Mike Cohen

Platform Collapse

The pace of change in IT creates its own business victims, often to the consumer’s benefit. One aspect of this rapid change is platform collapse, a process that brings unusual instability to IT. This kind of thing isn’t seen in more established industries such as banking or supermarkets. The instability of platform collapse is such that a new product carried to popular recognition can wipe out the commercial prospects of other products.

… a fascinating read.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” [Quotes of the Day]

“It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity”. The entire operation was the work of a single police officer who claimed to have conducted an 18-month undercover operation. The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, who routinely referred to black people as “n*****s” and who frequently found himself in trouble with the law. [Daypop Top 40]

Disgusting! I’m glad I finally joined the ACLU yesterday.

pay up for free software. The New McCarthyism [jwz] FWIW, I hope Afghanistan wins and this “America” burns. New color scheme for summer… er, something…. [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

VERY SCARY! After reading that I finally joined the ACLU.

Harlan Ellison. “The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity.” [Quotes of the Day]

A brief editorial. Commercial radio sucks. I want to program my own music. I am not a pirate. Fuck you. I’ve bought all the music I use, first on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD. I’ll pay again. PS: I vote. [Scripting News]

Thank you. I hate listening to the radio. I never listen to the radio in my car – I always listen to CDs, mostly ones I burn myself from music that I own legally. Case in point: I’m now listening to the perfect 80 minute Johnny Clegg & Savuka CD with a mix of tracks from several different CDs that I own.

AP: “Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers’ computers or knock them off-line entirely if they are caught downloading copyrighted material.” If this bill becomes law I’m going to join Saddam Hussein in calling for the destruction of the United States. [Scripting News]

More Jaguar 6C106 Features. Here are a few more things I’ve noticed after using Jaguar 6C106 for a while. [MacMegasite]

I’m now installing Jaguar 6C106 on my iBook, where I’ll be using it as the default OS. I don’t have a second drive in my iBook as I do in my G4, so I can’t go back to 10.1.5 now.

I’m not worried about losing data on my iBook since I keep all of my work synchronized between my iBook and my G4. I won’t lose anything even if I have to erase the disk to install the final version of 10.2.