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- Tablet PCs Far More Successful Than Previously ThoughtSales of Tablet PC devices are far greater than anyone, including Microsoft, leading to scrambling by ignorant market researchers who saw the machines as just a niche market. Gartner, for example, reported last fall that Tablet PCs would garner less than 3 percent of the notebook market by the end of 2004, but sales reports suggest that the machines have already accomplished that goal and they continue to sell out. Toshiba's Portege 3500, the best-selling Tablet PC, is pretty much sold out, a fact that hit home for me when I couldn't get one from the company despite the fact that Toshiba was sponsoring a Microsoft Mobility Tour in which I was presenting information about Tablet PCs. Giga now predicts that 25 percent of all notebooks will include Tablet PC features by the end of 2004, thanks to corporate upgrades and a new generation of more capable devices. Whatever the final tally, one thing is clear: |
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- In researching an article, I just received confirmation from MacSense that their AeroCard Universal Driver package will be updated as soon as two months from now to support Intersil-based 802.11g PC Cards for the Mac. Macsense will offer the driver on its own or as a package with a PC... |
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- Some excitement going on. We got our new couch (MY new couch, teehee) yesterday morning. It kicks ass. Its big... |
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Ferias! (Feb 28 2003 18:46 GMT) - Curtas mas boas. Aproveita-se para ler, passear, ir ao cinema, comer, enfim tratar do corpo e da mente. Se bem... |
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Delicious (Feb 28 2003 18:41 GMT) - You are the Marquis Da Sade. Even stripped ofexaggerations, Your real life was as dramaticand as tragic as a cautionary... |
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- before you become familiar with regular expression syntax, it just annoys you. after you become familiar with it, you become annoyed that you can't use it more widely. for example, i'm often wanting to search for words that match some sort of pattern. most dictionary searches will only tell me "this is a word" or "this is not a word", but if i want to know which words end with "tionally", these dictionary searches are useless. onelook dictionary search allows you to search for patterns such as "*tionally". |
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- Do you foaf? Sounds a little strange... |
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- Knowledge isn't power, says Xerox... Unless it's shared: "The idea that knowledge is power has been knocked on the head... |
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Snowman (Feb 28 2003 18:31 GMT) - We don't get enough snow down here to make a real snowman, so here's a paper snowman instead. (click for... (22 words) |
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- In Who's Funding Free Software, a remarkably poorly-written sentence caused no small amount of distress. Some people read it as claiming that the BSDs are not free software. That was not my intent, and I apologize for giving that impression. |
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- The task was to network a dozen computers with a webserver running a wiki and the web pages with the acceptance tests. In addition the workshop participants had to be able to check code in or out using CVS. Two hours before the workshop I met the technician in our room. We finished with more than an hour to spare. |
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- This has been a busy week for economic news. |
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- ...who needs white hoods. Maybe they heard that golfers play with white balls and since they do too...... |
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- CNN is reporting that a new computer system, CAPPS II... |
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2/28 (Feb 28 2003 18:04 GMT) - today (2/28) is a national holiday in taiwan (where i am). this is something i knew nothing about before i came here, so i thought i might use this opportunity to educate you, assuming you also know nothing about it. basically, on this day in 1947, the KMT government began a genocide of the taiwanese which resulted in the murder of somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 people (by most estimates). you can read more about it at The February 28 Holocaust and Remembering 2-28. or you can read a critique of 2/28 memorials: |
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- This reminds me of when I was teaching in Hong Kong, where the kids had to choose their English names at the age of ten. The names then stuck for the rest of their lives, in any place that required bilingual name badges. It led to predictable results. I taught Bread, Apple, Pizza, both Michael and Jordan (they sat next to each other), Computer, Nicam, Simpsons, Zero and Rasputin. I remember Daydream and Ghost serving me in a restaurant and Carbon selling me my laptop. |
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