Saturday, February 9, 2002

Catch up time I'm trying to get caught up today because I spent most of the week getting behind. After spending all day yesterday reconciling large data sets, my head hurt. Sam Ruby's final Axis/Radio interop article is well worth reading if you are into such things. Ken Hagler is working on a bunch of XMethods connections. The Simple Cross-Network Scripting (SCNS) for Radio has been released, and apparently if you running OsX, the 8.0.4b2 application is the one you want (I'd pulled it down but not installed it because it wasn't 8.0.4). Speaking of XMethods, can anyone tell me how it fits into the whole UDDI registry scheme? It's a little confusing right now. Lots of things to tinker with. 2:26:33 PM

>Two can play at this game You might wonder why New Device: More Ads, Less Show is important. From the Wired article: It's called the Time Machine, and it compresses TV shows -- even sports events -- to enable the networks to show more commercials. To the TV execs who had this device pitched to them, this must have seemed like nirvana. One tiny problem happened back in late October, early November, someone found out. A report out of Pittsburg suggested that the TV broadcast was out of sync with reality. Others agreed. It made the news in all the major sporting news outlets. So we now know that this device is out there and is being used (in real time). What makes this newsworthy is that the folks paying for the commercials want to make sure they get their full 30 seconds (or whatever time slot) of fame. They're concerned that the 'Time Machine' might shorten the time they are paying for. My guess? Someone will come up with a filter process of some sort (to seel to those who create commercials) which adds just enough jitter to avoid 'Time Machine' frame skipping compression. [Wired News] 12:55:46 PM

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