2002/12/19

• 19-Dec-2002
  David Brin is Cranky About Lord of the Rings

  J.R.R. Tolkien — enemy of progress — an excerpt: Obsession with either past or future can almost define a civilization. Worldwide, most cultures believed in some lost golden age when people knew more, mused loftier thoughts and were closer to the gods — but then fell from grace. Under this dour but recurrent worldview, men…

• 19-Dec-2002
  QUALCOMM’s BREW Considered Harmful?

  Colin Fahey’s J2ME Cell Phone Experience is one developers’ one-time experience with BREW, a mobile computing platform, which he contrasts with his experience developing with Java for mobile phones. He makes good points, though I wonder if he let his bias for open platforms affect him unduly.

• 19-Dec-2002
  Three New Lab Items

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