November 28, 2003

Economics of file sharing

An interesting, somewhat theoretical view supporting file sharing.

RED HERRING | The Business of Technology

Posted by ts at 10:08 PM | Comments (948)

Philip K. Dick

I really need to go back and re-read a bunch of his stuff.

Wired 11.12: The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick

Posted by ts at 10:07 PM | Comments (1016)

More copyright ideas

A good interview with some more moderate ideas on copyright. Also mentions my friend Robert von Goeben.

GrepLaw | Jim Griffin on the Future of Music

Posted by ts at 09:42 PM | Comments (520)

Reusability

I love finding new uses for old tech stuff.

New Startup Secret: Dumpster Diving :: AO

Posted by ts at 09:29 PM | Comments (672)

November 18, 2003

Unicycle of the future

I want one of these!

Forbes.com: Hot Wheel

Posted by ts at 08:49 PM | Comments (848)

November 12, 2003

Buy HP Stock!

A new way to store data on plastic sounds pretty cool - time to buy HP stock?

Science Blog - New memory device could offer smaller, simpler way to archive data

Posted by ts at 02:17 PM | Comments (1631)

November 11, 2003

CVS homedir

I tried (and failed) to do this once - this guy is much more organized than me.

CVS homedir

Posted by ts at 06:18 PM | Comments (753)

November 10, 2003

Mixing altruism and markets

The Economist recomments this book:

Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens examines the theory and practice of “quasi-markets” for public services. The book is short, accessible and profound. Drawing on theory, case studies and surveys of the literature, Mr Le Grand argues that the left is missing a trick. Market forces, he says, can often serve its goals better than the methods socialists and social democrats generally favour.

Economist.com | Economics focus

Posted by ts at 08:33 PM | Comments (466)

November 09, 2003

Everybody needs to learn to program

A moderately interesting article that echoes some of the thoughts I've had recently. Even better is the unusually well considered commentary on Slashdot.

Slashdot | Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Smash the Windows

Posted by ts at 09:58 PM | Comments (1042)

November 04, 2003

IPv4 not running out addresses

Seems like IPv4 isn't running out of space as fast as people think. We have anywhere from 15-25 years left at the current rate.

RIPE NCC - Registration Services

ISP Column - July 2003

Posted by ts at 01:29 PM | Comments (595)