NewsStream Pick of the litter from my aggregated feeds -- Summarized
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NewsForge: TUX Magazine Debut Signals New Vitality in Linux Market. [Linux Today 4/1/2005; 8:53:17 AM] "'TUX will tell you how to get things done--without having to lift the hood.' But is the world ready for a Linux publication aimed at entry-level users...?"
4/1/2005 9:02:37 AM 
Credit Cards Aren't [All] Evil. [The Motley Fool 4/1/2005; 8:52:37 AM] They can be a force for good in many ways. 4/1/2005 9:01:01 AM
How To Use Microsoft Outlook With AOL. [Ask Dave Taylor] According to the helpful online documentation at the AOL help site, you can access AOL mail through their Open Mail Access system. There's detailed information on how to work with Outlook 2000, Outlook Express, IncediMail, Microsoft Entourage, Outlook 2002, and even Eudora. .... [via Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics 4/1/2005; 7:53:18 AM] 4/1/2005 8:57:07 AM
Customize the Places bar in Windows XP. You can customize the Places bar by editing the local group policy with the Group Policy Editor. Here's how. [TechRepublic.com 4/1/2005; 3:54:12 AM] 4/1/2005 8:51:01 AM
Viewers get sold on video on demand [Globe And Mail 4/1/2005; 3:52:26 AM] Sales of video on demand and subscription video on demand are expected to hit $170-million this year, blowing past the $100-million mark for the first time in Canada. That's a big increase from $85-million in 2004, according to numbers compiled by Brahm Eiley of Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. Mr. Eiley predicted sales will reach $450-million in 2007. 4/1/2005 8:50:12 AM
Genuine photo of Liquid Water on Mars [Astronomy Picture of the Day 4/1/2005; 2:52:53 AM] Many space missions have taken photographs of the surface of the red planet, and some of them might show a subtle clue pointing to water on Mars that has been missed. By close inspection of images, following curiosity, applying scientific principles, applying knowledge about features on the Martian surface, and applying principles of planetary geology, such clues might be brought to light. Thanks to the private space industry reviewing data, a new discovery has been made! A real picture (not using computer art etc) of liquid water on mars. 4/1/2005 8:48:41 AM
Google Ride Finder Announced [Slashdot: 4/1/2005; 2:52:42 AM] Need a ride? Now Google has included the ability to lookup where taxis are in real time! The new service is called Google Ride Finder. Using a combination of Google Maps and Google Local you can see where certain taxis are at the moment. Currently there are only 11 major cities that are supported, and there are still only a few cab companies that are involved. The service is pretty cool, but if they don't add more cities/companies, who knows how well it will do. For more info check out Google's Blog. 4/1/2005 8:44:19 AM
GMail Gets Rich Text Editing. [Aimless Words 4/1/2005; 1:52:26 AM] It was only yesterday when we at TechWhack were thinking about the shortcomings GMail has now compared to the market leaders MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Only one thing came to mind, which was the rich text formatted email composing and mail forwarding. Looks like the souls at the Google Labs were listening to our requests as in the morning we just found that Google has enhanced its webmail service GMail to incorporate rich text editing facility! (Via TechWhack.)... 4/1/2005 8:41:40 AM
Novell's Race Against Time [Slashdot: 3/31/2005; 11:53:10 PM] The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports in 'It's a race against time' that Novell is on a knife-edge financially and competitively, having placed a huge one-way bet in the success of its Linux strategy. But there's no guarantee of success: its revenue from Linux licensing is puny, and it faces a crowded market of Linux distros. Novell may be getting some positive press now that it's gone full tilt for Linux, but let's remember the reasons why: because of mis-steps of its previous management (especially the disastrous acquisition of WordPerfect in the mid 1990s) and its failure to grow its Netware business (with more than a little help from Microsoft), it's now having to re-engineer itself for Linux." 4/1/2005 8:40:39 AM
Virgin Says Space Flight Plan Complete, Airline Expansion Planned [SpaceDaily.Com 3/31/2005; 10:53:13 PM] Flamboyant British tycoon Richard Branson said Thursday Virgin Galactic's ambitious plans for commercial space flights are complete and the first fee-paying astronaut will fly with him into orbit in the next 30 months. "The plan for the new spaceship is complete and work on the project will commence in the next three months, with the first commerical space flight to take off in two-and-half years. I, with my parents and my son and my daughter will travel in the first space flight," said the 54-year-old tycoon, who made his fortune with the Virgin pop record label before branching out into air travel, railways, telecommunications and a host of other enterprises. Commenting on the core airline business, Branson said Virgin Atlantic had laid out aggressive plans in many international markets, including the United States, India, Nigeria and the Bahamas. "The US still does not have good-quality airlines. We will expand our wings there."
4/1/2005 8:35:37 AM
Sony to Make an "iTunes for Movies" [Slashdot: 3/31/2005; 8:53:32 PM] After years of complaining that the RIAA and MPAA were missing the boat, and should have embraced things like Napster instead of supressing them, we got iTunes and the like. Now, Sony has announced it will 'make its top 500 films available digitally in the next year' according to a report on the BBC, with Sony's iPod replacement being the PSP. 4/1/2005 8:28:16 AM
‘No evidence' of price-fixing at gas pumps [The Globe And Mail: Business 3/31/2005; 10:52:16 PM] 4/1/2005 8:26:15 AM
Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online. [Boing Boing 3/31/2005; 9:52:25 PM]
Clay Shirky tells Boing Boing:
Welcome to the Copyfight. So, at Etech this year, I gave a talk entitled Ontology is Overrated. I want to put a transcript up online, and Mary Hodder, who recorded the talk, graciously agreed to give me a copy of the video. When she came by NYC last week, she dropped off a DVD, which I then wanted to convert to AVI (the format used by my transcription service.) I installed ffmpeg and tried to convert the material, at which point I got an error message which read "To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed." Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I'M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. Got that? I am in possession of a video, of me, shot by a friend, copied to a piece of physical media given to me as a gift. In the video, I am speaking words written by me, and for which I am the clear holder of the copyright. I am working with said video on a machine I own. Every modern legal judgment concerning copyright, from the Berne Convention to the Betamax case, is on my side. AND I CAN'T MAKE A COPY DIRECTLY FROM THE DEVICE.
This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders -- they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity. 4/1/2005 8:23:46 AM
Credit Cards Aren't [All] Evil. [The Motley Fool 4/1/2005; 8:52:37 AM] They can be a force for good in many ways. 4/1/2005 9:01:01 AM
How To Use Microsoft Outlook With AOL. [Ask Dave Taylor] According to the helpful online documentation at the AOL help site, you can access AOL mail through their Open Mail Access system. There's detailed information on how to work with Outlook 2000, Outlook Express, IncediMail, Microsoft Entourage, Outlook 2002, and even Eudora. .... [via Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics 4/1/2005; 7:53:18 AM] 4/1/2005 8:57:07 AM
Customize the Places bar in Windows XP. You can customize the Places bar by editing the local group policy with the Group Policy Editor. Here's how. [TechRepublic.com 4/1/2005; 3:54:12 AM] 4/1/2005 8:51:01 AM
Viewers get sold on video on demand [Globe And Mail 4/1/2005; 3:52:26 AM] Sales of video on demand and subscription video on demand are expected to hit $170-million this year, blowing past the $100-million mark for the first time in Canada. That's a big increase from $85-million in 2004, according to numbers compiled by Brahm Eiley of Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. Mr. Eiley predicted sales will reach $450-million in 2007. 4/1/2005 8:50:12 AM
Genuine photo of Liquid Water on Mars [Astronomy Picture of the Day 4/1/2005; 2:52:53 AM] Many space missions have taken photographs of the surface of the red planet, and some of them might show a subtle clue pointing to water on Mars that has been missed. By close inspection of images, following curiosity, applying scientific principles, applying knowledge about features on the Martian surface, and applying principles of planetary geology, such clues might be brought to light. Thanks to the private space industry reviewing data, a new discovery has been made! A real picture (not using computer art etc) of liquid water on mars. 4/1/2005 8:48:41 AM
Google Ride Finder Announced [Slashdot: 4/1/2005; 2:52:42 AM] Need a ride? Now Google has included the ability to lookup where taxis are in real time! The new service is called Google Ride Finder. Using a combination of Google Maps and Google Local you can see where certain taxis are at the moment. Currently there are only 11 major cities that are supported, and there are still only a few cab companies that are involved. The service is pretty cool, but if they don't add more cities/companies, who knows how well it will do. For more info check out Google's Blog. 4/1/2005 8:44:19 AM
GMail Gets Rich Text Editing. [Aimless Words 4/1/2005; 1:52:26 AM] It was only yesterday when we at TechWhack were thinking about the shortcomings GMail has now compared to the market leaders MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Only one thing came to mind, which was the rich text formatted email composing and mail forwarding. Looks like the souls at the Google Labs were listening to our requests as in the morning we just found that Google has enhanced its webmail service GMail to incorporate rich text editing facility! (Via TechWhack.)... 4/1/2005 8:41:40 AM
Novell's Race Against Time [Slashdot: 3/31/2005; 11:53:10 PM] The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports in 'It's a race against time' that Novell is on a knife-edge financially and competitively, having placed a huge one-way bet in the success of its Linux strategy. But there's no guarantee of success: its revenue from Linux licensing is puny, and it faces a crowded market of Linux distros. Novell may be getting some positive press now that it's gone full tilt for Linux, but let's remember the reasons why: because of mis-steps of its previous management (especially the disastrous acquisition of WordPerfect in the mid 1990s) and its failure to grow its Netware business (with more than a little help from Microsoft), it's now having to re-engineer itself for Linux." 4/1/2005 8:40:39 AM
Virgin Says Space Flight Plan Complete, Airline Expansion Planned [SpaceDaily.Com 3/31/2005; 10:53:13 PM] Flamboyant British tycoon Richard Branson said Thursday Virgin Galactic's ambitious plans for commercial space flights are complete and the first fee-paying astronaut will fly with him into orbit in the next 30 months. "The plan for the new spaceship is complete and work on the project will commence in the next three months, with the first commerical space flight to take off in two-and-half years. I, with my parents and my son and my daughter will travel in the first space flight," said the 54-year-old tycoon, who made his fortune with the Virgin pop record label before branching out into air travel, railways, telecommunications and a host of other enterprises. Commenting on the core airline business, Branson said Virgin Atlantic had laid out aggressive plans in many international markets, including the United States, India, Nigeria and the Bahamas. "The US still does not have good-quality airlines. We will expand our wings there."
4/1/2005 8:35:37 AM
Sony to Make an "iTunes for Movies" [Slashdot: 3/31/2005; 8:53:32 PM] After years of complaining that the RIAA and MPAA were missing the boat, and should have embraced things like Napster instead of supressing them, we got iTunes and the like. Now, Sony has announced it will 'make its top 500 films available digitally in the next year' according to a report on the BBC, with Sony's iPod replacement being the PSP. 4/1/2005 8:28:16 AM
‘No evidence' of price-fixing at gas pumps [The Globe And Mail: Business 3/31/2005; 10:52:16 PM] 4/1/2005 8:26:15 AM
Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online. [Boing Boing 3/31/2005; 9:52:25 PM]
Clay Shirky tells Boing Boing:
Welcome to the Copyfight. So, at Etech this year, I gave a talk entitled Ontology is Overrated. I want to put a transcript up online, and Mary Hodder, who recorded the talk, graciously agreed to give me a copy of the video. When she came by NYC last week, she dropped off a DVD, which I then wanted to convert to AVI (the format used by my transcription service.) I installed ffmpeg and tried to convert the material, at which point I got an error message which read "To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed." Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I'M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. Got that? I am in possession of a video, of me, shot by a friend, copied to a piece of physical media given to me as a gift. In the video, I am speaking words written by me, and for which I am the clear holder of the copyright. I am working with said video on a machine I own. Every modern legal judgment concerning copyright, from the Berne Convention to the Betamax case, is on my side. AND I CAN'T MAKE A COPY DIRECTLY FROM THE DEVICE.
This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders -- they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity. 4/1/2005 8:23:46 AM
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