A theory about Apple's new iPad

Like a lot of other people, I'm not very interested in the iPadmyself for all of the obvious reasons for an open source personwho likes doing random things to his computers (see Tim Bray for arepresentative example). But I have a theory about what Appleis up to here, and it goes like this:

The iPad is a computer for people who do not like computers, not acomputer for people who like computers.

The problem with making computers for people who like computers is thatit


<她的回憶>

她追憶自己的成長,
如一隻信鴿追尋回歸的路。
她記起第一次上學,
老師外衣的顏色、
搖搖板、和媽媽的背影。
她記起一支殘舊的木結他,
哥哥彈出走調的曲子;
一雙令她雀躍的鞋,
她穿著起舞,
卻忘了如何踏步。她記起
第一次

Always sign exactly what you are authenticating

I can't claim to know very much about cryptography programming, but Ilike to think that I have picked up on a few mistakes to avoid. Here'sone of them: you want to sign exactly what you are authenticating, notsome mangled version of it .

(Note that 'canonicalizing' things is a form of mangling them.)

Suppose, as a not entirely hypothetical example ,that you are signing some sort of web request with a bunch of (URL)parameters. In order to deal


iPad之唔係食咗超級Steroid後嘅iPod Touch?

「iPad? 點解呢個名咁似M巾?」

哈哈,以上是我老婆今早聽見這個名時的第一個反應。

我第一個反應,反而係:嘩,正呀,好似成部iPod Touch變咗Incredible Hulk(變型俠醫)咁呀,勁呀!

我較緊張的是價錢,唔好講咁多,睇睇咩價碼先。

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哲學一招了

哲學以問題為根本,舉凡哲學書籍或文章,若只標榜所謂哲學體系、哲學總綱、哲學要訣、哲學妙諦、哲學殺着等等而未有將某一特定之哲學問題條分縷析者,皆可棄之如敝屣。(註一)(註二)


(註一)此一招了不適用於本身

AT&T's mad unbundling and the damage it did to Unix

Once upon a time, AT&T had Unix, and Unix was big (by the standards ofthe time); it contained all sorts of things that made it useful. AT&Tdecided that it wanted to make as much money as possible from Unix,so it had a brilliant idea: it would sell a bunch of pieces of 'Unix'separately, as additional cost extras. After all, Unix systems wereprimarily used to run canned vendor-developed software (or at least AT&Tno


從來只有萬骨枯

這個社會很喜歡領袖訓練,甚至到了一個程度,領袖訓練是要每個月做一次,每個人都要參與,如果這個人看起來已經很像領袖,那麼他就要加強訓練,好發展他的才能,如果這個人看起來,不太能幹性格又陰沉,這就對了,他

Silent Monks Singing Hallelujah


資格


有一個小朋友在上數學課時發現老師計錯數。小朋友誠實而勇敢,在老師問大家有沒有問題的時候,依足課堂規則舉手發問,他很誠懇地詢問老師在運算過程中是不是計錯數,並且說出了自己的答案。

本來,同學們是無法察覺老

身心的異步 – KJ音樂人生

記得在台灣歌唱比賽中,評判之一的張宇說過,音樂是藝術的一部份,而藝術就在人生裏,所以唱歌除了練習技巧、音樂知識外,人生也得去體會,使之內化成一種實力,這樣唱歌就更有說服力了。若這道理是真的,那麼在《音