http://news.com.com/Microsoft+puts+mobile+developers+on+the+map/2100-1039 _3-5252045.html?part=rss&tag=5252045&subj=news.1039.10 Microsoft is linking Mappoint...
This is beyond aggravating. It applies across the board to mobile phones: end-to-end design is not welcome. I wonder if VoIP will change the situation....
Lucas Gonze
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Jul 1, 2004 6:13 pm
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... Motorola and Nextel seem to be doing this one right; their latest phones let you run whatever apps you want and those apps can access the phones' built-in...
Christensen's second book, "The Innovator's Solution", presents, in passing, an interesting framework to apply to questions like this one. He talks about...
... Nice analysis. Though I'd argue that the commodity designs of PCs, the competition between Intel, AMD and those low power CPUs, and the Windows API made...
... Right, we are all aggravated and frustrated with how companies just don't give us what we want. No matter how obvious it is. No matter how we petition.com...
Daniel, ... Too right! I'm working on a description of my version of that vision now. When I get it finished I'll post a link here for review prior to...
Hi! Your message has been received, but it hasn't been delivered to me yet. Since I don't have any record of your sending me mail from this address before, I...
The abstraction: challenge/response breaks mailing lists as a specific instance of the way anti-spam algorithms break social software....
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jul 2, 2004 4:32 pm
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... Howdy! ... Your post advocates a (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is...
... What makes me sick is the agenda items on that show. One example:- "Panel session: Hollywood + games + music + technology = the new frontier in mobile...
Well, here's my 2 cents..... Julian said, ... IF that was going to happen it would have happened by now... Telcos are *not* going to cooperate and they are way...
... I'm considerably less pessimistic, Todd. Now take a deep breath because I'm going to mention commercial closed source companies. - Skype on PocketPC on a...
Cute. It should be fixed now, but you should know that with a minor exception or two I've now got a usable e-mail address again. I don't suggest that this is...
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:35:40 -0400 ... As a matter of formal policy I refuse to confirm through challenge-response systems on private addresses, but willingly...
Hi, I am using a combo of SpamAssasin and Mac OS X's Mail.app's built in spam filtering (bayesean I believe). The combination is more reliable than manually...
So I'm totally against client-side filtering at this point. SA and procmail filters seem to be the only way to go for me right now, but even with RBL, SA gets...
... So why do you refuse to do confirm? The only reason I can think of is that you don't want challenge-response systems to succeed and by not confirming you...
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:13:44 -0400 ... I confirm for mailing lists as I've a direct interest in ensuring that the mail I send is broadcast to the list. I...
A timely article from The Register on this subject: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/06/t-systems_wifi_roaming_pledge/ This clearly is the first step to...
An article I'm working on: www.abderaware.com/unos/unos.htm Applications aren't really my thing so if someone would like to suggest an application that works a...
... Reading the article further I see there is already fragmentation in the "unification" market. The issue being that there are other "unifying" companies out...
... I can't believe I didn't get my balls busted over anything. I know a few dozen of you read it - including several hits from the Ministry of Science in...
... OK, fine. Why isn't Microsoft still working on Millennium? Have you installed Legion and E? Why haven't they taken over the world? Or what about Jini? ...
Wes, Ask and ye shall receive! :-) ... Presumably because they don't see an adquate ROI - perhaps when factoring in damage to existing cash flows. But you...
Here is a beef with the munchkin aspect of it, i.e. the world of trillions of weak connected devices. Clearly we *are* moving in that direction. At the same...
Lucas, Thanks for the feedback. It's always nice to be hammered by the best. :-) ... Agreed. ... The question is: How much is "a certain amount" and how easily...
I have a beef with my beef. I don't believe (much) in airy critiques any more. Zane, my only beef is that you haven't sat down to code it, because otherwise...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Jul 8, 2004 9:03 pm
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Lucas, ... Respect. ... There's a philosophical point there but since I tend to agree with you I'll ignore it. But I'm not far enough along to think about...
"Objects are created by class factories, each identified by IP address. Every instance of an object has its own IP address." I'd stay clear of remote object...