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Friday, July 25, 2003 |
 I just read last weeks New Yorker Magazine (no direct link but Philip talks about it here) and found an article about Iraq's oil production. Basically, the article was generally negative, given first hand reports, on the ability of the country to regain any meaningful oil production levels in the near term (unexploded ordinance, sabotage, lack of real investment, inability rehire workers, infrastructure damage, and more). Interestingly, the analysis provided in the article was exactly the same provided on this weblog a couple months ago: Hubbert's peak and this calculation.... Cool.
11:29:10 PM 
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Thanks Amy for the encouragement. BTW: My permalinks are now operative due to the good graces of Dave and UserLand. May the outage RIP. Onward!
11:14:15 PM
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What features does a K-Log network need? I am working on a major upgrade to this feature set with my work on Mindplex and other projects.
10:23:19 AM
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Evan deconstructs a "Google is being spammed by weblogs" example.
10:13:35 AM
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David Card (Jupiter): Reasons for AOL's decline in subscribers. All analysts should have weblogs...
9:32:37 AM
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SFExaminer. Microsoft will spend $6.8 b a year on R&D in 2004 (they have routinely spent ~$5 b a year prior to this). Perhaps I am missing something, but I haven't seen anything new in Windows over the last 4 years that justifies this research budget. If a tenth of this budget was spent acquiring innovative ISVs (independent software vendors), we would have real improvement. Perhaps Microsoft's approach to this is like IBM's: to build a patent machine that they can use to pummel competitors. -or- Perhaps we will see these innovations in Longhorn.
"Longhorn is a bit scary. We have been willing to change things," Gates said...
9:27:08 AM
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When I first saw the Sony Glasstron (video glasses), I thought it had a lot of potential and that in a couple of years,  the product category would evolve into something that people would use. That proved not to be true. The product category has been moribund. The implementations remain heavy (which will cause neck stress -- very much like the heavy NVGs I used to wear hours at a time), the pictures grainy, and units powerhungry. Many have been discontinued.
Does anybody have any information on new products in this category that show promise? Here is what I like about this category of products:
- They would provide full widescreen performance to small format PCs. This would allow you to use a PC the size of the OQO without sacrificing any visual performance (think a simulated 21 inch screen at 3 ft).
- They could provide real 3-D experiences because it can support parallax.
- They could support fully immersive environments, particularly for games. If you have ever played a 3-D immersive game, you know how hard it is if you aren't at the center of gravity for the character you control.
9:19:05 AM
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