,
not all of them apparent; when that happens I have to PUBLISH the site to
be sure that everything is in correspondence.
That is fine so long as there are not massive numbers of pages to copy;
but I recently changed web sites, and my local copy of Front Page thinks
ALL of the pages out at the site are wrong. It wants to copy all of them;
and in fact I let it run for about 8 hours once and it copied more than
half. But then I had to interrupt, and the next time I tried to publish I
found that it was moving the same pages again. And again. And there
are about 14 hours worth to move, and that's with the satellite. (The big
problem is all the pictures.) If I could tell it not to move the pictures
it would get everything else; I could then publish only the pictures and
all would be caught up.
I don't quite know how to manage this. Apparently Front Page 2002 has
some capabilities that Front Page 2000 doesn't have.
I have no great quarrel with FrontPage; it does a very good job for
what I want to do. My problem is synchronizing the home original and the
web host sites.
Eric and others point out that what happens at http://www.license.shorturl.com
is not necessarily what you are led to believe. I am shocked. Shocked, I
tell you.
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