After telling Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its auction site, France is now considering taxing computers and other recording devices to compensate artists for piracy. I mean, Paris and art is all fine, but this is crazy! And Germany’s apparantly already done this.
Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.
Oil prices could rise further. That’s bad.
What is IT?
Statistics on websites that have been defaced.
The TRAI recommends that telephone companies could provide limited mobile services (WLL), and vice versa.
FICCI’s site and their Business Information Services Network are invaluable resources about Indian policies.
“Write a one-line C expression to determine if a number is a power of 2”. Microsoft is famous for asking such questions to their programmers. Or you might want to find out what the assembly code CWD XOR AX, DX SUB AX, DX does. Satish’s site has the answer, but not the question. More questions: 1 2
A good day. Bought 5 books, and cut an audio CD with 15 songs. The Bear and the Dragon | Fist of God | Abduction | Prometheus Deception | Druid of Shannara
Some people think CEOs get paid too much.
Global Trends: 2015 (CIA) says technological development will be in IT, biotech, materials & nanotechnology. And that India’s main problem will be to improve agriculture.
A history of the Macintosh computer.
Kumbh Mela 2001, Allahabad.
A bit of the surreal: Digital inkblots and Encyclopaedia Mythica
Yahoo! Internet Life surveys the year that was.
Learn web-development at w3schools.
I thought the next generation devices would use voice input. But maybe written is more likely. You can write on IBM’s Thinkpad and on Sony’s VAIO desktop.
Apple releases a UNIX-based operating system – OS X.
Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies – a comprehensive list of common fallacies.
More deaths. Chemdex, the B2B chemical market. Send.com, the gift store. Musicmaker, the CD-burner. Foodline, the restuarant agent.