Universal Rule

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Wednesday, November 13, 2002

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Photokina 2002 was an event where a lot of new digital cameras were introduced: Canon PowerShot S45 and Digital IXUS v3, Nikon Coolpix 3500 and 4300. See also the show report at DP Review.

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Scientology, Guns, and Weblogs points to John Hiler: "Sue a blogger at your own risk!" [Seb's Open Research]

How many Universal Rules are there? -- Comment()
I searched Yahoo for the term universal rule and found an inactive SourceForge project titled Universal Rule. This project was started a month after I started this weblog, and seems to be passive ever since. By the way, Universal Waste Rule seems to be a common topic. Should I rename this weblog to avoid wrong impressions?

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Distributed Proofreading's slashdotting: "The Distributed Proofreading site assigns random pages from scanned-in or re-keyed public domain texts that are being prepared for the Gutenberg Project library to volunteer proofers who correct the errors and check them back in. After a recent slashdotting, the sites pages proofed per day rate went from less than 1,000 pages/day to over 10,000. At this rate, they'll have the entire public domain up in jig time." (via Infoanarchy) [Boing Boing Blog]

Partnership vs. subcontracting -- Comment()
When talking about two or more companies working together, I wonder why the dominant company always talks about "partnership", and the smaller ones talk about something else, such as subcontracting? This is apparent in Microsoft's Ballmer talks up values, need for partnerships: "Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, spoke at the Brookings Institution today and said his company is super-focused on complying with the recent antitrust case decision." [Computerworld News]

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Microsoft, Samsung Team on Low-Cost Handhelds: "Microsoft Corp. has two new mobile hardware partnerships, one aimed at cost-conscious corporate customers and the other at cutting-edge consumers." [Google Technology News]

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Perspective: Machiavelli meets Microsoft: " Quoting the Florentine philosopher as she issued her landmark antitrust ruling, Kollar-Kotelly gave Microsoft most of what it wanted. Yet at the same time, she didn't rely on the software maker's good intentions to make sure the decision will stick. [...] But if her 300-plus page decision suggested Microsoft was about as trustworthy as a member of the Borgia family, Kollar-Kotelly nevertheless concluded that the stiffer remedy demanded by nine states opposing a settlement between Microsoft and the Department of Justice last November didn't fit the offense." (On CNET News.com: Perspective.) [News Is Free: Popular Items]

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Gates gives $421m to fight Linux, $100m to fight HIV: "We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has donated to India's fight against HIV, he's also funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million." [The Register]