Windows Vista was, by any reckoning, late. One of the major reasons was that Microsoft was attempting to take its ageing code-base, much of which of course dates back to a time when personal computers were solitary creatures (my Windows 95 machine was quite shocked by the addition of a network card), tending to [...]
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Unless you are happy to have complete strangers use your wireless connection, it might be time for an upgrade.
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For almost as long as I’ve been using computers, various companies have been issuing press releases about e-paper. But they are becoming increasingly specific in their promises. I’ll believe it when I see it, but I’ll probably want it when I do, too.
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Perhaps people don’t really read what they see on the screen. Perhaps they are addicted to clicking (”Oooo. Blue and shiny. Must Click!”), but it turns out that you can actually offer to infect people’s computers and they will click on the link.
Speaking of reading text online, the point made by Livelink (TM) is [...]
From a Newsweek article:
Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn’t lost blood. All that’s happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of “clinical death”—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?
It seems that, starved of oxygen, the cells of [...]
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No, not petrol, my dear American readers, but helium.
Robert Page is product manager for bulk gases at Air Liquide, which supplies gas to industrial firms. He notes his company has not yet been forced to turn away customers. However, he warns that helium — just like natural gas — is a non-renewable [...]
It is amusing to hear that Microsoft are attacking Apple’s iPhone (which has yet to be launched), on the basis that it features proprietary hardware and software. Microsoft are the last to encourage interoperability with their own programs, whatever their PR machine might say.
Last month a Belgium court ruled that Google had infringed the copyright of several newspapers. It’s crime? Indexing their content, and presenting it to users as part of the Google News service.
Surely, many said at the time, a search engine must be allowed to index content, no?
Well, no. Apparently not. Discussion [...]
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Give people you don’t know free hosting for arbitrary content and people wanting a place to put viruses and the like will exploit your generosity. Blog hosting websites are the latest target. See The Register for details.
Nothing surprising here, except that one would have thought people would have thought about this before now.
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There is an interesting discussion here about whether the UK ID card should double as a travel document. If it does, it may have to be insecure:
This is one of many reasons why lately there has been great consideration as to whether any UK ID card should also double-up as a travel document: [...]
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