Dean Kamen denies everything! DEKA is currently working on several exciting projects. The book proposal referred to one. However, the leaked proposal quoted several prominent technology leaders out of context, without their doubts, risks and maybes included. This, together with spirited speculation about the unknown, has lead to expectations that are beyond whimsical. We have a promising project, but nothing of the earth shattering nature that people are conjuring up.
posted by palegirl
on Jan 13, 2001 -
12 comments
If computer engineering defined the last half of the twentieth century, then
biotech will surely define the first half of the twenty-first century.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Jan 5, 2001 -
5 comments
Not Dubbing the Simpsons The Office de la langue française and others are up in arms (
ils capotent) about anglicisms in Internet discourse.
Business 2.0 talked about it. Branchez-Vous writes a short, cutting
article, giving those who pepper their French with English enough rope to hang themselves. («
Dans la catégorie "Un
mot français, un mot anglais et hop!," le prix revient à Rational Software France, the e-development company, qui a annoncé la nomination d'André Arich au poste de Partner Manager pour sa filiale française, ainsi que le lancement en France du programme de partenariat Rational Unified Partner Program (RUPP).») ¶ Strangely, French has a nicer word for E-mail than English does:
courriel.
(
Grand Dictionnaire is the
OLF's official bilingual tech dictionary.)
posted by joeclark
on Jan 5, 2001 -
14 comments
The current RISKS Digest carries a manifesto of sorts from Peter Neumann (of RISKS), Lauren Weinstein (of PRIVACY DIGEST) and Rebecca Mercuri (one of the AT&T voting wonks, if memory serves) on the dangers of electronic and Internet voting in the current technological milieu. Let's fix the problems, yes, but let's not create worse ones in the process.
posted by baylink
on Dec 15, 2000 -
2 comments
Blast from the past
Oh, those halcyon days of text-based real-time chat, before there was a Web. (I'm catching up on my link quotient....)
posted by rschram
on Dec 10, 2000 -
11 comments
Lynn Conway is one of the major talents in the history of the development of computers, responsible for
major advances without which computers we buy now would be much different.
She's also a
transsexual, born physically male. While working for IBM she had her sex-change operation, and IBM immediately fired her for it.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Dec 10, 2000 -
7 comments
Apple Cubebook?! Sounds like Apple is working their ass off to get new products out to show in January. The
Cubebook sounds cool and I am sure there would be pictures if MacOS Rumors wasn't in Apple's back pocket.
posted by Brilliantcrank
on Dec 8, 2000 -
9 comments
Screen Wars, a decent stab by Stephen Levy from Newsweek/MSNBC at summarizing the changes afoot in desktop OS GUIs. Credit where credit is due for some notable Apple alums; more faith than is justified in .NET.
posted by m.polo
on Dec 5, 2000 -
14 comments
THIS is a light saber?!? "There really isn't anything out there, other than a baton and pepper spray, that can halt a dangerous suspect without doing him or anyone else harm," Herr said.
Ouch.
posted by rushmc
on Dec 4, 2000 -
28 comments
fight aids @ home is a program similar to seti@home, it uses your computer's idle resources to accelerate anti-HIV drug design research.
posted by tiaka
on Dec 1, 2000 -
4 comments
Poisons spam bots dead! "Wpoison helps to combat the junk e-mail problem by effectively thwarting the efforts of junk e-mailers who regularly scan web pages, looking for target e-mail addresses to harvest, which they then send junk e-mail to. "
Wow, does this really work? Has anyone tried it or something silimar?
I hope it does work, I really hope it does.
(sorry if its been posted already)
posted by Hackworth
on Nov 21, 2000 -
14 comments
True or not?! One of the weirdest things I've ever seen on the web. I was
sure this was a hoax and kept digging for confirmation and never found it.
posted by norm
on Nov 3, 2000 -
11 comments
The
number one thing that correlates with a region's high-tech success is the concentration of gay people living there.
posted by sudama
on Nov 1, 2000 -
25 comments
Too Much Information? Heavy information overload: the world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earth.
posted by faithnomore
on Oct 24, 2000 -
15 comments
The next Java frontier: your car. Sun Microsystems announced Monday it would partner with General Motors' dashboard technology division, OnStar, in an effort to make Java the computing standard for the automotive industry.
posted by Zool
on Oct 16, 2000 -
5 comments
Damien Barrett launches a new
column on Macworld with a novel Holmesian (not Oliver Wendell, but Sherlock) approach. Give the man some feedback in the comments section at the bottom of the column. He also redesigned his web site. Damien's cool.
posted by Mo Nickels
on Oct 4, 2000 -
0 comments
Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic Jakob Nielsen says "to take the Internet to the next level, users must begin posting their own material ...
the vast wasteland of Geocities confirms this. Giving users a home-page editing program does not turn them into good writers."
Meg takes Nielsen
to task: "his recommended approach is crazy ...Why bog kids down with HTML?" Blogs, of course, are her solution. But for
some folks this simply doesn't add up. Saying kids shouldn't learn HTML because Blogger exists is like saying they shouldn't learn to add because calculators exist.
posted by webchick
on Sep 30, 2000 -
122 comments
The Tecno AO electromagnetic bioprotectionoscillator is an almond shaped disk that is 1.2 inches long and attaches to the casing of your cell phone or pager. It emits a magnetic oscillation that may counter the potentially harmful effects of the radiation produced by cell phones.
(quoted from the FAQ)
posted by tamim
on Sep 30, 2000 -
11 comments
130 Years old! See! God may not exist, but technology will outpace religion and THEN I will live FOREVER!
posted by tiaka
on Sep 29, 2000 -
14 comments
Dack provides a
pointer to the growing backlash in the US against cell phone use. While "conspicuous" phone use can certainly at times be annoying, the general level of distaste and
phone rage seems to be a phenomenon confined to the United States.
People in Europe, Australia and Asia, took to mobile technology like the proverbial ducks to water and haven't developed anywhere near the same irritation levels.
Is this just a difficult transition for a country slow to adopt a technology or says something deeper about the American psyche?
Afterall, we are talking about the country that invented Dick Tracy and Maxwell Smart.
posted by lagado
on Aug 3, 2000 -
14 comments
These sliding menus may not be anything much to you design mavens out there, but to a simple engineer/management consultant like myself, they are addictively neat. Whenever I check out the site, I find myself pulling them out and playing with them while deciding where to go in the site. How'd they do that?
posted by fpatrick
on Jul 28, 2000 -
9 comments
