Today saw a some interesting papers about DRM and piracy on the internets. First, Bennett Lincoff, an IP law attorney released an open letter to Steve Jobs and the RIAA in a sort of response to the open letter Steve Jobs released last week. Second, a study reported by ars technica found that the effect P2P networks have on legal music sales are "not statistically distinguishable from zero".

This is another pointer post but I thought it was interesting. 8 technologies for a green future.

In an open letter Steve Jobs says its the Music Labels who are pushing DRM not Apple. Ars Technica with the summary.

The universe expanding forever no beginning or no end? Maybe according to this new theory.

The history of computers, how they work, insides and out of computers, and how to put them to together is pending sometime in the future.

Coming within the century.

Timeline

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• Atari 2600
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• Atari Jaguar
• Colecovision
• Commodore 128
• Creativision
• Famicom Disk System
• FM Towns Marty
• Game Boy
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Intellivision
• Microsoft X-Box
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• ( Super ) Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo GameCube
• Neo-Geo
• Neo-Geo CD
• Neo-Geo Pocket
• Neo-Geo Pocket Color
• PC-Engine Core Grafx
• PC-FX
• Pioneer Laseractive
• Playdia
• Sega Dreamcast
• Sega Game Gear
• Sega Genesis
• Sega Master System
• Sega Mega CD
• Sega Saturn
• SG-1000
• Sony Playstation
• Sony Playstation Two
• Turbo Duo
• Turbo Express
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy
• Wonderswan Color

I have been developing the back-end for in deep thought for a long time now and I think the time has come for it to evolve into an actual web site package. To that end I have named the package "neThing". That doesn't change anything about the site itself. It is still called in deep thought and nothing has really changed except at the bottom it now reads "Powered by neThing". Eventually I'll package neThing for others to use.

Last Updated 2023-04-24

Planned: v0.9 (xx Feb 11)

Features

• Core | NOT YET IMPLEMENTED Code for IDT.neThing is now C#.NET, Cold Fusion branch ends at v0.8

v0.8 (03 Jan 11)

Features

• Wiki | Can now add strikethrough using [s][/s] EXAMPLE: strikethrough

Changes

• UI | g-a and g-b commands have been remove

Fixes

• Admin | Fixed search by label
• Posts | Fixed an issue where some posts were not viewable because of the date when they were posted
• Posts | Fixed a reversion of a prior bug where the captcha was not showing up thus making comments impossible, but not spam....
• UI | Nav should better understand when and where to work or not work

v0.7 (04 Dec 09)

Features

• Admin | Posts page loads the post list via Async Ajax call
• Admin | Removed Article and Blog area and replaced with Post area
• Admin | Resources are no longer split between Article and Blog posts
• Posts | Articles and Blog posts are now Posts
• Posts | Twitter entries now tag with twitter tag
• Core | Added a new field for posts to enter trackback urls
• Core | Added pings for trackbacks in the queue
• Core | Added Twitter RSS import using neFeedeater
• Core | Added via location for posts
• Core | Added twitParser to parse twitter entries
• Core | twitParser can now parse http|https|ftp for autolink
• Core | twitParser can now parse #searchstring for autolink
• Core | Initial work on adding a simple Async Ajax call
• Core | Initial objectifying of Twitter feed (will add settings to admin page next version)
• Core | Twitter Feed now loads via Async Ajax call
• Core | Added archive by Year/Month function to front page (will objectify and add to settings admin page next version)
• Core | Added tag cloud function to front page (will objectify and add to settings admin page next version)
• Core | Removal of archive slider box from front page (may later add to the object drawer and settings admin page)
• Wiki | Can now comment things out using <!-- -->
• Wiki | Can now add sigs in discussions using ~~~~ EXAMPLE: dharh 11 Feb 08

Fixes

• Admin | Fixed overview of Talk pages to no longer display empty pages
• Posts | Posts and Talk pages work again
• Core | Tables should work more like standard wiki markup now
• Core | Fixed problem with tables not accepting style for individual cells properly
• UI | Fixed navigation being invoked by typing recaptcha forms sometimes
• Wiki | Fixed error when saving wiki articles with quotes
• Wiki | Fixed talk page error regression due to change to dirhandler

v0.6 (08 Jan 08)

Features

• Wiki | Added talk pages for articles
• Wiki | Added comments for talk pages
• Core | Nospam image has been replaced with recaptcha
• Admin | Summary has been removed from posts

Fixes

• UI | Fixed navigation being invoked when typing in forms sometimes

v0.5 (03 Aug 07)

Features

• Core | Replaced several portions of wikiParse with regex for speed and cleaner code
• Admin | Added the "Don't show this on top menu" checkbox which does what it says

Fixes

• Core | Fixed being used over multiple lines

v0.4 (26 Jul 07)

Features

• Wiki | Added history for articles
• Wiki | Added ability to compare versions of articles
• Wiki | Added ability to edit individual sections by themselves

Fixes

• Core | Fixed nospam image under php 5.x (imagecolorallocate problem)
• Core | Nospam image was too easy so moved distortion on top of text

v0.3 (19 Jun 07)

Features

• Admin | Can now upload files to specific posts
• Admin | Added a resource viewer to view all files uploaded to posts
• Admin | Can now search posts in admin view
• UI | Added search feature
• UI | / to search

v0.2

Features

• UI | New UI navigation
• UI | j next
• UI | k previous
• UI | r refresh
• UI | v goto current posts home
• UI | g-h goto main page home
• UI | g-a goto articles home
• UI | g-b goto blog home
• Wiki | Added wiki links. Blog and article posts can be linked to other articles by name using [[article_name]]
• Wiki | Added the <nowiki> tag
• Wiki | Added the <nohtml> tag

v0.1

Features

• Admin | Clean and consistent administrator console
• Admin | Separate areas for blogs, articles, and drafts
• Admin | Quick view of all comments on the site and the ability to delete
• Core | A nospam image for comments
• Core | Added wikiParser to parse wiki markup for articles and blog entries
• UI | Framework for easy navigation between main areas and individual posts using keyboard shortcuts
• UI | Multiple ways to find articles and posts (labels, search, name)