Saturday, April 06, 2002

Potent Explosives Fortify Palestinian Arsenal. Israeli officials say they have evidence that the Palestinians have recently augmented their limited arsenal with significantly more powerful explosives. By Douglas Frantz. [New York Times: International] This is an interesting article.  The details of the smuggling methods used and the methods to block them sound very much like Vietnam.  What a tar pit. 4:37:02 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Ever wonder what Yahoo would look like today if it had become an ISP in 1997?  I remember when my father first dropped AOL's clunky interface for the Internet.  He thought that Yahoo was the Internet.  He was far from alone on this. 12:30:37 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Jenny the librarian is on a roll.  >>>For the dissemination angle, as a proof of concept I'd like to see a public library with a healthy RA service use a copy of Radio to start archiving their staff reviews of new titles. Genres could be set up as categories, and anyone on staff could add to the archive by just typing in the box in the browser. It should be pretty easy to add a macro to identify the author and a second one for the reviewer, you've already got the date (modifications could be added manually if need be), if you install the right software it's all searchable, and everything is archived automatically.<<< 12:04:46 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

UofT economist (Stan Liebowitz) estimates that the state's remedy for Microsoft will cost the software industry (ISVs) $80 b over the next three years if implemented.  What planet is this guy living on? This analysis is so wrong on so many levels. >>>Software developers and consumers will incur 80 billion dollars in new costs if the court accepts alternate remedies from nine states in the Microsoft antitrust case. In addition, these remedies will force many small software developers out of business, decrease the number of software applications available, increase complexity for consumers and increase costs for training, consulting and implementation... These additional costs will result in contraction of the software industry, sending a disproportionate number of small software firms out of business. This will also result in fewer software applications available, increased complexity for consumers and rising costs for training, consulting and implementation for new systems.<<< 7:14:43 AM    Comment_ Trackback []