although it's not open source and not free for purchase without advertisements, Opera 7 does everything the administrator says IE does but Firefox doesn't.
better, IE implements CSS2 more completely.
and it's available for Linux as well as Win32.
I have decided to discontinue my blog here. I will resume it on my Web site using tkBlog. Stay tuned. It will be at http://www.algebraist.com/tkblog/.
Pardon any inconveniences.
I decided to centralize my writings on a server under my control, so the entire history of
A recent example of how use of litigation in the media business has gone completely nuts. Trademarking musical chords?! It shows Lawrence Lessig's fears documented in his The Future Of Ideas may well be materializing quickly.
Bob Cringely's weekly column this week dwells on the implications of Cold-War-era-style surveillance empowered by the Internet and energized by the Patriot Act. He is panicked, not only because the Big Bad Guys In Washington are now capable of eavesdropping on salacious e-mai
Very cool!
Check out this new site at MIT going online on 4th of July 2003 which lets people monitor what government and the people in it are doing.
The technical aspects of it are interesting, too, including its data model.
This story also ran some place on Slashdot.org, but I thought it really a gem that Senator Hatch's Web site runs pirated code. See the story at Wired News.
Ooooooooooooooh! Fry that server!
I've written elsewhere about the sea change that's come over the software industry, principally in a move en masse to "shrinkwrap" software for even enterprise scale applications. This benefits both customers and the software developers because the cost of developing and maintaining the software is amortized over N customers. If N is sufficiently large, in terms of immediate cost this is a clear w
That it is possible for someone to accumulate enough wealth to the damage the community of which they are a part is actually an old idea. That people don't realize this occurred to me when I was reading Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War during warmups at a gymnastics meet. (How Greek a place to do it.)
Y'know, there may be a method to George Bush's "madness" about the tax cut. There's agreement it is too small to stimulate the economy much. So there's a puzzle.
In the category of more evidence for my increasing belief that the terms "liberal", "conservative", "right wing", "left wing" are meaningless, consider China's current edict concerning SARS.
It's another Michael Savage wannabe. More here.
Oh well. I finally discovered what the Slashdot foe-freaks system is for.
On the whole, Microsoft WinXP seems to be an okay system, if you forgive its shortcuts mania, occasional loss of communication with a LAN, and intolerance for certain PC games. [Hint, 'though: Definitely invest in copies of Karp, et al's Windows XP Annoyances and Windows XP in a Nutshell put out by O'Reilly Press.]
But Microsoft Word for WinXP is something else.
The UK Telegraph is reporting a definitive connection between Saddam and Bin Laden .
A contemporary ad for a telecommunications company says, in major part,
Business is about relationships. Technology is the easy part.
I say, "Bullshit."
Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. It makes sense, when you don't think about it.
