Sunday, December 19, 2004

Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008 [Slashdot:] 10:26:51 PM      Google It!.

Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood [Slashdot:] 10:25:54 PM      Google It!.

Rice University Computer Scientists Find a Flaw in Google's New Desktop Search Program. The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is the kind of flaw that emerges when separate components interact. By By JOHN MARKOFF. [NYT > Technology] 10:23:16 PM      Google It!.

GIMP 2.2 Released [Slashdot:] 2:24:23 PM      Google It!.

FCC Indecency Rules Don't Apply to Satellite Radio [Slashdot:] 9:52:05 AM      Google It!.

It's Brown But Looks Awfully Familiar. Imitation and flattery aside, just curious if anyone thinks RSS-to-Javascript bears any resemblance at all to our Feed2JS? I do not really care all that much since Feed2JS code is open source but some credit would be nice, egos can always use some stroking now and then... Ours was pretty much inspired by David Carter-Tod's Wytheville Community College News Service first appearing as a concept in May 2003, with the first version of RSS2JS (using the now dormant OnyxPHP RSS Parser) to the current Feed2JS (using MagpieRSS). [cogdogblog] 9:50:29 AM      Google It!.

In Google we trust?. Dave Winer today points to Scott Rosenberg's excellent take on Google's new library venture. Scott concludes: The public has a big interest in making sure that no one business has a chokehold on the flow of human knowledge. As long as Google's amazing project puts more knowledge in more hands and heads, who could object? But in this area, taking the long view is not just smart -- it's ethically essential. So as details of Google's project emerge, it will be important not just to rely on Google's assurances but to keep an eye out for public guarantees of access, freedom of expression and limits to censorship. [Scott Rosenberg] I agree. That's one of the reasons, by the way, that the evolving relationship between electronic texts and physical books fascinates me so deeply. For the generation now coming of age, Google defines a sort of continental shelf. Whatever is on that shelf is considered accessible. Whatever isn't fades into the murky unfathomable depths. But when we can beam the halogen light into those depths and search them, we'll be reminded that -- whatever online access can or cannot be offered now, and however long it takes to make complex and sensitive adjustments to the copyright system -- the physical books exist, and are available for our use. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:17:51 AM      Google It!.

Pliable Solar Cells on a Roll [Slashdot:] 8:14:48 AM      Google It!.

Learning Early That Success Is a Game. A new book argues that in playing video games, boys are actually training for the new world of work, not avoiding it. By By LISA BELKIN. [NYT > Technology] 8:12:21 AM      Google It!.

Cost analysis for e-learning foreign languages - Demetra Mantzari and Anastasios A. Economides, EURODL. A cost analysis model for e-learning and a methodology for setting up a virtual foreign languages school is presented. The Total Cost is expressed as a function of the number of months (or quarter, or semester), the number of courses and the number of [Online Learning Update] 7:56:42 AM      Google It!.

NYTimes Reports on Firefox [Slashdot:] 7:54:56 AM      Google It!.