Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, June 13, 2003

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Bill Gates, Entertainment God: "Microsoft has two visions for the future of digital media: unlimited choice for consumers and unlimited control for producers. One thing's for sure, it's unlimited opportunity for Redmond. By Jeffrey M. O'Brien from Wired magazine." [Wired News]


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The domain name of Blogshares has been captured by a company: "This page is a place holder for your future web site..." Fortunately the ip address http://207.44.200.100/ works at least for the moment.


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Moore's Law and Communications points to Martin Hellman, emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanford: "I prefer an equivalent version of Moore's law that says computing costs decrease by a factor of ten every five years. [...] This rapid and steady decrease in the cost of computation has been like a mountain spring that feeds a river. Those of us in the developed world live on the banks of this river and have derived great wealth and other benefits (e.g., non-invasive medical diagnosis through CAT scans and MRI)." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]