Wow. Microsoft is basically saying "use us over MPEG-4, we're cheaper".

I'm taking a class on business ethics right now and although I don't fully agree with the generalizations in this article, it's excellent food for thought.

I'm a bit sad to learn that my pear shaped friend is out of commission. Thank goodness that spirits are immortal. Unfortunately, they do not know how to use irc or instant messaging clients yet. If you know Gene, you know that he can be somewhat sarcastic. The frustrating thing is that sarcasm that deep is difficult to comprehend, especially...

Finally, someone's getting on the ball with independent live P2P streaming. Also seen on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/0235207

Will offline (physical) distribution become CHEAPER than bandwidth?

Clearly there is a strong market need for emulators : )

Can 'innovative, non-obvious' social instruments and constructs really be given intellectual property protection?

Nice article on how to speed up OS X, and add some favorite GUI features as well.

Interesting copyright developments: There are attempts to create a new type of intellectual property right for proprietary collections of facts, (including recombinations of public domain data). Up until now, a partial recombination of public or private facts into a new database was generally not restricted.

I was happy to find this... useful for educating people who don't know all these terms.