Adam Fields (weblog)

I’ve noticed that some of the post comments feeds have been getting a lot of hits. It’s not clear that these aren’t bots of some kind.

If you are an actual human, reading the comment feeds, you must email me if you want to prevent me from removing them.

This is an interesting piece on the inevitability of P2P to survive. I’ve discussed this before.

http://montemagno.typepad.com/p2p_manifesto/2005/01/p2p_manifesto.html

Elaborating on the comment I wrote on that page —

“Content” cannot be protected from copying because it’s not a “thing”. Content is a pattern. If you can view it in any meaningful way, you can copy it. As many times as you want to. There is no difference between “usage” and “copying”. Anyone who can “use” content can “copy” it, if they so desire. It may be difficult, but it can’t be made impossible. Because of this relationship, any attempt to restrict copying will only serve to restrict usage instead, if even that.

(Update: A more concise English translation is here.)

Hehe.

http://chris.pirillo.com/_attachments/254100/mordor.gif

This is a very good explanation of why digital sensor size makes a difference in imaging devices.

http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/digital/size_matters.html

Gizmodo has a nice picture of a G4 Cube eating a Mac Mini.

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops-pcs/apple/mac-mini-versus-g4-cube-029907.php