Today I finally got the tickets. And its time to start counting down. 10 days left till I get on the airplane on the way to San Francisco. (A new first this time: Flying the HUGE 747).
As usual, it is the FlashForward conference that gets me over the big ocean. (I have not once been in the US without it having to do with FlashForward and Flash).
On the agenda for FlashForward this time: Several interviews with the top people in Flash for Flashmagazine, and helping Ultrashock.com become even better.
Expect a lot of photography to be posted to my gallery, this time - I will also be trying to make some short video clips. They will be posted with the help of Flash MX + Sorenson :-)
"I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.The bullets aimed Spaghetti Western-style at the feet of the dancing OEMs translate to Microsoft withholding source code, according to the memo.
The Register : Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
David Isenberg's latest Smart Letter .. is interesting commentary on a number of issues, including a mini-essay on packet-relay networks, which potentially offer scalability to wi-fi:
Wireless packet-relay networks solve the problem of multiple, powerful, overlapping transmitters. A network of weak transmitters (with routers attached) can send a packet a long way without unnecessarily trampling on the spectral commons. Multiple hops replace additional amplification.Packet-relay radio networks have some other nice properties, too. They solve the line-of-sight problem that restricts single-hop 802.11b transmissions. Multiple hops can get around a large building or over a hill. In addition, packet relay does not have the problems of large, capital-intensive buildouts, because customers own most of the infrastructure. When you want to connect to a packet-relay network, you go down to Radios-R-Us, bring home a unit, and plug it in. When you connect, you beef up the network infrastructure adding redundant routing and increasing the potential throughput of the entire network
