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Just posted! Full Canon EOS-D60 review. 00:00 25/Mar Tokyo: I've just finished uploading the last few images which make up one of the largest reviews ever published here. Our full reiview of a production Canon EOS-D60 is now available.
The review is... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Frank Zappa. "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." [Quotes of the Day]
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Web Services are boring because  [Scripting News]
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First, no users are asking for web services. That's as it should be. Web services are about how you implement things, not what you implement. Users care about choice, not being locked in, reliability, security -- so perhaps they can care about web services, after compelling apps ship. There isn't really much fun in web services unless you're a programmer who likes to play in different environments, or likes to work with other programmers who work in different environments, or thinks the Internet is cool, even if he or she can't totally explain why. Web services are plumbing, and therefore to most non-programmers, off-topic. [Scripting News]
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The second reason the Big's are confused is that they keep their programmers locked up in the back room, and send out suits to do the talking, and give them the big budgets, because they're all run by PHBs who only feel comfortable surrounding themselves with equally ignorant people. So where there might be a spark of insight somewhere in the bowels of the Bigs, those people don't get a chance to speak, so the confusion is all you hear in the press reports because the people they talk to are confused. It's tautological. The Big's wouldn't let them talk to the press if they had any idea what this stuff was about. [Scripting News]
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What the press is really saying is that Bill Gates told me this is important, which is pretty close to Bill Gates told me to write this, which is where the big pubs lose me and most other readers with minds. [Scripting News]
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