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| Monday, March 24, 2003 |
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Equatorial bloggery 
PC Forumations
| | In government, computing can make bad policy move much more effectively and efficiently. — Gilman Louie, In-Q-Tel (the CIA's VC) Also, Watchlists are a bad thing, because policy has not determined how you get on and how you get off. Profiling may have a place, but let me tell you, if it's the first place you go it's the wrong place. |
| | Without billing, it's just a hobby. — one of the guys on stage. I'll have to find his name. |
| | There is no such thing as a sustainable proprietary advantage, because there an infinite number of ways to solve a problem. — Laird Popkin of Preclick |
| | The identity panel ... I don't know where to begin with on this one. Andre is doing a good job of explaining where PingID came from, and the need for an infrastructure that fully empowers the customer. Nikolaj and Elliot both tried to raise the "bottom up" side of the conversation, but didn't get far with the panel. Right now the identity conversation is, naturally, mostly among BigCos about BigCo issues. Start of story. We've got a long way to go. It's nice to have a few good folks keeping faith with first principles not many other folks see. Yet. |
A bite out of Motorola
| | John C. Dvorak thinks Apple is going to swith processor platforms from PowerPC to Intel. Nicely thought-out piece. Knowing nothing about Apple's plans, I'm still inclined to agree with him. Conversation around future development of PowerPC is highly confined and not publicly involving Apple (as far as I know). Contrast that to the days when Apple was one of the Big Three in the PowerPC alliance. RISC was going to kick CISC (remember?), yada yada. The fact that PowerPC has scales as well as it has is actually quite remarkable. I've been hearing about how IBM is doing great stuff with future versions of PowerPC. But the cpu isn't the whole thing. Allied tools, chipsets and surrounding architectures matter too, along with the larger markets that gather around all of those things. Can PowerPC keep competing? I have my doubts. Is the fab there? I dunno. |
| | At some point Apple has to look at the costs of its boxes. They'll always carry a premium, but it's a matter of time before even top x86 laptops will be going for $1000 and less, given the economies of their components. I get the feeling that the PowerPC world is an island somewhat removed from those economies. That limits Apple's ability to drive its own costs down. |
| | Again, I dunno. I just hafta wonder. |
| | In any case, Apple made the move possible when it adopted BSD as its OS base, with Darwin. And Darwin has long since been hacked to run on X86. Do Cocoa and Carbon apps make calls to the iron? I don't think so, but I might be wrong. If I'm right, a move from PPC to X86 doesn't seem like a huge stretch, except politically. |
| | [Later...] Everything I'm hearing so far, in response to the above, is in the negative. Apple is totally committed to the PPC hardware platform, they say. So I'm just passing that along. |
Danger Danger
| | Wake up Danger and T-Mobile: this is my device: I paid $250 for it. It's contemptuous of your customers to restrict how we can use our lawfully acquired property. |
More not-quite-war blogging
| | Remember Guantánamo Bay? About 650 men have been held by the US at this base in Cuba since January 2002. These men are accused of links to al-Qaeda and the former Taleban government These men al-Qaeda terrorists or they may be guilty of having been in the wrong place at the wrong time. (The AP story in the Kansas City paper details the torture of a man at Bagramat who claims to have been part of the US-backed Northern Alliance. How many guys in Cuba are there by mistake?) The US government refuses to give the detainees prisoner-of-war status and denies them access to attorneys. In a travesty of justice, the US Court of Appeals upheld the US government's position, which strips the detainees of all legal rights. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12728-2003Mar11.html |
Moving in on the Grail
| | [Later...] I wonder how much the adwords will change on John's blog as more link to him, or as the subjects of his blogs change, or as the searches that lead to his blog change? It'll be interesting to watch. Adword-watching in one's blog might turn into a kind of sport, no? |
So... is he really dead?
| | Dan Gillmor says Sad if True and sources this post from Lee Felsenstein on Dave Farber's list, which says he "apparently died recently in Southern India." Lee was a co-founder of Osborne Computer Corporation with Adam Osborne and Jack Melchor. |
| | I remember wanting an Osborne sooo baaad. It was $1795 and weighed just under 25 pounds. My old pal and high school roommate, Paul, had one. The first computer I could ever afford to buy was a Mac SE. |
Ondentity
| | Most of what we did last night in the bar was talk about identity. Very hot and interesting talk. Odd to find myself in a conversation about a subject where the people and companies implementing the technologies are talking way the hell over my head. |
| | I just keep advocating The Customer, and the whole demand side, of the identity-enabled marketplace. |
Stargrazing
| | Ian Evans blogged the Oscars last night at Digital Hit. Would have made a good companion to the live show, bits of which we saw at the bar here at the hotel. For me it was much more fun to drink with the stars of technology than to watch the stars of Hollywood. One irrelevant observation: Meryl Steep looked like she had a major face job. Kinda made me sad. Hope it was just, like, Botox or something. |
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