Kevin Malm: kSoftwareSoftware stuff, cool and otherwise.(Untitled)- March 29, 2002 Mary Wehmeier wrote a letter to Senator Hollings. It's the first letter I've seen from a user explaining the consequences the senator's bill would have on the vendors' products she depends on. In other words, users can't afford to be silent on this bill. If you like our software and you want it to keep evolving and improving, you have a stake in the outcome. via Scripting Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/28.html#a316 (Untitled)- March 29, 2002 Reuters. A ruling by a Dutch appeals court to throw out charges against FastTrack (the P2P music sharing technology provider) could make it impossible for the music and movie industries to continue on their present course. Prepare yourselves for an all you can eat digital media subscription service coming to a PC near you. As I pointed out below, it's inevitable. This ruling just accelerates it. via John Robb's Radio Weblog Here is this again, just had...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/28.html#a314 (Untitled)- March 28, 2002 And while I was in the monkey story territory I poked around and found a few short paragraphs on the value of UML. which I like. It is not the silver bullet ( there is none ) but can help with improving communication on projects which is (or should be) the target for all silver bullets.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/28.html#a311 (Untitled)- March 28, 2002 Reuters: "A Dutch appeals court on Thursday told an Internet software company it could distribute a software program that is designed to let users share music and films on the Internet." via Scripting News :-)http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/28.html#a309 (Untitled)- March 18, 2002 What advice would you give to a Developer Development Manager Software Marketer Developer - don't plan like the mission impossible team (i.e. ten things have to go perfect or you die); manager, listen to the developer; marketer, understand the customer's needs, really! Then understand the developer's perspective of the customer's needs and move second to first position. This came from a Dave post (actually the same as the last one) with a link to a Q & A with his old boss who is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/18.html#a258 (Untitled)- March 18, 2002 Software for people with minds. $39.95. Click here. via Scripting News I trimmed this out of one of Dave's posts. A "daveism" as I have been calling them. And really, it is.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/18.html#a257 (Untitled)- March 18, 2002 "So if you use shareware, pay for it. If you can't even do that, you have no business complaining about how record labels and movie studios are afraid to sell their content online." - From the Shareware Industry, Lessons on Keeping Downloaders Honest The percentages in here are brutal. I'll think of this every time a piece shareware nags me. I have one on my desktop which I'm riding the fence on at the moment.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/18.html#a255 (Untitled)- March 15, 2002 Linux Journal: Unix under the Desktop. By Doc and Brent. Scripting News Mr. Jobs now has Unix under the hood. I think this is a good thing and suspect he is headed the right direction, FWIW.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/15.html#a250 (Untitled)- March 9, 2002 Mike Donnelan nails it. "Stop buying music." via Scripting News and a quote from this "Hey, here's a novel idea: if you want to hear your favorite music all the time, learn to play an instrument.". Hey I never thought about this but when I master this guitar thing it might help my cut the cost of my CD habit ;-)http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/08.html#a235 (Untitled)- March 6, 2002 "As a result of discovery, we have concluded that, in addition to Microsoft's fully integrated version of the operating system, the company should be required to offer a modular version that will allow equipment manufacturers and others to make their own decisions on adding middleware products that consumers want such as browsers or media players," he said in a statement. "Microsoft therefore would not be required to provide numerous versions of the operating system." - Tom Miller, Iowa...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102137/categories/ksoftware/2002/03/06.html#a231 |