* Gearhead: New Gearhead and some feedback * Backspin: Nachruf for DRM * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: New Gearhead and some feedback
First, an announcement: As of next week, Gearhead will become a purely online column: Same great bits, same great bytes, no dead trees.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Nachruf for DRM
About 20 years ago I went to the Proms, a yearly event at Albert Hall in London where a fairly eclectic selection of music (mainly classical) is performed. That year there was the world premiere of a piece of amazing music I now know is called “Nachruf for Strings” by a Norwegian composer (“nachruf”, I am told, means “obituary” in Norwegian).
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
the day dell refused to sell a computer
THIS from The Ubuntu Forums; a story of a business customer who could not buy a Dell with Ubuntu. They were told these were for personal use, not business use. Weird…
Reader Feedback on “What My Parents Don’t Know”
I just received the following feedback from a reader regarding this week’s Backspin, What My Parents Don’t Know. It should be a warning for every parent about the risks of unfettered Internet access…
The Wretched MPAA Again Choose to Be Ridiculous
From Dave Malki!’s recent Wondermark newsletter:
… it seems that the Motion Picture Association of America — that body that assigns movie ratings and clears movie advertising for content (hence green-band and red-band trailers) — has instituted a new, yellow-band rating specifically for Internet trailers. The idea is that yellow-band trailers are kinda racy or violent, but not quite “adults-only” — in the MPAA’s view, older teens can be allowed to see yellow-band trailers, but nobody younger. The obvious problem is, how do you enforce that? And the answer is, you don’t.
Business Adoption of Windows Vista
Quote by Russ Cooper, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, 18 June 2007:
My bet is that we’re waiting for either licensing changes from Microsoft over Select customers, or some new killer application that is only available on Vista (and which has no existing Windows XP customers). The licensing changes are extremely unlikely, given the back-peddling Microsoft has already done with OEMs. So can you imagine a killer business application that won’t be made available for Windows XP users? Neither can I.
