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Yes! PC users do not generally get this. Or worse, they misunderstand what we mean when we say that. .< 4:27:44 AM  >Canon EOS-1Ds vs. EOS-D60. Dave over at Imaging Resource has just posted a side-by-side comparison of the eleven megapixel EOS-1Ds and the six megapixel EOS-D60 posing the question "How much difference does it make?" (the... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 4:14:54 AM >An Apple dealer in the U.K. writes that Apple's 15-inch Flat Panel Studio Display has just been designated "End of Life", and he wonders if Apple's preparing new monitors [Macintouch] .< 4:07:33 AM >The Booker plot thickens By SANDRA MARTIN -- Prize season is upon us. On Monday the shortlist for the Governor-General's literary awards is announced, followed on Tuesday by the winner of the 50,000 (about $120,000) Man Booker Prize. Although Canadians have been on the Booker list several times in the past, and two homegrown writers, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, have take home the trophy, this year marks the first time that Canadian writers have dominated the shortlist for the best work of fiction published in the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 4:02:49 AM >Check this out. What a beautiful idea. What a beautiful family. [Canuck] .< 3:59:53 AM >Maybe this is not new, but if you have a .Mac account with Apple, you can easily publish your Radio blog on Apple's servers. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] This is what I expect to do, at least for some of the categories I track. I'm down to 17% of my 40 MB of space on UserLand's servers. .< 3:55:56 AM >Countries need protection from U.S. culture, Quebec says 
Warning that too much "Dallas and Dynasty" is dangerous, Quebec Premier Bernard Landry says all nations should be able to exclude culture from free trade negotiations. [CBC News] Odd that this should be coming from Quebec. The French have always had the advantage of their language to help buffer against the glut of American 'culture'. .< 3:48:39 AM >Register: "Microsoft has yanked another of its fraudulent user testimonials, in this case a fictitious twelve-year-old boy raving about a fictional homework assignment and the indespensable insights he received from MS Encarta Reference Library in preparing it." [Scripting News] .< 3:45:03 AM >Kevin Werbach: The New Wireless Paradigm. PDF. [Scripting News] .< 3:27:13 AM >Radio UserLand : Beta: RSS Explorer Tool: " The goal of this tool is to make it easier for people to find useful and interesting RSS feeds." .< 1:50:35 AM >Integra Introduces THX Ultra-Certified Universal Player Upper Saddle River, NJ (October 18, 2002)--Integra has introduced the DPS-8.3, a THX Ultra-certified DVD player that is compatible with nearly every digital disc format in use, including DVD-Audio and SACD. [ProSound News] .< 1:48:42 AM >Digidesign To Support Logic Platinum on Mac OS X Oct. 18, 2002 -- Digidesign says it will support Emagic's Logic Platinum on Mac OS X. Digidesign just last week announced the impending release of a Mac OS X version of Pro Tools 6.0. Emagic, which was bought by Apple earlier this year, released an extension for Logic that supports Digidesign's TDM systems under Mac OS 9. Mac OS X support will build upon the software released by Emagic. Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 1:36:40 AM >Software lock-in helps double Microsoft profits. Business: Software giant Microsoft bucks trend in battered technology sector by doubling profits in a year. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:20:56 AM >What's Really New in Wireless?. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association tradeshow offered some surprises, like a Bluetooth-enabled headset for cell phones. Also: Christina Aguilera faceplates and Worldwide GPRS roaming with Deutsche Telekom. Elisa Batista reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News] .< 1:20:21 AM >Digital Radio: Small Guys' Ruin?. Digital radio, set to hit the airwaves this year, could bring big media conglomerates oceans of new business opportunities -- but smaller competitors could drown in the rising tide. By Brad King. [Wired News] New to the US that is. .< 1:19:03 AM >Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft?. Cypherpunk Lucky Green files a defensive patent to prevent the software giant from using Palladium to block piracy efforts. Analysts say it just might work. By Pete Rojas. [Wired News] .< 1:17:34 AM >Vatican 'protecting paedophile priests'. Victims of sexual abuse at the hands of US Catholic priests condemn the Vatican after it rejects bishops' plans to deal with paedophile clerics. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 1:15:57 AM >Last year on this day I won the top award from Wired, their Tech Renegade of the year, for the work on SOAP with Microsoft. They liked the way I used Microsoft's power to undermine Microsoft. I admired them for admiring me for that. I admire Microsoft even more for wanting that. I thought then that we should have made hay with it, but they were in the middle of rolling out XP. Too busy I guess. [Scripting News] .< 1:07:14 AM >Reader Tips. More option key goodies in Jaguar. [OSXFAQ] Handy. .< 12:59:49 AM >This time my PowerBook got back with its third brand new LCD display in less than one week. Thanks to iSync, my Address book and Calendar have been brought up-to-date literally with one click. Moving back all my email and Radio from the other computer I've been using was just a drag and drop thing. I love this OS [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Right on. .< 12:55:27 AM >Diego Golberg: On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by. It's one of those things that everybody has probably thought at some time that it would have been cool to do, but nobody has ever done it. Well, Diego did, 26 years of pictures of him and his family (via Capitain Nemo). [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Beautiful. Wow. Follow the link to the photos. .< 12:49:47 AM >Bonnie Friedman. "An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 12:46:59 AM >Bell Labs demoes 19.2Mbps 3G chips. BLAST off [The Register] .< 12:43:57 AM >Microsoft, Panasonic propose (another) CD standard. HighMAT Heimat [The Register] We do not need MS in the consumer electronics biz! At least it supports MPEG4. |
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