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- Participants at the PDC will remember that we talked a lot about the Longhorn user experience. An important part of that experience is formed by the performance and responsiveness of the system. Today, I'd like to talk a little bit about the challenge of defining what the Longhorn experience means with respect to performance, especially Avalon performance. In short: How fast does Avalon need to be? |
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- Microsoft's presence server — MapPoint Location Server — is looking like it will launch finally at the DevCon show in San Francisco in March. MapPoint Location Server has undergone at least two name changes in the past year and a half. Last summer, Microsoft rechristened the product, which originally was known as Microsoft Enterprise Location Server (MELS), as Microsoft Location Server (MLS). At that time, Microsoft expanded the beta program for the product and said it would ship by year-end 2003. |
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- Microsoft announced a partnership with eBay on Monday that will allow Office applications to tie in to the online auction service. The software giant plans to offer free sample code through the eBay Developers Program and later Microsoft's MSDN developer site for tying selected Office applications to the auctioneer's listing servers. The eBay Developers Program is a venue for developers to create programs that help large-scale sellers on the site manage inventory, automate listings and other tasks. |
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- Microsoft also is testing automatic collaboration through its Notification tool. The technology will be embedded in future Microsoft software and is intended to let computers and cell phones automatically filter messages, schedule meetings without their owners' help, and derive strategies for getting in touch with other people. |
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- He's not just the chairman of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, with $46 billion in his bank account. Later this year the Queen of England will make Bill Gates a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his philanthropic work. TIME's Lev Grossman caught up with him on a speaking tour of college campuses. |
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- In a conference call with analysts on Friday, Microsoft General Manager Martin Taylor said that the company plans to announce new options in the coming months to try and address some of the concerns from overseas governments. Taylor suggested that Microsoft may need to adjust its pricing to reflect a country's cost of living, or what he called the "Big Mac" index. |
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- first, go directly to parkerbenparker's website and do not leave until you've listened to all of 'backlog.' great guys, the best musicians. second, email me and let me know if you want to attend the this is exploding show on thursday (that's march 4) at the pirate's cove in cleveland. free tickets. you know you want in. |
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- EV1Servers has stirred controversy by signing a licensing agreement with SCO, becoming the first publicly identified company to have paid SCO to settle its disputed legal claims involving Linux. By paying to insulate itself against SCO's untested legal claims, EV1Servers drew fire from many corners of the Linux community |
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Retardead (Mar 01 2004 19:59 GMT) - After surviving a battle to the death with his own monstrous creation, Dr. Stern returns to continue his horrible research in this blood-drenched sequel to the cult hit "Monsturd." Thanks, EmptyFree.com. |
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- And he's got another innstallment in his BollyWierd Clips series up. |
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- I've got a pal who's getting one of these. Good luck. |
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- Let's see, we've got dirt, grass, laundromat, tomato, and wet garden. I'm waiting for the designer imposters (if you love Dirt, you'll love Schmutz). |
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- She was a flame-haired Canadian rock chick when she fell for the eldest son from one of Britain's oldest dynasties - a direct descendant of Charles II and Nell Gwyn. |
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- I've always been puzzled by the popularity of the Smashing Pumpkins, but I did see Billy Corgan play at a charity thing at the Metro a couple years ago, and surprisingly, he did have a great rock star presence on stage. |
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- Cool project. Unfortunate camera angle. |
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- Yeah, good luck with all that. |
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- The 15-second ad begins with a close-up of the navy's rising sun ensign, then shows the singing sailors gyrating. 'I Love Japan, I Love Peace. The Maritime Self-Defence Force,' says a voice-over at the end. |
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- Millions of giant Pacific crabs, whose ancestors were brought to Europe by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, are marching south along Norway's coast, devouring everything in their path. |
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- Sesame Street and panties. Together again at long last. |
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- In his seminal 1955 book, Why Johnny Can't Read, Rudolf Flesch blasted the series as "horrible, stupid, emasculated, pointless, tasteless little readers." |
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- Tenants accused MetLife — whose symbol is Snoopy the beagle — of trying to turn workers into snitches so the apartments could be rented to new tenants at higher prices. |
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- Years ago, Johnny Highwaycone decided to wander across the countryside, perhaps knowing that someday we would need highways and--therefore--highway cones, sowing highway cone seeds everywhere he went. |
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- (Tent Empire) at least the australian inquiry had some guts another view of another australian news item why rooting for the rebels in haiti is pr ... |
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- Market leader WebEx announces an alliance with Salesforce.com, while Macromedia offers free trials of its new Breeze service. |
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- Life is like a box of chocolates. Especially when you had no idea some were on their way. |
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- ECE Mar 1 2004 5:56PM GMT... |
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- gfn.com Mar 1 2004 6:19PM GMT... |
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- ZDNet Mar 1 2004 6:47PM GMT... |
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- gamesindustry.biz Mar 1 2004 6:32PM GMT... |
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- CodeJunkies Mar 1 2004 6:37PM GMT... |
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- CodeJunkies Mar 1 2004 6:37PM GMT... |
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mentoring (Mar 01 2004 19:59 GMT) - I like older men. Maybe in their 50s or over. I don't care what people say but I like the idea of being mentored by someone who is wise, knows the ways of the world, financially stable. Why are my friends looking at me like I'm looking for a sugar... |
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- The Technical Advisory Service for Images published this article about searching for images. The article describes how hard it is to find images and gives search strategies for finding the image you want. A very informative and useful article. TASI |
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- Houston Chronicle Story about British rocker Peter Frampton reading the work of children's author Shel Silverstein at the Cincinnati Public Library (his hometown). "Fan Carol Meier recalled going to a Frampton concert in the 1970s. I never thought, 30 years later, I'd see him reading children's books at the local library," she said. |
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- The New York Times (free registration required) has an interesting article on the rise of self publishing, as Borders gets in on the action with a new print-on-demand service. |
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- The Library of Congress, which has the largest collection of documents from Thomas Jefferson, has made these documents available online. The 27,000 papers include letters on topics ranging from ordering crops to signing the Declaration of Independence. Article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. |
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- Getting teenagers and young adults to read and use public libraries is a challenge the library in Ocean Springs [Mississipi] is addressing with a $5,000 development grant from the Mississippi Library Commission. The Ocean Springs Municipal Library, a part of the regional system, will use a collection of "Visual Readers: Illustrated Novels for Today's Youth" to draw in younger readers, according to Rex Bridges, public relations director for the system. "The grant is for one library branch to increase their collection of these readers but all branches in the system will have access to these books," Bridges said. Full Story |
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- The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, according to a report being released today by the Committee for Economic Development, a Washington policy group that has its roots in the business world. NYTimes Piece summarizes things nicely, or read the Committee for Economic Development: Press Release, Summary, Full Report. "We are sympathetic to the problems confronting the content distribution industry," said the report, "Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property. |
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- Studies show that FCAT scores up at schools with good libraries. Good media centers mean better scores on the FCAT, according to a recent study. And yet media specialists are often overworked and inadequately compensated. With either claim, is this really the case? Read the full story and come to your own conclusions. |
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- The Friends of the UNTL Library are a group, based in Canberra Australia, that raise money and resources for the rebuilding of The National University of East Timor Library. The library was destroyed (as was most other infrastructure) during the Independence Referendum in 1999. The rebuilding of the library began in 2000 and has been conducted in stages. Although the project has existed since 2000, the web site was only launched in November 2003 and includes information about the status of the project, the resources needed and experiences of librarians who have travelled to Dili to participate in the rebuilding efforts. The project is currently focused on collecting office equipment and textbooks (they are still missing vital resources and do not yet have internet access) and is holding a benefit for the Library on the 11th of March. |
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