Wanna get righteously pissed off? Read Jon Gilmore’s rant against copy protection. It’s incredibly jarring to read about all the different ways that corporations are conspiring to make sure that we have to pay them over and over. The fact that computer equipment makers are willing participants disgusts me most. As consumers, [...]
Entries from January 2001
January 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
January 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
The O’Reilly Network has published part 2 of their series on JSP taglibs.
January 22nd, 2001 · Comments Off
Pilsbury’s lawyers have notified bunches of geeks that they’re no longer to use the term bake-off to refer to events where systems are compared or tested, due to trademark issues. Oh, please.
January 19th, 2001 · Comments Off
Who let the DHTML out? Check out the International Herald-Tribune’s design for individual stories. You can alter the font size for the story and reflow it as one or multiple columns without reloading the page. You can also page through the story without an additional request. The pages also look decent enough in Netscape [...]
January 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
Simson Garfinkel, please give up. He posted a follow-on article to go over the responses to his previous anti-Java screed. Naturally, he paints all Java supporters as fanatics, and reprints more anecdotes about Java being bad, bad, bad. Unfortunately, he makes his opponents’ point for them with this simple quote: “There are [...]
January 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
What Major League Baseball teaches its rookies. Fascinating stuff.
January 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
Dave Winer mentioned in Scripting News that the New York Times publishes links to their stories in an XML file. Anyone have a link to that file that they can send me? (I’ve already gotten several responses pointing to these directories. None of the feeds seem up to date there, unfortunately.)
January 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
Every once in awhile, a media company loses its mind and sics its lawyers on its fans, or on publications read by its fans. In this case, Nintendo is suing a game magazine for using screen shots and the Pokemon name in an unofficial strategy guide. Let’s face it, this is just bad business. [...]
January 18th, 2001 · Comments Off
The interesting parts of now defunct online retailer garden.com have been acquired by walmart.com. garden.com was a site that I really admired, so it’s good to see their assets go to a good home. Interestingly, I was checking out the walmart.com site, and noticed that their pages use the extension .gsp, one that I’m not [...]
January 17th, 2001 · Comments Off
Sun is releasing a pretty well equipped server for under $1,000. The form factor is very nice, too. I can see this putting real pressure on the guys who are trying to make money selling boxes that run Linux (one of whom I mentioned earlier today).