Hack the Planet in Exile
This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology.
—Wes Felter
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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2010-07-13
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As a food service worker, I am seriously dreading my first encounter with a carbon conscious vegan with food allergies.
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2010-07-12
Jessica Wood: The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution
The opposite position. Wood argues that Google and Facebook will pay artists to release work for free and make back the money on ads, analytics, and ancillary goods or services.
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The Atlantic: Closing the Digital Frontier
After 15 years, the calls to “just find a new business model” start to sound like digital Lysenkoism. As Jaron Lanier says, at some point you have to call an end to the experiment.
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James Urquhart: Amazon APIs as cloud standards? Not so fast
“EC2 is actually a strictly defined server and network architecture that leaves little room for innovation in distributed application architectures and infrastructure configuration.” Uh oh. A cloud fanboy hit squad has already been dispatched to your location.
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CloudSigma: IaaS: The S stands for Service not Software!
“Pure IaaS should give the user full control of the software layer, allowing them to run any operating system and software that they desire.”
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2010-07-08
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NewTeeVee: Rumor: New Apple TV Will Push 99 Cent Streaming TV Rentals
Yes please. It always bothered me that a song costs 99c but a TV show that I’ll watch once costs $1.99 or more. It would be even better if the studios allow Sony to use this business model too.
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Scripting News: People hosting their own servers
I should just leave this alone, but I can’t. Amazon is 3x the price of pretty much all other hosting providers for this use case.
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The purpose of ICANN is not to exercise control, it is to prevent the emergence of any alternative entity that might actually try to.
— Phillip Hallam-Baker
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2010-07-07
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If you have only ever programmed in C/C++/Java and Lisp and scripting languages, you have been sitting in a corner your whole life. Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Tcl and Lisp are all the same language.
— Frank Atanassow offers a typically LtU viewpoint
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2010-07-06
The Tech Report: Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective
Great data analysis. (I don’t think most hardware sites even know how to make a scatter plot.) The 10x range in power efficiency is also worth noting.
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Oliver Drobnik: Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging
Finally the truth peeks out from behind the NDA curtain: any app can run in the background with a single plist setting. There is no “VoIP API” or “background audio API” and the rules preventing useful multitasking are arbitrary and harmful.
