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Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
 Speaking of the PowerBook 2400: Wired points out that the 2400 is a cult machine in Japan, where owners pay up to $25,000 to upgrade them. I've always loved mine... it was fast, small and light way ahead of the iBook or Vaio...Comments 9:26:46 PM 
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 Dotcom Garden Cam is fixed, I hope. Previously, a PowerBook 2400 tried to save a picture every few minutes over a Wi-Fi connection via AppleShare IP. It's pretty far from the AirPort 802.11 hub, and the QuickCam software would stall with a modal error dialog box when it lost the Wi-Fi connection, which it did virtually hourly as people and pets walked around the house. The new setup uses Oculus software that uses FTP ... if it can't log on because of a link problem, it just waits and tries again. So far, so good. The Virtual Serenity page is back...Comments 5:02:25 PM
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Pill may replace exercise according to researchers who have discovered the chemical pathways by which muscle cells build strength and endurance. Couch potatoes rejoice... Comments 4:53:15 PM
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Why I Don't Own A Mac, by Cory Watson, responding to a recent request from Apple to PC users. Geeks want boards and pieces that are cheap and hackable... Comments 4:46:32 PM
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Content commoditization: 20 years ago, great ad photos were shot by photographers on assignment for art directors. Today, with the exception of product photos, ad shots tend to come from stock agencies, because it's cheaper and faster. There's a parrallel in music: techno and hip-hop tracks are assembled from samples culled from exisitng music. Will anybody make original, standalone works in the future? Or will we just assemble parts of exisiting work into new forms? Comments 10:52:27 AM
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A new form of matter, dubbed 'strange quark matter', may be what astronomers are seeing in 2 newly discovered stars, RXJ 1856 and 3C58 (see NYT Comments 10:39:54 AM
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John Nash's 'equilibrium' concept is explained in Berkeley prof. Hal R. Varian's New York Times column. Varian says that Nash discovered a way to predict the outcome of any strategic interaction, providing the participants are rational. "..in any sort of strategic interaction, the best choice for any single player depends critcally on his beliefs about what the other players might do." Von Neumann's Game Theory deals with zero-sum games, whereas Nash's equilibrium applies more broadly.. Comments 10:12:51 AM
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