interesting wap thread on slashdot
pretty cool research going on for making simple agents that act like insects to help manage bandwidth requirements.
wow, pretty awesome, this guy hooked up a vic20 to a maytag washer. (that link points to the start of the thread, the meat of it is farther down)
just reading through an older napster article on oreillynet. interesting point is about napster unchaining use of independent namespaces. interesting. oreillynet also has a good article on freenet and gnutella. i looked through both the protocol specs this weekend, but wasn't able to find specifications for describing a folder hierarchy. this seems pretty strange to me. this would be one of the things that i would really like to see...
yet another moronic patent. you can read the esteemed patents officer director's comments in a recent catfight w/ tim o'reilly. that guy is quite obviously a moron. actual quote: "The accessibility of that software is going to be able to be gotten a lot sooner if you patent it rather than copyright it." this of course is moronic because while copyrights cover the original work, patents cover the concept, even if you come up with it on your own, even if you don't know that it's patented. that's bs.
some more comments from tim o'reilly.
new gateway, aol, transmeta internet appliance announced yesterday. scheduled for 4q. this month's ieee spectrum has a very good feature article on transmeta.
i sit next to the guy who writes computer programs all day
this is dumb art has some really cool drawings. i especially like the no right turn one. i wish i was home is really neat too.