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| Monday, April 8, 2002 |
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But who's buying, besides the bill's sponsors? 
| | For some reason, the myth continues that broadband finally makes it fun to watch movies on your PC. As anyone with a T1 line can tell you, that's just not true. Only Hollywood seems to believe the ultimate use for a computer is to watch videos... |
| | Hollings' bill isn't about helping consumers. It's about protecting Hollywood. And using the broadband mess to address the digital-copyright issue is just a ploy. Hollywood has already shown it isn't interested simply in protecting digital versions of copyrighted works -- it also wants to control how those works are used. |
Deglazing Web Services
| | Gradually the Internet is becoming a unified system that encompasses every computing asset in the world, whether it is located at an Internet data centre or on a user's desktop. Internet computing is no longer a separate entity that is out there, beyond the walls of our office or enterprise. We are all inside the machine, and every enterprise and user becomes a component within the Internet computing value chain... |
| | The traditional response is to resist this creeping infiltration. Classic enterprise computing fences off the outside world as much as possible, closely controlling all points of access. But this 'Iron Curtain' strategy is as doomed to failure as was the former Soviet bloc. It runs directly counter to the commercial needs of the business to leave its operations cut off from all the resources and trading opportunities out there on the Internet. |
| | I'm wondering if what big vendors are doing with dotNet, J2EE and Sun ONE are not just more ways to fence off the Net's Unified System into arcane domains they can "own" and control. Not sure. Too early in reading about this stuff. |
Another ETLA
| | (ETLA, I learned Friday, is an Extended Three Letter Acronym) |
What's the (power)Point?
| | Thanks for help finding my missing iMovie files (why would an OS X app save files in the OS 9 app folder?). |
| | Now I'm wondering if anybody knows the trick to making PowerPoint 2001 work in OS X. It is the only classic Mac app that flat-out won't work. It kind of starts up, then fails outright. |
| | PowerPoint (upwards of about version 2) has always been the most crash-prone Mac app I have ever used — and about the least avoidable. |
| | Today I need to get a look at some .ppt files. If there were a Linux box with me, I'd try it with StarOffice; but I just have the OS X laptop. |
| | I have a feeling PowerPoint doesn't get along with some extention, or its equivalent under OS X. Not sure what, though. |
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