An Insider's View of 'Ciscogate'
...eel, staking out a position from which we can come down.
So I'm going to try to keep to the code but still point out a few things about the agreement process. Overall, the lawyers in the conference were relatively reasonable, under the circumstances, especially since there wasn't inherently a lot of......more...The Man Who Helped Kill CAPPS II
.... At one moment he calls himself the man who killed CAPPS II. At others, he's more demure. In drunken moments of euphoria, I think maybe I helped the process along just a millisecond. Or maybe I'm just smoking crack.
Whatever his position is, Scannell still seems shocked by it. The last thing I cons......more... Etch a Site as Easy as Pie
...ing service.
The idea is to get feedback before expending the time and energy of writing it and putting it up on the Web, Landay said.
Denim's design process is reminiscent of the workflow in tools like Macromedia's Dreamweaver, but Landay said Dreamweaver is best suited for building websites, rathe......more... Study: PDAs Good for Education
... teaching aids in public schools.
Classroom technology proponents, always desperate for institutional proof that new gadgets can improve the learning process, can thank a study by nonprofit research and development firm SRI International.
The study showed PDAs not only help organize calendars and ph......more... Veteran Scribe Praises New Media
...around $3,000 to have his sister's handwritten documents scanned, then he published them as a 400-page book, with a price of around $30 per book.
The process would cost even less today and is always becoming cheaper, which is why Bagdikian believes that self-publication, combined with the Internet m......more... Rants Raves
..., paying a bag of money to a virtual stranger is sheer stupidity. Con artists can always find a sucker, since adoption is such an emotionally charged process. Tell people to deal only with licensed agencies. It's much safer. The stock of blue-eyed blondes is a myth left over from the 1930's when chi......more... When Your Voice Is All You Have
... rates are even higher, due in no small part to the very difficulty of dictation.
Talking at your computer significantly interferes with your thought process, he says, because thinking and speaking are both drains on a person's short-term and working memory. Physical activity, on the other hand, tax......more... A Patented Approach to Crypto
...eight patents, and allowed him to retain the rights.
So he spent years and tens of thousands of dollars to register them around the world, an arduous process that included translating them into other languages and paying patent lawyers. At one point I had a debt of $60,000 U.S. dollars with no hope ......more... Of Physics and the Funny Papers
...trip, which became FoxTrot. It took two-and-a-half years of rejections and rewrites before he signed a deal with Universal Press Syndicate. The whole process is documented on the FoxTrot Web site.
Influenced by strips like Bloom County and Calvin Hobbes, Amend set out to create a contemporary comic......more... |