I need to get back into anime. Check out the trailer for this one, called Appleseed.
Thanks to the Slashdot nerds for a BitTorrent link. Well worth the wait for this.
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Ah, crotchety old physicists are fun
Dr. Donald E. Simanek, Professor of Physics at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania is one smart guy. Plus he really likes to debunk (in great detail) myths of science and physics.
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Wonder if any of our Execs would do this
Ted Waitt, CEO of Gateway (as in computers) is apparently one stand-up guy. Now, he’s been well compensated in the past I’m sure, so his reduction in pay is likely a large symbolic gesture. But how many other CEOs do you know that made less annually than a moderately-priced computer?
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Offshoring Hype and Acceptance
This is a very lucid and thought=provoking look at the trend of offshore outsourcing. Will this really be the peak year for the trend?
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More Layoffs
It happened today. No hard numbers yet, but so far three people (in our group of 11) have been let go… the people I hear about leaving are very surprising.
This should be a productive day.
UPDATE: Not official, but estimates are 60 locally and an additional 42 in the field.
UPDATE: It’s official; 118 with a threat of more to come in the spring. Most cuts were in DI, Postal, Manufacturing and Software Engineering.
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Why Outsourcing Will Plateau
One (poorly written) perspective on the outsourcing movement from someone who receives the “benefits” of the outsourcing. Company sends jobs to India; Company looses contract, but not for some high-minded morals.
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Lessig on Eldred vs Ashcroft
Lawrence Lessig argued against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1999. They lost (and lost on appeal to SCOTUS), which was a terrible thing for public domain works. One of the arguments lost in the (what little) reporting was done on this case is this one:
This point is rarely made, but it has far-reaching implications, and it was a key theme of our brief. When Congress decides to extend the term of existing copyrights, it is making a choice about which speakers it will favor. Not only would upholding the CTEA mean that there was no limit to the power of Congress to extend copyrights and further concentrate the market; it would also mean that there was no effective limit to Congress’s power to play favorites, through copyright, with who has the right to speak.
He looks back not with regret, but with an almost unbearable responsibility. A very poignant article from an obviously passionate man.
Link (via kottke.org)
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Who said that?
Heh… I love when CNN busts themselves. I can’t wait to hear the silence from this one.
Is 5.6 percent a low figure, or a high one? Depends. If only 5.6 percent of hamburgers are discovered to contain meat, that’s way low. But if 5.6 percent of teachers are using their students as drug mules in elaborate Asian heroin importing schemes, that’s sort of high.
We’re comparing apples and oranges here. Or junkies and burgers. What if we compare similar or identical figures on the same subject, and from the same source?
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AIM is spyware
Apparently, installing AIM installs the spyware program Viewpoint Media Player. I’m glad I don’t use this program, although I did find Viewpoint software on my machine. I wonder if this is installed with Netscape. Oh, and my favorite part, AIM inserts free.aol.com into IE’s Trusted zone so they can push software installs without having to get user permission. That’s a little iffy, if you ask me.
Just more reasons to use Mozilla.