Response To The DVD Injunction
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Regarding the DVD injunction:...
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My Letter To Clifford Nass
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Hello Professor Nass. My name is David Weekly. I am the student who approached you after class just now to ask you what would happen if I disagreed with you. I am a junior in Computer Science here....
Continue readingThe Multicast User
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A very sleek, hip, and powerful word. Multicast technology, about a decade old, enables a computer to "broadcast" a single stream over a network and have the network copy the stream as required. So for instance, if I was broadcasting a conc...
Continue readingThe Psychology of Online Music
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A lot of people out there are quite juiced up about online music. MP3.com just IPOed at a market valuation of well over a billion dollars, Liquid Audio shot out of the gate for just short of $100m, Spinner and Nullsoft were acquired by America Online...
Continue readingAlex Blok: The Original Music Man
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Two years ago, before the days of the Rio or even Saehan's MP-Man, a tall, somewhat balding British man came by my dorm room to talk with me about digital audio. He explained to me his plans for a flash-memory based portable music player and sho...
Continue readingMP3 Summit Two: 1999
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So much has changed and so much is the same since last year's MP3 Summit1. The first and most noticeable difference is the sheer quantity of people attending this year's MP3 Summit. There were probably something on the order of 500 folks at...
Continue readingOn Effective Leadership
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Successful leaders will have to undergo the change from perceiving themselves as managers to perceiving themselves as facilitators. It was best put to me by an executive who said that he hopes that this summer he can serve his interns coffee. This ch...
Continue readingAn Overview of Digital Audio
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Continue readingA Box To Fit In: Marriage and Gendered Roles In Society
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The human mind thrives on classification. We like to put things in boxes. We love to learn about something that we don't know by lumping it with things we do; or at the very least, to lump a bunch of things we don't know about together and...
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Continue readingThe Stanford Linux Revolt
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At Stanford, there's a Technology Career Fair that pops up at least once a year. The idea is that students will hustle down there with their resumes and companies and students will smell each other out for good matches. We knew that Microsoft wo...
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Very Solid Audio
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Continue readingThoughts On Efficiency
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Continue readingTeleacoustics: The Regulation of Transmitted Speech
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For the last century, the Western world has been in possession of two technologies created for the primary purpose of transmitting speech over a distance: the telephone and the radio. While both deal with the transmission of audio, they differ signif...
Continue readingSharing & The Internet
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The Internet is about sharing. Designed to prevent even nuclear bombs from inhibiting its never ending ebb of data, it is the most unstoppable, pervasive, and subversive medium for sharing information that the world has ever seen. From this central p...
Continue readingDiamond Rio Review
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Wednesday afternoon, I came home to a wonderful sight: a slender, foot-long cardboard rectangle sitting in front of my door, addressed from Diamond Multimedia. I walked to my friend's room and smiled....
Continue readingMP3 Summit Report
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This writeup of the conference is highly opinionated. I represent myself only and am in no way affiliated with MP3.COM1, even if I think they're cool. = I also missed a few demos and one of the panels in process of talking to some folks &8212; m...
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The Knee Jerk
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This month, the very fundamentals of the First Amendment are held in question....
Continue readingSeat 11-C
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The girl sitting across from me on the flight back to school somehow reminded me of a million things from back home. Her tight, determined lips instantly brought back memories of Noelle and the party. She had khakis on. This is important to me, but I...
Continue readingI Carry
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Who am I? I, to the outside world, am comprised of the sum of my actions. What is precious to me? The things that I carry inside of me define who I am to myself. Who I think I am will direct my actions and hence what the outside world thinks of me. A...
Continue readingMy Salutatorian Speech
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WE'RE DONE! WE'RE ALL DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL! Let's give THANKS! cheer, and wait for it to quiet down quite a bit But now what? Where to now? In the words of Microsoft, "Where do we want to go today?"...
Continue readingTrial By Fire
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The pungent odor of industrial detergent filled my nostrils as hot plates scorched my palms through thin plastic gloves. I quickly stacked dishes in neat piles, threw pots and pans on a shelf, and grouped steaming glasses in grids. A fellow student q...
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