I’ve pimped Rainbow’s End before; it is a great book and well worth reading. And it is now available online from the author in preparation for Hugo awards season. Go have a read.
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Rainbow’s End
29-Nov-07rockstar
28-Nov-07never too old, by LinBow, used under a CC-SA license. Thanks, LinBow!
yay rockstar coder! I remember my own such patch; I think it was to fix a metacity or panel build problem. Let this be a reminder that even bug guys or artists can contribute to code; if you’re reading this, and you’ve been wondering [...]
My post yesterday was all too brief. This one will be equivalently long, sorry. Some clarifications:
First: gnome is not ‘in trouble.’ [1][2] GNOME is people, and so, of course, we should be excellent to each other.
But GNOME is also humans. This is not to defend being an asshole (more on that below) but every organization [...]
[See also this followup, which goes into much greater depth and is important to read for anyone who is interested in the subject of this post.]
I’d like to join those (1, 2, 3) who are kindly asking Murray to retract his comments and use this year’s elections to really voice his opinion. –Og
I’m not really [...]
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23-Nov-07Murray:
Luis, you still need to reduce the verbosity that pads your insights. Try to be better than the professional bloggers who name drop you, so you outlive them.
What’s scary is that (I think) law school has helped me get more concise. Still a long way to go, clearly. :)
kindle, take 2
20-Nov-07After some discussion with friends, a couple clarifications on Kindle:
I think it will fail,1 because it is too expensive a device to buy with little to no free content. Many people were happy spending several hundred dollars on mp3 players, because once they bought the device, they could put all the music they already possessed [...]
Speaker is studying fraud in large corporations; thinks something like 10% of large corporations engage in actionable fraud. Fun, fun, fun. [I mean, obviously there are strong incentives for corporations to do this, given that in his estimate only 1/2 get caught. But still... 10% is a lot.]
kindle
19-Nov-07Robert: I think more than the open source crowd will care about openness, at least in the sense of data formats. iPod was successful not because of iTMS, but because it was cheap and easy to rip all your existing music into your new iPod. Once you bought the iPod, the initial load of content [...]
This year, I’m co-president of the Columbia Law School Society for Law, Science, and Technology (aka CLS SLST); after many moons of a very static, very outdated page, I finally got my act together and got up a wordpress installation. Many thanks to Stuart Sierra for helping out, to the various other organizations who helped [...]
mailing-list ++?
13-Nov-07I’m about to start a new online discussion group. My immediate assumption was to use a plain old mailman mailing list (good-looking mailman hosting) but I’m wondering if there is anything better than that for out-of-the-box group Free Software-based hosting these days- something which goes beyond the simple mailman mailing list and provides other functionality, [...]