Archive for February, 2008

Mitch Kapor: Minority Report Interfaces On The Way

Friday, February 15th, 2008

As reported last year on the MJ in Getting Inside the Simulation, 3D camera driven interfaces are already available. What Kapor is talking about is widespread adoption
“Look at Minority Report,” Kapor said. “I’m here to say that (technology is) going to be real in the next (few) years.”In fact, he said, he predicted that [...]

Pledge Mesh(why a brokered Democratic convention won’t)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Although it was acceptable at one time, most people know today that if a software system requires you to read 100’s of pages of documentation, something is wrong. Similarly with the rules for the election system and likewise, when the rules says a pledge isn’t binding, something is wrong.

Amazon Drops Message Service Pricing 10,000%!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

No that’s not a typo and although few will actually get a 10,000% reduction, most Amazon SQS customers will probably see costs drop by 1000%. This is another very significant precursor to the coming boom.

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