Thinking about making individual repos for client projects instead of using a master repo. All for client access and hooking into basecamp. 2 hrs ago
I’m amazed with some of the great conversations on digg these days. Most are flame wars but some are very good. A recent example, digg - Why Do Atheists Care About Religion?. I really like the comment digg’ng and bury’ng just in case those trolls and incoherent people that you remember in the old days of slashdot threads ever show up.
Slashdot | Gates’ Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify
“…Bill Gates’ replacement as chief architect at Microsoft. The creator of Lotus Notes, he’s a high-calibre technologist. From the article: ‘Ray’s a programmer’s programmer .. He’s much closer to an uber-engineer, whereas Bill hasn’t been a programmer for a number of years.’ Ozzie is also driving Microsoft to simplify its software: ‘Complexity kills .. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security…
Michael has a great post on the Apple/Pixar/Disney deal.
Notice I put Apple in there, it looks as if they will be a big proponent in this new digital age for Disney.
Also, I was going to write about this deal with my own opinions but instead I rather just paste what others wrote and I feel the same way about.
“It would also be interesting to see if he can convince them to release movies in iTunes music store AT THE SAME time…
Slashdot | Microsoft vs. Computer Security
The Slate has a piece written for the average user attempting to explain why Windows is `still` grappling with security issues. Although Gates made security and privacy top priority four years ago, not much progress has been made.” From the article: “Microsoft customers haven’t stopped worrying. A year later, Windows was hit with several nasty worms, including Slammer, Sobig, and Blaster. The viruses caused major traffic bottlenecks throughout the world, which cost tens of billions…
I really don’t think the Digg model is scalable for millions of users instead of the thousands it has now. Because of the simple fact that the more users you have the more submits you have. Making most of the better stories go unnoticed because it’s buried with all the mediocre submits that are found on the diggall page.
More users only creates more of a Slashdot scenario because the diggs that are on the homepage will inevitably be from more popular…
The Screen Savers crew is back with a weekly podcast at thisWeekinTech.com. I talked about The Screen Savers a lot here, but for some reason I can’t find those posts, anyways Screen Savers got me where I am today: geek wise. As a late geek bloomer I started to learn a lot about tech 5 years ago when I first started watching that the Screen Savers on TechTV. Before I started watching Screen Savers I was solely a video game gadget…
I was going through old headlines of Slashdot.com to catch up, when I came across this article Slashdot | Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow. Notice that they stole the title from an earlier post I had, :D.
I was going to take the day off but I just couldn’t. As Jared said on his blog, I too am posting a lot of news from other sites; it’s almost a second Slashdot around here. What I want to do is actually say something meaningful with my “news” posts or at least say why I posted what I did. It’s hard because I am so lazy. This site is for me primarily and tech is who I am. After that it…
Copied from Slashdot earlier today:
The MPAA filed a DMCA takedown notice against Superconnect, a software company. The letter is available here that demands the removal of roughly 120K of open-source TCL code that they believe to be a ‘copyrighted motion pictures.’ This is definitely a surprising case of the guilty until proven innocent world that the DMCA provides.” And yet another: enrico_suave writes “The Entertainment Software Association falsely accuses the Interactive Fiction archive of pirating Doom 3. doom3.zip is a 114kb freeware DOS game from 1988.…
Taken from Slashdot today,
“Eric Hellweg wonders if everyone’s favorite want-ad site will join the ranks of eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and, yes, Google. Hellweg guesses it makes $25 million a year by charging for only 12 percent of its ads. If it ramped up payments on more ads throughout its many-city network, it could hit $100 million. That’s a monster margin for a 14-person staff! And they may even consider going public.”
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