Archive for November, 2005
The Royal Society trying to emulate RIAA?
The Royal Society believes open access to research results through electronic media would harm (read: profit through) publishing activities of professional societies. Sounds familiar? Yes, this precisely is the same storyline the masters of RIAA keep spinning. No dog is different in barking territorial imperative!
…it could lead to the demise of journals published [...]
Sony helped Apple’s entry into Portable Computing?
I read this story (Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple Took Over the Portable Market in 1991) through Slashdot.
It says that in 1991 Apple took a little help from Sony in creating its first successful laptop - PowerBooks. Surprising as Sony by itself was not a player in portable computing market until very late [...]
No protest against Dalai Lama at Neuroscience Meet
Contrary to expected there were hardly any protestors at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting where Dalai Lama was speaking.
He spoke just what he has been saying all these days. I have not seen the whole text of his talk anywhere in the net. But looks like it is on the line of Op-Ed [...]
End to Sony’s Rootkit stupidity
At last Sony/BMG has announced that it will no longer include Rootkit with their CDs. There is a lesson to be learned for every other company who is trying to stretch the IP protection a bit too far.
That aside, I am seriously thinking that Sony has become brain-dead. This is sad [...]
Having the cake and eating it too
In two unrelated(!) moves Kansas State School Board and Vatican have attempted precisely to have it and eat it.
Kansas board says it is ok to teach kids theory of evolution may be wrong. Just around the same time Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture said there is room for [...]