Category: the market
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Some thoughts
some thoughts on “burning pain” opportunities in arenas I know about: consumer networking gear – we’re getting more networked and Best Buy isn’t sufficient in expertise or selection to solve our problems getting connected, staying connected, and managing all our digital junk. This is more than just zeroconf because I want to be able to…
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freedom, control, and command
Ok, so I’ve been playing with this idea of tension between control and command as an paradigm of societies and it occurs to me, while reading Cass Sunstein’s republic.com that there is more depth to that than I recognized initially. Sunstein’s argument in the opening chapters is that the liberty to not encounter ideas, people,…
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P.O.V. – The Brooklyn Connection | PBS
The Brooklyn Connection is a wonderful documentary by Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns about an Albanian living in America who equipped the Kosovo Liberation Army out of U. S. gun shops and surplus stores. It really drives home for me the madness of the ‘War on Terror’ namely that we don’t have any conception about what…
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How to solve the copyright distribution issue – the practical approach
I really dig the way in which Richard Stallman has approached the problems inherent in copyright, but they aren’t very practical – a little too idealistic and abstract for a bunch of greedy MBAs and CEOs to deal with. Andrew Orlowski gave this address, titled, After Grokster: why (almost) everything we’re told about P2P is…
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British man sacked for having opinion
Happy Independence Day. Take a moment to be glad you aren’t Alex Hanff, a British software developer who the Register is reporting was sacked for having opinion by his new employer, Aldcliffe Computer Systems. The gist is that he was asked to appear on an evening news talk show after the announcement of the U.…
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and so it begins…
So much for “don’t be evil” – this guy [ link dead, no archive ] got locked out of Gmail because he uses Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension that lets him add content and functionality to web pages that isn’t provided by the authors. In a world governed by contracts – like ULAs and SLAs…
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A New Film Release Paradigm
Film Movement is a DVD-of-the-month club that releases independent films on DVD to members the same date they are released in the art house circuit. It costs $20 a month or $160 for a year, the DVDs are yours to keep, and shipping is free. This is, to me, as clever as CD Baby, and…
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when worlds collide: oil, capitalism, and nationalism
OK, so a company in China is making a bid to buy a company in the United States. Seventy percent of the Chinese company is owned by the Chinese Government. The company in the US produces 167,000 barrels of oil an 1,826 million cubic feet of natural gas per day – both of which sound…
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a shakabuku thought
gnothi seauton — the inscription over the temple of the oracle at Delphi; “know thyself” I laid in bed awake until 4:30 and thought great thoughts that boil down to these two questions: All based on Euclid’s definition of ratio in the elements Which centers around two words – one with many diverse meanings, one…
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Divide And Conquer Yourself
Marcus Ranum has this little rant on his web site and it got picked up by Slashdot, so I read it. Divide And Conquer Yourself His basic premise is that the n-flavors of Linux, BSD, and System V kernel based operating systems make it easy for Microsoft to play the various vendors against themselves and…