"We are
surprised and shocked that the president of the magistrates union, given the level of influence he has on his (judicial) colleagues, can publish in the press a call to not criminally sanction criminal acts, which contradicts the intentions of government bodies,"
Huzzah.
We won a Codie for DIBELS, which apparently is the software industry equivalent of
the National Library of Poetry, as far as I can make out...
The
article you linked to states:
"And that meant that it was impossible to migrate to Cobalt without leaving all of the Garnet applications behind."
That's... frankly, that's bullshit. Cobalt can run all Garnet applications cleanly out of the box. That is, in fact, the entire freaking point of Cobalt.
The reason Cobalt wasn't adopted is because PalmSource stupidly committed itself to continuing to support Garnet, keep announcing next-generation OSes beyond Cobalt that obsolete it, and hardware manufacturers with tight margins are not going to stick their necks out for anything, ever.
Honestly, the best thing PalmSource could do at the developer's conference is kill Cobalt. Seriously. Skip it and go to Linux already. End-of-life Garnet. Everybody knows the endgame is Linux anyway, so why waste time? Get this: PalmOne (soon to be Palm again) is already considering shipping Linux on palmtops, sans PalmSource. The moment that makes it out the gate, PalmOS is really done.
Wal-Mart: What A Bargain « Terrain Magazine, Summer 2004 « Ecology Center. The bit that caught my attention:
"Once Wal-Mart stifles its competition in a region, it consolidates its holdings by vacating many of its stores. To limit competitors in the future, the leases of these dark Wal-Marts prevent them from being used for retail. Other uses for these massive windowless structures are limited.
As of this February, Wal-Mart possesses 371 dead stores. Half of these buildings have been vacant for at least two years, and 21 percent have not been used for at least five years. Over that time, the number of dead Wal-Marts has risen 38 percent."
... someone's got to smell an opportunity here...
AND
LO, THERE WAS PROPORTIONALITY, AND THE GRILLERS DID REJOICE
Well, I started my new job. It's great. Adam needs to come out here. He'd be a shoe-in. I had a conversation today about ACPI, and all I could think of was: "Gee, I'll betchya Adam knows more about this stuff than I do." What a great place to work this is.
By the way, I placed 29806th in last Sunday's Bay To Breakers, coming in at a personal best time of 4:23:06. Expect photographs in the usual places shortly.
I'm running in
Bay to Breakers on Sunday! I'll be number 51170.
My Bad: The UK and the US have
Less Intergenerational Mobility than Europe in general, and Scandinavia in particular.
Peruse my flickr photographs via
my popular tags, and avoid the confusing clutter.
Whenever housing prices soar -- in Shanghai, San Francisco or Santiago --
experts wonder whether the cause is a speculative bubble that could eventually burst, causing widespread distress.
Since the WSJ is off limits for me,
here's an article from the Independent. (Actual reporting, at that. Frankly, I'd be happy to never read another Op-Ed, from either side, again.)
If you have access to the WSJ, read today's OP-Ed by Fania Oz-Salzberger "The Haifa and Bar Ilan Boycott".
