Juha Haataja: Universal Digital IdeasDigital Media, Digital Rights, Copyrights, Freedom, and the Future of Ideas.Censorship in Finland- June 15, 2008 Kai Ekholm has written an excellent column on censorship in Finland. Politicians are trying to score easy points by favouring censorship, without understanding (or willing to understand) the big picture. Censorship destroys the society from within. And it makes those who favour it laughable in the long run. Here is a list of such populistic politicians: Marjo Matikainen, Tanja Karpela-Saarela, and Suvi Lindén. I wouldn't vote for them. And this has nothing to do with the political...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/15.html#a4905 World is ending on Saturday next week...- June 14, 2008 ... but first we need to cover the football games, and make a special report on the latest kiss-and-tell story. --- Yes, information overload has made us stupid. (And the world is not ending as far as I know, not this time.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/14.html#a4904 Unix is not always a good thing- June 14, 2008 Ssp commented my thoughs on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: I think much of the bloat or bloated appearance of OS X comes from its Unix background. Rather than wrapping everything in a single file, things like applications usually come in thousands of files once they are localised and contain help. You can see an (over-dramatised) effect of this if you time how long it takes to copy your iTunes application: much longer than copying that amount of data should take. It may sound like a heresy, but the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/14.html#a4903 Views on computational science- June 13, 2008 I got some comments on my opinion piece in Helsingin Sanomat. Because my affiliation was not included in the writer information, some of the messages asked whether I'm the author of the text. There are quite a few people with the same name here in the Helsinki region. I hope they have not been bothered too much. By the way, it is interesting how few comments (relative to the size of the readership) there usually are from HS pieces, compared to other much smaller publications. Perhaps the big...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/13.html#a4900 Further thoughts on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard- June 12, 2008 Many have commented on the next version of OS X, 10.6 "Snow Leopard". There is lots of discussion on "no new features" (apart from built-in Exchange 2007 support). But after thinking about this a bit, I think Apple may be able to deliver quite an impact with 10.6. The current version, 10.5 Leopard, has layers upon layers, hundreds () of thousands of files. Complexity upon complexity. What would "think different" be able to do As an example, Apple developed the "launchd" software to replace...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/12.html#a4899 EU wants openness - sends message to Microsoft- June 12, 2008 New York Times reports on the EU comments related to Microsoft business practices vs. openness: "I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed," Ms. Kroes told a conference in Brussels. "No citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one."http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/12.html#a4897 Top choices for digital point and shoot camera- June 11, 2008 I'm once again thinking about a new digital camera. My Canon Digital Ixus 400 is still ok, but has occasional mechanical problems. And it has noise issues even at ISO 100. I don't like to get a SLR, because I very much prefer the pocketable format (point and shoot type concept). Of the current cameras, my top three choices are Canon Digital Ixus 860 IS, Fuji Finepix F100fd, and Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. All of these have potential problems, and are not quite attractive enough. But there are...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/11.html#a4895 What will happen with OOXML- June 11, 2008 ISO put OOXML document formats on hold. This was expected, and not only because of the complaints from the member countries. Now the ISO organization has a possibility to fix its reputation. This was a sordid mess. No wonder Micrsoft announced support for ODF, the competing format, in MS Office.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/drm/2008/06/11.html#a4893 |