Lynne Kiesling IBM has announced that it will choose not to enforce 500 patents that it holds for code that is used in many open-source applications and environments. From today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required): The technology company announced today a pledge that it hopes will establish a sort of “patent commons” on which open-source …
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Lynne Kiesling I don’t have time today for pithy, substantive analysis. Furthermore, the weather here is gloomy and making my senses dull. So instead I turn to the Manolo: The Pucci, they are the shoes of relentless cheerfulness. Makes me wish I had a pair of these for slogging through the puddles: Many thanks to …
Michael Giberson Tyler Cowen, at Marginal Revolution, says he’s been reading a new book by Peter Huber and Mark Mills called The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. Cowen cited a few of the “seven great heresies” that the book asserts, including …
Michael Giberson I have been reading the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS) June 2004 report, ?Effective Solutions for Getting Needed Transmission Built at Reasonable Cost.? [PDF] TAPS is an ?informal association of transmission-dependent electric utilities located in 35 states.? The members are primarily municipal and cooperative utilities that may own some generation and transmission …
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Lynne Kiesling The January issue of Wired is full of all sorts of interesting articles. I particularly enjoyed the interview with Jeff Bezos, and Glenn Reynolds remarked on the same comment that I found interesting: Do physical bookstores have anything to offer that Amazon doesn’t? One thing is face-to-face meetings with authors. And what Howard …
Lynne Kiesling After our knife skills class we stuck around for the free monthly wine tasting. The instructor, John Fuente, was amazing; he has incredible depth of knowledge about wine, a good sense of humor and down-to-earth attitude toward wine, and a great teaching style. We tasted four wines: a 100% Sangiovese from Tuscany that …
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Lynne Kiesling On Saturday the KP Spouse, Amy the KP Buddy and I took a knife skills class at The Chopping Block, a great local resource for those who like to cook. Very useful and informative, and very likely to improve our cooking. But in the course of the class the instructor, who is a …
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Lynne Kiesling I am posting this comment for Robert Schwartz, who for some reason was unable to get through the spam filter. Lynne: You were not alone in your reading of the Judge’s statement. I, also, was flummoxed and commented at the esteemed Becker Posner Blog: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/01/the_tsunami_and.html#comments
Lynne Kiesling This conversation raises a challenging point, one that I struggle with constantly — how do we communicate complex technical issues to people who have little or no background knowledge of the subject? Probabilistic issues are a constant source of this challenge. For what I’m working on right now, the primary challenge is in …
Lynne Kiesling Robert Ayres has very kindly done the math to show why Posner’s statement in the WSJ that I referred to on Tuesday is correct, but agrees with me that he could have said it better. From the email he sent me: If his “later” means “later in the century”, then the question is …
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